above named, the said corporation shall not be thereby dissolved, but said election may be held pursuant to notice given therefor as hereinafter prescribed. of election return of Sec. 3. At the first election, before opening the polls, the elec- Inspectors tors present shall choose viva voce, two judges and a clerk of said canvass and election, who shall take the constitutional oath to discharge their votes, &c. duties; and at all subsequent elections, the president and trustees or any two of them, shall be judges, and the recorder, clerk of the election; and at all elections under this act, the polls shall be opened between the hours of nine and ten in the forenoon and close at five o'clock in the afternoon, and the election shall be conducted, the votes counted and the result thereof declared publicly to the electors in the manner prescribed for town elections, and the clerk shall make a record thereof, and within five days after the election, notify the persons elected of their election. trustees in Sec. 4. The president, recorder and trustees, shall be the village President & council, and shall be a body corporate and politic with perpetual corporated. succession, to be known by the name of the "president and trustees of the village of Port Huron," and may have a common seal, which they may alter at pleasure; may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend in any court, and when any suit shall be commenced against the corporation, the first process shall be a summons, which shall be served by leaving an attested copy with the recorder or his deputy, at least eight days before the return day thereof. ficers. Sec. 5. The officers of said villege before entering upon their oath of ofduties shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, for the faithful discharge of their respective duties. Sec. 6. The president shall preside at all meetings of the council and of the village, and in case of his absence, the trustees shall choose one of their number to preside in his place, and it shall be the duty of the recorder to attend all such meetings, and keep a full and fair record of all the proceedings thereof, and to appoint a deputy, who in his absence shall peform all the duties of the recorder and for whose acts the recorder shall be liable. Said appointment shall be under the hand and seal of the recorder, and said deputy shall take the above prescribed oath, before entering upon his duties. President & recorder. Sec. 7. The president and trustees shall have power to establish Powers of president & trustees. Ibid. Semi-annu al statement by-laws, rules and regulation for the government of said village, and the same to alter, repeal or re-ordain at pleasure. To provide for the election of any subordinate officers that may be deemed necessary, and to prescribe their duties; and to prescribe the duties of the marshal and treasurer, and the fees they and the recorder shall receive for their services, and fix the necessary security for the performance of their duties; to prescribe reasonable fines and penalties for the violation of the by-laws and regulations of the corporation; to provide for security against fires; to provide for the construction of suitable side-walks and for the improvement of the streets, lanes and alleys; to provide for the removal of nuisances and obstructions from the side-walks, streets, alleys, commons and all other places within said village: and for the preservation of the public health, they shall be a board of health for said village, and shall have the same powers for said village that township boards of health now have by law in their respective townships, and the recorder shall keep a record of their proceedings as such board of health in the records of said village. Sec. 8. The corporate board of said village shall be subject to and have the privileges and benefits of all general laws prescribing the duties of or granting powers to city or village corporations. Sec. 9. The president and trustees shall once in each six months of receipts make out and publish a correct statement of the receipts and expenditures of the preceding six months. and expen ses. Village taxes. Special meeting. Notice of meetings. Sec. 10. The electors of said village in legal meeting assembled shall have power to lay taxes on all real and personal estate in said village, not exceeding one per cent. upon said real and personal estate in one year, and shall by vote, viva voce, determine at such meetings the amount of said taxes. Sec. 11. In case the first meeting above provided for shall fail to be held on the day above prescribed, then any five of the electors of said village may call said meeting at any other time at some convenient place, giving notice thereof as hereinafter provided to be given by the president or senior trustee for other meetings. Sec. 12. All meetings of said village for the election of officers, levying taxes, or for any other purpose, shall be called by the pres ident or senior trustee (with the exception provided for in section eleven) by posting up written or printed notices thereof in at least three public places in said village, at least six days before the time of holding said meeting, specifying therein the time and place of said meeting, and the purpose for which the same is called. &c. Sec. 13. The president and trustees shall make out a tax roll in Tax roll, duplicate, giving the valuation of the property in said village, as