Citizens competent Sec. 21. All processes, prosecutions, and other proceedings as jurors, wherein the common council of said village shall be a party, etc., in village suits. Proviso. Poll-tax. Taxes on real and per erty. limiting tax. on property. no citizen of said village shall be deemed an incompetent juror or witness on account of the interest of such citizen in the event of such processes or proceedings: Provided, That such interest be only that which exists in common with the citizens of said village. Sec. 22. The common council shall have power and authority to levy, assess, and collect a capitation or poll tax from every male inhabitant between the ages of twenty-one and fifty, except lunatics, paupers, and idiots of said village, and also taxes on real and personal property within the limits of sonal prop- said village, necessary to defray the expenses thereof: ProProviso vided, That the said taxes so assessed and collected shall not exceed in any one year one per centum upon the valuation of said real or personal property; and every assessment of tax lawfully imposed or laid by the said common council, on any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or premises whatever, in Taxes a lien said village, shall be and remain a lien on such lands tenements, and hereditaments, from the time of making sucl. assessment or imposing such tax until paid, and the owneror occupants or parties in interest respectively in said real estate shall be liable, upon demand, to pay every such assessment or tax to be made as aforesaid; and in default of such payment, or any part thereof, it shall be lawful for the marsha! of said village to sell personal estate, and for the want thereof to sell real estate, rendering the overplus, if any, after deducting the charges of such sale, to such owner, occupant, or lessee: Pro sale of real vided, That whenever any real estate shall be sold by said marshal, notice thereof shall be published in a newspaper printed in said county for at least one month; and the said marshal shall Certificate to give to the purchaser or purchasers of any such lands, a certificate in writing, describing the lands puchased and the time when the purchaser will be entitled to a deed for said land: Redemption. and if the person claiming title to said lands described in the Proviso relative to estate for taxes. purchaser. deed. sale shall not within two years from the date thereof pay to the treasurer of said village, for the use of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the sum mentioned in such certificate, together with interest thereon at the rate of twenty per cent per annum from the date of such certificate, the said marshal or his successor in office shall, at the expiration of the said Issue of two years, execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a conveyance of the lands so sold, which conveyance shall vest in the person or persons to whom it shall be given, an absolute estate in fee simple, subject to all the claims the State shall have thereon; and the said conveyance shall be prima facie evidence that the sale was regular, according to the provisions of this act; and every such conveyance executed by Legal value the said marshal under his hand and seal, and acknowledged by witnesses and recorded in the usual form, may be given in evidence in the same manner and with like effect as a deed regularly executed and acknowledged by the owner, and duly recorded, may be given in evidence; and all personal estate so sold shall be sold according to and in such manner as the common council may direct. of same. give notice of compleon on taxof roll and time review. Sec. 23. Whenever the assessor of said village shall have Assessor to completed his assessment roll and valuation of the property, real and personal, in said village, it shall be his duty to give notice thereof by publishing in any newspaper published in said village, by at least two insertions, or putting up the same in three of the most public places in said village, stating the place where the said roll is left for the inspection of all persons interested, and of the time when and place where he will be to hear the objections of any persons interested, to the valuation so made by him. The said assessor shall be and appear at Review. the time and place appointed as aforesaid, and on the application of any person considering him or herself aggrieved, may review and reduce the said valuation, on sufficient cause being shown upon oath, to the satisfaction of said assessor; and if any person or persons shall conceive himself or them Delivery of roll to marshal with warrant. Council to regulate col selves aggrieved by the final decision of said assessor, they shall have the right of appealing from such decision of the assessor, at any time within ten days thereafter, to the common council, who are in like manner hereby authorized, upon sufficient cause being shown, to reduce such valuation. Sec. 24. It shall be the duty of the common council to make out a duplicate of taxes, charging each inhabitant therein an amount of tax in proportion to the amount of real and personal estate of such individual within said village, which duplicate shall be signed by the president and recorder, and delivered to the marshal, whose duty it shall be to collect the same within such time and in such manner as the by-laws shall direct. Sec. 25. All moneys to be raised by tax in said village shall lection and be collected and paid over by the marshal to the treasurer of said village, at such time and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the ordinances of the common council. payment of taxes. Street com missioners, etc. Council may organize fire Sec. 26. The common council shall have power to appoint one or more street commissioners or other officers to superintend and direct the making, paving, repairing and opening of all streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, highways, or bridges, within the limits of said corporation, in such manner as they may from time to time be directed by the common council; also for establishing the line upon which buildings shall not extend; and the common council shall cause the expenses of grading of such streets, or making such sidewalks, to be assessed on lots or premises adjoining such improvements, or by general assessment, or otherwise, as they may direct. Sec. 27. The common council shall have authority to estabcompanies. lish and organize all such fire companies, and hose, and hookand-ladder companies, and provide them with the proper engines and other instruments as shall be necessary to extinguish fire, and protect the property of the inhabitants of said village from conflagrations; to appoint from among the inhabitants of said village such number of men, willing to accept. for fire com as may be deemed proper and necessary to be employed as firemen: Provided, Such number does not exceed fifty in the Proviso. management of one engine; and such fire, hose, hook-and-ladder Regulations companies shall have power to appoint their own officers, pass panies. by-laws for the organization and good government of said companies, subject to the approval of the common council, and may impose and collect such fines for the non-attendance or neglect of duty of any of its members as may be established by such by-laws and regulations of every such company; and every person belonging to such company shall obtain from the recorder of said village a certificate to that effect, which shall be evidence thereof; and the members of such company, dur- Exemptions ing their continuation as such, shall be exempt from serving as jurors and working a poll-tax on the highways or streets of said village; and it shall be the duty of every fire company to keep in good and perfect repair the fire-engine, hose, ladders, and other instruments, and it shall be the duty of each fire company to assemble once in each month, or as often as may be directed by said common council, for the purpose of working or examining said engine and other implements, with a view to their perfect order and repair. of firemen. attend fires. Sec. 28. Upon the breaking out of any fire in said village, Marshal to the marshal shall immediately repair to the place of such fire and aid and assist as well in extinguishing said fire as in preventing any goods from being stolen, and also in removing and securing the same, and shall in all respects be obedient to the president, recorder, and trustees, or either of them who may be present at the fire. townships for bridge purposes. Sec. 29. For the purpose of building, maintaining, and village and repairing the bridges across the Red Cedar river and Deer deemed one creek, within the limits of said village, the townships of building Williamstown and Wheatfield and the said village shall be deemed the townships of Williamstown and Wheatfield, as the said townships existed before the passage of this act, and shall be subject to all the provisions of the general laws of this This act apublic act. Term of office of offi at first election. State relative to the building, maintaining, and keeping in repair such bridges; and in no case shall the said village be liable or bound to build, maintain, or keep in repair such bridges. Sec. 30. This act shall be deemed a public act. Sec. 31. Officers elected at the first election held under and cers chosen by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall severally hold their offices until the first Monday of March next ensuing, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Sec. 32. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved April 5, 1871. Boundaries. Officers and terms of office. [No. 260.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Grand Ledge. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all that tract of country situate in the township of Oneida, in the county of Eaton, in the State of Michigan, which is known and described as follows, to wit: West one-half of the southwest one-fourth of section one, south half of section two, all that part of the southeast corner of the southeast quarter of section three, as is bounded by Sandstone creek, northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section ten. north three-quarters of section eleven, west half of the northwest quarter of section twelve, and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twelve, in township four north, of range four west, be and the same is hereby made and constituted a village corporate, by the name, style, and title of the village of Grand Ledge. Sec. 2. The officers of said village shall consist of a presi dent, recorder, treasurer, and three trustees, one marshal, and two street commissioners, which said marshal and commission |