assessment. all lands of greater area than twenty acres, used exclusively for farming purposes and being unplatted, shall be exempt from taxation except for the general tax for municipal and highway purposes, and for special assessments for improvements made upon or adjacent to them, and shall set down in such roll opposite each description of property its fair valuation in cash, and shall set down in such roll opposite the name of each and every resident of said village the fair valuation in cash of all the personal property owned by him or in his possession in said village in a separate line Review of from the valuation of real estate, and it shall be the duty of the assessor, on the first Monday of May in each year, to be present at the usual place of holding the meetings of the village board, and have with him the assessment roll prepared as above, for the purpose of reviewing the same, that any person considering himself or herself aggrieved may be heard, and he shall then and there make such alterations or corrections a shall be made to appear to him necessary to make the assessment just, equal, and fair with and between all the parties Apportion concerned, and the assessor shall, as soon thereafter as practicable, proceed to estimate and set down, in a column left for that purpose opposite the several sums set down as value of real and personal estate in such assessment roll, the respective sums in dollars and cents to be paid as a tax or assessment Delivery of thereon, and shall afterwards cause said assessment roll or a ment of taxes. tax roll to marshal with warrant. copy thereof to be delivered to the marshal of said village, with a warrant annexed thereto under the hand of such assessor, directing and requiring him by a certain day therein named, not less than sixty days from the date of said warrant, to collect from the several persons named in said roll the several sums set opposite their respective names as a tax, and authorizing him, in case they or any of them shall neglect or refuse to pay the same, to levy the same by distress and sale of his or her goods or chattels, together with the costs of such distress and sale, and such warrant may be renewed from time to time as the village sessments. board may direct; and when assessment shall be made for any Special asspecial improvement it shall be legal if not made at the time of making the grand list of regular annual assessment for general purposes, but such special assessment shall be made in a manner altogether similar to the grand list except as to the time of making it, and notice of the time and place of Notice of reviewing such assessment shall be given by the assessor by of same. causing a notice to be published in a paper printed in said village, if there be one, once in each week for two successive weeks next preceding the day of reviewing, and by causing a notice to be posted in three public places in said village. and review use county Sec. 26. The corporation shall be allowed to use the county village may jail of the county of Midland for the imprisonment of any jail. person liable to imprisonment under and by virtue of any of the by-laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations of said village, and all persons so committed to said jail shall be under the charge of the sheriff, as in other cases of imprisonment. board to be sioners of overseers of Sec. 29. The village board shall have the supervision of the village streets and highways within the village, and shall, within the commislimits of said village, have the same power and perform the highways. same duties as do or may by law belong to the commissioners of highways of the several townships of this State, except as relates to the bridges across the Tittabawassee and Chippeway rivers; and the village board shall appoint one or more over- To appoint seers of highways to repair and keep in order the highways, highways streets, and alleys, and shall cause a tax to be levied and col- Limit of highway tax lected upon the real and personal property in said village, not exceeding two per cent on the valuation in any one year. And Poll-tax. no other highway tax shall be levied and collected in said village, except that every male inhabitant of said village over twenty-one years and under fifty years of age, except paupers, idiots, and lunatics, and except those who are exempted in section twenty-seven of this act, shall be liable to pay a poll-tax of one dollar, to be collected by the marshal in the same manner as is provided for collecting other highway taxes. Proviso relative to Poll-tax list. And the village board shall cause a list of all persons liable to pay such poll-tax to be made out and delivered to the marshal with the general tax roll of each year. And the village board shall have exclusive control of all moneys levied and collected in said village for highway purposes: Provided, That the power of the village board to order fences removed, removal of and to remove them themselves, and to open, widen, and extend streets and highways, shall not be restricted between the first day of April and the first day of November in each year, but they may exercise that power at any time during the Proviso year: And provided also, That nothing herein contained exemption shall be construed to exempt any person or property in said ship bridge village from any township tax that may be legally levied in fences. relative to from town taxes. the township of Midland for the building, repairing, or Sections amended. [No. 270. ] AN ACT to amend sections seven and eight of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Lyons," approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to add a new section thereto. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections seven and eight of an act to incorporate the village of Lyons, approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: make ordi the govern village. certain offi cers. public prop ment. drunkards. gaming Sec. 7. The president and trustees shall have power to ordain Board to and establish by-laws, rules, and regulations, and to alter and nances for repeal the same at pleasure, for the following purposes, namely: ment of the For the appointment of a treasurer, and prescribing his duties; To appoint one assessor, and such other officers for said village as they may deem necessary, and also such as they may deem necessary To preserve and right for the maintenance and preservation of the public erty. places, property, and buildings of said village; to regulate the Police, etc. police thereof; to prevent riots, disturbances, and disorderly assemblages; to appoint watchmen and policemen, and organ- Fire departize a fire department, and define their duties and prescribe penalties for their delinquencies; to restrain, apprehend, and To restrain punish vagrants, mendicants, drunkards, and all disorderly persons; to punish lewd and lascivious behavior in the streets or other public places; to suppress and restrain disorderly and To suppress gaming houses, billiard tables, and other devices and instru- houses, etc. ments of gaming; and shall have the exclusive power and Licenses, etc authority to license such persons as tavern-keepers and common victualers as they shall think best (but no license shall be in force except during the life of the board granting it); to prevent the selling or giving away of spirituous or fermented liquors; to prevent and punish inordinate riding or driving Immoderate in the streets; to abate, prevent, and remove nuisances; to suppress all disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame, and to punish the inmates and keepers thereof; to prevent the viola- Violation of tion of the Sabbath, and to require all saloons, drinkinghouses, shops, and other places of business to be closed on the Sabbath day, and at reasonable hours of the night on week days; to prevent and compel the removal of all incumbrances, encroachments, and obstructions upon the streets, walks, lanes, alleys, parks, and public grounds; to compel the owners or To compel occupants of lots to clear sidewalks in front of and adjacent sidewalks, thereto, of snow, ice, dirt, mud, boxes, and every incumbrance or obstruction thereto; to regulate the storage of powder, Combustible petroleum, naphtha, nitro-glycerine, lumber, or other combus driving, etc. the Sabbath. clearing of etc. materials. the use markets, etc. weights, etc. the im cattle, etc. Runners. Water works. To prevent tible material; to prevent and regulate the use of fire-arms, weapons. slung-shots and other weapons, and fire-works; to construct To regulate and regulate markets for the vending of poultry, meat, vegetables, fruit, and fish; to regulate the sale of hay, wood, lime, Sealing of lumber, and coal; to regulate the gauging of vessels containing liquor, the sealing of weights and measures; to regulate Pounds and and maintain pounds, and to provide for the restraint of horses, pounding of cattle, sheep, swine, mules, and other animals, geese and other Dogs. poultry; to prevent the running at large of dogs, to require them to be muzzled, and to authorize their destruction if found Hacks, etc. at large in violation of any ordinance; to regulate and license cartmen, porters, hacks, cabs, and to regulate their rates of compensation; to prevent runners from soliciting travelers; to construct hydraulic works to supply the village with water; Lighting of to light the streets; to borrow money for public improvements, Borrowing not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year; to establish wells and cisterns, and to prevent the waste of water; to prevent bathing in public streams; to purchase ground for and Cemeteries. regulate cemeteries and the burial of the dead, and to provide for the return of the bills of mortality, and to order the use for burial purposes of any burial ground or cemetery to be discontinued whenever they may deem the same necessary for the best Grade, etc., interests or health of the citizens; to ascertain, establish, and settle the boundaries of all streets and alleys, and to establish grades therefor; also to order and cause the same to be drained or filled, and to assess the cost and expense on the premises Fences, etc. benefited; to regulate the building of partition and other Erection of fences; to establish lines upon which buildings may be erected, streets. of money. Bathing. of streets. bulldings. and beyond which such buildings shall not extend; to prevent the erection of buildings in an unsafe manner, and to pass all necessary regulations relative to buildings deemed unsafe; to Fire appa purchase and keep in order fire-engines and other fire apparatus, and to construct buildings to store them, and to cause any building occupied as a house, store, or shop to be provided with fire-buckets and ladders; to establish fire limits within ratus, etc. |