Appointments to be made within fifteen days. City Engineer. or the member of any board or commission, the appointment or nomination of whom is vested in the mayor, within fifteen days after the expiration of the term of office or after a vacancy shall occur, the common council shall appoint such officer or member of such board or commission: Provided, that if the mayor shall make a nomination within said fifteen days, and the council reject the same, he may make another nomination or ncminations, but not more than fifteen days shall elapse between such rejection and new nomination. Any vacancy existing at the time this act shall take effect shall be filled by the common council. Sec. 4. The city engineer shall be appointed by the board of public works for the term of three years, beginning on the first day of July; his compensation shall be fixed by said board, and it shall prescribe his duties excepting as the same may be regulated by law or ordinance. Powers of Common Council. CHAPTER VII. Sec. 59. Said council shall also have power to fix and regulate the fees of jurors and witnesses, in any proceeding under any act relating to said city, or under any ordinance of the said council; to assess, levy and collect taxes for the purposes of the corporation, upon all property made taxable by the law for state purposes, which taxes shall be liens upon the property taxed till paid; to make regulations for assessing, levying and collecting the same, and to sell the property taxed to pay the taxes thereon; to appropriate moneys; provide for the payment of the debt and expenses of the said city, and to make regulations concerning the same; to provide for calling meetings of the inhabitants of said city by public notice thereof, fixing the time and place for meeting; to enact all ordinances necessary to carry into effect the powers conferred by law upon said council; the said council may also provide for printing and publishing all matters required to be printed and published under this act, or by order of the common council, in such manner as said council may prescribe; but for all the printing, including proceedings of the council, ordinances and notices of sales for taxes, in newspapers published in any language other than the English, the amount which may be paid shall not exceed three thousand dollars in any one year, and notices and other advertisements published in said city shall be printed in the newspapers with whose publishers yearly contracts have been made. CHAPTER X. Sec. 1. There shall be three assessors appointed by the con mon council on the nomination of the mayor, who will be known as the board of assessors, and who shall hold their offices for the term of three years, beginning on the first day of July, one of whom shall be appointed annually. The assessors shall devote their whole time to the duties of their office and shall receive such compensation as the common council may determine. The member of the board whose term of office shall socnest expire shall be its president for the last fiscal year of his term of office. The board shall appoint a secretary, who shall keep a record of the proceedings of said board at its session, and of the proceedings of the board of review. Wheneve any communication, report or certificate shall be required to be signed or verified by the signature of said board it shall be sufficient if the same be signed "by order of the board of assessors," by president of such board, with the addition of thename of his office. Board of Assessors._ Funds shall be kept distinct. Common Council to borrow money for Board of Health. CHAPTER XI. Sec. 27. Moneys shall not be transferred from one fund tc another except as hereinafter provided, and the moneys received and properly belonging to one fund, shall not be credited to any other or different fund, excepting to the sinking fund, as above provided. Moneys received from liquor taxes shall be credited to the contingent fund, metropolitan police fund, public health fund and poor fund, in such proportions as the common council shall direct. The controller, for convenience, shall have power to divide the several funds above constituted into special funds, to defray special expenses, belonging to the same class of expenses for the payment of which said several funds are above constituted. The common council shall provide for the maintenance of the board of health of said city, and the payment of its expenses during the remainder of the fiscal year ending July first, eighteen hundred ninety-five, by borrowing by temporary loans such sums as may be certified to the common council by the said board to be necessary for the purposes aforesaid. Said temporary loan to be repaid from the moneys received during the present fiscal year from liquor taxes, or if such receipt be insufficient, then from any other moneys in the city treasury. No tax roll shall be held to be void, for the reason that an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be raised for any particular fund was not made by any officer, board or commission authorized or required by law to make an estimate for such purpose, within the time specified by law for the making of such estimate, provided such estimate shall be transmitted to the common council in time for the same to be acted upon by the common council and board of estimates. The board of health of said city shall have control and pos session of all city hospitals, buildings and offices pertaining tc the health department of said city, and shall annually on or before the fifteenth day of February make an estimate of the am:cunt of money necessary to be raised for the maintenance of said board and for the preservation of the public health for the ensuing fiscal year, which estimate shall be certified to the common council, and it shall be the duty of said council to cause the amount of money mentioned in said estimate to be placed upon the tax rolls and raised by general tax at the same time as other sums are raised by general taxation for the next fiscal year: Provided, that if the said estimate shall exceed fifty thousand dollars, only so much thereof in excess of fifty thousand dollars as shall be approved by the common council and board of estimates shall be levied in any one year. Health Board And provided further, that the council may by transfer from the contingent fund as above mentioned provide for the amount of money required to be raised for the purposes of public health fund, or for any part thereof in lieu of raising the same by taxation. The city treasurer shall place to the credit of the $12,000 placed to credit of board of health the sum of twelve thousand dollars for the Board of Health maintenance of said board, for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ninety-five, and for the payment of any existing outstanding liabilities, by transfer to the public health fund from any other funds in the city treasury, and the same shall be paid out on the checks of the board of health in the manner now provided by law for payment from the public health fund. The common council may replace the moneys so transferred by temporary loan to be repaid from liquor taxes paid in to the credit of the contingent fund. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 15th, 1895. Scnool Teach fund. AN ACT To amend act two hundred and thirty-three of the session laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, as amended, being an act entitled, "An act relative to free schools in the city of Detroit," approved February twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, by adding to said act a new section to stand as section twenty-seven. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That act two hundred and thirty-three of the session laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, as amended, being an act entitled "An act relative to free schools in the city of Detroit," approved February twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section twenty-seven, and to read as follows: Sec. 27. The said board of education shall establish what ers' retirement shall be known as the public school teachers' retirement fund, which fund shall be administered according to such rules and regulations, by-laws and ordinances as may be adopted by the board of trustees hereinafter provided for. The treasurer of said board is hereby given power to hold all moneys belonging to said fund, and invest or pay out the same under the direction of said board of trustees as hereinafter provided. Said fund shall consist of: First. All money, pay, compensation or salary or any part thereof, deducted or withheld from any teacher or teachers on |