No LIST OF RESOLUTIONS. TITLE PACE. 1. Concurrent resolution relative to the selection and location of the lands donated by Congress for the benefit of the Agricultural School of this State,... 429 2. Concurrent resolution, (relative to the compilation of the journals and documents of the present Legislature,)..... 1. Joint resolution asking the government of the United States to make a grant of land for the construction of a wagon road from Copper Harbor, running through or to town forty north, range thirty-seven west, in the State of Michigan, to the city of Appleton, in the State of Wisconsin,.. 2. Joint resolution to amend joint resolution number thirteen, appropriating the tolls of the St. Mary's canal to the payment of the amount due counties for taxes assessed on canal lands, approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, 429 431 432 3. Joint resolution for the relief of Robert W. Cummings, .. 433 4. Joint resolution in relation to the reduction of duty on imported printing paper,.. 434 5. Joint resolutions on the state of the Union,. 6. Joint resolution to authorize the sale, by the State Treasurer, of two thousand copies of the compiled laws, .... 434 ... 435 7. Joint resolution instructing the board of State auditors to make a settlement with Thomas Sullivan,.. 436 8. Joint resolution in relation to the gauge of the Pacific railroad, ..... 437 9. Joint resolution to authorize the purchase of Lambert's "field tourniquets," for the use of the Michigan soldiers, in the service of the United States,. 438 10. Joint resolution in regard to certain property in the possession of the late State geologist,. 438 11. Joint resolution for the relief of Conrad Gulmire,... 439 12. Joint resolution relative to procuring a flag for the capitol,.. 440 No. TITLE. PAGE. 13. Joint resolution for the relief of James Campbell,.. 440 14. Joint resolution relative to the distribution of the session laws, journals and documents of the Legislature of the year A. D. 1863,.... 441 15. Joint resolution of thanks to the Michigan soldiers in the field, ..... 442 16. Joint resolution relative to the binding of the jour- 442 443 443 18. Joint resolution on the state of the Union, 19. Joint resolution to provide a roll of honor, to perpetuate the memory and noble deeds of Michigan soldiers, who have fallen in defense of our country,.. 445 20. Joint resolution relative to frauds against the government of the United States,.... 21. Joint resolution for the relief of Samuel Bement aud Lucius Warner, ... 22. Joint resolution providing for the publication and 23. Joint resolution authorizing the board of State audit- 25. Joint resolution to authorize the board of State audit- 26. Joint resolution requesting the Commissioner of the General Land Office to bring certain lands in Isabella county into market,. 447 448 449 450 451 451 452 LAWS OF MICHIGAN. [ No. 1. ] AN ACT to legalize the tax roll of Hancock township, in Houghton county, for the year A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to extend the time for the collection of the taxes of said township. galized. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the tax roll for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for the Tax roll letownship of Hancock, in Houghton county, as made out by Thomas H. Lowe, supervisor of said township, be hereby declared valid and legal, and the treasurer of said township is hereby authorized and empowered to collect the taxes on said roll, and make the returns thereof. collection Sec. 2. The time for the collection of taxes in said township Time for of Hancock, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty two, is extended. hereby extended to the first Monday in April next, and the treasurer of said township is hereby authorized and empowered to proceed and collect said taxes, and make return, in pursuance of his warrant, on or before the first Monday of April Warrant next, and his warrant is hereby continued in full force and in force. virtue until that time. continued treasurer. Sec 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said town Duty of ship, before he shall avail himself of the benefit of the extension of time herein conferred, to pay over all moneys collected during the lifetime of his warrant, as now provided by law, and to renew his official bond to the satisfaction of the renewed, treasurer of said county. Sec. 4. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved January 20, 1863. Bond to be tion. [ No. 2. ] AN ACT to provide for the payment of the officers and mem. bers of the Legislature, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Appropria- there be and hereby is appropriated, out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the general fund, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, for the payment of the officers and members of the Legislature, for the present session. Compensation of Officers. Sec. 2. The compensation of the President and members of the members. Senate, and of the Speaker and members of the House of Rep resentatives, shall be three dollars per day each, for aetual attendance, and when absent on account of sickness, during the present session of the Legislature, and ten cents for every mile actually traveled, in going to and returning from the place of meeting, on the usually traveled route; and to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives from the Upper Peninsula, two dollars per day each additional, during this ses sion of the Legislature. Each member of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be entitled to receive five dollars for stationery and newspapers. The compensation of the Secre tary, Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and their authorized assistants, and of the Clerk, and Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, and their authorized assistants, and the Clerks employed with the consent of the Senate or House of Representatives, by any of the standing or special committees of either of said houses, shall be three dollars a day each, for actual attendance during the session: Provided, however, That the Clerk of the House, and Secretary of the Senate shall receive ten cents for every mile actually traveled, in going to and returning from the place of meeting. The com. Firemen pensation of the Firemen of the Senate and House of Representatives, and their authorized assistants, shall be two dollars Messengers, and fifty cents per day, and that of the Messenger boys, one |