county, if there be one, and if not, by posting up notices in three or more of the most public places therein; and he shall deliver, on demand at his office, to the township clerk of each township, the number of copies to which such township shall be entitled, taking and preserving in his office a receipt for the same, and the township clerk in like manner shall deliver a copy to each public officer in his township entitled thereto, taking and preserving in his office a receipt therefor. (a)

Statutes to deliver same to his successor - con

sequence of neglect.

(8.) SEC. 9. Every person receiving a copy of the laws on officer receiving account of any office held by him, shall, when he ceases to hold such office, deliver over to his successor in office all laws received by him as such officer, and take the receipt of his successor therefor, and deposit such receipt, if a township officer, with the township clerk, and if a county officer, with the county clerk; and any person who shall neglect or refuse to deliver over to his successor in office all laws received by him as aforesaid, shall be liable to such successor in an action for money had and received, to the full amount it shall cost him to furnish himself with such laws, and costs of suit; which action shall, on request, be brought and prosecuted by the Prosecuting Attorney of the county.

and transporta

(9.) SEC. 10. The expense of publishing the notice aforesaid, Expense of notice and of transporting the laws from the office of the Secretary of ion, how paid. State to the County Clerk's office, shall be audited and allow

ed by the Boards of Supervisors, and paid out of the County Treasury. (b)

notice when

or distribution.

(10.) SEC. 11. As soon as the laws are ready for distribution, secretary to give the Secretary of State shall transmit a written or printed laws are ready notice thereof to each County Clerk; and the expense of such notice, and all accounts for boxes furnished to the Secretary of State, for the package and distribution of the laws, when certified by him to be correct, shall be audited and allowed by the Auditor General, and paid out of the State Treasury.

An Act to provide for the Preservation of the Laws of this State.

[Approved March 15, 1847. Laws of 1847, p. 55.]

State to cause

bound.

(11.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of secretary of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Secretary of Acts, etc., to be State be, and he is hereby required, to cause to be arranged and bound in a substantial manner, all acts and joint resolu

(a) As amended by Act 65 of 1850, p. 54, Sec. 2.
(b) As amended by Act 105 of 1847, p. 168, Sec. 2.

State to cause

bound.

tions of the several Legislatures of this State, which become laws under the Constitution, so far as the same may be on file in his office.

Secretary of (12.) SEC. 2. Hereafter, at the close of each session of the Acts, etc., to be Legislature, the Secretary of State shall cause to be bound in like manner the enrolled acts and joint resolutions of the Legislature, which shall become laws under the Constitution of this State, and shall certify, under his hand and the seal of the State, on the frontispiece of the volume, that said volume contains the whole of the original acts and joint resolutions, as enrolled by the clerks, signed by the presiding officers of the Senate and House of Representatives, and approved by the Governor, or which may have become laws under the Constitution of this State, without his signature or approval. (13.) SEC. 3. The acts and joint resolutions, when bound and Secretary of certified as specified in this act, shall be kept in the office of the Secretary of State, and no further record thereof shall be Expense of bind- required to be kept. The expenses of arranging and binding the laws, as specified in the preceding sections of this act, shall be paid by the Treasurer of the State, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the certificate of the Secretary of State.

Acts, etc., to be kept in office of State.

ing, etc.

Certain provisions repealed.

Township Clerks to be furnished

State paper.

(14.) SEC. 4. So much of section one of chapter one of the Revised Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, as makes it the duty of the Secretary of State to record the original acts of the Legislature in books to be provided by him for that purpose be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage.

Joint Resolution relative to the Distribution of the Laws.
[Approved February 7, 1848. Laws of 1848, p. 444.]

(15.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of with Laws in the State of Michigan, That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is authorized and required to send or cause to be sent to the clerk of each and every organized township in the State of Michigan, a copy of the State Paper during such portion of each year as the laws of this State are published therein.

Joint Resolution authorizing the Sale of the Published Laws and Documents.
[Approved April 8, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 261.]

(16.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

State may sell

and Documents.

State of Michigan, That the Secretary of State be and he secretary of hereby is authorized to sell, in his discretion, such extra copies copies of Laws of the published laws, journals and documents of the Legisla ture, and journals and debates of the Convention, deposited in his office, as will not be required for distribution, at a fair price, not less than the actual cost thereof; and he shall account for the same to the Board of State Auditors, and pay the money received therefor into the State Treasury. This joint resolution shall take effect immediately.

not to be arrested.

(17.) SECTION 1. No officer of the Senate or House of Repre- officers of, when sentatives, while in actual attendance upon the duties of his office, shall be liable to arrest on civil process.

Const. of Mich.
Art. 4, Sec. 7.

may be punished

(18.) SEC. 2. Each House may punish as a contempt, and by What offences imprisonment, a breach of its privileges, or the privileges of as contempts. its members, but only for one or more of the following offences,

to wit:

1. The offence of arresting a member or officer of the House, or procuring such member or officer to be arrested, in violation of his privilege from arrest;

2. That of disorderly conduct in the immediate view of the House, and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings;

3. That of refusing to attend, or be examined as a witness, either before the House, or a committee, or before any person authorized by the House, or by a committee, to take testimony in Legislative proceedings;

4. That of giving or offering a bribe to a member, or of attempting by menace, or other corrupt means or device, directly or indirectly to control or influence a member in giving

Contempt to be deemed a misdemeanor.

By whom oath of Members to be administered.

1841, p. 10.

Members

of

Committees may

his vote, or to prevent his giving the same; but the term of imprisonment which such House may impose for any contempt specified in this section, shall not extend beyond the same session of the Legislature.

(19.) SEC. 3. Every person who shall be guilty of any contempt specified in the preceding section, shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison not exceeding five years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the county jail, in the discretion of the Court.

(20.) SEC. 4. The oath of office of any member or officer of the Senate or House of Representatives, may be administered by, and taken and subscribed before the Chancellor, (a) any Justice of the Supreme Court, the Lieutenant Governor, the President pro tempore of the Senate, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(21.) SEC. 5. Any Senator or Representative, while acting as administer oaths. a member of a committee of the Legislature, or either branch thereof, shall have authority to administer oaths to such persons as shall be examined before the committee of which he is a member.

1839, 214.

p.

(a) The office of Chancellor was abolished in 1847.

TITLE II.

OF THE APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CHAPTER III. Of the Apportionment of Representatives in Congress.

CHAPTER IV. Of the Apportionment of Senators in the State Legislature.
CHAPTER V. Of the Apportionment of Representatives in the State Legislature.

CHAPTER III.

OF THE APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.

An Act to Divide the State into Congressional Districts.

[Approved June 26, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 271.]

districts.

(22.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Congressional That this State shall be divided into four Congressional districts, pursuant to a ratio of population fixed by an act of Congress under the seventh census of the United States, for apportioning anew the Representatives among the several States, and each district shall be entitled to elect one Representative, which shall be constituted as follows, to wit:

1. The first district shall consist of the counties of Wayne, Washtenaw, Jackson and Livingston.

2. The second district shall consist of the counties of Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale, Branch, St. Joseph and Cass.

3. The third district shall consist of the counties of Berrien, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Eaton, Barry, Allegan, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia, Clinton, Gratiot, Lake, Mason, Montcalm, Newaygo and Oceana.

4. The fourth district shall consist of the counties of Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair, Sanilac, Huron, Lapeer, Ingham, Genesee, Shiawassee, Saginaw, Tuscola, Midland, Schoolcraft, Ontonagon, Mackinaw, Houghton, Chippewa, and all the unorganized counties not included in the third district.