treasurer for like services, and the expenses in advertising any land for sale in pursuance of this act, shall by the treasurer be added to such taxes respectively as are charged upon lands and unpaid, in proportion to the amount of such person's tax so charged and unpaid. Sec. 16. The corporation shall be allowed the use of the common Jail. jail of the county of Kalamazoo, for the imprisonment of any person liable to imprisonment under the by-laws or ordinances of said corporation; and all persons so committed to said jail shall be under the charge of the sheriff as in other cases: Provided, The county shall in no manner be chargeable with the costs and expenses of such imprisonment in civil cases. in widening Sec. 17. To ascertain the value of any property to be taken to Proceedings open, widen or continue a street, and concur in the damage the own- streets. er will sustain by its being taken, the board of trustees shall appoint two commissioners, and the owners of the property to be taken may appoint two, and the four shall choose the fifth; and in case the owner neglects or refuses to choose two, any justice of the peace may choose for him; which commissioners shall be disinterested, and inhabitants of said county, and freeholders therein, and who shall take an oath or affirmation, to be administered by the president of the village, well and truly and without partiality or favor, to value the property to be taken, and the damage to the owner as aforesaid, and to assess the same upon the property benefitted by the improvement, and to report such valuation and assessment to the board of trustees; which report, when confirmed by the circuit court of the county, and entered upon the records thereof, shall be final and conclusive upon all parties interested; and any person interested in said report may object to its confirmation by affidavit or otherwise; and the said court may refer the same back to the old commissioners, or new commissioners to be appointed by the court, to make a new valuation or assessment, as often as the court may, deem the same necessary to promote the ends of justice. Assessments of taxes for the payment of damages, caused by the opening, widening or continuing any streets, shall be assessed only upon property benefitted thereby; and no new street shall be opened unless one-half the interest thereby affected shall petition for the same; but no new street shall be opened or continued to the detrimeut of any building which may Term of of five. Oath and bonds. Patre jus Lice: pow tea. stand in the site of said street, of the value of one thousand dollars, without the written permission of the owner thereof, unless it shall have been purchased for the corporation by the trustees thereof. Sec. 13. No officer elected or appointed by the corporation shall hold his office more than one year, or until his successor is appointed; and the board of trustees may require any or all of them to make oath or affirmation faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of their respective offices, and may require of any of them such security by bond for the performance of the duties of their respective offices, as shall be thought expedient; which bond shall run to the treasurer of the corporation, and his successors in office; and suit be brought for any breach of said bond in the name of the president and trustees of said village, as in other cases, before any justice of the peace, or the circuit court of the county, aceording te the amount claimed, which courts are hereby authorized to hear, try and determine the same. may Sec. 19. The clerk of the village shall be recorder of the same, and shall be a police justice of the peace, having cognizance of all ers anidu- matters arising under and by virtue of this act of incorporation; having the same rights and powers and fees as a justice of the peace, (except in cases wherein the corporation is not a party,) and all warrants, summons, executions and processes issued by him to earry into effect the ordinances, shall be tested and returnable with like manner and effect, and all suits be conducted in like manner as provided in the statutes for and applicable to justices of the peace, Duties of Sec. 20. The marshal shall have the general supervision of the village, and see that the laws are enforced; and by virtue of his of fice shall be high constable and chief of police, with the powers belonging to constables of any township; having power to enter inte any disorderly or gaming house, and dwelling house or any other building where he may have good reason to believe a felon is secreted or harbored, and where any person is who has committed a breach of the peace, or where any felony or breach of the peace is being committed; to arrest disorderly persons and felons, and those engaged in unlawful assemblages, and take them before the recorder, (who shal hear and determine the matter on proof in a summary way;) to compel the citizens to aid in extinguishing fires; to appoint deputies with powers similar to himself: Provided, That nothing in this act Proviso. shall be construed into his serving processes issued by justices of the peace in civil cases. inent. Sec. 21. Each member of the fire department, or an engine, hook Fire departand ladder, bucket or hose company, duly organized by the president and trustees, shall be exempt from poll tax or serving on jury; and the president and trustees may pass such laws as they may deem proper to prevent or extinguish fires, and to annex penalties for the violation thereof, and to compel the assistance of the citizens to aid in extinguishing any fire that may break out. exercise ers as high missioners Sec. 22. The president and trustees shall have the exclusive Trustees to rights, and exercise the same powers within the limits of the village, same