JOINT RESOLUTIONS, 1925. [No. 1.] A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section five of article eight of the state constitution, relative to the term of office of county sheriffs. Resolved by the House of Representatives and Senate of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to section five of article eight of the constitution, relative to the term of office of county sheriffs, is hereby proposed and submitted to the people of the state. SEC. 5. The sheriff shall hold no other office. He shall be elected at the general election for the term of two years. He may be required by law to renew his security from time to time and in default of giving such security, his office shall be deemed vacant. The county shall never be responsible for his acts. Resolved, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this state at the general election to be held in November, nineteen hundred twenty-six. The secretary of state is hereby required to certify said proposed amendment to the clerks of the various counties of the state, in the manner as required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare ballots for the use of the electors, when voting on said proposed amendment, which ballots after setting forth the proposed amendment in full shall be in substantially the following form: "Amendment to section five of article eight of the constitution, relative to the term of office of county sheriffs, it being proposed that said section five of article eight be amended to read as follows: ARTICLE VIII. SEC. 5. The sheriff shall hold no other office. He shall be elected at the general election for the term of two years. He may be required by law to renew his security from time to time and in default of giving such security, his office shall be deemed vacant. The county shall never be responsible for his acts. Vote on amendment to section five of article eight of the constitution, relative to the term of office of county sheriffs. Yes () No ()." It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspector of election of the several voting precincts in their respective counties, within the time ballots to be used at such election are required to be delivered to such inspectors, under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendments shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning votes cast for state officers. [No. 2.] A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to article eight of the state constitution, by adding thereto a new section to stand as section thirty-one, with reference to the creation of metropolitan districts. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to article eight of the constitution of this state, to be known as section thirty-one, is hereby proposed and agreed to, that is to say, that a new section be added to article eight of the constitution to stand as section thirty-one and to read as follows: SEC. 31. The legislature shall by general law provide for the incorporation by any two or more cities, villages or townships, or any combination or parts of same, of metropolitan districts comprising territory within their limits, for the purpose of acquiring, owning and operating either within or without their limits as may be prescribed by law, parks or public utilities for supplying sewage disposal, drainage, water, light, power or transportation, or any combination thereof, and any such district may sell or purchase, either within or without its limits as may be prescribed by law, sewage disposal or drainage rights, water, light, power or transportation facilities. Any such districts shall have power to acquire and succeed to any or all of the rights, obligations and property of such cities, villages and townships respecting or connected with such functions or public utilities: Provided, That no city, village or township shall surrender any such rights, obligations or property without the approval thereof by a majority vote of the electors thereof voting on such question. Such general law shall limit the rate of taxation of such districts for their municipal purposes and restrict their powers of borrowing money and contracting debts. Under such general law, the electors of each district shall have power and authority to frame, adopt and amend its charter upon the approval thereof by a majority vote of the electors of each city, village and township, voting on such question, and, through its regularly constituted authority, to pass all laws and ordinances relating to its municipal concerns, subject to the constitution and general laws of this state. Resolved further, That the foregoing proposed amendment be submitted to the people of this state at the election to be held in the month of November in the year nineteen hundred twenty-six. The secretary of state is hereby required to certify said proposed amendment to the clerks of the various counties of the state in the manner required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare ballots for the use of the electors when voting on said proposed amendment, which ballots, after setting forth the proposed amendment in full, shall be in substantially the following form: "Vote on amendment to article eight of the state constitution. Shall article eight of the state constitution be amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section thirty-one for the purpose of creating metropolitan districts? Yes ( ) No ()." [No. 3.] A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to article thirteen of the constitution of the state of Michigan to provide for the condemnation and taking of the fee of more land and property than is needed for the acquiring, opening and widening of boulevards, streets and alleys, or for any public use, by municipalities of the state. Resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to the constitution of the state of Michigan, the same being a new section to be added to article thirteen and to be known as section five, is hereby proposed, agreed to and submitted to the people of the state: Resolved further, That the amendment be submitted to the people of the state of Michigan at the next general election. The secretary of state is hereby required to certify the proposed amendment to the clerks of the various counties of the state as required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare a ballot for the use of the electors in voting on said amendment and all other proposed constitutional amendments to be submitted to the electors at said election, which shall contain this amendment in full on a ballot separate from the ballot containing the names of nominees or candidates for public office; and this amendment shall be printed with the other amendment or amendments on said ballot in the following form: "Vote on proposed amendment to the constitution relative to empowering the legislature to authorize municipalities, subject to reasonable limitations, to condemn and to take the fee to more land and property than is needed in the acquiring, opening and widening of boulevards, streets and alleys, or for any public use, and to make provision for the issuance of bonds to supply the funds to pay therefor. Amendment to article thirteen of the constitution, empowering the legislature to authorize municipalities to condemn more land than is necessary for certain public purposes and to issue bonds therefor, it being proposed that said article be amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section five, to read as follows: SEC. 5. Subject to this constitution the legislature may authorize municipalities, subject to reasonable limitations, to condemn and to take the fee to more land and property than is needed in the acquiring, opening and widening of boulevards, streets and alleys, or for any public use, and after so much of the land and property has been appropriated for any such needed public purpose, the remainder may be sold or leased with or without such restrictions as may be appropriate to the improvement made. Bonds may be issued to supply the funds to pay in whole or in part for the excess property so appropriated, but such bonds shall be a lien only on the property so acquired and they shall not be included in any limitation of the bonded indebtedness of such municipality. Yes ( ) No ()." It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners in each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election of the several voting precincts within their respective counties within the time ballots to be used at said election are required to be delivered to such inspectors under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning votes cast for state officers. [No. 4.] A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section nine of article five of the state constitution, fixing the compensation of the members of the state legislature. Resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Michigan, That section nine of article five of the constitution of this state be amended to read as follows: SEC. 9. The compensation of the members of the legislature shall be twelve hundred dollars for the regular session. When convened in extra session their compensation shall be ten dollars per day for the first twenty days and nothing thereafter. Members shall be entitled to ten cents per mile and no more for one round trip to each regular and special session of the legislature by the usually traveled route. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of the laws, journals and documents of the legislature of which he is a member, but shall not receive, at the expense of the state, books or newspapers not expressly authorized by this constitution. Resolved further, That the foregoing proposed amendment be submitted to the people of this state at the general election to be held in the month of November, nineteen hundred twenty-six. The secretary of state is hereby required to certify said proposed amendment to the clerks of the various counties of the state in the manner required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare ballots for the use of the electors when voting on said proposed amendment which ballot after setting forth the proposed amendment in full shall be in substantially the following form: "Vote on amendment of section nine of article five of the state constitution fixing compensation for the members of the state legislature: Yes ( ) No ()." SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 14. Resolved by the senate, the house concurring, That the secretary of state shall certify to the clerk of each county in the state the question of a general revision of the constitution and a convention therefor, to be submitted to the electors qualified to vote thereon, at the general election to be held in the year 1926. CERTIFICATE. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE LANSING. I, Charles J. DeLand, Secretary of State of the state of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the regular session of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred twenty-five was on the twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five. [L. S.] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature and the great seal of the state, at Lansing, this third day of June, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred twenty five. CHARLES J. DELAND, |