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SEC. 2. The Auditor General shall add to, and incorporate To be incorwith, the State tax for the year one thousand eight hundred state tax. and ninety-nine the sum of five thousand one hundred seventyfive dollars and eighteen cents, which shall be assessed, levied and collected as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sums, when collected, shall be paid into the State Treasury to reimburse the same for the amounts to be drawn, as provided in section one of this act.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 28, 1899.

[No. 54.]

AN ACT to provide for the Incorporation of Baptist Churches.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That whenever a Baptist church shall desire to How may possess corporate powers and privileges, the members thereof incorporate. present at any regular church or covenant meeting duly called as hereinafter provided, may by the vote of a majority of the members of such church then present, adopt articles of incorporation in accordance with the provisions of this act, and may thereupon proceed under the provisions of this act to elect the deacons or other persons whom the church may desire Election of to act as its trustees, in number not less than three nor more than nine, and it shall then be the duty of the deacons or other persons so elected as trustees for said church, to proceed to execute and acknowledge before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate which shall contain: First, The corporate name of the church; Second, The township, city or village and county in which organization; the church is located;

Third, The period for which the church is incorporated, which shall not exceed thirty years.

Fourth, A copy of the records of the vote or resolution of the church authorizing the preparation of the articles of association, as well as a like copy of the vote or resolutions of the church accepting or adopting such articles;

officers.

Certificate of

what shall contain.

trustees to sign

Fifth, A copy of the articles of association so adopted. Such certificate shall be signed by the aforementioned Deacons or deacons, or trustees, and when duly acknowledged by the sign- and acknowl ers thereof, shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of edge. the county named therein, and thereupon the deacons or trustees elected as herein provided, and their successors, together with the members of said church, shall become a corporation known by the name expressed in said certificate.

Qualifications of officers; how elected.

Term of office.

Trustees to have control.

Proceedings to buy or sell real estate.

Corporate seal.

property.

SEC. 2. The deacons or other persons who shall serve the church as trustees under this act shall be citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age or over when elected to office and shall be elected by ballot in accordance with the usage and custom of said church, or in such manner as may be provided in their articles of association.

SEC. 3. The deacons or other persons who may be elected as trustees shall hold their office for such length of time, and upon such conditions as the church may designate in their articles of association.

SEC. 4. The trustees shall be subject, in all their official duties, to the control and direction of the church, and in case the church shall desire to buy, sell or lease real estate, then a notice declaring such desire and intention, which shall designate the property to be bought, sold or leased, shall be read at the regular church or covenant meeting next preceding the regular meeting, at which final action shall be taken authoriz ing such purchase, sale or lease; and after such authority shall have been so granted by the church, the trustees shall have full power to purchase, sell or lease such real estate upon such terms and conditions as shall not be inconsistent with the instructions given by the church.

SEC. 5. Such trustees may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure; and they may take into their posCustodians of session and custody all the temporalities of such church, whether the same shall consist of real or personal estate, and whether the same may have been given, granted or devised, dirctly or indirectly, to such church, or to any person or persons for their use.

Corporate powers.

Right to hold land in perpetuity.

SEC. 6. Such trustees may also, in their corporate name, sue and be sued in all courts and places; and they may recover and hold all the debts, demands, rights and privileges, all churches, buildings, burying places, and all the estate and appurtenances belonging to such church, in whatsoever manner the same may have been acquired, or in whose hands soever the same may be held, as fully as if the right and title thereto had been originally vested in said trustees. And they may hold in perpetuity so much land not exceeding twenty acres, as may be needed for church buildings and yards, burial Further rights grounds and pastor's residence. And they may hold for a period not exceeding three years, any land which may be lawfully conveyed to them, or to the church for which they are trustees, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars in value, to be sold for the purpose of raising a fund for erecting, repairing or improving a church or churches, or other buildings aforesaid, or for the purchase or improvement of any cemetery or burial ground. But all such lands shall revert to the donor, or grantor, his or her heirs or assigns, if not disposed of within the time aforesaid, unless the same shall, during such time, be appropriated and used as a part of the church, burial or

as to lands.

When may revert to donors.

parsonage grounds, of such organization as hereinbefore provided.

corporate

SEC. 7. If it shall happen that any church organized under Not to lose the provisions of this act shall, from any cause, be found at any existence. time without trustees, such church shall not for that cause lose its corporate existence, but such church may at any time proceed to elect trustees, as provided in this act: Provided, That Proviso. whenever any corporation organized under the provisions of this act shall be dissolved by the death of all its members, or by the loss of so many of them that it is thereby rendered unable to do any corporate act or to restore itself by proceeding to elect trustees, as provided in this act, the Baptist convention of the State of Michigan, a corporation organized and existing under an act of the legislature of the State of Michigan, entitled "An act to incorporate the Baptist convention of the State of Michigan," approved February sixteenth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and the statutes amendatory thereto, shall be held and deemed to be the legal When Baptist successor of such corporation and shall succeed to, and be deemed legal vested with, all property rights which were in such corporation at the time it was dissolved.

