raised and num. the number of home and foreign scholars in each department of Amount of taxes the schools, the total number of children according to the last ber of scholars in school census entitled to draw public money in said district, and school. such other information as they may possess necessary to a full and complete understanding of the financial concerns of said district, and said board shall also publish in one or more newspapers in said Account of procity a full and correct account of all its proceedings in regard to ceedings as to the expenditure of moneys. expenditure of money. election of board. SEC. 9. The clerk of the city of Coldwater shall, in giving City clerk to notice of the annual charter election and of the officers to be give notice of elected thereat, include in such notice the members of the board of education and of any vacancy to be filled in said board, should one exist: Provided, That at the first election under this act no Director to pubnotice shall be required to be given by said clerk, but the director lish copy of this of said district shall cause to be published in the several newspapers published therein a copy of this act. Said city clerk shall Clerk to notify also notify the members of said board of their election the same as election. the officers elect of said city are notified. act. board of their in board. SEC. 10. Should any vacancy occur in the board of education Filling vacancies by reason of death, resignation, removal from the ward, neglect to file acceptance, or for any other cause, said board may appoint a resident of the ward in which such vacancy occurs to fill the same until the next charter election and until his successor is elected and qualified. hold office until SEC. 11. The present board of education of the city of Coldwater Present board to shall hold and retain their offices until the board of education pro- new board vided for by this act shall be elected and qualified. elected and qualified. SEC. 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Acts repealed. hereby repealed. SEC. 13. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 341.] AN ACT to amend section four (4) of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the public schools in the city of Battle Creek," approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being act number four hundred and ninety of the session laws for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and to add thereto three new sections to stand as sections *number ten, eleven, and twelve. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section amended. section four of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the public schools in the city of Battle Creek," approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said board of trustees to provide Care, etc., of all necessary appendages for the school-houses, and to keep the school-houses. Teachers, etc. money from etc. To adopt District library. same in good condition and repair; to establish and maintain a district library, and for that purpose they may take and hold the library books, fixtures, and furniture, now held and possessed by said school district; to employ superintendents, teachers, janitors, and librarian, to purchase other books for said library; to establish, locate, and maintain a high school, grammar and primary schools, General powers. and generally to do all things needful and desirable for the maintenance, prosperity, and success of the schools in said district, and the promotion of the thorough education of the children therein. Board to receive It shall be the duty of said board to apply for and receive from the county treasurer, county treasurer or other officer holding the same, all moneys appropriated for primary schools and the district library of said district, to adopt by-laws and rules for their own procedure, and to make all needful rules and regulations for the control and management of the schools of said district, and the said district library. To keep accurate Said board shall keep an accurate account of all expenses incurred by them, and all claims for such expenses shall be audited by said board and paid by the treasurer out of any money provided for that purpose, on the order of the secretary, countersigned by the president of said board. Said board shall present at each annual meeting of the district a statement of the amount of all receipts and disbursements for the school year; and it shall be the duty of fied to supervi- said board to make an estimate of the amount necessary to be raised in addition to other school funds, for the entire support and maintenance of such schools for the ensuing year, including the expenses for the management of said library, and any indebtedness of said district, and on or before the first Monday in October, the secretary shall certify such amount to the supervisor of the city of Battle Creek, and the supervisor of any township from which said district shall in part be formed, and the same shall be levied, collected, and returned in the same manner as other taxes. account of all expenses, etc. Annual statement. Estimate certi. sor. Sections added. Authority to receive funds as "Denman library fund." SEC. 2. That said act be and the same is hereby amended by adding three new sections thereto, to stand as sections number ten, eleven, and twelve, said sections to read as follows: SEC. 10. The public schools of the city of Battle Creek shall donated, known have power and is hereby authorized to take, receive, and hold from Myron H. Joy of said city, for the use and benefit of said district library, the bonds, notes, mortgages, and money now held by him in trust for said corporation for the use and benefit of said library, known as the Denman library fund, the principal of which is ten thousand dollars, with accrued interest thereon. The said Power of board board of trustees shall have power, and it shall be their duty to keep the said principal sum of ten thousand dollars invested in notes and bonds, each to be amply secured by first mortgage on real estate, and such other securities as they shall deem safe, in the name of said corporation, and for the benefit of said library, and the interest or income of said principal sum shall be expended by said board for the purchase of such books and publications as they shall determine for said library, and for no other purpose. The said principal sum of ten thousand dollars shall not be expended as to