driving. ill-fame. structions powder. and common victualers, as they shall think best, but no license shall be in power except during the life of the board granting it; to prevent the selling or giving away of Liquors. spirituous or fermented liquors; to prevent and punish Immoderate immoderate riding or driving in streets; to abate, prevent, Nuisances. and remove nuisances; to suppress all disorderly houses, Houses of and houses of ill-fame, and to punish the keepers, patrons, and inmates thereof; to prevent and compel the removal of Remove oball incumbrances, encroachments, and obstructions upon the from streets. streets, lanes, alleys, parks, and public grounds; to compel Sidewalks. the owners and occupants of lots to clear sidewalks in front of and adjacent thereto, of snow, ice, dirt, mud, boxes, and every incumbrance or obstruction thereto; to regulate the Storage of storage of powder, lumber, or other combustible material; to prevent the use of fire-arms, slung-shots, and other weapons, Fire-arms. and fire-works; to construct and regulate markets, the vending Markets. of poultry, meat, vegetables, fruits, and fish; to regulate the sale of hay, wood, lime, lumber, and coal; the sealing of weights weights and and measures; to regulate and maintain pounds, and to pro-Pounds. vide for the restraint of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, mules, and other animals, geese or other poultry; to prevent the running Dogs. at large of dogs, to require them to be muzzled, and to authorize their destruction if found at large in violation of any ordinance; to regulate and license cartmen, porters, hacks, Cartmen, etc. cabs, and to regulate their rates of compensation; to prevent runners from soliciting travelers; to construct hydraulic works water. to supply the village with water; light the streets; to borrow money for public improvements, not exceeding one thousand streets. dollars in any one year; to establish wells and cisterns, and Wells and prevent the waste of water; to prevent bathing in the public Bathing. streams; to purchase grounds for, and regulate cemeteries Cemeteries and the burial of the dead, to provide for the return of bills of mortality, and to order the use for burial purposes of any burial ground or cemetery, to be discontinued, whenever they may deem the same necessary for the best interests or measures. Lighting cisterns. Grades. Drainage. Fences. Boundaries. health of the citizens; to ascertain, establish, and settle the boundaries of all the streets and alleys, and to establish grades therefor; also, to order and cause lots to be drained or filled up, and to assess the cost and expense on the premises benefited; to regulate the building of partition and other fences; to establish lines upon which buildings may be erected, and beErection of yond which such buildings shall not extend; to prevent the buildings, erection of buildings in an unsafe manner, and to pass all Fire engines, necessary regulations relative to buildings deemed unsafe; to etc. etc. Fire limite, etc. Hazardous buildings. Regulate powers, etc. of village officers. Sidewalks. purchase and keep in order fire engines, and other fire apparatus, and to construct buildings to store them, and to cause each building occupied as a house, store, or shop, to be provided with fire-buckets and ladders; to establish fire limits, within which no wooden building shall be built, enlarged, or placed; to regulate party walls, chimneys, flues, and putting up stoves and stovepipes; to regulate the construction of smithshops, planing establishments, bakeries, and all other buildings considered extra hazardous; to guard against fires; to regulate the duties, powers, and fees of the village officers; to prescribe the setting of posts and shade trees; to provide for the construction of sidewalks and repairing the same; to grade the walks, streets, alleys, and to prescribe the manner of planking or paving them, the cost and expense of which to be paid by assessment on the lots in front of or adjoining which either or all of said improvements shall be made, but not otherwise; but no one of said improvements, except paving, shall be made unless the individuals owning one-half of the property to be assessed for the same improvement shall petition the president and trustees for that purpose; to construct and keep in repair the public highways, bridges, culverts, and sewers; to lay out new streets and alleys, and extend those already laid out, under the restrictions provided in this act; to vacate streets and Levy taxes. alleys; to prescribe the levying and collection of the highway and other taxes; to provide for taking a census whenever they shall see fit; to regulate the running of locomotives and cars in Public highways, etc. Lay out streets, etc. Census. Locomotives grades. auctioneers. mill-races. in Muskegon creek. the limits of the village; to regulate grades of rail or plank Regulate roads; to regulate theatres, shows, and concerts; to regulate Tax and tax at their discretion, auctioneers or auction sales, gift enterprises, hawkers, hucksters, peddlers, and pawn-brokers; to regulate the covering of mill-races, at the expense of the Covering owners thereof; to provide for removing drift-wood, and clear-Drift-wood ing the Muskegon river, and the Brooks creek, and all mill- river. races and ponds within the limits of the corporation, and to prevent the placing therein of any obstructions, and the depositing of all filth and impure matter, tending to render the water thereof unwholesome, and so to regulate and improve Brooks' the channel of the Brooks creek as to secure the free and uninterrupted passage and discharge of the water thereof; to rail