the peace Justices of gon is hereby authorized and empowered to enquire of, hear, try and determine, in a summary manner, all offenses which shall be committed within the limits of said village against any of the by-laws, ordinances or regulations that shall be made, established or ordained by said common council, in pursuance of the powers granted to them in this act, and to punish the offender or offenders as by the said by-laws, ordinances and reg ulations shall be prescribed or directed: Provided, That any person, on a charge of violating any of the by-laws, ordinances or regulations aforesaid, may demand and have a trial by jury, and either party may appeal to the circuit court of Muskegon county, in the same manner as in other cases of appeal from decisions of justices of the peace in criminal cases; such justices shall receive such fees for such services as shall be established by the common council. May de mand a jury Fees. Powers of constables. Sec. 19. Any constable of said county may serve any process, paper or order of the recorder, or other officer of said village, or of any justice of the peace, made to enforce any ordinance or regulation of said common council, made in pursuance of the provisions of this act of incorporation, and shall receive such fees therefor as shall be established by said common council. Sec. 20. At the close of each year the common council shall mon council settle and audit the accounts of the treasurer, and all other off Annual report of com Contents. Citizens not incompetent cers and persons having claims against said village, or ac counts with it, and shall make a true statement of all moneys received or expended by them in their corporate capacity du ring said year, and the disposition of said moneys, which statement shall exhibit the items of such expenditures, when, to whom, and for what purpose the same was paid out, and all such information as shall be necessary to a full and perfect understanding of the financial concerns of said village, which statement they shall cause to be published in some newspaper published in said village. Sec. 21. In all processes, prosecutions and other proceedings, as jurors, &c wherein the common council shall be a party, no citizen of said village shall be deemed an incompetent juror or witness on ac count of the interest of such juror or witness in the event of such process or proceedings: Provided, That such interest be Proviso. only that which is in common with all the citizens of said village. Council may a lien. erty for Sec. 22. The common council shall have full power and au- Common thority to ievy and collect taxes on all real and personal pro-levy taxes. perty (not exempt from taxation) within said village necessary to defray the expenses thereof, and any and every assessment of taxes lawfully laid and imposed by said common council on Taxes levied any lands, tenements, hereditaments or premises whatsoever, in said village, shall be and remain a lien on such lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises, from the time of making such assessment, or imposing such tax, until paid; and the owner, occupant, or parties in interest, respectively, in said real estate, shall be liable, upon demand, to pay every such assessment or tax to be made as aforesaid, and in default of such payment, or any part thereof, it shall be lawful for the treasurer of said Sale of propvillage to sell personal estate, and for the want thereof to sell taxes. real estate, rendering the surplus moneys, if any there shall be, after deducting the charges of such sale, to the person against whom the tax is levied: Provided, That whenever any real estate shall be sold by said treasurer, notice thereof shall be pub- Notice. lished by said treasurer, once in each week, for at least four successive weeks, immediately preceding such sale, in a newspaper printed and published in said county, if there be one, if not, in a newspaper published in an adjoining county; and said treasurer shall at such sale give to the purchaser or purchasers of any of such lands a certificate in writing describing the Certificate lands purchased, the amount paid therefor, and the time when such purchaser will be entitled to a deed for said land; and if Deeds. the person or persons claiming title to the lands described in the certificate of sale, shall not, within one year from the date of said certificate, pay to the treasurer of said village, for the use of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the sum mentioned in said certificate, together with interest thereon at the rate of twenty-five per cent. per annum from the date of said certifi of sale. evidence of proceeng3. Notice of completion of roll. cate, the said treasurer, or his successor in office, shall, at the expiration of the said year, execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a conveyance of the lands so sold, which conveyance shall vest in the person or persons to whom it shall be given, an absolute estate in fee simple, subject to all the claims the State hall have therein; and the said conveyance shall be Conveyance prima facie evidence that the sale, and all the proceedings regularity of therein prior to such sale, were regular, according to the provisions of this act and the ordinances of such village; and every such conveyance, executed by said treasurer, under his hand and