Michigan Compiled Laws Act 59 Of 1851 Telegraph Companies (484.151 - 484.172)

• Section 484.151 Telegraph Companies; Incorporators.
  That any number of persons may associate for the purpose of constructing a line of wires of telegraph through this state, or from and...
• Section 484.152 Telegraph Companies; Certificate Of Organization, Contents, Filing.
  Such persons, under their hands and seals, shall make a certificate which shall specify: 1st. The name assumed to distinguish such association, and to...
• Section 484.153 Body Corporate; Certified Copy Of Certificate As Evidence.
  Upon complying with the provisions of the last preceding section, such association shall be, and hereby is declared to be a body corporate, by...
• Section 484.154 Power To Hold Realty; Officers And Agents; Rules And By-laws.
  Such association shall have power to purchase, receive and hold and convey such real estate, and such only, as may be necessary for the...
• Section 484.155 Telegraph Lines; Construction, Restrictions.
  Such association is authorized to enter upon, and construct, and maintain lines of telegraph through, along, and upon any of the public roads and...
• Section 484.156 Aggrieved Property Owner; Remedy, Procedure.
  If any person over or through whose lands said lines shall pass, upon which said posts, piers or abutments shall be placed, or through...
• Section 484.157 Injury To Line; Penalty.
  Any person who shall unlawfully or intentionally injure, molest, or destroy any of said lines, posts, piers or abutments, or the materials or property...
• Section 484.158 Stockholder's Liability For Corporate Debts; Contribution.
  The stockholders of every association organized in pursuance of this act, shall be jointly and severally, individually liable for the payment of all debts...
• Section 484.159 Annual Report; Contents; Failure To Make, Liability Of Directors.
  Every such corporation shall, annually, within 10 days from the first of January, make a report which shall state the amount of capital and...
• Section 484.160 Annual Tax; In Lieu Of Other State Taxes.
  All corporations formed under this act shall pay to the treasurer of the state of Michigan an annual tax of 1 per-centum on the...
• Section 484.161 Shares Of Stock; Status As Personalty, Transfer, Purchase In Other Corporations.
  The stock of any such corporation shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable in such a manner as shall be prescribed by...
• Section 484.163 Books; Inspection, Use As Evidence; Penalty, Forfeiture.
  It shall be the duty of the directors of every such corporation or company to cause books to be kept by the treasurer or...
• Section 484.164 Transmission Of Dispatches; Penalty.
  It shall be the duty of the owner or association owning any telegraph line, doing business within this state, to receive dispatches from and...
• Section 484.165 Transmission Of Dispatches; Order Of Transmission; Penalty.
  It shall likewise be the duty of every such owner or association, to transmit all dispatches in the order in which they are received,...
• Section 484.166 Divulging Contents; Willful Failure To Transmit; Penalty, Civil Liability.
  Any person connected with any telegraph company in this state or connected with any such company transacting business in this state, either as clerk,...
• Section 484.167 State's Lien For Taxes; Sale; Surplus.
  The state shall have a lien upon any line constructed under this act, and its appurtenances, and for all taxes which may accrue thereon...
• Section 484.168 Amendment Or Repeal Of Act.
  The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act, and any such alteration or amendment shall act as an alteration or...
• Section 484.169 Immediate Effect.
  This act shall take effect immediately. History: 1851, Act 59, Imd. Eff. Mar. 20, 1851 ;-- CL 1857, 2066 ;-- CL 1871, 2642 ;--...
• Section 484.170 Appraisal Of Damages; Lands In More Than 1 County.
  When any person owning or occupying lands lying in or extending into 1 or more counties, shall desire to have the damages occasioned by...
• Section 484.171 Appraisal Of Damages; Contiguous Lands Of Same Person.
  Whenever any person shall apply to any circuit court for the appointment of commissioners to appraise the damages to any lands owned or occupied...
• Section 484.172 Amendment To Articles; Filing, Recording, Use Of Certified Copy As Evidence.
  It shall and may be lawful for any telegraph company organized as a corporation under the laws of this state, by the vote of...

Last modified: October 10, 2016