[No. 28.] AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county to raise by taxation or borrow money for the purpose of purchasing real estate for sites for, and constructing or repairing public buildings and bridges; to limit the amount that can be raised or borrowed for such purpose by such boards in certain cases; to authorize such boards to submit the question of raising or borrowing money for such purposes to the electors of their certain counties; to provide for the manner of submission; and to repeal act number forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act limiting the amount which may be raised in any county in any one year by the board of supervisors," approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: levy limit. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county may Public buildin any one year levy a tax of one-tenth of one mill on the ings, etc., tax assessed valuation of said county for purchase of real estate for sites for, and the construction or repair of public buildings or bridges, or may borrow an equivalent sum for such purpose; and. in any county where the assessed valuation is Referendum. less than ten million dollars, the board may levy a tax or borrow for such purpose to the amount of one thousand dollars, but no greater sum shall be raised for such purpose in any county in any one year unless submitted to the electors of the county and approved by a majority of those voting thereon in the manner provided in this act. SEC. 2. Whenever the board of supervisors of any county when subshall by resolution vote in favor of levying a tax or borrow- mitted. ing money in excess of the amounts prescribed in section one of this act, the question of levying or borrowing such sum shall be submitted to the electors of the county at the general November election, or the biennial spring election, or at an election to be held on the first Monday in April subsequent to the passage of such resolution by the board of supervisors. A copy of such resolution shall be served upon the sheriff of the county by the county clerk. It shall be the Sheriff to give duty of the sheriff at least twenty days prior to the date of the notice. election, at which such question shall be submitted to the electors, to cause to be delivered to the township clerk in each township, and to the chairman of the board of election inspectors in each ward in any city in his county, a notice in writing that at such election there will be submitted to the electors of such county the question of raising the amount prescribed in the resolution passed by the board of supervisors, and cause the same to be published in one or more newspapers printed and circulating in said county, if one Township clerk to give notice. Posting. Ballots. Form. Distribution. Canvass, etc. Act repealed. be printed and circulated therein, at least two consecutive weeks before said election. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the township clerk or chairman of the board of election inspectors, upon receipt of the notice herein required, to give notice in writing under his hand of the time and place when such question will be submitted to the electors. Such township clerk or chairman of the board of election inspectors shall cause such notice to be posted up in at least five of the most public places in the said township or ward, at least ten days before said election. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of such county to prepare the necessary ballots for use of the electors in voting upon the question referred to in this act. The said question shall be printed upon a ballot separate and distinct from all other ballots, which ballot shall be in the following form: Instruction to Voter. Mark a cross in the square to the left of the word "Yes" or "No." To authorize the board of supervisors to borrow $. To authorize the board of supervisors to borrow $.. There shall be inserted in the above blank the amount set forth in the resolution of the board of supervisors. The ballots so prepared shall be distributed by the board of election commissioners within the same time and in the same manner that ballots are distributed prior to a general election. All ballots upon which an elector marks a cross in the square to the left of the word "Yes" shall be counted in favor of raising the amount stated in the resolution of the board of supervisors, and all ballots upon which an elector marks a cross in the square to the left of the word "No" shall be counted against the question of raising the amount set forth in the resolution of the board of supervisors. All ballots cast at any election on such question, shall be received, counted, canvassed and returned in the manner now governing for the election of county officers. If at any such election a majority of the electors voting on such question shall decide in favor of authorizing the board of supervisors to raise the amount set forth in said resolution, such amount may be borrowed in the same manner as the amounts referred to in section one of this act may be borrowed in the first instance. SEC. 5. Act number forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act limiting the amount which may be raised in any county in any one year by the board of supervisors," approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred nine, is hereby repealed. Approved March 31, 1911. [No. 29.] AN ACT to amend section ten of act number thirty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of county schools of agriculture, manual training and domestic economy," as amended by act number two hundred nineteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section ten of act number thirty-five of the Section public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of county schools of agriculture, manual training and domestic economy," as amended by act number two hundred nineteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 10. Any