The Owosso times., 1881-07-29


Among the laws passed by the legis-
lature at it's recent session were two
for the
PROTECTION OF GAME, ETC.
Act No. Isl provides that no person,
corporation, or company shall at any
time kill or expose for sale, transport
or have in his or it's possession, any
deer, ruffed grouse, colin or quail, pin
mated grouse or wild turkey, or any
part of the carcass of the same, after
the same has been killed for any pur-
pose except for consumption as food,
within this state. No person, corpor-
alton, or company shall have in posses
sion, except alive, at any time, any of
the aforementioned game, with the
intention of having the same sent or
transported beyond the limits of this
state. Proper penalties are prescribed
for the violation of this law.
Act No. 184, on the same subject,
provides that no person or persons shall
at any time with trap, snare, or net,
take any partridge, prairie chicken,
wood duck, mallard duck, teal duck, or
quail, or attempt to do so; provided,
that it shall be lawful to trap quail and
take them alive for the purpose of
keeping them through the winter, but
for no other purpose whatsoever.
TO REGULATE FISHING.
Act No. 276 provides that hereafter
it shall not be lawful for any person or
persons to take or catch by any means
whatever any fish from any stream in
which brook trout is not native. which
has been stocked with such trout by the
superintendent of fisheries of this state,
for the period of three years after the
plant of such brook trout therein; or to
capture in any manner in any inland or
public waters of the state, or have in
his possession, brook trout or grayling
OF a less size than six inches in length; or
to catch by any means or have in his
possession any California trout for IL
period of four years after the passage
of this act.
The penalty is fine of not more
than 800, or imprisonment not exceed
ing three months, or both, at the dis
cretiOn of the court.
MUTUAL INSURANCE ENLARGED.
Act No. 68, to amend section1 of act
No. 80 of the session laws of 1877,
authorizes any number of persons, not
less than seven, to associate together
and form an incorporated company for
the purpose of mutual insurance of the
property of its members against loss by
fire or damage by lightning, which
property to be insured may embrace
schOol-hOuses, literary and grange halls,
churches, agricultural societies build
ings, dwelling-hOuses, barns, accom-
panying Outbuildings and their con-
tents, farm implements, hay, grain,
wool, and other products, live stock,
household goods, wearing apparel, pro-
visions, musical instruments, and Ii
braries, being upon farms as farm pro-
perty, ETC., and such other buildings
specified in this section as constitute
detached risks in villages and cities.
TO PROMOTE IMMIGRATION.
Act No. 258, to amend compiler's
sections 206 and 207, compiled laws of
1871, authorizes and empowers the gov
ernOr to appoint a citizen of the state,
at salary not to exceed $1,000 per
annum, to act as commissioner of i'm
migration, for the purpose of encour-
aging immigration to Michigan from
other states and from the countries of
Europe, which commissioner is to act
under the direction of the governor to
carry out the provisions of this act.
The governor is authorized to draw up
on the general fund for such an amount,
not exceeding $4,000 in any one year,
us he may consider necessary to defray
the expenses of said commissioner and
his assistant, exclusive of salaries. In
addition to the above, all printing,
binding or map work that can be done
under any contract the state has for
such work shall be done Hereunder,
and the expense thereof audited and
paid as other state printing is audited
and paid. The governor is also author
lied to appoint an assistant commits
sioner at an annual salary of not more
that 81, 500 and actual expenses.
This act was approved June 10 and
ordered to take immediate effect.
DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY BY WILL.
Act No. 18, to restrict the disposi-
ton of personal property by last will,
declares that all dispositions of person
al property by will shall be subject to
the following limitations and restric-
tiOns:
l. If the testator shall leave surviv-
ing him wife, the property shall be
subject to the election of such wife to
take any interest given her by the tes-
tator, or in lieu thereof to take the sum
or share that would have passed to her
under the statute of distributions,
had the testator died intestate, until
the sum shall amount to $4,000, and of
the residue of the estate, one-half the
sum or share that would have passed
| to her under the statute of distribu-
tions; and in case no provision be made
for her in said will, she shall be en-
titled to the election aforesaid.
2. If by any will any special devise
or bequest is made to the wifein lieu of
any particular thing or any particular
interest to which she might be entitled
in case of intestacy, the election by the
wife to take the special devise or be-
quest, or the other particular thing or
| interest in lieu of which it is given,
shall not deprive the party electing or
any other person of the right to leave
the testementary disposition of proper
ty in all other respects unaffected and
unimpaired, and to have the benefit of
any other provisions therein, the same
as If this act had not passed.