LAWS OF MICHIGAN. [ No. 1. ] AN ACT to re-incorporate the city of Monroe under the provisions of the general law for the incorporation of cities. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That in City of Monroe re-incorporated. pursuance of section twenty-three of act number one hundred and seventy-eight, session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act for the incorporation of cities," approved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the city of Monroe is hereby re-incorporated as a city under the provisions of said. act. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 2. ] AN ACT to provide for the return of votes for Representative in certain wards of the city of East Saginaw. returned, and SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the votes, to whom return of all votes cast for representative in the State Legislature, where canin the seventh and eighth wards of the city of East Saginaw as vassed. now constituted, shall be returned to the board of canvassers, and canvassed in the third representative district of Saginaw county, until such time as there shall be a new apportionment of representatives according to law. Approved March 21, 1874. [ No. 3. ] AN ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Hastings to assess, levy, and collect a special tax to pay existing indebtedness. authorized. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Amount of tax common council of the city of Hastings be and they are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to assess, levy, and collect with the tax of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in addition to all other Preamble. Preamble. Bonds legalized. Provisions for payment. taxes now authorized by law, the sum of two thousand dollars, to SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 4. ] AN ACT to legalize certain bonds issued by the city of St. Clair, for the purpose of local improvements. WHEREAS, The voters of the city of St. Clair, county of St. Clair, did, at a special meeting held on the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in said city of St. Clair, vote to issue bonds to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money for local improvements in said city, which said bonds were issued in accordance with said vote, on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; AND WHEREAS, The charter of said city does not explicitly provide for the issue of said bonds; therefore, SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the said bonds be and they are hereby declared legal and obligatory upon said city in all respects whatsoever. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the proper officers in said city to assess, levy, and collect the amount that may from time to time be required for the payment of both principal and interest on said bonds, and to pay the amount to the holders of said bonds or coupons, as the case may be, as fast as the same shall become due and payable, according to the terms of said bonds or coupons. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 24, 1874. Section amended Certain offices abolished. [ No. 5.] AN ACT to amend section eleven of an act entitled "An act to authorize a board of public works in and for the city of Port Huron," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventythree, and to add a new section thereto, to stand as section. twenty-three. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section eleven of an act entitled "An act to authorize a board of public works in and for the city of Port Huron," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: SEC. 11. The offices of city surveyor, street commissioner, the board of sewer commissioners, and all other offices whose duty is to be performed by the board of public works, are hereby abolished from and after the expiration of the term for which they were sevBoard to employ erally elected or appointed. The board of public works is hereby authorized to employ some suitable person as surveyor. He shall surveyor and assistants. water-works, perform such services as the board shall direct, and such other duties as may be required by the common council. Said board may employ such assistants to the surveyor as may be necessary in the performance of his duties. Such surveyor and assistants shall be compensation. paid by the city of Port Huron, under the provisions now existing, such as may hereafter be provided for the payment for such serviees. Said board may employ as superintendent one of their To employ sunumber, or some other suitable person, whose duty it shall be to perintendent of have charge of and superintend the water-works, and all work and etc. improvements ordered, subject to the direction and control of the board of public works. Said board may employ such assistants to the superintendent as in their judgment may be necessary. The Compensation. superintendent and his assistants shall receive such compensation as the board shall prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the common council to allow and order payment for such services; also the services of the secretary, from the general fund of said city. SEC. 2. There shall be added to said act a new section, to stand Section added. as section twenty-three, as follows: certain lots, etc., which do not pay water rates. SEC. 23. The board of public works shall have power annually Assessment of to levy or assess a tax or assessment on all lots, premises, and subdivisions thereof, in front of which water mains or pipes are laid, and which do not pay water rates for the consumption of water, an annual tax or assessment of three (3) cents per lineal foot of the frontage of such lots or parcels of land. If any lots or parcel of land fronts upon more than one line of pipe, the shortest front shall only be estimated in making such assessment. The assessor or assessors of the board of public works for the assessments of water rates shall, in the month of April of each year, make a correct assessment of all said lots or parcels of land, and deliver to the city clerk a copy of the same, verified under oath as correct. Said city clerk shall report the same to the common council at the