person taking the same, and annexed to and filed with the bond or instrument in writing to which it relates. tion of Sec. 3. The mayor or chairman of any committee or special Administracommittee of the common council shall have power to admin- oaths. ister oaths or take affidavits in respect to any matter pending before the common council or such committee. defined. Sec. 4. Any person who may be required to take any oath Perjury or affirmation under or by the provisions of this act who shall, under such oath or affirmation, in any statement or affidavit or otherwise willfully swear falsely as to any material fact or matter, shall be guilty of perjury. officers. Sec. 5. If any suit shall be commenced against any person Suits against elected or appointed under this act to any office, for any act done or omitted to be done under such election or appointment, or against any person having done any thing or act by the command of any such officer, and if final judgment in such suit whereby any such defendant shall be entitled to cost, he shall recover double costs in the manner defined by law. Sec. 6. This act shall be deemed a public act and favorably This act a construed in all courts and places. Sec. 7. The recorder's court shall possess all the powers of courts of common law and courts of record in this State to carry into effect the jurisdiction and powers conferred upon it by this act. public act. service of against city. Sec. 8. All process issued against said city shall run against Form and said city in the corporate name thereof, and such process shall process be served by leaving a true and attested copy of such process with the mayor or clerk of said city, at least ten days before the day of appearance mentioned therein. debts of Sec. 9. The corporation created by this act shall pay and city to discharge all the debts, obligations, contracts, and liabilities of village. the village of Lapeer, and suits may be brought and prosecuted thereon in the same manner either in law or equity, and with the same effect as they could be brought or prosecuted against the village of Lapeer if this act had not passed. pay Ordinances, etc., of village to re main in force Proof of publication. Relative to additions visions. Sec. 10. All ordinances, by-laws, regulations, resolutions, and rules of the common council of the village of Lapeer, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force until altered, amended, or repealed by the common council under this act, and after the same shall take effect. Sec. 11. Proof of the requisite publication of any ordinance, resolution, or other proceeding, required to be published in any newspaper, by affidavit of a printer or publisher thereof, taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and duly filed with the clerk of the city, or any other competent proof, shall in all courts and places be conclusive evidence of the legal publication of such ordinance, resolution or other proceeding. Sec. 12. That whenever any additions to said city, or suband subdi- divisions of any blocks or parts thereof, within the limits thereof, shall hereafter be laid out, the proprietors of such additions or subdivisions shall, besides complying with the requirements of the laws of this State in relation thereto, before the same shall become operative or be entitled to record, file a copy thereof with the city clerk, and submit the same to the common council of said city for approval or rejection, and if not approved, the same shall not be recorded nor become a plat; and any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall, on conviction, be fined the sum of five hundred dollars, or imprisonment ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court; and any person who shall sell any lot or lots by reference to any such rejected addition or subdivision, shall, on conviction, be fined one hundred dollars for each lot so sold, or imprisoned thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court; all plats of lots, blocks, and additions, or subdivisions of said city, or any part or parts thereof, heretofore made and recorded, shall be and the same is hereby declared valid, and all blocks, lots, squares, streets, lanes, and public grounds, shall be and remain valid as platted and recorded, subject only to such alterations as may have been. or may hereafter be made by the common council under the provisions of this act. ordinances. Sec. 13. The style of all ordinances of said city shall be as style of follows: "Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Lapeer." petition. Sec. 14. The inhabitants of said city shall at all times have Right of the right to petition the common council. refund taxes levied. Sec. 15. The common council shall have power, whenever Council may it shall appear that any city taxes or assessments have been illegally improperly or illegally made, assessed, or collected, by a twothirds vote of all the members elected, to cause such tax to be remitted or refunded; but no such action on the part of the council shall in any way effect or invalidate any other tax or assessment assessed, levied, or collected in said city. Sec. 16. The fiscal year of said city shall commence on the Fiscal year. first day of April in each year, and all annual reports required by this act to be made, shall include all transactions of said. city up to and including the last day of March preceding. of acts of in of city, etc. Sec. 17. The common council of said city shall, as often as Publication they may deem it expedient, cause all the acts and parts of acts corporation of incorporation of said city that may be in force, including such general laws as they may deem necessary for the use of the mayor, aldermen, or other officers thereof, as may be necessary to the proper understanding of their duties, together with all ordinances of said city, revised and corrected so as to conform to the provisions of said acts, and properly arranged and indexed, to be published in book form, and properly certified by the clerk thereof, and when so compiled and published, the same shall be considered the official copy of all said acts and ordinances as contemplated in the second paragraph of section fourteen of title three of this act. Each officer of said city shall be entitled to the use of a copy by virtue of his office, and the council may authorize the sale of copies thereof, to reimburse the city for the expense of compiling and publishing the same. Present council to office. Sec. 18. The common council as now constituted shall con continue in tinue to exercise all the powers and duties of the common council of said city as herein authorized, until the next annual election and the organization of the new council then elected; and the present council shall be authorized, and it shall be its duty to designate places of election in the wards hereby constituted, and the present inspectors of election shall be inspectors of said election as now constituted by law. Sec. 19. All that portion of town seven north, of range ten east, not included in the city of Lapeer, shall be and constitute the township of Lapeer, and all that portion of town eight north, of range ten east, not included in said city, shall constitute the township of Mayfield. Township boundaries. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Boundaries. [No. 256.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Grass Lake. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all that tract of country situate within the township of Grass Lake, in the county of Jackson, described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point where the Brooklyn road intersects with Territorial road; thence south along the west line of said Brooklyn road, to the southwest corner of the north part of the northeast quarter of section five (5); thence due east to the centre of the west half of the northeast quarter of section four (4); thence due north to the Michigan Central railroad: thence along the line of said railroad to a point where the said railroad intersects with the Portage road; thence north along the east line of said Portage road to the north line of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty-three (33), town two (2) south, range two (2) east; thence west along said line to the east shore of Grass Lake; thence in a southwesterly direction along the east shore of Grass Lake to a point due north of the place of beginning, thence due south to the centre of Territorial road, being the place of beginning, comprising the north part of the northeast fractional quarter of section five (5), the north part of the northwest fractional quarter section four (4); the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter section four (4); the west half of the west half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-three (33); the southwest quarter of section thirtythree (33); the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty-three (33); the southeast quarter of section thirty-two (32), and the south half of the northeast quarter of section thirty-two (32). election. Sec. 2. The male inhabitants of said village having the First qualifications of electors under the constitution of the State, shall meet at the Grass Lake hotel, in said village, on the second Monday of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and on the first Monday of March, annually, thereafter, at such place as shall be provided in the by-laws of said village; and there, by ballot, shall elect by plurality of votes, one per- Officers. son to be president of said village, and three persons shall in like manner be elected trustees for one year, and three for two years; and one person shall also be elected marshal, and annually thereafter a president and marshal shall be elected as aforesaid, who shall hold their respective offices for one year; and three trustees shall be elected who shall hold their offices for two years; but if an election of president and trustees shall not be made on the day provided by this act, the said corporation shall not for that cause be dissolved, and it shall be lawful to hold such election at any time thereafter, public notice being given as prescribed by this act for the holding of the regular election. The president and three village trustees thus elected, together with three trustees whose term board. |