board. Duty of petitioners. Duty of clerk of than ten days from the time he shall receive the petition, and it shall be his duty to notify all the members of said board to be found in the county of such meeting, and the purpose thereof, at least five days before such meeting is to be held. And at whatever meeting such petition is to be heard it shall be the duty of such petitioners to give notice, in writing, to the township board of each township named and to the common council of any city, as well as to the village council of any village named, of their intention to ask for the hearing of the same at such meeting, and of the purpose thereof, which notice shall be delivered to the clerk of every such township, city or village, and if such clerk is not to be readily found, then to any member of the township board, or the mayor, or some member of the common council of the city, or a member of the village council, as the case may be, at least seven days before said board is to be asked to hear said petition. Powers and duty of board. To determine quota of township, etc. County treasurer to open account, etc.: Tax to be assessed and collected. SEC. 3. At such meeting said board of supervisors shall have the power, and it shall be their duty to grant or refuse the prayer of said petition. And if they shall grant the same, they shall describe the kind of bridge to be built and the limit of cost which it shall not exceed, and for the purpose of facilitating their determination of the kind and cost of the bridge, each township, city and village named in the petition may present a plan or plans and specifications of such proposed bridge, with or without drawings, and an estimate of each as to cost. Said board shall also determine the quota or proportion which each township, city and village named shall contribute thereto, and whether the whole amount shall be raised the first year or a part, and what part the first and what part the second year, but no part of it shall be deferred more than two years. They shall also determine the quota of each towards keeping the same in repair, which shall remain the same till altered by said board, or by the consent of each township, city and village which is a party to this proceeding. SEC. 4. Upon determining that such bridge shall be built, and the other matters mentioned in the preceding section, then the said board of supervisors shall order the county treasurer to open an account with each township, city and village, whose quota they have determined, under the designation of "the bridge fund (naming the bridge)," charging to each the quota so assigned by the board, which order such treasurer shall be bound to obey; and such board shall thereupon, through their clerk, within five days after such order, serve a copy of the same upon the officer and all officers of each township, city and village authorized by law to assess township taxes in such township, city taxes in such city, and village taxes in such village, as well as upon the clerk of each respectively, and upon the officer or officers in each township, city and village named, authorized by law to collect such township, city or village taxes respectively; and thereupon such assessing officer or officers shall be bound to assess, and such collecting officers to collect in such several townships, city and village, respectively, the taxes for the same assigned to each respectively as its quota for the year in which, by the order of the board, the same is to be raised, and this they shall proceed to do without the necessity of waiting any order therefor from any township, city or village authority. But each of such collectors shall, before proceeding to collect any such tax, give to the county treasurer a bond, with at least one good surety, in double the amount of such tax to be collected by him for the year, and such collectors shall each be entitled to the same percentage or compensation as allowed by law for collecting township, city or village taxes respectively, which may be added to the tax by the collector if not included in the amount assessed. And the board of supervisors shall issue Warrant for their warrant to each of such collecting officers for the collection of such taxes and requiring each to pay over the respective amounts to the county treasurer to apply on said bridge fund, which warrant shall give to each of said collecting officers the like powers and impose the like duties as are or may be given to or imposed upon those collecting township taxes except as herein otherwise provided. Each of such collectors shall, as required by his warrant, pay over all sums collected to the county treasurer and take his receipt therefor. collection, etc. bridge, etc. SEC. 5. Said board of supervisors may, as a board, or through a committee may committee of three of their members as their agents, at any time contract for after they have made the order for raising such bridge fund by taxes as in their opinion the public convenience requires, contract for the building of the said bridge as an entirety, or for any materials or labor for the same, if they should prefer to build it without contract as a whole (in which case they or their committee may employ an overseer), but in all cases to be payable only out of said bridge fund when and as collected. If the building of Notice. the bridge, including materials, is let by contract, notice for not less than three consecutive weeks of the time and place of letting shall be published in some newspaper printed in the county, if any, or if none is published in the county, then by written or printed notice posted for at least three weeks in three of the most public places in each township, city, or village named in the petition of the time and place at which such contract will be let. The board also, as such, or through its committee of three acting as its agents, shall determine the amount and time when partial payments shall be made, when this has not been fixed by special contract, as well as to determine when and whether such bridge is completed according to the plans or according to contract. But if the township board of each township and the city or village council of each city and village, in behalf of which it was built, shall admit to such board or its said committee and agents, its full completion, this shall be conclusive of the question. expenses, etc. SEC. 6. The board shall cause to be kept by its clerk a full Account of account of all expenses to the county in carrying this act into effect in any such case, and when the bridge is completed they shall, through their clerk, certify such amounts to the county treasurer, who shall charge in the account of such bridge fund to each township, city, or village, its quota, in the same ratio established by the board for the bridge; and this amount, together Tax for. with any balance of the bridge fund unpaid, shall be raised by tax This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Election, oath, bond, etc. Salary. Proviso. Chairman. [No. 63.] AN ACT relative to the board of county auditors for the county of Wayne, and to their powers, duties and compensation. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the members of the board of county auditors for the county of Wayne shall be elected at the time and in the manner now prescribed by law. Before entering upon the duties of their office they shall take and file in the office of the county clerk the constitutional oath of office, and file in the office of the county treasurer a bond to the people of this State, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office, which bond, with the sureties thereto, and the penal sum therein mentioned, shall be approved by the judges of the circuit court for said county. SEC. 2. The salary of said officers shall be fixed by the judges of the circuit court of said county, at a sum not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars per annum for each officer, and they shall file a certificate of their determination as to the amount thereof in the office of the county treasurer: Provided, That the salary when fixed shall not be changed within three years after the same has been at any time fixed and determined. SEC. 3. The member of said board whose term of office shall soonest expire shall be the chairman of said board, and in his absence or inability to serve. the auditor whose term will expire next following that of the chairman shall be the chairman pro Clerk, duties, tempore of said board. Said board shall appoint their own clerk and prescribe his duties, and shall require him before entering upon his duties to give bond to the people of this State in such form, and with such sureties and in such sum as they shall approve, for the faithful performance of his duties; said bond shall be filed in the office of the county treasurer. bond, etc. Meetings. Record. Adjust claims, etc. SEC. 4. Said board will hold regular sessions at least twice in each week, and at such other times as they shall deem it convenient or necessary; they may establish such rules and regulations in reference to the interests and business concerns of said county, and in reference to the mode of proceeding before such board, as they shall deem necessary or proper in all matters not especially provided for by law. They shall keep a true record of the proceedings of the board. SEC. 5. Said board shall prescribe and fix the compensation for all services rendered for and adjust all claims against said county, and the sum so fixed and defined shall be subject to no appeal. The amount of each claim allowed, the date of allowance, the name of the claimant, and to whom such claim is paid, and the amount and number of the warrant drawn therefor, shall be recorded in the records of said board. All claims presented to Claims, to be said board and allowed shall be filed in the order of the number filed, etc. thereof, and preserved; and the number of the claim and other particulars required to be recorded shall be endorsed thereon, and such endorsement signed by the chairman and clerk of said board, and no such account shall for any reason be allowed, excepting by order of some court of competent jurisdiction, to be taken from said office. money to be SEC. 6. The county treasurer of said county shall not pay any Warrants, moneys, excepting on the warrants drawn by the said board of paid only on; auditors, which shall be signed by the chairman of said board and how drawn, etc. countersigned by its clerk, and no warrants shall be drawn or issued by said board or either of them or countersigned by said clerk, excepting for the amount of a claim against said county, which for. shall have been duly allowed by said board. Any violation of Violation of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, be section, penalty punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, That the Proviso. treasurer may make his deposits in the bank designated for the purpose, and may pay over to his successor in office the moneys in his hands as provided by law. approve certain SEC. 7. All official bonds, except those of notaries public, which Board to are now by law required to be approved by the board of supervis- bonds, etc. ors or the circuit judges, or by some other county officer, shall hereafter be approved by said board of county auditors, and whenever they shall have reason to believe that there may have been any breach of the condition of any such bond they may direct that said bond be put in suit. SEC. 8. Said board shall have power, and they are hereby Powers of authorized: board. books accounts, First, At any time to examine the books and accounts of the To examine county treasurer and other county officers, and they shall on etc. demand be exhibited to them by said officers. And as often as they may require, the accounts and vouchers of the county treasurer shall be audited and allowed by them, and after the same shall have been audited by said board it shall not be requisite that such accounts and vouchers be again audited by the board of supervisors. Whenever any moneys are paid to the county treasurer by any officer or agent of said county, such officer or agent shall take a duplicate receipt therefor, which shall be filed in the office of said board; and said treasurer shall, on each day, report to said board the moneys received by him on that day and after making his last report. They shall keep an account of all Keep account moneys which may be chargeable against the county treasurer and any other officer who may receive any moneys belonging to of moneys, etc. Report tax to supesvisors, etc. Issue bonds, etc. the county, and shall keep an account with said officers showing the amounts with which they should be credited, and their accounts shall be so kept that the financial affairs of the county may at any time be ascertained by inspection of the books of said board; Second, To ascertain and report to the board of supervisors of said county, on or before the annual meeting of said board of supervisors, the amount of tax necessary to be raised therein for county purposes; such amount shall be separated into different funds, which shall be named or otherwise so described as to designate the several objects for which it is necessary to levy taxes; Third, To negotiate for and issue any bonds which may at any time be authorized by law to be issued or any loan made for county purposes. Such bonds shall be regularly dated and numbered in the order of their issue; shall be for sums of not less than five hundred dollars each; shall be signed by the chairman of said Record of, etc. board, and countersigned by its clerk. The board shall keep an accurate record of said bonds, the number, date, and amount of each bond, its rate of interest, when and where the same is payable, and the person to whom it is issued. And when the same are ready to be delivered, they shall be placed in the hands of the county treasurer, who shall deliver the same only upon receivProposals for, ing the proper amount from the purchaser of such bond. Before advertisement of. To appoint certain officers, etc. Term of. Vacancies. To determine number of fix compen sation. any such issue is made, sealed proposals shall be received for the purchase of such bonds, after advertisement for at least ten days, in at least two of the daily newspapers published in the city of Detroit; Fourth, To appoint annually, on the first Monday of December, one superintendent of the poor, for the term of three years, and the persons so appointed shall be successors in office of the superintendents of the poor heretofore appointed by said board; to appoint the necessary engineers and janitors for the several county offices, court rooms and buildings, one or more county physicians, and such other assistants, accountants and agents as they may deem necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the county, except those clerks and deputies now appointed under the statutes by the several county officers. And the clerk of said board, and the persons so appointed, shall hold office for one year from the first day of January, unless otherwise specially mentioned in the resolution of the board making such appointments. And they shall have the power to fill any vacancies in the said offices, and shall have the same power of removal of any such officer or appointee as boards of supervisors possess under the statutes of this State, provided such removals be made with the concurrence of all the members of said board; Fifth, To determine the number of the clerks and assistants to clerks, etc., and be employed in the several county offices, and to fix the compensation of the deputies, clerks and assistants employed in the several county offices, and in the circuit, probate and justice's courts; Sixth, To require any county officer to make a report under oath to them, on any subject or matter connected with the duties |