Who shall constitute Board to fix rates. Receiver of collect rates. Controller to include in report statement of finan cial condition of water department Controller to take possession. and credited to the water department maintenance fund. Any Sec. 10. The superintendent of the water department, the mayor, the president of the board of public works, the city comptroller and the city treasurer shall constitute a board for fixing water rates, which shall, on or before the first day of May of each year, fix a schedule of the water rates to be collected for the ensuing fiscal year, which schedule shall comply with the requirements of the preceding section. The water rates so fixed shall be collected by the receiver of taxes in such manner and at such times as shall be provided by an ordinance by the common council. Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the city comptroller to include in his annual report a statement of the financial condition of the water department and of all outstanding indebtedness, and he shall at all times have access to the books and papers of the water department of the board of public works. He shall, on the first day of July, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, take possession of all books, papers, securities, moneys, records, memoranda, office furniture and fixtures belonging to or under the control of the board of water commissioners, their agents and servants, and said board of water commissioners, their agents and servants are hereby required to deliver and surrender to said city comptroller on said date all such books, papers, securities, moneys, records, memoranda, office furniture and fixtures of every name and nature belonging to them or under their control, and to yield up to said comptroller the control and direction of all the property relating to said water-works. Sec. 12. All the revenues received from the house of corRevenues from House of rection shall be credited to the water-works sinking fund, unless Correction to be credited to the same may be needed for the purchase of land, engines or sinking fund. new machinery, as provided in section one of this act, in which case it shall be used for such purpose, and if said revenues shall be insufficient therefor, then such an amount as may be necesMoneys sary may be taken from the moneys received from liquor taxes. received from Liquor Taxes All of the bonds mentioned and provided for in this act shall may be used. continue to be exempt from the charter provision limiting the bonded indebtedness of the city of Detroit. Sec. 13. Any person who shall wilfully injure, deface, cut, destroy or break any distributing pipe, main or aqueduct be longing to or connected with the water-works of the city of Detroit, or wilfully cut, break or disturb any inlet pipe or appliance for taking water out of the Detroit river into the settling basin, or wilfully break or injure any pumping engine or any part thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the Wayne county jail not more than one year. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 24, 1899. Penalty for interfering with pipes, mains, etc. Leave of absence, AN ACT To Amend Section Thirty-eight of Act number three hundred sixty of the local acts of eighteen hundred seventy-one, being an Act, entitled "An Act to create a fire commission in the city of Detroit," approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred seventy-one, as amended by Act number three hundred sixty-four of the local acts of eighteen hundred seventy-seven, approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred seventy-seven, as further amended by Act number four hundred twenty-seven of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The people of the state of Michigan enact: Section 1. That section thirty-eight of act number three hundred sixty of the local acts of eighteen hundred seventy-one, being an act, entitled "An Act to Create a Fire Commission in the City of Detroit," approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred seventy-one, as amended by act number three hundred sixty-four of the local acts of eighteen hundred seventy-seven, approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred seventy-seven, as further amended by act number four hundred twenty-seven of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 38. The leave of absence of all officers of said departmembers Fire ment above the rank of captain shall be, for each, one day of Department. twenty-four hours off duty in every five days, and a furlough of fourteen days once per year. The leave of absence of all officers and men in said department below the rank of chiefs of battalion shall be, for each, one day of twenty-four hours off duty in every five days, and a furlough of ten days once per year. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. AN ACT To Amend Section One of Chapter Eleven of an Act entitled "An Act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred eighty-three. The people of the state of Michigan enact: Section 1. That section one of chapter eleven of an act entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred eighty-three, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The revenues and moneys of the corporation shall be divided into the following funds, viz: First, General fund, which shall be appropriated to defray the expenses of the city of Detroit, for the payment of which, out of some other fund, no provision is herein named: General fund. fund. Second, Contingent fund, to defray the contingent expenses Contingent of said city; Third, Interest fund, to pay the interest on the funded debt of the city; Interest fund. sion fund. Fourth, Sinking fund, to pay the funded debt of the city; Sinking fund. Fifth, Detroit Fire Commission fund, to defray the expenses Fire Commisof purchasing lots, erecting engine houses thereon, purchasing engines and other fire apparatus and all other expenses necessary to maintain the fire department of said city; Poor fund. General Road fund. Road District funds. Sewer fund. Street Street Paving fund. Public Building fund. Sixth, Poor fund, to defray the expenses of providing for and taking care of the poor of said city; Seventh, General Road fund, to defray the expenses of repairing paved streets and alleys, and of grading, paving and improving the highways, streets and alleys of said city, in front of or adjacent to the property of the corporation, and to defray the expenses of constructing and repairing crosswalks in the several wards of the city; Eighth, District Road fund for each ward of the city, to defray the expenses of working, repairing, cleaning and improving the highways, streets and alleys in the ward for which such district road fund is constituted and raised; Ninth, Sewer fund, to defray the expenses of constructing sewers in said city; Tenth, Street opening fund, to defray the expenses of opening, widening, vacating, altering, straightening, extending or abolishing any highways, streets, alleys or avenues in said city; Eleventh, Street paving fund, to defray the expenses of grading, paving and graveling, macadamizing or planking highways, streets, alleys, sidewalks and crosswalks in front of, or adjacent to private property, and of putting curbstones and culverts therein; Twelfth, Public building fund, for purchasing any real estate for the erection thereon of any public buildings, and to defray the expenses of erecting, repairing and preserving such public buildings as the common council is authorized to erect and maintain, and are not herein otherwise provided for, which fund shall from time to time be divided into special building funds, to defray the expense of erecting, repairing and preserving the particular building or buildings for which such special building fund may be constituted or raised; |