election in the third ward, and on Saturday next preceding said election at the place of holding said election in the fourth ward. For the purpose of making a new and complete registration of the electors in the second, third, and fourth wards of said city, the recorder is authorized to procure suitable registration books for each of said last-named wards. concerning. Sec. 129. The time of the day said board shall be in session, Regulations the mode of proceedings at said meetings of said board, and all laws relating to registration of electors, and the use of such register when completed, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby declared to be in full force and effect in relation to the proceedings at said meetings of said board. to remain in Sec. 130. The legal ordinances, by-laws, rules, and regula- Ordinances tions of said city of Muskegon, and not inconsistent with the force. provisions of this act at the time the said act shall take effect, are hereby continued in full force and effect until legally amended or repealed by the proper authorities of said city. Sec. 131. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Acts re provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 132. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 29, 1871. pealed. No. 252. ] AN ACT to amend section two, of article six, of act number two hundred and forty-five, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the village of Allegan." amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section two, of article six, of act number two hundred and forty-five, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixtynine, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the village of Allegan," be amended so as to read as follows: Board of trustees shall have power to elect president pro tem. To define powers, etc., Sec. 2. The board of trustees shall have full power within said village— First. To elect one of their number president pro tem., as hereinafter provided; Second. To declare and define the powers and duties of the of officers. officers of said village whose powers and duties are not specifically prescribed in this act; To determine of sureties. Third. To determine the amount and sufficiency of the amount, etc., sureties in the official bonds of the treasurer, marshal, and such other officers as they shall deem proper to require security from in the discharge of official duty; To provide for care of Fourth. To provide for the care, custody, and preservation public prop- of the public property of said village; to provide for hydrauerty and construction lic works in said village, and the placing of pipes, mains, and works. hydrants for the extinguishment of fires, and the supplying of hydraulic To enforce duties of officers. To purchase fire apparatus, etc. To establish fire limits, etc. the inhabitants thereof with water upon uniform rates, and to appoint a commission or board to have the charge thereof, under such by-laws or ordinances as may from time to time be adopted by said common council; Fifth. To see that the several officers of the village perform their duties faithfully and correctly, and that proper measures are taken to punish neglect of duty in any of them ; Sixth. To purchase and keep in order fire-engines and other fire apparatus, and to make all needful rules and regulations for the safe keeping of the same, and to organize a fire department and define their duties and the duties of citizens at fires, and prescribe penalties for the violation thereof; Seventh. To establish fire limits within which no wooden building shall be built, enlarged, moved, or placed; to regulate party walls, chimneys, flues, and putting up stoves and stove-pipes: to regulate the construction of smith shops, planing estab lishments, bakeries, and other buildings considered extra hazardous; to guard against fires, and to compel the owners of lots, or owners or occupants of buildings, in such portions of the village as they shall deem best, to provide one or more fire-buckets, and to regulate the keeping of the same; vice, etc. a police. gaming Eighth. To prevent vice or immorality; to preserve peace To prevent and good order; to establish and maintain a competent To maintain police; to suppress, restrain, and close up all disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame or licentiousness, gaming tables, or any To restrain other device or instrument for gaming, and to punish the houses, etc. keepers of the same when kept in violation of any by-law, rule, regulation, or ordinance of said village; to cause vagrants, To restrain idlers, disorderly persons, mendicants, street beggars, common etc. prostitutes, impostors and drunkards to be apprehended and punished, and for that purpose may use the common jail of the county of Allegan; drunkards, sale, etc., of liquors. exhibitions, Ninth. To prevent the selling or giving away of spirituous To prohibit or fermented liquors; Tenth. To license and regulate theatres, shows, travel- To regulate ing concerts, autioneers or auction sales, gift enterprises, etc. hawkers, hucksters, peddlers, and pawnbrokers, or prohibit them from soliciting patronage of the community within the limits of said village, and to require the payment of reasonable license fees; immoderate Eleventh. To prevent and punish immoderate riding or To prevent driving in the streets, and to provide penalties for leaving driving, etc. teams in the street unfastened; nuisances, Twelfth. To prevent and remove nuisance, and to punish To abate persons for committing the same; etc. clearing of Thirteenth. To compel the owners or occupants of lots to To compel clean the sidewalks in front of and adjacent thereto of snow, sidewalks, ice, dirt, and every encumbrance or obstruction; etc. storing of Fourteenth. To regulate the storage of powder, naphtha, To regulate gasoline, nitro-glycerine, combustible oils, lumber, and other combustible combustible material, and the use of the same; materials, etc. Fifteenth. To prevent the use of fire-arms, slung-shots, To prevent metal knuckles, and other weapons; the use of weapons. To regulate markets, etc. Relative to pounds and the impounding of cattle, etc. To prevent the running dogs. Sixteenth. To regulate markets for sale of poultry, meat, vegetables, fruit, fish, hay, wood, lime, and lumber; Seventeenth. To restrain horses, cattle, sheep, swine, mules, and other animals, geese and other fowls from going at large in the streets of said village, under such penalties as they shall in the by-laws prescribe, and to establish and maintain pounds for the restraint of such animals or fowls running at large in violation of any by-law, rule, regulation, or ordinance of said village, and to make all needful rules and regulations for the effective use of the same; Eighteenth. To prevent the running at large of dogs, to at large of require them to be muzzled, and to authorize their destruction if found at large in violation of any ordinance of said village: Nineteenth. To erect lamps and cause the public grounds and such of the streets of said village as they shall deem proper to be lighted at such times as, in their judgment, the wants and interests of the village may require; To light streets, etc. To establish line of Twentieth. To establish lines upon which building [buildbuildings, ings] may be erected, and beyond which such buildings shall not extend; etc. To provide against un safe buildings. Relative to Twenty-first. To prevent the erection and provide for the removal of all buildings deemed unsafe; Twenty-second. To regulate the placing and provide for the shade trees, preservation of hitching-posts and shade trees; etc. To regulate etc. Twenty-third. To provide burial places and to regulate the cemeteries, burial of the dead in said village, and to protect and preserve the monuments, tomb-stones, trees and shrubbery, property. ornaments, improvements, grounds, and fences in and around any cemetery in said village, and to appoint a proper person to have the charge and oversight of the same. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 253. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, four, five, eight, fifteen, twenty-eight, thirty-nine, and fifty-nine, and to add two new sections thereto, to be known as sections seventy and seventyone, of act number two hundred and fifty-seven, of session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Hillsdale." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, four, five, eight, fifteen, twenty-eight, [thirty-nine,] and fifty-nine, of act number two hundred and fifty-seven, of session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, [approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,] entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Hillsdale," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sections amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Boundaries. all that tract of country situated in the county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, and described as follows, viz: The south half of section twenty-two (22), the south half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-two (22), the northeast quarter of section twenty-two (22), the west half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-three (23), the south half of section twenty-three (23), section twenty-six (26), section twenty-seven (27), the north half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-four (34), the north half of the northeast quarter of section thirty-four (34), the north half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-five (35), the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five (35), and so much of the east half of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five (35) which lies north and east of the lands of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana railroad company, and so much of the north half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-two (22), aforesaid, as lies east of the road running through the same from the city of Hillsdale to the village of Jonesville, all being in township six south, of range three (3) west, be and the same is hereby constituted a city corporate, under the name of the city of Hillsdale. |