Executions. ment, etc. Sec. 17. Every execution for any penalty or forfeiture recovered for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, or for the violation of any ordinance or regulation of the common council of said city, may be issued immediately on the rendition of the judgment, and shall command the amount to be made of the property of the defendant, if any such can be found, and if not, then to commit the defendant to the county or city jail or city penitentiary, for such time as shal have been fixed therein by the court from which such execu Imprison- tion issued; but it shall be lawful for the officer receiving such execution to take the body of such defendant therein according to the command of said writ, unless such defendant shall point out or deliver to said officer sufficient goods and chattels belonging to said defendant liable to execution, and free from all encumbrances and levies to satisfy the same; and the keeper of said county or city jail, or city penitentiary, shall receive the said defendant and him safely keep therein, during the time mentioned in said writ, unless he shall sooner pay the amount specified therein and the costs of his detention. Expenses of Sec. 18. The common council may direct any moneys that apprehending offend- may have been recovered for penalties and forfeitures, to be applied to the payment of any extra expenses that may have been incurred in apprehending offenders, or in subpœnaing or defraying the expenses of witnesses in any suit for such penalties or forfeitures, or in conducting such suits. ers, etc. Vagrancy defined. Sec. 19. All persons being habitual drunkards, destitute. and without visible means of support, or who, being such habitual drunkards, shall abandon, neglect, or refuse to aid in the support of their families, being complained of by such families; all able-bodied and sturdy beggars, who may app for alms or solicit charity; all persons wandering abroad. lodging in watch-houses, out-houses, market-places, sheds stables, or uninhabited dwellings or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves; all common brawlers and disturbers of the public quiet; all persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door, or place themselves in streets, highways, passages, or other public places, or beg or receive alms within the said city, shall be deemed vagrants, and may, upon conviction before any justice Penalty for of the peace of said city, or in the recorder's court of said city, be sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the county jail or city penitentiary, for any time not exceeding sixty days. vagrancy. ment of Sec. 20. All persons who shall have actually abandoned Abandontheir wives or children in the city of Grand Rapids, or who family. may neglect to provide according to their means for their wives or children, are hereby declared to be disorderly persons within the meaning of chapter thirty-nine, of title nine, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, and may be proceeded against as such in the manner directed by said title; and it shall be the duty of the magistrate before whom any such person may be brought for examination, to judge and determine from the facts and circumstances of the case whether the conduct of such person amounts to such desertion or neglect to provide for his wife or children. setting aside etc. Sec. 21. If any action, suit, proceeding, or bail [bill] in chan- Actions for cery shall be brought in any court of law or equity against the assessments, city of Grand Rapids, or any of its officers, for the purpose of setting aside or calling in question any assessment or tax imposed by virtue of any of the provisions of title six of this act, if such assessment or tax shall be sustained by said court, it shall be competent for said court to render judgment therefor, and decree the sale of the premises or property chargeable therewith, for the amount thereof, together with interest thereon and the costs of such suit, on or before a certain day to be fixed by said court, unless such tax or assessment, and the interest and costs thereon, shall be sooner paid. tion to be is Sec. 22. No execution shall issue against the city for any No execu judgment or costs recovered against it, but the common sued against council shall allow and pay the amount of any final judgment city. costs in or costs which may be recovered against the city, in the same manner as accounts are audited and paid by the city. Recovery of Sec. 23. If any suit shall be commenced against any person suits against elected or appointed under this act to any office, for any act officers. Acts re pealed. done or omitted to be done under such election or appointment, or against any person having done any thing or act by the command of any such officer, and if final judgment be rendered in such suit whereby any such defendant shall be entitled to costs, he shall recover double costs in the manner defined by law, except in cases wherein the city of Grand Rapids shall be plaintiff. Sec. 24. All former acts and parts of acts relating to the city of Grand Rapids, not expressly embodied in or made part of this act, are hereby repealed, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to destroy, impair, or take away any right or remedy acquired or given by any act hereby repealed, and all proceedings commenced under any such former act shall be carried out and completed, and all prosecutions for any offense committed, or penalty or forfeiture incurred, shall be enforced in the same manner in all respects, and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed; but nothing in this section contained shall be so construed as to annul and impair or affect any ordinance, by-law, or resolution of said city, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, but the same shall continue and be in force until the same are amended or repealed, as fully as though this act had not been enacted. Sec. 25. All the officers of said city who may be in office at the passage of this act shall continue to exercise the duties of their respective offices until the term for which they were First charter elected shall have expired. The first charter election held in said city after the passage of this act shall be held in precisely the same manner in all respects as if this act had not been passed, and like notice of holding such election shall be given. election. and shall be superintended by the same officers as is required. by the acts hereby repealed. public act. Sec. 26. This act shall be deemed a public act, and the, This act a Legislature may at any time repeal, modify, or alter the same. Sec. 27. The justices of the peace elected and qualified Term of under this act shall enter upon the duties of their office on under this the fourth day of July ensuing, and shall hold their office four years. justices act. recorder's Sec. 28. The recorder's court shall possess all the power of Powers of courts of common law and courts of record in this State, to court. carry into effect the jurisdiction and powers conferred upon it by this act. against city. Sec. 29. All process issued against said city shall run Process against said city in the corporate name thereof, and such process shall be served by leaving a true and attested copy of such process with the mayor or clerk of said city at least ten days before the day of appearance mentioned therein. Sec. 30. This act shall take effect immediately, except title nine thereof, which said title shall take effect at the time therein prescribed. [Sec. 31. This act shall take immediate effect.] Approved March 14, 1871. [No. 219.] AN ACT to amend sections three, four, five, sixteen, seventeen, and thirty-two, of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Jackson," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and to and three new sections thereto. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections, sections three, four, five, sixteen, seventeen, and thirty-two, of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Jackson," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty Division of city into wards. Proviso relative to boundary lines. City officers and terms of seven, as amended by several subsequent acts, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3. The said city shall be divided into eight wards, as follows, to wit: The first ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying west of Grand river on the north side of Ganson street, and west of Mechanic street on the south side of Ganson street, north of Main Street and east of Blackstone street, and to Lansing avenue, and east of Lansing avenue to the north limits of the city. The second ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying north of Main street and the continuous line thereof, and west of Blackstone street to Lansing avenue, and west of Lansing avenue to north limits of the city. The third ward shall embrace all that portion of the city south of Main street and the continuous line thereof, and west of First street and the continuous line thereof. The fourth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying between First and Mechanic streets and the continuous lines thereof, and south of Main street. The fifth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city east of Mechanic street and the continuous line thereof, south of Main street, between Mechanic and Francis streets, south of Liberty street, between Francis street (at its point of intersection with Main street) and the Grand river, and west of Grand river, south of Liberty street. The sixth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city south of Main street, east of Francis street, north of Liberty street, and, east of the Grand river, south of Liberty street. The seventh ward shall embrace all that portion of the city east of Mechanic street, south of Ganson street, and north of Main street; and the eighth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city east of Grand river and north of Ganson street: Provided, That whenever a street or river is mentioned in this act as a boundary or division line, the center of said street or river shall be deemed to be the said line. Sec. 4. The following officers shall be elected from among office. the electors of said city, to wit: One mayor; one recorder. |