Title 485, CANAL, HARBOR, AND RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANIES

Sec. 13. Whenever any canal shall cross any highway, the company shall make and keep in good repair such bridges as the board of supervisors of the county in which such canal is located shall direct.

Sec. 14. The stockholders of said companies incorporated under this act, shall be jointly and severally liable for all labor performed for such company; but no suit shall be brought against any individual stockholder for any debt of said company until judgment on the demand shall…

Sec. 15. Any boat, vessel, raft, or craft which shall willfully pass through said canal or said improvement without paying the toll required, shall be liable to pay to said company the sum of 100 dollars, to be collected by proceeding against said boat or against the owners there…

Sec. 16. The legislature shall, at all times hereafter, have the free right to alter, amend or repeal this act.

Sec. 17. All corporations formed or existing under this act shall be liable to be assessed for all real and personal estate held by them in this state, as provided by law for the assessment of other real and personal estate, and shall pay thereon a tax for township, village, city…

Sec. 18. Any person or private association or corporation in the upper peninsula and Branch and Macomb counties, who have previous to the passage of this re-enacted and amended act, constructed any canal or harbor, or have improved the navigation of any river or stream in the sta…

Sec. 19. In case the master or clerk of any boat or vessel shall neglect or refuse to furnish the statement as required by section 11 of this re-enacted and amended act, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars, to be sued for and be recovered by said company.

Sec. 2. Each subscriber to such articles of association shall subscribe thereto his name and place of residence, and the number of shares of stock taken by him. The said articles shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and thereupon the persons who have so subscri…

Sec. 20. Any company organized under this act may borrow money, and issue bonds for the payment of the same, for the purpose of providing means for repairing, altering, or enlarging said improvements: Provided, however, That the amount so raised shall not at any one time exceed i…

Sec. 21. Any county through which any such improved river or stream shall pass, or in which the greater part of any such improvements have been constructed, or which any canal shall have been constructed, within the provisions of this act, shall have the right to purchase any suc…

Sec. 22. The board of supervisors of any such county may at any time, by a majority vote, submit the question of purchasing any such canal, harbor or improvement, to the electors of said county; and if a majority of the electors shall decide to purchase any such canal, harbor or …

Sec. 23. The corporations heretofore formed under said chapter 84 in the upper peninsula and in Branch and Macomb counties, are herein re-instated in all their rights, privileges, franchise, and property.

Sec. 24. Corporations may be formed under this act in the upper peninsula and Branch and Macomb counties for the purpose of operating and further improving any canal or improvement in the upper peninsula and Branch and Macomb counties, of any corporation formed under the act here…

Sec. 25. When any such corporation shall have purchased any canal or other improvements, lands, or other property of any such other corporation under the provisions of section 24 of this act, the rate of tolls shall not thereafter be increased, but the corporation purchasing shal…

Sec. 3. Such articles of agreement shall not be filed in the office of the secretary of state until 5 per cent of the capital subscribed shall have been paid to the directors named in the articles, nor until there is endorsed on said articles, or annexed thereto, an affidavit of …

Sec. 4. A copy of said articles, filed in pursuance of this act, certified by the secretary of state to be a true copy, and of the whole thereof, shall be in all courts and places presumptive evidence of the incorporation of such company and of the facts therein stated.

Sec. 5. The business and property of such company shall be managed by a board of not less than 3, nor more than 7 directors, who after the first year shall be elected annually, at such time and place as the by-laws direct, and public notice shall be given of such election not les…

Sec. 6. A majority of the directors shall be a board for the transaction of business. At the first meeting after their election, they may elect 1 of their number president, and appoint such other officers as the articles of association or by-laws require.

Sec. 7. The president and directors shall have power to make and prescribe such rules and regulations respecting the transfer of the stock, either before its full payment or thereafter, and for the general management of the affairs of said association, as they may deem proper, no…

Sec. 8. It shall be lawful for such company, their officers, engineers, and agents, to enter upon any lands for the purpose of exploring, surveying, and locating the route of any such canal, harbor, or the improvement of any such river or stream, doing thereto no unnecessary dama…

Sec. 9. Said corporation shall not, in their corporate capacity, hold, purchase, or deal in any lands other than lands donated to said corporations to aid in constructing said improvements, or the lands in which their canals shall run, to the width of 300 feet on each side of sai…