obstruct them, or to prohibit the same, and to make such other Idem. rules or regulations concerning the same as to secure the safety of the citizens or other persons; Twenty-seventh, To regulate and establish the line upon which buildings may be erected upon any street, lane, or alley in said village, and to prevent such buildings being erected nearer the street than such line, and to impose a fine upon any owner, builder, or workman violating this provision, not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs; Twenty-eighth, To establish, regulate, and preserve public reservoirs, wells, and pumps, to construct reservoirs and wells, and to provide water and water-works for the extinguishment of fires and for other purposes; Twenth-ninth, To provide for and regulate the lighting of public lamps, and the erection of lamps and lamp posts; to prohibit all practices, amusements, and doings in said streets, lanes, alleys, public places, parks, and grounds, having a tendency to frighten teams and horses, or dangerous to life, limb, or property; Thirtieth, To provide for and purchase public parks and squares, make, grade, improve, and adorn the same, and all grounds in said village, belonging to or under the control of said village, and to control and regulate the same, consistently with the purposes and objects thereof; Thirty-first, To prohibit and prevent in the streets, or elsewhere in said village, any lewd or lascivious behavior, or indecent exposure of the person; Thirty-second, To prohibit and prevent the show, sale, or exhibition for sale, of indecent and obscene pictures, drawings, engravings, paintings, books, or devices, or any written or printed paper, or other thing containing obscene, opprobrious, scurrilous, scandalous, libelous, or defamatory matter, and all indecent or obscene exhibitions and shows of any kind; Thirty-third, To prevent the violation of the Sabbath and the disturbance of any religious congregation, or any other public meeting assembled for any lawful purpose; Thirty-fourth, To secure said village and its inhabitants, by the appointment of special police, or by any other means by them deemed necessary, against injuries by fire, thieves, robbers, burglars, and other persons violating the public peace; Thirty-fifth, To offer and pay rewards for the apprehension and arrest of those who may be guilty of offenses committed in said village against the ordinances thereof or against the laws of the State of Michigan; Thirty-sixth, To regulate the construction of chimneys, hearths, fire-places, fire-arches, ovens, and putting up of stoves, stovepipes, kettles, boilers, or any structure or apparatus that may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to prohibit and prevent the intentional burning out of chimneys and chimney-flues; to compel and regulate the cleaning thereof and to fix the fees therefor; to compel and regulate the construction of ash-houses and depositories for ashes; to authorize and empower the proper officers to enter By-laws. Authorized to bond. Amount and size of bonds and by whom issued. Exchange of bonds. into all buildings and enclosures to discover whether the same are in a dangerous state, and to cause such as are in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition, and to punish any person for neglecting so to do. Thirty-seventh, To prohibit and prevent or license and regulate the public exhibition by itinerant persons or companies of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, menageries, theatrical representations, concerts, musical entertainments, exhibitions of common showmen, and shows of any kind; Thirty-eighth, To enact all ordinances and make all such regulations not in violation of the constitution and general laws of the State, as may be necessary for the safety and good government of the village and the general welfare of its inhabitants, and to carry out and put in force all the provisions of this act and the powers conferred upon said village of Quincy. SEC. 9. The said village of Quincy, in all things. not herein and and otherwise provided for, shall be governed and its powers and duties defined by act number sixty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entititled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the acts amendatory thereto, and all the provisions thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions herein contained, shall be deemed supplementary to this act for the government of said village. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 243.] AN ACT to authorize the county of Presque Isle to issue bonds and [to] provide for the retirement of bouds heretofore issued. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Presque Isle, by its board of supervisors, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds upon the faith and credit of said county, and to provide for the payment of the same by tax upon such county. SEC. 2. Said bonds, the issue of which are hereby authorized by this act, shall be issued in sums of one thousand dollars each, to be issued in behalf of such county by the chairman of said board of supervisors and the treasurer of such county. They shall draw interest at a rate not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable annually and shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer, or at such place or places as said board shall direct. They shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty thousand dollars nor shall any of them run a greater length of time than twenty years from the date of their issue. SEC. 3. Bonds issued pursuant to this act may be exchanged at their par value for the outstanding bonds of such county or, under the directions of such board of supervisors, be sold at not less than their par value, and it shall be the duty of such county treasurer to apply such bonds so issued and the proceeds thereof to the payment and retiring of the outstanding bonds of such county and the interest due thereon and to no other purpose. Board of Super SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of Duty of the Presque Isle county to provide by tax upon all of the taxable visors. property of said county for the payment, as the same shall become due, of the principal and interest upon all bonds issued under the authority of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 244.] incorporated. AN ACT to incorporate the village of Harrison, in Clare county. SEC. 2. The first election of officers of said village shall be held First election. on the first Monday of March, in the year one thousand eight hun dred and eighty-five, at the circuit court room in said village, notice of which shall be posted in three of the most public places in said village, at least ten days before the time of said election, which notice shall be signed by five