LOCAL ACTS, 1885. [No. 235.] AN ACT to authorize the county of Saginaw to borrow the sum of one hundred thousand dollars and to issue its bonds therefor for the purpose of paying certain bonds heretofore issued by said county, under authority of act number four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five. and issue bonds. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Authorized to the county of Saginaw, by its board of supervisors, is hereby author- borrow money ized to borrow one hundred thousand dollars and to issue its bonds therefore, as in this act provided, for the purpose of taking up and paying the bonds of said county heretofore issued under and by virtue of the provisions of act number four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the improvement of the navigation of Saginaw river, and to authorize the county of Saginaw to loan money in aid thereof," approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. whom signed; SEC. 2. Said bonds the issue whereof is authorized by this act In what sums shall be issued in sums of one thousand dollars each, be executed issued; by in behalf of the county by the chairman and clerk of its board of interest. supervisors, and shall draw such rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually as the resolution of said board of supervisors authorizing the sale shall direct; and said bonds shall be made payable in sums as follows: Ten thousand dollars in ten years from the date of the issue thereof, and ten thousand dollars in amount each succeeding year thereafter until the whole thereof shall have been made payable. SEC. 3. Said board of supervisors shall have power to provide Negotiation of; for the sale of such bonds, by the appointment of a committee to par value. negotiate the same or otherwise, but such bonds shall not be sold for less than par value, and all moneys received from the sale therof shall be paid into the county treasury by the purchaser upon the delivery of such bonds and shall be applied by the county How proceeds treasurer of Saginaw county to the payment of the aforesaid bonds, applied. and interest due thereon, issued under said act number four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and shall not be used for any other purpose. Duty of board of supervisors to provide for payment of. Secretary of State, duty of. duty of. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said county of Saginaw to provide by tax upon all of the taxable property of said county for the payment, as the same shall become due, of the principal and interest upon all said bonds that may be issued under the authority of this act. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, within five days after the passage of this act and its approval by the Governor, to transmit a certified copy thereof by mail to the county clerk of County clerk, Saginaw county, and on receipt of such certified copy it shall be the duty of such county clerk forthwith to call a meeting of the board of supervisors of said county to be held within ten days from the date of notice thereof, which notice shall fix the time and Sheriff, duty of. place of holding such meeting, and shall be served by the sheriff of said county, personally, upon each member of said board, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode, at least six days before the time therein specified for such meeting. And the members of said board shall receive the same compensation for attending such meeting as is now authorized by existing laws for attending the regular meeting of said board: Provided, Such compensation shall not be paid for more than three days' attendance at such meeting. Compensation of Board. Act repealed. Authorized to acquire and hold property SEC. 6. So much of said act number four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the improvement of the navigation of Saginaw river, and to authorize the county of Saginaw to loan money in aid thereof," as conflicts with the provisions of this act is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 236.] AN ACT to confer power and authority upon the common council of the village of Houghton to purchase and acquire property and to erect all proper and necessary structures in connection therewith, without as well as within the corporate limits of said village, and to hold and maintain the same, for the sole purpose of supplying said village and the inhabitants thereof with water. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the common council of the village of Houghton, in the county of for water works. Houghton, incorporated by an act of the Legislature, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Houghton," approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall have and is hereby given power and authority to purchase and to acquire by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, grounds, rights, privileges, property and materials, and to erect all proper and necessary structures in connection therewith, outside of as well as within the corporate limits of the village, and to hold and maintain the same for the sole purpose of supplying the village and the inhabitants thereof with water, with all the rights, remedies and privileges con ferred and subject to the conditions and regulations imposed upon villages and cities in this behalf by the general laws of this State made and provided. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved January 23, 1885. [No. 237.] AN ACT to authorize "The Oakland County Agricultural Society' to issue bonds and to mortgage its real and personal estate to secure the same. to bond the society. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That "The Authorized Oakland County Agricultural Society" be authorized to issue the bonds of said society in a sum not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars in all, and in sums not less than fifty dollars each, with or without coupons, with annual interest not exceeding seven per cent, payable at the office of its treasurer at such times as the board of directors of said society shall by vote direct. SEC. 2. That said bonds shall be signed by the Secretary and How signed; countersigned by the President, and none of the same shall be sold par value. or disposed of by said society at less than their par value. the society SEC. 3. That for the purpose of securing the payment of said Receipts of bonds and the interest thereon, all the receipts of said society, after piedged. the payment of the expenses and premiums, shall be duly and regularly applied to the payment of said interest and principal. necessary. SEC. 4. That for the purpose of further securing the payment of Authorized to the principal and the interest upon said bonds, the said "Oakland mortgage. County Agricultural Society" is hereby authorized to mortgage its real estate, property and effects, and also upon obtaining the assent Assent of the thereof of the city of Pontiac by a resolution of the common city of Pontiac council of said city for the same purpose, to mortgage the real estate in said city heretofore and now occupied by said society deeded to said city (then the village of Pontiac) in trust for said society, and said mortgage executed in pursuance of said resolution shall vest in the mortgagee all the right, title, or interest of the said "Oakland County Agricultural Society" and said city of Pontiac to said property either legal or equitable. