any one year. Said Council shall also have power to issue Sewer bonds. bonds of said city or sewer orders in such terms and for such amounts as it may deem necessary, not exceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which bonds or orders shall bear a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent per annum, and payable in not more than five years from date thereof, for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing a sewer or sewers, in any special or local sewer district or districts, and the amounts thereof shall be collected from such special or local sewer district or districts to repay said bonds and sewer orders with interest on all deferred payments, at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum: Provided, however, That, Proviso. at no time, shall there be outstanding to exceed twenty thousand dollars of said bonds or orders. bonds. Said Council shall also have the power to issue bonds of said Street paving city in such sums and for such amounts as it may deem necessary, not to exceed two per cent of the assessed valuation of the property therein, as shown by the assessment rolls of the preceding year, for the purpose of paving the streets of said city, which bonds shall bear a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent per annum, and shall be payable in not more than ten years from date thereof. The amount of such bonds to the extent of all special assessments made for paving, as determined by the board of assessors, shall be respectively paid from the several districts, with interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, on all deferred payments as assessed and payable for paving. At no time shall any bonds of said city be sold at less than Not to be sold par or face value. for less than par. SEC. 287. All acts or parts of acts contravening the pro- Acts repealed. visions of this act or inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, That this act shall not invalidate any legal act done Proviso. by the mayor, city clerk, aldermen, other official or the Common Council of said city. All ordinances, by-laws, regulations, resolutions and rules of the Common Council now in force, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in full force until altered, amended or repealed by the Common Council under this act, and the same shall take effect. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section exempt. May borrow and issue [No. 371.] AN ACT to enable the City of Ludington in Mason County, State of Michigan, to borrow and issue the Bonds of the said City therefor any sum of money not to exceed one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars for Water-Works purposes; and to exempt said City of Ludington from the provisions of section three of chapter twenty-six of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of this State for the year A. D. eighteen hundred ninety-five, being "An act to provide for the Incorporation of Cities of the Fourth class," and approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred ninetyfive. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That the provisions of section three of chapter twenty-six of act number two hundred fifteen of the public acts of this State for the year A. D. eighteen hundred ninetyfive, entitled "An act to provide for the Incorporation of Cities of the Fourth class," approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred ninety-five, shall not hereafter apply to the city of Ludington, in Mason county, State of Michigan, but that all other provisions of said chapter shall remain in full force and effect in said city. SEC. 2. The said city of Ludington may borrow and issue bonds, limit of. the bonds of the said city therefor any sum of money not exceeding one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing, constructing or extending water-works as provided in sections one and two of chapter twenty-six of act number two hundred fifteen of the public acts of this State for the year A. D. eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Cities of the Fourth class," approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred ninetyfive. The council of said city shall have the power to fix the payment, inter- time and place of the payment of the principal and interest of the debt contracted under the provisions of this act, and to issue bonds of the city therefor, but the rate of such interest shall not exceed six per cent per annum, and such bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value: Provided, That the total amount expended for constructing, purchasing or extending such water-works shall not exceed the estimate of expense provided for in section three of this act. Council to fix time, place of est, etc. Proviso. Estimate of expense. SEC. 3. Before any money shall be borrowed, appropriated, raised or expended for the purchase, construction or extension of water-works in said city, the council shall direct the board of public works to cause to be made an estimate of the expense thereof, and the question of raising the amount required for such purpose shall be submitted to the electors of said city at its next annual election or at a special election called for that purpose by the council and shall be determined as two-thirds of the electors voting at such election by ballot This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 372.] AN ACT to amend sections three and four of chapter one, section nineteen of chapter seven, sections seven and ten of chapter nine, section seventeen of chapter ten, sections fourteen and seventeen of chapter fourteen, and section four of chapter eighteen of act number three hundred ninety of the local acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to amend and revise the charter of the city of Port Huron," approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, and the amendments thereto, and to add thereto three new sctions to stand as sections twenty-nine, thirty and thirtyone of chapter fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That sections three and four of chapter one, sec- Sections tion nineteen of chapter seven, sections seven and ten of chapter nine, section seventeen of chapter ten, sections fourteen and seventeen of chapter fourteen, and section four of chapter eighteen of act number three hundred ninety of the Local Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to amend and revise the charter of the city of Port Huron," approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, and