ing Wolves, etc.

(1649.) SECTION 1. Every person, being an inhabitant of this Bounty for killState, who shall kill a full grown wolf, or a wolf's whelp, in any organized township in this State, shall be entitled to a bounty of eight dollars for each wolf over three months old, and four dollars for each wolf's whelp under the age of three months, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided.

Head, etc., to be

(1650.) SEC. 2. Every person intending to apply for such Wolf or Wolfs bounty, shall take such wolf or wolf's whelp killed by him, or taken to Justice. the head thereof, with the cars and skin entire thereon, to one of the Justices of the Peace of the township within which such wolf or whelp shall have been taken, who shall thereupon associate with him another Justice, or an Assessor, or Commissioner of Highways of such Township, to act with him in deciding upon such application.

(1651.) SEC. 3. The person claiming such bounty shall then Examination of be sworn by such Justice, and state on oath the time and place,

applicant.

When Certificate to be given.

Certificate to be delivered to Su

pervisor.

Certificate to be

laid before Board

etc.

when and where every wolf and wolf's whelp, for which a bounty is claimed by him, was taken and killed; and he shall also submit to such further examination on oath, concerning the taking and killing of such wolf or whelp, as the Justice and officer associated with him may require, and the statement made by him shall be reduced to writing in the form of an affidavit, which shall be subscribed by the person making it.

(1652.) SEC. 4. If it shall appear to the Justice and officer associated with him, that the wolf or whelp was taken and killed within such township by the person applying for such bounty, and that the mother of any such whelp was not taken before she brought forth the same, they shall cut off and burn to ashes the ears and scalp of such wolf or whelp, and deliver to the person so applying a certificate of the facts, and whether the same was over or under the age of three months when taken, annexing thereto the original affidavit made and subscribed by such person.

(1653.) SEC. 5. Such certificate, with the affidavit annexed, shall, within fifteen days after the date thereof, be delivered to one of the Supervisors of the same county; and if such Supervisor shall doubt the correctness of the certificate or affidavit, he shall give notice to the person claiming the bounty to give further evidence of the correctness thereof, and shall retain the papers in his hands until such further proof shall be made.

(1654.) SEC. 6. If such Supervisor shall have no doubt as of Supervisors, to the correctness of such certificate and affidavit, or if his doubts shall be removed by further proof, he shall lay such certificate and affidavit before the Board of Supervisors at their next meeting, and if the board shall be satisfied that such certificate and affidavit are just and correct, they shall award to the person to whom such certificate shall have been granted the bounty above specified, and shall cause the certificate and affidavit to be filed with their clerk.

Duplicate Certif

cates of bounties

to Treasurer,

paid.

(1655.) SEC. 7. Duplicate certificates, stating all the bounties to be delivered that shall have been allowed by the board at any meeting, and bounties shall be made under their direction, and after being signed by their chairman and clerk, shall be delivered to the County Treasurer, who shall thereupon pay to the several persons named in such certificate, out of any moneys in the Treasury for defraying the contingent expenses of the county, the bounties to them respectively allowed.

(1656.) SEc. 8. The County Treasurer shall charge to the

ties to be char

Treasurer, etc.

Treasurer of the State the one half of all the bounties allowed one half of bounby the Board of Supervisors, and shall transmit an accounted to State thereof to the Auditor General, accompanied by one of the duplicate certificates received from the Board of Supervisors; and shall also procure and transmit with such account, a certified copy of the original certificates and affidavits filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, upon which the bounties mentioned in such account shall have been allowed. (1657.) SEC. 9. The Auditor General shall examine every Auditor General account so transmitted to him, and if he shall discover any counts, etc.; defect or irregularity, which shall induce him to believe the thereon. same ought not to be allowed, he may suspend, in whole or in part, as he may think proper, the payment of such account, until satisfactory proof be made to him, by affidavit or otherwise, of the justice of such account; and if the further proofs produced to him shall not be satisfactory, he shall reject such portion of the account as shall have been suspended, and his decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.

ac

to examine proceedings

be paid out of

(1658.) SEC. 10. Every sum audited and allowed by the sums audited to Auditor General, upon any such account, not exceeding the state Treasury. one half of the bounties allowed by the Board of Supervisors, shall be paid out of the Treasury of the State, to the Treasurer of the county from which such account was transmitted.

ties.

