same. deem proper, which shall be paid into the village treasury to be used and appropriated as shall be directed by the board of trustees as aforesaid; and when any fine or penalty shall not Recovery of exceed one hundred dollars, the same may be recovered before any justice of the peace in the township of Portland; and any interest the inhabitants of said village may have in the fine or penalty to be recovered shall not disqualify any of them to try said cause, or to serve as a juror or witness therein; and the circuit court for the county of Ionia shall also have jurisdiction to try and determine all causes brought for the recovery of any fine or penalty imposed by said by-laws. and review Sec. 13. The assessor of said village shall, once in each Assessment year, roll. and on or before the third Tuesday of March, unless otherwise ordered by the president and trustees, make an assessment roll containing a description of all the property, both real and personal, liable to taxation in said village, and the name of the owner or occupant, or agent thereof, if known, and the name of all persons liable to pay a capitation or poll tax, as provided for in this act, and shall estimate and set down in such roll the valuation of all such property at its fair cash value, placing the value of personal property on a separate line; and Notice of, it shall be the duty of the president and trustees, once in of same. each and every year, and immediately after the assessor has assessed the real and personal estate lying and being in said village, and before any tax shall be levied on the same, to give ten days' notice, by publishing thereof either in some newspaper printed in said village, or by posting the same up in three public places in said village, of the time and place of reviewing said assessment roll, under the supervision of the president and assessor, that any person or persons deeming themselves aggrieved may be heard, and the roll may then and there be altered if it shall be made to appear that any person has been wrongfully assessed. After the expiration of the said ten days, Apportionthe assessor and president and trustees shall immediately pro- taxes. ment of marshal with warrant. ceed to estimate, apportion, and cause to be set down, in a column opposite to the several sums set down as the value of real and personal estate in the assessment roll, the respective sums in dollars and cents to be paid as a general tax or assessment thereon; and the tax upon real estate shall be set down in a column by itself. Any special tax or assessment for public or local improvements, authorized by any provisions of this act, may be included in said assessment roll, and shall be set down in a column by itself, opposite the proper description. Any capitation or poll tax authorized by this act may be included in said assessment roll, and the last column of said Delivery to roll shall contain the total amount of taxes. And they shall then cause said assessment roll, or a copy thereof, to be delivered to the marshal of said village, with a warrant annexed thereto, under the hand and seal of said assessor, directing and requiring him to collect from the several persons named in said roll the several sums mentioned therein, set opposite their respective names as a tax or assessment, and authorizing him, in case any of them shall neglect or refuse to pay such sums, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person or persons, together with the costs and charges of such distress and sale, and directing him to pay such money, when collected, to the treasurer of said village, by a certain day therein named, not less than forty days from the date of said warrant; and said warrant may be renewed from time to time, as the president and trustees may deem best. Review of And when any assessment shall be made for any special sessment. improvement, it shall be legal, even if it is not made at the time of making the grand list, notice being given of the review of said assessment as herein provided. Collection and return of same. Warrant may be renewed. special as Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 230. ] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Richland. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Boundaries. so much of the township of Richland, in the county of Kalamazoo, including all the several described pieces or parcels of land embraced within the following territory, to wit: the southwest quarter of section fourteen (14), the northwest quarter of section twenty-three (23), and the northeast quarter of section twenty-two (22), and the southeast quarter of section fifteen (15), all in town one (1) south, of range ten (10) west, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate, under the name of "The village of Richland." Sec. 2. The inhabitants of the said village of Richland having Elections. the qualifications of electors under the constitution shall meet at the Richland seminary building in said village on the second Tuesday of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, aud annually thereafter on the first Tuesday in April, at such place in said village as the president and board of trustees of the said village of Richland shall designate, and then and there, by plurality of votes, elect by ballot from among the qualified electors of said village, one officers. president, four trustees, one recorder, one assessor, and one treasurer, who shall, except the trustees, hold their office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The trustees, at the first election held under this act, shall hold their offices, two of them for one year, and two of them for two years, to be determined by lot at the first meeting of the common council held subsequent to said election; and at each election after the first, only two trustees shall be elected annually, who shall hold their offices for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, That if Proviso any such election for any cause shall not be made on the day failure to when pursuant to this act it ought to be made, the said corporation for that cause shall not be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful to hold such elections at any relative to hold election Inspectors of election. time thereafter, pursuant to public notice, to be given as hereinafter provided. Sec. 3. At the first election to be holden under this act, which shall be held on the second Tuesday of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventytwo, there shall be chosen by the qualified electors there present, from among their number, two judges and two clerks of said election, who together shall constitute the board of inspectors thereof, each of whom shall, before entering upon his office, take an oath before some person authorized to administer oaths, that he will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties thereof. The said board shall conduct the said election and certify the result thereof; and at each and every election thereafter to be held in said village under the provisions of this act, the president and two or more of the trustees of said village shall be the board of inspectors thereof, and the recorder shall be the clerk of said board; Opening and that the poll of such election shall be opened between the closing of polls. Canvass of votes. hours of eight and ten o'clock in the forenoon, and shall continue open until four o'clock in the afternoon of said day, and no longer, and that the name of such elector voting at such election shall be written on the poll-list, to be kept at such election by the officer or officers holding the same, and the said officer shall proceed, without delay, publicly to count the ballots unopened, and if the number of ballots so counted shall exceed the number of electors contained in the poll-list, the officer or officers holding the said election shall draw out and destroy, unopened, so many of the ballots as shall amount to the excess, and if two or more ballots are found rolled or folded together, they shall not be estimated; and thereupon the officers holding such election shall immediately proceed, openly and publicly, to canvass and estimate the votes given at such election, and shall complete the said canvass and estimate on the same day, and shall thereupon certify and declare the number of votes tion of elec given for each person voted for, and shall make and file such Determinacertificate in the office of the recorder of said village before tion. two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day after the said election, at which time the common council shall canvass said returns and declare the result of said election; and in case it Tie. shall at any time happen that two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes for the same office, the common council shall take as many strips of paper, of equal size, as there are persons having equal number of votes, and write a ballot for each of such persons, one on each of said strips of paper, and shall put said ballots together in a hat or box, and one of the members of said council shall then draw from said hat or box one of said ballots, and the person whose name shall be upon the ballot so drawn shall be declared elected; and in all cases not herein otherwise provided for, the inspectors of said election, or of any election held pursuant to this act, shall have the same powers, and proceed in the same manner in all respects as prescribed by the laws of this State for the inspectors of special and general elections. elections. persons of officers. Sec. 4. The recorder of said village shall give five days' Notice of notice in writing, to be posted in three public places in said village, of the time and place of holding all elections, both annual and special, in said village, and as soon as practicable, Notice to and within five days after the closing of the polls of any elec- elected. tion, notify the officers respectively of their election; and the Qualification said officers so elected and notified as aforesaid shall, within ten days after the serving of such notice, take an oath or affirmation before some officer authorized to administer the same, to support the constitution of the United States and of this State, and faithfully and impartially to execute and discharge the duties of their respective offices, a certificate of which shall be filed with the recorder of said village. and recorder Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at all President meetings of said council, and in case of his absence, the com- at meetings mon council may appoint one of their own number a presi of councií. |