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naw river, where the center line of Seventh street intersects the same; thence east along the center line of Seventh street to the center line of Van Buren street; thence south along the center line of Van Buren street to the center line of McKinley avenue; thence east along the center line of McKinley avenue to the center line of Lincoln avenue; thence south along the center line of Lincoln avenue to the center line of Tenth street; on the west by the center line of Saginaw river;

Fourth, The fourth ward of said city shall embrace all that part of said city between the center line of Tenth street and the center line of Fifteenth street, and west of the center line of Lincoln avenue to the center of the Saginaw river;

Fifth, The fifth ward of said city shall embrace all that part of said city lying between the center line of Twenty-fifth street, if extended east, to the Pere Marquette railroad, and the center line of Fifteenth street, and west of the center line of the Pere Marquette railroad right of way to the center of the Saginaw river;

Sixth, The sixth ward of said city shall embrace all that part of said city lying south of the center line of Twenty-fifth street, and north of the center line of Thirty-fourth street, and west of the center line of the Pere Marquette railroad right of way to the center of the Saginaw river;

Seventh, The seventh ward of said city shall comprise all that part of said city lying south of the center line of Thirtyfourth street, and west of the center line of the Pere Marquette railroad right of way to the center of the Saginaw river;

Eighth, The eighth ward of said city shall embrace all that portion of said city bounded as follows: On the north, commencing at the intersection of Fifteenth and James streets; thence east on the center line of Fifteenth street to the center line of Lincoln avenue; thence north on the center line of Lincoln avenue to the center line of Columbus avenue; thence east on the center line of Columbus avenue to the center line of Trumbull street, if extended southerly; thence south along the center line of Trumbull street, if extended southerly, to the center line of Fifteenth street, if extended easterly; on the west by the center line of the Pere Marquette railroad right of way, and on the south and east by the city limits;

Ninth, The ninth ward of said city shall embrace all that part of said city lying between the center line of Center avenue and a line on the south, commencing at the center of the Saginaw river where the center line of Seventh street intersects the same; thence easterly along the center line of Seventh street to the center line of Van Buren street; thence southerly along the center line of Van Buren street to the center line of McKinley avenue; thence east along the center line of McKinley avenue to the center line of Lincoln avenue; thence north on the center line of Lincoln avenue to the center line of Center avenue; on the west by the center line of the Saginaw river;

Tenth, The tenth ward of said city shall embrace all that part of said city bounded as follows: Commencing at the

intersection of the city limits and Second street, if said Second street were extended east to the city limits; thence west along the center line of Second street, as aforesaid, to the center line of Johnson street; thence north along the center line of Johnson street to the center line of Woodside avenue; thence easterly along the center line of Woodside avenue to its intersection with the center line of Belinda street; thence northerly along the center line of Belinda street, if extended northerly, to the center line of the Saginaw river; on the north by the center line of Saginaw river and on the east by the section line between sections fourteen and fifteen, twenty-one and twenty-two, to said Nebobish avenue, thence to city limits, thence south to center line of Second street, produced;

Eleventh, The eleventh ward shall embrace all that portion Eleventh. of said city bounded as follows: On the east by the city limits; on the north by a line commencing at the intersection of the city limits and Second street, if Second street were extended east to the city limits; then west along the center line of Second street, as aforesaid, to the center line of Johnson street; thence south along the center line of Johnson street to the center line of Third street; thence west along the center line of Third street to the center line of Lincoln avenue; thence south along the center line of Lincoln avenue to the center line of Columbus avenue; thence east along the center line of Columbus avenue to the intersection of Columbus avenue and Trumbull streets; thence south along the center line of Trumbull street, if extended south, to the center line of Fifteenth street, if extended easterly; thence east along the center line of Fifteenth street, if extended easterly, to the city limits;

