Proviso. supervisor to said assessment roll had contained the words, "and This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Authorized to bond the village. Proviso. To be submitted electors. [No. 248.] AN ACT to authorize the village of Howell, in the county of Livingston, to raise money to make public improvements in said village. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the common council of the village of Howell, in the county of Livingston, shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money on the faith and credit of said village, and issue bonds therefor to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, which shall be expended in making public improvements in said village of Howell: Provided, That a majority of the electors of said village voting at an election to be called in compliance with the provisions of this act, shall vote in favor of such loan in the manner specified in this act, and not otherwise. SEC. 2. The question of raising said money by loan shall be subto a vote of the mitted by the common council of said village to the electors thereof, and the votes [vote] shall be taken as near as may be in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Howell," approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and Special election. sixty-three, and the acts amendatory thereto. The common council shall have power to order a special election when it may, by said common council, be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, and the proceedings had at such special election shall be the same as at general elections held within said village, except that those electors voting for said loan shall have written or printed on their ballots the words "For the Loan," and those voting against the loan shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, "Against the Loan." Ballots. Bonds, amount, interest, how whom nego tiated. SEC. 3. If such loan shall be authorized by a majority of such signed and by electors, said bonds may be issued in such sums, not exceeding the amount herein before limited, and payable at such times with such rates of interest, not exceeding six per centum per annum, as the said common council shall direct, and shall be signed by the president of said village and countersigned by the recorder of said village, and negotiated by or under the direction of said common council, and the money arising therefrom shall be appropriated in such manner as said common council shall determine for the purpose aforesaid, and the said common council shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to raise by tax upon the taxable property of said village such sum or sums as shall be sufficient to pay the amount of said bonds and the interest thereon as fast as the same shall become due. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 25, 1885. [No. 249.] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the city of Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo, for the year eighteen hundred eighty-four. taxes extended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Time for the time for the collection of taxes in the city of Kalamazoo, for the collection of year eighteen hundred eighty-four, be and the same is hereby extended up to and including March twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. collect. SEC. 2. The treasurer of such city is hereby authorized and Treasurer empowed to proceed and collect said taxes, as fully as he could in authorized to the life-time of his warrant, and to make return at any time before the twenty-first day of March next, and said warrant is hereby warrant rerevived and continued in full force and virtue for the purpose afore- mains in force. said, until the twenty-first day of March next. money and re SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said city, before Treasurer to he shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, to pay over all pay over all moneys collected during the lifetime of his warrant, as is now pro- new bond. vided by law, and renew his official bond to the satisfaction of the treasurer of said county. taxes to be re eral. SEC. 4. A transcript of all unpaid taxes returnable to the county Transcript of treasurer, in pursuance of the foregoing provisions, shall be returned turned to the to the Auditor General as soon as practicable, and such unpaid Auditor Gentaxes shall be collected in the same manner, and with interest computed for the same time as other taxes for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, duly returned to the Auditor General for non-payment. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 25, 1885. [No. 250.] AN ACT to re-incorporate the village of Sand Lake, in the county of Kent, and to repeal all acts and proceedings relating to its former incorporation. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all Territory incorthat tract of country situated in the township of Nelson, in the porated. county of Kent, and distinguished and designated on the plat in the land office of the district as the north half (4) of section five (5) and the west half () of the northwest quarter (4) of section four (4) in township ten (10) north, of range ten (10) west, be and the Officers to be elected. Proviso. President and trustees. Officers to be appointed. Officers must be electors, etc. Oath of office. Security. same is hereby constituted a village corporate, to be known by the name of the village of Sand Lake. SEC. 2. The following officers of the corporation shall be elected by the qualified voters of said village, at the annual village election to be held on the first Tuesday of March, eighteen hundred eighty-five: One president, one treasurer, and one assessor, for the term of one year, and six trustees; three of said trustees shall be elected for one year and three of said trustees shall be elected for two years, and annually thereafter, on the first Tuesday of March, there shall be elected by a plurality of votes, one president, one treasurer, and one assessor, who shall hold their respective offices one year, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, and three trustees for the term of two years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified: Provided, That if any election of such officers shall not be made on the first Tuesday of March it shall be lawful to hold such election at any time by giving notice thereof as provided in this act. 66 SEC. 3. The president and trustees of said village shall be a body corporate and politic, under the name of the common council of the village of Sand Lake," and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, and are hereby made capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered unto, and of defending and being defended in all the courts of competent jurisdiction, and they may have a common scal and may alter and change the same, and by the same name are hereby made capable of purchasing, holding, conveying, and disposing of any real and personal estate for said village. SEC. 4. The common council shall appoint annually a village clerk, a village attorney, and a village marshal; the common council may also appoint an overseer or overseers of highways, and all such officers whose election is not herein specially provided for, as they may deem necessary to carry into effect the powers granted by this act, and may prescribe their duties, but any such appointment shall be made at a regular meeting of the common council. SEC. 5. No person shall be elected to any office created by this act, unless at the time of such election or appointment he shall be an elector of said village, and shall have resided in said village three months next preceding his election or appointment. SEC. 6. All officers elected under the provisions of this act, and all