AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ANN ARBOR. [No. 119.] A BILL to amend an act entitled “An act to revise and amend an act to incorporate the city of Ann Arbor," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and an act amendatory thereto, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and also an act amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. SECTION 1. The people of the State of Michigan, enact, That section two of title two of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. The inhabitants of said city, having the qualifications of electors, under the constitution and laws of this State, shall on the first Monday of April, in each year, at such place in each ward, as the common council shall designate, proceed to elect, by plurality of votes, by ballot from among the qualified electors of said city, one mayor, one recorder, one justice of the peace for said city; and the qualified electors of the first and second wards shall elect one supervisor(and one collector ;) and the qualified electors of the third and fourth wards shall also elect one supervisor/and one collector;) and the qualified electors of the fifth and sixth wards shall also elect one supervisor and one collector ;) the qualified electors of each ward (and shall, at the same time and place, elect one alderman and one constable: Provided, That in each ward in which there shall, at the time of such election, be no alderman having another year to serve, there shall be two aldermen elected, one for the term of one year and one for the term of two years, and one alderman shall thereafter be elected annually in each ward, to hold his office for the term of two years and until his successor is elected and qualified. SEC. 2. That section seven of title two of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 7. The officers of said city to be appointed by the common council shall be a marshal, treasurer, attorney, a chief engineer of the fire department, and two assistants; a street commissioner for each supervisor district, and such other officers whose election is not herein specifically provided for, as the common council shall deem necessary, to carry into effect the powers granted by this act, and to remove the same at pleasure. The common council shall also have power to remove the marshal at pleasure; and in case any office in said corporation shall become vacant from any cause, the common council shall, as soon as may be, appoint an officer to fill such vacancy for the unexpired portion of the year; and all officers so appointed shall be notified and qualified as herein directed. SEC. 3. That section eleven of title three of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 11. The marshal, recorder, city treasurer, collector,) and street commissioner shall respectively give bonds to the city in such sums and with such sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective duties as shall be ordered and approved by the common council: Provided, That any officer performing the duties required by township officers in regard to the collection of taxes, shall give and file their bonds in such amounts, and in such time as is required by the corresponding township offiers; and the several officers above named shall perform all other duties and exercise such powers as may be defined by this charter, and the ordinances of the common council passed in conformity to it. SEC. 4. That section two of title five of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. The common council shall have authority to assess, levy, and collect taxes on all the real and personal estate taxable in said city, which tax shall be and remain a lien upon the property so assessed until the same shall be paid: Provided, That they shall not raise by general tax in any one year more than six thousand dollars for general purposes, nor more than two thousand dollars for street or highway purposes, except as hereinafter stated, unless authorized thereto, by a vote of the property tax payers of said city, who are electors when convened for that purpose, pursuant to previous notice: Provided, The common council shall have the power, at the request of the alderman of any ward, to cause to be licensed and collected by taxes, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum for highway purposes to be expended in said ward under the direction of the aldermen of said ward. SEC. 5. That section three of title five of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 3. Whenever the common council shall deem it necessary to raise a greater sum in any one year than six thousand dollars for general purposes, or two thousand dollars for street or highway purposes, they shall give at least five days notice, in writing, to be posted up in at least five public places in each ward in said city, which notice shall state the time and place of such meeting, and shall specify the objects and purpurposes for which the money proposed to be raised is to be expended, and when such meeting shall be assembled in pursuance of such notice, such electors, by a ballot vote shall determine the amount of money which shall be raised for such object specified in the notice: Provided, That such tax shall not in any one year exceed one per cent of the valuation of the real and personal estate taxable within the limits of the city: And provided also, That not more than two such meetings shall be held in any one year, beginning the first day of January and ending the last day of the December following. SEC. 6. That section one of title ten of said act be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 1. The officers of said corporation shall be entitled to receive out of the city treasury the following sums in full payment of their services: The mayor shall be paid one dollar per annum; the aldermen shall be entitled to receive one dollar and fifty cents per day, when employed in assisting the supervisor in taking the assessment; the recorder shall receive such sum as the common council shall allow, not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum; the city attorney and treasurer shall be entitled to receive, respectively, such sums as the common council shall allow, not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum. The marshal shall be entitled to receive the same fees for serving process in behalf of the corporation as constables, are by law allowed for similar services, and he shall also receive such further compensation, not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum, as the common council shall allow; the collector, justices of the peace and constables shall be allowed the same fees as are allowed by law to corresponding township officers; the street commissioners and supervisors, and all other officers of said city, shall be entitled to receive such compensation as the common council shall allow, not exceeding two dollars per day, for every day actually employed in the performance of the duties of their respective offices. ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ANN ARBOR. [No. 1.] AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO POUNDS AND TO PREVENT CATTLE RUNNING AT LARGE. Be it Ordained by the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the City of Ann Arbor. SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Ann Arbor shall, as soon as practicable, provide two suitable pounds, one to be located north of Huron river to be styled "North Pound,” the other south of Huron river to be styled "South Pound;" and shall appoint a pound keeper for each pound, who shall hold the office until another is appointed in his place. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of each pound keeper to receive from any person, whose duty it is by this ordinance to drive the same, all animals so drove to the pound under his charge, to pay for driving, to safely keep, care for and feed, to deliver to the owner upon receiving his fees with all expenses, and to give notice and sell the same if not taken away in accordance with this ordinance; he shall keep an account of all sales with a description of the animal sold, the amount for which it was sold, with the name of the purchaser, the cost and charges against such, crediting the balance to the city, and if paid to the owner state to whom and take his receipt therefor; he shall file a copy of such record with his account and receipt and the city treasurer's receipt with the recorder between the |