until payment thereof, for a term not exceeding ninety days. All punishments for offenses against any ordinance of the city shall be prescribed in the ordinance creating or specifying the offense to be punished, and no fine, penalty or forfeiture shall exceed five hundred dollars. No imprisonment shall exceed ninety days. Punishments may consist of both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, if this charter or such ordinance shall so provide.

CHAPTER V.

Retired Employes' Pension Fund.

Section 1. Any person who has been an employe of any of the departments or commissions of the city of Detroit for a period of twentyfive years subsequent to July 1, 1896, or who have attained the age of seventy (70) years, provided he has been in the employ of the city for not less than fifteen (15) years, may be placed on a list to be known as Retired Employes of the city of Detroit by vote of the civil service commission of said city. All such retired employes shall receive a sum equal to one-half of their annual salary, paid them at the time of their retirement, annually thereafter, to be paid in twelve monthly payments during the remainder of their natural lives, such moneys to be collected and paid in the manner hereinafter provided; provided, however, that no person so retired shall receive more than nine hundred ($900) dollars per annum. Sec. 2. Whenever any persons are placed on the retired list, as provided in this act, it shall be the duty of the civil service commission to promptly report its action to the controller of the city of Detroit, giving the names of the persons so retired, together with a full statement of facts connected with the retirement of such person or persons. It shall be the duty of the controller to register the names of such persons as being retired employes of said city, and as hereinafter provided, pay them the moneys due them hereunder.

Sec. 3. There shall be kept in the office of the civil service commission of said city, a book to be known as the list of retired employes of said city. This book shall give a full and complete history and record of the action of the civil service commission in retiring any and all persons under this act, such record to give the names, date of entering the service of said city, date of retirement, annual salary paid at time of retirement, and the reason for such retirement, if any.

Sec. 4. On or before the 15th day of January in each and every year, the controller shall make up and include in the annual budget and submit to the common council his estimates of moneys necessary to pay such retired employes as shall be entitled to moneys under this act, for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July (subsequent to their retirement succeeding the first day of April), and the common council shall appropriate and cause to be levied and collected by taxation such money as shall be required to make the payments provided by this act at the end of the preceding fiscal year. All moneys collected under this act shall be placed to the credit of the city employes retired and pension fund, and if at any time the cash balance shall not be sufficient to pay

matured claims, the controller is authorized to borrow such further sum as shall be required; provided that such amount shall not exceed the uncollected appropriation.

Sec. 5. All payments under this act shall be made on the first secular day in each month; but when any claims for pensions are allowed after the first day of April in each year, there shall be no payment until after the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year; provided, however, that the first payment shall be for the period intervening between the date of the allowance of such pension and the date of making such first payment.

Sec. 6. This act shall not apply to any employes of said city, who may be, at the time of its enactment, receiving pensions from said city, or who may be employed in any department or commission of said city, for whom retirement provisions now exist by virtue of any special or general act and provision of this charter.

Sec. 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. (As adopted April 2, 1923. In effect April 14, 1923.)

Section 1. Act number three hundred and twenty-six of the local acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and all special acts relating to the city (except such as no city may alter, amend or repeal), are hereby repealed. Acts, Resolutions, Regulations and Proceedings Continued:

Sec. 2. All ordinances, resolutions and other proceedings of the common council not in conflict with the provisions of this charter, and all acts, regulations or other proceedings of the city or any board, commission or officer thereof, not in conflict with the provisions of this charter, entered into, done or adopted in accordance with law, are hereby continued in full force and effect until altered, amended or repealed in accordance with law.

Vested Rights Continued:

Sec. 3. After the adoption of this charter the city shall continue to be vested with all property, moneys, contracts, rights, credits, effects, and the records, files, books and papers belonging to it as formerly incorporated, and with such additional property and rights as herein prescribed. No right or liability, either in favor of or against the city, existing at the time of the taking effect of this charter, and no suit or prosecution of any character shall in any manner be affected by such change, but the same shall stand or proceed as if no change had been made. All debts and liabilities of the city shall continue to be its debts and liabilities, and all fines and penalties imposed and all taxes and assessments levied and uncollected at the time of such change shall be collected, and all licenses issued by the city shall be and remain the same as if such change had not been made.

Officers Continued in Office:

Sec. 4. All officers now holding any office or appointment shall continue to hold the same, unless removed by competent authority, until superseded under laws now in force or under this charter. Unless otherwise herein or by ordinance provided, the salaries or compensation of all city officers shall continue as under the existing charter and ordinances.

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TITLE XI.

BELLE ISLE BRIDGE.

CHAPTER I.

Belle Isle Bridge.

Section 1. Power to erect a bridge over the American channel of the Detroit River between Belle Isle and the mainland at the intersection of Jefferson avenue and East Grand boulevard is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit.

Sec. 2. Power to provide an approach or approaches thereto is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit.

Sec. 3. Power to expend therefor a sum not to exceed three million dollars is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit. Sec. 4. Power and authority to provide such part of said sum as may be from time to time required, in the judgment of said council by taxation on the taxable real and personal property of the city in the annual appropriations of the city in manner provided in title VI of said revised charter is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit.

Sec. 5. Power and authority to provide such part of said sum as may be from time to time required, in the judgment of said council, by the sale of bonds to be issued in lieu of taxation in manner provided in said title VI of said revised charter is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit.

Sec. 6. Power and authority to provide such part of said sum as may be from time to time required, in the judgment of said council, by the sale of bonds, which are hereby authorized and approved, to be issued and sold in the sum of three million dollars or such part thereof as the said council shall from time to time determine is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit.

Sec. 7. Bonds issued under section 6 hereof, hereby authorized and approved, shall bear such rate of interest and be issued and sold as is provided with reference to other city bonds by chapter V of said title VI of said revised charter, but they shall not be subject to the restrictive provisions of title VI of said revised charter as to time of authorization, relation to annual appropriations or total thereof, or gross debt.

Sec. 8. Power to maintain, control and regulate said bridge and the approach or approaches thereto is hereby conferred on the common council of the city of Detroit. (As adopted April 7, 1919. In effect April 18, 1919.)