Election, how conducted. Certificates. Where filed. Money, how expended. Duty of supervisor and treasurer. Interest and principal, when and by whom paid. Territory incorporated. First election. Notice of. sufficient number of ballots both for and against such proposition printed or written in the form above indicated, and to furnish all electors desiring to vote thereon; the election shall be conducted and the votes canvassed in all respects as in other township elections. Immediately upon the conclusion of such canvass the inspectors of the election shall make and sign a certificate showing the whole number of votes cast upon such proposition and the number for and against respectively, and not later than the third day following such election said inspectors shall endorse upon said certificate the declaration in writing over their hands of the result of said election, which declaration and certificate shall then forthwith be filed with the clerk of said township, to be preserved by him among the archives of said township and a copy thereof shall be by him filed with the clerk of said Ogemaw county. SEC. 4. Any money borrowed under the provisions of this act shall be expended in the payment of outstanding township and highway orders of said township of Cumming existing at the date said bonds shall be issued, and the necessary expense incident to the issue of said bonds, and for no other purpose whatever, and in case of the issue of such bonds it shall be the duty of the supervisor of said township to assess and the treasurer of said township to collect in each year thereafter in addition to any taxes now authorized by law to be assessed and collected in said township an amount sufficient to pay all interest upon such bonds accruing and becoming payable thereon, and also an installment of the principal thereof falling due in any such year, and the said interest shall be payable by the said treasurer after the same shall become due on presentation to him of the proper coupons, and the said principal shall be payable by said treasurer after the same shall become due on presentation to him of proper bonds. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 5, 1887. [No. 380.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Port Hope in the county of Huron and State of Michigan. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the following described territory, to wit: Fractional sections three and four (4), township seventeen (17) north of range fifteen (15) east, being in the township of Rubicon in said county of Huron, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate to be known as the village of Port Hope. SEC. 2. The first election of officers of said village shall be held at the town hall in said village, on the second Monday in April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, due notice of which election shall be given by the board of registration hereinafter appointed by posting notices in three public places in said village ten days before said election. registration. SEC. 3. John D. Thompson, A. J. Matthewson and George Board of Drury are hereby constituted a board of registration for the purpose of registering voters for the first election to be held in said village, and said board of registration shall meet on the Saturday Meeting of. next preceding the day of election at the town hall in said village, and remain in session the same hours required of the board Duties of. of registration at general elections, and register the names of all persons residing in said village and having the qualifications of voters at annual township meetings; due notice of which regis- Notice of tration shall be made by said board by posting notices thereof in meeting. three public places in said village ten days previous to said meeting for registration. SEC. 4. The said village of Port Hope 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 all acts amendatory thereto. than time des SEC. 5. In case said officers are not elected at the time des- Election may be ignated in section two of this act, an election for officers may be held at other held at any time within one year from the time designated in said ignated. section two, on notice being given as required herein. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 5, 1887. [No. 381.] AN ACT to re-incorporate the village of Grandville in the county of Kent. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Territory the following described lands and territory, the same lying and re-incorporated, being in the township of Wyoming, to wit: All that part of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section number seven, which lies on the southeasterly side of Grand river; the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section number eight; the west half of the northwest quarter and the north west quarter of the southwest quarter of section number seventeen, except a strip of land thirty rods wide off from the south side thereof; all that part of the northeast quarter of section number eighteen which lies on the southeasterly side of Grand river; the north half of the southeast quarter of said section number eighteen, except a strip of land thirty rods wide off from the south side thereof; the east half of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section number eighteen, except a strip of land thirty rods wide off from the south side thereof, and that part of the east half of the east half of the northwest quarter of section number eighteen which lies south of Grand river, all in town number six north of range number twelve west, be and the same is hereby re-incorporated First election. Opening and closing polls. Manner of conducting. Board of registration. Notice of first election. and constituted a body corporate by the name and style of the village of Grandville. SEC. 2. The first election of officers under the provisions of this act shall be held on the second Monday in March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, at the village hall in said village. The polls shall be opened at eight o'clock in the morning and shall be kept open until five o'clock in the afternoon, at which hour they shall be finally closed, and the said election shall be held and conducted in all respects as provided for in act number sixty-two of the public acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages," approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. The village clerk and two of the trustees of said village, to be appointed by the board of trustees, shall be the village board of registration for the present year and shall act as such board in the same manner and the legal voters of said village shall be registered as provided for by said act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages. SEC. 3. Notice of the time and place of holding the first election as provided for in the preceding section shall be given by the present village clerk in said village, in the same manner as is provided for the giving of notice of holding elections by the village clerk in said act granting and defining the powers and duties of Election may be incorporated villages. If for any reason the said election shall not be held at the time herein before specified, it may be held at any time within one year thereafter by giving the notice hereinbefore provided for. held at time other than that specified. Officers to con SEC. 4. The officers in said village now in office shall continue tinue in office. therein with the same powers and duties as are conferred by said act granting and defining the powers and duties of incorporated villages upon like officers, until their successors shall be elected and qualified pursuant to the provisions of this act. Right of action, etc., to survive. Ordinances to continue. Governed by general law. SEC. 5. All rights of action which may have accrued to said village as heretofore incorporated, and all property, both real and personal, belonging to the same, shall survive and belong to and may be enforced and disposed of by the village corporation created by this act, and all liabilities of said previously existing village corporation shall be assessed and paid by the village corporation created by this act. SEC. 6. All existing ordinances and resolutions of said village of Grandville not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall continue in force until repealed or amended by the village council of said village. SEC. 7. The said village of Grandville in all things not herein and otherwise provided for shall be governed and its powers and duties defined by the said act number sixty-two of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and all the provisions thereof not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall be deemed supplementary to this act for the government of said village. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed relating Acts repealed. to the incorporation of the village of Grandville, Kent county, are hereby repealed. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 5, 1887. [No. 382.] AN ACT to preserve the ballot-boxes from being opened or the ballots destroyed which were used in the city election held in the city of Detroit on the second day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-six. not to be SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Ballot boxes. the ballot-boxes used in the election held in the city of Detroit on opened, etc. the second day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the election of city officers, shall not be opened nor the seals broken, nor the ballots deposited therein destroyed, until the first day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, except the same shall be done by order of the board of aldermen of the city of Detroit or a court of competent jurisdiction, and in proceedings had contesting the election of some person balloted for at said election. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 5, 1887. [No. 383.] AN ACT to vacate the township of Duncan in the county of Cheboygan and to incorporate its territory within the township of Benton in said county. vacated. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Township the township of Duncan in the county of Cheboygan be and the same is hereby vacated and the organization thereof dissolved and repealed, and the territory included in said township of Duncan Township be and is hereby attached to and incorporated within the town- attached. ship of Benton in said county of Cheboygan and shall form a part of said township of Benton. to rights, etc. SEC. 2. Said township of Benton is hereby made the legal suc- Benton towncessor of said township of Duncan hereby vacated, and as such ship to succeed successor shall succeed to all property, real, personal and mixed, and the rights of action belonging to said township of Duncan, and shall assume and pay any and all lawful debts and claims against said township, and the officers of said township of Dun- Duties of offcan shall, immediately upon this act taking effect, deposit the cers of Duncan records, books, vouchers, papers, money and other property whatsoever belonging to said township of Duncan with the cor township. School districts to be re-num bered. responding officers of Benton township, who are hereby declared to be the successors of the officers of the township of Duncan. SEC. 3. The board of school inspectors of Benton township shall after this act takes effect re-number the school districts of the township of Duncan as school districts of the township of Benton, at a special meeting of such school inspectors to be held as provided by law. Ordered to take immediate effect. Territory reincorporated, Corporate name and powers. Wards. [No. 384.] AN ACT to re-incorporate the city of Adrian. BOUNDARIES. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That so much of the former townships of Adrian and Madison in the county of Lenawee as is embraced in the following descriptions, to wit: The south half of section thirty-four, the northeast quarter of section thirty-four, all of section thirty-five and the west half of section thirty-six, in the said township of Adrian, and also the west half of section number one, all of section number two, all of section number three, the north half of the northwest quarter of section number twelve, the north half of the north half of section number eleven and the north half of the northeast quarter of section number ten, in the township of Madison, is hereby set off from the said townships of Adrian and Madison, and constituted a body corporate by the name and style of the city of Adrian, by which name it shall be hereafter known. SEC. 2. The freemen of said city, from time to time, being inhabitants thereof, shall be and continue a body corporate and politic, to be known and distinguished by the corporate name and title of "The city of Adrian," and shall be and are hereby male capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered unto, and of defending and being defended in all courts of law and equity and in all other places whatever; and shall have a common seal which they may alter and change at pleasure, and by the same name shall be and are hereby made capable of purchasing and holding, conveying and disposing of any real or personal estate for said city. WARDS. SEC. 3. The said city shall be divided in [into] four wards as follows: All that part of said city embraced in the following described limits shall be the first ward, to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of said city and running thence northerly on the east line of the city to the center line of Maumee street; thence west |