[ No. 268. ] AN ACT to amend section fifteen, of act number three hundred and seventy, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Leslie." amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section section fifteen, of act number three hundred and seventy, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Leslie," approved March thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows: Citizens liable to government highways. be commis highways and duties of Sec. 15. The inhabitants of said village shall be liable to the operation of any and all laws relating to township government, township except so far as relates to laying out, altering, vacating, and except as to constructing streets, highways, and bridges, and the labor to be performed thereon, and within the limits thereof. And the said Council to common council are hereby vested with full power and author- sioners of ity to assess and levy such an amount of labor upon the real with powers and personal property in said village as they may deem neces- same. sary to be performed upon the streets, highways, and bridges in said village, and for that purpose they are hereby vested with the same power given by law to the commissioners of highways; also for the purpose of laying out, altering, discontinuing, establishing, or vacating lanes, alleys, streets, roads, sidewalks, and water-courses in said village, shall have the same power of taking private property for such purpose (certifying the necessity for the same) and awarding the damages thereon as allowed to highway commissioners by act one hundred and sixty-three, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the acts amendatory thereof; and further, that their decision of the necessity to take and use the lands, as provided by said act and the acts amendatory thereof, and their award of damages on the same, may be appealed from in the same manner to the same board and with like effect as is provided by said act one hundred and sixty-three of said session laws Powers granted to council. of eighteen hundred and sixty one, and the acts amendatory Sections amended. [No. 269.] AN ACT to amend sections eleven, fifteen, twenty-six, and twenty-nine, of act number four hundred and thirty-one, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Midland City." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections eleven, fifteen, twenty-six, and twenty-nine, of act number four hundred and thirty-one, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Midland City," be amended so as to read as follows: appoint officers. make ordi the government of tho ment. etc. Sec. 11. The president and trustees shall have power to Council to appoint all officers which they may deem necessary for said certain village, whose election is not provided for in this act, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and remove the same at pleasure: Provided, That no officer shall be appointed or Proviso. removed, except a majority of the village board elect shall vote for such appointment or removal. They shall also have power Council to to make by-laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations for said nances for village, and alter the same at pleasure, for the following pur- village. poses, to wit: To maintain, preserve, and protect the public To protect public propplaces, property, and buildings of said village; to regulate the erty. police thereof; to preserve the public peace; to prevent and suppress riots, disturbances, and disorderly assemblages; to Police. appoint watchmen and policemen; to organize a fire depart- Fire depart ment, and define their duties, and prescribe penalties for their delinquencies; to restrain, apprehend, and punish vagrants, Drunkards, mendicants, drunkards, and all disorderly persons; to punish lewd, iascivious behavior in the streets and other public places; to suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, billiard Gaming tables, and other devices and instruments of gaming. They Liquors. shall also have power to make by-laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations to prevent and punish the selling or giving away of spirituous or fermented liquors to drunkards, minors, or apprentices; to prevent and punish inordinate riding or driv- Immoderate ing in the streets of said village; to abate, prevent, and remove Nuisances. nuisances; to suppress all disorderly houses and houses of illfame, and to punish the keepers and inmates thereof; to pre- Incumvent and compel the removal of incumbrances, encroachments, streets, etc. and obstructions upon the streets, walks, lanes, alleys, parks, and public grounds; to compel the owners and occupants of lots to clear the sidewalks in front of and adjacent thereto, of snow, ice, mud, boxes, and other incumbrances and obstructions that may at any time be thereon; to regulate and pre- Fire-arms, vent the use of fire-arms and other weapons; to regulate and Combustible prevent the use of fire-works, fire-crackers, and other combusti houses, etc. driving, etc. brance of etc. materials. Markets, etc ble materials in said village; to construct and regulate Dogs. Hydraulic works, etc. provements. Bathing. etc. markets; to regulate the vending of poultry, meat, vegetables, fruits, and fish; to regulate the sale of hay, wood, lime, lumber, Weights, etc and coal; to regulate the sealing of weights and measures; to Pounds, etc. maintain and regulate pounds, and to restrain cattle, horses, sheep, swine, mules, and other animals, geese, hens, and other poultry, from running at large; to prevent the running at large of dogs, to require them to be muzzled, and to authorize their destruction if found at large in violation of any ordiHacks, etc. nance of said village; to regulate and license cartmen, porters, hacks, and cabs, and to regulate their rates of compensation; to prevent runners from soliciting travelers; to construct hydraulic works to supply the village with water; to light the Public im- streets; to borrow money for public improvements, not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year; to establish wells and cisterns, and prevent the waste of water; to prevent bathing in Cemeteries, the public streams in said village; to purchase grounds, construct and regulate cemeteries, and the burial of the dead; to order the use for burial purposes of any burying ground or cemetery to be discontinued, whenever the majority of the electors of said village shall deem it for the public interest, and a majority of all the voters voting at such annual election shall have voted in favor of such discontinuance: Provided. It shall have been first submitted to the electors of said village at an annual election, the same notice being given as special Boundaries elections; and to ascertain the true boundaries of the streets and grades of streets. and alleys, and establish the grade thereof: Provided, When the grade of a street has been once established and worked to, it shall not be altered without the consent of the owners of a majority of the lots along such streets and alleys; to cause streets, alleys, and low places to be drained and filled up at the expense of the premises benefited; to regulate the buildErection of ing of partition and other fences; to establish lines upon which buildings may be erected, and beyond which buildings shall not extend; to prevent the erection of buildings in an Proviso. Proviso. buildings. ratus, otc. fire limits, for the pre fires. duties, etc., unsafe manner, and may pass all unnecessary rules and ordinances in reference to buildings deemed to be unsafe; to pur- Fire appachase fire-engines and other fire apparatus, and keep the same in repair; to procure and construct suitable buildings to store them; to require and cause each house, store, and shop to be provided with fire-buckets and ladders; to establish fire lim- To establish its within which no wooden building shall be allowed to be etc. built, enlarged, or placed; to regulate partition walls, chimneys, flues, and putting up stoves and stove-pipes; to regulate Regulations the construction of smith shops, planing mills, shingle mills, vention of bakeries, and other buildings considered hazardous; to prohibit the erection of any building or the carrying on of any business deemed extra hazardous in any place in said village which they may consider unsafe; to guard against fires; to Powers, regulate the duties, powers, and fees of the village officers; to of officers. regulate the setting of posts and shade trees, of building and Shade trees, erecting awnings; to require the construction and repair of sidewalks. sidewalks, and prescribe their width and the manner of building the same. The village board shall have power to assess and Special tax levy at any time, by special tax, the expenses of making, grad- ments. ing, paving, planking, or repairing sidewalks upon the lots, premises, and subdivisions thereof, in front of and adjacent to which said improvements are made: Provided, That no such Proviso. improvements shall be made unless a petition duly signed by twelve freeholders of said village, asking that such improvements be made, shall have been presented to the village board: And provided, That the expense of making all of such improve- Proviso. ments in front of and adjoining such property as is exempted from taxation by section eleven of this act, and of making and repairing all crosswalks, shall be paid from the general highway fund. etc. for improve Assessment of property Sec. 15. The assessor of said village shall in April of each year make an assessment roll containing a description of all the real estate liable to taxation in said village, and the name of the owner, occupant or agent, if known: Provided, That Proviso. |