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Bokkeeper, Office, seven hundred dollars each; for the salary of the bookkeeper of the State land office, six hundred dollars; for the State Libra salary of the State Librarian, five hundred dollars; [for] the sal

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Priva e Secary of the private secretary of the Governor, five hundred Governor. dollars; for the clerk of the Attorney General, four hundred

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Aud. Goal's dollars; for the salaries of the two regular clerks of the Auditor General, six hundred dollars each; for salaries of all other clerks employed by the Auditor General, a sum at the rate of six hundred dollars a year each; for the salary of the reporter of the supreme court, five hundred dollars; for the salaries of such additional clerks in the State land office, State Treasurer's office, of the Secretary of State, and office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as may be necessary, not exceeding six hundred dollars each per year, for the time employed.

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Sec. 2. That there be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, to the credit of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the salaries of the State officers for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two: For the salary of the Governor, one thousand dol lars; for the salaries of the chief justice and the associate justices of the supreme court, two thousand five hundred dollars each; for the salaries of the judges of the circuit courts, and the judge of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, fifteen hundred dollars each; for the salary of the district judge of the Upper Peninsula, one thousand dollars; for the salaries of the Auditor General and State Treasurer, one thousand dollars each; for the salaries of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, the Secretary [of] State and the Attorney General, eight hundred dollars each; for the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, one thousand dollars; for the salary of Adjt. Genl. the Adjutant General, three hundred dollars; for the salary of the Quarter-Master General, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the salaries of the deputy Auditor General, deputy State Treasurer, deputy Secretary of State, deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, and deputy Commissioner of the State

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Land Office, seven hundred dollars each; for the salary of the book-keeper of the State land office, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the State Librarian, five hundred dollars; for the State Libra salary of the private secretary of the Governor, five hundred dollars; for the clerk of the Attorney General, four hundred Cleiks, &c. dollars; for the salaries of the two regular clerks of the Auditor General, six hundred dollars each; for the salaries of all other elerks employed by the Auditor General, a sum at the rate of six hundred dollars a year each; for the salary of the reporter of the supreme court, five hundred dollars; for the salaries of such additional clerks in the State land office, State Treasurer's office, of the Secretary of State, and office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as may be necessary, not exceeding six hundred dollars each per year, for the time employed. Approved February 25, 1861.

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AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the city of Ann Arbor, approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of an act to incorporate the city of Ann Arbor, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be amended so that the same shall read as follows:

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Sec. 1. That so much of the township of Ann Arbor, in the Corporatecounty of Washtenaw, as is included in the following limits, (including the present city of Ann Arbor,) to wit: the south three fourths of section number twenty, the south three-fourths of the west three-fourths of section number twenty-one, the west three-fourths of section number twenty-eight, entire section number twenty-nine, the north half of section number thirty-two, and the west three-fourths of the north half of section number thirty-three, in township two south, of range six east, and also so much of the east half of the south-east quarter of section number twenty-one, and of the east half of the

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north-east quarter of section number twenty-eight, as lies west of the easterly bank of Huron river and north of the south line of the territorial road crossing said river on or near the line between said sections, be and the same is hereby set off from said township and declared to be a city, by the name of the city of Ann Arbor.

Sec. 2. Section three of said act shall be amended so that the same may read as follows:

Sec. 3. The said city shall be divided into five wards, as follows: the first ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying south of Huron street, and east of Fourth street; the second ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying south of Huron street and west of Fourth street; the third ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying north of Huron street and south of the river Huron, and west of Fourth street; the fourth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying north of Huron street and south of the river Huron, and east of Fourth street; and the fifth ward shall embrace all that part of the city lying north-east of the river Huron; the aforesaid division is made by the actual or supposed continuation of the centre line of each of said streets, in the present direction thereof, to the limits of the wards: Provided, That the common council may, at any time, alter the bounds of said wards, or any of them, and may at any time, with the assent of the board of supervisors of the county of Washtenaw, by a majority vote of all the supervisors elect, create an additional ward, and may create an additional assessment district or an additional assessment and collection district, when there shall be six wards.

Sec. 3. Section four of said act shall be amended so that the same may read as follows:

Sec. 4. There shall be the following officers in and for said city, to wit: one mayor; one recorder; one marshal; one street commissioner; one attorney; one treasurer; two supervisors, one to be elected in the first and second wards, and one to be elected in the third, fourth and fifth wards, who shall be asses

sors in their respective districts; one collector, or such number of collectors not exceeding one in each collection district in said city as the common council may by proper ordinance prescribe; one constable, to be elected in each ward; all of which Terms. officers shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified; and two aldermen Aldermen. to be elected in each ward, who shall respectively hold their offices for one and two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and four justices of the peace, who shall respect-Justices. ively hold their offices for four years; and when, by an ordinance to that effect, the common council shall, with the assent mentioned in section three, have increased the number of wards to six, and the number of assessment districts to three, there shall be three supervisors, one in the first and second wards, one in the supervisors. third and fourth wards, and one in the fifth and six wards, who shall be assessors in their respective districts, and shall respectively hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 4. Section number five of said act shall be amended so that the same shall read as follows:"

Sec. 5. The inhabitants of said city, having the qualifications Election of city officers. of electors under the constitution of this State, shall, on the first Monday of April in each year, at such place in each ward as the common council shall designate, proceed to elect by plurality of votes by ballot, from among the qualified electors of said city, one mayor, one recorder, one justice of the peace, one marshal, one street commissioner, and one collector (or such number of collectors not exceeding one for each assessment district in said city, as the common council may by proper ordinance have prescribed); and the inhabitants of each ward Ward offin said city, having the like qualifications of electors, shall at the same time and place in their respective wards, proceed to elect one alderman, to hold his office for two years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, and one constable; and there shall also, at the same time, be elected one supervisor by the qualified electors of the first and second wards, and one.

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supervisor by the qualified electors of the third, fourth and fifth wards: Provided, That in each ward in which there shall, at the time of such election, be no alderman having another year to serve, there shall be two aldermen elected, who shall be divided into classes. as prescribed in section six of this act, unless the electors shall by their ballots designate which is to hold office for one year only: And provided also, That when the common council shall, with the assent aforesaid, by an ordinance to that effect, have increased the number of wards to six, and the number of assessment districts to three, there shall be elected three supervisors, one in the first and second wards, one in the third and fourth wards, and one in the fifth and sixth wards: And provided also, That such justices, supervisors [and] constables, shall each of them have the like power and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as such officers respectively in the several townships in this State; and that such collector or collectors, and each of them, shall have the like power and be subject to the same duties and liabilities in relation to collecting taxes as township treasurers in the several townships in this State: And provided further, That all actions within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, may be commenced and prosecuted in said justices courts when the plaintiff or defendant, or one of the plaintiffs or defendants, resides in a township adjoining the township of Ann Arbor, or in the townships of York, Saline, Freedom or Lima.

Sec. 5. Section thirty-six of said act shall be amended so that the same shall read as follows:

Sec. 36. Whenever the common council shall be authorized, by a vote of the property tax payers of said city, to raise a tax for any specific purpose, and which cannot be included in the assessment roll and collected or returned for non-payment, as provided in section number thirty-five of this act, it shall be lawful for the common council to apportion such tax upon the property taxable for such purpose, according to the valuation contained in the then last assessment roll, and shall place the tax in a column opposite the valuation of the property; and

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