menced or carried forward by said board; the character and amounts of all contracts made by the board; the moneys earned and paid thereon; and all other information necessary to the full understanding of the business conducted by said board. The board shall from time to time make estimates of the amounts earned and payable upon any contract for work done and materials furnished, and report the same to the common council; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the common council, without unreasonable delay, to order payment from the proper funds, of the amount so reported.

SEC. 141. The city engineer shall act as legal adviser of said board; and the city clerk shall be the clerk thereof; and shall keep a full record of its proceedings, showing the vote of ayes and nays, of each member upon all orders, resolutions or recommendations, which records shall be deemed to be public records, and shall at all times be open to the public inspection; and a copy thereof published within five days after each session, in the official newspaper of the city, and the marshal with his deputies and policemen shall be at the service of the board in serving the sidewalk notices, and enforcing the ordinances relative to the repair of sidewalks. A majority of the board shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, but a majority of all members constituting said board shall be necessary to decide any questions before the same. The board shall have the power to make all such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary or expedient for the conduct of its business, not inconsistent with the provisions of the charter and ordinances of the city. It shall have the power to fix the duties, and at any time, to suspend or discharge any of its appointees or employees, and appoint or employ others in their places (as to the said board the public interest may seem to require) except as otherwise provided in this act.

SEC. 142. The street commissioner appointed by the said board, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the City of Ann Arbor in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of duties of said office, with sureties to be approved by the common council; and if said street commissioner shall fail or neglect to give such bond within ten days after his appointment, he shall be deemed to have resigned his office, and a vacancy thereby created may be filled by the appointment as hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 143. No member of said board, the street commissioner, nor engineer, shall hold any elective office under the charter of said city while holding said office; and his election to and acceptance of any office in said city shall be deemed a resignation of membership, and shall vacate his office in said board. Νο member of said board, street commissioner or city engineer, shall be personally interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract for any public work in said city; nor in the purchase, sale or disposition of any material to be used or applied in or about any public work or improvement. Any member of said board may be, at any time, removed by the common council of said city for official misconduct, or for the unfaithful or inefficient performance of the duties of his office: Provided, That the charges against the said member sought to be removed, and the notice of the time and place of hearing the same, shall be served on him at least ten days previous to the time so assigned, and an opportunity given him to make his defense. Whenever a member shall be removed or a vacancy in said board shall occur by reason of the removal of any member from the city, resignation, death, or otherwise, the same shall be filled for the unexpired term by the appointment of the mayor, with the consent of the common council.

SEC. 144. All books, surveys, field notes, plats, plans, specifications and other records of every description in the custody of said city engineer or other city officers shall forthwith, on the organization of the board of public works, be delivered to it; and the same, together with all future surveys, surveyors' field notes, plats, records, plans, profile and other papers connected with the work of the board, shall belong to the city and be carefully preserved as public records. All contracts for public improvements heretofore lawfully entered into by any person with the city, or any lawfully authorized board or officer thereof, shall be carried out and completed under the direction of the said board of public works.

Fire Department

SEC. 145. There shall be a board of fire commissioners in said city. It shall consist of three good and and competent men who are electors therein. They shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of the majority of all the aldermen elect. The full term of a member shall be three years, but the members shall be subject to classification in such a manner that one term shall expire in each year. They shall serve without compensation.

SEC. 146. The board of fire commissioners shall have power, subject to the charter and ordinances of said city, to establish and enforce such regulations as they shall deem necessary to guard against the occurrence of fires, and to protect the property and the persons of the citizens against damage and accident resulting therefrom; and for this purpose to establish and maintain a fire department; and said council is hereby required to make such ordinances as are required therefor. The board of fire commissioners shall have power to organize and maintain fire companies, to employ and appoint firemen, and

to make and establish rules and regulations for the government of the department, the employees, firemen, and officers thereof; and for the care and management of the engines, apparatus, property, and buildings pertaining to the department; and prescribing the powers and duties of such employes, firemen and officers.

SEC. 147. The board of fire commissioners shall nominate and with the consent of the common council shall appoint a chief of the fire department. The city clerk shall be secretary of said board.

SEC. 148. The fire commissioners may, subject to the consent of the common council, purchase and provide suitable engines and such other apparatus, instruments and means for the use of the department as may be deemed necessary for the extinguishing of fires, and may sink wells and construct cisterns and reservoirs in the streets, public grounds and other suitable places in the city.

SEC. 149. The chief of the fire department shall be subject to the direction of the board of fire commissioners and have the supervision and direction of the department and the care and management of the fire engines, apparatus and property, subject to such rules and regulations as the board of fire commissioners may prescribe.

SEC. 150. The members of the board of fire commissioners, chief of the fire department, chief of police or any officer of the fire department may command any person present to a fire to aid in the extinguishment thereof, and assist in the protection of property thereat. If any person shall willfully disobey any such lawful requirement or other lawful order and direction of any such officer, the officer giving the order may arrest or direct any policeman to arrest such person and confine him temporarily until the fire shall be extingushed, and in addition thereto he

shall be punished in such manner as may be prescribed by the ordinance of the city.

SEC. 151. The board of fire commissioners may provide for the appointment of and may appoint such number of fire wardens as may be deemed necessary, and for the examination by them from time to time, of the stoves, furnaces and heating apparatus and devices in all the dwellings, buildings and structures within the city, and in all places where combustible or explosive substances are kept; and to cause all such as are unsafe with respect to fire to be put in a safe condition.

SEC. 152. The common council may prescribe by ordinance from time to time, limits or districts within the city, within which wooden (frames) buildings shall not be erected, placed, enlarged, renewed, or repaired, and to direct the manner of constructing buildings within such districts, with respect to protection against fire, and the material of which the walls and roofs shall be constructed.

SEC. 153. The common council may also prohibit within such places or districts as they shall deem expedient for the location of shops; the prosecution 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 common council, the danger from fire is thereby increased. They may regulate the storing of gunpowder, oils and other combustible and explosive substances and the use of lights in buildings, to prohibit and regulate the erection and maintenance of boilers, engines and chimneys, and generally may pass and enforce such ordinances and regulations as they may deem necessary for the prevention and suppression of fires.

SEC. 154. Every building or structure, engine or boiler which may be erected, placed, repaired, re