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or assistant stenographer as the case may be, unless by order of said probate judge. until his suspension be rescinded; and shall perform none of the duties of his office, except to transcribe, certify and file, as herein provided, his stenographic notes of evidence taken before such suspension. If such suspension be not rescinded within thirty days after the order of suspension, the office shall be deemed vacant.

how filled.

SEC. 11. In case of vacancy in the office of stenographer Vacancies, from death, resignation, suspension or inability to serve, from any cause of a permanent nature, the governor shall appoint a successor to the office upon receiving notice from the probate judge of such vacancy and the cause thereof. Such appointment to be made in the manner hereinbefore provided. In case of the temporary absence of the stenographer, he, said stenographer, may appoint some competent person, approved by said probate judge, to act as stenographer pro tempore, who shall be paid by the stenographer in whose place he acts.

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SEC. 12. The stenographer, or assistant stenographer, who Provisions as shall take the notes on the trial or hearing of any case con- ing notes. templated by the provisions of this act, shall prefix to his notes of the testimony of each witness and to his transcript thereof, the full name of each witness, the party in whose behalf such witness was produced and sworn, the date the testimony was taken, and in criminal examinations the further statement, viz. that the testimony was taken in the presence and hearing of the accused; and upon making a transcript of his notes of the evidence given in any case, he shall properly entitle the cause, including therein the name of the court, magistrate, or coroner, as the case may be, before whom said cause was heard, and at the conclusion of the transcript of all the evidence given in said cause shall attach the certificate hereinbefore provided; which said certificate shall apply to the transcript of the evidence of the several witnesses in the same manner and with the same effect as if such certificate had been attached to the transcript of the evidence of each of the several witnesses.

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SEC. 13. In addition to the other duties herein prescribed, Other duties it shall be the duty of the stenographer to perform such other rapher. duties as may be from time to time required by the prosecuting attorney of said county relating to the administration of his office as prosecuting attorney: Provided, That whenever the Proviso as to stenographer or assistant stenographer, in the performance expenses. of his duties, is required to leave the county seat of said county, he shall be entitled to and shall receive his actual expenses thereby incurred, in addition to all other compensation herein provided; such expenses to be paid monthly by the county treasurer from the general expense fund of the county, upon an itemized bill, verified by the stenographer and approved by the prosecuting attorney, and the county treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same upon presentation as aforesaid.

Compensation for

SEC. 14. It shall also be the duty of the stenographer to transcripts of furnish without delay, in legible English, transcripts of the

notes.

To take oath and sign

notes taken by him or any part thereof to any party who may request the same, for which he shall be entitled to demand and receive the sum of four cents per folio of one hundred words. SEC. 15. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the acceptance. stenographer and assistant stenographer shall respectively sign in duplicate an acceptance of such office. and shall respectively take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office in duplicate, such oath to be administered by the county clerk of said county; one of which said acceptances and oaths shall be transmitted by mail or otherwise to the office of the Secretary of State and be filed therein and one of which said acceptances and oaths shall be filed with the county clerk of said county.

Where filled.

Penalty for making false notes, etc.

Salary.

Act repealed.

SEC. 16. Any stenographer or assistant stenographer appointed under the provisions of this act who shall wilfully take incorrect or incomplete stenographic notes of the evidence given by any witness, or who shall wilfully make an incorrect or incomplete transcript of his stenographic notes of such evidence, or who shall wilfully make a false certificate to such transcript, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof may be forthwith suspended as herein before provided and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 17. The stenographer appointed under the provisions of this act shall receive as compensation from the county of Oakland, a salary of seven hundred dollars per annum, payable in monthly installments out of the treasury of the county, upon the order of the county clerk, or board of supervisiors, who are hereby authorized and required to draw such orders, and the county treasurer to pay the same upon presentations.

SEC. 18. Act number three hundred and seventy-seven of the Local Acts of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-five is hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 2, 1903.

[No. 385.]

