mated, assessed and collected, and the lands charged therewith, to be sold in case of non-payment, in the same manner as is provided by law with respect to other public improvements within said city; and in all cases where the said by-laws or ordinances shall require anything to be done in respect to the property of several persons, the expenses thereof may be included in one assessment, and the several houses and lots in respect to which such expenses shall have been incurred, shall be briefly described, in the manner required by law, in the assessment roll for the general expenses of the said city, and the sum of money assessed to each owner or occupant of any such house or lot shall be the amount of money expended in making such improvement upon such premises, together with a ratable proportion of the expenses of assessing and collecting the moneys expended in making such improvements. buildings, removed. Sec. 204. Whenever, in the opinion of the common council, Unsafe any building, fence, or other erection of any kind, or part &c.; how thereof, is liable to fall down, and persons or property may thereby be endangered, they may order any owner or occupant of the premises on which such building, fence, or other erection stands, to take down the same, or any part thereof, within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the order, or immediately, as the case may require; or may immediately, in case the order is not complied with, cause the same to be taken down at the expense of the city, on account of the owner of the premises, and assess the same on the land on which it stood. The order, if not immediate in its terms, may be served on any occupant of the premises, or be published in the city paper, as the common council shall direct. board of Sec. 205. The said board of health shall have power to Clerk of appoint a clerk, whose duty it shall be to attend the meetings health. thereof, and to keep a record of its proceedings; and such record, or a duly certified copy of the same, or of any part thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained, in any court or before any officer. The compensation of the clerk of said board of health shall be fixed by said board Compensation. Sureties. Oaths. Who deemed guilty of perjury. Suits against off. corg. of health, by and with the consent of the common council, and such compensation shall be paid in the same manner as the other expenses of said board. Sec. 206. The members of said board of health shall receive such compensation for their services as the common council shall deem reasonable, to be paid from the general contingent fund of said city. Sec. 207. The common council, or the mayor or other officer whose duty it shall be to judge of the sufficiency of the proposed sureties of any officer of whom a bond or instrument in writing may be required, under the provisions of this act, shall examine into the sufficiency of such sureties, and shall require them to submit to an examination, under oath, as to their property; such oath may be administered by the mayor or any alderman of said city; the deposition of the surety shall be reduced to writing, be signed by him, and certified by the person taking the same, and annexed to and filed with the bond or instrument in writing, to which it relates. Sec. 208. The mayor, or chairman of any committee,.or special committee of the common council, shall have power to administer any oath, or take any affidavit, in respect to any matter pending before the common council or such committee. Sec. 209. Any person who may be required to take any oath or affirmation under or by any provisions of this act, who shall, under such oath or affirmation, in any statement or affidavit, or otherwise, willfully swear falsely, as to any material fact or matter, shall be guilty of perjury. Sec. 210. If any suit shall be commenced against any person elected or appointed under this act to any office, for any act done or omitted to be done, under such election or appointment, or against any person having done any thing or act by the command of any such officer, and if final judgment be rendered in such suit, whereby any such defendant shall be entitled to costs, he shall receive double costs in the manner defined by law. against the Sec. 211. All process issued against said city shall run Process against said city in the corporate name thereof; and such pro-city. cess shall be served by leaving a true and attested copy of such process with the mayor or clerk of said city, at least ten days before the day of appearance mentioned therein. repealed. quired, &c., by repeal. Sec. 212. All former acts and parts of acts relating to the Certain acts city of St. Clair, not expressly embodied in or made part of this act, are hereby repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be Rights acconstrued to destroy, impair or take away any right or remedy not affected acquired, or given by any act hereby repealed; and all proceedings commenced under such former acts shall be carried out and completed, and all prosecutions for any offence committed, or penalty or forfeiture incurred, shall be enforced in the same manner, in all respects, and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed; and nothing in this section contained shall be so construed as to annul, or impair, or affect any ordinance, by-law or resolution of said city, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, but the same shall continue and be in force until the same are amended or repealed, as fully as though this act had not been enacted. may have in cases of forcible entry and de tainer. Sec. 213. In all cases of proceedings to recover the posses- Justices sion of land, as provided in chapter one hundred and fifty of the jurisdiction compiled laws of this State, the justices of the peace in and for said city, concurrently with the circuit court commissioners of the county of St. Clair, shall have jurisdiction; and said justices are hereby authorized and empowered, in all cases mentioned and set forth in said chapter one hundred and fifty of said compiled laws, arising, occurring and being within the said city of St. Clair, to receive complaints, issue process, hear, try and determine the same, in like manner, with like proceedings, and to the same extent as is provided to recover the possession of land in the cases mentioned and set forth in said chapter; and the general laws of this State made applicable to proceedings to recover the possession of land in cases of forcible entries and detainers, and summary proceedings to A public act. recover the possession of land in other cases, as provided in said chapter one hundred and fifty of the compiled laws of this State, and the amendments thereto, shall apply to proceedings in justices' courts in this city, in like cases. Sec. 214. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be favorably construed for all purposes therein intended. Sec. 215. This act shall take immediate effect. General election for regents. 1863. fied. vice of cach [ No. 143. ] AN ACT to provide for the election and classification of regents of the University. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That a general election shall be held in the several townships and wards of this State on the first Monday in April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and on the first Monday in April in every second year thereafter, for the election of regents of the university, who shall enter on the duties of their office on the first day of January next succeeding their election. Election in Sec. 2. At the election to be held on the first Monday of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, there shall be elected eight regents of the university, who How classi- shall be divided into four classes, of two each, to be numbered one, two, three and four, whose term of service shall commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and Term of ser sixty-four. The term of service of class number one shall expire in two years; the term of class number two shall expire in four years; the term of class number three shall expire in six years; the term of class number four shall expire in eight years from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. After the first election, two regents shall be elected every two years, and their term of office shall be eight years. The place of each class shall be filled by an election class. Biennial election. at the general election to be held on the first Monday in April next preceding the expiration of their term of service. retary of Sec. 3. The Secretary of State shall, immediately after the Duty of Sea passage of this act, transmit to the sheriff of each organized Stato, county, by mail, a written or printed circular, containing a brief statement of the contents of this act, and shall cause a copy of this act to be printed in such newspapers in each judicial circuit as he may deem proper, once in each week, until ⚫ the first election to be held in pursuance thereof. give notice Sec. 4. The sheriffs of the several counties, on receiving the Sheriff's to notice herein provided for, shall forthwith notify, in writing, of election the township clerk of each township, and one of the inspectors of election in each ward in any city in his county, of such election. how con Sec. 5. The several regents of the university, to be elected Elections; as aforesaid, shall be voted for on the same ballots with the ducted. justice or justices of the supreme court and circuit judge, to be chosen at such election; and the election provided for by this act shall be conducted in the same manner, and by the same officers, and the same notices of time and place shall be given as by existing laws for election of justices of the su preme court, and the inspectors of election shall make the same canvass, statement and return, and shall be invested with the same powers as are provided by the laws of this State for a general election. State and conducted. Sec. 6. The county and State board of canvassers for said Canvass; election shall consist of the same persons as provided by county,how existing laws for canvassing votes for State officers, and the canvass shall be held and conducted in the same manner, and at the same time, and the like statements and returns shall be made, and the said board shall be charged with the same duties, and invested with the like powers as provided by exist ing laws for canvassing votes for justices of the supreme court and circuit judges, and the Secretary of State shall perform the same duties in relation thereto, and all the proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the laws |