the amendments thereto, be and the same are hereby amended, and that there shall be added thereto three new sections, to stand as sections twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one of chapter fifteen, such amended and such added sections to read as follows: CHAPTER I. li nits. SEC. 3. The territorial limits of said city shall consist of Territorial all that tract of country in the county of St. Clair, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point in the National boundary line in St. Clair river where the same would be intersected by the section line projected between sections twenty-one and twenty-eight, in town six north of Ward boundaries, how determined. range seventeen east; thence running westerly along the center of the highway between said sections to its intersection with the east line of the highway along the west line of said section twenty-one; thence running north along the east line of the highway between sectións twenty-one and twenty to the center line of the highway running east and west between sections sixteen and twenty-one; thence running east along the center line of said highway to the east line of the highway running north and south through the center of said section sixteen; thence north along the east line of said highway to a point where the Indian Reservation line intersects said highway; thence in a northwesterly direction along said Indian Reservation line to the south line of the Bonhomme tract; thence northeasterly along the south line of said Bonhomme tract to the centre of Black river; thence up the middle line of Black river to a point where the same would be intersected by the northwest corner of the McNeil tract in the township of Fort Gratiot; thence easterly along the north line of said McNeil tract to a point where the west line of Lakeside Cemetery intersects the north line of said tract; thence north along the west boundary of said Lakeside Cemetery, said line being the west line of the east fractional part of section twenty-seven, in town seven north of range seventeen east, to the north line of said section twenty-seven; thence east along the north line of said section twenty-seven and the north line of fractional section twenty-six to the westerly line of the highway known as Lakeside Turnpike or extension of Gratiot Avenue; thence northerly along the west line of said last named highway, to the north line of section twenty-two; thence east along said north line of section twenty-two, town seven north of range seventeen east, to the National boundary line in Lake Huron, and thence southerly along said National boundary line in Lake Huron and River St. Clair to the place of beginning. SEC. 4. The city of Port Huron shall be divided into ten wards, the boundaries of which shall be fixed and determined from time to time by the common council, but the boundary lines of the wards of said city shall remain as now fixed until changed by ordinance or resolution of the common council. Powers of council. CHAPTER VII. SEC. 19. The common council shall have power to establish, open, widen, straighten, vacate, abolish and maintain, improve, grade, pave, gravel, plank, clay, macadamize, clean, light and adorn the public parks, squares, spaces, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys and other public grounds in said city, and to control and regulate the use thereof; to prohibit and remove encroachments and obstruction thereon, and to preserve and maintain the rights of the public therein. The common coun- Idem. cil shall also have power, in all cases where any of the streets of said city are occupied by railroad companies for the purpose of running their engines and cars along said street, to compel any such railroad company to maintain said street between its tracks, and for at least two feet on either side thereof, and to keep the same at all times in good repair so that the surface of the roadbed between the tracks and on the outside thereof for the distance above specified shall be flush with the surface of the rails laid along said street; such maintenance shall be either by planking, paving, claying, graveling or macadamizing, as the common council may by resolution or ordinance determine. Should any railroad company or rail- Costs of repairs, road companies neglect or refuse to perform such work within a reasonable time after notice given them so to do, the common council may cause such work to be done, and the cost thereof shall be a charge against said railroad company, and the expense thereof may be recovered from the railroad company in an action at law by the city of Port Huron in any court of competent jurisdiction. how recovered. CHAPTER IX. money to be controller. shall show. SEC. 7. The board of education shall on or before the first Statements of Monday in April in each year deliver to the city controller delivered to an estimate of the amount of money necessary to carry on the schools under the charge of the said board for the next ensuing school year, which said estimate shall include all the ordinary expenses of running said schools and caring for the school houses, buildings and other property belonging to the board, and interest on temporary loans made by the board. The said estimates shall show the purpose for which said What estimates money is required, and it shall be the duty of the board of education to furnish to the said controller such information as may be desired for the purpose of enabling him to present the same, together with the estimates, to the common council for their consideration. The said board of education is Board authoralso authorized to borrow money in anticipation of the rev- money. enue to be derived from sums authorized to be levied for the current fiscal year, as provided by this act, but no evidence of indebtedness issued under the provisions of this section shall be for a longer period than nine months, or at a greater rate Limit of time of interest than seven per cent per annum. It shall be the Duty of duty of the controller to present the said estimates to the com- controller. mon council at the same time that the common council are considering the annual estimate for general city purposes, and in the case of the approval of such estimates by the common council, the said estimates or so much thereof as may be approved by the common council, shall be submitted to the board of estimates by the common council at the same time the esti ized to borrow and interest. |