seal, in the presence of two witnesses, and duly acknowledged and recorded in the usual form, may be given in evidence in the same manner, and with like effect, as a deed :egularly executed and acknowledged by the owner and duly recorded. Sec. 23. Whenever the assessor of said village shall have completed the assessment roll and valuation of the property, real and personal, in said village, it shall be his duty to give notice thereof by publishing in a newspaper printed in said village, by at least two insertions, or posting up the same in three of the most public places in said village, stating the place where said roll is left for inspection of all persons interested, and the time when and place where he will meet to hear the objections of such persons to the valuation made by him; and Review of at the time so appointed said assessor shall be present at such place, and on application of any person aggrieved may review and reduce the said valuation on sufficient cause being shown, on oath, to the satisfaction of said assessor; and if any person or persons shall conceive himself or themselves aggrieved by the final decision of said assessor, they shall have the right to appeal from such decision to the common council, who are in like manner hereby authorized, upon sufficient cause being shown, as aforesaid, to reduce said valuation. roll. Appeal. Duplicate of taxes to be made. Sec. 24. It shall be the duty of the common council of said village to make, or cause to be made, a duplicate of taxes, charging each individual therein an amount of tax in proportion to the amount of real and personal estate of such individual in said village, which duplicate shall be signed by the president treasurer. steet commissioner. Powers. Sec. 25. It shall be the duty of the street commissioners to Duties of superintend and direct the making, planking, repairing and opening all streets, lanes, alleys, side-walks, crossings, highways and bridges within said village, in such manner as they shall from time to time be directed by the common council. Said street commissioners shall collect the highway rolls, and for that purpose are hereby vested with all the powers of overseers of highways under the laws of this State, and such other powers as may be conferred on them by the common council. They shall pay over all moneys collected by them as they may be from time to time directed by the common council, and the common council shall have power to cause the grading and Grading, &c. making such side-walks as they may from time to time deem necessary, to be assessed on lots or premises adjoining such improvements. tion of off of voters. Sec. 26. The compensation of the officers of said village, not compensahereinbefore provided for, shall be fixed by the common council, cers. but shall not exceed twenty-five dollars each in any one year. Sec. 27. It is hereby made the duty of the supervisor, town- Registration ship clerk and township treasurer of the township of Muskegon, or any two of them, or their successors, to meet at the office of the township clerk of said township for the purpose of registering the names of the qualified voters of said village of Muskegon, on the last Saturday of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and said township clerk is hereby authorized to procure a suitable book for that purpose; and said supervisor, township clerk and treasurer are hereby authorized to perform the duties of a board of registration, in the same manner as is provided by the laws of this State in similar cases in the registration of voters in incorporated villages; and in case said registration of voters is not made on said day, and said election is not held, as provided in the second section of this act, it is hereby declared that said corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but that said registration may be made, and said election may be held at any time thereafter, said supervisor, township clerk and treasurer, or any two of them, or in case of their not being residents of said village, or incompetent to act, then any three electors of said village, having first given the notice as provided in the fifth section of this act. Approved March 16, 1861. Section amended Officers to be appoint mon council [ No. 243. ] AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to revise the charter of the city of Port Huron, approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section two of chapter two of an act entitled an act to revise the charter of the city of Port Huron, approved February fif teenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows. Sec. 2. The following officers shall be appointed by the coned by com, mon council, at a meeting to be held on the first Monday of May, in each and every year, who shall take and subscribe the oath of office, file their official bonds, and enter upon their official duties, on the second Monday of May, or within ten days thereaf ter, viz.: city attorney, marshal, sealer of weights and measures, city surveyor, or commissioner of city cemetery, and such other officers as may be authorized by prior resolution of the common council. Repeal and amendment. Sec. 2. That section six of chapter three of said act be and the same is hereby repealed, and that sections one, four, eight and nine, of said chapter three, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: |