[No. 420.] AN ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of St. Joseph to appoint, from their number a Building committee, to Superintend the construction of a Court-House for said county, and to provide and fix their compensation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: may appoint SECTION 1. That the board of supervisors of the county of Supervisors St. Joseph is hereby authorized to appoint, from their number building a building committee consisting of five members, whose duties committee. it shall be to superintend the building, constructing, and furnishing of a court-house within and for said county. SEC. 2. The members of such building committee shall Compensation each receive for their services and expenses as such committee the sum of two dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily spent in superintending the constructing and furnishing of such court-house, together with their actual and necessary expenses the same to be audited by the board of supervisors. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 421.] AN ACT to authorize the city of Detroit, through the Common Council thereof, to issue, subject to the approval of the Electors of said City, Bonds to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of improving Belle Isle Park in said City, by the erection thereon of a combined Aquarium and Horticultural building, and under certain conditions, of other permanent improvements. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That for the purpose of the improvement of Bond issue. Belle Isle Park by erecting and equipping thereon a combined aquarium and horticultural building, and by the construction of another building or buildings for the purpose of zoological exhibits, and for the construction of permanent stone bridges or other incidental permanent improvements in said city, the common council of the city of Detroit shall have power to borrow, upon the best terms it can make and for such time as it shall deem expedient, a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, upon the credit of the city of Detroit, and shall have authority to issue bonds pledging the faith and credit of said city for the payment of the principal Controller to keep record. first instance. and interest of said bonds, which bonds shall be denominated "Park Improvement Bonds of the City of Detroit," and shall bear interest not exceeding four per cent per annum. The controller shall keep an accurate register of all said bonds issued showing the number, date, and amount of each bond, and to whom the same was issued. The money received from such bonds shall be placed in the city treasury and shall be expended solely for the purposes herein specified under the supervision and on the warrant of the board of park and bouleSum devoted in vard commissioners of said city: Provided, That not less than the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be devoted in the first instance to the erection and equipment of a combined aquarium and horticultural building in said park. The entire sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be devoted to said purpose by said commissioners in their discretion, but if they shall deem a lesser sum, but not less than one hundred thousand dollars, adequate for said purpose, they shall have power to expend the remainder of said entire sum for the construction of a building or buildings suitable for zoological exhibits such as are commonly located in similar parks in other cities, or they shall have authority to devote said remainder of said entire sum for the construction of permanent stone bridges or other permanent improvements on said island or for any or all of the above kinds of improvements. How may expend the remainder. Question to be submitted to electors. notice of election. When published. SEC. 2. Such money shall not be borrowed, nor such bonds issued, unless a majority of the qualified electors of said city of Detroit, voting at an election to be held in said city on the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, votCouncil to give ing on the question of said loan, shall so determine, and the common council of said city is hereby authorized and required to give notice of submitting the question of said loan to the qualified electors of said city by giving due notice thereof, and causing the date, place of voting, and object of said election to be stated in printed or written notices and posted in six public places in each voting precinct in said city, not less than six days before said election, and publishing the same in one or more of the daily papers published in said city for three What to state. days prior to said election, which notice shall state the amount of money proposed to be borrowed, the amount of bonds to be issued, and the purposes thereof, and it is hereby made the duty of said common council to cause said question to be duly submitted and to do any and all other legal acts which may be necessary for the proper and legal submission thereof. SEC. 3. Said proposition shall be submitted in the following manner, the same being printed upon the official ballots for said election or upon special ballots if so ordered by the comForm of ballot. mon council. The wording wherein such proposition shall be submitted shall be as follows: "For issuing park bonds for aquarium or other permanent improvements on Belle Isle Park? Yes." "For issuing park bonds for aquarium or other Proposition, how submitted. conducted. permanent improvements on Belle Isle Park? No." The Election, how election shall be conducted and the votes canvassed and returns made in all respects as the aforesaid election held in said city is by law required to be conducted, and immediately upon the conclusion of such canvass the board of city canvassers shall make and sign a certificate showing the whole number of votes cast upon such proposition and the number for and against the same respectively, and said city canvassers shall endorse upon such certificate and declare in writing the result of such election, which certificate and declaration shall then be filed with the city clerk and entered at large upon the records of said city, and a copy of said certificate and declaration certified to by said clerk shall be filed by him with the county clerk of Wayne county. commissioners. resolution pro bonds. SEC. 4. The board of park and boulevard commissioners Power of park shall have full and absolute authority in disposing of the moneys arising by said issue of bonds and it shall be their duty to devote the proceeds thereof to the purposes prescribed by this act. The common council shall have full authority to Council may by provide by resolution for the advertising and sale of said vide for sale of bonds, the manner thereof to conform as near as may be practicable to the regulations heretofore prescribed by law for the issuance of sewer bonds. The bonds herein provided for shall run for a period not less than fifteen nor more than fifty years. The issue of bonds herein provided for shall not be subject to Not to be subthe bonding limitation of said city of Detroit as now prescribed limitation. ject to bonding by law, but may be in excess of said limitation. