not previously audited, and shall make out in detail a statement of all receipts and expenditures, which statement shall specify all appropriations made by the common council, and the object and purpose for which the same were made; the amount of money expended under such appropriation; the amount of taxes raised; the amount expended on streets; and such statement shall be placed on file in the recorder's office, subject to inspection at all times by the citizens of said village. Accounts to Sec. 56. Before any accounts or demand of any person by affidavit. against said village shall be audited, allowed, or paid, the same shall be verified by affidavit, and shall set forth the items thereof, and the amount of each item, with the proper dates in detail, which affidavit may be taken and certified by any member of the common council or by any person authorized to administer oaths. be verified When council may bor Proviso. Sec. 57. The common council may borrow, for the time being, row money. in anticipation of the receipts from taxes, such sums as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of purchasing a suitable fireengine for said village, and implements and instruments necessary to be used therewith in extinguishing fires, and may issue the bonds of the village therefor: Provided, That the council shall not borrow to exceed two thousand dollars for such purpose, unless authorized to borrow a greater amount by a majority vote of the qualified electors of said village, at their annual village election: And provided further, That no greater amount than five hundred dollars of the principal thereof shall be made to become due in any one year. Further proviso. Provision for holding the first election in a tingency. Sec. 58. The failure to hold the election on the first Tuesday of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, as certain con- provided in section four of this act, shall not be deemed a dissolution of said corporation; and in case of any such failure, an election may be held on request of any twelve freeholders, residents of said village, which request shall contain the time and place of holding said election, and shall be posted in three of the most public places of said village for one week prior to said election; which election shall be held Sec. 59. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 201. ] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Nashville," approved March twenty-sixth, eighteeen hundred and sixty-nine, by adding three new sections thereto, to stand as sections sixty-five, sixty-six, and sixty-seven. added. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section act number three hundred and fifty-six, of the session laws of the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, approved March twenty-sixth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Nashville," be and hereby is amended by the addition of three new sections, to stand as sections sixty-five, sixty-six, and sixty-seven, to read as follows: etc., on may streets said highways said incorpo which were previous to ration of Sec. 65. The building and repairing of all bridges or culverts of bridges, and the approaches thereto, which are now erected, or hereafter be erected, on any street extending through village, which street was, prior to the incorporation of village, a public highway, shall be placed under the control of village. a board, which shall consist of the president, treasurer, and assessor of said village, and the highway commissioners of the township in which such bridges, culverts, or approaches may be located, and that any money which may be raised for the building or repair of such bridges, culverts, or approaches shall Proviso. School district and inspectors. be assessed by the supervisor of the township in which such bridges, culverts, or approaches are or may be erected, upon the property of the township, the same as though the village of Nashville had no corporate existence: It is further provided, That if the line of the original highway be changed, by or with the consent of the majority of the board constituted by this section, the provisions of this act shall continue to have full force and application to the highway the same as though the line thereof had not been changed. Sec. 66. The said village of Nashville shall constitute a election of school district, the annual meeting of which shall be held on the first Monday in July, and the qualified electors of the said village of Nashville shall, at its first annual election after the passage of this act, elect two school inspectors, one of whom shall be elected for one year and the other for two years, and at each succeeding annual election there shall be elected a school inspector for the term of two years. The inspectors thus elected shall be duly qualified in the manner provided by law for township inspectors before entering upon the duties of their office, and they shall, in connection with the village recorder, who shall record their proceedings and shall be ex inspector. officio an inspector, discharge for the village of Nashville the duties which have heretofore been prescribed for township inspectors, and they shall be in every way held amenable for the proper and full discharge of their duties by the same enactments and penalties as now apply to township inspectors. Recorder ex-officio Duties of assessor and regard to Sec. 67. The assessor and treasurer of said village of Nashtreasurer in ville shall perform all the duties now devolving on supervisors school taxes. and township treasurers, so far as relates to the assessment and collection of taxes for the support of the schools therein. and the custody and control of the school funds belonging to said village, and shall be subject to the same regulations and penalties as now apply to the supervisors and treasurers aforesaid. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 202. ] AN ACT to incorporate the city of Marquette. CHAPTER I. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Boundaries. all the following described territory, situated in the township of Marquette, and county of Marquette, to wit: Fractional sections thirteen (13) and fourteen (14), sections fifteen (15) and twenty-two (22), fractional sections twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), and twenty-six (26), and sections twentyseven (27), thirty-four (34), thirty-five (35), and fractional section thirty-six (36), in township number forty-eight (48) north, of range number twenty-five (25) west, be and the same is hereby set off from the township of Marquette, and declared to be a city, by the name of the city of Marquette, by which name it shall hereafter be known. rate and Sec. 2. The freemen of the said city, from time to time, Body corpobeing inhabitants thereof, shall be and continue a body cor- politic. porate and politic, to be known and distinguished by the name and title of the city of Marquette, and shall be and are hereby made capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered unto, and of defending and being defended in all courts of law and equity, and in all other places whatsoever; and shall have a common seal, which they may alter and change at pleasure, and by the same name shall be and are hereby made capable of purchasing and holding, conveying and disposing of any real or personal estate for said city. Sec. 3. The said city shall be divided into three wards, as wards. follows, to wit: The first ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying south of a line drawn from the shore of Lake Superior, westwardly, along the center of Superior street, to the western boundary of said city; the second ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying between said last mentioned line and a line drawn from said lake shore, west Elective officers. Appointive officers. Idem. Eligibility to office. wardly, along the center of Bluff street, to said western boundary; and the third ward shall embrace all that portion of said city lying north of said last mentioned line. CHAPTER II. OFFICERS THEIR ELECTION AND APPOINTMENT. SECTION 1. The following officers of the corporation shall be elected by the qualified electors of the whole city, voting in their respective wards, viz: One mayor, one recorder, one treasurer, and three justices of the peace; also, two constables. There shall be elected on a ward ticket by the qualified electors of each ward, two aldermen, and the alderman in each ward whose term of office soonest expires shall be ex-officio supervisor of his ward. Sec. 2. The following officers shall be appointed by the common council, on or before the first Monday in May of each year, viz: One marshal, one director of the poor, who shall possess all the power of a director or overseer of the poor of townships under the laws of this State; also, one street commissioner for the entire city, or one for each ward, as the common council may determine, one pound-master, one city attorney, and one or more fire wardens for the city. Sec. 3. The common council may also appoint so many police constables, night watchmen, inspectors of fire-wards, sealers of weights and measures, and such other officers as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers herein granted, and as the common council may from time to time direct. Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible to either of said offices unless he shall then be an elector and resident of said city, nor shall he be eligible to any such office of any ward unless he shall then be an elector and resident of such ward; and when any officer elected or appointed for the city shall cease to reside in said city, or if elected or appointed for any ward, shall cease to reside in such ward, his office shall thereby become vacant. The justices of the peace of the township of Marquette, resid |