Who party to suit. When tax set aside. When proceedings recommenced. Proviso. Further proviso. When proceedings not nulified, etc. missioner, may file their bill in equity to enforce the lien of such tax against the real estate charged therewith, in the same manner as mortgages are foreclosed in chancery. The court may order the sale of such delinquent lands at any time after six months from the filing of such bill in chancery. The SEC. 72. In case any suit shall be brought to set aside any tax assessed under the provisions of this act, or in any way attacking the legality of the proceedings had under this act, the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commissioner, shall be made a party to such suit. county in which such road district shall be situated, if operating under the county road system, shall likewise be made a party and process shall be served upon the clerk of such county. SEC. 73. In case any tax assessed under the provisions of this act shall be set aside, except for the reason that the petition for the improvement does not confer jurisdiction to act, the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, shall begin proceedings anew at the stage where they shall be correct. SEC. 74. Whenever the work of improving any highway has been wholly or partly completed, and payment for same has not been legally made, the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commissioner, shall proceed without unnecessary delay to start such proceedings anew, providing the petition for the improvement confers jurisdiction upon the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commisioner, at such a stage as may be correct; and the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commissioner, shall proceed to take the necessary steps under the provisions of this act, and shall reassess upon the lands benefited by the improvement, the original cost thereof, together with all expense of completing the proceedings, and continue so to do, until such improvement has been legally constructed: Provided, That on such recording and legally completing the proceedings, it shall not be necessary to re-advertise the letting or to make a new contract for the letting and constructing of the improvement, but the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commissioner, shall advertise a day of review for benefits in the manner provided in the first instance: Provided further, That any person who has paid taxes for benefits assessed against him for such improvement, shall be allowed the amount so paid; and the collecting officer shall accept the receipt theretofore issued as cash, and the same shall be applied upon such new assessment. SEC. 76. All proceedings heretofore taken under this act shall not be defeated or nullified because of any irregularity therein if there has been a substantial compliance with the requirements of the said measure as hereby amended. Such pro ceedings heretofore commenced under said act shall not be invalidated either in whole or in part hereby, but may be completed under the provisions hereof. errors. SEC. 77. After the county road commissioners shall have Correction of made their apportionment of benefits, and held a review of the same, whether an appeal has been taken therefrom or not, but in case of appeal, then after such appeal shall have been decided, and it shall appear that any parcel of land has been omitted by clerical error within the boundaries of the district finally established, or that parcels of land have misdescribed, or the acreage stated to be more or less than it really is, or that land in one zone of assessment has been erroneously assessed in another zone, the county road commissioners, or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, may correct such errors in the manner herein provided. SEC. 78. The county road commissioners, or the State High- Notice of. way Commissioner, on discovering any of the aforesaid errors, may make their order reciting the particular errors, or that there appears to be error in the designated descriptions, and give notice of the review and correction thereof in any road district affected in the same manner as is required for the review of the apportionment of benefits in the first instance, except that the county at large or townships at large need not be notified. The meeting of the county road commissioners or of the State Highway Commissioner to review and correct such errors shall be held at some place in the road district to be affected. correct SEC. 79. At such meeting, the county road commissioners, Who to or the State Highway Commissioner shall correct the errors errors. aforesaid. Such meeting may be adjourned from time to time, public announcement of such adjournment being made in each case. Where lands within the boundaries of the assessment district as established have been omitted by clerical mistake from the apportionment of benefits, or from the special assessment roll, they may be added thereto, but shall not be assessed more per acre than are other lands in the same zone of assessment. Where lands have been erroneously described, they shall be correctly described as near as may be. Where the acreage of any parcel is erroneously stated to be more or less than it really is, such acreage shall be correctly stated as near as may be. Where the apportionment of benefits has already been determined by the State Highway Commissioner, or by the appellate boards, upon an acreage basis, the tax or apportionment upon any parcel where the acreage was wrong in the first instance shall be increased or reduced as the case may be, proportionate to the increase or decrease of the acreage of that parcel. Where any parcel of land has erroneously been assessed upon the basis of being in a different zone for taxing than it really was, the assessment against such parcel shall be increased or reduced so as to make it the same rate of assessment per acre as are other lands in the same zone in Zones of taxation. Crediting excessive taxation. Additional tax. Apportionment changed only for errors. such road district. By zones of taxation is meant all lands within certain distances, fixed by the county road commissioners or State Highway Commissioner, from the road to be improved, as fixed when they are in fact making the apportionment of benefits, which lands are all assessed at the same rate per acre. SEC. 80. If a parcel of land shall have been erroneously assessed too high by reason of a mistake in the acreage of the parcel, and one or more years' tax shall have been paid thereon, the board of county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in their next assessment roll after the hearing herein provided, shall credit such parcel with the excessive tax theretofore paid or charged to it, and thereafter shall place the same upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. If a parcel of land theretofore have been assessed too low by reason of a mistake of the acreage of such parcel, the board of county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in the aforesaid next roll, shall charge such