pow as may by law be exercised by commissioners of highways in the way com several townships of the State, and shall appoint the overseers of highways to repair and keep in order the highways, streets and alleys, and shall cause a tax to be levied and collected as taxes usually are for constructing and repairing roads in the different townships; and shall have the exclusive control of the highway moneys levied and collected in the village: Provided, That nothing herein contained Proviso. shall be construed to exempt any person or property within said village from any township tax that may be legally levied within and for the township of Kalamazoo, for the repairing, building or rebuilding of any bridge within said township, or for any special expenditure for the laying out, opening, working or improving any highway of said township, or for any damage for which said town may become liable by reason of any neglect in keeping any bridge or public highway in proper repair. trict. Sec. 23. The lands within the limits of the corporation shall be Fchool disset apart from the other school districts of the township of Kalamamazoo, and placed under the exclusive jurisdiction of the president and trustees, who shall divide or annex the districts within said corporation from and to each other as they shall deem best, and who shall have and use the same rights, powers and duties as the district boards in the various school districts of the State; and may appoint such subordinate officers as shall be necessary to exercise such rights, powers and duties. Sec. 24. All ordinances, by-laws and regulations of the corpora- Ordinances tion of Kalamazoo, which are in force at the time of the passage of force. to remainia Proviso. Licenses. Public act. Repea!. Eligibility. this act, shall remain in full force and effect as if passed under the provisions of this act: Provided however, That they do not contain anything repugnant to the sections of this act, or the constitution or laws of this State or the United States. Sec. 25. All moneys received for licenses granted to tavern-keepers, common victuallers, or retailers of spirituous liquors, under the provisions of this act, shall be paid to the county treasurer as provided in section twenty-six of chapter thirty-eight of the revised statutes of 1846. Sec. 26. This act shall be favorably construed, and received in all courts as a public act; and copies thereof, printed under the authority of the Legislature, shall be received as evidence without further proof. Sec. 27. The Legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act, by a vote of two-thirds of both houses Sec. 28. No person shall be eligible to any office in this corporation, unless he shall have resided in the said corporation six months next preceding his election, and who shall not be entitled to vote therein. Approved April 1, 1850. [ No. 246. | Sec. 1 amended. Sec. 6 3mended. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Farmers' and Mer chants' Bank of Ann Arbor. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That an act to incorporate the Farmers? and Merchants' Bank of Ann Arbor, approved March 31, 1849, be and the same is hereby amended as follows, viz: Strike out the names of the corporators as contained in section one, and insert the following: "Nelson H. Wing, C. Houston Van Cleve, F. J. B. Crane, Edward Belknap, W. A. Van Zandt and Elnathan Botsford:" and also, strike out of said section one, "Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Ann Arbor," and insert, "Government Stock Bank;" and also, strike from section two of said act, the second sentence thereof. Sec. 2. Strike out of section six of said act, the following words: "The State of New York or six per cent. stocks of the State of Mich igan, on which interest is paid." Also, insert the word "Government" before the word "stocks," where it occurs in sections six and eleven, so they shall read, "secured by the pledge of Government stocks." Also, strike out the word "next," in the last part of section six, and insert, "one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one." mended. Sec. 3. Section six of the act to which this is amendatory is here- sec. 6 aby amended by inserting after the word "same," in line sixteen of said section as printed, the following: "And before the State Treasurer shall countersign or deliver any bills to said company, said company shall deposit with the State Treasurer stocks of the United States to an amount equal to the amount of bills so countersigned and delivered, which stocks so deposited shall remain in the State Treasury as security for the redemption of all bills countersigned and delivered to said company." Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1850. [ No. 247. ] AN ACT to incorporate the City of Grand Rapids. Boundaries Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That so much of the townships of Grand Rapids and Walker, in the county of Kent, as is contained in the following limits, to wit: sections nineteen and thirty, in surveyed town number seven north of range eleven west, and sections number twenty-four and twenty-five, in surveyed town number seven north of range number twelve west, including so much of Grand River as runs through and adjoining said sections, with the islands in the same, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be a city, by the name and style of the city of Grand Rapids; and all the freemen of said city, from time to time, being inhabitants thereof, shall be and continue to be a body corporate and politic, by the name of the tion mayor, recorder, aldermen and freemen of the city of Grand Rapids; and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, and shall be and are hereby made capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being an Incorpora |