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 26, 1899. [No. 422.] AN ACT authorizing the township of Palmyra in the county of Lenawee, to issue bonds to the amount of not more than seven thousand dollars, for the payment for the construction of a bridge over the Raisin River on section eight of said township, known as LeRoy Bridge, and to provide for the manner of issuing the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The township of Palmyra, in the county of Bond issue. Lenawee, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds upon the faith and credit of such township, to an amount not Limit of. exceeding seven thousand dollars, and to use or negotiate the same for the purpose of raising money to pay for the construction of a steel bridge over the Raisin River on section eight of said township, known as LeRoy Bridge, upon the con Question submitted to electors. of election. ditions, under the circumstances and in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. No such bonds shall be issued unless a majority of the qualified electors of said township, voting at a township meeting, a general election or a special election duly called to be held at a time to be fixed by the township board of said Time and place township, not more than sixty days after said board shall have decided to call said election, which shall be held at the same place as the last preceding township election was held, and conducted in the manner hereinafter provided, shall so determine; and the said township board is hereby authorized and empowered to submit the question of said bonding to the qualified electors of said township, giving due notice thereof by causing the date, place of voting and object of said election to be stated in written or printed notices, to be posted in five public places in said township, at least ten days before the time fixed for such election, which notices shall state the amount of money proposed to be raised by such bonding, and the purpose to which it shall be applied. Manner of voting. Form of ballot. Idem. Election, how conducted. Amount of bonds, rate of interest, etc. SEC. 3. The vote upon such proposition shall be by a printed ballot, or in the usual manner on the Abbott voting machine, in the following words: "For issuing township bonds not exceeding seven thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Raisin River at Le Roy, (so-called,) for a time not exceeding fiveyears and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent, (Yes.) For issuing township bonds not exceeding seven thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Raisin River at Le Roy, (so-called), for a time not exceeding five years and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent, (No,)" Such election shall be conducted and the votes thereat canvassed in all respects as in other township elections, and immediately upon the conclusion of such canvass the inspectors of election shall make and sign a certificate showing the whole number of votes cast upon such proposition, and the number for and against it. Said inspectors shall endorse upon such certificate a declaration in writing of the result of such election, which certificate and declaration shall then be filed with the clerk of said township, and a copy thereof certified to by said township clerk shall be filed in the office of the clerk of Lenawee county. SEC. 4. If such issue of bonds shall be authorized by vote of electors of said township, such bonds may be issued in such sums not exceeding the amount hereby authorized, payable at such time and place not exceeding five years from the date of such bonds, and with such rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, as such township board shall direct by resolution. Said bonds shall be signed by the township board and countersigned by the township treasurer and negotiated by and under the direction of said board, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be used in paying for the construction of the said bridge before mentioned. payment of SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the said township board to Tax levy for provide for the raising by tax upon the taxable property of such bonds. township, such sums of money annually as shall be sufficient to pay the amount of said bonds and the interest thereon, as fast as the same shall become due. tiated. SEC. 6. No bonds issued under and by virtue of this act How negoshall be negotiated at less than their par value. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 423.] AN ACT to amend section five of chapter seven; section nineteen of chapter eleven; sections ten, twelve, twenty-four and twenty-eight of chapter twelve; sections one and three of chapter thirteen; section twelve of chapter fourteen, of an act, entitled "An act to amend and revise the charter of the City of Marquette, Marquette County," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended by act number three hundred and twenty-three of the Local Acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninetythree, and as amended by act number four hundred and nine of the Local Acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, and as amended by act three hundred and fifty-five of the Local Acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninetyseven; and to add one new section thereto to stand as section two of chapter seven; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That section five of chapter seven; section nine- Sections teen of chapter eleven; sections ten, twelve, twenty-four and twenty-eight of chapter twelve; sections one and three of chapter thirteen; section twelve of chapter fourteen of an act entitled "An act to amend and revise the charter of the city of Marquette, Marquette County," approved March twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, amended by act number three hundred and twenty-three of the local acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and as amended by act number four hundred and nine of the local acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and as amended by act number three hundred and fifty-five of the local acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be amended, that there be added thereto one new section to stand as section two of chapter |