Laws Of General Interest

Krom the I.iiiimiiíí Kepublioan. Among the acts passed by tlie legislature at its recent session was one relatingto the present rule in regard to ANIMALS KXJNNIKO AT LABO E. Act No. 13, section 1, provides that it shall not be lawful for any cattle, horses, slieep, or swine to run at large in any public highway in"this state; provided, this act shall be inoperative only in those counties orparts oí counties in which it shall be so determined by reaolution passed by the board of supervisors of such county. This section shall not abridge the powers reserved to the people of a township in section 4, chapter 12, compiled laws of 1871. Section 2 provides that in case the board of supervisors in any county shall pass a resolution allowing any of the classes of animáis named in section 1 to run at large in such county, the said section shall be nuil and void. UNCLAIMED MONEYS. Act No. 86 provides that when any administrator er executor shall have made final settlement with the probate court, it shall be the duty of the court to order said administrator or executor to deposit with the county treasurer such moneys as he may have, belonging to any non-resident or unknown heir or elaimant, whose wnereabouts atter diligent inquiry he cannot ascertain, taking his receipt therefor; and upon flling bis receipt in the probate court, he shall be entitled to an order discharging him and his bond, the same as though he had paid his money to the heir ór elaimant. This act f urther provides for the proper keeping, etc, of said money by the county treasurer. green's township laws. Act No. 123 provides that the secretary of state shall, as soon as the same can be prepared, etc., supply one copy of Green's "Trea.tise on townsliips and the powers and duties of township ofticers" to each of the several supervisors, township clerks, commissioners of highways, township drain commissioners, and to each of the justices of . the peace in the several townsliips in this state. The several officers receiving said book are required by this act to deliver the same to their successors in office. The cost is not to exceed $1 50 per copy, and all acts of the late session, affecting townsliips, are to be included. NOV-FOIIFEITABLE LIFE INSURANCE. Act No. 154 pro vides üiat no policy of insurance on life, issued after this act shall take effect, by any company organized under the laws of this state, shall become forfeited or void by the non-payment of any premium thereon, after the, third, any further than as follows: The net value of the policy, when the premium becomes due and is not paid, shall be ascertained accoiding to the "American experience table" rate of morality, with interest at four per cent per annum. A surrender charge and indebtedness on pclicy, if any, shall first be deducted. when the remainder shall be considered a net single premium of whole life non-participating insurance, and the amount it will insure shall be determined according to the age of the party at the time when the unpaid premium became due, and the assumptions aforesaid in regard to rate of interest and table of mortality. ADULTERATION OF FOOD, DKINKS, ETC. Act No. 254 provides that no person shall mix, color, stain, or powder, or order or permit axy other person to do so, with any ingrediënt or material, so as to render the article injurious lo health, with intent that the same may be sold; and no person shall sell or offer for sale any article mixed, colored, stained or powdered, as aforesaid; nor shall any person mix, color, stain or powder any article of food, drink, or medicine, or which enters into the composition thereof, with any other material, whether injarious to health or not, tot the purpose of gain or proflt; er sell or offer the same for sale, unless under its true and appropriate name, with notice that the same is mixed or impure marked or priuted npon each package, roll, parcel or vessel containing the same, so as to be and remaiii at all times readily visible. No person shall mix any glucose or grape sugar with syrup, honey, or sugar, intended for human food, nor any oleomargarine, suine or beef fat, lard or any other foreign substance, with any butter or cheese intended for human food, without distinctly marking or labeling the article or package containing the same, with the true and appropriate name of such article, and the percentage in which glucose, etc, enter into its composition; nor shall any person sell or offer for sale, or order or permit to be sold, any such article or mixture, without ac the same time informing the buyer of the fact, and the proportions in which glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine or suine fat has entered into its composition. Any one violating the provisions of t.his act may be punished by fine or imprisonment. BEPOKTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. Act No. 205 provides that within ten days after the final disposition of any criminal or other proceeding before any justice of the peace, to which the people of this state are a party, or wherein the county may be liable for any costs, it shall be the duty of the justices before whom sueh proceedings shall be had to make a report of the same to the prosecuting attorney oí the county. The report must contain the title of the case, the date of íiling the complaint, the offense charged, the plea, the ñames of attorneys, the date of trial the verdict or flnding, the judgement, etc. The prosecuting attorney shall, immediately after making his annual report to the attorney general, iile said reports of justices with the county clerk. Tbis act also directa the manner in which the jurora and witnesses shall be puid, and provides a penalty for the refusal or neglect of thejusticetomake the report as herein provided. SCKEENS FOR SMOKE-STACKS. Act No. 183 declares that all vessels using wood for f uel, navigating any of the waters of thia state, shall be provided with suitable lire-screens attached to the smoke-stacka of such vessels, to prevent the escape of fire. Such iire-screens shall be of the best approved kind, shown by experience to be proper and suitable for protection from fire. Neglect to comply with the requirementsof this act is made a mis deuaeanor and punishable as such. TITLE TO ltEAL PKOPKItTY BY DESCKNT. Act No. 35 provides tliat when any person shall die seized of any lands, or right in the same, not having lawfully devised tlie same, they sliall descend subject to liis debts, in manner follow ing: 1. In equal shares to his children Bad to the issue of any deceased chili by right of representation; and if there be no child of the intestate living at his death, his estáte shall descend to all his other lineal descendants. 2. If he should have no issue, his estate shall descend to his widow during her life-time, and after her decease, to liis father; and if he leave no issue or widow, his estáte shall descend to his father. 3. If he leave no issue nor widow nor father, his estáte shall descend in equal shares to his brothcrs and sisters, and to the children of any deceased brother or sister, [f he shall leave a mother also, she shall take aa equal share with his brothers and sisters. 4. If intestate leave no issue, widow, father, brother, nor sisters living at bis deatli, his estáte shall descend to Iris mother, to the exclusión oL the issue of any of his deceased brothers and sisters. 5. If the intestate leave none of the relativos above named, his or her estáte shall descend to the next of kin in equal degrees, excepting that when there are two or more collateral kindred in equal degrees but claiming through different ancestors, those who claim through the nearest ancestor shall be preferred. 6. If intestate die leaving several children, or one child and the issue of one or more children, and any such surviving child shall be under age, not having been married, all the estáte that came to the deceased child by inheritance frotn such deceased parent shall descend in equal shares to the other children of the same parent, and to the issue of such other children who shall have died. 7. If, at the death of such child who shall die under age, not having been married, all the other children of said parent shall also be dead, and any of them shall have left issue, the estáte that came to said child by inheritance from said parent shall descend to all the issue of other children of the same parent, according to the right of representation. 8. If the intestate shall leave a husband or wife and no issue nor other lineal descendants, nor father, mother, brother, nor sister, and there be no issue of brothers nor sisters, then the estáte shall descend to the husband or wife oi such intestate, as the case may be. 9. If the intestate shall leave no wife nor husband nor kindred, the estáte shall escheat to the people of this state, for the use of the primary school f und.