Trustees, election of. shall be provided for the annual meeting in the act under which said township school districts shall organize. If said township school districts are either or both operating under act number one hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, as amended, they shall elect trustees on the second Monday in July following the affirmative action of the legal school electors, organize the board of education, and operate on and after said second Monday in July under said act number one hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, as amended. If said township school districts are operating under any other special act they shall elect trustees on the second Monday in July following the affirmative action of the legal school electors, organize the board of education, and operate under act number one hundred seventeen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended. In the election of the first school board under the provisions of this act, the county commissioner of schools shall designate two members of the township board of each township to act as a board of elecCanvassing of tion inspectors to conduct the election. The ballots shall be taken, counted, and canvassed in the same manner that is now provided for the counting of ballots under the general election laws. The hours at which the polls shall be open shall be the same as that provided for the annual meeting in the act under which the township school district will be organized after the consolidation. The board of education of each township school district shall continue to act for its township school district until the election and organization of a township school board as herein provided: Provided, That if the township districts to be consolidated are located in more than one county, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall designate the county commissioner of schools whose duty it shall be to call the election as herein provided. votes. Proviso. Records, etc., how transferred. SEC. 4. When any two township school districts have been consolidated as herein provided, the existing boards of education of each township school district shall meet in joint session with the board of education as herein provided immediately after its organization and settle with the treasurer of the boards of education of said townships. Then and there the officers of the boards of education shall turn over to the proper officers of the board of education elected for the consolidated township school district, all records, papers, books, money and other property belonging to the district. Said records, papers, books, money, and other property shall thereafter constitute the property of said consolidated township school district. Approved April 15, 1921. [No. 55.] AN ACT to designate school sites outside of the boundaries of school districts having a population of twenty thousand or over, and to provide funds for the purchase, improvement, and use of the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: of district. SECTION 1. The qualified school electors of any school dis- Sites outside trict having a population of twenty thousand or more, when lawfully assembled at an annual or special meeting, may designate outside of the boundaries of their school district by a majority vote of those present such number of sites as may be desired for schoolhouses and other school purposes, and may change the same by a similar vote at any annual or special meeting, or by the same vote may enlarge any existing site already acquired outside of the boundaries of the district. Whenever the question of designating a school site Notice of or sites, or of changing or enlarging said school site or sites meeting. is to be brought before a school meeting, the notice of said. meeting shall state the intention to vote upon such question: Provided, That in any school district having a population Proviso. of twenty thousand or over in which the board of education, by its special charter, is given authority to designate, procure, and purchase sites, the board of education shall have the same authority, rights, and duties in designating, procuring, purchasing, maintaining, improving, using, and any other authority, right, or duty relative to a site or sites or other school property that it would have if said site or property were within the boundaries of said district. When- When may ever a site or sites as herein provided shall be designated, determined, established or enlarged in the manner herein provided for, and the board of education of said district shall be unable to agree with the owner or owners of such site upon the compensation to be paid therefor, or for the land to enlarge the same, or in case such board of education of such district shall by reason of any imperfection in the title to said site or land to be added thereto, arising either from a break in the chain of title, tax sale, mortgages, levies or any other cause, be unable to procure a perfect unencumbered title in fee simple to said site or land for the enlargement thereof, the board of education of said district shall have the authority to condemn the same as provided in sections five thousand seven hundred seventeen to five thousand seven hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. condemn. tax. SEC. 2. Whenever a site or sites has been designated as May vote provided in this act the legal voters or the board of education of the district designating the site shall have the same authority to vote a tax relative to the purchase, improvement, and use of said site as they or it would have if said site were located within the boundaries of said district. SEC. 3. This act is hereby declared immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the state. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Advertising, cost of. Proviso. [No. 56.] AN ACT to amend section sixty-five of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the state and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section four thousand sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section sixty-five of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the state and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section four thousand sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 65. The cost of such advertising shall in no case exceed the sum of forty cents for each description of lands so advertised and sold: Provided, That in case there are less than four hundred descriptions so advertised in any county, there shall be paid the further sum of one dollar and twenty cents per folio for the first insertion and sixty cents per folio for each subsequent insertion of the Auditor General's petition and order of hearing, but such sum shall not exceed the amount to be paid for advertising four hundred descriptions at the rate of forty cents each, and shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrant of the Auditor General out of the general fund of the state. Approved April 15, 1921. [No. 57.] AN ACT to amend section ninety-five of chapter sixteen of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the powers and duties of townships and the election and duties of township officers," being section two thousand one hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number eightynine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section ninety-five of chapter sixteen of the Section Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the powers and duties of townships and the election and duties of township officers," being section two thousand one hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number eighty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 95. The following township officers shall be entitled Per diem to compensation at the following rates for each day actually compensation. and necessarily devoted by them to the service of the township in the duties of their respective offices to be verified by affidavit, whenever required by the township boards: salary. First, The officers composing the township boards, board of registration, board of health, board of review, inspectors of election, clerks of the poll and commissioners of highways, four dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days; Second, The supervisor for taking the assessment and for all services not connected with the above boards, four dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days: Pro- Proviso, vided, That any township having at least fourteen hundred separate descriptions of real property on its assessment roll and having a total assessed valuation of at least five million dollars, may, by resolution of its board, provide for a salary to its supervisor, of not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum, and any township having at least two thousand separate descriptions of real property on its assessment roll and having a total assessed valuation of at least eight million dollars, may by resolution of its board, provide for a Resolution. Vote on. Ballot, form of. salary of two thousand dollars per annum, in lieu of all compensation for services rendered by him under this act. Such resolution shall not be effective until it has been approved by a majority of the electors of said township voting thereon, by ballot, at any regular township election, or at any special election called for that purpose. All votes on the question of approving such a resolution shall be taken, counted and canvassed in the same manner as votes cast for candidates voted for at said election in said township. The vote upon the question of approving such a resolution shall be by ballot which shall be in substantially the following form: "Vote on proposition of approving a resolution of the township board providing a salary of ... dollars, per annum, to the supervisor, in lieu of all per diem charges for certain services. Make a cross in the appropriate square. To approve said resolution. Yes [ ]. If a majority of the electors voting upon such a resolution shall vote in favor of approving such resolution then said resolution shall be in full force and effect and not otherwise. Third, The township clerk, as clerk of the board of commissioners of highways and of the township board, four dol lars per day and at the same rate for parts of days, but no township officer shall be entitled to pay for acting in more than one capacity at the same time. Approved April 15, 1921. Section added. [No. 58.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers," being sections two thousand two hundred sixty-five to two thousand two hundred ninety-six, both inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, by adding a new section thereto, to stand as section thirteen-a of said act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers," being sections two |