Petition contesting nomination of other candidates, when filed. SEC. 19. Any candidate for circuit judge, voted for at a primary election in said judicial circuit, may contest the nomination of any candidate against him at said primary election, by filing a petition with the probate judge of Lenawee county within twenty-four hours after the close of the polls, in which he shall specify the causes for which such application is made: Provided, That at the time of filing his petition, he shall deposit twenty-five dollars with said judge of probate, which amount shall be disposed of as hereinafter Petition, what provided. The said petition shall set forth that the petitioner was a candidate for the office of circuit judge, and that he received votes therefor, and that he has good reason to believe and does believe, either: Proviso, sum of money] deposited. to set forth. In writing and sworn to, and copy served. Board of canvassers to Ballot boxes board, by whom or dered, etc. First, That there was an error or fraud in the count or in the returns of the inspectors of the primary election; Second, That there was an error or fraud in the count or in the determination of said board of canvassers; Third, That there was an error or fraud in the voting, and further stating that he believes that unless the ballot boxes are opened and votes counted without unnecessary delay, his rights will be jeopardized. Said petition shall be in writing and shall be subscribed and sworn to by the person or by some one in his behalf. A copy thereof shall be served upon the person or persons who are candidates for such office of circuit judge at said primary election. SEC. 20. Upon the filing of said petition, said judge of be notified of probate shall forthwith notify the members of said board of filing petition. canvassers created by section sixteen of this act, of the filing of said petition and shall, in the notice, appoint a time and a place for the board of canvassers to meet, which time shall not be more than twenty-four hours after the filing of said properly verified petition; and said judge of probate shall brought before issue an order causing the ballot boxes to be brought before the board of canvassers at the place and time specified in the order, and a copy of such order shall be served upon the person whose election is to be contested, and also upon the officers in whose custody is kept the ballot boxes of said primary election, whose duty it shall be to produce said ballot boxes before said board of canvassers, at the time and place named in said order. The provisions of sections three thoucompiled laws sand seven hundred twenty-nine, three thousand seven hundred applicable. thirty, three thousand seven hundred thirty-one and three thousand seven hundred thirty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven are hereby made applicable, as far as possible, to this act. Certain sections of Electioneering at polling places, etc., unlawful. SEC. 21. Any person who shall, while the polls are open at any balloting place, on any primary election day, do any electioneering in said polling place, or within one hundred feet of said polling place; any person who shall offer or give to another person any intoxicating liquors, or drink any intoxicating liquors within any such polling place; any person who shall solicit or receive, directly or indirectly, by himself or agent, any money or promise of place or position, or any valuable consideration for his vote or support at any primary election; any person who shall offer any vote or any money or reward of any kind, or who shall promise any place or position for the purpose of securing such votes or vote or support, at any such primary election; any person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act; any person who shall refuse to perform any duty enjoined upon him by this act; any person who shall vote or attempt to vote more than once, or in more than one election district, at the same primary election; any person who shall solicit another person to vote more than once at said primary election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person who shall be convicted Penalty for of any of the acts or omissions which are by this act declared violations. to be misdemeanors, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. clause. SEC. 22. All acts or parts of acts in any wise contravening Repealing the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 12, 1907. [No. 602.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of trustees of the village of Edmore in the county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, by ordinance to restrain, regulate and license saloons or any place or places wherein spirituous and intoxicating liquors are kept for sale within the said village of Edmore, and authorizing the enactment of suitable penalties for violation thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: enact ordi regulating. SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the village of Edmore Saloons, in the county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, shall be board may and are hereby empowered to enact such ordinances, by-laws nances and regulations as they may deem desirable, for the purpose of restraining, regulating and licensing saloons or any other place or places wherein spirituous and intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale, and to regulate and prescribe the location at which such spirituous and intoxicating liquors may be sold: Provided, That the license prescribed by such Proviso, board of trustees shall not exceed five hundred dollars. amount of license, payment of, SEC. 2. When, at any time, said board of trustees shall limited. prescribe by ordinance that saloons or any other place or License, places wherein spirituous and intoxicating liquors are sold before or offered or kept for sale, shall pay a license to the village business, engaging in Penalty for board may provide for. of Edmore, then and after such ordinance shall have taken effect, no person shall engage in or begin or continue the business or occupation of keeping saloons or any other place or places wherein spirituous or intoxicating liquors are sold or offered or kept for sale within the village of Edmore, until said license shall have been fully paid as prescribed by said ordinance, nor shall the board of trustees approve any bond thereafter presented, under act three hundred thirteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, by any person already engaged in the business of operating a saloon, or other place or places wherein spirituous and intoxicating liquors are sold or offered or kept for sale, until he is first licensed by the board of trustees of the village of Edmore, under such regulations and penalties as the board of trustees of said village may lawfully provide. SEC. 3. The board of trustees of the village of Edmore is not procuring, hereby authorized and empowered to provide by ordinance for the punishment of any person or persons engaging in or beginning or continuing, even on liquor bonds heretofore approved, the business or occupation of keeping a saloon or other place or places wherein spirituous or intoxicating liquors are sold or offered or kept for sale, who shall neglect or refuse to procure a license, or shall neglect or refuse to pay the amount of license provided by ordinance of the board of trustees of the village of Edmore. