time, limits or districts within the city, within which wooden buildings and structures shall not be erected, placed, or enlarged, and to direct the manner of constructing buildings within such districts, with respect to protection against fire, and the material of which the outer walls and roof shall be constructed. shops, lumber SEC. 8. The council may also prohibit within such places or dis- Location of tricts as they shall deem expedient the location of shops; the pros- yards, etc. ecution of any trade or business; the keeping of lumber yards; and the storing of lumber, wood, or other easily inflammable material, in open places, when, in the opinion of the council, the danger from fire is thereby increased. They may regulate the storing of Storing of gungunpowder, oils, and other combustibles and explosive substances, powder, oils, etc. and the use of lights in buildings; and generally may pass and enforce such ordinances and regulations as they may deem necessary for the prevention and suppression of fires. erected in viola SEC. 9. Every building or structure which may be erected, placed, Buildings enlarged, or kept, in violation of any ordinance or regulation made tion of ordifor the prevention of fires, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and nance, nuisance.. may be abated or removed by the direction of the council. officers. SEC. 10. The officers, firemen, and employés of the department Compensation of shall receive such compensation as the council may prescribe, and remen and during their term of service shall be exempt from serving on juries. The council may provide suitable compensation for any injury which any fireman may receive to his person or property, in consequence of the performance of his duty at any fire. down, etc. compensation. SEC. 11. The engineer in charge of the department at any fire, When buildings with the concurrence of the mayor or any two aldermen, may cause may be pulled any building to be pulled down or destroyed, when deemed necessary, in order to arrest the progress of the fire, and no action shall be maintained against any person or against the city therefor; but Damages and if any person having an interest in the building shall apply to the council, within three months after the fire, for damages or compensation for such building, the council may, in their discretion, pay him such compensation as may be just. They may ascertain such damage by an agreement with the owner, or by the appraisal of a jury, to be selected in the same manner as in case of juries to appraise damages for taking private property for public use; and the council may cause the amount of any damages determined upon to be defrayed by a special assessment upon the property which in their opinion was protected or benefited by the destruction of such building; but no damages shall be paid for the amount of any loss which would probably have occurred to such if it had not been pulled down or destroyed. to SEC. 12. The council of said city may by ordinance prescribe Control of water such regulations to be observed by owners, masters, and employés craft with regard of steamboats and water craft upon any navigable waters adjacent thereto as may be necessary for the prevention of fires in the harbor, and to prevent the communication of fire from such boats and craft; and may prescribe in such ordinance the manuer of collecting any penalties imposed thereby. Service of process. Laying out and platting additions to city. First election of officers. Notice of CHAPTER XXX. MISCELLANEOUS. SECTION 1. All process against the city shall run against the city in the corporate name thereof, and may be served by leaving a certified copy with the mayor, city clerk, or city attorney, at least ten days before the day of appearance mentioned therein. SEC. 2. No lands or premises shall hereafter be laid out, divided, and platted into lots, streets, and alleys within the city, except by permission and approval of the council by resolution passed for that purpose, nor until the proprietor shall file with the city clerk a correct survey, plan, and map of such grounds and the subdivisions thereof, platted and subdivided as approved by the. council, and made to their satisfaction; showing also the relative position and location of such lots, streets, and alleys, with respect to the adjacent lots and streets of the city; nor shall any such plat and dedication of the streets and public grounds thereon be recorded in any office of register of deeds until a certificate has been endorsed thereon by the city clerk, under the seal of the city, showing that such plat and declaration has been approved by the council; nor shall the city, by reason of such approval, be responsible for the improvement, care, and repairs of such streets and alleys, excepting such as the council shall accept and confirm by ordinances as provided by section two of chapter twenty-two of this act. SEC. 3. The first election of officers for said city shall be held on the first Monday of April next, and polls shall be opened in each ward at eight o'clock in the morning and shall be kept opened until five o'clock in the afternoon at the several places following, viz: In the first ward at city hall; in the second ward, at the office built by E. S. Ingalls as a law office; in the third ward at Leon Cota's hall; in the fourth ward, in the addition for an office to Roland Harris's store building; in the fifth ward, at the office of the Girard lumber company. Peter A. Van Bergen, J. W. Bird, Isaac Stephenson, Jr., shall be inspectors of election in the first ward; J. D. Crawford, A. L. Sawyer, and A. B. Stryker shall be inspectors of election in the second ward; Louis Young, Leon Cota, and Anton Laduk shall be inspectors of the election in the third ward; W. H. Phillips, Jacob Lisen, and Jacob Oehrling shall be inspectors of election in the fourth ward; A. Spies, J. W. Wells, and E. L. Parmenter shall be inspectors of election in the fifth ward. If at such election any of the inspectors above provided shall not be present or remain in attendance, the electors present may choose viva voce such number of electors as, with the inspector or inspectors present, shall constitute a board of three in number, and such electors so chosen shall be inspectors at such election. Notice of such election and of the officers to be elected thereat shall be given in each ward by the inspectors thereof herein named, by posting such notice in three public places in such ward, and the election shall be held and conducted and the votes canvassed, as provided in chapter six of this act. City ball. SEC. 4. The town hall situated in said city shall hereafter be known as the city hall, and on the day succeeding such first election, at ten o'clock A. M., the chairman of the board of inspectors of election in the various wards shall convene at the said city hall, when and where the statement, certificate, poll list, register of electors, and boxes containing the ballots of the several wards mentioned in section fourteen of chapter six of this act, shall be produced, and thereupon such inspectors shall determine what per- Determination sons were duly elected to the several offices respectively, and duplicate certificates showing what officers are declared elected to the several offices respectively shall be made by such inspectors, and shall thereafter be filed as provided in section sixteen of chapter six of this act. All statements, certificates, poll lists, registers of electors, and ballot boxes in this section mentioned shall be delivered to the city clerk when he shall have qualified and entered upon the duties of his office. of election, SEC. 5. The council having qualified according to law