fund. for any purpose whatsoever, but shall be kept and held as a permanent and perpetual fund for the benefit of said library. And the said public schools of the city of Battle Creek shall have power to take and hold for the benefit of said library any personal or real estate acquired through the collection of any such notes, bonds, mortgages, or other securities, or through any execution or mortgage sale based thereon; and the said board of trustees for and on behalf of said corporation, may sell and dispose of any such real and personal estate, and may convey any such real estate by deed, executed and acknowledged by the president, secretary, and treasurer of said board; and it shall be competent for the president, secretary, and treasurer of said board to discharge any mortgage belonging to said corporation by a written instrument for that purpose, executed and acknowledged by them. SEC. 11. The public schools of the city of Battle Creek afore- Authority to said, shall also have power to take, accept, and hold any real or receive gifts, etc. personal estate by gift, grant, bequest, or devise, for any purpose connected with the schools of said district, or for the benefit of said library; and the said board of trustees shall use and appropriate the same for the purposes and uses mentioned in the instrument, giving, granting, or devising the same, and for no other purpose. lic schools. SEC. 12. Said library shall be and remain the property of the Library to be corporation created by said act, and shall be for the benefit of, and property of pubbe open to all actual residents of said school district, under such rules, regulations, and restrictions as the board shall from time to time make and ordain. SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved May 12, 1877. [No. 342.] AN ACT to change the name of John William Hale to John SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Name changed. the name of John William Hale, of the township of Maple Grove, in the county of Saginaw, is hereby changed to John William Northwood. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 343.] AN ACT to repeal an act to establish a uniformity of text books in the public schools of Berrien county, being act number three hundred and seventy-five of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved April nineteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Act repealed. an act to establish a uniformity of text books in the public schools Action of board legalized. Boundary line. of Berrien county, being act number three hundred and seventy- SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 344.] AN ACT to legalize the action of the board of supervisors of Kalkaska county in erecting the township of Grayling. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the action of the board of supervisors of Kalkaska county, had on the fifth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in erecting the whole of the territory included in the unorganized county of Crawford attached to said county of Kalkaska, into a new township to be called and known by the name of the township of Grayling, be and the same is hereby declared to be legal and valid, and the subsequent acts of said township of Grayling, and all of its officers shall in no wise be affected by any informalities in the application made to said board of supervisors to organize said township, the posting and publication of notices thereof, the action of said board had thereon, or in the record made thereof by the clerk of said board of supervisors. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 345. | AN ACT to amend section one of act number eighty-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act to establish the township line between the townships of Clinton and Harrison, in the county of Macomb." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of act number eighty-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the township line between the townships of Clinton and Harrison, in the county of Macomb, shall be on the following described line: Commencing at a stake on the north line of the township of Erin, bearing tree, elm, forty inches in diameter, north sixty-seven and one-third degrees east, three hundred and ninety-seven links distant, said stake also twenty-five chains west on the aforesaid north line of the township of Erin, from the stake at the point where said. north line of Erin intersects the waters of Lake St. Clair, thence north two degrees thirty-eight minutes east, two hundred and nine- SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 346.] AN ACT to amend sections twelve and fifteen of act number two hundred and fifty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, being an act to revise the charter of the city of Coldwater, being amendatory of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Coldwater," approved February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections twelve and fifteen of an act entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Coldwater," being amendatory of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Coldwater," approved February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: relative to pub SEC. 12. The common council shall have power and it shall be Powers and their duty to adopt measures for the preservation of the public duties of council health of said city; to restrain, or regulate, or prohibit the slaugh- lic health. tering of animals within the limits of said city, and also the exercise of any unwholesome or dangerous avocation within said limits; to Board of health. establish a board of health, and invest it with such powers and impose upon [it] such duties as shall be necessary to secure said city and the inhabitants thereof from contagious, malignant, and infectious diseases to provide for its proper organization and the election or appointment of the necessary officers therefor, and make such by-laws, rules, and regulations for its government and support as shall be required for enforcing the most prompt and efficient performance of its duties and the lawful exercise of its powers; and Unwholesome the said common council shall have power to make such ordinances, meats, vegeby-laws, and regulations as they may deem necessary or expedient within said city for preventing, suppressing, and punishing the sale of unwholesome meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, or other articles of tables, etc. |