(1659.) SEC. 11. The Boards of Supervisors of the several Additional bouncounties of this State shall have power, at the expense of their respective counties, to award and allow such other and further bounties for the destruction of wolves, wolf whelps, and such bounties for the destruction of panthers and other noxious animals within their respective counties, as they may think proper; and the same proof shall be required in such case as is hereinbefore prescribed, and such additional and other bounties, when duly allowed and certified, shall be paid out of the County Treasury. (a)

tificate, a misde

meanor.

(1660.) SEC. 12. If any Justice of the Peace, or other officer, Giving false Cerwho shall be applied to for a certificate under the provisions. of this chapter, shall willfully give a false certificate in the premises, such Justice or other officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

(a) See Subdivision 13, of Section 345, p. 189.

CHAPTER LII.

OF THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF INTOXICATING DRINKS
AS A BEVERAGE.

Sale of Spiritu

ous and Intoxi

An Act to Prevent the Manufacture and Sale of Spirituous or Intoxicating Liquors as a

Beverage.

[Approved February 3, 1855. Took effect May 16, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 13.]

(1661.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, cating Liquors That no person shall be allowed to manufacture or sell at any time, by himself, his clerks, servant or agent, directly or indi

prohibited.

And see Ibid 343.

rectly, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed 3 Mich. Rep. 330. liquors, a part of which is spirituous or intoxicating, except cider, beer, and wine of domestic manufacture, and except also as hereinafter specified. (a)

Liquors sold in

Act may be re

therefor void.

(1662.) SEC. 2. All payments for such liquors hereafter sold Payment for in violation of law, shall be considered as having been received violation of this without consideration, and against law and equity, and any covered back. money or thing paid therefor may be recovered back by the person so paying the same, his wife or any of his children; Securities given and all sales, transfers, grants, releases, quit claims, surrenders, mortgages, pledges, and attachments of real or personal estate, and liens and securities thereon, of whatever name or nature, and all contracts or agreements relating thereto hereafter made, the consideration whereof, either in whole or in part, shall have been the sale, or agreement to sell any such liquor, shall be utterly null and void, against all persons and in all cases, excepting only as against the holders of negotiable securities or the purchasers of property, who may have paid therefor a fair price and received the same upon a valuable and fair consideration, without notice or knowledge of such illegal consideration; nor shall any suit at law, or in equity, be had or maintained, upon any contract or agreement whatever hereafter made, the consideration whereof shall be either wholly or in part the sale of such liquors in violation of law, excepting only when such suit is brought by such bona fide holders of negotiable paper, or purchaser of property without notice, nor shall any demand arising upon any such contract or agreement whatever, be offered or allowed as a set-off or defence in any action whatever.

ling or keeping

(1663.) SEC. 3. If any person by himself, his clerk, agent or renalty for sel servant, shall, directly or indirectly, sell, or keep for sale for sale. contrary to law, any such liquor, he shall forfeit and pay, on the first conviction, ten dollars, and the cost of suit or prosecution, and shall be at once committed to the common jail of the county, until the same be paid. On the second conviction for the like offence, he shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars, and the cost of suit or prosecution, and shall be committed as aforesaid until the same be paid; on the third and every Penalties on subsequent conviction, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred victions.

(a) As Amended by an Act to Amend Act Number Seventeen of the Laws of 1855, entitled, "An Act to prevent the Manufacture and Sale of Spirituous and Intoxicating Liquors as a Beverage," approved February 3, 1855. Approved February 17, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 442.

subsequent Con