§ 168.109United States senator; contested election; restraining order of supreme court

Sec. 109.
     Whenever the election of a United States senator is contested before the United States
 senate, or notice of a contested election for United States senator may be given, or whenever
 any judicial proceeding may be instituted preliminary to a contested election involving the
 right to a seat in said United States senate from the state of Michigan, and it shall be made to
 appear to the supreme court of the state of Michigan that there is danger that the ballot boxes
 used in the election of said United States senator within said state will not be properly
 preserved, the seals upon said boxes interfered with, said ballot boxes opened or the ballots
 therein interfered with or destroyed, such supreme court shall grant a restraining order directed
 to the officers having custody of said ballot boxes within said state restraining them and all
 other persons from interfering with said boxes, seals or locks thereon, or the ballots therein,
 except as therein provided.