notice the names of registered electors, or post handbills containing this act to govern the same, as in case of general or charter elections. The provisions Provisions of of this act, or so much thereof as may be applicable, shall govern the board. and regulate the action of said board, each member thereof, and all other persons, in reviewing and completing the register of electors at such session, and all persons are hereby made liable to the penalties prescribed therein for any violation of the same at such session, as if the same were here again enacted. In case there may Vacancies. be any vacancy in the then board for such ward or district, said council may fill the same.' 1 act a misde ing of board in side Detroit, and session. (192.) SEC. 35. Any willful violation of duty by any person Violation of this charged with the execution of this act, or of any provision thereof not herein particularly provided for, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the person guilty thereof shall be punished accordingly. (193.) SEC. 36. The boards of registration in each township, Time for meetvillage, or city, respectively, in the county of Wayne, outside of the Wayne Co., outcity of Detroit, shall cause a session of the said respective boards duration of to be held on the first Monday in October, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and on the first Monday in October in every fourth year thereafter, for the purpose of making a re-registration of the qualified electors of each town, village, city, ward, or election district therein. The said several respective boards shall be in session on the first Monday in October, aforesaid, and for not less than three nor more than six days thereafter, from nine o'clock in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon, and from two o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon, and shall be provided with the proper blank books for registering the names of voters, of the form heretofore used, and shall have the same powers, and perform the same duties as are conferred upon or required of boards of registration under the act aforesaid and the acts amendatory thereto, and the same rules and requirements shall be observed in such re-registration, in all respects, as were required in the original registration under said act. When such registration shall be com- When former pleted, the former registry of electors in such townships, cities, be deemed villages, or election districts shall henceforth be deemed invalid, invalid. and shall not be used at the ensuing elections, and no person shall vote at any public election in said towns, cities, or villages, after such re-registration, whose name shall not be registered anew under the provisions of this section, or be afterwards properly entered on such new registry according to the provisions of said act. The provisions concerning a re-registration in the city of Detroit shall registry shall 1 Vide note to section 80 of this act. Session of board of registration in Detroit. Repeal. Proviso. Secretary of ballots. apply to the aforesaid cities as far as the same may be adapted thereto.' An Act to amend an act entitled an act further to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against the abuses of the elective franchise, by a registration of clectors. [Approved March 16, 1861. Laws of 1861, p. 549.] (194.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That on the second Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next preceding the general election, and on the second Thursday and Friday next preceding the day of the regular charter election of the city of Detroit, and not afterwards, the board of registration shall be in session at such places in the several wards and districts as they shall designate in their notices as prescribed by law, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of completing the list of qualified voters, in pursuance of said act, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; and any member of said board may administer an oath or affirmation to the applicant that he shall true answers make to all questions put to him touching his qualifications as an elector. (195.) SEC. 2. So much of sections one and five of the act aforesaid, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftynine, as may be inconsistent with this act, and all other acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed: Provided, That this act shall apply and have force only in the city of Detroit, in the county of Wayne. An Act directing the Secretary of State to provide the electors of this State with uniform ballots on constitutional amendments. [Approved April 17, 1871. Laws of 1871, p. 315.] (196.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, State to supply That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause to be printed a sufficient number of ballots to supply the electors of every township, ward, and voting precinct in this State with ballots on all amendments to the Constitution which may hereafter be subTime of sending. mitted to the people at any general election. And he shall, at least thirty days before any such general election at which constitutional amendments are to be voted upon, transmit said ballots in proporCounty clerk to tionate lots to the county clerk of each county, whose duty it shall be to transmit the same forthwith in proportionate lots to the various inspectors of election, for distribution at the polls. distribute. As added by Act 112, of the Laws of 1871, p. 180, approved and took effect April 13, 1871. An Act to provide for the registration of clectors in new townships. election to con of registration. (197) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Inspectors of That the persons named in the act erecting any new township, as stitute a board inspectors of election, whether passed by the Legislature of this State or the board of supervisors of the proper county, shall constitute a board of registration for such new township, until such