officers appointed by the common council, shall within ten days [after] notice of their election or appointment, take and subscribe before some officer authorized to administer oaths, the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this State, and that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office according to the best of his ability, and file the same with the village clerk, and every such officer before he enters upon the duties of his office and within the time limited for filing his official oath, shall file with the village clerk such security for the due performance of the duties of his office as may be required by law or by any order of the common council to be approved by the common council. SEC. 7. All officers elected or appointed in pursuance of this act, upon duties of shall enter upon the duties of their office immediately upon filing Officers enter the required oath and security. All officers elected to fill vacancy office when and shall hold for the residue of the unexpired term thereof and until hold how long. their successors are elected and qualified; and all officers appointed by the common council shall hold their office not to exceed one year, or until the same expires by its term of appointment, or until the common council revoke their appointment or accept the resig nation of such officer. cers. SEC. 8. The president and trustees shall each receive for services Compensation rendered by them as inspectors of elections, and when determining of certain offiwhat persons are elected to office, as provided in section eighteen, such compensation as shall be allowed by law to inspectors of elections in the several townships of this State, but for all other services rendered by them they shall receive no compensation. The clerk, assessor, and all officers appointed by the common council shall each receive such compensation for their services as the common council shall from time to time direct by resolutions entered upon their records. office. SEC. 9. The common council shall have power to remove from Removal from office, the marshal and any officer appointed by them, for violaany tions of the provisions of this act, or [of] any ordinance or by-law of said village, or for refusing to perform the lawful requirements of said council, but such removal shall not exonerate any such officer or his sureties from any liability incurred, but the cause thereof shall be entered at length upon the record of said village. SEC. 10. The resignation of any officer authorized by this act to Resignation, to be elected or appointed, shall be made to the common council sub- whom made. ject to their approval or acceptance. to be vacant when. SEC. 11. If any officer elected or appointed to any of the offices Office deemed of the corporation shall cease to be a resident of the village, such office shall be thereby vacated, and if any persons elected or appointed to any office under the provisions of this act shall neglect to file their oath of office as in this act directed, or shall neglect to file an official bond, when the same is required, within the time herein limited, such neglect may be deemed a refusal to serve and in case of such neglect the common council may proceed immediately to cause such office to be supplied as in case of vacancy. filled by elec SEC. 12. In case a vacancy shall occur in the office of president Vacancy to be or trustce, the same shall be supplied by a special election, and in tion or appointall other cases of vacancy, the same may be supplied by appoint- ment when. ment of the common council. SEC. 13. The inhabitants of this said village, being electors under qualified electhe constitution of the State of Michigan, [and no others,] shall be tors, form of qualified electors under this act; and each person offering to vote at any election held by virtue of this act, if challenged by an elector of said village, shall, before his vote shall be received, take one of the oaths provided by law to be administered in case of challenge at general and special elections in this State, the word "village,' instead of "township," being used in the oath. SEC. 14. The annual election shall be held on the first Tuesday Annual and speof March, in each year, and special elections may be held at such cial elections. Notice of. Polls open at what hour. Board of inspectors and clerk of election. Election, how conducted. Powers of inspectors. Duties of inspec times as the common council shall, by resolution entered upon their records, designate. SEC. 15. Notice of the time and place of holding any election, shall be given by the village clerk, ten days before such election, by posting such notices in three public places in said village, and by publishing the same in a newspaper, if there be one printed in said village; and in case of a special election, such notices shall set forth the purposes and object of the election as fully as the same is set forth in the resolution appointing such election; and on the day of election held by virtue of this act, the polls shall be opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall continue open until four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. SEC. 16. The common council of said village, or any three members thereof, shall be the board of inspectors of election, and the clerk of said [village] shall be the clerk of such board. If the clerk be absent, then any one of the trustees may act as clerk. SEC. 17. Elections held in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall be conducted, as nearly as may be, in the same manner as is provided by law for holding of general and special elections in the State of Michigan, except as herein otherwise provided, and the inspectors shall have the same powers and authority for the preservation of order during the time of holding the election and canvassing the votes, as are conferred by law upon inspectors of general elections held in this State. SEC. 18. It shall be sufficient to keep but one poll-list, at any tors of election. election held for said village, and when the inspectors holding any election shall have completed the canvass of votes, they shall thereupon publicly declare the result thereof, and certify in writing the whole number of votes given for each office, the names of the persons for whom such votes for each office were given, and the number of votes so given to each person, and shall file such certificate in the office of the clerk of said village, before two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day after said election, together with the polllist and box or boxes containing all the ballots cast at said election, and within twenty-four hours after such certificate shall have been so filed, the common council shall convene at their usual place of persons elected. meeting, and there determine what persons are elected to the several offices respectively, and cause such determination to be entered upon their records; and if any officer shall not have been chosen, by reason of two or more candidates having received an equal number of votes, the common council shall determine by lot which of such persons shall be considered elected. Duties of com. mon council in determining Duty of county person elected. SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of the village clerk, within five clerk to notify days after the meeting and determination of the common council, as provided in section eighteen, to notify each person elected of his election, and also within five days after the common council shall appoint any person to any office, the clerk shall notify such person of such appointment. Expense of election. SEC. 20. The expenses of all elections to be held as provided by this act shall be chargeable to said village, and paid as [are] other contingent expenses. |