Idem. Inconsistent sections repealed. Territory detached. Township officers. belonging to said water-works, or cause to be made any connection or communication with said pipes, aqueduct, main, or logs, or meddle with, or move the same, or any machinery, apparatus, or fixture, belonging or in anywise appertaining to said water-works, or cause the same to be done, the person so offending shall on conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Any person who shall willfully break or cut any inlet pipe, main, distributing pipe, log, or aqueduct, used by the common council, its agents or servants for conducting said water, or shall dig into or break up any reservoir, filled or partially filled with water, or shall break or injure any pumping engine, or any part thereof, or any of the machinery connected therewith, belonging to said waterworks, or cause any of said acts to be done, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. (18.) 15. All clauses, sections, or parts of sections in any preceding chapter of the charter of the city of Negaunee inconsistent with any of the provisions of chapter fourteen as hereinbefore amended are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 269.] AN ACT to detach certain territory from the township of Kawkawlin and attach the same to the township of Monitor, in Bay county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), and six (6), of township fourteen (14) north, of range four (4) east, and the Bocotondon reservation so-called, be and the same is hereby detached from the township of Kawkawlin and attached to the township of Monitor in Bay county. The present township board and all township offiers of said township of Kawkawlin shall hold their offices and discharge the duties of the same until their successors are duly elected and qualified. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 12, 1885. [No. 270.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Sandusky, in Sanilac county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the incorporated. northwest quarter of section four, and the northeast quarter of sec- Territory tion five, in town eleven north, of range fourteen east, in the township of Watertown, and the southeast quarter of section thirty-two, and the southwest quarter of section thirty-three, in town twelve north, of range fourteen east, in the township of Custer, and all in the county of Sanilac, and State of Michigan, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate, known as the village of Sandusky. held where and SEC. 2. The first election of officers of said village shall be held Election to be at the court-house in said village on the second Monday of April, when. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eightyfive, due notice of which election shall be given by the board of Notice to be registration hereinafter appointed, by posting notices in three pub- given. lic places in said village, ten days before said election. tration. SEC. 3. Charles J. French, Thomas Doyle, and James McLaugh- Board of regis lin are hereby constituted a board of registration, for the purpose of registering the names of voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration shall meet on the To meet, where Saturday next preceding said day of election at said court-house, and and when. remain in session the same hours required [by] of the board of registration of 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 registration shall be To give notice. given by said board by posting notices thereof in three public places in said village ten days previous to said meeting for registration. act defining the SEC. 4. Said village of Sandusky shall, in all things not herein Governed by otherwise provided, be governed, and its powers and duties defined powers of inby an act entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and corporated duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and acts amendatory thereof. villages. cers may be SEC. 5. In case said officers are not elected at the time designated Election of offin section two of this act, an election of officers may be held at held within any time within one year from the time designated in said section one year. two, on notice being given as therein required. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 271.] AN ACT to amend section six of title three of the charter of the city of Lansing. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sec- Charter tion six of title three of the charter of the city of Lansing be amended. amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 6. At each annual election hereafter to be held in said city, officers to be there shall be elected on a city ticket, one mayor, one clerk, and elected. one treasurer who shall hold their offices for one year; but no per son shall be eligible for the office of city treasurer for more than Treasurer. board of educa tion. Alderman. Justice of the peace. Member of the two consecutive years. In each ward, at the annual election of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, there shall be elected one member of the board of education for one year, and one for two years; and at each annual election thereafter there shall be elected in each ward one member of said board who shall hold his office for two years. There shall also be elected in each ward at each annual election hereafter, one alderman, who shall hold his office for two years, and in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and at each fourth annual election thereafter, one justice of the peace for the first and fourth wards, and one justice of the peace for the second and third wards, and one justice of the peace for the fifth and sixth wards. And in eighteen hundred and eighty-five there shall be elected, at the spring election, one constable for the first and fourth wards, and one constable for the second and third wards, and one constable for the fifth and sixth [ward] wards who shall hold their offices for one year. At each annual spring election thereafter there shall be elected a successor in office to each of said constables respectively. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 13, 1885. Constables. Sections amended. Justices for the city of Detroit. [No. 272.1 AN ACT to amend sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of an act entitled "An act relative to justice courts in the city of Detroit, being act number two hundred and eighty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three," approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and to add a new section thereto to stand as section eight. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of an act entitled "An act relative to justices' courts in the city of Detroit, being act number two hundred and eighty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, and to add a new section thereto to stand as section eight. SECTION 1. There shall be four justices of the peace in and for the city of Detroit who shall be elected at the regular charter election of said city, or at any general election held therein, in the same manner, and shall hold their offices for the same term, possess the same jurisdiction, powers, duties, and liabilities as justices of the peace for townships, and the files, records and dockets belonging or appertaining to those offices of justices of the peace abolished by the act of which this act is amendatory, shall belong to and be filed and safely kept in the clerk's office hereinafter mentioned; and that justice of the peace whose office shall soonest expire by its own limitation shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to issue executions upon any judgment appearing upon any of said dockets in the same manner and with like effect as if such judgment had been rendered by him. The fourth justice of the peace herein pro- when elected. vided for, shall be elected at the general election to be held in the spring of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and shall at once thereafter assume the duties of his office, the same as though he were elected to fill a vacancy, and his term of office shall expire on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and thereafter his successors shall be elected for the term of four years as provided by the general statute. and jury rooms SEC. 2. The auditors of the county of Wayne shall provide a suit- Court, clerk, able court-room for the accommodation of each of said justices of to be provided the peace, and also an office for the clerks hereinafter mentioned, by auditors. also one jury-room, which office and rooms shall be contiguous to each other; and the said auditors shall further provide the necessary Dockets, stadockets, books, including a set of Michigan reports, blanks, station- tionery, etc. ery, furniture, and fuel for the use of said justices and clerk. SEC. 3. Each of said justices of the peace shall be entitled to Salary. receive from the treasury of the county of Wayne an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, payable in monthly installments, affidavit of on the certificate of the said auditors; but no such certificate shall Justice to make be granted by said auditors until the justice asking for the same has time. made and filed with them his affidavit setting forth the number of days he has been in actual attendance at his court-room ready for business, during the period for which the certificate is intended to cover, and for such time only thus spent in actual attendance to business shall he be allowed in such certificate, but if it appear by such affidavit that his non-attendance was occasioned by illness, he shall be charged with no lost time therefor. Each of said justices Hours justice shall have his court-room open, and he shall be in attendance to the and clerk to duties of his office therein, at least from nine o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock noon, and from two o'clock until six o'clock in the afternoon; and the said clerk's office shall be open continuously from nine o'clock in the forenoon until six o'clock in the afternoon of each day, except all legal holidays. keep office open. SEC. 4. There shall be one clerk for said justices of the peace, to Clerk of be known as the "clerk of justices' courts for Detroit," who shall be justices courts. appointed by said auditors forthwith, on the making and filing with them the written recommendation of a majority of said justices holding office, on or before July first of each year; but if for any Appointed reason such recommendation be not so made and filed by said last by whom. named date, then the said auditors shall make such appointment on their own motion, and his term of office shall be one year, dating from July fourth of each year; and he shall receive an annual sal- Salary. ary of twelve hundred dollars, payable in monthly installments, from the treasury of said county, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, but the said auditors may at any time revoke Appointment the appointment of said clerk for cause, on the written recommen- for cause. dation of all of said justices of the peace. The said clerk shall Clerk may ap have the power to appoint one or more deputies, when the necessity more deputies. therefor shall be certified to by the said justices, and may revoke such appointment at pleasure, which appointment and revocation shall be operative from the time of filing the certificate thereof with may be revoked point one or Salary. Bond. Clerk to keep record. To keep a list of jurymen. able to whom. the said auditors. Such deputies shall be authorized to administer oaths and perform generally the duties of said clerk, and they shall receive as compensation such salaries, payable monthly, from the treasury of said county, as the said auditors may determine, not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars per annum. The said clerk may require of each of said deputies a good and sufficient bond, with [such] a surety or sureties in such amount and with such conditions as he may think proper. It shall be the duty of said clerk to keep a true and complete record of each of said justices' courts, with the assistance of the said repective justices of the peace and enter all judgments in the docket of the justice rendering the same in the time and manner provided by law; but after such entry each judgment shall be signed by the justice by whom it was rendered. The said clerk shall also file and safely keep all books and papers belonging or appertaining to the said courts, and enter in a book provided for that purpose a list of the names of all jurors that sit on the trial of cases before the said justices, with the names arranged in alphabetical order, together with the date or dates that each juror so sat, with a reference to the page of the docket where the proWrits return- ceedings of the trial are entered; he shall also make all writs returnable to the said justices, in regular rotation; and if upon the return or adjourned day of any cause, the justice issuing the process therein, issuing the pro- should be absent at the time to which the same was adjourned, or the process therein made returnable, the next justice in the regular order of issuing writs, if present, and if not one of the other justices, shall have the same jurisdiction to proceed therein as though it had originally been commenced before him; but the record thereof shall be entered in the docket of the justice issuing the Clerk to receive original process. The said clerk shall also receive all costs, fines, and dues, of every description, which are provided by law, in all proceedings in said justices' courts, and shall pay the same weekly to the treasurer of said county, and take his receipt therefor. He shall have power, generally, to administer oaths and take affidavits, and before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall make and file in the office of the clerk of said county, a bond in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the said county auditors, conditioned that the said clerk shall weekly, well and truly pay to the said county treasurer, all moneys received by him as said clerk, for the use of said county, and otherwise fully and faithfully discharge all the duties of his said office. Other justice than the one cess may hear the case. and pay all costs to treasurer each week, Can administer oaths, etc. Must file bond, Court fee to be SEC. 5. Before any civil action or proceeding, except proceedings paid in advance. in garnishment, shall be commenced, in any of said courts, there shall be paid to the said clerk, by the party bringing the same, the sum of fifty cents, and before the trial of any such action, or proceeding, shall be commenced, the further sum of fifty cents; but in cases of non-suit, no judgment fee shall be required, and proceedings in garnishment shall be treated as part of the principal case, and no additional fees shall be charged therefor up to and including the entry of judgment therein. (If any person shall satisfy one of said justices, by affidavit, that he has a good, meritorious cause of |