Commissioners of

streets.

Overseers

of highways

and to annex penalties for the violation thereof, and to compel the assistance of the citizens to aid in extinguishing any fire.

Sec. 26. The president and trustees shall be the commissioners of streets and highways, and within the limits of the vil. lage shall have the same powers, and perform the same duties, as now by law belong to commissioners of streets and highways in the several townships of the State, and shall appoint one or more overseers of highways to repair and keep in order the highways, streets and alleys, and shall cause a tax to be levied and collected, as taxes usually are for constructing and repairing roads in the different townships, and shall have the exclusive control of the highway moneys levied and collected in the village: Provided, That their power to order fences to be removed, and to remove such fences themselves, and to open, widen or extend streets and highways, shall not be restricted between the first day of April and the first day of November in each year, but they may exercise that power at any time Highway during the year: And provided also, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any person or property within said village from any township tax, that may be legally levied within and for the township of Buchanan, for the repairing, building or rebuilding of any bridge within said township, or for any special expenditure for the laying out, opening, working or improving any highway of said township, or for any damages for which said township may become liable, by reason of any neglect in keeping any bridge or public highway in proper repair.

tax.

School dis. trict.

Sec. 27. The lands within the limits of the corporation of the village of Buchanan, and such contiguous territory as is or may hereafter be thereto annexed for school purposes, shall constitute a single school district, and be known and designated as union school district number one, of the village and township of Buchanan; and such district shall have all the powers and privileges conferred upon school districts by general law, and in addition thereto, such powers and privileges as may have heretofore been conferred upon it by special enactments:

ucation.

First. At the annual meeting of said district, to be held on Board of edthe first Monday of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the qualified voters thereof shall elect, by ballot, six trustees, two each for one, two and three years, who shall together constitute a district board of education; and annually thereafter, in the same manner, they shall elect two trustees, who shall hold their office three years, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, and also at the same time and in the same manner, shall fill all vacancies that may exist in said board.

Second. Within ten days after each annual meeting, the trus- Officers of. tees thus elected shall meet, and elect from their own number a president, secretary and treasurer, whose powers and duties shall be the same as those conferred upon and required of the moderator, director and assessor of school districts in this State, except so far as the same are increased or modified by the provisions of this act, or by former special acts passed for the benefit of said district. Said board shall have the power to fill any and all vacancies that may occur in their number until the next annual meeting.

board.

Third. Said board shall have the power to hire any and all Power of necessary teachers for the several schools of said district, and fix the amount of their compensation; to classify and grade said schools, and determine the ages and qualification for admission thereto; to adopt courses of study and text books for the use of said schools, and to enact such rules and by-laws as may be necessary for the preservation of all property belonging to said district, for the government of the schools, and in reference to all business connected therewith, and also to levy and collect such sums as they may deem proper for the tuition of each and every scholar taught in said district, who is not actually a resident thereof.

Fourth. The qualified voters of such district shall, by vote at School tax. the annual meeting, or at any special meeting called for that purpose, raise by tax upon the taxable property of the said district, such sum as shall be necessary to make the several schools

Tuition of non-residents.

Board to publish bylaws.

Penalty for

trustees refusing to

serve.

Ordinances heretofore

remain in force.

of the district free of tuition, in all English branches, to the resident scholars thereof.

Fifth. The treasurer of said district shall have power, in the name of the district, to collect all moneys due for tuition of scholars, who are not actually residents thereof, by suit at law, under the direction of said board.

Sixth. The board shall publish the rules and by-laws they may from time to time enact, in at least one paper published in the village of Buchanan, and shall give like notice of their alteration or repeal, if there be a newspaper published in said village, and if there be no paper published in said village, then by posting them up in three of the most public places in said village; and the secretary of said board shall also record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose.

