assessments. SEC. 7. The remaining fifty per cent of the cost shall be Special raised by the levying and collection of special assessments. The township board shall have the power to determine the cost thereof; to create, define and establish a special assessment district upon which the cost shall be levied; to levy and collect the special assessments; to pay the cost thereof; and to issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of said special assessments. nation of when SEC. 8. Before purchasing or laying said pipe, the town- Determiship board shall determine by resolution the cost thereof and cost. shall provide for the making of a special assessment upon each and every parcel of land in the special assessment district by benefits, and for the issuing and sale of special assessment bonds in anticipation of the collection of said special assessment taxes. No such bonds shall be issued prior to the final Bonds, confirmation of the assessment roll by the township board. issued. All proceedings relating to the making, levying or collection of special assessments herein authorized and the issuing of bonds in anticipation of the collection thereof, shall conform as near as may be, to the proceedings for levying special assessments and issuing special assessment bonds by villages for like purposes, as set forth in act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, being, as amended, chapter seventy-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended. If any such special assessment fund is insufficient to pay such bonds and interest thereon when due, the township board shall advance the amount necessary to pay such bonds, and shall be reimbursed from such assessments when collected, or by re-assessment of the deficiency, if necessary. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 203.] AN ACT to provide for the completion, printing, binding, distribution and sale of the index of the local and special acts of the state of Michigan; and to make an appropriation for the compensation and expense of the officers designated by act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, to make said index. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The index of all the local and special acts of Index of local, etc., the state of Michigan prepared in accordance with the pro- acts." visions of act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen shall be printed, bound and distributed as hereinafter provided. What to include. Certification. Printing. Idem. Style, etc. Binding. Label. Distribution. Sale of. SEC. 2. The officers designated by said act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, shall incorporate with the text of said index the index of the local and special acts enacted by the nineteen hundred twenty-five, and the present legislature as soon as practicable after the close of the present session. The said officers shall add to the said index such annotations and citations as shall make such index substantially complete down to the time of printing. SEC. 3. After the said index shall have been completed, as provided in the preceding section, the said officers shall certify to its correctness and shall place the same in the hands of the state printers. SEC. 4. The printing of said index shall be done by the state printers as other state printing is done and the expense thereof shall be paid from the general fund of the state treasury. The printing shall be under the immediate supervision of the said officers who shall personally read the final proofs, comparing them with the original texts of the statutes and verifying the references and citations. SEC. 5. The index shall be printed by the state printers under the terms of the contract now existing between such printers and the state, in pages of substantially the size and measurement of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentyfive. The style of the work shall be determined by the said officers. The paper shall be furnished by the board of state auditors and shall be of quality, grade, weight and finish of the paper used in the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five. When printed, the index shall be firmly and substantially bound by the state printers in buckram binding in one volume in accordance with the existing contract between such state binders and the state of Michigan and the expense shall be paid from the general fund of the state treasury. The volume so bound shall be labeled on the back "Index of Local Acts of Michigan-1803-1927". SEC. 6. An edition of three thousand copies of said index shall be printed and bound by the state printers and shall be delivered to the secretary of state for distribution. One bound volume of said index shall be delivered to each of the following persons, officers and libraries, viz., libraries of state officers, libraries of state institutions, libraries of state boards, members of the legislature of nineteen hundred twenty-seven, the secretary of the senate, the clerk of the house of representatives, each elective state officer, each circuit judge, each judge and clerk of the recorder's, superior and police courts, county clerks, prosecuting attorneys, judges of probate, public and bar association libraries and six copies to each of the officers who prepared the said index. In addition to the foregoing, there shall be deposited in the state library two hundred copies for use in said library and for exchange. SEC. 7. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to sell from time to time any number of the copies of said index remaining, except such number of copies as he may deem it necessary to reserve for future distribution, at such price per copy, not less than actual cost thereof, as the board of state auditors may determine. tion. There Appropria tion. SEC. 8. Each of the said officers designated by act number Compensatwo hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, to prepare the said index shall receive for his services under this act in continuing the work so as to make the same practically complete down to the time of printing and for proof reading and supervising the publication of the said index, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars. The said officers shall be empowered to employ such clerical assistance as in their judgment may be required to perform the additional services provided for by this act and may expend therefor a sum not to exceed four hundred dollars. is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the state treasury for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty eight, the sum of two thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, the sum of two thousand dollars, for the purposes specified in this section. The amounts due each of the said officers pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be paid to him in two equal installments, one-half when he shall certify to the board of state auditors that the copy for the said index has been delivered to the state printers, and one-half when he shall certify to the said board that the final proof has been corrected and returned to the said printers. The said board of state auditors shall issue vouchers for the payment of said amounts in such manner as is or may be provided by law for the payment of claims against the state. SEC. 9. The auditor general shall incorporate in the state Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred twenty-seven, the sum of two thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred twenty-eight, the sum of two thousand dollars, to reimburse the general fund for the appropriations hereby made. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 19, 1927. Sections amended. May alter, etc.. township. Application for. Statement of board, where filled. [No. 204.] AN ACT to amend sections fourteen and fifteen of 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 compiler's sections two thousand two hundred seventy-seven and two thousand two hundred seventy-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number three hundred twelve of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections fourteen and fifteen of 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 compiler's sections two thousand two hundred seventy-seven and two thousand two hundred seventy-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number three hundred twelve of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 14. The board of supervisors in each of the several counties of this state shall have power within their respective counties and all territory attached thereto, by a vote of threefifths of all the members elected to said board, to vacate, divide, or alter in its bounds, any township, whether the boundaries of such township may have been fixed theretofore by a special act of the legislature or by action of the board. of supervisors, or erect a new township or organize or consolidate townships upon application to the board as hereinafter provided of at least twenty per centum of free-holders who are actual residents of each of the townships to be affected by the division; except that in any township where there were not to exceed thirty electors at the last general election, then such application may be made by not less than five electors of such township voting at the last general election therein; and upon being furnished with a map of all the townships to be affected by the division, showing the proposed alterations; and if the application shall be granted, a copy of said map with a certified statement of the action of said board thereunto annexed shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said county; and a certified statement of the action of said board shall also be filed in the office of the secretary of state; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause the same to be published with the laws of the next legislature, after the filing thereof, in the same manner as other laws are county in published. Whenever it shall appear that any county is When indebted to the state of Michigan, judicially or otherwise, debted to and the amount of such indebtedness is determined and estab- state. lished and duly and properly certified to the proper officers of such county, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, within twenty days thereafter, to meet and consider such indebtedness or judgment, and said board may at such meeting submit to a vote of the electors of the county a proposition to issue bonds or to levy a tax to pay such indebtedness or judgment, as in this act provided. SEC. 15. Notice in writing of such intended application, Notices, subscribed by not less than twenty per centum of freeholders posting of. who are actual residents, or by not less than five electors as the case may be, of the township or townships to be affected shall be posted in five of the most public places in each of the townships to be affected thereby, four weeks next previous to such application, to the board of supervisors; and a copy of such notice shall also be published once in each week for four successive weeks immediately preceding the meeting of the board of supervisors at which such application is to be made, in some newspaper printed in the county, if any shall be published therein. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 205.] AN ACT to amend section two of act number one hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the organization and disbandment of township school districts in the state of Michigan", being, as amended, section five thousand nine hundred ten of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of act number one hundred seven- Section teen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled, amended. as amended, "An act to provide for the organization and disbandment of township school districts in the state of Michigan," being, as amended, section five thousand nine hundred ten of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. All cities organized as school districts and all Cities exempt. graded school districts having a population of more than fifteen hundred shall be exempt from the provisions of this act. Their boundaries shall remain the same and they shall continue to administer the public schools of such city or graded |