Compensation of commissioner. Of overseer. How paid. Direction for work on highways. Improvement of turnpikes, of highways: Provided, Such duties are not in contravention of any provision of this act. SEC. 15. The township highway commissioner shall be entitled to such compensation as the township board may decide, which compensation shall be not less than two dollars per day nor more than three dollars per day for the time actually employed, and the overseer of highways shall be entitled to such compensation as the township board may decide which compensation shall not be less than one dollar and fifty cents per day nor more than two dollars and fifty cents per day for the time actually employed. The compensation of the highway commissioner and the overseer of highways shall be paid from the general or other fund of the township, in the same manner as other township officers are paid. SEC. 16. All work hereafter done upon roads and bridges, except such work as may be required for repairs, shall have in view the permanent improvement of such roads and bridges. Before beginning such permanent improvement on any highway, a survey of the highway shall be made by a competent surveyor and a profile of such survey shall be made and placed on file with the township clerk. This profile shall show the grade lines of the center of the highway and the bottom of the ditches, and there shall be indicated upon the profile a grade line showing cuts and fills which, in the opinion of the surveyor, should be made in order to establish a good grade. All turnpiking shall be done according to this profile before putting gravel or stone on the highway, unless it can be clearly shown to the township board, and agreed to by that board, that the grade established on such profile will be impracticable and inadvisable when completed, in which case a new grade shall be indicated on the profile, which grade shall be satisfactory to said board. Before proceeding to permanently improve any highway the commissioner shall set grade stakes not more than one hundred feet apart, on the side of the highway to be improved, to which the grade shall be made to conform. The highway shall be constructed in such a manner as to form a turnpike, sufficiently crowning to shed water, with gutters or ditches adequate for drainage. The width of the turnpike shall be not less than eighteen feet between side ditches. SEC. 17. After any such turnpike shall be used for one graveling, etc. year, the ruts shall be filled, after which it shall be graveled or macadamized in cases where gravel or crushed stone can conveniently be obtained. If it be advisable to put on gravel or stone when grading has been completed, the turnpike shall first be thoroughly compacted. In graveling or macadamizing any highway, the gravel or stone shall be placed on the center thereof, in a mass not less than nine feet wide, and not less than six nor more than twelve inches deep, in the discretion of the highway commissioner. continued. SEC. 18. The work specified in section sixteen and sec- Work to be tion seventeen of this act shall be continued until all the highways in the township are made equal to the requirements of said sections. grading, etc., SEC. 19. Whenever any person or persons interested in Graveling, any highway, wish to improve the same by grading, graveling, by private macadamizing or paving they may do so at their own ex- parties. pense, and in such manner as may be approved by the highway commissioner; and when sufficient means shall be provided by such party or parties to make the improvement desired, the highway commissioner shall furnish a grade for such highway and direct the manner in which it shall be graded, and his per diem while so employed shall be paid by the township as though the township were making the improvement. The highway commissioner shall, if requested Commissioner to do so by the party or parties making the improvement, work." supervise and direct the graveling, macadamizing or paving, and his per diem while so employed shall be paid by the township as though the township were making the improvement: Provided, That no highway commissioner or any other Proviso, as to town officer shall be awarded any contract for any labor to be performed under the provisions of this act, and any such contract, so awarded, shall be void. to supervise contracts. where SEC. 20. Materials for making improvements under any Materials, provision of this act, may be taken from any property set secured. aside for highway purposes in the township. repealed. SEC. 21. Chapter two, "Assessments for highway pur Chapters poses," chapter three, "The performance of labor on highways and the commutation therefor," of act number two hundred forty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyone, as amended, being compiler's sections numbers four thousand seventy-two to four thousand one hundred three, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, and all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 22, 1907. [No. 109.] AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a bacteriologist by the State Board of Health; to provide for the purchase of the necessary appliances and apparatus for bacteriological examinations, and providing an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Bacteriologist, SECTION 1. The State Board of Health is hereby authorappointment, ized and empowered to employ a competent bacteriologist, salary. Duty. Bacteriologi tion. Analysis of water, etc. Substances whose duties shall be such as are or may be defined by law or defined by said Board of Health, and shall be performed in connection with the department of public health. The salary of the person appointed bacteriologist shall be fixed by the said Board of Health. SEC. 2. The bacteriologist whose appointment is herein provided for shall conduct the routine work in connection with bacteriological examinations and analyses that may be necessary, authorized or required by the provisions of this act or ordered or directed by the said Board of Health, all of which shall be under the supervision of the secretary of said board. SEC. 3. The various boards of