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the common council in making such re-assessment to note such payment upon such new assessment roll, and such new assessment shall to the extent of such payment be held and deemed paid and satisfied. All such new assessments, made as aforeon property. said, shall be a lien upon the lots and parcels of real estate embraced therein, in the same manner and to the same extent as special assessments under the act to which this is amendatory, and the same shall be collected in the same manner as such special assessments are by said act required to be colThis act re- lected. The provisions of this act shall apply to special in its action. assessments heretofore made, which shall hereafter be vacated or set aside as aforesaid, as well as to special assessments which shall hereafter be made and vacated or set aside as aforesaid. Whenever any special assessment roll shall be placed in the hands of the marshal for collection, the recorder shall immediately notify the treasurer of the amount of such roll, and for what purpose the tax is assessed, and the treasurer shall thereupon charge the amount thereof to the marshal, and he shall credit the fund or funds entitled to the same with all moneys paid him by the marshal as collected on such roll. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved January 14, 1871.

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[No. 199.]

AN ACT to amend sections one, twelve, and sixteen, chapter five, section one of chapter seven, and section eight of chapter eight, of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Corunna," approved March twelfth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, twelve, and sixteen, chapter five, section one of chapter seven, and section eight of chapter eight, of act number two hundred and sixty-five, of the session laws of the year

of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Corunna," approved March twelfth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be so amended as to read as follows:

CHAPTER V.

mon council.

SECTION 1. The mayor and aldermen, when assembled of the comtogether, shall constitute the common council of the city of Corunna, and a majority of the whole shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time; and the common council may be summoned to hold their meetings at such times as the mayor, or in case of his absence or inability to act, the recorder may appoint. The common council shall have power to impose, levy, and collect such fines as they may deem proper, not exceeding five dollars, for the non-attendance at any meeting of any officer of the incorporation who has been duly notified to attend the same. In case of the absence of the mayor and recorder or clerk from such meeting, the members present may appoint from their number a president or clerk pro tempore. Each member of the common council shall be entitled to one vote, except the mayor, or recorder acting as such, who shall vote only when there is a tie.

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Sec. 12. All highways in the city of Corunna which are not of streets laid down on the original plat of the village of Corunna, or of ways. any addition thereto, which have been used for ten years or more as public highways, shall be deemed and considered public highways, and all such highways shall be four rods in width, and the center of such highways shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be the center of the usual traveled track; but if any question shall exist or arise in relation to the center of such highways, such center may be ascertained, determined, and established by the common council, if in their judgment. it shall be necessary in order to determine or prove the existence of any fence or other encroachment upon such highway;

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and in all cases where a highway exists, or shall hereafter exist, by reason of the same having been used for ten years or more as a public highway, or a highway has been laid out and the record thereof is imperfect, or appears to have been altered, or does not show the regularity and legality of all the proceedings which are required to legally lay out and establish such highway, the common council may, in case such highway has been used for ten years or more, cause the same to be ascertained, described, and recorded in the office of the city clerk of said city, in a book provided or to be provided for the recording of streets or highways; and the record of any such highway, or the record of any such highway which has been ascertained by the common council, and which they have caused to be recorded, as aforesaid, since the act of which this is amendatory became a law, shall be competent and sufficient evidence in all courts and places of the existence of such highway so recorded, without any other proof or evidence whatsoever; and the common council may cause any fence or other encroachment upon any street, highway, or State road to be removed within such time as they shall by ordinance prescribe: Provided, That such ordinance shall in no case take effect in less than twenty days from the publication thereof. Whenever the traveled track of any such highway, as above described, is crooked, the common council may, in ascertaining and determining the center thereof, fix and establish such center half-way between where the fences on the sides of such highway have remained for ten years or more, within a period of fifteen years, or at any point or on any line between where such fences have remained as aforesaid, and the actual center of the traveled track.

Sec. 16. To enable the common council to build or repair money for bridges, and fully and effectually carry out and perform any poses, etc. and all powers conferred upon them by this act, they may borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent per annum, and issue the bonds of the city therefor, signed by

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the mayor and clerk; but no money shall be borrowed for a longer period than ten years, nor shall the sum of any and all indebtedness for money thus borrowed by the common council ever exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and if When questhe common council shall deem it necessary to borrow more rowing shall money than is above provided for, the question of making such to electors. loan shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city, at some annual or special election called for that purpose, in the same manner as other special elections are called under this act; but before any loan of money shall be authorized by a vote of the electors of said city, written or printed notices shall be posted by the clerk in at least two places in each ward, for at least five days immediately preceding such election, specifying the object or objects for which money is proposed to be borrowed. The common council may provide by ordi- Manner of nance the manner of voting upon any question of borrowing the same. money, but the votes shall be canvassed and the result certified and determined in the same manner as the result of other votes are canvassed and determined by the provisions of this act: Provided, That the total indebtedness of the city for Proviso. borrowed money shall never exceed twenty-five thousand dollars at any one time.

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of the peace.

SECTION 1. The justices of the peace in said city herein before of justices mentioned shall be deemed justices of the peace of the county of Shiawassee, and they shall have all the powers and jurisdiction given by the general laws of this State in relation to civil and criminal cases before justices of the peace in townships; and appeals from their judgments and convictions may be made to the circuit court for the county of Shiawassee, in the same manner as appeals from justices' judgments and convictions in towns are made: Provided, That all actions within Proviso. the jurisdiction of justices of the peace may be commenced and prosecuted in said justices' courts, when the plaintiff or

defendant, or one of the plaintiffs or defendants, resides in the township of Caledonia, or in a township adjoining the township of Caledonia.

Of taxes.

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CHAPTER VIII.

Sec. 8. The common council shall have authority to assess, levy, and collect taxes on all the real and personal estate taxable in said city, which taxes shall be and remain a lien on the property so assessed until the same is paid: Provided, That they shall not raise by general tax more than three per cent for city purposes on the assessed property of the same in any one year, exclusive of State, county, school, and highway taxes. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved February 21, 1871.

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Officers.

[No. 200. ]

AN ACT to incorporate the village of Caro, in the county of
Tuscola.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That so much of the township of Indianfields, in the county of Tuscola, and State of Michigan, as is embraced in the following described lands, to wit: Entire section three, the same being in town twelve north, of range nine east, be and the same is hereby made and constituted a village corporate, by the name and title of the village of Caro.

Sec. 2. The elective officers of said village shall consist of a president, recorder, treasurer, assessor, and eight trustees, to be elected by a plurality of votes, by ballot, of the inhabitants of said village having the qualification of electors under the constitution of this State; and said oflicers shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are