parcel with the additional tax which said parcel did not pay or was not charged with on prior rolls by reason of the mistake aforesaid, and thereafter shall place such parcel upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. If any parcel of land has been erroneously omitted from the apportionment of benefits of the tax roll, the board of county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in their next assessment roll shall add such parcel to the roll and charge the same with all taxes theretofore omitted, as well as the tax it should regularly bear on that roll, and thereafter shall place the same upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. It shall be assessed at the same rate per acre as are other lands in the same zone. Where the tax upon any parcel of land has been erroneously computed upon the basis and as though it had been in another zone, such apportionment of tax shall be equalized on the basis of making the apportionment of benefits and tax on the same basis as other lands in the same zone or zones. The county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in their next assessment roll shall charge such parcel with the tax found to have been omitted, or credit said parcel with the amount of tax theretofore charged in excess of what it should have been; and thereafter they shall place said parcel upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. SEC. 81. The county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, shall have no power to change the apportionment or tax upon any parcels of land except for the errors as in this act provided, or has been provided in said act number fifty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 126.] AN ACT to provide for the registration of electors. The People of the State of Michigan enact: CHAPTER I. General Provisions. SECTION 1. The inspectors of election at any election in Electors must this State, or in any district, county, township, or city there. be registered. of, shall not receive the vote of any person whose name is not registered in the registration book of the precinct in which he offers to vote; but the name of a qualified elector may be registered on the day of any election or official primary election pursuant to section ten of chapter three of this act. qualified. SEC. 2. Every person who has the constitutional qualifi- Who cations of an elector, or who will have such qualifications at the next ensuing election or official primary election, [and] shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the voting precinct in which he resides. CHAPTER II. Registration Books. book." electors. book. SECTION 1. For every election precinct there shall be a book "Registration in which to register the names of all qualified electors residing in that precinct who may apply for registration. Such book shall be known as the "Registration Book" for the precinct in which it is to be used. In each registration book a Female separate section may be provided for the registering of the names of female electors, or a separate registration book may be provided for the registering of the names of female electors. SEC. 2. Every registration book hereafter procured shall Form of be in index form, substantially bound, and contain spaced and ruled lines for at least twelve hundred names. Each book shall have on the front cover thereof the words "Registration Book" and the name of the township or city and ward in which it is to be used; also the number of the election precinct, if the precinct has a number. The pages of each registration Ruling. book shall be arranged and ruled in columns, with headings, so that on each line may be written the name of an elector, the date of his registration, and, if the elector resides in a city or incorporated village, his residence by street and number, or a description of the locality of his residence. There shall also be columns in which may be checked the names of Books used until replaced. New books. Custody of. When delivered to election inspectors. Proviso. When precincts changed. Mutilation. etc., of book, a felony. registered electors as they apply for ballots to vote. There shall be an additional column, headed "Remarks," for special entries or notations. SEC. 3. The registration books in use in the several townships and cities, at the time this act takes effect, shall continue to be the official registration books until replaced by new registration books pursuant to the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. Whenever the registration book for any election precinct is so nearly filled, or so worn, soiled or marked, that, in the judgment of the township or city clerk, as the case may be, a new registration book for such precinct is necessary or desirable, such clerk shall bring the matter to the attention of the township board or legislative body, as the case may be, and, on being authorized by such board or legislative body, shall procure a new registration book for such precinct, and shall write therein, in proper alphabetical order, the names of all persons then remaining residents of such precinct whose names are entered in the old registration book, together with the dates and descriptions as they appear on such old registration book. When the said clerk shall have completed such new registration book, the former registration book shall be deemed invalid, and such new registration book shall be the official registration book of such precinct. SEC. 5. The registration book or books of any township or city shall remain in the custody of the township or city clerk, as the case may be, at all times except when they are in use by boards of registration or boards of inspectors of an election or an official primary election, as provided by this act. SEC. 6. At any election or official primary election, and as soon as the poll in each precinct is open, the clerk having the custody of the registration book shall cause it to be placed in the hands of the inspectors of election, who shall use such registration book during such election, and return it to the clerk immediately thereafter: Provided, That the words "official primary election" shall be deemed to include and mean official nominating primaries. SEC. 7. Whenever any township or city shall be divided, pursuant to law, into two or more election precincts, or the boundaries of the election precincts of any township or city shall be changed, the township or city clerk, as the case may be, shall procure a new registration book for each such precinct so established, or whose boundaries shall have been changed, and shall transcribe to such new registration book from the township or city registration books the names of such electors as are residents of such new or changed precincts. Such new registration books, when completed, shall be the official registration books for such precincts. SEC. 8. Whoever shall wilfully cut, burn, mutilate or destroy any registration book, or copy thereof filed for preservation, or shall unlawfully take and carry away any such reg istration book or copy, or shall unlawfully conceal or refuse |