Intended as a textbook for students to learn Michigan civics, this volume is still useful as a concise reference book for the structure and functions of State and local government in the 1870s. It also contains fairly brief texts of several dozen laws; including: -Of Weights and Measures -Of the Support of Poor Persons -The Internal Police of the State -Of the Observance of the Sabbath -The Law of the Road, Conduct of Drivers -Trespass upon Cranberry Marshes, Destruction of Canada Thistles -Of Crimes and Misdemeanors, Treason, Murder, Duels –Of the Protection of Game, Song Birds, and Musk-Rats