members elected shall agree to pass the same, it shall take effect as SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 292. ] AN ACT to detach certain townships from the county of Schoolcraft and attach the same to the township of Chocolay, in the county of Marquette. detached from attached to SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Territory townships forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, and forty-seven north, Schoolcraft of range twenty-three west, be and they are hereby detached from county and the county of Schoolcraft and are hereby attached to the township Chocolay in of Chocolay, in the county of Marquette, and shall form a part of said township of Chocolay. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [No. 293.] AN ACT to amend sections two, five, eight, nine, thirteen, fifteen, and twenty-one of act number two hundred and six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being an act entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Vassar." Marquette county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections two, five, eight, nine, thirteen, fifteen, and twenty-one, of amended. an act to incorporate the village of Vassar, being act two hundred and six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be and are hereby amended to read as follows: annual elections. SEC. 2. The male inhabitants of said village, having the qualifi- Time and place cation of electors under the constitution of this State, shall meet of holding in said village, on the first Monday of March next, at the council hall in said village; and annually thereafter at such place as shall Officers and be provided in the by-laws of said village, and there, by ballot, terms of office. shall elect by plurality of votes, one person to be president of said village, and two persons in like manner shall be elected trustees for two years, and two for three years. And there shall be elected a marshal, treasurer, clerk, and assessor; and annually thereafter, a president, marshal, treasurer, clerk, and assessor shall be elected. as aforesaid, who shall hold their respective offices for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. And two trustees shall be elected, who shall hold their office for three years, or until their successors are elected and qualified; but if an election of president and trustees shall not be made on the day provided for in this act, the corporation shall not for that reason be dissolved, and President. it shall be lawful to hold such election at any time thereafter, public notice being given as prescribed by this act for the holding of Village board. regular elections. The president and two trustees thus elected, together with four trustees whose term of office is unexpired, shall constitute a village board; and a majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less number may adjourn from time to time. The president shall also be the chief executive officer of the village; he shall preside at the meetings of the board, and it shall be his duty to see that all the officers of said village faithfully discharge their duties; and in case of his absence or inability to serve, the trustees shall have power to elect from their own number a president pro tem., who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of president. The treasurer, Bonds of officers marshal, and assessor shall, before entering upon the duties of their offices, give such bond with such sureties as the village board may prescribe. Board of registration. Judges and clerk of election. President and trustees a board of health. of village board. SEC. 5. The president, clerk, and the two trustees of said village having the shortest time to serve shall constitute a board of regis tration, with the powers and duties of boards of registration in townships and cities, and they shall meet at the clerk's office on the Saturday next preceding any general or special election, and at all subsequent annual elections any two of the trustees may be judges of the election; and the clerk of the village, or in case of his absence any person chosen by the trustees, shall be clerk of the election; and the judges and the clerk shall take an oath, to be administered by some person qualified to administer oaths, to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as judges or clerk of such election; and said board shall have such power to preserve the purity of the election as is now, or may hereafter be given to the township boards of election. SEC. 8. The president and trustees shall have and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of a board of health, and may appoint a physician to the board, who shall be health officer of said village, and who shall hold his office during the pleasure General powers of said board, and they shall have power to ordain and establish by-laws, rules and regulations, and to alter or repeal the same at pleasure, for the following purposes, viz: For the appointment of such other officers whose election is not herein provided for, for said village, as they may deem necessary, and to fix the compensation of their services, and also, such as they may deem necessary and right for the maintenance and preservation of the public places, property, and buildings of said village, and to regulate the police thereof; to preserve the public peace; to prevent riots, disturbances, and disorderly aseemblages; to appoint watchmen and policemen, and organize a fire department, and define their duties and prescribe penalties for their delinquencies; to restrain, apprehend, and punish vagrants, mendicants, drunkards, and all disorderly persons; to punish lewd and lascivious behavior, and profane or blasphemous language in the streets or other public places; to suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, billiard tables, and other devices and instruments of gaming; and shall have the of village board. exclusive power to license such persons as tavern keepers and General powers common victualers as they think best (but no license shall remain in force beyond the life of the board granting it, or authorize the sale of spirituous liquors); to prevent the selling of or giving away spirituous or fermented liquors to drunkards, minors, or apprentices; to abate, prevent, or remove nuisances; to suppress all disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame, and to punish the keepers and inmates thereof; to prevent and compel the removal of all incumbrances, encroachments, and obstructions upon the streets, walks, lanes, alleys, parks, and public grounds; to compel the owners or occupants of lots to clear sidewalks in front of and adjacent thereto of snow, ice, dirt, mud, boxes, and every other incumbrance or obstruction thereto; to regulate the storage of powder, kerosene oil, turpentine, lumber, and other combustible material; to prevent the use of fire-arms, slung-shots, and other weapons, and of fireworks; to construct and regulate markets for the vending of poultry, meat, vegetables, fish, and fruits; to regulate the sale of hay, wood, lime, lumber, and coal; to regulate the gauging of vessels containing liquor; the sealing of weights and measures; to regulate and maintain pounds, and to provide for the restraint of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, mules, and other animals, geese or other poultry; to prevent the running at large of dogs; to require them to be muzzled, and to authorize their destruction if found running at large, in violation of any ordinance; to regulate and license cartmen, porters, hacks, cabs, and to regulate their rates of compensation; to prevent runners from soliciting travelers; to construct hydraulic works to supply the village with water; to light the streets; to borrow money for public