Duties of treasurer. Moneys drawn from treasury. Treasurer to make monthly financial exhibit. Marshal. Security. Duties. Sec. 68. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the city, and shall deposit and keep the same as directed by the common council, and shall keep an account of all receipts and expenditures in such manner as the common council shall direct. All moneys drawn from the treasurer shall be drawn in pursuance of an order of the common council, by warrant, signed by the clerk and countersigned by the mayor; and the clerk shall keep an accurate account under appropriate heads, of all expenditures, of all orders drawn upon the treasurer, in a check-book to be kept by him for that purpose. The books and accounts of the treasurer shall, at reasonable hours, be opened to the inspection of any elector of said city. The treasurer shall exhibit to the common council, at the last regular meeting in the month of March, or at any special meeting for that purpose in said month, a full and fair account of all the receipts and expenditures after the date of the last annual report, and also the state of the treasury; which account shall be referred to a committee for examination, and if found to be correct shall be filed with the clerk. Sec. 70. The marshal of said city shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, give such security for the faithful performance of his duties as the common council shall direct and require; and he shall be superintendent of the city, and it shall be his duty to superintend, under the general direction of the common council, all work to be done or performed upon or in relation to any of the public streets, walks, bridges, sewers, or public pumps. reservoirs, or grounds of said city, and to perform such other duties as by this act, or by the ordinances or resolutions of the common council, shall be required. He may also serve all process that may be issued by any justice of the peace of said city the same as any constable, or the sheriff of the county of St. Clair, and with the same power and authority. He shal obey all lawful orders of the mayor or the common counci and shall also attend the meetings of the common council. and him by law. He shall have power and authority, and it shall Powers. be his duty, with or without process, to apprehend any person found disturbing the peace, or offending against any of the ordinances of the city, and forthwith to take such person before any justice of the peace of said city, to be dealt with according to law. He may appoint such deputy or deputies May appoint as the common council shall direct and approve, who shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as the marshal, and for whose official acts he shall in all respects be responsible. deputies. sioner of expendi Sec. 81. The commissioner of the city cemetery shall have Commisthe care of the city cemetery, and all the grounds or other cemeteries. property belonging thereto, subject to the ordinances and direction of the common council. He shall make such improvements upon the property as he shall think expedient, but shall not expend in any one year more than one hundred Limit of dollars without the consent of the common council previously tures. obtained, and he shall receive such compensation for his ser- Compensavices as the common council shall deem just; and said commissioner shall report quarterly to the common council the amount expended by him in the improvement of said property; and it shall be the duty of said commissioner to publish Annual an annual report in relation to the matters submitted to his charge, in a newspaper printed in said city, between the fifteenth days of February and March in each year. tion. report. city officers. Sec. 84. The common council shall annually determine the salaries of salary or compensation to be paid to the several officers of said city, within the limitations hereinafter prescribed, and which shall be as follows, viz: To the city clerk, in addition to his fees and perquisites prescribed by law, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum; to the city marshal, as superintendent of streets and highways, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day, and at that rate for any part of Poll-tax. Proviso. Highway taxes. a day actually spent in the performance of such duties; to each alderman of said city (as such), a sum not exceeding ten dollars per annum; to the city attorney, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum; and they may also establish the fee or salary of all other officers of the city whose fees are not prescribed by law, and whose compensation for services is required to be paid from the city treasury. Subdivision First. Every male inhabitant in each ward, being above the age of twenty-one and under fifty, except paupers, idiots, and lunatics, and other persons exempt by law from taxation for highway purposes, shall be assessed one dollar: Provided, Whenever the words fifty cents occur in this section, it shall read one dollar. Sec. 157. Subdivision Second. The residue of the highway taxes shall be assessed not exceeding thirty cents upon every one hundred dollars of the valuation, shall be apportioned upon the estate, real and personal, of every inhabitant in each highway district in said city, and upon each of the tracts or parcels of land in the respective highway districts of which the owners are non-residents, as the same shall appear from the assessment roll; and the said common council shall have power to appropriate so much of the highway fund annually as they may deem necessary for permanent highway improvements in such part of said city as said council shall determine. Sec. 161. Subdivision First. The marshal, as the council bridges, etc. shall direct, shall at all times keep the streets, bridges, culverts, or drains of the city in thorough repair and free from Care of streets, Marshal to make monthly statement of obstructions. He shall report on oath, to the common council once in each month, which report shall contain an accurate street work. statement of the amount of labor performed, and the expense necessarily incurred for material, and the streets upon which the labor was performed or the expense incurred, and his charges for the same. To be audited and filed Subdivision Second. The common council shall examine by council, such report, and if satisfied of its correctness, and that the charges therein made are just and reasonable, they shall accept it and order it filed; but if they are not satisfied of its correctness, or of the reasonableness of the charges, they shall refer it to a committee for investigation, or may alter said report as they may think proper, and allow such charges as they shall deem just and equitable; they shall then let such report lay upon the table for one week, and if not withdrawn by the marshal, by filing a notice in writing to that effect, with the city clerk in that time, they shall accept it and order it filed as corrected by them. treasurer for charge for Subdivision Third. When any such report is filed, the clerk order on shall draw an order on the highway fund of the district in amount of which the repairs were made, and to the amount of such same. charge in said report, payable to the marshal, which order shall be countersigned by the mayor, and upon presentment, the city treasurer shall pay from the funds of such district, if there be any money in the treasury belonging to such district, ́and enter the same to the debit of the fund of such district, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose. added. Sec. 2. The following sections shall be added to said act to Sections stand as sections two hundred and sixteen and two hundred and seventeen: Council may divide city way districts Sec. 216. The said common council shall have power to divide said city into one or more highway districts by resolu- into hightion to that effect duly entered upon their record; also making the highway fund a city fund for highway purposes. Sec. 217. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act Acts is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. repealed. Sections amended. City officers. Ward officers. Council may appoint necessary officers. [ No. 222. ] AN ACT to amend sections four, six, and ten of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to revise the charter of the city of Adrian,' approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. SECTION. 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections four, six, and ten of an act entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Adrian," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be and the same are hereby amended so that said sections shall be and read respectively as follows: Sec. 4. The following officers of the corporation shall be elected on a general ticket by the qualified electors of the whole city, viz: a mayor, city recorder, city treasurer, city collector, street commissioner, city marshal, and four justices of the peace. The following officers of the corporation shall be elected on a ward ticket in each ward by the qualified electors thereof, viz: a supervisor, two aldermen, and one constable. Sec. 6. The common council may appoint annually, on the first Monday of May, such officers whose election is not herein specially provided for, as the council shall deem necessary to carry into effect the powers granted by this act, and may remove the same, and all officers appointed by them, on good cause shown, which cause shall be entered at length on the city record: Provided, That any appointment which shall not time of ap- be made on the day named may be made at any subsequent meeting of the common council. Proviso relative to pointment. Terms of office. Sec. 10. The mayor, recorder, treasurer, collector, street commissioner, marshal, supervisors, and constables shall be elected at the annual city election, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. One justice of the peace shall be elected at the annual city election in the year eighteen hundred and sixtyfive, and there shall be elected annually thereafter, at each |