[No. 205.]

AN ACT to incorporate the village of Linden.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID VILLAGE.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Boundaries. all that certain tract of land situated in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan, being in township number five (5) north, of range number six (6) east, and described as follows, to wit: Entire section twenty (20), the east half of section nineteen (19), the north half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine (29), the north half of the northeast quarter of section thirty (30), the south half of the southeast quarter and the south half of the southwest quarter of section seventeen (17), and the south half of the southeast quarter of section eighteen (18), is hereby constituted a village corporate, known and designated as the village of Linden.

rate.

Sec. 2. The inhabitants, residents within the boundaries Body corpoaforesaid, are hereby declared to be a corporation, and shall hereafter be known in law by the name of "The village of Linden," and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, capable in law of suing and being sued, complaining and defending, in any court of law or equity; and may make and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; and shall also have power to purchase, hold, and convey such real and personal estate as the purposes of the corporation may require.

ARTICLE II.

OF THE OFFICERS OF SAID VILLAGE.

SECTION 1. The officers of said village shall be a president, officers. six trustees, one clerk, one marshal, who shall also be collector of taxes and assessments, one treasurer, one assessor, and such other officers, to be appointed as hereinafter provided for, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

How chosen.

First

election.

Sec. 2. Each of the officers named in the last preceding section shall be chosen by ballot.

ARTICLE III.

OF THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

SECTION 1. The inhabitants of said village having the qualification of electors under the constitution of this State, shall meet at the hotel of Wm. H. Springer, in said village, on the first Monday of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and there proceed to elect one president, one clerk, one marshal, one treasurer, one assessor, and three trustees, who shall severally hold their office for one year; also three trustees who shall severally hold their office Certificate of for two years; and the inspectors of such election shall certify thereto accordingly, immediately after the canvass shall be finished.

election.

Term of office.

Annual elections.

Sec. 2. At every election after the first, there shall be elected one president, one clerk, one marshal, one treasurer, and one assessor, who shall severally hold their office for one year, and three trustees, who shall severally hold their office for two years.

Sec. 3. The term of office of all officers shall commence immediately after their election and qualification, and continue until the election and qualification of their successors.

Sec. 4. Elections for officers shall be held on the first Monday of March, in each year, at such places as shall be designated by the board of trustees, except as provided for at the first election.

Of failure to Sec. 5. If any election of the officers of said village shall

hold election

at proper

time.

not be held on the day when pursuant to this act it should be held, 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.

ARTICLE IV.

OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS.

tions for

office.

SECTION 1. The officers of said village, elected in pursu- Qualifica ance of the provisions of this act, or appointed as hereinafter office. provided for, shall be residents and legal voters of said village. Sec. 2. The president, and every other officer elected or Oaths of appointed under the provisions of this act, before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, to be administered by the clerk of said village, or by any other officer authorized to administer oaths, to support the constitution of the United States and of this State, and that he will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his office according to the best of his ability, a record of which oath shall be made and kept by the clerk of said village.

bonds.

Sec. 3. The treasurer, marshal, and such other officers as official the board of trustees may require so to do, shall each respectively and severally, before they enter upon the duties of their office, execute a bond to the village of Linden, in such sums, and with such sureties, as the board of trustees shall approve, conditioned that they will faithfully execute the duties of their office, and honestly and faithfully account for and pay over all moneys received by them by virtue of said office, which bond, with the approval of the board of trustees endorsed thereon, certified by the clerk, shall be delivered to and filed with the clerk of said village.

ARTICLE V.

OF THE PRESIDENT OF SAID VILLAGE.

board of

SECTION 1. The president shall be ex officio a member of the Member of board of trustees, and have the power and be subject to the trustees. like duties and responsibilities of a trustee.

at meetings

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at To preside the meetings of the board of trustees, call special meetings of of board, etc. the trustees whenever he shall deem it expedient, or it shall

To preside at elections.

To enforce ordinances,

etc.

To lay reports of

before the

board.

be demanded in writing, for any specific purpose, by three of the trustees or ten electors of said village.

Sec. 3. The president shall preside at all elections held under and by virtue of this act.

Sec. 4. The president shall see that all the by-laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances of said village are faithfully enforced, and prosecute, in the name of the village of Linden, all offenders against the same, and for all penalties and forfeitures incurred under the provisions of this act, or under any of the by-laws, rules, regulations, or ordinances passed by virtue thereof.

Sec. 5. He shall receive and lay before the board of trustees officers, etc., the official reports of all officers who may be required to make such reports, and in connection therewith suggest the passage of such measures as in his judgment the necessities of the village may require.

To appoint fire wardens.

Proviso.

To have con

trol of village

Sec. 6. He shall appoint, by and with the consent of the trustees, two or more fire wardens, and such other officers as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, and for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace and good order, not otherwise provided in this act: Provided, That no officer so appointed shall hold his office for a longer term than during the official term of the president so appointing him.

Sec. 7. The president shall inspect and have the supervising property. and control of the public property belonging to said village, and see that the same is properly cared for and kept in order.

Management

of finances.

ARTICLE VI.

OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SECTION 1. The board of trustees shall have the control and management of all the finances and of all the real and personal property belonging to the corporation, and shall examine and settle all accounts chargeable against the village.

Sec. 2. The board of trustees shall have full power within

said village:

duties of

First. To declare and define the powers and duties of the To prescribe officers of said village whose powers and duties are not officers. specifically prescribed in this act;

official bonds

Second. To determine the amount and sufficiency of the To approve sureties in the official bonds of the treasurer, marshal, and such other officers as they shall deem proper to require security from in the discharge of official duty;

property.

Third. To provide for the care, custody, and preservation Care of of the public property of said village;

of officers.

ment.

Fourth. To see that the several officers of the village per- Supervision form their duties faithfully and correctly, and that proper measures are taken to punish neglect of duty in any of them; Fifth. To purchase and keep in order fire-engines and other Fire departfire apparatus, and to make all needful rules and regulations for the safe keeping of the same, and to organize a fire department and define their duties, and prescribe penalties for their delinquencies;

for the pre

fires.

Sixth. To establish fire limits, within which no wooden Regulations building shall be built, enlarged, or placed; to regulate party vention of walls, chimneys, flues, and putting up stoves and stove-pipes; to regulate the construction of smith shops, planing establishments, bakeries, and other buildings considered extra hazardous; to guard against fires, and to compel the owners of lots, or owners or occupants of buildings, in such portions of the village as they shall deem best, to provide one or more fire buckets, and to regulate the keeping of the same;

vice, etc.

Seventh. To prevent vice or immorality; to preserve peace To prevent and good order; to establish and maintain a competent police; to suppress, restrain, and close up all disorderly houses, houses To restrain of ill-fame or licentiousness, gambling tables, or any other houses, etc. gaming device or instrument for gaming, and to punish the keepers of the same, when so kept in violation of any by-law, rule, regulation, or ordinance of said village; to cause vagrants, idlers,