stitute.

ship, who shall be owners of land in said township, to serve as members of the board of review, one of whom shall be elected for one year and one for two years, and annually thereafter one member shall be elected for two years, who shall take the constitutional oath of office as other township officers. The supervisor and the two electors so elected shall who to conconstitute a board of review for such township. The township board may temporarily fill any vacancy which shall Vacancy, occur in said membership of said board of review, but no member of such township board shall be eligible to fill such vacancy. A majority of said board of review shall constitute Quorum, etc. a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from day to day and a majority vote of those present shall decide all questions.

Am. 1901, Act 129.

The above section is taken from an act providing for the assessment of property and collection of taxes, etc.

how filled.

RESIGNATIONS, VACANCIES, AND SUPPLYING VACANCIES.

(355) § 2326. SEC. 56. Resignations of all officers How resignaelected at township meetings shall be in writing, signed by tions made. the officer resigning, and addressed to the township board, and shall be delivered to and filed by the township clerk; and when a justice of the peace resigns, such clerk shall immediately transmit a copy of such resignation, certified by him, to the county clerk.

to become

(356) § 2327. SEC. 57. Every township office, including When office the office of justice of the peace, shall become vacant, upon vacant. the happening of either of the events specified in chapter fifteen, as creating a vacancy.

VACANCIES: See sections 478, 480. 484. 487.

Paw Paw v. Eggleston, 25/39; People v. Stellwagen, 33/1.

appointments,

board.

(357) § 2328. SEC. 58. Whenever there shall be a va- Temporary cancy, or when the incumbent shall, from any cause be unable when made to perform the duties of his office, in either of the township by township offices, except that of justice of the peace and township treasurer, the township board may make temporary appointments of suitable persons to discharge the duties of such offices respectively; and such persons, so appointed, shall take the oath of office, or file the notice of acceptance required by law, and shall continue to discharge such duties until the office is filled by election, or until the disability aforesaid be removed.

Bank v. St. Joseph, 46/528; Locke v. Highway Com'r, 107 / 633. Murphy v. Montmorency Circult Judge, 159 / 392. A township temporarily represented by an appointed supervisor has the same voice upon the board that it had before the vacancy.-Peck v. Supervisors, 102/346.

When town

ship treasurer

board.

(358) § 2329. SEC. 59. In case the treasurer of any appointed by township shall refuse to serve, or shall vacate his office before completing the duties thereof, or be disabled from completing the same, by reason of sickness or any other cause, the township board shall forthwith appoint a treasurer for the remainder of the term, who shall give like security, and be subject to like duties and responsibilities, and have the same powers and compensation as the treasurer in whose place he was appointed, and the township clerk shall immediately give notice thereof to the county treasurer; but such appointment shall not exonerate the former treasurer, or his sureties, from any liability incurred by him or them.

Minutes of township meeting.

Clerks to make

return of officers to

Proviso.

CERTAIN DUTIES OF TOWNSHIP CLERK RELATIVE TO ELEC

TIONS.

(359) § 2339. SEc. 66. He shall transcribe in the book of records of his township the minutes of the proceedings of every township meeting held therein, and he shall enter in such book every order or direction, and all rules and regulations made by any such township meeting.

Harding v. Bader, 75/318.

(360) § 2340.

SEC. 67. The township clerk of each township, and the city clerk of each city, shall, immediately after county clerk. the qualifying of the several officers elected or appointed in their respective townships and cities, return to the clerks of their respective counties the names of all such officers, with their respective postoffice addresses: Provided, That the township clerk of the township of South Manitou in the county of Manitou, may make such return at any time before the first day of June next after the election of such officers. (361) § 2341. SEC. 68. Each township clerk shall, immeof election of diately after the election of any justices of the peace in his township, transmit a written notice thereof to the county clerk, stating therein the names of the persons so elected, and the terms for which they were respectively elected; and if one or more of them has been elected to fill a vacancy, he shall state in such notice who was the last incumbent of the office.

To give notice

justices.

Duties of treasurer.

TOWNSHIP TREASURER.

(362) § 2353. SEC. 76. The township treasurer shall receive and take charge of all moneys belonging to the township, or which are by law required to be paid into the township treasury, including all moneys that may accrue to his

township on account of non-resident highway taxes, and shall pay over and account for the same, according to the order of such township, or the officers thereof duly authorized in that behalf; and shall perform all such other duties as shall be required of him by law; but no person shall be eligible to Not to hold the office of township treasurer for more than two years in than two years succession.

office more

in succession.

COMPENSATION OF TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

officers, compensation of.

(363) § 2374. SEC. 95. The following township officers Township shall be entitled to compensation at the following rates for each day actually and necessarily devoted by them to the service of the township in the duties of their respective offices, to be verified by affidavit, whenever required by the township boards:

First, The officers composing the township boards, board of Boards, etc. registration, board of health, inspectors of election, clerks of the poll and commissioners of highways, three dollars per day, and at the same rate for parts of days;

Second, The supervisor for taking the assessment and for Supervisor. all services not connected with above boards, three dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days;

clerk.