school established under the provisions of Schools, when placed upon this act, whose course of study and the qualifications of whose approved list. teachers have been approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the president of the Michigan State Agricultural College, and which shall have expended at least twenty thousand dollars in buildings and equipment, and shall have acquired title to at least one hundred acres of land to be used in connection with said school, may, upon application, be placed upon the approved list of county schools of agricul ture, manual training and domestic economy. A school once State aid. entered upon said list may remain listed and be entitled to State aid so long as the scope and character of its work are maintained in such manner as to meet the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, That he Proviso. shall not place upon said list more than two schools. On the first day in July of each year the secretary of each county school board maintaining a school on the approved list shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, setting forth the facts relative to the cost of maintaining the school, the character of the work done, the number and names of teachers employed, and if more than one county contributes to the support of such school, the amount so contributed by each county, and such other matters as may be required by the county school board or the said superintendent. Upon the receipt of such report, if it shall appear that the school has been maintained in a satisfactory manner for a period of not less than eight months during the year, closing on the thirtieth day of the preceding June, the said superintendent shall make a certificate to that effect and file it with the Auditor General. Upon receiving such certificate, the Auditor General Amount shall draw his warrantʼpayable to the treasurer of the county maintaining such school for a sum equal to two-thirds the amount actually expended for maintaining such school during the year: Provided, That the total sum so apportioned Proviso. drawn. Further proviso. Tax clause. shall not exceed four thousand dollars to any one school in any one year: Provided further, That any such school receiving State aid shall be free to the inhabitants of the State on such terms as may be provided by said board and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. When more than one county has contributed to the support of the school, the Auditor General shall draw his warrant payable to the treasurer of each county for such portion of the State aid as the amount contributed by his county is part of the total amount contributed by all the counties for the support of the school for the preceding year. The Auditor General shall annually, beginning in the year nineteen hundred eleven, include and apportion in the State tax such sum as shall have been so paid. Approved March 31, 1911. Supervisors, legalized. [No. 30.] AN ACT to legalize all actions taken, all indebtedness existing, and all bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued under act number forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act limiting the amount which may be raised by any county in any one year by the board of supervisors." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All acts of boards of supervisors heretofore certain acts of, taken under act number forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act limiting the amount which may be raised by any county in any one year by the board of supervisors," in raising or borrowing money and in submitting any question of raising or borrowing money to the electors of their respective counties, all elections held under the provisions of said act, and all tax levies made, all indebtedness incurred, all bonds and other evidences of indebtedness authorized or issued under said act, are hereby legalized and made valid. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 31.] AN ACT to amend section six of act number twenty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the management and control, and for the extension of the usefulness of the State library," approved March twenty, eighteen hundred ninety-five, being section one thousand seven hundred sixty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven; relative to the salary of the assistant State Librarian. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section six of act number twenty-eight of the Section public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act amended. to provide for the management and control, and for the extension of the usefulness of the State library," approved March twenty, eighteen hundred ninety-five, being section one thousand seven hundred sixty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 6. The State Librarian is hereby authorized to ap- State point, with the advice and consent of the Governor, one as Librarian to appoint sistant who shall be known as the assistant State Librarian, assistant. and who shall give to the State Librarian a good and sufficient bond, approved by the Secretary of State, for the safe keeping of the property held in charge, and who shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. It shall be the duty Duty of. of the assistant State Librarian to aid in the care of the books, the keeping of the accounts, and to render such assistance as the State Librarian may require. The salary of Salary. the assistant State Librarian shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly out of the State treasury, upon the presentation of a voucher certified to by the State Librarian and drawn upon the warrant of the Auditor General from any funds not otherwise appropriated. The assistant Removal. librarian shall at any time be subject to removal, when in the opinion of the State Librarian and the Governor the interests of the State library require it. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |