care of bridges. lage, which notice shall set forth substantially the time when and place where such injury took place, the manner in which it occurred, and the extent of such injury as far as the same has become known, and that the person receiving such injury intends to hold such village liable for such damages as may have been sustained by him: Provided, That the bridges within the limits Proviso as to of any village incorporated under this act in the highways leading into or through the said village which have been laid out or shall hereafter be laid out by the commissioner of highways of the township or townships in which said village may be located, or laid out by any other authority other than that of said village, shall be built, controlled and kept in repair by the township or townships in which the same may be located, the same as if said village were not incorporated and the fact that any such highways are laid out and used as such at the time of such incorporation of said village shall be deemed sufficient to make the same township highways, and the township or townships in which they may be located liable as aforesaid, and all other bridges in said village shall be built, controlled and kept in repair by said village. tery trustees relative to gifts, etc. SEC. 63. The board of cemetery trustees created under this Power of cemeact shall have power to receive in trust moneys or property by way of gifts, grants, devises or bequests for cemetery pur poses. All moneys and property which may be so received by said board of cemetery trustees by way of gifts, grants, devises or bequests for cemetery purposes, shall be held in trust by said board, subject to the terms and conditions on which the same may be given, granted, devised or bequeathed, and the same shall constitute a trust fund, and if in money, shall, unless otherwise expressed by those making such gifts, grants, devises or bequests, be invested as permanent fund in undoubted real estate security, U. S. bonds, State bonds, or municipal bonds, the interest thereon after fulfillment of such conditions expressed, to be used in improving the cemetery under the control of said board, and no part of such gifts, grants, devises or bequests shall be used or appropriated for other than cemetery purposes. SEC. 64. The board of cemetery trustees shall have full Further power and authority to make all requisite and necessary rules powers. and by-laws to carry into effect the powers' vested and duties required by section sixty-three of this act; and such by-laws shall be entered upon and recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose. Said board of cemetery trustees shall also appoint a treasurer from their membership, whose duties shall be, under the direction of said board, to receive, account for and invest all moneys received by said board under section sixtythree of this act. Said treasurer shall give and execute a bond to the board of cemetery trustees in the penal sum fixed by the council. Approved June 7, 1899. Sections amended. When supervisors to elect canvassers by ballot. board. Proviso. fix compensation. [No. 224.] AN ACT to amend sections one, three and four of act number one hundred forty-nine of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a board of county canvassers, to prescribe the term of office and powers and duties thereof, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," as amended by act number one hundred twenty-five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That sections one, three and four of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a board of county canvassers, to prescribe the term of office and the powers and duties thereof, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," as amended by act number one hundred twenty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 1. That at the regular annual meeting of the board of supervisors of each organized county in the State of Michigan, for the year eighteen hundred ninety-six and each second year thereafter, there shall be elected by ballot three electors, neither of whom shall be a candidate for office at the genCounty clerk to eral election ensuing, who together with the county clerk, who be a member of, shall not be entitled to a vote on said board, shall be and are hereby constituted a board of county canvassers. Provided, That no person shall be eligible to membership on said board of canvassers who is a member of said board of supervisors. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of said board of supervisors to notify said electors of their election within five days Supervisors to thereafter. Said board of supervisors shall, at the time of electing such board of county canvassers, fix the amount of their compensation, which shall not exceed four dollars per day for each member of said board, which shall be paid by the county treasurer upon the warrant of the county clerk: Provided, That in Wayne county said board of county canvassers shall consist of five members, as follows: The probate judge, who shall be the presiding officer of such board; the county treasurer, with the two members of the board of Wayne county auditors having the longer term to serve, and one other citizen elector to be chosen by a plurality viva voce vote of the board of supervisors of said county at their regular annual meeting. Said board of supervisors shall, at the same time and in the same manner, elect an alternate member of said board, who will be entitled to serve as a member of said board in case of a vacancy on said board on account of disability, absence or other cause. Provise as to to convene. be clerk of SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said board of county can- When board vassers to convene at the office of the county clerk on the first Tuesday after the first Monday following each election in said county, before the hour of one o'clock p. m., and to elect one of their number to act as chairman, except as is especially provided in section one of this act. The county clerk shall act County clerk to as clerk of said board, but, in the event of his unavoidable board. absence, the board may select one of his deputies to act in his stead. In case of any vacancy on said board, by reason Vacancy, how of absence or disability under the provisions of this act, it shall be filled by the members of the board present, who shall select some person or persons eligible