the furnishing of material and for the performance of such work in accordance with the plans and specifications so recommended and adopted; and shall require all bidders to furnish security for the performance of proposals tendered to said board if the bid is accepted, and also security for the performof any contract awarded; and all bids submitted to said board shall be publicly opened by it, and as soon as may be thereafter, reported by the said board, together with its recommendation in respect thereto, to the common council. No contract shall be let except to the lowest responsible bidder nor unless it be first recommended by the said board of public works, and authorized by the common council. certain engineer. SEC. 11. The said board of public works shall have power To appoint to appoint a city engineer, superintendent of public works, officers. bookkeeper, engineer and fireman at the water works and hydrant men. all of said appointees to hold office during the pleasure of the board. The city engineer shall make all sur- Duties of veys for the laying out, constructing, altering, repairing and improving of streets, sewers, water mains, parks, cemeteries, public grounds and buildings, and prepare all necessary plans, diagrams, profiles and specifications therefor, and do the civil engineering work of every description as required by the common council, the board of public works, or any board of said city, and he shall have personal supervision under the direction of the board of public works of the construction and repairing of public buildings, grading, paving, repaving, sewers, bridges, parks, cemeteries, public grounds and the water-works system of the city of Saginaw, and such other public work as the board of public works may require. Said engineer shall have authority to employ, subject to the approval of the board of public works, such assistants, inspectors and clerks under him as are required for the prompt and proper performance of the engineering and public works department of said city, and said engineer may discharge such assistants. The super- Superintend intendent of public works shall have supervision, under the works. direction of the city engineer, of the cleaning and repairing of public streets, alleys and grounds, the construction and repairing of sidewalks and crosswalks, the cleaning and deepening of ditches and gutters, and such other duties as may be required by said city engineer or the board of public works. Said board Compensaof public works shall also have authority to employ all other axed. subordinates as may be necessary to enable the board of public works to properly perform the duties devolving upon it. Said board of public works shall recommend annually, but the common council shall have the authority to fix the compensation of the engineer and firemen of the water works, hydrant men, bookkeeper, superintendent of public works, city engineer, and all other appointees of said board, except as herein provided. Said board of public works shall fix the compensation paid to persons employed by the day, and all claims for the same shall, whenever certified by the board of public works, be submitted to the common council for allowance and payment, in the same manner as other claims against the city. tion, how Board to submit statements to council. To make reports of contracts. Who to be clerk of board, duties. SEC. 12. The said board shall classify the various work under its control, and keep an accurate account of the cost of each, and of the amounts expended for construction, repairs and superintendence, and salaries of employes, and also detailed accounts of all other matters under its charge and control and on the first Tuesday of January in each year and oftener if required by the common council, submit to it a statement, showing in detail the progress and condition of all public improvements commenced or carried forward by said board; the character and amount of all contracts made by the board; the moneys earned and paid thereon, and all other information necessary to the full understanding of the business conducted by said board. The board shall from time to time also make estimates of the amounts earned and payable upon any contract for work done and material furnished, and report the same to the common council, and it shall be the duty of the common council, without unreasonable delay to order payment from the proper funds of the amount so reported, and during the month of Jannary in each year said board shall submit to the common council a financial statement covering the business of the fiscal year. SEC. 13. The city attorney shall act as legal adviser of said board, and the city clerk shall be by himself or his deputy, by him to be appointed, the clerk thereof, and shall keep a full record of its proceedings, showing the vote by ayes and nays of each member upon every motion brought before or determined by said board, relative to the adoption of plans, letting of contracts, approval of bonds, or the appointment of officers or employes, which record shall at all times be open to public inspection, and a copy thereof published within five days after each session in the official newspaper of the city. A majority of the board shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, but a majority of all members constituting said board, shall be necessary to decide any questions before the same. Said board shall appoint a bookkeeper who shall keep a set of books showing the accounts and condition of said board and May make by all work done by them. The board shall have the power to make all such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary or expedient for the conduct of its business. It shall have the power to fix the duties, and at any time to suspend or discharge any of its appointees or employes, and appoint or employ others in their place, as to the said board the public interest may seem to require. laws, etc. When recorder to act as TITLE XIV. SECTION 1. From and after the first Monday in April, A. D. police judge. nineteen hundred two, being the date of the expiration of the term for which the present police judge was elected, the recorder shall have the authority and shall perform all duties connected with the office of police judge as authorized by the charter of the city of Saginaw. A police court shall be held duties. in said city at the city hall, to be styled the police court, and a session of said court may be held daily at seven thirty a. m. in the central police station, and as soon thereafter as possible in the west side police station; said court, however, shall not be a court of record. The present police judge, after the pas sage of this act, shall perform his duties as heretofore, or as further provided in this act, until April, A. D. nineteen hundred two, viz.: the date of the expiration of the term for which he was elected, and his duties and authority shall thereupon cease and the recorder shall become his successor as herein provided. Said recorder, as police judge, shall have power and Powers and authority to take complaints, issue any process necessary in said court, to be signed by said judge; and the court shall have the same power to punish contempt and preserve order, to compel the attendance of witnesses, parties and jurors, and to determine