freeholders in said village. tration. SEC. 3. William W. Green, John Quinn, and Farwell A. Wilson Board of regisare hereby constituted a board of registration, for the purpose of registering the names of voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration are hereby required to meet at the court room, in said village, on the Saturday preceding the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and eightyfive, and register all persons presenting themselves for registration, and having the qualifications of voters at annual township meetings, notice of which meeting shall be posted in three of the most Notice of meetpublic places in said village, at least ten days before said meeting, and shall be signed by said board of registration. ing. duties. SEC. 4. The said village of Harrison shall, in all things not Powers and herein otherwise provided, be governed and its powers and duties be defined by an act entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and amendments thereto. than time ap SEC. 5. In case the said officers are not elected at the time desig- Election may be nated in section two of this act, an election for officers may be held held at other at any time within one year from the time designated in section pointed. two of this act, on notice being given as provided in said section two. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 17, 1885. Act amended. Wards, territory contained there in. Territory incorporated. [No. 245.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act cntitled 'An act to incorporate the city of Marquette,'" as theretofore amended, as recited in the title of the act hereby amended, which was approved March ten, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, so as to provide for five wards in said city. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section three of chapter one of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Marquette," approved February twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended by said act approved March ten, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended so as to read as follows: CHAPTER I. SECTION 3. The said city shall be divided into five wards, as follows: The first ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying south of a line drawn from the shore of Lake Superior westwardly, along the center of Fisher street to the western boundary of said city; the second ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying between last mentioned line and a line drawn from said lake shore westwardly along the line of the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon railroad, from said railroad company's merchandise pier to said western boundary; [the] third ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying north of said line of said railroad and east of the center of Front street from said railroad track to the northern boundary of said city; the fourth ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying west of Front street and between said railroad track and Ridge street; the fifth ward shall embrace all the remaining portion of said city lying north of Ridge street and west of Front street. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 246.] AN ACT to re-incorporate the village of Coopersville and to repeal act two hundred eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the incorporation of said village, and all acts amendatory thereto. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all that tract of country situated in the township of Polkton, in the county of Ottawa, and distinguished and designated as the southeast quarter of section twenty-three, the south half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-three, the east one-half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-three, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-three, the west one-half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four, the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-five, the north one-half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-six, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-six, all in town eight north, of range fourteen west, be and the same is hereby organized and re-incorporated as a body corporate, under the name of "The village of Coopersville," and subject to and under the provisions of the general act for the incorporation of villages, being act number sixty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and such amendments as may have been and may be made thereto, except as hereinafter provided. By-laws and SEC. 2. All the by-laws and ordinances of said village, now in force, are continued in force that are not contrary to the provisions ordinances. of said general act of incorporation. SEC. 3. The first election in said village under this act shall be First election. held on Thursday, the second day of April, eighteen hundred eighty-five, at such place in said village as the common council shall designate, and said election shall be held and conducted by the present officers of said village, subject to the provisions of said general act, and all the present officers of said village shall continue in office and hold the same until the time of said election subject to the provisions of said general act. liabilities. SEC. 4. Said re-incorporated village shall possess all the rights Powers and and property, and be subject to the liabilities and obligations of the village as heretofore incorporated, subject to such general act, and all actions and causes of actions, either for or against said village, at the time of this re-incorporation, accrued or to accrue, are hereby saved as fully as though this act had not passed. SEC. 5. Act number two hundred and eight of the session laws of Acts repealed. eighteen hundred seventy-one and all acts amendatory thereof, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 17, 1885. [No. 247.] AN ACT to legalize the assessment roll of the township of Watertown, in the county of Clinton, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Assessment assessment roll for the township of Watertown, county of Clinton, legalized. and the taxes levied thereunder for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be and the same are hereby legalized, and the taxes assessed upon such roll for the year eighteen hundred and seventynine, and the collection thereof by the treasurer of said township of Watertown, and all proceedings had and taken by said township treasurer in the collection thereof, be and the same are hereby legalized, and that the said assessment roll and the acts of the township treasurer thereunder and by virtue thereof, are hereby declared to be as valid as though the proceedings heretofore had were as regular in every particular as if the certificate of the |