Third, The township clerk, as clerk of the township board, Township three dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days, but no township officer shall be entitled to pay for acting in more than one capacity at the same time.

Am. 1907, Act 98; 1911, Act 260.

(364) SEC. 2. This act shall not take effect until ratified Ratification. by the electors of said township.

Added 1911, Act 260.

This provision for a referendum, added by the amendment of 1911 to section 363 (C. L. § 2374) seems to have the effect of leaving the amendment of 1907 still in force in such townships as do not ratify the amendment of 1911. The only changes made in the section by the last amendment are found in subdivisions first and third. The following is the text of those subdivisions in the amendment of 1907:

First, The officers composing the township boards, board of registration, board of health, inspectors of election, clerks of the poll, commissioners of highways and school inspectors, one dollar and fifty cents per day, and at the same rate for parts of days;

Third, The township clerk, as clerk of the board of commissioners of highways, of the township board, and of the board of school inspectors, one dollar and fifty cents per day and at the same rate for parts of days, but no township officer shall be entitled to pay for acting in more than one capacity at the same time: Provided, That at any annual township meeting, the electors of the township may, by a majority vote of those present and voting, increase the compensation of any or all of the officers mentioned in this section, excepting as above provided for the supervisor, to a sum not to exceed two dollars per day.

(365) § 2375. SEC. 96. For services not otherwise pro- Compensation vided for by law, rendered to townships by township officers for other serin the duties of their respective offices, the township board

shall audit and allow such compensation as they shall deem reasonable.

Sawyer-Goodman Co. v. Crystal Falls Twp., 56 / 597.

Moderator of township meeting.

Powers and duties of moderator.

Idem.

Disorderly conduct at township meetings.

Penalty for disregarding order of moderator.

TOWNSHIP BUSINESS OTHER THAN ELECTIONS.

(366) § 2376. SEC. 97. In the transaction of any business other than the election of officers in any township meeting, the supervisor, if present, shall be the moderator of the meeting; and if he shall not be present, any other of the inspectors of election, except the clerk, who shall be designated by the inspectors present, shall be the moderator; or the meeting, under the direction of the inspectors present, may elect viva voce, a moderator of the meeting.

(367) § 2377. SEC. 98. The moderator shall preside in, and regulate the proceedings of the meeting; he shall decide all questions of order, and make public declaration of all votes passed; and when any vote so declared by him shall immediately upon such declaration be questioned by seven or more of the voters, he shall make the vote certain by polling the voters, or dividing the meeting, unless the township shall, by a previous vote, or by their by-laws, have otherwise provided.

(368) § 2378. SEC. 99. No person shall address the meeting before permission obtained of the moderator, nor while any other person is speaking by his permission; and all persons at such meeting shall be silent at the request of the moderator.

(369) § 2379. SEC. 100. If, at any township meeting any person shall conduct himself in a disorderly manner, and, after notice from the moderator shall persist therein, the moderator may order him to withdraw from the meeting; and on his refusal, may order the constables, or any other persons to take him into custody until the meeting be adjourned.

(870) § 2380. SEC. 101. Any person who shall refuse to withdraw from such meeting, on being ordered by the moderator to do so, as provided in the preceding section, shall, for every such offense, forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.

Who may vote, challenges.

QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS AND OFFICERS.

(371) § 2381. SEC. 102. Each inhabitant of any township, having the qualifications of an elector, as specified in the constitution of this state, and no other person, shall have

a right to vote on all matters and questions before any township meeting, and when any person claiming the right to vote shall be challenged by a voter, the moderator shall proceed in the same manner as on challenges at the election of township officers.

Mudge v. Stebbins, 59/165; Menton v. Cook, 147/540.

(372)

to hold office.

§ 2382. SEC. 103. No person except a citizen of Who eligible the United States and an elector as aforesaid shall be eligible to any elective office contemplated in this chapter: Provided Proviso. however, That any female person of or above the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in this state six months and in the township twenty days next preceding any election, shall be eligible to the office of school inspector.

The office of school inspector is now obsolete.

voter, who

(373) § 4662. SEC. 17. In all school elections including Qualified school elections held in districts organized and governed in deemed. whole or in part by a local act or acts, any provisions in such local act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding, every citi zen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, male or female, who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in the district, or who is the parent or legal guardian of any child of school age included in the school census of said district, and who has resided in said district three months next preceding such election, shall be a qualified voter. On the question of voting school taxes, every citizen Taxes. of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, male or female, who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in the district, and who has resided in the district, as above stated, shall be a qualified voter: Provided, That the pur- Proviso, chaser of land upon a land contract, who actually pays the contracts. taxes upon such land and resides thereon, may vote upon all questions; and where a husband and wife own property Husband jointly and same is assessed for school taxes in the school and wife. district, each may, if otherwise qualified, vote upon all questions including the question of raising money.

Am. 1909, Act 83; 1913, Act 140.

land

An Act authorizing women to vote in certain cases.

[Act 206, P. A. 1909.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

upon which

(374) SECTION 1. At any election hereafter held in any Propositions village, township, city, county or school district at which any women may question involving the direct expenditure of public money vote. or the issue of bonds shall be submitted to a vote of the elec