made, opened, established or altered, and it shall thereupon be This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 375.] AN ACT to authorize the township of Harmon in Oscoda county, Michigan, to borrow money on the bonds of said township for the purpose of buying a bridge. borrow $1,200. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Authorized to the township of Harmon in the county of Oscoda shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow the sum of twelve hundred dollars for the purpose of and to be applied to the pur- For what chasing of a bridge across the Au Sable river in said township, purpose. from the Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio. SEC. 2. Upon the borrowing of said sum of twelve hundred Bonds, how dollars the said township of Harmon is by its township board issued and paid. hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds upon the faith and credit of said township and to provide for the payment of the same by tax upon said township. In what sums to be issued. Interest. SEC. 3. Said bonds, the issue of which is hereby authorized, shall be issued in sums of one hundred dollars each and shall be issued in behalf of and shall be signed by the supervisor and clerk of said township. They shall draw interest at a rate not exceedWhen payable. ing six per cent per annum, payable annually, and shall be payable at the office of the treasurer of said township or at such place as the township board of said township shall direct, and Bonds of, when shall become due and payable, one each for the sum of one hundred dollars, each year for the twelve years next succeeding their issue. SEC. 4. Said bonds shall not be issued unless the people of said consent of elec- township shall consent thereto by a majority vote of the qualified electors thereof at the next regular election in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. due. Bonds not to issue except by tors, etc. Notice of election. What to contain. Ballots. Election, how conducted. Money how ex. pended. Money to pay raised. SEC. 5. Notice of the submission of such question shall be given in the manner and for the length of time prescribed by law for holding special township meetings, and such notice shall state the amount of such proposed bonds and the purpose for which they are to be issued. The vote shall be by ballot and the ballots shall express "For the bridge bonds," or "Against the bridge bonds," and the result shall be as a majority of those voting shall determine. The election for such purpose shall be conducted and the result ascertained and certified in the manner provided by law for annual and special township meetings. SEC. 6. Said money when so borrowed and received shall be expended for no other purpose than that expressed in this act, and the several amounts of money that will become necessary for bonds, etc., how said township to raise by tax upon the taxable property of said township with which to pay said bonds and the interest thereon as they shall become due shall be included in the annual statement of the township clerk to the supervisor, and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as moneys for general township purposes are levied and collected. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Name changed. [No. 376.] AN ACT to change the name of the village of Jenisonville in the county of Ottawa to Jenison. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the name of the village of Jenisonville in the county of Ottawa be and is hereby changed to Jenison. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 377.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Sherwood in Branch county. incorporated. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Territory the following described territory, to-wit: The west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven, the west half of the northeast quarter of section thirty-four, the northeast quarter of section thirty-three, the east half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-three, the east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-eight, and the southeast quarter of section twentyeight, situated in town five [5] south, range eight [8] west, county of Branch, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate to be known as the village of Sherwood. of officers. SEC. 2. The first election of officers of said village shall be First election held at the opera house in said village, on the fourth Monday in March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eightyseven, due notice of which election shall be given by the board of Notice of. registration hereinafter appointed, by posting notices in three public places in said village ten days before said election. SEC. 3. Loring P. Wilcox, W. R. Mandigo and A. H. French Board of are hereby constituted a board of registration for the purpose of registration. registering voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration shall meet on Saturday next preceding said day of election, at said opera house, and remain in session the same hours required of the board of registration at Session. general elections, and register the names of all persons residing in said village having the qualification of voters at annual township meetings. Due notice of such registration shall be given by Notice. said board by posting notices thereof in three public places in said village ten days previous to said meeting for registration. held at other than time des SEC. 4. The said village of Sherwood shall in all things not Governed by herein otherwise provided be governed and its powers and duties general law. defined by an act entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and acts amendatory thereto. SEC. 5. In case said officers are not elected at the time and in Election may be the manner designated in section two of this act an election for officers may be held at any time within one year from the time ignated. designated in said section two of this act, and notice given as provided by said section. The electors present at the place of Vacancies in registration may fill any vacancy or vacancies that may occur in board of regissuch board of registration. The members of said board of regis- oath of office tration shall take the constitutional oath of office before entering on the discharge of their duties. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. tration. of board. [No. 378.] Territory ted. Officers to remain in office. Ordinances to continue in force. First election, of holding. AN ACT to re-incorporate the village of St. Louis in Gratiot county. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all that tract of country situated in the townships of Bethany and Pine River in the county of Gratiot and State of Michigan and described as follows, to-wit: The south one-half of the northwest fractional quarter of section nineteen (19), the southwest fractional quarter of section nineteen (19) and the northwest fractional quarter of section thirty (30) in the township of Bethany, and the northeast quarter of section twenty-five (25), the southeast quarter of section twenty-four (24) and the south onehalf of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four (24) in the township of Pine River and county of Gratiot be and the same is hereby made and constituted a village corporate by the name, style and title of "The village of St. Louis." SEC. 2. The officers of said village now in office shall continue in office with the powers and duties conferred respectively by this act of re-incorporation, until their successors shall be elected and qualified. SEC. 3. All the ordinances and by-laws of said village of St. Louis that are not in conflict with the general laws relating to the incorporation of villages herein referred to, shall be and remain in full force and effect until repealed by the council of said village. SEC. 4. The first election of village officers under the provistime and place ions of this act shall be held in the engine house on Saginaw street in said village on the second Monday of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the polls of such election shall be opened at the time and such election shall be held and conducted in all respects not herein otherwise provided as provided in the general law for the incorporation of villages and hereinafter referred to, and the legal voters of said village shall be registered before voting as provided by law for the registration of voters in incorporated villages. The board of registration shall for the first election be composed of the acting president, clerk and one trustee of such village, to be chosen by the common council of such village. Manner of conducting. Board of registration. Notice of first election. Governed by general law. SEC. 5. Notice of the first election shall be given by the clerk of said village by posting notices thereof reciting the officers to be chosen in three or more public places in said village at least eight days before such election and by publishing a copy of such notice at least one week before such election in a newspaper published in said village. Such posted notices may be either written or printed. SEC. 6. The said village of St. Louis is hereby re-incorporated under the provisions of an act entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the acts sup plementary and amendatory thereto. The said village as re-incorporated shall possess all the rights and property and be subject to all the liabilities and obligations of the village as heretofore incorporated, subject to said general act. SEC. 7. Act number two hundred and twenty-three of the Act repealed. session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to re-incorporate the village of St. Louis," approved March twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and all acts amendatory thereto are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 379.] AN ACT to authorize the township of Cumming in the county of Ogemaw, Michigan, to borrow money upon its bonds to pay outstanding township and highway orders and its other lawful obligations and to provide for the payment of said bonds. borrow $3,000. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Authorized to the township board of the township of Cumming in the county of Ogemaw, Michigan, be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of said township the sum of three thousand dollars; five hundred dollars shall be due and when due and payable in five years from the date of said loan, five hundred payable. dollars in six years, five hundred dollars in seven years, five hundred dollars in eight years, five hundred dollars in nine years and five hundred dollars in ten years, at a rate of interest not exceed Rate of ing seven per cent per annum, payable annually, and to execute the coupon bonds of said township therefor in such form as said Bonds, how board shall determine, said bonds and coupons to be signed by the chairman and clerk of said township board. interest. executed. Condition upon shall be SEC. 2. Such money shall not be borrowed nor such bonds issued unless a majority of the qualified electors of said township, which money voting at the regular township meeting held in April, eighteen borrowed. hundred and eighty-seven, shall so determine; and it is hereby Notice of made the duty of the township board of said township to give due election. notice that the question of issuing said bonds will be voted on at said township meeting, by posting in five public places in said township, not less than ten days before said election, written or printed notices which notices shall state the amount of money what to state.. proposed to be borrowed and the purpose to which it will be applied. SEC. 3. The vote upon such proposition shall be by ballot, Ballots. either written or printed, or partly written and partly printed. Ballots in favor of such proposition shall be in the following Form of. duty of the said township board to provide at the polls of such How provided. election during the whole time while the same shall be open a |