sors may, and on request of said council or committee by resolution shall meet with said council or committee, or make such explanations as he may deem requisite in any case. and determine increase of SEC. 4. The said council or said committee shall hear and Who to hear determine all appeals in a summary manner and correct any appeals. errors which they may discover in the assessment rolls, and place thereon the names of any persons and the descriptions of any property not already assessed, and assess the same, and may increase or diminish any assessment as they may see fit: Provided, They shall not increase any assessment Proviso, of property without giving a reasonable opportunity to per- assessment. sons owning or having charge of the same, if known, to appear and object thereto, and may continue the consideration of said assessment rolls and hearing of said appeals from session to session for a period not exceeding two days after the time when they are to be first considered as above provided. Said Committee committee shall report to the common council their doings in council. the premises and the same shall be then considered by the council, who may adopt, change or amend the same, in whole or in part, and after due consideration thereof said rolls shall Confirmation be fully and finally confirmed by said council, and shall remain as the basis of all taxes to be levied and collected in the city of Detroit according to property valuation, until another assessment shall have been made and confirmed as above provided. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. report to of rolls. [No. 510.] AN ACT to give the city council of the city of Dowagiac power and authority to limit the number of places in said city where intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage, and to provide therefor by ordinance. The People of the State of Michigan enact: power. SECTION 1. The city council of the city of Dowagiac shall Additional have power and authority, in addition to the powers already heretofore granted by act number two hundred fifteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended, as follows: saloons. SEC. 2. To limit the number of places in said city where To limit intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage, in the manner in the fellowing section provided: SEC. 3. The number of such places shall be limited to ten in Idem. said city, and no greater number shall be licensed within said city until the population thereof shall exceed seven thousand, as shown by the State or Federal census, or by a special census, appointed and taken by the said city of Dowagiac. SEC. 4. When the population of said city shall exceed seven place may be thousand, then one such place may be added for each thousand inhabitants in excess of seven thousand. When one added. Provisions, how made effective. SEC. 5. The city council is hereby authorized and empowered to pass such ordinances as may be necessary to carry out and give effect to the provisions hereof. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Bonds legalized. [No. 511.] AN ACT to legalize certain bonds of the village of Reed City. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All the proceedings had and taken by the electors and common council of the village of Reed City, in the county of Osceola, in respect to the issue of the bonds of said village to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars for public improvements, are hereby legalized, and the said bonds, heretofore or hereafter issued, are declared to be the binding obligation of the village of Reed City, anything in the charter of said village to the contrary notwithstanding This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Act repealed. [No. 512.] AN ACT to repeal act number three hundred twenty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, entitled "An act to fix the time of holding probate court in the county of Leelanau." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number three hundred twenty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, entitled "An act to fix the time of holding probate court in the county of Leelanau," is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 513.] AN ACT authorizing the council of the village of Morley, in the county of Mecosta and State of Michigan, to license the sale of intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of said village. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The common council of the village of Morley, Village liquor in the county of Mecosta and State of Michigan, is hereby license. authorized and empowered to require an annual village license not to exceed five hundred dollars, in addition to the State license for the same, of every person, except druggists, engaged in the business of furnishing, selling or offering for sale at retail, any spirituous, intoxicating, malt, brewed, fermented or distilled liquors as a beverage, or any mixture or compound thereof, except proprietary patent medicines, within the corporate limits of said village. determined. SEC. 2. The common council of said village of Morley is Amount, hereby authorized during the month of April, by resolution, when to determine the amount of said village license for the ensuing year, not exceeding five hundred dollars. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 514.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the township board of the township of Port Huron, county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, to make all such orders and by-laws for determining the time and manner in which cattle, horses, swine, sheep and other animals may be restrained from going at large in the highways; prohibiting the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks in said township; regulating the rate of speed and manner in which persons may travel over and upon the highways of said township by automobile or other conveyance; for determining under what conditions and circumstances the highways of said township may be torn up or dug up by the adjacent property owners or others; and for determining and regulating the width of wagon tires to be used in drawing loads over and upon the highways of said township; and for directing and managing the prudential affairs of the township, as said board shall judge most conducive to the peace, welfare and good order of said township. Authority to make township orders The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The township board of the township of Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, is and by-laws. hereby authorized and empowered at any legal meeting of said board, by a majority vote of the members of said board, to make all such orders and by-laws for determining the time and manner in which cattle, horses, swine, sheep and other animals may be restrained from going at large in the highways; prohibiting the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks in said township; regulating the rate of speed and manner in which persons may travel over and upon the highways of said township by automobile or other conveyance; for determining under what conditions and circumstances the highways of said township may be torn up or dug up by the adjacent property owners or others; and for determining and regulating the width of wagon tires to be used in drawing loads over and upon the highways of said township; and for directing and managing the prudential affairs of the township, as said board shall judge most conducive to the peace, welfare and good order thereof, and as are not in conflict with the general laws of this State. Fines, penalties and forfeitures. jail.. SEC. 2. When, by the provisions of this act, the township board of the township of Port Huron, in St. Clair county, Michigan, has authority to pass orders or by-laws for any purpose, they may prescribe fines, penalties and forfeitures not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or both in the discretion of the court, together with the costs of prosecution for each violation of any of said orders or by-laws, and may provide that the offender on failing to pay such fine, penalty or forfeiture, and the costs of prosecution, may be imprisoned for any time not exceeding ninety days, unless payment thereof be sooner made, and also that the offender be kept at labor during Use of county such confinement. The said township of Port Huron shall be allowed the use of the county jail of St. Clair county for the confinement of all persons liable to imprisonment under the orders and by-laws thereof or any of the provisions of this act, and the sheriff or other keeper of such jail or other place of confinement or imprisonment shall receive and safely keep any person committed thereto, as aforesaid, until lawfully discharged. In all cases of imprisonment for breaches of such orders or by-laws, such receiving and keeping in such jail shall be at the expense of the township. Such fine, penalty or forfeiture and imprisonment for the violation of any such order or by-law shall be prescribed in the by-laws. If Detroit House the township of Port Huron shall make a contract with the managers of the Detroit House of Correction, then offenders may be sentenced to that prison under the same terms and conditions provided for the sentencing of persons under the terms of this act to the county jail of St. Clair county. Per Expense. When may sentence to of Correction. sons violating any such order or by-law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to arrest, fine and imprisonment, except as herein restricted, the same as on convictions for other misdemeanors, and the arrest, fine and commitment of any such person shall be the same as persons accused of the commission of any misdemeanor. SEC. 3. Such orders or by-laws, where they impose a fine, By-laws, etc., penalty or imprisonment, or both, shall not take effect for when effective. at least twenty days after adoption, and shall in all respects, where not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be enacted, adopted and published the same as now provided for the enactment, adoption and publication of the by-laws under the general laws of this State. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 515.] AN ACT to repeal act number three hundred eighty-four of the local acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for two voting precincts in the township of Tuscarora, in the county of Cheboygan," approved March fifteen, nineteen hundred five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number three hundred eighty-four of the Act repealed. local acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for two voting precincts in the township of Tuscarora, in the county of Cheboygan," approved March fifteen, nineteen hundred five, is hereby repealed. Approved May 2, 1907. [No. 516.] AN ACT to authorize the city of Cheboygan to borrow money for the purpose of paying the outstanding indebtedness of said city for Main and State street paving, completed in nineteen hundred six, and paying said city's proportionate share of the proposed State street paving in said city on the east side thereof, and other outstanding indebtedness, and to issue its bonds for payment of same. |