next regular meeting. The council shall cause to be extended the amount of tax so reported on the tax roll of said city, which shall be designated as water tax, and when collected be credited to the water-works fund. SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 6. ] AN ACT to amend section seven of title ten of act number four hundred and twenty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Lansing," approved April third, eighteen hundred and sixtynine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sec- section amended tion seven of title ten of act number four hundred and twentyseven of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Lansing," approved April Provisions to meet expenses in the erection of school build ings. Board to deter mine amount to be raised, amount by tax, and amount on bonds. Collection and sued for amount borrowed. etc. Proviso requir ing a majority vote of district. third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 7. Whenever the said board shall deem the purchase of sites and buildings, the erection of high-school buildings on block eighty-one in said city, or ward school-houses, or other buildings in said city for school purposes necessary, they shall so declare by resolution, and shall determine the sum or sums of money necessary to be raised for such purposes, and what portion thereof, if any, shall be raised by tax, and what portion of said sum, if any, shall be borrowed on the bonds of said district. The sum to be raised by tax and the interest on all bonds issued by said board, together payment of tax, with the principal thereof at maturity, shall be assessed and levied on the real and personal property of said city, and collected and paid over to said board as other school money in said city. For Bonds to be is the amount determined to be borrowed the bonds of said district shall be issued by said board, executed by the president and clerk How executed, thereof, in such denominations, not less than fifty dollars, payable at such times and places, and with such interest, not exceeding ten per centum per annum, as said board may direct; the money so raised to be applied by said board for the purposes in this section specified: Provided, That said resolution shall have been first approved by said school district, such approval to be determined by a majority of the votes cast in said district, at a school meeting of said district called by said board for that purpose, notice whereof Notice of meet- shall be given by posting printed copies of said resolution, and notice of the time and place of holding said meeting in at least three public places in each ward of said city for ten days prior to said meeting, and by publishing the same once in each newspaper published in said city. The presiding officer of said board shall preside at such meeting, and the clerk of said board shall be clerk thereof and keep a record of said meeting. It shall be competent Voters may in- for the voters at such meeting to increase or diminish both or either the amount of tax and bonds specified in said resolution, and the resolution as submitted by said board or amended by such meeting shall, when the question is upon the final passage thereof, be voted upon by ballot, either written or printed, or partly written and printed; said ballots to be received and canvassed by two inspectors who shall have been chosen by said board from the members thereof. It is further provided that the bonded indebtedness of said school district shall at no time exceed fifty thousand dollars. ing. erease or diminish amount. Bonded indebt edness limited. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 7.] When village presrmed to be AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of Algonac, in the county of St. Clair. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the village of legally organized. Algonac, in the county of St. Clair, heretofore organized, shall be presumed to have been legally organized when it shall have exer- This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 8. ] AN ACT to enlarge and extend the corporate limits of the village of Evart, in the county of Osceola. ed to the village SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all Territory annexthat part of section thirty-four [34], of the township of Osceola, in of Evart. the county of Osceola, situated, lying, and being north and west of the Muskegon river, be and the same is hereby annexed to, and made a part of the village of Evart, in said county of Osceola, and the corporate limits of said village of Evart are so enlarged and extended as to include all that part of said section thirty-four described as aforesaid. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 9.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Ionia," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, by adding a new section thereto, to stand as section seventy. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That an Section added. act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Ionia," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be, and the same hereby is amended by adding a new section thereto, to stand as section seventy, to read as follows: portioned be tween township of Ionia and city. SEC. 70. In all cases wherein the township of Ionia was on the Certain indebttwenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand ness, how apeight hundred and seventy-three, liable for any indebtedness, the same shall be apportioned between the township of Ionia and the city of Ionia, excepting from this apportionment so much of the territory of the city of Ionia as was taken from the township of Easton, by the township board of the township of Ionia, and the common council of the city of Ionia, according to the amount of taxable property as it existed according to the assessment roll of said township for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and in case any judgment shall be rendered against the township of Ionia or [on] any such indebtedness, the common council shall cause to be levied and collected upon the real and personal property of the city of Ionia, exempting from this taxation so much of the terri |