officers are elected and qualified as provided by law. board. (198.) SEC. 2. Such inspectors shall meet in the capacity of such Meeting of board of registration, on the Saturday next preceding the first township meeting in such new township, at the place mentioned in the act providing for the organization thereof, for holding such first township meeting, and shall be governed, in all respects, by Act of 1859 to the provisions of act number 177, of session laws of 1859, which pertain to registration of electors in townships, as far as the same are applicable, except as is hereinafter provided. govern action ter. (199.) SEC. 3. The name of any person may be registered at such Who may regisfirst township meeting, who shall make due proof, by his own oath, before the board of inspectors of such meeting, that he is possessed of the qualifications of an elector in such new township, under existing laws, other than that requiring registration. chairman and (200.) SEC. 4. The members of such board of registration hereby Election of created, shall elect one of their number chairman, and another clerk. clerk of said board, who shall respectively possess the same powers Powers and and perform the same duties which belong to and devolve upon the duties of. supervisor and township clerk, while acting on a board of registration in an organized township, as now provided by law. board; how (201.) SEC. 5. In case one or more of the persons appointed as Vacancies on such inspectors of election herein before mentioned shall, from any filled." cause, fail to appear at the place specified for the holding of such first township meeting, to form a board of registration, as herein provided, such vacancy or vacancies on said board shall be filled from among the electors, by a majority vote of the electors present at the hour appointed for opening the session of said board. (202.) SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of such board of inspectors, or Notice of meetthe surviving member or members thereof, in case of the decease ing; how given. or removal of one or more of the same, to give public notice of such meeting, for the purpose aforesaid, by causing a written or printed notice, which shall state the object of such meeting, the time when and the place where the same is to be held, to be posted in five of the most public places in such new township, at least fifteen days previous to the time of holding said meeting. SEC. 7. This act shall take immediate effect. TITLE IV. CERTAIN STATE OFFICERS; COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFI CHAPTER VII. Certain State Officers and their Duties. CHAPTER VIII. Commissioners of Deeds in other States. CHAPTER IX. Counties. CHAPTER X. County Officers and their Duties. CHAPTER XI. Resignations, Vacancies, and Removals, and Supplying Vacancies. CHAPTER VII. Governor's salary. When Governor's salary to be received by Lieut. Governor. CERTAIN STATE OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES. From chapter twelve of Revised Statutes of 1846. THE GOVERNOR. (203.) SECTION 1. The Governor shall receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid quarter-yearly, and shall not be entitled to any fees or perquisites of office in addition to his salary. (204.) SEC. 2. Whenever, by the impeachment of the Governor, his removal from office, death, resignation, or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor, the salary of the Governor shall cease, and the same shall be received by the Lieutenant Governor, as a full 1 The salary of the Governor is reduced to one thousand dollars by Art. 9 of Constitution of 1850. compensation for his services until such disability shall cease or the Const., Art. 5, vacancy be filled. Sec. 17. ry of the Gov (205.) SEC. 3. The Governor may, at the commencement of each Private Secretasession of the Legislature, appoint a private secretary, who shall ernor. hold his office during the session, unless sooner removed by the Governor, and shall receive for such services the sum of three dollars per day for the time employed, unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct; such sum to be paid on the joint order of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, by the State Treasurer.' An Act to promote immigration to Michigan. [Approved April 3, 1869. Laws of 1869, p. 188.] gration. (206.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Governor to appoint commisThat the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and empowered sioner of emi-; to appoint a citizen of the State, at a salary not to exceed twenty- Salary. five hundred dollars per annum, to act as a commissioner of emigration, and to reside in Germany, for the purpose of encouraging immigration to Michigan from the German States and other countries of Europe, and to act under such advice and direction as the Governor may from time to time deem proper to give, to carry out the object of this act. (207.) SEC. 2. The Governor is authorized to draw upon the gene- Expenses; how ral fund for such an amount, not exceeding five thousand dollars paid. any one year, as he may consider necessary to defray the expenses of said commissioner in traveling, and in printing in the German and other languages, circulars, handbills, and pamphlets, and to appoint a local agent in this country to act in concert Appointment with said commissioner, at an annual salary not to exceed fifteen local agent. hundred dollars, if, in his opinion, the interests of the State will be promoted thereby. SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. THE SECRETARY OF STATE. and salary of Secretary of custody of great (208.) SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall have the custody of the great seal of the State, and copies of all records and papers in State to have his office, certified by him and authenticated by the great seal of seal, etc. the State, shall be evidence in all cases equally, and with the like effect, as the originals. 1 As amended by Act 18 of 1848, p. 14. |