Curb walks. and curb, where necessary, all walks, at the expense of the owners of the adjoining lots; to levy taxes on all personal and Levy taxes, real estate within the limits of the village, except property belonging to the village, town, county, or State, excepting also, places of public worship belonging to any church or congregation, and all grounds and buildings used exclusively for educational purposes; to take the land of any individual for the Take land purpose of constructing, widening or extending streets, but not until said individual shall be paid the value thereof, and of the buildings upon said land, and all damages he will sustain, as provided for in this act; for the violation of any by-law, rules Impose fines, and regulations, such reasonable penalties and fines may be imposed by the law itself as the president and trustees may deem proper, and when any fine or penalty shall not exceed one Fines; how hundred dollars, the same may be recovered before any justice of the peace in the township of Brooks, and any interest the inhabitants of the village of Newaygo, as a corporate body, may have in the fine and penalty to be recovered, shall not disqualify any inhabitant of said village to try said cause, or serve as a juror, or be a witness therein; and the circuit court of the Jurisdiction county shall also have jurisdiction over all causes punishable by court. fines and penalties imposed by said by-laws, where the fine or penalty shall exceed one hundred dollars. for streets. etc. recovered. of circuit Publication of ordinance Registration of voters. Proviso.! Sec. 10. No by-law or ordinance of said corporation shall have any effect until the same shall have been published one week in a newspaper printed in said village, or by written notices posted up in three of the most public places in said village; and an affidavit of said publication, in the manner aforesaid, entered at large upon the records of the corporation by the clerk thereof, or the publisher of the paper, if it be printed, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of such publication. Sec. 34. For the purpose of having a correct registration of the votes of said village, the president and trustees of said village shall appoint a board of registration, which board shall consist of three, and shall meet at the office of the township clerk of the township of Brooks, in said village, at the same time, and shall have the same powers in all respects as township boards of registration now possess: Provided, That the clerk of said village shall be the clerk of said registration board, and shall be a member therof. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Preamble. [ No. 220.] AN ACT to authorize the First Baptist Church and Society, and the Second Baptist Church and Society, of the city of Grand Rapids, to unite and consolidate with, and to vest their property in the Baptist Church and Society of the city of Grand Rapids. Whereas, The First Baptist Church and Society, and the Second Baptist Church and Society, of the city of Grand Rapids, desire to unite and be consolidated into one church and society, and to that end have given letters of dismissal to certain of their members, who have formed themselves into a new church and society, in accordance with the provisions of chapter sixty-eight, of the compiled laws, and the acts amendatory thereof, and who have elected six trustees, namely: Wil liam Hovey, Lewis C. Davidson, William D. Tolford, Edward B. Escott, Phillip M. Goodrich, and John C. Buchanan, by the corporate name and style of "The Trustees of the Baptist Church and Society of the city of Grand Rapids," to take charge of the property belonging thereto, and transact all the affairs relative to the temporalities thereof; therefore, tion author vote neces SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Consolida the First Baptist Church and Society, of the city of Grand ized. Rapids, and the Second Baptist Church and Society of the city of Grand Rapids, be and they are hereby authorized to unite and consolidate with the Baptist Church and Society of the city of Grand Rapids, which may be done by the vote of A two-thirds two-thirds of the members present at a meeting of each said sary. First and Second Baptist Churches and Societies, called for that purpose by the minister, or, in his absence, by one of the deacons thereof, notice of said meeting to be publicly given to Notice of the congregation of the time when, and the place where the same shall be held, at least fifteen days before the day of said meeting; and such notification shall be given for two successive Sabbaths, on which such congregation shall statedly meet for public worship, next preceding the said meeting. meeting. inspectors of Sec. 2. The deacons of each of said churches, or, in the ab- Who to be sence of them, or either of them, any member or members election. present, to be nominated by a majority of the members pressent to act in the place of the absent deacon or deacons, as the case may be, shall be the inspectors of the election, to take the vote at the said meeting of their respective church and society, on the question of the consolidation and union aforesaid; and Certificate of if two-thirds of the members present at each meeting shall vote in favor of said union and consolidation, the said inspectors shall make two certificates of the vote, signed by them, and verified by their affidavits. One of said certificates shall be where filed filed in the office of the county clerk of Kent county, and the other shall be filed and recorded in the office of the register of deeds for said county. And thereupon the said First Baptist inspectors. and recorded |