vacancy or residue of a term, the ballots of the electors shall designate such vacancy or residue.

other elec

Sec. 61. The mode of conducting all State, district and county Conducting elections, in said city, shall be in the manner herein provided for tions. the election of city officers, except that the returns shall be made to the county clerk, and the same proceedings had, as near as may be, as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for the return of votes by township inspectors of elections.

ed a school

property.

Sec. 62. The city of Coldwater shall be considered and is City declarhereby declared to be a school district, and shall be known in district. law as the Coldwater city school district, and shall take the place of so much of school district number eleven, in the township of Coldwater, aforesaid, as lies within said city limits; and the board of trustees, and the school district officers of said district, shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be the trus Trustees. tees and district officers of the district hereby established, and the real and personal estate belonging to said school district Transfer of number eleven shall be deemed the real and personal estate of the district hereby established; and the said school district hereby established shall take the place of said district number eleven, which is hereby abolished, in relation to all contracts Debts and and agreements existing at the time this act shall take effect, between the said school district number eleven and any person or persons whomsoever, and shall be bound by and may enforce all such contracts and agreements, the same, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been made originally by or with the district hereby established.

contracts of.

Sec. 63. And the said board of trustees, in addition to the Board of trustees,du. duties now required to be performed by them as trustees and ties of. officers of a school district, organized under the provisions of an act entitled "an act to establish graded and high schools," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and by the laws of the State in relation to primary schools, and shall also perform the duties now required by law to be performed by school inspectors of townships, in relation to the

Apportionment of dis. trict tax.

Duty of collector.

to county.

examination and qualifications of candidates for teachers in said district and city.

Sec. 64. It shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to certify the full amount of taxes to be levied upon the taxable property in said district, to the supervisor of each ward; and each of said supervisors shall certify to each other supervisor the amount of taxable property in that part of the district lying in his ward; and such supervisors shall respectively ascertain the proportion of such taxes to be placed on their respective assessment rolls, according to the amount of taxable property in each of said wards.

Sec. 65. It shall be the duty of the collector of said city to perform and discharge the same duties, in relation to the collection and return of taxes, which may be assessed or levied in the several wards of said city for State, county and school purposes, that are now or may be required to be performed by township treasTo give bond urers in this State; and he shall enter into a bond to the county treasurer of Branch county aforesaid, for the purposes and in the manner now required of such township treasurers, and shall also enter into a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the treasurer of said city, who is hereby authorized to take and approve the same, conditioned that he will pay over to said city treasurer all moneys for school purposes in the school district established by this act, which may come into his hands by virtue of his office.

To city.

City treas

urer to be

school dis

trict.

Sec. 66. The treasurer of said city shall be the treasurer of treasurer of said school district, and shall have the custody of all funds and moneys belonging to the same, and is authorized to receive from the county treasurer aforesaid, all moneys coming into his hands for school purposes to which said district may be entitled; and for this purpose, the said district is to be considered, by said county treasurer, the same as a township under the laws of the State in relation to the distribution of school moneys; and the said city treasurer is hereby required to enter into a bond to the board of education aforesaid, in such sum and with such sureties as the said board may direct, conditioned that he will

Bond.

pay over, on the order of said board, all moneys that may come into his hands for school purposes in said school district.

school law

to said dis

Sec. 67. The school district hereby established shall be sub- General ject to the general laws of this State in relation to primary applicable schools, high schools, and graded schools, except as otherwise herein provided.

trict.

Sec. 68. This act shall be deemed a public act, and be favor- Deemed a ably construed in all courts of law and equity in the State.

public act.

Sec. 69. The first election under this act shall be held on the First charter election, first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, at such when held. places in each of the several wards as the president and trustees of the village of Coldwater shall designate, notice of which, Notice. and of the several city and ward officers to be voted for at such election, and of the boundaries of the several wards, shall be given by the clerk of said village, at least eight days before the election, by publishing the same in two of the newspapers printed in said village, and by posting the same in at least five public places in each ward; and said president and trustees Inspectors shall, at least eight days before the election, appoint from tion. among the electors of each ward three persons who shall act as inspectors of said first election, and such inspectors so appointed shall take the oath required by law to be taken by inspectors Oath. of election, and shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and make the same returns as are required of inspectors of election under this act and by the laws of this State.

of said elec

elerk to fur

registration.