Twelfth, The twelfth ward shall embrace all that portion of Twelfth. said city, bounded as follows: Beginning at the center of the Saginaw river where the same intersects the north line of section fourteen, in town fourteen north, of range five east, running thence west on the north line of sections fourteen, fifteen and sixteen to the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of said section sixteen or the center line of Lincoln street to the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of said section sixteen; thence south forty-one degrees and twenty minutes east, between the lands formerly owned by John Bourn and the Keystone Lumber and Salt Manufacturing Company to the center of the Saginaw River; on the south and east by the center line of the Saginaw river and the city limits; Thirteenth, The thirteenth ward shall embrace all that por- Thirteenth. tion of the city contained in section sixteen not included in the twelfth ward and west of the center of the Saginaw river, the east half of section seventeen, the north half of the northeast quarter of section twenty, and all of section twenty-one north and west of the center of the Saginaw river and north of the center line of South Union street in Litchfield's addition to the village of Wenona, to the Michigan Central railroad tract [track] and north of the north line of said South Union street if extended easterly from the railroad track to the center of the Saginaw river;

Fourteenth.

Fifteenth.

Sixteenth.

Seventeenth.

Fourteenth, The fourteenth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city contained in section twenty and twenty-one north of the center of Jane street, in the plat of Lake City, from the center of the Saginaw river to Center street, which street is the quarter line running north and south through said section twenty. the said quarter line being the west line of said ward, and the north line of said ward shall be the south line of the thirteenth ward-herein before described, lying east of said Center street;

Fifteenth, The fifteenth ward shall embrace all that portion of said city contained in section twenty, south of the center line of said Jane street extended west to the city limits, and east to the center of the Saginaw river, also the north half of 'the north half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, and that part of the plat of Salzburg north of the center line of Ninth street extended to the center of the Saginaw river;

Sixteenth, The sixteenth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city contained in section twenty-nine not included in the fifteenth ward, and all of section thirty-two west of the center of the Middleground, so called, in the Saginaw river, and all of sections thirty and thirty-one, south of the center line of Ninth street, extended to the limits;

Seventeenth, The seventeenth ward of said city shall embrace that portion of the city lying between the center line of Center street on the quarter line of section twenty and the west boundary line of the city and lying between the center line of North Union street and the north line of the fifteenth ward herein before described.

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CHAPTER II.

ELECTIVE OFFICERS AND ELECTION OF.

SEC. 4. The first annual election under this act shall be held on the first Monday in April of the year nineteen hundred five, and thereafter the annual election under this act shall be held on the first Monday in April of each year. All elections under this act shall be held in such places in each ward and precinct as the council may designate. The following officers of the city of Bay City shall be elected at the first annual city election by the qualified voters of the whole city voting in their respective wards and election districts on a general ticket, viz.: Officers to be One mayor, one recorder, one treasurer, one comptroller. The following officers of the corporation shall be elected at said election on a ward ticket in each ward and election district by the qualified voters thereof, viz.: Two aldermen, one for one year and one for two years, one supervisor and one constable. Term of office. The following shall be the term of office of the several officers, each of whom shall hold office until his successor is elected and qualified, viz.: Mayor, two years; treasurer, two years; recorder, four years; comptroller, four years; justices of the peace, four years; aldermen, two years; supervisors, two years;

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constable, one year. Thereafter there shall be elected at each annual election one constable for one year, and also one alderman in each ward for the term of two years, to succeed the alderman whose term of office soonest expires, and every two years thereafter there shall be elected in each ward one supervisor.

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SEC. 5. The present justices of the peace of the cities of Bay Election of City and West Bay City, shall continue to hold their respective offices and perform the duties thereof, until the expiration of their respective terms; at the annual city election under this act in the year nineteen hundred five, and at every such election thereafter, there shall be elected one justice of the peace. The Jurisdiction, justices of the peace of said city shall have the same jurisdiction and power, perform the same duties, and be subject to the same liabilities as justices of the peace of townships in this State, except as herein otherwise provided, and in all civil suits and proceedings whatsoever they shall have original concurrent jurisdiction, within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, when either of the parties to the proceeding in such civil suit shall reside within the limits of the county of Bay. At the annual election in April nineteen hundred five, and every Certain of two years thereafter, there shall be elected as aforesaid, one elected. mayor, and one treasurer; at the said annual election in nineteen hundred five there shall be elected one city recorder, who shall be elected for two years; at the annual election in April nineteen hundred seven and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected one city recorder; at the said annual election in April nineteen hundred five, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected one comptroller. Each of the supervisors Powers of elected as aforesaid shall be the supervisor of the ward for which he was elected, with all the powers of supervisors of townships in this State, and subject in all respects to the provisions of the law regulating the duties of township supervisors, except as herein otherwise provided; no person shall be eligible for elec- Eligibility to tion to, or hold the office of mayor who is holding any judicial office, or who is holding any city or county office for which a stipulated annual salary is paid or received. The treasurer shall not be eligible for election for more than two consecutive terms. No person shall be eligible to any elective office who is not an elector of said city, and no person shall be eligible to any ward office who is not an elector of said ward.

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SEC. 6. Notice of election under this act shall be given by Notice of electhe recorder at least eight days before the election, by publishing the same in the official newspaper of said city. The alder- Who to be men and supervisors of each ward shall be inspectors of such election, and they shall also be inspectors of the State and county elections; and they, together with the other inspectors of election provided by law, shall choose the clerk thereof. In case any such supervisor or alderman is a candidate for election to office, or is otherwise disqualified to act as such inspector, the council shall, by a majority vote of all the alder men elect, appoint inspectors qualified to act in their stead;

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Vacancy, how and in case of a vacancy on the board of election inspectors, the electors present may choose, viva voce, from their number at the poll, one or more to fill such vacancy or vacancies, to whom shall be administered the constitutional oath of office by either of said inspectors, or any person qualified to administer Elections, how oaths. The manner of conducting all elections and canvassing the votes, and the qualifications of electors in the several wards, shall be the same as that provided by the general laws of this Proviso as to State, except as herein otherwise provided: Provided, That at such charter elections, the said inspectors shall make one certificate of the number of votes given for each person for the several offices to be filled in and for said city; and also one certificate of the number of votes given for each person for their respective ward offices and of the officers elected in their respective wards, which certificate shall be immediately filed in the office of the recorder in said city.

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When council to determine result.

Recorder to notify person elected.

Proviso as to justices.

Residence of elector, how determined.

When registration to be made.

SEC. 7. Upon the Thursday next following any annual city election except that of nineteen hundred five, the council shall meet at the council chamber and thereupon determine who, by the greatest number of votes given in the several wards at such election, are duly elected to fill the respective city and ward offices; and it shall be the duty of said recorder immediately after such determination to cause notice to be given to each of the persons elected, of their election, and each of said officers so elected and notified shall within twenty days thereafter take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office before any person authorized to administer oaths, and shall deliver the same to the said recorder, who shall file the same in his office: Provided, That in case of the election of one or more justices of the peace, the said recorder shall make a certificate thereof, and cause it to be delivered to the county clerk, in the same manner as is required of township clerks; and in case two or more shall receive, for the same office, an equal number and not a plurality of votes given at such election. the council shall immediately proceed to determine, by lot between the persons receiving the highest number of votes, which shall be considered elected to such office. In case any of the officers elected shall neglect, for the term of twenty days, to qualify, as aforesaid, the office shall thereby become vacant.

SEC. 8. At all city elections, every elector shall vote in the ward where he shall have resided twenty days next preceding the day of election; the residence of any elector who is not a householder shall be the ward where he boards or takes his regular meals.

SEC. 9. The board of registration shall meet on the first Monday of October, in the year nineteen hundred eight and the said board shall make a registration of the qualified electors of each ward of said city in proper books, showing the particular and exact residence of each elector in said city, and the same rules and requirements shall be observed in such registration, in all respects, as are required by law for the registration of qualified electors in cities, and a like registra