Body corporate, name and style. etc., to be transferred. Title, etc., how to vest. Public money, by the common council for cause, in the same manner as other officers of said municipality. SEC. 2. Said board of trustees shall be a body corporate by the name and style of "the board of trustees of the Carnegie public library of the city of Sault Ste. Marie," and by that name may sue and be sued, acquire, hold and convey property, and be subject to all the general laws of the State relative to corporations, so far as the same may be applicable, and upon completion of a suitable library building and acBooks, papers, ceptance of the same from the contractors, the books, pamphlets, papers, book cases and other property now belonging to the district library of Sault Ste. Marie, and which is now controlled by the board of education, be transferred to the care, custody and control of said trustees of the said public library, and the title thereto shall be thereafter vested in said board of trustees; and thereafter all the rights, privileges and duties conferred upon the board of education of said city under section eleven of chapter twenty-five of act five hundred and thirty-three of the local acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by act number four hundred and fiftyfive of the local acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, shall be vested in said board of trustees; and all public money how expended. which is now or shall be hereafter appropriated by law to the support of a public library in Sault Ste. Marie, shall be expended under the direction of said trustees and the title to the property therewith purchased shall vest in said board of trustees. The board of trustees may receive by gift, grant or otherwise any sum of money and property for the establishment and maintenance of such public library as it may deem best. The treasurer of said city shall be the treasurer of said board and no money legally appropriated for the support of said public library shall be paid out by said treasurer, except in pursuance of an order of said board of trustees, upon a warrant signed by the president of said board of trustees and countersigned by the secretary thereof. The said board of trustees shall not expend any of said moneys for any purpose other than the building and maintaining of said library. The common council of said city shall, annually after the completion and acceptance of a suitable library building, raise by tax on the real and personal property within said city such sum of money for library purposes as the board of trustees shall determine and certify to the comptroller on or before the fifteenth day of September in each year, not exceeding one-half of one mill on each dollar of the assessed valuation thereof: Provided however, That the total sum raised in any one year from all sources shall not be less than the sum of three thousand dollars, and shall be used for the purpose of furnishing and maintaining said library. May receive gifts, etc. Who to be treasurer, how money to be paid out. Money, how used. Council to raise money by tax. Proviso as to amount. Board to elect officers. SEC. 3. The board of trustees shall, as early as may be after this act takes effect, and annually thereafter as soon as may be after the annual appointment on the first Monday in May in each year, organize and elect one of their number president, and shall also elect one of their number secretary, who shall hold their respective offices for one year thereafter and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Vacancies in either of said offices shall be filled by said board. Vacancies, And said board of trustees may make such rules and regula- May make tions as may be deemed necessary for its government. A rules, etc. majority of the members of said board shall constitute a Quorum. quorum for the transaction of any and all business of said board. how filled. duties of board. SEC. 4. For the due and proper care and use of said public Powers and Jibrary said board of trustees shall provide suitable rooms, by rental or otherwise, in which the same may be kept. They shall have power to receive donations of money or property for the erection of a public library and to expend the same for such purpose, and designate such library building by such name as the board of trustees may determine. They shall keep and maintain said library as a free circulating library for the use of the inhabitants of the city of Sault Ste. Marie, and may maintain a public reading room in connection therewith. And they shall make all such reasonable rules and regulations relative to the use of said library and reading room as they may deem expedient and for the preservation of books, maps, charts and pamphlets in said city, as well as chairs, tables, desks, carpets, etc., therein. Said board shall employ shall employ a librarian and such other employes as may be necessary for librarian, etc. the proper care of said library and the use thereof by the people of said city. All employes shall be under the control of said board who shall fix their salaries and designate their duties, and may discharge them at their pleasure. SEC. 5. Annually in the month of March, said board of To report trustees shall make a report to the common council showing council. annually to the condition of the library and the receipts and disbursements of all moneys received and disbursed by it during the year. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. May borrow money and issue bonds. Rate of interest. How negotiated. Moneys borrowed, how used. Tax levy for payment. Proviso as to submission to electors. [No. 320.] AN ACT to authorize the village of Lake Linden, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor to the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars, for the purposes of refunding the bonded indebtedness of said village now amounting to the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, constructing sewers and establishing a sewer system for said village and for erecting a fire hall for the use of said village and its fire apparatus. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The village council of the village of Lake Linden, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of said village a sum not to exceed the sum of seventyfive thousand dollars, for a term of not less than ten nor more than thirty years, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum payable annually; and to execute and issue the coupon bonds of said village therefor in such form as the said council may by a two-thirds vote of all the members elect determine; and to provide for the payment of the same, which bonds shall in no case be disposed of at less than their par value and shall be payable at such place or places as said council shall direct. SEC. 2. All moneys borrowed under the provisions of this act shall be used: First; For the refunding of the bonded indebtedness of said village now existing to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars: Second; For the constructing of sewers and establishing a sewer system for the use of said vilage under such rules and regulations as said council shall prescribe: Third; For the erecting of a fire hall for the use of said village and its fire apparatus, said fire hall to cost not to exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars and to be constructed according to plans and under the direction of the common council of said village. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said council to provide by tax upon the taxable property of said village or from any fund it may have and not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of said sum of seventy-five thousand dollars and interest upon all bonds issued under authority of this act as they may become due: Provided, That no bonds shall be issued or money borrowed for such purposes until the question shall be submitted to the electors of the said village at the annual election of said village or at a special election to be called by the council for that purpose; and a (two-thirds) majority of the electors voting on such question at such election, voting therefor, shall decide. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 321.] AN ACT authorizing the township of Montrose in the county of Genesee to issue bonds to the amount of not more than ten thousand dollars, for the payment for the construction of a bridge or bridges over the Flint river in said township and to provide for the manner of issuing the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amount, pur SECTION 1. The township of Montrose, in the county of Bond issue, Genesee, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds pose, etc. upon the faith and credit of such township, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and to use or negotiate the same for the purpose of raising money to pay for the construction of a bridge or bridges over the Flint river in said township upon the conditions, under the circumstances and in the manner hereinafter provided. and when SEC. 2. No such bonds shall be issued unless a majority To be endorsed of the qualified electors of said township, voting at a township by electors. meeting, a general election or a special election duly called to be held at a time to be fixed by the township board of said township, not more than sixty days after said board shall have decided to call said election, which shall be held at the same special elecplace as the last preceding township election was held, and tion, where conducted in the manner hereinafter provided, shall so deter- held. mine; and the said township board is hereby authorized and empowered to submit the question of said bonding to the qualified electors of said township, giving due notice thereof by causing the date, place of voting and object of said election Notice of. how given. to be stated in written or printed notices, to be posted in five public places in said township, at least ten days before the time fixed for such election, which notice shall state the amount of money proposed to be raised by such bonding, and the purpose to which it shall be applied. SEC. 3. The vote upon such proposition shall be by printed Form of ballot. ballot, in the following words: "For issuing township bonds not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a bridge or bridges over the Flint river, for a time not exceeding twenty years and at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. (Yes)." "For issuing township bonds Idem. not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Flint river, for a time not exceeding twenty years and at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. (No)." Such election shall be conducted and the Election, how votes thereat canvassed in all respects as in other township conducted, elections, and immediately upon the conclusion of such canvass, the inspectors of election shall make and sign a certifi cate showing the whole number of votes cast upon such proposition and the number for and against it. Said inspectors shall endorse upon such certificate a declaration in etc. When and how issued. Interest. writing of the result of such election, which certificate and declaration shall then be filed with the clerk of said township, and a copy thereof certified to by said township clerk shall be filed in the office of the clerk of Genesee county. SEC. 4. If the issue of bonds shall be authorized by vote of the electors of said township, such bonds may be issued in such sums not exceeding the amount hereby authorized, payable at such time and place not exceeding twenty years from the date of such bonds, and with such rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, as such township How signed. board shall direct by resolution. Said bonds shall be signed by the township board and countersigned by the township treasurer and negotiated by and under the direction of said board, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be used in paying for the construction of said bridge or bridges before mentioned. Payment, for. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said township board to prohow provided vide for the raising by tax, upon the taxable property of such township, such sums of money annually as shall be sufficient to pay the amount of said bonds and the interest thereon, as fast as the same shall become due. Not to be sold for less than par. SEC. 6. No bonds issued under and by virtue of this act shall be negotiated at less than their par value. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Name changed. [No. 322.] AN ACT to change the name of Eva S. Garlinghouse to Eva The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The name of Eva S. Garlinghouse is hereby changed to Eva A. Stewart. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |