Printing, etc., of ballots.

Ballots, how marked.

SEC. 4. Any qualified voter at school elections in the city shall be eligible to election as library commissioner. The city clerk shall prepare and print in suitable numbers, and distribute to the various polling places, as other tickets are distributed, a bollot for library commissioners, on which he shall place, in alphabetical order, the names of all persons eligible to such office, who have at least seven days before the day of election, filed with the city clerk a consent in writing to be a candidate in such election, accompanied by a petition signed by not less than twenty-five qualified voters of the city ratify. ing such candidacy. Such ballot shall be headed "Ballot for Library Commission," and the city clerk shall cause to be printed on each ballot, instructions as to the method of voting it. The ballots shall be printed, arranged and distributed in the same manner as near as may be as is provided by act four hundred seventy-one of the local acts of nineteen hundred one.

SEC. 5. All such names shall be placed in one column on such ticket. It shall contain no party or opposing divisions of any kind. The voter shall place a mark opposite the name or names for whom he desires to vote, not exceeding in number the number of commissioners to be chosen at such election; but he may, instead of so doing, write upon or attach to such ballot Conducting of the name of any other person eligible. All regulations contained in the general law governing school elections, and not inconsistent herewith, shall apply to such voting and ballot and the counting thereof.

elections.

Clerk to notify person elected.

Vacancy, how filled.

Compensa

tion of board.

SEC. 6. The city clerk shall notify every person so elected library commissioner, and he shall within ten days after receiving such notification, file with the city clerk his acceptance in writing of such office. In the absence of such acceptance the position shall be vacant and shall be filled as a vacancy.

SEC. 7. In case of the death or resignation or removal from the city of any commissioner, his position shall become vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled by election by the remainder of the board, but for a term continuing only until the next charter election, at which time a successor for the unexpired term shall be nominated and elected in the manner herein provided.

SEC. 8. No member of such board shall receive any compensation whatever for his services in connection therewith. Annually on the first Monday after the school election in September, the board shall organize by electing one of its members City treasurer president, and one of its members secretary. The city treasurer of the city of Grand Rapids shall hold the funds of said library commission, and all bills by it incurred shall be audited by said board and certified by it to the city comptroller, to be allowed by the common council and paid from the special library fund.

to hold funds.

Board may employ librarian, etc.

SEC. 9. The board may employ such librarian, assistants, janitors and other employes, or workmen as it may determine, and may fix their salaries. It may purchase such books, charts, maps and apparatus for the use of the library, as it may determine, and may do every act and thing necessary properly to

maintain the library and library building and grounds and increase the usefulness of such library. For this purpose it may establish, and from time to time alter, amend or repeal such rules and regulations as it thinks proper, not inconsistent with this act.

whom paid.

SEC. 10. All fines and penalties, which by law are devoted Fines, etc., to to library purposes, and which now by law, are paid to the board of education for such purposes, shall instead thereof, be paid to the board created by this act, unless the board of education should direct such fines and penalties to be devoted to other lawful purposes.

sent estimate

council.

SEC. 11. The board shall annually, on or before the first Board to preMonday of April, present to the common council its estimate of money of the amount of money necessary to be appropriated for li- needed to brary purposes for the ensuing year, and the council shall include in the amount raised by taxation for the ensuing year, such amount as it thinks proper for library purposes. The amount so appropriated shall be, by the city treasurer retained as a library fund. Any money remaining unexpended by the board of education in its library or library expense fund, at the time the board of library commissioners organizes, shall be by the board of education paid over to the board of library commissioners. The council may also provide from time to time, temporarily, funds for the purposes of such board in such manner and in such amount as the council determines to be necessary.

council.

SEC. 12. Annually, on the first day of April, the board shall To report to present to the common council its report, containing the full financial statement of all moneys received and the details of the expenditures of the same, and such facts regarding the library and recommendations concerning the same as the board shall think proper.

suits.

election.

SEC. 13. Whenever necessary for the enforcement of powers, May institute rights and privileges conferred upon the said board, it may in the name of the board of education of the city of Grand Rapids, institute in any court of competent jurisdiction, an action at law or in equity, to enforce or protect the property herein placed in its charge, or the powers and privileges hereby given to such board: Provided, That this act shall not become Proviso as to operative unless approved at the charter election to be held in Grand Rapids, April sixth, nineteen hundred three, by a majority of those voting upon such proposition. The election commission of said city shall at any time before such election, prepare and distribute ballots in the same general manner required for a charter election. Such ballots shall read: "Shall Form of the bill for a library commission for Grands Rapids be, approved? Yes. [ ] No. [ ]" Such ballots may be upon the same paper and deposited in the same box, with any other proposition submitted at the same time.

ballot.

clause.

SEC. 14. All acts and parts of acts contravening or in any- Repealing wise inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 2, 1903.

[No. 402.]

AN ACT to re-incorporate the city of Hastings, and to repeal act number two hundred sixteen of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Hastings," approved March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred seventy-one, as revised and amended by the several acts revisionary and amendatory thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

CHAPTER I.

