AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Amendments to the Constitution proposed by the Legislature of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and ratified and approved by the people at the April election of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

ARTICLE FOUR.

SEC. 49. The Legislature may provide for the laying out, construction, improvement and maintenance of highways, bridges and culverts by counties and townships, and may authorize counties to take charge and control of any highways within their limits for such purposes; and may modify, change or abolish the powers and duties of township commissioners and overseers of highways. But the tax raised in any one year shall not exceed two dollars upon each one thousand dollars valua tion, according to the assessment roll of the county for the preceding year. The Legislature may also prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to highways, bridges and culverts, and may provide for one or more county road commissioners, to be elected by the people, or appointed, with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by law.

No county shall incur any indebtedness for any purposes in excess of three per cent of the valuation, according to the last assessment roll, and no such indebtedness beyond one-half of one per cent of such valuation shall be incurred, unless authorized by a majority of the electors of said county voting thereon: Provided, That any county road system provided by law shall not go into operation in any county until the electors of said county, by a majority vote, have declared in favor of adopting the county road system.

ARTICLE SIX

SEC. 6. The State shall be divided into Judicial Circuits, in each of which the electors thereof shall elect one circuit judge, who shall hold his office for a term of six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. The Legislature may provide for the election of more than one circuit judge in the judicial circuit in which the city of Detroit is or may be situated, and in the judicial circuit in which the county of Saginaw is or may be situated, and in the judicial circuit in which the county

of Kent is or may be situated, [and in the judicial circuit in which the county of St. Clair is or may be situated.] And the circuit judge or judges of such circuits, in addition to the salary provided by the constitution, shall receive from their respective counties such additional salary as may from time to time be fixed and determined by the Board of Supervisors of said county. And the Board of Supervisors of each county in the upper peninsula is hereby authorized and empowered to give and pay to the circuit judge of the judicial circuit to which said county is attached, such additional salary or compensation as may from time to time be fixed and determined by such Board of Supervisors.

CERTIFICATE.

MICHIGAN

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

LANSING.

I, Justus S. Stearns, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the Legislature of eighteen hundred ninety-nine was on the twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the State of Michigan to be affixed this fourteenth day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

[L. S.]

J. S. STEARNS Secretary of State.