Tax clause. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the state tax for the years nineteen hundred twenty-one and nineteen hundred twenty-two, sufficient amounts to reimburse the general fund for the appropriations hereby made. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Title and sections amended. Salaries of sheriffs, etc., supervisors may fix. When determined. Proviso, counties excepted. Fees, where paid. [No. 193.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections one, two, five and eight of act number two hundred thirty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to authorize the payment of salaries to sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs and to make the same in lieu of fees." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections one, two, five and eight of act number two hundred thirty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to authorize the payment of salaries to sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs and to make the same in lieu of fees," are hereby amended to read as follows: TITLE An Act to authorize the payment of salaries to sheriffs, undersheriffs and deputy sheriff's and to county clerks, county treasurers and registers of deeds and their deputies, and to make the same in lieu of fees. SEC. 1. The board of supervisors of each county in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to direct the payment to the sheriff, under-sheriff and deputy sheriffs and to the county clerk, county treasurer and register of deeds and their deputies of the county out of the general fund in the treasury of such county, such salaries as said board may deem proper. Such salaries may be fixed and determined by said board of supervisors at its annual meeting held in October prior to commencement of the terms of said officers, and the same shall be compensation in full for all services performed by such sheriff, under-sheriff and deputy sheriffs and by such county clerk, county treasurer and register of deeds and their depu ties: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall apply to counties now operating under any local or special act, or to counties having a population of one hundred twentyfive thousand or more. SEC. 2. The sheriff, under-sheriff and deputy sheriffs and the county clerks, county treasurers and registers of deeds. etc., ap and their deputies who receive a salary shall collect and make itemized statements of all fees required by law for the service of any process other than that of the county, and of all other fees collected by them which said fees shall be paid by them when collected to the county treasurer, on or before the last day of each month, taking duplicate receipts therefor. SEC. 5. The sheriff shall appoint an under-sheriff and Under-sheriff, may, in his discretion, appoint such deputy sheriffs as may pointment of. be provided for by the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors is also hereby empowered to make contracts with the sheriff for the board and laundry of the prisoners Ilodged in the county jail: Provided, That the board of super- Proviso. visors or the board of county auditors in counties having a board of county auditors, as the case may be, shall provide for all printing, stationery, postage, purchase of books, records and other papers and things necessary for the public service; and said board is hereby empowered to hear, determine and allow the claims of the sheriff and his deputies and under-sheriff and of the county clerks, county treasurers and registers of deeds and their deputies who receive a salary by virtue of this act, for any money actually expended by them in pursuance of their official duties, the same as other claims against the county. penalty. SEC. 8. If any sheriff, under-sheriff or deputy sheriffs or Misdemeanor, any county clerk, county treasurer, or register of deeds, or any deputy of any county clerk, county treasurer or register of deeds shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved May 17, 1921. [No. 194.] AN ACT to amend section three of act number two hundred fifty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to authorize the Commissioner of the State Highway Department to determine whether certain lands owned by the state, in the county of Jackson, will be benefited by certain proposed drains, and to authorize such lands to be assessed for benefits and making an appropriation therefor." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of act number two hundred fifty- Section two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled amended. Appropriations, estimate of. "An act to authorize the Commissioner of the State Highway Department to determine whether certain lands owned by the state, in the county of Jackson, will be benefited by certain proposed drains, and to authorize such lands to be assessed for benefits and making an appropriation therefor," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. Such sums of money as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act are hereby appropriated from the general fund of the state out of any moneys in said fund not otherwise appropriated. The Auditor General shall estimate the sums necessary to reimburse the general fund for all claims paid under this act or to be paid up to and including⚫ the end of the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, and shall incorporate such sum in the state tax for the year nineteen hundred twenty-one; and shall thereafter, from year to year, estimate the amounts necessary to reimburse the general fund in each additional fiscal year on account of such claims as arise under this act and shall incorporate such sum in the state tax for each calendar year after the year nineteen hundred twenty-one. Such taxes when collected shall be deposited in the state treasury and there be credited to the general fund of the state. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 17, 1921. Sections amended. [No. 195.] AN ACT to amend sections eighteen and nineteen of chapter four of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of the state of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," approved the second day of June, A. D. nineteen hundred nine, being compilers' sections four thousand three hundred sixty-four and four thousand three hundred sixtyfive of the Compiled Laws of the state of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That sections eighteen and nineteen of chapter four of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of the state of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," approved the second day of June, A. D. nineteen hundred nine, being compilers' sections four thousand three hundred sixty-four and four thousand three hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of the state of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred fifteen, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 18. In case state reward is to be applied for, the Map, filing of. board of county road commissioners shall file with the State Highway Commissioner for his approval, a map of the county showing the location of the proposed system of county roads: Provided, however, That this proposed system may be Proviso. changed if approved by the State Highway Commissioner. All state rewarded roads composing a part of this system shall be taken over as county roads by the board of county road commissioners, and any road heretofore laid out, or any part thereof, shall become county roads if the board of county road commissioners shall at any time so determine, and in passing through or on the line between townships or incorporated villages or cities, any streets or parts of streets of such village or city may be adopted as a county road, with the consent of the proper authorities of such city or cities, village or villages: Provided, That no street shall be taken over Proviso. and constituted as a county road which was not a regularly laid out and main traveled road before the incorporation of such village or city: Provided further, That where any Further street or part of a street is taken over in passing through or on the line between a township and an incorporated village or city, no county road funds shall be expended for the improvement of any such street or part of a street of such village or city to a greater width nor with material more expensive than the standards fixed by the maximum requirements for state rewarded roads, except as provided in the following section of this act with relation to construction, repair and maintenance of bridges over navigable streams and the approaches thereto: Provided further, That where Further any such street shall be taken over as a county road and is improved as such, city and village authorities shall have the right to further improve such road by surfacing the same outside of the portion thereof constructed by the county and by the addition of gutters, curbs, sidewalks, and other improvements, and to provide for the care and maintenance of such improvements and to levy and collect taxes for the same. proviso. proviso. Further proviso. The vote of the county road commissioners in respect to such determination shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered at large on the records of the said board of county road commissioners. Notice of such determination shall be forthwith given by the clerk or the highway commissioner of each township and the highway authorities of each city or village in which said road or any part thereof is situated, and published in some newspaper printed and circulated in the county, once in each week for three successive weeks: Provided further, In case there is no established printing office within the county, the said clerk, or the highway commissioners may advertise in a newspaper published in an adjoining county. Proof of such service and publication may be made by affidavit by any person knowing the facts, and be filed with the clerk. Such affidavit or the record thereof, or certified copy of such affidavit or record shall be prima facie evidence of its contents. After service and publication of such notice, the board of county road commissioners shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction and control of such road so embraced within such determination, and the township or municipality within which the same is situated shall be relieved from all responsibility therefor. Immediately after laying out or taking control of a road said board shall give the same a name by which it shall afterwards be known in its proceedings. The board of county road commissioners abandon, etc. of any county which has adopted the county road system, is hereby authorized and empowered to, at any time, abandon and discontinue any county road, or any part thereof, by a majority vote. The vote of the county road commissioners in respect to such abandonment and discontinuance shall be taken and entered, and notice thereof be given, in the same manner as required in this section, in cases in which county roads are adopted. After proceedings to discontinue and abandon have been had, the jurisdiction in control of such road shall revert to the township or municipality within which the same is situated, which, prior to the time of its adoption as a county road, had jurisdiction and control thereof, and the county shall be relieved of the responsibility there May May grade, etc. Proviso. for. SEC. 19. Said board of county road commissioners shall have authority to grade, drain, construct, gravel, shale or macadamize any road under its control, or to place thereon any form of improvement which in its judgment may be best, and extend and enlarge such improvements; it shall have authority to construct bridges and culverts on the line of such road, and to repair and maintain the said roads, bridges, and culverts; and further that such commissioners shall take over, construct and maintain all bridges included in the proposed system of county roads provided in section eighteen of this act: Provided, however, That this shall not apply to bridges which may be lawfully taken over for construction |