INCORPORATION AND BOUNDARIES.

SECTION 1. That act number two hundred sixteen of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Hastings," approved March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred seventy-one, as revised and amended by the several acts revisionary and amendatory thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

INCORPORATION, POWERS.

SEC. 2. That the corporation heretofore created and known as the city of Hastings, and the inhabitants thereof, shall be, and the same are hereby created and constituted a corporation by the name of "The City of Hastings," and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, complain and de, fend in any and all courts of law or equity; may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure, and may take, hold, and dispose of real, personal and mixed estate, for the use of said corporation.

TERRITORY INCORPORATED.

SEC. 3. That all that portion of the township of Hastings, in the county of Barry, known and described as the entire of sections seven, eight, seventeen and eighteen, the north half of section nineteen, the north half of section twenty, the west onefourth of section sixteen and the west half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-one, shall be, and the same is hereby constituted a city corporate so far as the same is not already so constituted, under the name of "The City of Hastings," and subject to the municipal control of said corporation.

CHAPTER II.

WARDS AND THEIR BOUNDARIES.

SECTION 1. The city of Hastings shall be divided into four wards, with their several boundaries established as follows: The first ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying north of the Thornapple river.

The second ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying south of the Thornapple river and east of Fall creek.

The third ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying south of Thornapple river, west of Fall creek, and east of Church street and the continuous line thereof.

The fourth ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying south of Thornapple river and west of Church street and the continuous line thereof.

CHAPTER III.

OFFICERS OF THE CITY.

SECTION 1. The following officers shall be elected from among the qualified electors of said city, to wit: One mayor, one city clerk, (who shall be ex officio clerk of the water committee), one treasurer, two justices of the peace, and two members of the board of review; and such officers shall be elected in the following manner: The mayor shall be elected bi-ennially commencing with the election in April, nineteen hundred four, and every second year thereafter; the city clerk shall be elected bi-ennially, commencing with the election in April, nineteen hundred three, alternating with the mayor so that one or the other shall be elected each year, and they shall hold their office for the term of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified; the treasurer shall be elected for one year and shall hold his office until his successor is elected and qualified. The treasurer shall not hold his office for more than two terms in succession. There shall also be elected bi-ennially one justice of the peace; the first to be elected at the election in April, nineteen hundred three, and the other to be elected at the election in April, nineteen hundred five, and the term of justices of the peace under and by virtue of this act shall commence on the fourth day of July following their election and they shall hold their office for the same length of time as justices of the peace elected in and for the several townships of this State. There shall also be elected annually one member of the board of review for the term of two years. There shall also be elected annually, in wards one and four, one supervisor, and in wards two and three, one supervisor, each for one year, and shall hold their office until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, That at the election to be held in April, nineteen hundred three, a mayor shall be elected for the term of one year.

WARD OFFICERS.

SEC. 2. There shall also be elected at the same time, in each of the several wards, one alderman and one constable. The alderman shall be elected for two years and until his successor is elected and qualified; the constable shall be elected for one year and until his successor is elected and qualified.

CHAPTER IV.

ELECTORS, ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION, ELECTIONS.

SECTION 1. The annual elections under this act shall be held on the first Monday in April in each year, and at such places in each ward as the council shall designate, and of which election the city clerk shall give at least ten days notice by posting the same in at least three public places in each ward, or by publication in at least one newspaper published in said city.

ELECTORS.

SEC. 2. The inhabitants of the city having the qualifications of electors under the constitution of the State, and no others, shall be electors therein, and every elector shall vote in the ward or election district where he shall have resided during the twenty days next preceding the day of election. The residence of any elector, not being a householder, shall be deemed to be in the ward or election district in which is located his regular place of lodging.

SIX HUNDRED FIFTY ELECTORS OR MORE.

SEC. 3. Should there be more than six hundred fifty electors in any ward of the city, according to the poll list of the last preceding election, the council shall cause such ward to be divided into two or more voting precincts or districts. The manner of making such division, the creation of election inspectors and boards of registration therein, and all matters pertaining to such division, and the holding of elections in such districts, not covered by the provisions of this act, shall be provided for by the council making such division.

BOARD OF REGISTRATION.

SEC. 4. The aldermen of each ward shall constitute the board of registration therein, except as in this act otherwise provided. If, by reason of a change of boundary of any ward, or the formation of a new ward, or the formation of more than one election district in a ward, or other cause, there shall not be any, or a sufficient number of aldermen representing such ward or residing within each election district, to constitute a board of registration of two persons, the council shall supply the vacancy or appoint a board of registration for the ward or election district. The members composing such board of registration shall each receive four dollars as compensation for their services on such board.

REGISTRATION IN NEW PRECINCTS.

SEC. 5. When changes shall be made in any ward or wards, or a new ward shall be formed in whole or in part from the territory of other wards, or when a ward shall be divided into