[No. 2.] AN ACT to provide for the disposition of certain taxes collected for county road purposes in the county of Wayne under the provisions of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, as amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: funded to and town SECTION 1. Within thirty days after this act takes effect When reit shall be the duty of the county treasurer of the county of city of Wayne to pay over to the township treasurer of each town- Wyandotte ship, in said county, and to the city treasurer of the city of ships. Wyandotte, in said county, the amount of the tax collected in each of said townships and in said city for county road purposes for the year nineteen hundred six, under the provisions of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, as amended. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the township treasurer in Credit or refund given each of said townships and the city treasurer of the city taxpayers. of Wyandotte, upon application therefor, to credit each taxpayer within his township, or said city of Wyandotte, who has paid any part of said tax so collected, with the amount so paid, upon the taxes assessed and to be paid by such taxpayer for the year nineteen hundred seven; or to refund the amount so paid to such taxpayer. credit or re SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer of the Who to county of Wayne, upon application therefor, to credit each fund Detroit taxpayer within the city of Detroit who paid any part of the taxpayers. said county road tax so collected for the year nineteen hundred six with the amount so paid by said taxpayer, upon the taxes assessed and to be paid by such taxpayer for the year nineteen hundred seven; or to refund the amount so paid to such taxpayer. ing no prop receipt. SEC. 4. In the event that any person who has paid any Persons havpart of said tax has no property, real or personal, assessed erty to prefor taxes for the year nineteen hundred seven in said town- sent, original ships or cities, then it shall be the duty of the county treasurer of said county, the city treasurer of the city of Wyandotte, and the treasurers of the several townships to pay to said person the amount so paid by him for said county road tax for the year nineteen hundred six, upon the presentation to said county treasurer, city treasurer of the city of Wyandotte and treasurers of the several townships, of the original receipt therefor, showing payment of such tax, or in default of the presentation of such receipt, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to pay such tax to the original taxpayer, or his representative, or heirs, upon satisfactory proof of his identity and of the loss of such receipt; and where repayment of any tax is made on presentation of such receipt, or other Funds provided. proper proofs herein provided, there shall be no further repayment made on account of the payment of the tax so repaid. SEC. 5. The supervisors of the county of Wayne and the board of auditors of the county of Wayne are hereby directed to provide the county treasurer of the county of Wayne with the funds necessary to meet the expenses incident to the carrying out of the provisions of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1.] JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of trustees of the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, at Newberry, to purchase one hundred twenty acres of land adjacent to the north line of the property owned by said institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan. That the board of trustees of the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, at Newberry, be and is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, at a cost not exceeding thirty dollars per acre, one hundred twenty acres of land adjacent to the north line of the property owned by said institution, described as follows: The north half of the southeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, town forty-six north, range ten west. And be it further resolved, That said board of trustees of said institution be and hereby is authorized to pay for said one hundred twenty acres of land above described from the special appropriations made for said institution by section two of act two hundred seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act making appropriations for the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, at Newberry, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for building and special purposes and to provide a tax to meet the same." And be it further resolved, That the Auditor General is hereby authorized to transfer not exceeding the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars for the purpose above specified from said special appropriations to a fund for the purchase of one hundred twenty acres of land. This joint resolution is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved October 24, 1907. |