to have been elected in the first instance, as set forth in section one of this act. filled. vass vote. are incomplete, SEC. 4. The said board shall then proceed, without delay, Board to canto canvass the return of votes cast for all candidates for office voted for and all other questions voted on at said election, according to the returns filed in the office of the county clerk by the several boards of election inspectors of the various voting precincts in the county. If it shall be found, upon the When returns convening of said board of canvassers, that the returns from board may the various boards of election inspectors of the several town- adjourn. ships are missing or incomplete, or for any other reason, it is found necessary to return the same, then said board of county canvassers shall have power to adjourn from day to day until said returns shall have been procured or corrected. When said canvass shall have been finished the said board Duty of board of county canvassers shall prepare a statement setting forth ting canvass. their findings in the premises, and giving in detail the number of ballots cast for each candidate and the result of the votes cast on all other questions voted on at said election. They shall certify thereto under their hands and the seal of the circuit court of the county. It shall also be the duty of said board to declare the result of the election for county officers and members of the legislature, when the county alone constitutes one or more senatorial or representative districts, and to publish said result and a statement of votes cast, within thirty days after said election is held, in at least two newspapers printed and circulating in said county. Approved June 7, 1899. upon comple . Number who may incor porate. To execute articles of incorporation. [No. 225.] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of Mennonite Brethren in Christ churches. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any number of persons not less than five, of full age, with the consent of the presiding elder of the district in which the proposed church is to be located, to organize and procure the incorporation of a Mennonite Brethren in Christ church. SEC. 2. The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, articles of association in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church which shall be governed by the discipline, rules and usages of the MennoElder to attach nite Brethren in Christ church. To such articles of association there shall be attached a certificate by the presiding elder of the district in which said church is to be located, that said church was organized by the consent of said presiding elder. SEC. 3. Said articles of association shall contain the following items: certificate of consent. What articles to contain. First. The name of said church. Second. The township, village or city, and the county in which it shall be located. Third. An agreement to worship and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ church. Said articles may be in the following form: We, the undersigned, desiring to become incorporated under the provis ions of act number of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety- entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of Mennonite Brethren in Christ churches," do hereby make, execute and adopt the following articles of association. to wit: First, The name assumed by the corporation and by which it shall be known in law, is "The Mennonite Brethren in Christ church." of Second, The location of said church shall be in the- county of Third, The members of said church shall worship and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ church, as from time to time authorized and declared by the general conference of said church, and the annual conference within whose bounds said corporation is situated. In witness whereof, we, the parties hereby associating for the purpose of giving legal effect to these articles, hereunto sign our names and places of residence. Done at the of county of day of and State of Michigan this (Signatures.) A. D. (Residences.) day of A. D. before me, a known in and for said county, personally appeared I, presiding elder of the district of the annual conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ church, the same being the district in which the church mentioned in the foregoing articles of association is to be or is now located, do hereby certify that such church was organized by my consent and concurrence. Dated at Mich., A. D. Presiding Elder. recorded. SEC. 4. Said articles of association, with the said certifi- Articles when cate of the presiding elder attached thereto, shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein said church or their place of worship shall be located, such record to be made in a book provided by said clerk for that purpose; and such clerk shall be entitled to ten cents for each folio for recording the same. When said articles of association and Body politic. said certificate shall have been recorded or left for record in the office of the said county clerk, the said persons, so signing said articles of association, and their associates and fellow members of said church and all who may thereafter become members of said church according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ church, shall thereby become and thenceforth be a body politic or corporation, by the name expressed in said articles of association, with all the powers, rights and privileges appertaining to religious corporations by the laws of this State. cipline, to SEC. 5. Said church, when so organized, shall be in all mat- Rules and disters of church government and ecclesiastical polity subject govern. to the discipline, usages and ministerial appointments of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ church, as from time to time authorized by the general conference of said church, and the annual conference within whose bounds said corporation may be situated. affairs. SEC. 6. The secular affairs of said church shall be man- Who to manage aged by a board of trustees elected and organized according to the provisions of the book of discipline of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ church, who shall hold their office until their successors are elected and accept their trust unless they previously forfeit their membership, in which case they shall also forfeit their trust as a trustee. |