make as receive such sum as the common council shall allow, not exceeding two hundred [dollars] per annum. Aldermen to Sec. 51: Each alderman acting as the supervisor of said city sessment. shall, in each and every year, make and complete the assess ment of all the real and personal property within their respective wards, in the same manner, and within the same time, as required by law for the assessment of property in the several townships of this State, and in so doing shall conform to the provisions of law governing the action of the supervisors of the several townships of this State, performing like services; and in all other respects within their respective wards they shall, unless when otherwise in this act provided, conform to the provisions of law governing the action of supervisors in the several townships of this State, in the assessment of property. The Assessment said supervisors shall, within five days after the expiration of delivered to the time fixed by law for the completion and review of the assessment rolls of townships, deliver their assessment rolls to Proceedings the recorder, who shall thereupon copy the said several rolls into one roll; the said several rolls shall remain in the office of the recorder until the meeting of the board of supervisors of Saginaw county, for the purpose of equalizing the assessment rolls of said county, at which time said copied roll shall be delivered by said recorder to the aldermen acting as supervisors, who shall present the same to the said board for equalization; immediately after the equalization, said roll shall be returned to the recorder. rolls to be recorder. thereon. Common council to the amount Sec. 52. It shall be the duty of the common council of said determine city, on or before the last Saturday in September in each year, of tax. to determine, by resolution, the amount necessary to be raised by tax for city purposes, within said city, for each year. Recorder to Sec. 53. The recorder of said city shall levy the sum so or ordered. dered to be raised for city purposes, and all other taxes required by law, upon the taxable property of said city, in the same man. ner as taxes in townships are required by law to be levied by the supervisors of the townships in this State; and he shall ex tend the several taxes required by law to be raised upon said levy the tax urer to give when secu given. equalized roll, and complete said roll, and deliver the same, with his warrant thereto attached, in the form required by law, to the city treasurer, within the time prescribed by law for the completion and delivery of the township tax rolls to the respective township treasurers of this State: Provided, Security has city treasbeen given by such city treasurer, as required by law, or in this security. act provided; but if such security shall not have been given by Proceedings such city treasurer, in the manner and within the time required, rity is not the common council shall immediately appoint some suitable person who will give the requisite security, to collect such tax roll; and the person so appointed shall thereupon be entitled to receive said tax roll, and shall collect and pay over such taxes, and make return of his doings thereon, in the same manner, and shall have all the powers, and shall perform all the duties, and be subject to the same liabilities, in this act conferred upon the city treasurer of said city, for the purpose of the collection and return and paying over of such taxes. tion for col es. Sec. 54. For the collection of all such taxes, the city treasurer, Compensa or other person appointed to collect the same, shall be entitled lecting taxto receive such per centage as shall be prescribed by the common council by ordinance, not exceeding four per centum upon the sum to be collected, which sum shall be added in the computation of the taxes on said tax rolls of the respective wards of said city. not eligible sidered de Sec. 83. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office Defaulters created by this act who is now, or may hereafter be a defaulter to office. to said city, or to any board of officers thereof, or to the State of Michigan, or any county, township or other municipal corporation therein; and any person shall be considered a defaulter who conwho has refused or neglected, or may hereafter refuse or neglect, faulters. for thirty days after demand made, to account for and pay over to the party authorized to receive the same, any public money or papers pertaining to his office, which may have come into his possession. If any person holding any such office shall become when office a defaulter while in office, the same shall thereby be vacated. cated. shall be va to be inter tracts. Offers not No member of the common council, or other officer of the city, ested in con- shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, as principal, surety, or otherwise, upon which any sum is to be paid by or under any act or ordinance of the common council; and any officer violating this provision shall be liable to be removed therefor. Sec. 2. Section four of said act is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. Section amended. Appropriation of highway taxes. [ No. 40. ] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred and thirty, session laws eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, approved February the twelfth, being an act entitled "an act to provide for the improvement of Bridgeport and Forestville State road." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of said act shall be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 1. That for the purpose of improving the Bridgeport and Forestville State road, so far as the same is located in the counties of Sanilac and Huron, there shall be and is hereby appropriated all of the non-resident highway taxes that shall be collected for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and for five years thereafter, upon any legal subdivision of land, an equal or a greater part of which shall be within two lines running parallel with said road, one mile each way from the centre of said road, in the townships through which it may pass, between the county line of Tuscola county, and Forestville, Sanilac county, except where said road passes through townships fourteen north, of ranges twelve and thirteen east; and no part of said taxes in said towns shall be applied on said road where it passes through said ranges. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 41. ] AN ACT to repeal section two, of act number one hundred and six, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and forty, entitled "an act relative to common schools, and for the payment of the claim of Thomas Beals, and for other purposes," approved April first, eighteen hundred and forty. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section two, of act number one hundred and six, of the session section ro pealed. laws of eighteen hundred and forty, entitled "an act relative to common schools, and for the payment of the claim of Thomas Beals, and for other purposes," is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 42. ] AN ACT to authorize the president and trustees of the village of Romeo, in the county of Macomb, to organize under the general law for incorporation of villages. general law. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the president and trustees of the village of Romeo, in the Authorized to organiza county of Macomb, are hereby authorized to organize said vil- under the lage corporation under the provisions of the general law for the incorporation of villages, as set forth in chapter seventytwo of the compiled laws, and amended by act number one hundred and nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. cers to hold Sec. 2. The present officers shall continue to hold their offices Present off until the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and sixty over. three, at which time the first election for officers, according to First cleothe general law aforesaid, shall be held, and annually thereafter on the first Tuesday in March, as required by law. tion. declared Sec. 3. Any contracts or agreements that may have been Contracts entered into by the present village board, shall be binding on binding. the new corporation; and any books, records, or any other property held by the present board, shall be handed over to their successors, when elected and qualified. Sec. 4. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved February 25, 1863. Issue of bonds authorized. Amount limited. Proviso. [ No. 43. ] AN ACT to authorize school district number four of the town- Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Section amended. [ No. 44. ] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to amend section sixty-three, of chapter sixty, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, being section twenty-five hundred and five of the compiled laws, relative to trespasses on public lands," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section sixty-three, of chapter sixty, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 63. Any person who shall commit any trespass upon any |