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newspaper published and circulated in said city. All papers and documents of importance relating to the duties or business of the board and not belonging elsewhere shall be filed and preserved in the office of the board. The board may ap- May appoint point and employ such agents, experts, engineers, mechanics, employes. clerks, workmen and laborers as it shall find necessary for the due discharge of its duties, and define their duties and fix their compensation to be paid by the city. All contracts made pursuant to law by the board shall be obligations of the city.

CHAPTER XIX.

may construct

SECTION 1. The common council shall have power in their When council discretion, to construct and reconstruct, and cause to be con- side walks. structed and reconstructed and repaired, all sidewalks and crosswalks, and to establish the grade and width thereof, and to prescribe the material of which the same may be constructed, reconstructed or repaired, and the time when and the method

pense as

of paying for the same. Whenever the common council, by the When exconcurring vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elect, shall sessed against by proper resolution, order any of said improvements to be property. made, and the expense thereof to be assessed upon the owners of property abutting upon and adjoining said sidewalk so intended to be constructed, reconstructed or repaired, they shall by proper resolution describe, designate plainly and clearly the district in which any such sidewalk is to be constructed, and each parcel of real estate upon which an assessment is to be made, which assessment shall be according and in proportion to the benefits of such sidewalks, reconstruction or repairs to such property so abutting upon and adjoining the same. The common council shall further, by resolution, direct the city engineer or other proper officer to make and file with the recorder an estimate of the costs and expenses of such walk or repairs, and also specifications for the same. The material of which the same shall be constructed, reconstructed or repaired, and of the length, width and other particulars thereof, which estimates shall be filed with the recorder and approved by the common council.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

which fran

SECTION 1. No franchise shall hereafter be granted for a Term for longer term than twenty years, and the right of the city to chise may be acquire such franchise, together with all the rights, privileges granted. and property, both real and personal, owned or controlled and used in connection with the business to permit the prosecution of which said franchise was granted, at the termination of said term, and the method of determining the value thereof, shall in all cases be included in said franchise: Provided, That it Proviso. shall not be obligatory upon the common council to provide in any franchise for the right to acquire the same together

When granted.

Two-thirds vote needed.

with the rights, privileges and property used in connection therewith when said franchise is granted for the purpose of permitting the building and operating within the city of Battle Creek of any railway, electric light, telephone or power line having its greatest mileage outside of said city.

SEC. 2. No ordinance granting or amending any franchise shall be passed and adopted until the second regular meeting of the common council following the regular meeting at which said ordinance was introduced.

SEC. 3. And no such ordinance granting or amending any such franchise shall be passed and adopted without the concurring vote of two-thirds of the aldermen elect.

Who to appoint chief of police, etc.

CHAPTER XL.

SEC. 3. Said board shall appoint a chief of police and other officers, and such number of policemen with pay, as the common council may provide the payment of, and such number of watchmen without pay, as said board shall deem expedient. The chief of police and other officers and policemen with pay shall be divided as nearly as may be, into three divisions, the members of one division of which shall be appointed for one year and of the second division for two years and of the third division for three years from the first Monday in May A. D. nineteen hundred, and appointments thereafter shall be made for three years. In time of special emergencies or apprehended danger from riot, or other cause of alarm, said board may appoint as many patrolmen, with or without compensation, as they may deem expedient. They shall also appoint a keeper of the city prison. No person shall be appointed to any posi tion by said board who is not a citizen of the United States and who has not resided in said city at least one year next preceding such appointment.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 20, 1903.

Bond issue by city.

[No. 479.]

AN ACT to authorize and empower the city of South Haven in the county of Van Buren, and State of Michigan, to raise or borrow money and issue bonds therefor, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, with which to purchase a site for a park and for the improvement thereof in said city of South Haven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The city of South Haven, in the county of Van Buren, and State of Michigan, is hereby authorized and empowered to raise or borrow money on the faith and credit of

the said city, and issue bonds therefor to an amount not ex-
ceeding fifty thousand dollars, which shall be expended for the
purchase of a site for a park, and for the improvement thereof
in the said city of South Haven: Provided, The council of said Proviso.
city, by a two-thirds vote, shall first determine so to do: And Further
provided further, That two-thirds of the qualified electors of proviso.
said city, voting on the question of such loan, at an election
held in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall vote
in favor of the said loan.

submitted to electors.