health and health officers cal examina- may require a bacteriological examination or analysis of blood, sputum, urine, water, milk, or other substance in localities where there is an outbreak of any contagious disease or epidemic in which bacteriological examination or analysis may be necessary to the public health and welfare, or for the purpose of locating sources of infection, or contamination of water, milk, ice, etc., as the case may be. The said State Board of Health shall also be required to make an examination and analysis of the water used by the public, and of public water supplies, when contamination is suspected, whenever the examination or analysis is required by the mayor of any city, the president of any village, or the supervisor of any township. Such boards or officers shall forward or deliver to the secretary of the State Board of Health a sample of the substance required to be analyzed, in a sealed package or jar accompanied by a statement from such board or officer, indicating the necessity for the analysis. The examination or analysis for the boards or officers above named shall be made free of charge. The State Board of Health shall also make a bacteriological examination or analysis in all matters of a criminal nature whenever requested by the prosecuting attorney of the county in Proviso, cost. which the case may arise: Provided, however, That any prosecuting attorney requiring any analysis of a criminal nature shall be required to pay to the said State Board of Health the nominal cost of the materials used and for the sent in sealed packages. Analysis in criminal matters. time necessarily spent in making such examination or analysis, which amount shall constitute a charge against the particular county and shall be covered into the State treasury to the credit of the bacteriological fund in addition to the amount herein appropriated, and may be drawn by the State Board of Health in the manner now provided by the accounting laws of this State for the purpose of maintaining or adding to the equipment of the bacteriological division of the department of health. board may proviso, SEC. 4. The said Board of Health is hereby given au- Apparatus, thority to purchase any and all such apparatus and ap- purchase. pliances as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act: Provided, That the amount paid as salary to Proviso, salthe bacteriologist and expended for apparatus and appli- ary, expenses. ances, in any one year, shall not exceed the amount of the yearly appropriation provided for in this act: Provided fur- Further ther, That any part of the appropriation herein provided for, compilations. not expended for the salary of the bacteriologist or for purchasing apparatus, material and appliances, may be used by the said Board of Health in compiling general information in regard to bacteriological examinations and for such other purposes in connection with the bacteriological work of the department of public health as shall be deemed advisable and necessary by the said board. SEC. 5. There is hereby appropriated out of the moneys Appropriation. in the treasury, to the credit of the general fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars for the Annual fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and appropriation. the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars annually thereafter for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, which amount shall be paid to the State Board of Health in the manner now provided in the general accounting laws of this State. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. Manner of conducting annual election of trustees. [No. 110.] AN ACT to amend sections three, four and five of chapter thirty-two of act number two hundred fifteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," being sections three thousand three hundred forty, three thousand three hundred forty-one and three thousand three hundred forty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections three, four and five of act number two hundred fifteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," being sections three thousand three hundred forty, three thousand three hundred forty-one and three thousand three hundred forty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. Such annual election of school trustees, as above provided, shall be held at such place in each city as the board of education shall designate. In the designation of such place, it shall be the duty of the said board to choose a place most convenient for the accommodation of the voters. The polls shall be open at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and shall continue open, without intermission or adjournment, until the hour of eight o'clock in the afternoon, at which time they shall be finally closed. Said election shall be by ballot and except as herein otherwise directed, shall be conducted in all respects including the manner of selecting candidates; the placing of the names of candidates upon the ballots; the printing of the ballots; erection of booths, etc., in the same manner and in conformity with the provisions of law governing in the case of annual township elections. All the penalties of the general election law relative to neglect of duty or violation of the terms of this act, shall be applicable. The members of the said school board shall be governed by the same restrictions and shall perform similar duties to those prescribed for the township board at annual township meetings. Notice of the time and place of holding such election shall be given by the secretary of the board at least fifteen days before the said election by placing such notices in three of the most public places in each ward of the city, and by publishing a copy thereof in one or more newspapers published in the city, the same length of time Election com- before the election. On or before the twentieth day of June in each year, the board of education shall appoint three election commissioners. All nominations for the office of trustee shall be made by petition signed by at least twenty-five Notice of election. missioners. Nomination petitions. |