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JOINT RESOLUTION, 1919.

JOINT RESOLUTION

[No. 1.)

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 parks, boulevards, public places, streets, alleys or for any public use by municipalities of the State.

Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives 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:

SECTION 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 parks, boulevards, public places, streets, 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.

Resolved further, That the foregoing 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 foregoing 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 parks, bouleParild, within trellis place and for any public use, and to make provision frit llin lukitances of lands to supply the funds to pay therefor.

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CERTIFICATE.

MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE

LANSING.

I, Coleman C. Vaughan, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the extra session of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred nineteen was on the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred nineteen.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature

and the great seal of the State, at Lansing, this tenth [L. S.] day of July, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred nineteen.

COLEMAN C. VAUGHAN,

Secretary of State.

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