Revised Charter of the City of Ypsilanti Approved May 5, 1877: As Amended by Act 400 of the Laws of 1881

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Ypsilanti Publishing House, 1898 - Municipal charters - 260 pages

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Page 30 - ... be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one year...
Page 84 - ... within thirty days after they so become payable, and after demand thereof in •writing, the person to whom any such rent shall be payable may either recover the same from the promoters of the undertaking, with costs of suit, by action of debt in any of the superior courts, or it shall be lawful for him to levy the same by distress of the goods and chattels of the promoters of the undertaking.
Page 35 - Shillings for each Offence, or, in the Discretion of the Justice before whom he is convicted, may be committed to Prison...
Page 12 - ... shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday of...
Page 18 - March, and as often and for such period as the council shall require, a full and detailed account of the receipts and disbursements of the treasury since the date of his last annual report, classifying them therein by the funds to which such receipts are credited and out of which such disbursements are made, and the balance remaining in each fund; which account shall be filed in the office of the clerk, and shall be published in one (1) of the newspapers of the village, if any be published therein.
Page 10 - Of the members of the commission first appointed one shall hold office for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of five years, from and after his appointment.
Page 49 - The council shall have the power to erect markethouses, establish and regulate markets and market places for the sale of meats, fish, vegetables, and other provisions and articles necessary to the sustenance, convenience, and comfort of the inhabitants ; to prescribe the...
Page 18 - ... the Board of General Appraisers to the Circuit Court of the United States on behalf of either party. The appellant contends that the action submitted to the Board of General Appraisers was not that of the collector of customs at Baltimore, but was a decision of the Secretary of the Treasury, made in the discharge of the duties imposed upon him by law, and that the Board of General Appraisers has no authority in law to review him. It is insisted on the part of the appellant that Congress could...
Page 17 - ... paid in, or appropriated therefor, and shall pay every warrant out of the particular fund constituted or raised for the purpose for which the warrant was issued and having the name of such fund indorsed thereon by the clerk.
Page 24 - ... shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give a bond to the city in...

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