COMMISSIONERS CERTIFICATE. To His Excellency KINSLEY S. BINGHAM, Governor of the State of Michigan: We, the Commissioners appointed pursuant to an Act entitled "An Act to Collect, Compile and Reprint the Laws of this State," approved February 2, 1857, do hereby Certify, that we have examined the Laws collected and arranged, by THOMAS M. COOLEY, Esquire, the person appointed by the Legislature to perform that service, and have found the Laws so collected and arranged, to be a correct Compilation of all General Laws in force. HOVEY K. CLARKE, ALBERT M. BAKER. of premises by plaintiffs in ejectment, 1239. of children under six years age, ABATEMENT, 1508. of suits in chancery, provisions concerning, 1016 to PLEAS IN by joint drawers of bill or note, 1149. to be verified by affidavit or other evidence, 1057, to indictment, to be verified, 1586. by death, marriage, etc., 1156. when death of sole plaintiff or defendant not to abate death of one of sole plaintiffs or defendants not to proceedings in partition not abated by death, 1158. 1159. of actions in ejectment, not to abate by death, etc., 1235. misnaming of corporation to be pleaded in, 1291. of suits by and against public officers or bodies, 1309. ABBREVIATIONS, what may be used in assessment rolls, 295. in common use may be employed in process, etc., 1126. ABDUCTION, of females, 1507. of other persons, 1507, 1508. ABORTION, attempt to procure, how punished, 1509. ABSCONDING DEBTORS, proceedings against by attachment, 1047, 1269. ABSCONDING FROM FAMILY, when effects of person absconding may be seized by ABSENT, CONCEALED AND NONRESIDENT DEFEN- how proceeded against in chancery, 1018 to 1021. incorporation of, 564 to 568. ACCEPTANCE, of bill of exchange to be in writing, 408. of challenge, punishment for, 1505. ACCESSORIES, to violation of sepulture, 1544. before the fact to felonies, punished same as princi- how indicted, tried, etc., 1564. distinction between and principals abolished,1591. after the fact, how indicted, tried, etc., 1565. may be charged, etc., without principal, 1588. ACCOUNT, money of, 424. proceedings to compel, by persons having property, ACCOUNTS, public, what to be liquidated by auditor general, 138. irregularity in to be reported, 139. what to be settled by State auditors, 145, 146. proceedings thereon, 145 to 148. to be audited by boards of supervisors, 65, 66, 188, 189. AGAINST TOWNSHIPS, to be audited by township boards, to be produced at township meetings, 240. to be kept by township treasurer, 240. of county treasurer, when to be stated by auditor by school inspectors to township clerk, 748. 901. of joint guardians, allowance of, 975. by registers in chancery, of moneys brought into between parties to_suits, when to be stated by audi- actions on in justices courts, 1057. of receivers of corporations in chancery, how render- by prosecuting attorney of fines, etc., collected, 1356. to be kept and rendered by assignees of insolvent by agent of State prison, and settlement thereof, 1623, |