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Loan, amount of. [No. 603.] AN ACT to authorize the city of Sturgis in the county of St. Joseph to borrow money and issue bonds for the purposes of installing or extending a public lighting system, and of installing or extending a system of public water works. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The city of Sturgis in the county of St. Joseph is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow fifty thousand dollars on the faith and credit of said city, for the purposes of installing or extending a public lighting system and of installing or extending a system of public water works, said sum of fifty thousand dollars being in addition to the present limit of five per cent. on the assessed valuation of the property included within the limits of said city, for the purpose of purchasing or constructing a water works system, and in addition to the five per cent. limit on the assessed valuation for the purpose of acquiring or constructing a lighting system, as authorized by the general law governing cities of the fourth class. The said city of Sturgis is hereby authorized Bonds, to issue its bonds to the above amount for the above named purpose for issuing. purposes: Provided, That the council of said city, by a two- Proviso. thirds vote, shall determine so to do: Provided further, That a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question of Further such loan shall vote in the affirmative: And Provided further, proviso. That if the city should ever own a water power and should not require for its own use all of the power which might be Further prodeveloped thereby, the city shall have the right to lease all viso. surplus power to any person, firm or corporation desiring the same, and to charge and collect compensation for the use thereof. of, etc. SEC. 2. The bonds hereby authorized shall be issued in such Bonds, issue amounts, at such times and at such rate of interest, not exceeding six per cent per annum, as the common council of said city may determine, but said bonds shall not run longer than for a period of thirty years. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the treasurer of said city, and shall be negotiated under the directions of said common council, at not less than par. The money derived from the sale thereof shall be expended for the purposes mentioned in this act, and for no other purpose. submitted to SEC. 3. The election at which the issue of these bonds or when any part of the same shall be authorized, shall be an annual question election for city officers, or a special election called for said electors, etc. purpose by the mayor and common council of said city. Notice of such election shall be given for a period of not less than thirty days, which notice shall be published each week in one or more newspapers published in said city, for not less than three consecutive weeks. Said election shall be conducted in all respects in accordance with the general laws governing elections in cities of the fourth class, on questions of raising money or issuing bonds. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 604.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-nine of act number four hundred nineteen of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to establish a county road system in the county of Saginaw, and to provide money therefor," said section having been last amended by act three hundred thirty-five, of the local acts of nineteen hundred one, approved March nineteen, nineteen hundred one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty-nine of act number four hun- Section dred nineteen of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninety- amended. Moneys, how expended. City of Saginaw, when nine, entitled “An act to establish a county road system in the county of Saginaw, and to provide money therefor," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 29. No money raised under the provisions of this act shall be expended within the corporate limits of the city of Saginaw except as hereinafter provided, nor used for any other purpose than herein provided. In the years nineteen hundred seven and nineteen hundred eight the following named streets and highways within and adjoining the corporate limits of the city of Saginaw, and connecting with county roads, shall be improved by the city of Saginaw by grading, graveling, macadamizing or paving, or any other form of improvement, which in the judgment of the said authorities of the city of Saginaw may be deemed necessary and advisable. Said streets are as follows, viz: Brockway street, from Gratiot avenue to the west city line; Court street, from Bay street to State road; State street, from Bond street to the west city line; Sheridan avenue, from Holland avenue to the south city line at Bradley street; Washington avenue, from Sixth street to the east city line; East street from Washington avenue to the south city line, at the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section two, town eleven north, range four east; Williamson street, from city line Amount to Gallagher street. From the moneys raised in the city of moneys raised Saginaw in nineteen hundred seven, by virtue of act four hundred nineteen of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, said city of Saginaw shall retain twenty per cent. of the money so raised, and a like amount from the moneys so raised each succeeding year, to be used in the payment for improvements of the streets herein named and for no other Proviso, as to purpose: Provided, however, That no part of such money shall be used in payment of any improvements to said streets in excess of six thousand dollars per mile, but any such excess shall be paid by the said city of Saginaw, as the common council of said city may determine. The work of improving the aforesaid streets shall be done by the city of Saginaw, which shall assume all responsibility for the construction and maintenance thereof. retained from in, purpose. excessive expenses. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Authority to issue bonds. [No. 605.] AN ACT to authorize the village of Stambaugh in the county of Iron, to raise money by bonding the village to construct water works. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The common council of the village of Stambaugh in the county of Iron shall be and hereby is authorized |