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to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, and shall proceed within ten days after service of a copy of the charge to hear and determine upon the merits of the case. If such member shall neglect to appear and answer to such charges, his failure so to do may be deemed good cause for his removal from office.

Approved May 16th, 1895.

Justices of
Peace.

Powers and duties.

Elections.

AN ACT

To establish and provide Justices' Courts in the city of Detroit, and to repeal act number two hundred and eighty of the local acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An act relative to Justices' Courts in the city of Detroit," approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and all acts amendatory thereof.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That there shall be four justices of the peace in and for the city of Detroit, who shall be elected at the regular charter eléction of said city, or at any general election held therein, in the same manner, possess the same jurisdiction, powers, duties, and liabilities, as justices of the peace for townships, excepting as otherwise provided by law. Each of said justices of the peace shall hold his office or the term of four years, commencing on and after the fourth day of July succeeding his election. The four justices of the peace heretofore elected in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act relative to justices' courts in the city of Detroit," approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be and continue to act as justices of the peace under the provisions of this act until the expiration of their respective terms of office.

At the general election held in November in each year preceding the expiration of the term of office of each of said four justices of the peace, a successor of said justice of the peace shall be elected, whose term of office shall commence on the

fourth day of July next succeeding his election and who shall hold his office for the term of four years. The files, records and dcckets belonging or appertaining to the offices of justices of the peace now in office, and all files, records and dockets hereafter appertaining to such offices shall belong to and be filed and safely kept in the office of the clerk of said justices' courts hereinafter mentioned.

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Sec. 2. The auditors of the county of Wayne shall provide Auditors to suitable court rooms for the accommodation of said justices of commodations. the peace and also an office for the clerks hereinafter mentioned,

also such jury rooms as may be necessary, which offices and rooms shall be contiguous to each other.

The said auditors shall

also provide necessary dockets, books, including a set of Michigan reports, blanks, stationery, furniture and fuel, for the use of said justices and clerks.

Sec. 3. Each of said justices of the peace shall receive from the treasurer of the county of Wayne an annual salary of two thousand dollars, payable in monthly installments on the certificate of the board of auditors of the county of Wayne, and each of said justices shall have his court room opened, and he shall be in attendance at the duties of his office therein, from at least nine o'clock in the morning, city time, until twelve o'clock noon, and from two o'clock until four o'clock in the afternoon: Provided, that where either one of said justices is actually engaged in the trial of a suit he shall so continue until at least five o'clock in the afternoon, when it shall be necessary so to do in order to finish the trial of said suit; and the said clerk's office shall be opened continuously from nine o'clock in the morning, city time, until five o'clock in the afternoon each day, excepting legal holidays All original writs issued by said justices shall be returnable at nine o'clock in the morning, city time.

Salary.

Hours of office.

Clerk.

Sec. 4. There shall be one clerk for said justices, who shall be known as clerk of justices' courts for Detroit, who shall be appointed by the auditors forthwith on the making and filing with them the written recommendation of a majority of said justices holding office on or before January first of each year, but if for any reason such recommendations be not so made and filed by said last named date, then the said auditors shall make such appointment on their own motion. The term of office of said clerk shall be one year, to commence on the first day of February. He shall receive from the treasurer of Wayne county an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, payable in monthly installments on the certificate of said auditors of Wayne county. Before entering upon the duties of his office the said clerk shall file in the office of the clerk of Wayne county a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the said auditors of Wayne county, conditioned that the said clerk shall faithfully and properly perform the duties of his said office and that he shall well and truly pay to the treasurer of Wayne county all moneys received by him or by his deputies under him, as clerk of said justices' courts, for the use of said county, and otherwise conditioned as the said auditors shall prescribe. It shall be the duty of said clerk to keep a true and complete record of all proceedings before each of said justices and to enter all judgments in the docket of the justice rendering the same in the time and the manner prescribed by law, which judgment shall be signed by the justice by whom it was rendered. He shall keep true and correct accounts of all moneys received by him or by his deputies, as court fees, for the use of Wayne county, or for any other purpose, and shall properly account for and pay over the same to the party entitled thereto. He shall also file and safely keep all papers and books belonging and appertaining to said

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justices' courts, none of which shall be removed from said of fice without the authority in writing of the justice to whom the caus is assigned, or the clerk of said court, nor unless proper receipts be given therefor. The said clerk shall also enter in a book provided for the purpose a list of all jurors that sit in the trial of cases in said justices' courts, together with the date or dates and the time during which said juror served, with a reference to the page of the docket containing the record of the cause in which said juror served. The said clerk shall make all writs returnable to the said justices in rotation, and if upon the return day or the adjourned day of any cause the justice issuing the process therein shall be absent at the time to which the cause has been adjourned or the process therein made returnable, the next justice in regular order of issuing writs, if present, and if not, one of the other justices shall have the same jurisdiction to proceed therein as though the cause had been originally commenced before him, and the record thereof shall be ertered in the docket of the justice issuing the original process. The said clerk shall receive all costs, fines and dues of every description which are provided by law in all proceedings in said justices' courts, and shall pay the same weekly to the treasurer of Wayne county, and shall take his receipt therefor. All moneys paid under judgments rendered by said justices, and all moneys paid under garnishments in said justices' courts, shall be paid to said clerk or his deputy or deputies by him authorized to receive the same, and his bond shall be also conditioned for the faithful and proper disposition of all such moneys. The said clerk shall have power generally to administer oaths and to take affidavits. The said clerk shall have and is hereby given the power and authority to appoint a sufficient number of deputies, to properly execute the work of said office and said appointments shall not be for a longer time than his term of office, and

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