are by law imposed upon the township boards of the several townships of this State, in relation to schools, school taxes, county and State taxes, and State, district and county elections; and the supervisors and assessors, justices of the peace and recorder, and all other officers of said city, who are required to perform the duties of township officers of this State, shall take the oath, give the bond, perform like duties, and receive the same pay and in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities as provided for the corresponding township officers, excepting as is otherwise provided in this act, or as may be provided by the ordinances of the common council.

SEC. 5. The ordinances now in force in the city of Ann Arbor shall remain in force until repealed, altered or amended by the common council; and all property, rights, credits and effects of every kind, belonging to either of the corporations known as the village of Ann Arbor or of the city of Ann Arbor, shall be and remain the property of the said city of Ann Arbor.

SEC. 6. All acts heretofore enacted in regard to the village of Ann Arbor, or the city of Ann Arbor, coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed: Provided, That the repealing of said acts aforesaid shall not affect any act already done, or any right acquired under, or proceeding had or commenced by virtue thereof, but the same shall remain as valid as if said acts remained in full force: And provided further, That all persons now holding office in the city of Ann Arbor, under the acts hereby repealed, shall continue to hold and exercise the duties of such offices during the term for which they were respectively elected, unless by change of boundaries they shall cease to reside in the ward or district for which they were elected.

SEC. 7. This act shall not be construed so as to change, alter or annul any act heretofore passed for the organization or government of school district number one, of the city and township of Ann Arbor.

SEC. 8. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be favorably construed in all courts.

SEC. 9.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and

after its passage.

AN ACT

TO RAISE MONEY FOR WATER WORKS.

[No. 430, Session Laws, 1869.]

AN ACT to authorize the mayor recorder and aldermen of the city of Ann Arbor to borrow money and issue bonds to aid in furnishing said city with water.

SECTION I. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw, are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money, on the faith and credit of said city, and to issue bonds therefor to an amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, to be paid by said city, within a period not exceeding twenty years from the date thereof, and at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum; the said bonds, or the money realized from the sale thereof, to be used and applied to the purpose of furnishing the said city of Ann Arbor with water, and for no other purpose.

SEC. 2.

The bonds hereby authorized to be issued by the mayor, recorder and aldermen of said city, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be coupon bonds, in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars each, and shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the recorder, and issued payable to the order of the person named therein, or to the bearer, in such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate seventy-five thousand dollars, payable at such times, not exceeding twenty years from the date thereof, and at such rate of interest, not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, as the common council shall determine: Provided, That said mayor, recorder and aldermen aforesaid shall not be authorized and empowered to issue said coupon bonds, or any part or number thereof, unless a majority of the tax paying

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electors of said city of Ann Arbor, present and voting. shall, as provided in section three, title five of the charter of said city, first determine the sum of money that shall be raised for the purpose aforesaid, and bonds issued therefor.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the common council of said city to provide, by tax, for the payment of the interest accruing on the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, as the same shall become due, which tax shall be in addition to the taxes which the said common council are now, or may be hereafter authorized to levy and collect; and it shall be the duty of the said common council to provide for the payment of the principal of said bonds, at the maturity thereof, by tax upon the taxable property in said city of Ann Arbor, to be levied and collected in Lanner provided in the charter of said city.

SEC. 4. The common council shall have power to construct such water works, or they may authorize the same to be constructed by a company, and to aid such company by issuing to such company the city bonds aforesaid; but in such case the bonds aforesaid shall not be issued to such company exceeding one-half the cost of such water works at the time of such issue, the cost of the works to be ascertained by three commissioners appointed by the circuit court for Washtenaw county, upon petition presented by authority of said common council.

SEC. 5. Fifteen per cent. of the amount of aid granted to any company shall be retained until the works are put in successful operation, and until the common council are satisfied that the company have, in good faith, performed their contract.

Approved April 3, 1869.

RE-REGISTRATION ACT.

[No. 263, Session Laws 1875.]

AN ACT to provide for a re-registration of electors in the city of Ann Arbor.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the board of registration of the city of Ann Arbor, as constituted by the provisions of "An act to further preserve the purity of elections and guard against the abuse of the elective franchise by a registration of electors," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and by the provisions of the charter of said city, shall make a new and complete registration of the electors of said city, at sessions of said board to be held in the several wards of said city on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next preceding the annual charter election to be held on the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and at such other times, not oftener than every eighth year, as the common council of said city may direct; for which purpose the several ward boards shall be and remain in session from nine o'clock in the forenoon to one o'clock in the afternoon, and from three o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the afternoon of each day before named. Notice of such sessions and re-registration shall be given as provided in section two of the act above cited, and registration books of the form prescribed by statute, and now in use in said city, shall be provided under the direction of the common council. The rules and regulations prescribed in the act before cited shall be observed and carried out in making the re-registration hereby ordered, and when any registration shall have been completed under the provisions of this act, the registry books prior thereto in use in said city shall be deemed invalid, and no person shall vote at any public election in any ward of said city, after such

re-registration, whose name shall not be entered in the new register made under the provisions of this act, or be afterwards properly entered in such new register, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid and of this act.

SEC. 2.

Sessions of the board of registration of said city shall be held in the several wards thereof on the Tuesday preceding each general election of State and county officers, for the purpose of registering new electors in the said ward registration books, in the manner prescribed in the aforesaid act, like notice to be given as provided by section six of said act, which sessions shall commence at nine o'clock in the forenoon and close at seven o'clock in the afternoon; and on the Wednesday preceding such general election, the said board of registration shall hold a session at the common council room in said city, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until four o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of comparing, revising, correcting and completing the several ward registration lists. At such session, the presence of one alderman from each ward shall be necessary to constitute a quorum. Applicants for registration, being duly qualified electors, may register at such session, and the names of electors who have removed or died since the preceding election shall be erased with red ink, with the remark "dead," or removed," with the date of erasure. If the name of any elector shall be erased by mistake such elector may be re registered on the day of election, as provided by section eighteen of the act herein before cited.

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Sessions of the board of registration shall be held in the several wards on the Wednesday preceding each charter or special election, for new registration and correction of the registry books, such session to be noticed and conducted as provided by the act before cited, except that the erasure of the names of electors who have removed or died shall be made as provided in the preceding section. Such sessions shall commence at nine o'clock in the forenoon and close at seven o'clock in the afternoon.