AN ACT to submit anew to the qualified electors of the city of Detroit the question of borrowing money and issuing the bonds of said city under the provisions of an act number four hundred eighty of the Local Acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to authorize the city of Detroit to construct and maintain an additional bridge or bridges over the American channel of the Detroit river," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred one.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

submitted to

SECTION 1. Before any action shall be taken by the common Question to be council of the city of Detroit to borrow any sum of money, or electors. issue any bonds of said city, under the provisions of act number four hundred eighty of the Local Acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to authorize the city of Detroit to construct and maintain an additional bridge or bridges over the American channel of the Detroit river," it shall be, and it is hereby required, that the question of making said loan and of issuing said bonds, for the purposes aforesaid, be again submitted to the electors of said city, at any general election to be designated by said common council and any bonds issued under said act number four hundred eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred one before the electors have voted in favor thereof as provided for in this act shall be void.

conducted.

to issue bonds.

SEC. 2. The common council of said city shall give the same Election, how notices of submitting the question of said loan to the qualified electors of said city, in the same manner as is required by the provisions of the act aforesaid; and said proposition shall be submitted in the same manner and form, and the election shall be conducted, and the canvass and returns made, and the certificate and declaration thereof filed and entered upon the records of said city, in all respects as is provided in said act. SEC. 3. The result of the election herein provided for shall When council be deemed the final determination of the electors of said city of Detroit on the question of borrowing the money and issuing the bonds of said city for the purposes aforesaid. In case a major-` ity of said electors, voting at such election, shall vote in favor of issuing said bonds, the common council shall be authorized to borrow said money and to issue said bonds, in the manner contemplated in said act; but, if a majority of said electors shall vote against the issuing of said bonds, then said common council shall not have power and authority to make such loan and issue such bonds, anything in said act number four hundred eighty to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That Proviso. if the majority of said electors voting at such election vote in favor of issuing such bonds and the common council should decide that an enlargement of the present bridge is more desirable than a new bridge or bridges said money shall be used for such enlargement of present bridge instead of for building

Further proviso.

a new bridge or bridges, and Provided further, That before
said common council can authorize said loan and issue of bonds
for either the enlargement of the old bridge or the building of
a new bridge or bridges the board of estimates shall have first
approved of same.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 2. 1903.

Amount coun

cil may raise

by tax.

[No. 386.]

AN ACT to limit the aggregate amount which may be raised by general taxes in the city of Mt. Clemens, Macomb county, Michigan.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The aggregate amount which the common council of the city of Mt. Clemens may raise by general tax upon the taxable real and personal property in said city, for the purpose of defraying the general expenses and liabilities of the corporation, and for all purposes for which the several general funds mentioned in section three of chapter thirty of the act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class (being section three thousand two hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven) are constituted (exclusive of taxes for schools and schoolhouse purposes) shall not, except as, provided in said act elsewhere than in section five of said chapter thirty, exceed in one year, three-fourths of one per cent. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 2, 1903.

Section

amended.

[No. 387.]

AN ACT to amend section fourteen of title ten of the charter of the city of Grand Rapids, being local act number three hundred seventy-four of the laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Grand Rapids," so as to authorize the board of police and fire commissioners to control, manage or direct the construction or repairs of engine houses within said city.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of title ten of the charter of the city of Grand Rapids, being local act number three hundred seventy-four of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

TITLE X.

police and

SEC. 14. Said board of police and fire commissioners shall Powers of control and manage the construction or repair of engine houses fire commisin the city of Grand Rapids, and have the right to make con- sioners. tracts therefor in the name of the city, to be approved by the common council of the city, and power to locate sites for engine houses and police stations, to organize said city into as many fire districts as it may deem necessary, to prescribe rules for the inspection of buildings by fire wardens and prescribe the duties of fire wardens, to control cisterns and hydrants in use by the fire department; to direct the manner in which the bells of the city shall be tolled or rung in the case of fire or alarms of fire and to establish and maintain a system of fire alarm telegraph, and such other telegraphic and telephonic apparatus as may be necessary to secure the highest efficiency of the department.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts in contravention of the Repealing provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 2, 1903.

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[No. 388.]

AN ACT to regulate and fix the salary of the probate register of the county of Kent, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of March in the salary. year one thousand nine hundred three, the probate register for the county of Kent shall be a regularly admitted attorney at law and shall receive an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- Repealing visions of this act are hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 2, 1903.

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