Compensat'n of officers. Annual statement; contents of. payment of money shall be drawn upon the treasury when there shall not be sufficient funds to pay the same. Sec. 62. Compensation for services may be paid out of the city treasury, as follows: The recorder and attorney shall be entitled to receive respectively such sum as the common council shall allow, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, as salaries, until after said city shall contain over five thousand inhabitants, when said compensation may be any sum deemed reasonable, not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The marshal shall be entitled to receive the same fees for serving processes in behalf of the corporation as constables are by law allowed for similar services, and he shall receive such further compensation as the common council shall allow, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars. Justices of the peace and constables shall be allowed the same fees as are by law allowed to corresponding township officers, unless in this act otherwise provided. The street commissioner shall be entitled to receive one dollar and fifty cents per day for services, and at the same rate for parts of a day actually employed. School inspectors shall receive the same pay as they are entitled by law to receive in townships, and the compensation of the mayor and aldermen, as such, for attending the meetings of the common council, shall be no more than one dollar per annum. Sec. 63. The common council shall, in the month of March in each year, make out a detailed statement of all the receipts and expenditures of the corporation for the past year, which statement shall state particularly upon what account all moneys were received, and it shall also specify all appropriations made by the common council during the year, and the particular purpose for which each appropriation was made; such statement shall be signed by the mayor and recorder, and recorded and filed in the recorder's office; a copy thereof shall be published in a newspaper printed in the city, for at least two weeks. Sec. 64. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be Public act. favorably construed in all courts. organized. Sec. 65. All of township number fifteen north, of range ten Township west, not included in the limits of the city of Big Rapids, and known as the township of Big Rapids, is hereby organized into a separate township, by the name of the township of Big Rapids. township election. Sec. 66. The annual township meeting for said township, in Annual the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, shall be held at the meeting. house of John Halpine, in the township of Big Rapids, on the third Monday in April; and Luther Cobb, Frederick Mizner, Board of John Halpine, and Ruggles Spooner are hereby constituted the board of election thereof, and shall appoint a chairman and clerk, take the necessary oath, and perform all the duties, have the same powers, and make the same returns as inspectors of election in townships are by law required to do and perform; and in case any of the persons named in this section shall refuse to serve, the vacancies shall be filled in the manner now provided by law. terms of Sec. 67. At said township meeting in eighteen hundred and officers and sixty-nine, there shall be elected one supervisor, one township office. clerk, one township treasurer, one justice of the peace for the full term of four years, commencing on the fourth day of July, next after his election; one justice of the peace, whose term of office shall expire on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; one justice of the peace, whose term of office shall expire on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; one justice of the peace, whose term of office shall expire on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy. The terms of office of the justices of the peace, elected for other than the full term, shall commence immediately on the filing of their bonds and taking the oath of office, and the term for which each is elected, shall be expressed on the ballot. There shall also be elected one commissioner of highways for the full term, and one for two years; Who to perform duties two school inspectors, one for one year, and one for the full term of two years, and four constables. Sec. 68. The township clerk of said township of Big Rapids of township shall continue to perform the duties of clerk of said township clerk. until his successor is elected and qualified; and when his suc- Commiss'r appointed. Authorized to employ a surveyor. How road shall be laid out. [No. 460.] AN ACT to provide for laying out and establishing a State road in the township of Ishpeming, county of Marquette. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Solomon S. Curry be and is hereby appointed commissioner, with full power and authority to lay out, establish and improve a State road, commencing at or near the village of Ishpeming, in the county of Marquette, and running thence south-west on the most eligible route, to the New England mine, in said township. Sec. 2. The said commissioner is authorized and empowered to employ a surveyor, as may be necessary to locate and establish the line of said road, and when such line shall have been established, a full description of the route and survey thereof shall be filed by said commissioner with the county clerk of Marquette county. Sec. 3. Said road to be laid out and constructed under the provisions of act number one hundred and seventeen, of session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and acts amendatory thereto. Sec. 4. To secure the construction of said road, there is Swamp land appropriated hereby appropriated two sections of State swamp land per mile of said State road, the same to be expended for the construction of said road, under the provisions of said act and acts amendatory thereto: Provided, That the lands hereby appropriated shall be selected and taken from the swamp lands in the Upper Peninsula. road. Sec. 5. Said road shall be known as the Ishpeming and New Name of England Mine State road. Approved April 5, 1869. [ No. 461.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Saint Joseph," approved March 17, 1834, and the acts amendatory thereto. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section one of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Saint Joseph," approved March 17, 1834, and the act amendatory thereto, approved February 11, 1859, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 1. That so much of the township of Saint Joseph, in the Boundaries. county of Berrien, in the State of Michigan, as is embraced in fractional section number twenty-three, in township number four south, of range number nineteen west, and also so much of fractional section number twenty-four, in township number four south, of range number nineteen west, as lies south and west of the Saint Joseph river, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate by the name and style of the village of Saint Joseph. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved April 5, 1869. Society authorized to sell real estate. [No. 462.] AN ACT to authorize "the Kalamazoo town agricultural society for improving the breed of horses," to sell and dispose of its real estate. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That "the Kalamazoo town agricultural society for improving the breed of horses," be and is hereby authorized to bargain, sell, dispose of and convey any real estate which said society owns, May execute or may at any time own hereafter. And for this purpose it contracts, etc. Who to execute instru ments. Seal to be used. Further power of society. may make and execute contracts, mortgages, deeds, and any and all other instruments in writing, including plats of its real estate, to the same extent and with the like effect that the same can now be done by any person, under the laws of this State. Sec. 2. All such instruments in writing may be executed and acknowledged by the president of said society, or by such other member thereof as the officers of said society shall at any time designate for that purpose. And in all cases where a seal shall be requisite to the due execution of any deed or other instrument, the president or member so designated, may use either the corporate seal of said society, or the ordinary seal used by individuals in the execution of similar instruments. Sec. 3. The said society is also hereby authorized and empowered to do and perform any other act or thing necessary to carry out and complete the purposes of this act. Sec. 4. This act is hereby declared to be a public act. Approved April 5, 1869. |