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 238.] AN ACT to authorize the township of Thomastown, in the county of Saginaw, to contract with the State Road Bridge Company for the right for the tax payers of said township to cross said company's bridge free of toll, during the unexpired term of said company's charter, and to raise the necessary money to pay for the use of said bridge. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Authorized to bond the township. township of Thomastown, in Saginaw county, shall be and is hereby empowered and authorized to borrow money on the faith and credit of said township, and issue bonds therefor, to an amount not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars, which shall be expended in procuring the right for the tax payers of said township to cross the bridge of the State Road Bridge Company free of toll during the unexpired term of said company's charter: Provided, Question to be A majority of the property holding tax-payers of said towhship being electors therein, and voting on the question of said loan shall vote for such loan in the manner hereinafter specified, and not otherwise. submitted to the people. Idem. SEC. 2. The question of raising said money by loan shall be submitted by the township board of said township to the electors thereof qualified as aforesaid, at the next annual election of said township. Form of ballots. The ballots used shall be as follows: Those voting in favor of the Time bonds to run and rate of interest. Terms and conditions. Territory incorporated. First election, loan shall have written or printed upon their ballots the words "For the Loan;" those voting against the loan shall have written or printed upon their ballots the words "Against the Loan." SEC. 3. If such loan shall be authorized by a majority of such electors, as aforesaid, such bonds may be issued in such sums not exceeding the amount herein before limited, and payable at such times not exceeding twenty years from such election, with such interest, not exceeding seven per cent per annum, as said township, by its board shall direct, and shall be signed by the supervisor of said township and countersigned by the clerk of said township, and negotiated by or under the control of the said township board; and the money arising therefrom shall be appropriated and expended for the purposes aforesaid, and upon such terms, conditions, and agreements as shall be made between said township and said State Road Bridge Company; and said township, through its board, is hereby authorized to make such agreements with said company as shall protect said town's interests and rights for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 239.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of West Branch, in Ogemaw county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the following described territory, to wit: The south half of section nineteen and the north half of section thirty in township number twenty-two north, of range two cast, in the township of West Branch, county of Ogemaw and State of Michigan, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate to be known as the village of West Branch. SEC. 2. The first election of officers of said village shall be held at the Town Hall in said township of West Branch on the second Monday of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun tion. dred and eighty-five, due notice of which election shall be given Notice of elecby the board of registration, hereinafter appointed, by posting notices in three public places in said village, ten days before said election, and by causing a copy of said notice to be published in the Ogemaw County Herald, a newspaper printed and published in said village, at least two weeks before said election. tration. SEC. 3. Fred M. Briggs, George J. Mallory, and Wilbur M. Board of regis McCrossen are hereby constituted a board of registration for the purpose of registering voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration shall meet on the Satur- When and day next preceding said day of election, at the Township Hall where to meet. aforesaid, and remain in session the same hours required of boards of registration at general elections, and register the names of all persons residing in said village and having the qualifications of voters at annual township meetings, due notice of which registra- Notice. tion shall be given by said board by posting notices thereof in three public places in said village ten days previous to said meeting for registration and by publishing said notice in the Ogemaw County Herald, a newspaper printed and published in said village, two weeks previous to said meeting of said board of registration. SEC. 4. The said village of West Branch shall, in all things not Powers and herein otherwise provided, be governed, and its powers and duties defined by an act, entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and acts amendatory thereto. duties held at other SEC. 5. In case [the] said officers are not elected at the time desig- Election may be nated in section two of this act, an election for officers may be than the time held at any time within one year from the time designated in designated said section two, on notice being given as required herein. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved January 31, 1885. [No. 240.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Fowler, in the county of Clinton. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all Territory incor that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the porated. township of Dallas, in the county of Clinton and the State of Michigan, known and described as follows: The northeast quarter of section fourteen, and the northwest quarter of section thirteen, and the southwest quarter of section twelve, and the southeast quarter of section number eleven, township seven north, of range four west, is hereby constituted a village corporate, known and designated as the village of Fowler. SEC. 2. The first election of officers in said village shall be held First election. on Tuesday, the twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-five, at the Fowler House, in said village. SEC. 3. Ernest Schemer, Frank Gruler, and John F. Connell, are |