ties. after organizing as required by law, shall proceed to examine the Their dutabular statements of the board of supervisors of each county provided for in the fourth section of this act, and to hear the representatives from the several boards of supervisors as hereinafter provided, and they shall determine whether the relative valuation between the several counties is equal and uniform, according to location, soil, improvements, productions and manufactures; and also, whether the personal estate of the several counties has been uniformly estimated; according to the best information which can be derived from the statistics of the State, or from any other source. Assessm❜nts deemed rel qual; how Sec. 2. If after such examination such assessment shall be determined relatively unequal, they shall equalize the same by adding to or de- atively uneducting from the aggregate valuation of taxable real and personal equalized. estate in such county or counties, such an amount as will produce relative equal and uniform valuations between the several counties in the State, and the amount added to or deducted from the valuation in each county shall be entered upon their records; and the valuations of the several counties, as equalized, shall be certified and signed by the chairman and secretary of the board, and filed in the office of the Auditor General, and shall be the basis for apportioning all State taxes until another equalization shall be made. ral. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Auditor General, as soon as may Duty of Aube after the determination of the State Board of Equalization shall ditor Genebe filed in his office, as provided in the preceding section, to send a certified transcript of the same to the treasurer of each county, who shall cause the same to be published in one or more papers in the county. pro pervisors; board. Sec. 4. A meeting of the board of supervisors for the year Meeting of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, shall be held on the second Mon- board of su day of June of said year; and when convened, the board shall when held. ceed to equalize the assessment rolls, and their clerk shall certify and Duties of return such equalization to the Auditor General in the manner and at the time prescribed by the act establishing a State Board of Equal- clerk. ization, approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, except as herein otherwise provided. Approved February 14, 1853. Duty of JOINT RESOLUTION of a vote of thanks to Capt. A. Canfield. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the thanks of the Legislature of the State of Michigan are hereby tendered to Capt. A. Canfield, of the Topographical Corps of Engineers of the United States, for his voluntary and valuable services to this State, in the survey, plans and estimates, as presented to this Legislature, for the construction of the Sault Ste. Marie canal. Approved January 14, 1853. [ No. 2. ] JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the appointment of watchmen about the capitol. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Secretary of State be authorized to employ two suitable persons, to act as a night watch in and about the capitol, during the session of the Legislature, for the prevention of fires; to be paid out of the State Treasury. Approved January 14, 1858. [ No. 3. ] JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the printing of a Manual. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Committe on Printing, in the Senate and House of Representatives, are requested to procure the publication of one copy of a Manual for each member of the Senate and House of Representatives and the officers thereof, containing the same subject matter as the Manual of the last session. Approved January 14, 1853. [ No. 4. ] JOINT RESOLUTION. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the terms of the Supreme Court to be held at Lansing, agreeably to an act entitled "an act to provide for the organization and powers of the Supreme Court," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, shall, until a court room be provided therefor, be held in the library room in the State Capitol; and the Secretary of State is hereby directed to make the necessary arrangements for the suitable accommodation of said Court. Approved January 19, 1853. [ No. 5. ] JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the erection of certain Light Houses on Lakes Superior and Michigan. Whereas, It is deemed important and necessary, for the safe navigation of the waters of Lakes Superior and Michigan, that light houses be erected by the United States at the following points, viz: On Lake Superior, one on the Island off Point Aux Chenes, at the head of St. Mary's River; one at Point Irequois; one at the east entrance of Grand Island Harbor; [one at the west entrance of Grand Island Harbor;] and one at Madeline Island, off La Point; two at suituable places on Isle Royal; and one on Stannard's Rock: and on Lake Michigan, one at Old Mackinaw Point, and one at Beaver Harbor; one at the mouth of the Manistee River; one at the mouth of the Pierre Marquette River, and one at the mouth of the White River, on the east side of Lake Michigan; and one on the west end of Hog Island, in Detroit River; Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be and they are hereby requested, to use their influence with the proper authorities at Washington, to procure the speedy erection of said light houses. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of this preamble and resolutions, to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved January 19, 1853. [ No. 6. ] JOINT RESOLUTION relative to certain school lands. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Commissioner of the State Land Office be and he is hereby authorized and direced to restore to Gardner D. Williams, all the rights which have become forfeited in consequence of non-payment of interest on primary school lands, in the township of Saginaw, in Saginaw county, certificates numbered three thousand two hundred and twenty, for north-west quarter of north-west quarter of section sixteen, town twelve north, range four east: Provided, The said Williams shall, on or before the first day of March next, pay or cause to be paid to the State Treasurer all arrearages of principal, interest and penalties accruing on said lands, in consequence of neglect to pay the interest as prescribed by law. This resolution shall take effect immediately. |