convention

successor.

and societies

SEC. 8. Any Baptist church or any Baptist church and What churches society incorporated or organized under the laws of this State, may come may elect to dissolve their existing corporation and take cor- under this act. porate powers under this act: Provided, The consent of the Proviso. majority of the members of said church or church and society who may be present at such meeting can be obtained at any regular church or covenant meeting of the church: Provided Proviso. also, That notice shall be given to said church or church and society to meet with the church at its regular church or covenant meeting for the purpose of dissolving said corporation with a view of organizing under the provisions of this act, said notice to be given on the last two Sundays preceding the day on which the act of dissolution shall be taken.

dissolution to

be recorded in

county clerk's office.

SEC. 9. If such consent for dissolving such corporation for Certificate of the purposes as above mentioned shall be so obtained, then a certificate containing an account of such dissolution shall be executed and acknowledged by the presiding officer and secretary of said meeting, and be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where the original certificate of incorporation was recorded, and on compliance with the provisions of this act all the property, powers, privileges, duties, trusts and obligations of every kind possessed by or pertaining to the original corporation thus dissolved shall pass to and be pos- New organizasessed by the new organization.

tion to be lawful successor.

amend articles

SEC. 10. At any time after such church shall have become How may duly organized under this act, it shall be lawful for any such of association. church, at any regular meeting thereof, of which proper notice shall have been given, as hereinafter provided, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at such meeting, to amend its articles of association in any manner not inconsistent with

Idem.

Acts inconsist ent with this act, how construed.

the provisions of this act, and such amendments shall become operative on filing a copy of the same, certified by the moderator or chairman and clerk of such meeting, and duly acknowledged by an officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, with the clerk of the county in which such church is organized.

SEC. 11. Whenever it shall be purposed to alter or amend the articles of association of any church organized under this act, such alteration or amendment shall not be adopted until the expiration of at least three weeks from the day of the meeting on which the same shall have been first introduced before the church, and such proposed alteration or amendment shall be reduced to writing, when it shall be introduced, and shall not be amended on the same day on which it shall be adopted.

SEC. 12. In all cases which may arise in any of the courts of this State in connection with any church which may be incorporated under this act, and in all suits in law or equity to which any such church may be a party, all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be interpreted and construed in such a manner as to give full force to all the rights and privileges hereby granted or intended to be granted. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 2, 1899.

Section amended.

[No. 55.]

AN ACT to amend section three of chapter eleven of act number two hundred forty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one, as amended by act one hundred thirty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishing, opening, improvement and maintenance of Highways and Private Roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of Bridges within this State," approved June eight, eighteen hundred eighty-one.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter eleven of act number two hundred forty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one, as amended by act one hundred thirty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishing, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State," approved June eight, eighteen hundred eighty-one, the same being compiler's section fourteen hundred fourteen of volume three of Howell's Annotated Stat

utes, and being section forty-one hundred sixty-nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

submitted to

Contracts,

how let.

SEC. 3. In all cases involving an expenditure of an amount When expense over fifty dollars, in the repairing or construction of roads or board. bridges, in any township of this State, the commissioner shall submit the proposed expenditure to the township board, and upon the approval of the said board said commissioner shall advertise for sealed proposals for the doing of such work and the making of such repairs, and together with the township clerk, subject to approval of the township board, shall contract with the lowest bidder giving good and sufficient security for the performance of the work: Provided, That in Proviso. case it shall appear to the commissioner and board acting together, in such manner that it seems to them clearly shown, that there has been collusion among the bidders, that they may contract privately with any one of the bidders or with some one who was not a bidder, but at a price not to exceed that of the lowest bidder. The contract so made shall be ap- Who to proved in writing by the supervisor in order to be valid as against the township. Not less than ten days notice shall be Notice of given by the commissioner of the time and place of letting such contract. contract by putting up notices in at least five of the most public places in his township.. Upon performance of the work by the contractor, if approved and accepted by the commissioner and supervisor, there shall be drawn and signed by such commissioner, and countersigned by the township clerk, orders Contractors, upon the township treasurer for the amount of said contract. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening Acts repealed. any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act was ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 2, 1899.

approve.

letting

how paid.

[No. 56.]

AN ACT to provide a salary for the Circuit Court Commissioners of Bay County.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

books, etc.

SECTION 1. That the board of supervisors of the county of Who to provide Bay shall provide a docket for each of the circuit court commissioners of said county, and also all necessary books, blanks and stationery for the use of said commissioners.

SEC. 2. Each of said commissioners shall be entitled to re- Salary, how paid. ceive from the treasury of the county of Bay an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable monthly, on the order of the county clerk of said county. Each of said commissioners shall

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