[No. 335.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Wyandotte," being act number two hundred and ninetyseven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, approved March five, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as amended by act number three hundred and thirty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, approved March twentytwo, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as amended by act number two hundred and forty-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved April four, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by act number three hundred and sixty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections four and seven of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Wyandotte," approved March five, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as amended by act number three hundred and thirty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, approved March twenty-two, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as amended by act number two hundred and forty-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved April four, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by act three hundred and sixty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 4. The officers of said city shall be one mayor, one City officers. recorder, who shall be ex officio school inspector; one treasurer, who shall be ex officio collector; one marshal, two school inspectors, one director of the poor, one city attorney, one police justice, four justices of the peace, one city assessor, two aldermen for each ward officers. ward, one constable for each ward, and one street commissioner. Said officers shall be elected as follows, to wit: The mayor, treas- Terms of office. urer, director of the poor, and city assessor shall be elected annually and shall hold their office for one year and until their successors shall be elected and qualified; at the first annual election after the Recorder. passage of this act, and at the annual election every two years thereafter, there shall be elected one recorder, who shall hold his office for the term of two years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified; there shall also be elected annually one school School inspector. inspector for the term of two years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. At each annual election there shall be Alderman. elected one alderman for each ward, who shall hold their offices for two years or until their successors shall be elected and qualified; there shall also be elected one constable for each ward, who shall Constables. hold office for one year or until their successors are elected and qualified. At the annual election which shall take place on the Police justice. first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and in Street commissioner. every four years thereafter, there shall be elected one police justice, who shall hold his office for the term of four years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, with such jurisdiction and powers as shall be hereinafter prescribed. At each annual election after the passage of this act there shall be elected one street commissioner, who shall hold his office for the term of one year and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, and who shall be under the control and directions of the common council. At every annual election there shall be elected one justice of the peace, who peace, powers of shall hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. The said justices of the peace shall have the like jurisdiction and powers, and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as justices of the peace in the several townships of this State: Provided, That the justices of the peace now in office shall hold their offices four years from the commencement of their terms and until their successors are elected and qualified. Justice of the Proviso. Officers appointed by council. Removal of officers. SEC. 7. The common council shall appoint an attorney and marshal for the city, and shall have power to appoint a chief engineer for the fire department and such other officers, whose election is not herein provided for, as they may deem necessary to carry into effect the powers granted by this act, and remove the same at pleasure. The common council shall also have the power to remove the street commissioner and treasurer for any violation of the ordinances Vacancies, how of the common council; and in case of the death, the resignation, removal from office, neglect to qualify, or removal from the city or ward for which he has been elected of any officer of the corporation, the common council shall, as soon as may be, appoint an officer to fill such vacancy for the unexpired portion of the year, and all officers so appointed shall be notified and qualify as herein directed: Provided, That the common council may at any time order a special election to fill a vacancy in any office which is elective under this act. filled. Proviso. Section amended. Trustees may SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 336.] AN ACT to amend section six of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Michigan and Huron Institute," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, being act number one hundred and five. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section six of act number one hundred and five of the session laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Michigan and Huron Institute, approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and thirtyseven, be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 6. The trustees may receive by purchase, gift, grant, or receive dona- donation, for the use and benefit of said corporation, any land, tions, etc. money or materials; and the said corporation may hold estate real, personal, or mixed so acquired: Provided, That such purchase, or Proviso. property or money by gift, grant or donation shall not in the aggre gate exceed the value of five hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. The foregoing act passed the Senate and House by a vote of twothirds of all the members elect. Approved May 11, 1877. [No. 337.] To re-incorporate the village of Saline in the county of Washtenaw. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Boundaries. all that tract of country situate in the township of Saline, in the county of Washtenaw, Michigan, and designated as follows, to wit: The northeast quarter, and the north half of the southeast quarter, and all that part of the northwest quarter lying east of the Saline river, of section one in township four south, of range five east, be and the same is hereby reincorporated and constituted a village corporate, under the name of the village of Saline. present officers. SEC. 2. The officers in said village now in office shall continue Terms of office in office, with the same powers and duties as are conferred by this and powers of act upon like officers, until their successors shall be elected pursuant to the provisions of this act, and the general law relating to villages, entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. SEC. 3. All ordinances and resolutions of said village of Saline Ordinances to shall continue in force until repealed. remain in force. SEC. 4. The first election under this act shall be held on the First election. second Monday in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at the office of Jortin Forbes, corner of Adrian and Chicago streets, tration of first election. in the village of Saline. Notice of the time and place of holding Notice. such election shall be given by posting notices thereof in at least five public places by order of the trustees in said village, at least two weeks previous to the holding of such election. The present Board of regis president of the village of Saline, and the three trustees of said village whose term of office would first expire, shall constitute the board of registration for said first election, and said board shall meet on the Saturday previous to the day of holding said first election, at the office of Jortin Forbes in the village of Saline, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of said day, for the purpose of completing the list of qualified electors of said village, and in such proceedings shall have the same powers and proceed in the same manner as near as may be, as is now provided by law for regulating and defining the powers and duties of boards of registration in townships. SEC. 5. Said village of Saline is hereby made subject to the Incorporated general law, entitled "An act granting and defining the powers under general and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen law. hundred and seventy-five. Said village shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities imposed by said act. SEC. 6. The village as reincorporated, shall possess all the propvested in village erty and rights, and be subject to all the liabilities and obligations Rights, etc., as re-incorpo rated. of the village as heretofore incorporated. SEC. 7. This act shall take immediate effect. Depositing sawdust, slabs, etc., in rivers, etc., prohibited. Penalty. Proviso. Penalty for [No. 338. ] AN ACT to prohibit the depositing in any of the rivers, bays, or lakes in the counties of Iosco, Alcona, Oscoda, Alpena, Montmorency, and Presque Isle, any saw-dust, edgings, slabs, shavings, or other mill or factory debris. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any person or persons who shall place, throw, deposit, or cause to be placed, thrown, or deposited in any of the rivers, bays, or lakes in the counties of Iosco, Alcona, Oscoda, Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle, any saw-dust, edgings, slabs, shavings, or other mill or factory debris, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, however, That it shall be lawful for the owner or occupant of lands lying contiguous to and bordering on said waters, to use in the construction of docks and other improvements to said lands, edgings, slabs, shavings, and other mill or factory debris, if · the same shall be so secured to the shore as to prevent its floating or being carried away. SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall place, throw, deposit, injury to fishing. or cause to be placed, thrown, or deposited in any of the rivers, bays, or lakes, within any of the counties named in the preceding section, any saw-dust, edgings, slabs, shavings, or other mill or factory debris, and the same shall float or be driven or carried to and upon any fishing grounds, or if the same shall float, or be driven, or carried into any nets set upon such fishing grounds, shall in addition to the penalty mentioned in section one of this act, be liable, civilly, for all damages done such fishing grounds and nets, to the legal owners or occupants thereof, to be recovered in an action of trespass in any court of the county where such fishing grounds may be situate, having jurisdiction thereof. Approved May 12, 1877. [No. 339.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, nineteen and twenty-one, and to repeal section twenty-four of an act entitled "An act to authorize a board of public works in and for the city of Grand Rapids," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections two, three, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, nine- amended. teen, and twenty-one of an act entitled "An act to authorize a board of public works in and for the city of Grand Rapids," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: members. SEC. 2. The said board shall elect one of its number president, Board of public to act as such until his successor is appointed, and in case of va- works, president cancy in such office the board may elect another. The members Duties and comof said board shall discharge such duties and functions as appertain pensation of to the consideration and decision of questions and business before the board. They shall receive at the rate of three dollars per day for actual time while attending as members upon the sessions of said board, but for no other services or time; the members shall make and verify their accounts for services, charging at the rates aforesaid, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the common council to allow and order payment for such services from the general fund of said city: Provided, The members shall respectively receive Proviso. pay for not more than one hundred days in any one year, and for no greater number of days than they shall actually serve. bers. board. SEC. 3. Annually after the year one thousand eight hundred and Annual appointseventy-three, on the first Monday of May, or within ten days there- ment of memafter, the mayor of the city of Grand Rapids shall appoint as herein before provided, to membership in said board of public works, one or more persons, as the case may require, to serve for the period of three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, in place of those whose term of office will then expire. Vacancies occurring in said board by removal from said city, resig- Vacancies in nation, or otherwise, shall be filled for the unexpired term by the mayor's appointment. All appointments to membership shall be made in the manner required in section one. Said board of public By-laws. works shall have power to make all such by-laws, rules, and regulations as may be necessary or expedient for the conduct of the business of the board, not inconsistent with this act. The city of City to provide Grand Rapids shall provide the board with suitable office room for its meetings and business uses, and supply record books, stationery, and other things necessary for the transaction of the public business in charge of said board. All accounts for rent and other nec- expenses to be essary expenses incurred by said board shall be presented to the cil. office room, etc. Accounts for audited by coun. |