SEC. 2. Before any money shall be borrowed, appropriated, Question to be raised or expended under and in pursuance of this act for the purchase of a site for a park or for the improvement thereof in said city, the question of raising the amount required for such purpose shall be submitted to the electors of said city, at its next annual election, or at a special election called for that purpose by the council, and shall be determined as twothirds of the electors, voting at such election by ballot, shall decide: Provided, That if a special election is held it shall be Proviso. held in all respects as provided for holding special elections, by act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of this State for the year A. D. eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class."

time of pay

ment, etc.

SEC. 3. If such loan shall be authorized by two-thirds of Council to fix the electors voting at such election, the council of the said city shall have the power to fix the time and place of the payment of the principal and interest of the debt contracted under the provisions of this act, and to issue bonds of the city therefor in such sums, not exceeding the amount herein before limited, and at such rates of interest, not exceeding five per cent, as the said council shall by resolution direct; said bonds shall Bonds, how be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk of said city, sealed with the seal thereof, and shall be negotiated under the directions of the common council, but not for less than the face value thereof.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 20, 1903.

signed.

[No. 480.]

AN ACT to authorize the city of Lansing to borrow the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to pay for the construction of a bridge over Grand river on Washington avenue in said city.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Lansing, is Amount. hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in the name and on the faith and

How to be

paid.

How used.

credit of said city, at a rate of interest not exceeding four and one-half per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and to provide for the payment of said loan in annual installments of not less than five thousand dollars each year, by the levy and collection of a tax upon the taxable property of said city, said loan to be in addition to the amount now authorized by law; the money so raised by loan to be used in paying the amount due for the construction of the Washington avenue bridge (so Proviso as to called) over Grand river in said city: Provided, No such bonds shall be issued by the common council for such purpose unless the amount of such bonds shall have been determined by a majority vote of the tax paying electors of said city, voting thereon at a meeting to be called and by a vote to be had and determined in the manner provided in section six, title twelve, of the charter of said city.

submitting to

electors.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 20, 1903.

Bond issue by school district.

Proviso.

Money, how used.

[No. 481.]

AN ACT to authorize the board of education of Union school district number one of the city of Dowagiac, Michigan, to borrow money and issue bonds in the sum of twelve thousand dollars, to be used in the completion of a school building in the said city of Dowagiac now in process of erection.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The board of education of Union school district number one, of the city of Dowagiac, from and after the passage of this act, is authorized and empowered to borrow, on the faith and credit of said district, a sum of money not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, for a term not to exceed ten years from the date of issue, at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually or annually, at such place or places as said board of education may determine, and to execute the bonds of such district therefor in such form as the board of education may determine by a majority vote of all the members of such board elect, and to provide for the payment of the same. The said board is further authorized to negotiate and sell such bonds, from time to time, upon the best terms for said district that may be obtained: Provided, however, That none of such bonds shall be sold upon any terms that will make the rate of interest upon the price annually received for such bonds more than five per cent per annum.

SEC. 2. The money borrowed under the provisions of this act shall be applied to the construction and completion of a school building now in process and course of erection in the said district in the said city of Dowagiac, and. the furnishing of the same.

vide tax for.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the said city of Dowagiac, to City to proprovide by a tax upon the taxable property of the said city, or from any fund it may have on hand not otherwise provided for, for the payment of the said sum of twelve thousand dollars and interest upon all bonds issued under the authority of this act: Provided, No bonds shall be issued or money bor- Proviso as to submitting rowed for the construction or completion of said school build- question to ing until the question of borrowing such sum of money and electors. the issuing of said bonds therefor shall be submitted to the vote of the electors of said school district qualified under the laws of this State to vote on questions which directly involve the raising of money by a tax for said school district, present at any general or special meeting appointed and called by the board of education for the purpose of voting thereon, and unless said bonds shall be authorized by a vote of a majority of said qualified electors voting at such election, voting therefor. Notice of the time and place and object of any such meeting, shall be given by publishing such notice in any one of the newspapers of said city of Dowagiac and by posting copies thereof in ten public places in said city at least ten days before the meeting.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 21, 1903.

[No. 482.]

AN ACT to amend section three of chapter one of act number three hundred ninety of the Local Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, and the amendments thereto, entitled "An act to amend and revise the charter of the city of Port Huron," approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred eighty-five.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one of act number three Section hundred ninety of the Local Acts of eighteen hundred eightyfive, and the amendments thereto, entitled "An act to amend and revise the charter of the city of Port Huron," approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred eighty-five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER ONE.

city.

SEC. 3. The territorial limits of said city shall consist of all Boundaries of that tract of country in the county of St. Clair, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point in the national boundary line at St. Clair river where the same would be intersected by the section line projected between sections twenty-one and twenty-eight in town six north, range seventeen east, thence running westerly along said section line to

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