Testimony as to justness of bills, etc. Publication of claims passed upon. Annual esti mate of re ceipts and expenditures. When presented. Contract, etc.; members not to be interested in. Eighth, To summon witnesses, administer oaths to and take the testimony of such witnesses as to the legality or justness of any bill or claim pending before said board; Ninth, To publish in the official paper of said county, on or before the fourth Tuesday of each month, a statement signed by its secretary, of all claims against the county passed upon by the board during the month, the amount thereof, by whom presented and whether allowed or disallowed in whole or in part; Tenth, To prepare annually, before the second Tuesday in October, a detailed estimate of the necessary expenses of the county for the ensuing calendar year, together with an estimate of the probable receipts of the county from all sources other than taxation. These estimates shall be presented to the board of supervisors at its annual session on the second Tuesday in October, with the recommendation of said board of auditors as to the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation for the several purposes of county expenditure. SEC. 7. No member of said board of auditors shall be, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract with Kent county which may involve the expenditure of any county moneys, or in the sale of supplies to said county or in the performance of any paid services for said county, other than his services as a member of said board of auditors, unless the contract or performance of service shall be authorized by the board of supervisors of said county, and the account therein shall be audited and allowed by said board of supervisors. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Compensation [No. 494.] AN ACT to amend section three of title eight of an act, entitled "An act to revise the charter of Grand Rapids, including therein also, as a part of such charter, the acts controlling the board of education and the board of library commissioners." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of title eight of an act, entitled "An act to revise the charter of Grand Rapids, including therein also, as a part of such charter, the acts controlling the board of education and the board of library commissioners," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. The appointive members of said board shall each reof appointive ceive at the rate of three dollars per day for actual time necessarily spent in the discharge of the duties of their office members. whether attending as members upon the sessions of said board or otherwise; but no account for services by appointive members, other than for attendance upon sessions of the board, shall be paid unless the same shall first be approved by said board: Provided, however, That the compensation for any Proviso, member of said board of public works shall not exceed the board public sum of two hundred fifty dollars for any one year. This act is ordered to take effect May one, nineteen hundred seven. Approved April 25, 1907. works. [No. 495.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the village of Highland Park, in the county of Wayne, to borrow forty thousand dollars for the purpose of making permanent village improvements and to issue bonds therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The village of Highland Park, in the county Bonds of Wayne, is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow authorized. forty thousand dollars and to secure the repayment thereof to issue bonds therefor, pledging the faith and credit of the village for the payment thereof. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be for the sum of one thousand style of. dollars each and shall be numbered from one to forty inclusive; each bond shall be payable twenty years from the date of issue and each bond shall draw interest at such rate as the village council may determine when issued, not to exceed, however, five per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, as the village council may determine. determined. SEC. 3. The proceeds from the sale of such bonds may Proceeds, how be used to pay for such permanent village improvements as used. the village council may from time to time determine: Pro- Proviso, vided, however, That before any bonds shall be issued or im- improvements provements made, the council shall first determine by resolution that a public necessity exists for a certain public improvement, naming and specifying the same, and shall cause the village engineer to file with the village clerk for public inspection an estimate of the cost thereof, together with a plan of the work proposed to be done. There shall thereupon be sub- Submission of mitted to the electors of the village of Highland Park at any general election or at any special election called for such purpose, provided notice thereof, and of the question to be submitted is given at least ten days prior thereto by posting copies of such notice in five of the most public places of the village, the question: question. When issued. ... "Shall the village of Highland Park issue improvement bonds to the amount of... ..dollars? Yes." "Shall the village of Highland Park issue improvement bonds to the amount of... ...dollars? No." SEC. 4. If, on such special or general election, a majority of the votes cast thereon are in the affirmative thereof, the amount of bonds authorized thereat may be issued and the Resubmission. work proposed may be done, otherwise not. If, on the submission of a proposition, as herein provided, a majority of the votes cast thereon are in the negative thereof, the same or a similar proposition stating the same or a different amount proposed to be raised may thereafter, and as often as the council shall determine, be again submitted, but not within six months of the preceding submission of the same proposition. If, on any such subsequent referendum, a majority