if convicted thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in Penalty. the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days, or a fine not exceeding twenty dollars. Approved March 10, 1921. [No. 7.] AN ACT to amend section sixteen of act number one hundred forty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," as amended by act number four hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section sixteen of act number one hundred Section amended. forty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," as amended by act number four hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: to estimate by council, SEC. 16. The board shall annually on or before the first When board Tuesday in April in each year, make an estimate of the taxes. amount of taxes deemed necessary for the ensuing year for all purposes within the power of said board, which estimate shall specify the amounts required for the different objects. The board shall transmit such estimates to the common council, city commission or other legislative body of the city on or before the second Monday in April of each year for ratification, amendment or rejection. If for any reason Approval the common council, city commission or other legislative c body of said city shall fail to pass on said estimate and finally adopt the same after such amendment, increase or decrease as it determines, before the second Monday in May in each. year, then the estimate made by such board shall stand as approved and be considered as approved and ratified by such legislative body and reported accordingly, and the amount therein named, levied and collected accordingly. On or When secrebefore the third Monday in May the secretary of the board tary to report shall make to the assessing officers of said city, a written to assessor. Limit. report of the amount of taxes so deemed necessary and ap- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Meeting, when held. [No. 8.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to create a State Board of Equalization; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide that said board shall be furnished with certain information by the several boards of supervisors and by the Board of State Tax Commissioners; to provide for meeting the expense authorized by this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section one hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to. create a State Board of Equalization; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide that said board shall be furnished with certain information by the several boards of supervisors and by the Board of State Tax Commissioners; to provide for meeting the expense authorized by this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section one hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. A meeting of the board of supervisors of each county shall be held on the fourth Monday in June, nineteen hundred twenty-one, and on the fourth Monday in June every year thereafter. Said boards of supervisors shall when convened proceed to equalize the assessment rolls in the manner Supervisors to provided by law. Prior to such meeting each of said supervisors shall add up the columns of his assessment roll, enumerating the number of acres of land and the value of the total assess ment roll, etc. real and personal property assessed, so as to show the aggre- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 9.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter three of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," same being section four thousand three hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter three of act number Section two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and pri vate roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and Good roads district, formation of. When county road system adopted. Proviso. defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," same being section four thousand three hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Any two or more organized townships, or any one or more townships, and one or more villages, or one or more townships, and one or more cities, or any combination of townships, villages or cities lying contiguous in any county, are hereby authorized to form themselves into a district to be known as a good roads district, and such district shall operate under the provisions of the county road law, except as herein otherwise provided; but should any county in which a good roads district be formed, afterwards adopt the county road system, such good roads district shall be thereby dissolved excepting for the purpose of completing work then under contract, or for the payment of any bonds that may have been issued, by the return to the district of all moneys assessed in said district for county road taxes when working under the county road system, until all bonds issued by said district are retired. In any case where a good roads district has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, dissolved by the adoption of the county road system, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the board of district good roads commissioners, if there are outstanding bonds issued by such district, to certify the amount thereof to the board of supervisors and to the county treasurer. Thereupon the treasurer shall set aside the county road tax that has been or may be collected and received from the townships and cities comprising such district, and shall preserve the same as a special fund out of which the principal and interest of the district road bonds. shall be paid, pursuant to the direction of the board of supervisors of the county: Provided, That no amount in excess of the actual indebtedness of the district, plus interest, shall be so set aside by the county treasurer. In case such district shall become so dissolved and come under the county road system, any funds of the good roads district remaining in the county treasury, or thereafter paid therein, to the credit of such good roads district fund shall be returned to the highway funds of the different townships, villages and cities composing such good roads district in the proportion in which the good roads district tax was paid by them for the last preceding year. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 10.] AN ACT to amend section thirteen of chapter two of act number three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the state of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," being compilers' section two thousand five hundred eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section thirteen of chapter two of act number Section three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," is hereby amended to read as follows: filled. tion, when SEC. 13. Any vacancy occurring in the office of president, Vacancy, how trustees or any other elective office shall be filled by appointment by the council, and such appointee shall hold his office until the next annual election thereafter. All vacancies in any other office shall be filled by the president, by and with the consent of the council. In any case where by reason of Special elecremoval, death, resignation or otherwise, the membership called. of the council shall be reduced to less than the quorum of four, the remaining trustees shall forthwith call a special election for the purpose of filling all vacancies in the office of trustee, if a petition therefor signed by not less than ten per cent of the qualified voters of said village is filed with the village clerk within ten days after such vacancy or vacancies occur; if no such petition be filed within the time stated, then the remaining members of the council may either call such special election, or may proceed to appoint a sufficient number of trustees to constitute with those in office a quorum of the council, who shall then fill the remaining vacancies as herein first provided: Provided, That in any Proviso. case where all the officers and trustees of any village heretofore incorporated under any general or local act shall have died or removed from such village, and no successors have been elected or appointed to fill the vacancies created thereby, it shall be the duty of the township clerk of the township within which such village is situated, upon petition of ten per centum of the qualified voters residing in such village, to call a special election for the election of the officers and trustees of such village at a date and place to be fixed by such township clerk, which date shall be not more than thirty days after the receipt of such petition. The township board Ballots, prepof such township shall perform all of the other duties with aration of, respect to such election as the village council might have done had such vacancies not existed, including the preparation of ballots, the appointment of election inspectors, the counting etc. |