Seventh. Every person elected to the office of trustee of said district who, without sufficient cause, shall neglect or refuse to accept such office and serve therein, shall forfeit, for the use of said district, the sum of ten dollars: Provided, That no person shall be compelled to serve two terms successively; and the said board shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations relative to its proceedings, and to punish, by fine, not exceeding five dollars for each offence, any member of the board who may, without sufficient cause, absent himself from any meeting thereof, said penalties to be collected as the board may direct.

Sec. 28. All ordinances, by-laws and regulations of the coradopted to poration of the village of Buchanan, which are in force at the time of the passage of this act, shall remain in full force and effect as if passed under the provisions of this act: Provided, however, That they do not contain anything repugnant to the provisions of this act, or the constitution or laws of this State or the United States.

Disposition

of money

Sec. 29. All moneys received for licenses granted to tavern received for keepers or common victualers, under the provisions of this act, license. shall be paid to the county treasurer, as provided in section

twenty-six, of chapter thirty-eight, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six.

Sec. 30. This act shall be favorably construed and received Public act in all courts as a public act, and copies thereof printed, under the authority of the Legislature, shall be received as evidence, without further proof.

eligible to

Sec. 31. No person shall be eligible to any office in this cor- Persons inporation unless he shall have resided in the said corporation six office. months next preceding his election, and who shall not be entitled to vote therein.

Sec. 32. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 33. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 7, 1863.

[ No. 78. ]

AN ACT to organize the county of Antrim.

organized.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Antrim, consisting of the territory embraced by Antrim Co. the present county of Antrim, be and the same is organized into a separate county by the name of Antrim, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the privileges, powers and immunities to which, by law, the inhabitants of other organized counties in this State are entitled.

ed counties

Sec. 2. The unorganized counties of Kalkaska, Crawford and Unorganiz Otsego, shall be attached to the said county of Antrim for muni- attached. cipal and judicial purposes.

Banks.

Sec. 3. All that part of the said county of Antrim which lies Township o north of the south line of township thirty-one north, shall be organized into a separate township by the name of Banks, and the first township meeting thereof shall be held at the house of Gurden Geer, on the first Monday in April next; and James Orr, Thomas Flanegan and Rock W. Geer, shall be the inspectors of the election.

Sec. 4. The dimensions of the township of Milton, in said

Township of county, shall be enlarged by adding thereto the following described territory, to-wit: fractional township thirty north, of

Milton.

Elk Rapids.

range nine west; also, townships twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirth north, of range eight west.

Township of Sec. 5. The name of the township of Meegezee, in said county, is hereby changed to that of Elk Rapids, and all of the territory of the county of Antrim, and of the counties attached thereto, not included within the limits of any other organized township thereof, is hereby attached, for township purposes, to the township of Elk Rapids.

County seat

Co. officers, election of.

County can.

vass.

Attached to 9th judicial

Sec. 6. The county seat of said county of Antrim shall be established, by the board of supervisors, at the village of Elk Rapids, to-wit: in township twenty-nine north, of range nine west, and on sections twenty and twenty-nine.

Sec. 7. At the township meeting of the several townships in said county, to be held on the first day of April next, there shall be an election of all the county officers to which the said county is entitled, whose term of office shall expire on the first day of January, A. D. 1865, and when their successors shall have been elected and qualified. Said election shall be conducted in the same way, by the same officers, and the returns thereof made in the same manner, as near as may be, as is now required by law in the elections of county officers in this State.

Sec. 8. The county canvass of the votes cast for county officers shall be held on the second Tuesday succeeding the election, at the house of Henry H. Noble, at the village of Elk Rapids, and said canvass shall be conducted in the same way, and by the same officers, as the requirements of law now provide in organized counties, as nearly as may be, by the ap pointment, by the board of canvassers, of one of their own number to act as secretary to said board of county canvassers.

Sec. 9. Said county shall be in the ninth judicial circuit, and circuit. shall be entitled to one court therein in each year. Sec. 9. [10.] This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 11, 1863.