the provisions of this act as aforesaid, the government and affairs Former governof the former village of Escanaba shall continue and proceed as to remain in ment of village before, and all its members in office at the time this act takes effect, power. shall remain in office, and exercise their powers and duties as such officers, except as herein otherwise provided, until the city officers and members of the council elected under this act, or a majority of them, shall enter upon the duties of their office. office. SEC. 4. All justices of the peace residing within the territory Justices to hereby incorporated, at the time this act takes effect, shall continue continue in in office, and perform the duties thereof, until at least one of the justices of the peace, elected at the first election under this act, shall have qualified. erty, etc.. and village. SEC. 5. All public buildings, property, moneys, credits, and Buildings, propeffects, including uncollected taxes, situated within, or belonging obligations, to the village of Escanaba, at the time this act takes effect, shall be debts, etc., of vested in, and be the property of the city of Escanaba, hereby incorporated, and all the debts and liabilities of said village of Escanaba shall be the debt of, and be paid by, said city of Escanaba. erty, between naba. purpose of SEC. 6. The property, moneys, credits, and the effects, of the town- Division of prop. ship of Escanaba, at the time the city shall be fully organized by city and townthe election and qualification of its officers, shall be divided between ship of Escathe city hereby incorporated, and said township of Escanaba. Such division shall be made pro rata according to the assessed valuation of the taxable property as appears by the last assessment roll of the said township. For the purpose of making such division, Committee for the mayor, city treasurer, and city attorney shall constitute a com- making division, mittee on the part of the city, and the supervisor, township clerk, etc. and township treasurer of the township of Escanaba, shall constitute a committee on the part of said township; and in case the remaining territory of said township shall be divided into two or more townships, the supervisor, township clerk, and township treasurer of each of the townships shall constitute a committee to represent their respective townships in such division. mittee. final. SEC. 7. The committees provided for in the preceding section Meeting of comshall meet at the city clerk's office on the third Monday in April next, and shall continue in session from day to day until a division of the property shall be made. A quorum of such committees shall Quorum, consist of a majority of the members thereof, and a decision of a Decision of, majority of the members attending the meeting shall be conclusive upon all parties; and in case such committee shall fail to meet or Further pro to make such division within ten days after the time appointed for their meeting, such division shall be made by the prosecuting attorney, circuit court commissioner, and judge of probate of Delta county. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 51 vision. Board of park commissioners established. Who to consti tute first board. Term of offico of first board. Organization of board, and elec [No. 246.] AN ACT to establish a Board of Park Commissioners in the city of Detroit. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be a board of park commissioners in and for the city of Detroit, which shall consist of four resident electors who shall be appointed by the board of councilmen on the nomination of the mayor, and whose term of office shall be four years. The first board of commissioners under this act shall consist of the present members of "the board of Belle Isle park commissioners," appointed under and by virtue of an ordinance of the city of Detroit, entitled "An ordinance creating Belle Isle park, and establishing regulations for its improvement and government," and approved August twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. Said first commissioners shall hold their offices for the terms for which they were respectively appointed under said ordinance, and upon the expiration of said terms successors shall be appointed each for the full term of four years. SEC. 2. The commissioners shall elect from their own number a tion of officers. president and a vice-president of the board, and they may appoint a secretary, a superintendent of said park, and such other officers, agents, and subordinates as they may deem necessary; and the persons appointed shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the board. They shall give such security for the faithful performance of their duties as the board may require. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Quorum. Board to have control and parks, etc. SEC. 3. Said commissioners shall have the possession, control, management of and management of the island park in the city of Detroit known as Belle Isle, and subject to the provisions of this act, shall have power to improve and maintain the same as a public park for the use and benefit of the people of the city of Detroit, and they may establish thereon zcölogical and botanical gardens. Disposition of revenues from parks, etc. Estimate of amount to be raised for pur. poses of, etc. Estimates to be levied and col. SEC. 4. All the revenues and income derived from said park shall be paid into the city treasury and shall be credited to a fund to be known as the Belle Isle park fund, and which fund shall be applied exclusively to the improvement and maintenance of said park as contemplated by this act. SEC. 5. The cominissioners shall annually prepare and submit to the common council an estimate of the amount of money that should be raised by taxation during the then ensuing fiscal year for the purpose of improving and maintaining said park, and which estimate shall be in detail, specifying the objects of expenditure, the sums desired for each, and the reasons for the same; and it shall also contain an estimate of the income and revenue that will be derived from said park during the year. SEC. 6. Such estimates or so much thereof as shall be approved lected as other by the board of aldermen and the board of councilmen as provided by charter shall be placed upon the general tax rolls of the city, and shall be assessed, levied, and collected the same as other city city taxes. taxes. The money when collected shall be paid into the city treas- Park fund. ury and credited to "the Belle Isle park fund." ing to said fund. SEC. 7. The commissioners shall have power to expend, disburse, Disbursement of and pay out the moneys belonging to said fund, and warrants moneys belongdrawn upon said fund and signed by the president and secretary of the board shall be paid by the city treasurer: Provided, The Proviso. commissioners shall have no power to create any debt or liability against the city of Detroit in excess of the moneys then in said fund, including any taxes that have been authorized and levied but have not yet been collected. commissioners. vacated. SEC. 8. Said commissioners shall receive no compensation for Compensation of their services, and they shall give bonds for the faithful perform- Bond of. ance of their duties in such sums as the common council may require. Any one of said commissioners shall be considered as Office of, how vacating his office in the event of his accepting or holding any political office, and any commissioner who shall, during the term of his office, be publicly nominated for any office elective by the people, and who shall not decline the said nomination within ten days succeeding notice or knowledge of the same shall be deemed to have vacated his office. commissioners SEC. 9. The commissioners shall make an annual report to the Annual report of common council of their doings, and of the expenditures made by to council." them, and showing the situation and condition of the affairs under their control. The common council can require a report from said commissioners at any time, and records, books, papers, and accounts of the commission shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the mayor, controller, or of any committee appointed by the common council for that purpose. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 247. ] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Westphalia. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all Territory incorthat certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the porated. township of Westphalia, in the county of Clinton, and State of Michigan, known and described as follows: The northeast quarter of section eight, and the northwest quarter of section nine, and the southwest quarter of section four, and the southeast quarter of section number five, is hereby constituted a village corporate, known and designated as the village of Westphalia. officers. SEC. 2. The first election of officers in said village shall be held First election of on Monday the ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at Westphalia hall in said village. SEC. 3. Messrs. John P. Arens, Anthony A. Fox, and Wm. Smith Board of regis are hereby constituted a board of registration, for the purpose of tration for first registering the voters for the first election to be held in said election. Notice of elec tion. General act governing. Further provision for election. Territory incorporated. First election. Board of regis. ration. village, and said board of registration are hereby required to meet on the Saturday preceding the said ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, to register the names of all persons residents of said village, presenting themselves for registration, having the qualifications of voters at annual township meetings. SEC. 4. Notice of said first election of officers of said village shall be posted in three of the public places in said village at least ten days before the time of said election, which notice may be signed by any five electors in said village. SEC. 5. The said village of Westphalia, in all things not herein otherwise provided, shall be governed by and its powers and duties defined by act number sixty-two, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act granting and defining powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the acts amendatory thereto. SEC. 6. In case the said officers are not elected at the time designated in section two of this act, an election for officers may be had at any time within one year from the time designated in said section two of this act, on notice being given as provided in section four of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 248. ] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Breedsville, Van Buren county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the township of Columbia, in the county of Van Buren, State of Michigan, known and described as follows, to wit: The southwest quarter of section twenty-eight, the southeast quarter of section twenty-nine, the northeast quarter of section thirty-two, and the northwest quarter of section thirty-three, being situated in township number one south, of range number fifteen west, is hereby constituted a village corporate, known and designated as the village of Breedsville. SEC. 2. The first election of officers in said village shall be held on the fourth Monday in April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, at Gray's hall in said village, and on the second Monday in March in each year thereafter. SEC. 3. Frederick E. Sherwood, James M. Gray, and Amasa M. Brown are hereby constituted a board of registration, for the purpose of registering voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration are hereby required to meet at Gray's hall, in said village, on the Saturday preceding the fourth Monday in April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three aforesaid, to register the names of all persons residents of said village, presenting themselves for registration, having the qualification of voters at annual township meetings. And said board of registration shall hold its subsequent meetings on the Saturday preceding the second Monday in March in each year. tion. SEC. 4. Notice of said first election of officers of said village shall Notice of elec be posted in three public places in said village at least ten days before the time of said election, which notice shall be signed by any five electors in said village. governing. SEC. 5. The said village of Breedsville, in all things not herein General act otherwise provided, shall be governed by and its powers and duties defined by act number sixty-two, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "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. vision for elec SEC. 6. In case the said officers are not elected at the time desig- Further pronated in section two of this act, an election for officers may be had tion. at any time within one year from time designated in section two of this act, on notice being given as provided in section four of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 249.] porated. AN ACT to incorporate the village of Cass City, in Tuscola county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Territory incorthe following described territory, to wit: The southwest quarter of section twenty-seven, the southeast quarter of section twenty-eight, the northeast quarter of section thirty-three, and the north west quarter of section thirty-four, in town fourteen north, range eleven east, Elkland, Tuscola county, Michigan, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate, to be known as the village of Cass City. officers. SEC. 2. The first election of officers of said village shall be held First election of at the town hall in said village of Cass City, on the third Tuesday of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eightythree, due notice of which election shall be given by the board of registration hereinafter appointed, by posting notices in three public places in said village ten days before said election. election. board. SEC. 3. P. R. Weydemeyer, J. C. Laing, and William Walker are Board of regis hereby constituted a board of registration for the purpose of tration of first registering voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration shall meet on the Saturday next Meeting of preceding said day of election at said town hall, and remain in session the same hours required by the board of registration of general election, and register the names of all persons residing in said village and having the qualifications of voters at annual township meetings, due notice of which registration shall be made by Notice. |