assessed by the assessors, with the amount taxed to each tax-payer and parcel of property assessed and taxed, and shall make the same as nearly as may be, similar to township tax rolls, and shall, under their hands and seals, affix a warrant thereto directing the manner of the collection of said taxes, and shall deliver the same to said marshal whose duty it shall be to collect said taxes in pursuance of said warrant and at the time and in the manner prescribed by the by-laws, and shall pay over the same to the village treasurer as the -by-laws shall prescribe. marshal. Sec. 14. Said marshal shall have the same power to sell person- Power of al estate for the collection of taxes as is given by law to township treasurers, and for want of personal estate he shall have power to levy upon and sell the real estate upon which the tax is assessed, and shall prosecute and make such sale in the same manner and with the same effect in all respects, and shall give notice thereof, as is provided by law for the sale of real estate on execution: Provided, That the first publication of said notice shall be at least six months prior to the day of sale, and any real estate so sold may be redeemed by the owner or his or their representatives, at any time within one year from the date of sale, on paying to the purchaser or to the treasurer for the use of the purchaser, the amount for which the same was sold with ten per cent. interest. jail. Sec. 15. For the imprisonment of every person liable to impris. Use of Co, onment under the by-laws and ordinances of said village, said village shall have the use of the common jail of St. Clair county, and all persons com nitted to said jail for any such liability shall be under the charge of the sheriff of said county as in other cases: Provided, That the county shall thereby be involved in no expense, and that all charges for the keeping of persons thus committed to said jail, shall be paid by the said village. Sec. 16. The president and trustees of said village shall receive Campensano pecuniary compensation or fees for their services under this act, ident and tion of pres trustees. This a public act. unless the same shall be authorized by the voters of said village in legal meeting assembled. Sec. 17. This act shall be received in all courts of justice as a public act and shall be favorably construed, and no further proof shall be required hereof than is required for any other general law or statute. Sec. 18. This act may be altered, amended or repealed by the legislature with the assent of two-thirds of both houses. Sec. 19. This act shall take effect immediately. Completion of main building of [No. 244. ] AN ACT to provide for the maintenance and support of the State Prison, at Jackson, and for the completion of the Main Building thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the agent and inspectors of S Prison au- the state prison, at Jackson, be, and they are hereby authorized to erect and build, or cause to be erected or built and completed, the centre or main building of said prison, now in part built. thorized. Expendi same. Sec. 2. The auditor general is hereby authorized and required to tures on the draw his warrant on the treasurer for such sums as the inspectors of the prison shall from time to time direct; but such sums so drawn at any one time, shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and no further sum shall be drawn until satisfactory vouchers are presented to and allowed by the auditor general for the amount previously drawn. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. [No. 245.] AN ACT to amend "an act to establish an Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind, and also an Asylum for the Insane of the State of Michigan," approved, April third, eighteen hundred and fortyeight. ed. Section. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Aet amendtatives of the State of Michigan, That section ten of the act entitled "an act to establish an asylum for the deaf and dumb and blind, and also an asylum for the insane of the state of Michigan," approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and the same is hereby amended by adding to said section the words following: "they shall have power and it shall be their duty to select and designate some suitable location or locations for the site of said asy. lums, and file a description thereof in the office of the secretary of state." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. [No. 246. ] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to amend and consolidate the act to incorporate the Stockholders of the Michigan Insurance Company of Detroit, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and the several acts amendatory thereto," approved March twenty eight, eighteen hundred and forty nine. ed. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Act amendtatives of the State of Michigan, That section sixteen of the act entitled "an act to amend and consolidate the act to incorporate the stockholders of the Michigan insurance company of Detroit, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty four, and the several acts amendatory thereto," approved March twenty eight, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be and the same is hereby amend ed by striking out the word "thirty," in the first line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "ninety." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. |