of the votes cast thereon are in the affirmative thereof, the proposed bonds may be issued and the proposed work may be done, otherwise not. The same proceedings shall be had for a referendum to the electors on each proposed issue of bonds to pay for each proposed permanent improvement, except that two or more separate improvements may, in the discretion of the council, be combined in one referendum, and in such case the total amount of the estimated costs of the several improvements to be made from such issue shall be stated in the question submitted. Referendum on each proposed issue. Limit of issue. Proviso, balance how paid. SEC. 5. The aggregate of all bonds issued under this act shall not exceed forty thousand dollars par value, but the council may, in its discretion, expend a larger amount on any one or the aggregate of all permanent improvements proposed to be made: Provided, The balance may be lawfully paid out of the general fund or may lawfully be raised by a special assessment to be levied against the lands and premises in a special assessment district to be benefited Special assess by the proposed improvement. In case the proposed permanent improvement is of special benefit to the lands or premises in a certain district, the council shall so declare by resolution and shall apportion the expense proposed to be incurred between the permanent improvement fund and such district and shall thereupon proceed to the establishment of a special assessment district and the levy and collection of a special assessment therein to raise the sum apportioned thereto in the manner provided in the general and special acts relative to special assessment district. ment district. Permanent fund. SEC. 6. The proceeds from the bonds as issued shall go improvement into a permanent improvement fund and any surplus remaining from the proceeds from the bonds issued for any permanent improvement shall remain in such fund to be held for the payment of any deficit arising from any previous permanent improvement or to apply on some future permanent improvement. In all other respects said bonds shall, when Provisions applying. issued, be brought, in so far as the same is applicable thereto, [No. 496.] AN ACT to authorize the village of Farmington, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, to borrow money to establish, construct and maintain a system of public sewers in said village, and to issue notes for the payment thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: notes for sewer system. SECTION 1. The village council of the village of Farming- May issue ton, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, construct and maintain a system of public sewers in said village, and is authorized and empowered to borrow money therefor on the faith and credit of said village and to issue notes of the village to pay for that portion of said work not paid for out of the nineteen hundred seven tax levied, to an amount not exceeding four thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. Said notes shall be due and payable as follows: When due, etc. One thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars in nineteen hundred eight, and the same amount in nineteen hundred nine and nineteen hundred ten, and the balance in nineteen hundred eleven, and shall bear interest at the rate to be fixed by the village council, not to exceed five per cent per annum: Provided, That said notes shall not be negotiated for less Proviso. than their par value. SEC. 3. The said village council shall have power to raise, Tax levy. by taxation upon the taxable property of said village, such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary and sufficient to pay the principal and interest of said notes as the same shall fall due. Said notes shall be signed by the village president and countersigned by the village clerk. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Territory detached. Repealing clause. [No. 497.] AN ACT to detach certain territory from the village of Grosse The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The following described piece of land in the village of Grosse Pointe Farms, in Wayne county, described as a piece or strip of land, eight feet in width, off the westerly side of the incorporated village of Grosse Pointe Farms, in the county of Wayne, bounded on the easterly side by a line running from the center of Mack avenue in a southerly direction parallel to and eight feet distant from the easterly boundary of the village of Grosse Pointe north of Jefferson avenue and extended to a point in Jefferson avenue where said line intersects the present boundary line between said villages, is hereby detached from and shall cease to be a part of the village of Grosse Pointe Farms, in the county of Wayne, and is hereby attached to and shall hereafter become and be a part of the said village of Grosse Pointe, in said county of Wayne. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts, in so far as they contravene the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 25, 1907. Application for license. [No. 498.] AN ACT to regulate and license in Allegan village, in addition to the State license for the same, all saloons in which spirituous, fermented and intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage, and to give to the common council of Allegan village power to regulate and prescribe the location of such saloons, and to limit and restrict the number of saloons or places for the sale of fermented or intoxicating liquors within the said village of Allegan, and to authorize said common council to provide that no license shall be granted to any person for the sale of such liquors unless he be of good moral character. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to keep any saloon or bar in said village, in which spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage, unless the person desiring to keep such a saloon within said village shall, before entering |