Sec. 70. The township clerk of the township of Coldwater Township shall, at least fifteen days prior to the election, furnish the clerk nish list of of said village of Coldwater, with a list duly certified by him of all the voters registered in said township, residing within the limits of the city; and said village clerk shall thereupon make and deliver to the inspectors of each ward a copy of such Delivered to list, and said inspectors shall, from such list so furnished, and from actual canvass, make a list of the qualified electors in each ward, and enter their names and residence in a book to be furnished for that purpose by the board of trustees of said village; and such book shall be the register of electors for such ward,

inspectors.

Where de- and immediately after the election shall be deposited with the

posited.

Board of re gistration.

Clerk to furnish ballot

boxes.

clerk of the city.

Sec. 71. The chairman of the board of inspectors of each ward shall, on Saturday preceding the election, meet at the office of the township clerk of said township of Coldwater, for the purpose of completing the lists of qualified voters for each ward, at which session it shall be the right of any person who will be an elector at such election, and whose name is not already registered, to have his name entered in the register for the ward in which he resides.

Sec. 72. The clerk of said village shall, prior to the opening of the polls, furnish the inspectors of each ward with two suitable ballot boxes, in one of which shall be deposited, by said inspectors, all ballots that may be offered at such elections for a judge of the supreme court, and in the other all votes cast for city and ward officers; and such inspectors shall canvass the Return, how votes cast for judge of the supreme court, and make return thereof to the clerk of the county of Branch, in the same manner as is required by the laws of this State of township inspectors of election.

made.

Coldwater township.

Election,

where held.

Election,

1861.

Sec. 73. All of township number six south of range six west, not included in the limits of the city of Coldwater, is hereby organized into a separate township, by the name of the township of Coldwater; and the people of said township may hold all annual and special township elections, and general elections, within the city of Coldwater, at such place as the township board may appoint; and the township clerk of said town may keep his office in said city, and a resident of said city may be appointed deputy township clerk.

Sec. 74. The election for said township, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be held at the court house, in the city of Coldwater, and Harvey Haynes, E. W. Phetteplace, Peres Lincoln, and the township clerk of said township, are hereby constituted the board of election thereof, and shall appoint a chairman, take the necessary oath, and perform all the duties, have the same powers, and make the same returns, as

inspectors of election in townships are by law required to do and perform; and in case any of the persons named in this section shall refuse to serve, the vacancies shall be filled in the manner now provided by law

elected.

Sec. 75. At said township election, in eighteen hundred and Officers sixty-one, there shall be elected one supervisor, one, township clerk, one township treasurer; one justice of the peace, for the full term of four years, commencing on the fourth day of July next after his election; one justice of the peace, whose term of office shall expire on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; one justice of the peace, whose term shall expire on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; one justice of the peace, whose term of office shall expire on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; the terms of office of the justices of the peace elected for other than the full term, shall commence immediately on filing of their bonds and taking the oath of office, and the term for which each is elected shall be expressed on the ballot; there shall also be elected one commissioner of highways for the full term, two school inspectors, one for one year and one for the full term of two years, and four constables.

clerk.

Sec. 76. The township clerk of said township of Coldwater Township shall continue to perform the duties of clerk of said township until his successor is elected and qualified; and when his successor shall have been duly qualified, he shall deliver to him all Duty of. of the books, papers and furniture of his office, except chattels, mortgages upon property within the limits of said city; such mortgages, with a book containing the entry of the same, shall be delivered to the city clerk, with whom all personal mortga ges upon property in said city shall be hereafter filed.

Sec. 77. This act shall take effect on the first day of April next, except sections forty-four, seventy, seventy-one, seventytwo, and seventy-three, which sections so excepted, were ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved February 28, 1861.