improvements, not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year, the same being first recommended by the board of trustees, and confirmed by a majority of the electors of said village; to establish wells and cisterns, and to prevent the waste of water; to prevent bathing in public streams; to purchase grounds for, and regulate cemeteries and the burial of the dead, and to provide for the return of the bills of mortality, and to order the use, for burial purposes, of any burying-ground or cemetery to be discontinued whenever they may deem the same necessary for the best interest or health of the citizens; to ascertain, settle, and establish the boundaries of all streets and alleys, and to establish grades therefor; also, to order and cause to be drained, or filled up, all pools and swamps in said village, and to assess the cost and expenses on the premises benefited: Provided, That two-thirds of such property be represented in petition for such improvements; to regulate the building of partition and other fences; to establish lines upon which buildings may be erected, and beyond which such buildings shall not extend; to prevent the erection of buildings in an unsafe manner, and to pass all necessary regulations relative to buildings which may be deemed unsafe; to purchase and keep in order fire engines and other apparatus, to construct buildings to store them, and to cause each building occupied as a house, store, or shop to be provided with fire buckets and ladders; to establish fire limits, with General powers in which no wooden building shall be built, enlarged or placed; to of village board. regulate chimneys, partition walls, flues, and putting up of stoves or stove-pipes; to regulate the construction of smith-shops, planing-mills, and other buildings considered unreasonably hazardous; to guard against fires, to regulate the duties, powers, and fees of village officers, except those of the president and trustees, who shall be allowed no pay; to prescribe the setting of posts and shade trees; to provide for the construction of sidewalks and repairing of the same; to grade the walks, streets, alleys, and to prescribe the manner of planking or repairing them; to construct and keep in repair the public highways, sewers, and culverts (provided that nothing in this act shall be construed to exempt the township of Vassar from liability to keep in repair any bridge over any stream, or the grading, planking, or other improvements of streets, in passing over or on side hills in said village); to lay out new streets and alleys, and to extend those already laid out, under the restrictions provided in this act; to vacate streets and alleys; to prescribe levying and collection of highway and other taxes; to provide for taking a census whenever they shall see fit; to regulate theaters, shows, and concerts; to regulate and tax at their discretion auctioneers and auction sales, gift enterprises, hawkers, hucksters, peddlers, and pawnbrokers; to regulate the covering of mill-races, at the expense of the owners thereof; to rail and curb, where necessary, all walks at the expense of the owners of the adjoining lots; to assess and levy taxes, not exceeding one per cent upon the assessed value, in addition to all special taxes provided for in this act, on all personal and real estate within the limits of said village, except property belonging to the town, county, State, and places of public worship belonging to any church or congregation, and all grounds and buildings used exclusively for educational purposes; to take the land of any individual for the purpose of widening or extending streets, lanes, alleys, drains, or sewers, but not until such individual shall be paid the value thereof, and all buildings thereon, and all the damages he will sustain, as provided for in this act. For the violation of any by-laws, rules, and regulations, such reasonable penalties may be imposed as the president and trustees may deem proper, and when any fine or penalty shall not exceed one hundred dollars, the same may be recovered before any justice of the peace in the town of Vassar, and any interest the inhabitants of the village of Vassar may have in the fine or penalty to be recovered shall not disqualify any inhabitant of said village to try said cause and serve as a juror or witness therein; and the circuit court of the county of Tuscola shall also have jurisdiction to try and determine all causes brought for the recovery of any fine or penalty imposed by said by-laws, where the sum claimed shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars. Persons liable to pay poll-tax. SEC. 9. Every male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of fifty, residing in said village on the first day of April of every year, or upon such other day as the president and board of trustees shall name, shall be liable to pay a poll tax of one dollar, to be collected by the marshal, except paupers, idiots, lunatics, and members of a regularly organized fire department, or others now exempt by the laws of this State; and any person so liable to pay a poll-tax, who shall neglect or refuse to pay the same within ten days from the demand made by the marshal, either by working one day upon the highway under the direction of the marshal or by commuting one dollar to the marshal; and the List of persons president and trustees shall prepare a list and cause it to be deliv- liable to pay ered to the marshal in the month of April of each year, of all persons liable to pay the said poll-tax; and the president and trustees Highway fund. shall have the exclusive control of the highway money levied and collected in the village, and may impose such fines and penalties for the collection of the same as the said village board shall deem proper, not contrary to existing laws. poll-tax. to marshal. SEC. 13. The assessor of said village shall, by the tenth day of Assessment June in each year, make an assessment roll containing a descrip- roll. tion of all the real estate and the valuation of all the personal property, copying it as nearly as possible from the last assessment roll of the township of Vassar, with the name of the owner or occupant thereof, or agent, if known, and shall set down in such roll the cash valuation of such property, as assessed by the supervisor, putting the personal property in a separate line, and it shall be the duty of the assessor, president, and trustees, on the third Monday in June of each year, to be present in some convenient Review of same. place in said village for the purpose of reviewing said assessment roll, 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; the completion of assessor shall at once proceed to estimate, apportion, and set down roll and delivery in a column left for that purpose, 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 tax or assessment thereon, and 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 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 names, as a tax or assessment, and authorize him, in case any one shall neglect or refuse to pay such sums, to levy the same by distress and sale of his or her goods and chattels, 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 date of said warrant. Said warrant may be renewed from time to time as Renewal of warthe president and trustees may deem best, and when any assess- rant. ment shall be made for any special improvement, it shall be legal special assesseven if it is not made at the time of making the general list, notice ment. being given of the review of said assessment, as herein provided. tate for taxes. SEC. 15. The tax upon real estate, with all the assessments for Sale of real esthe purpose named in the eighth section of this act, shall be put down in the assessment roll by itself in a column, and whenever any |