as to the qualification of jurors, as a circuit court and the judge thereof, and such further powers incident to a circuit court and the judge thereof, as may be convenient in the exercise of the jurisdiction and powers herein conferred upon him as such court. He shall also have all the powers and authority of a justice of the peace in the trial of civil cases. In every criminal trial in said court by jury, the city or the people, as the case may be, shall be entitled to but two peremptory challenges. After the expiration of the term of the present police judge, the recorder acting as police judge shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction and power in all civil suits and proceedings, and perform the same duties in all respects so far as occasion may require, as are or may be conferred upon or required of justices of the peace by the general laws of this State, and such further powers as are conferred by this act, and shall have jurisdiction in all civil cases where the plaintiffs, or any of them, or the defendants, or any of them, reside in the county of Saginaw. The people judge and clerk shall receive no fee or Salaries. perquisites for their services as such performed under this act, but in lieu thereof, the recorder, acting as police judge, exclusive of recorder's fees shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, for services actually performed, which shall be paid by the city of Saginaw monthly. The clerk of said police court shall receive an annual salary, to be paid by the said city, in the manner herein provided for the payment of the salary of the recorder acting as police judge not to exceed nine hundred dollars. Neither the chief of police, nor any member of the police force of said city, shall receive for his own use any fees for services performed under this act. TITLE XVII. designate SEC. 19. The newspaper published in the said city of Sagi- Council to naw which shall be designated by the common council to publish des the official proceedings of said common council shall be the newspaper. official paper of said city during the time in which it shall continue by order of said council, to publish such proceedings: for printing. Proviso as to Provided, That the compensation paid for printing shall not examounts paid ceed the following prices, viz.: Proceedings common council, and all boards, eighty cents per thousand ems printer's measure. Slips as follows: Further proviso. Common council proceedings, Two hundred copies, five dollars per meeting. Board of public works, One hundred twenty-five copies, three dollars per meeting. Board of estimates proceedings, Two hundred copies, two dollars per meeting. Board of health, Fifty copies, one dollar and fifty cents per meeting. Board of police commissioners, Fifty copies, one dollar and fifty cents per meeting. All to be paged and ready for binding, including three copies on extra heavy paper for official record. Slips of ordinances, contracts, etc., at one dollar per hundred; legal and other notices seventy cents per folio for first insertion, thirty-five cents per folio for subsequent insertions. This does not include notices which on the order of any city official are to be published among pure matter in regular reading columns. Copies of paper delivered to mayor, controller, clerk, treasurer, city engineer, city attorney, and city assessor, police judge and justice of the peace, shall not be charged for at a price exceeding the annual subscription rate. When the proceedings of the common council or any one of the boards mentioned above at any one meeting shall exceed in length six columns of twenty inches in length, the publishers of the paper shall be allowed to publish the amount in excess of six columns in the next succeeding issue: And provided further, That the said common council proceedings or a synopsis thereof, shall not at public expense be ordered published in other than the official paper. Question of establishing public works to be submit ted to electors. TITLE XIX. SEC. 2. If the common council shall declare that it is expedient to acquire by purchase or construction as the case may be, works for the purpose of supplying the city and the inhabiants thereof, either with gas, electric or other light, then the common council shall cause to be made and reported in their proceedings, an estimate of the expense thereof, and the question of raising the amount required for such purpose shall first. be submitted to a vote of the taxpayers of said city, at some special election, as provided in section two of title five, and such proposition must be sanctioned by a majority of two-thirds of the taxpaying electors voting at such election before any money shall be raised or expended for such purpose. issue bonds. SEC. 3. When authorized thereto, as provided in the last sec- When may tion, the city may issue its bonds for any sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money for the purchase or construction of said plant to be used exclusively for that purpose. time of pay how used. The common council shall have the power to fix the time and Council to fix place for the payment of principal and interest of the debt, ment. contracted under the provisions of this title, and the rate of interest thereon shall not exceed six per cent per annum, and such bonds shall be sold for not less than their par value. The pro- Proceeds, ceeds of said bonds shall be placed in a separate fund, to be known as "lighting fund," and shall be used exclusively for the purpose for which they were authorized, and in no other manner. The total amount expended for the purchase or construction of such lighting works shall not exceed the amount of the estimate of expenses therefor, provided in section two of this title. Any surplus that may remain in said fund after the construction or purchase of said works, may be used for the maintenance thereof. All expense of maintaining said works and the repairs and extensions thereof, shall be chargeable to and paid from the lighting fund only. If constructed or purchased as a separate plant, it may be placed in the hands of the lighting commissioners, appointed in the same manner, and who shall hold their offices for the same time as is herein provided for the appointment of members of the board of estimates, or it may be placed under the charge and control of the board of public works. clause. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts in so far as they are in con- Repealing flict with this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 463.] AN ACT to divide the township of Milan, in the county of The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The township of Milan, in the county of Monroe, Districts, how is hereby divided into two election districts, as follows: Dis- constituted. trict number one shall consist of sections fifteen to thirty-six inclusive of the said township of Milan; and district number two shall consist of sections one to fourteen inclusive of the said township of Milan. when and SEC. 2. The first election to be held on the first Monday in First election, April, nineteen hundred four, in said district number one, shall where held. be held at the place where the township meetings and elections in said township heretofore have been held; and said election |