Who to have general management. Money and property. How recovered. Legal process. Upon whom served. How may extend corporate existence. Rights of Prima facie evidence of corporate existence. board of trustees. Said board of trustees shall elect a manager and such other officers as are necessary to properly carry on and manage the business of the association. SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall be the executive board of said association and shall be charged with the general management of its affairs. A majority of said board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 7. All moneys, properties or rights in action equitably belonging to the association at the time the same shall become a body corporate under the provisions of this act shall vest in the association so formed and may be recovered by such association in any manner provided by law, from any person unlawfully withholding the same. SEC. 8. Service of any legal process against any such association may be made on the president, treasurer, secretary or any member of the board of trustees of said association. SEC. 9. Any association organized under the provisions of this act whose corporate existence is about to expire by limitation, may, at any time prior to such expiration, extend its corporate existence for a term not exceeding thirty years, by filing with the Secretary of State and the county clerk of the county where such association is located, duly attested copies of a resolution adopted by such corporation at a meeting called in accordance with the provisions of its by-laws, expressing a desire to so extend its corporate existence, and upon the filing of such resolution, as above specified, the corporate existence of such body shall be extended in accordance with the terms of such resolution for a term of not exceeding thirty years from the date of the expiration of its former term and all rights of property and of contract shall remain unimpaired and the corporate identity of such body shall remain unchanged. SEC. 10. A copy of the records of such articles of association under the seal of the Secretary of State, duly certified according to law, shall be received as prima facia evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such association. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 36.] AN ACT to repeal act two hundred eighty-five, laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the lawful taking of German Carp from the Waters of Black River Lake, also known as Macatawa Bay, in Ottawa County, and from the streams tributary thereto." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That "An act to provide for the lawful taking of Act repealed. German carp from the waters of Black River lake, also known as Macatawa bay, in Ottawa county, and from the streams This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 37.]. AN ACT to provide for the salary of the State Game and Fish Warden, and for the appointment of a Chief Deputy Game and Fish Warden, and to prescribe his powers and duties. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Game and Fish Warden shall receive Salary and expense how an annual salary of two thousand dollars, payable monthly, paid. and shall also be reimbursed his actual expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of his duties, to be paid monthly on the warrant of the Auditor General on the approval of his vouchers therefor. Said State Game and Fish Warden shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office. deputy. of office. SEC. 2. Said Game and Fish Warden shall have power to May appoint appoint a Chief Deputy, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and may revoke such appointment at pleasure. Said Chief Deputy shall take the constitutional oath of office, and shall To take oath do such work in the game and fish warden department as shall be assigned him. During the sickness, absence or disability Duties. of the Game and Fish Warden he may execute the duties of the office. Said Chief Deputy shall devote his entire time to the work of his office and shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and his actual expenses necessarily in- Salary and curred, to be paid monthly on the warrant of the Auditor expenses how General, on the approval of his vouchers therefor by the State Game and Fish Warden. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. paid. Sections amended. Additional judges. Quorum. Presiding judge. When office [No. 38.] AN ACT to amend sections one and five of act number one hundred and twenty of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, approved May twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act to amend sections one and five of act number twenty-five of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven," approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for three additional Circuit Judges for the third Judicial Circuit," so as to provide one other additional Circuit Judge for the third Judicial Circuit," so as to provide one other additional Circuit Judge for the third Judicial Circuit. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That sections one and five of act number one hundred and twenty of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act to amend sections one and five of act number twenty-five of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for three additional circuit judges for the third judicial circuit,' so as to provide one other additional circuit judge for the third judicial circuit," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. That from and after the day this act shall take effect, there shall be six circuit judges for the third judicial circuit, in which the city of Detroit is situated. The six judges of said circuit shall have equal and coordinate powers and duties; but when sitting together the concurrence of four shall be sufficient. One of such judges shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and such judges shall have power by an order to be entered upon the court journal in general terms specifying and classifying the business assigned, to apportion among themselves the business to be transacted, as they from time to time may order and direct. They shall, from term to term, designate one of their number to act as presiding judge of the court with power, unless otherwise ordered by the court, to assign and apportion the business as aforesaid among the said judges. In case of absence, illness or inability from other cause of such presiding judge to act, the other judges shall designate, by an order to be entered upon the journal, one of their number to act as presiding judge until the disability is removed. SEC. 5. The one additional office of circuit judge of the created, vacant. third judicial circuit hereby created, shall be deemed vacant from and after the taking effect of this act, and shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until the next general election to be held in November, nineteen hundred. The five judges now in office shall continue in office until the end of the Term of office. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 39.] AN ACT to amend chapter eight of an Act, entitled "An act to provide for the Incorporation of Villages within the State of Michigan and defining their Powers and Duties," approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred ninety-five, by adding a section thereto to stand as Section twenty-two. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That chapter eight of an act entitled "An act to Chapter provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of amended. Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred ninety-five, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows: made. payments. SEC. 22. Special assessment rolls to defray the cost of Special assessstreet paving shall be made in five parts, each part to contain ment rolls how a list of the lots or parcels constituting the special assessment district with the names of the owners or occupants of each lot or parcel, and one-fifth of the cost or expense of the work shall be assessed upon each one of said five parts. Such parts of the assessment roll shall be numbered one, two, three, four and five, respectively, and any person so electing may pay part one and have an extension of time for the payment of parts Extension of two, three, four and five of one, two, three and four years time for respectively. If part one is not paid on or before the same shall become due, the whole amount of the assessment against any lot or parcel shall be due and no extension of time shall be granted thereon. Deferred payments shall draw interest Interest on at the rate of six per cent per annum, and if any default shall be made in the payment of an installment or of the interest thereon, the whole amount of the assessment then remaining Assessments, unpaid shall mature and become due and payable, and there- mature. upon the same proceedings shall be had for the collection of the amount still due as are authorized by this act in case the owners or occupants have not elected to pay in installments. The village council shall have power to issue bonds of the vil- Council may lage bearing six per cent interest to the amount of the deferred interest of. deferred payments. when to issue bonds, Time for which issued, how paid. Amounts of assessments fore maturity. Contractors to take bonds. payments, and pledging the faith and credit of the village for the payment of said bonds out of the deferred payments when collected. Said bonds shall run for one, two, three and four years, and all payments made on the deferred installments shall be paid into and constitute a sinking fund for the pay. ment of said bonds at maturity. Owners and occupants electmay be paid be- ing to pay by installments shall pay the full amount of the interest on each installment down to the maturity thereof, but may pay the principal and such interest into the village treasury before maturity. Contractors for the laying of street paving may be required to take their pay in street paving bonds, and such bonds shall in no event be sold, or otherwise disposed of, at less than their par value. The village council may issue similar bonds to defray that portion of the cost and expense of any street paving chargeable to street intersections, or to lands belonging to the village, school buildings or other public buildings or grounds, including such portion of said cost or expense as the village council may have decided to pay from the general highway fund or the street district fund. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 18, 1899. Council may issue bonds for expense, chargeable to public buildings, etc. Number who may incorporate. Incorporators to execute articles of agreement. Articles what to contain. Name. Location. Who to have charge of affairs. [No. 40.] AN ACT to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any six or more persons, professing attachment to the Protestant Episcopal Church, to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, one or more duplicate articles of agreement, in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church according to the usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church, by the name and style set forth in such articles; and upon the execution and acknowledgment and filing thereof, as herein provided, such church shall become a body politic and corporate, by the name set forth in said articles, in accordance with the constitution, canons, doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church. SEC. 2. Said articles shall contain: First, The name of the proposed church; Second, The township or city and county in which it is located; Third, The number of vestrymen, not less than six nor more than twelve, who shall have charge of the temporal affairs of |