shall con- First meeting of vene on Thursday next succeeding such election, at seven o'clock council. P. M., at the city hall. SEC. 6. All persons elected to any office at such first election When persons shall qualify within ten days after such election. elected to SEC. 7. Before such first election a registration of electors in Registration. the several wards shall be made, and the board of inspectors in each ward herein named shall constitute the board of registration for their ward for such first registration, which shall be made and conducted as provided in chapter four of this act. porated to SEC. 8. The territory embraced within the limits of said city Territory incorshall for all purposes of local government remain a part of the remain a part of township of Menominee until the first Monday of April next. township. SEC. 9. So much of election district number one as is not em- Consolidation of braced within the limits of said city, and election district number districts. two of the township of Menominee, are hereby consolidated and shall hereafter be known as district number one, and the polling place therein shall be at Wallace. Election district number three of said township shall hereafter be known and designated as district number two. ments, when made. SEC. 10. The first appointment to office by the common council First appointmay be made at the first or any subsequent meeting thereof. SEC. 11. All the provisions of chapter thirteen of the compiled Apportionments. laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one relative to the disposition of lands and apportionment of proceeds, and relative to the apportionment of moneys, rights, credits, and other personal estate, and relative to the apportionment of debts or the division of townships, and all the provisions of said chapter relative to settlements between townships constituted upon the division of a township, shall be applicable to the said city of Menominee and the township of Menominee, and the common council of said city shall possess and exercise all of the powers conferred upon the township board of a township by said chapter, and the mayor of said city may call any meeting which a supervisor is thereby authorized to call: Provided, however, that the present township treasurer Proviso. Drain commissioner. of the township of Menominee shall hold and retain all moneys remaining in his hands until such settlement shall have been made, and shall then pay the same to the treasurer of said township and of said city, in accordance with such settlement. SEC. 12. The drain commissioner of the township of Menominee shall have and exercise all the powers in respect to any drain heretofore established within the limits of said city as if this act had not been passed, and the amount chargeable against said city on account of the construction of any such drain conformably to section fifteen of act number two hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one shall be apportioned to said city. Ordered to take immediate effect. County author. ized to donate bridge. [No. 229.] AN ACT to authorize Bay county to donate the Third Street Bridge to Bay City and West Bay City, or either of them. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Bay is hereby authorized, by a vote of the supervisors thereof, to donate to the cities of Bay City and West Bay City, or either of them, the bridge over the Saginaw river between said cities, between Third street in Bay City and Midland street in West Bay City, and known as the Third Street Bridge, on such terms as to the protection and care thereof as may be agreed upon between said board of supervisors and the common council of said cities or city: Provided, This act shall not be so construed as to make it compulsory on either or both of the above named cities to accept the donation of said bridge, unless the common councils of Further proviso. both cities vote to accept the same: And provided further, That the expense of maintaining and protecting said bridge, if accepted by said cities, shall be borne by both of them pro rata, according to the assessed values thereof. Terms of donation. Proviso. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 17, 1883. Township authorized to borrow money [ No. 230.] AN ACT to authorize the township of Berlin, in Monroe county, to issue and sell its bonds to aid in the construction of two iron bridges, over the Huron river, one at South Rockwood and one at Flat Rock. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the township of Berlin, in the county of Monroe, and State of Michigan, and issue bonds. be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow, on the credit of said township, the sum of not exceeding four thousand dol to dispose of. how to be lars, for the term of not exceeding three years, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable anually, and for that purpose may issue forth with the bonds of the said township, signed by the township board and countersigned by the treasurer, and in such forms and sums, not exceeding four thousand dollars, as the township board shall direct. Such bonds shall be disposed of Township board under the direction of the township board of said township, upon such terms as they shall deem advisable, but not less than par Avails thereof, value, and the avails thereof shall be applied solely to pay the bal- applied. ance due on the contract for the construction of said iron bridges. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the said township board of said Township board township, to provide by tax for the payment of the interest acruing tax for the payon said bonds as it shall become due, which tax shall be in addition ment of bonds, to, and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the thereon, etc. taxes which the township board now is, or may hereafter be authorized to levy. And it shall be the duty of the township board of said township to provide for the payment of said bonds, at the maturity thereof, by tax upon the taxable property of said township, and collect the same as aforesaid. Ordered to take immediate effect. to provide by and interest [No. 231.] AN ACT to reincorporate the village of Spring Lake, and to repeal act number three hundred and forty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, relative to the incorporation of said village, and all acts amendatory thereto. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all Territory reinthat portion of fractional sections numbered fifteen, sixteen, and corporated. twenty-two, in township eight north, of range sixteen west, as lies between the center waters of Grand river, and the center waters of Spring Lake, be and the same is hereby organized and reincorporated as a body corporate under the name of "The village of Spring Lake," and subject to and under the provisions of the general act for the incorporation of villages, being act number sixtytwo of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and such amendments as have been and may be made thereto, except as hereinafter provided. to be done. SEC. 2. All the public printing and publication required by said Where printing general act to be done within the said village if a newspaper exists therein, may be, at the discretion of the common council of the village, be printed and published in any newspaper of Ottawa county, and such printing and publication shall have the same force and effect as though printed and published in a newspaper of said village. officers. SEC. 3. The common council of said village shall have the power compensation of to provide for the compensation of all the officers of said village appointed by them: Provided, That in no case shall such compen |