for the cities of Muskegon and Muskegon Heights, except the elective members of the school boards of said cities. filed. contain. where filed, SEC. 3. Before the name of any person shall be placed Petition to be upon the primary election ballot of any party, there shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of Muskegon county, the city recorder of the city of Muskegon, or the city recorder of the city of Muskegon Heights, as the case may be, a petition or petitions signed by qualified voters, as herein provided, belonging to the political party of which it is desired to have such person become a candidate for any office, petitioning What to such person to become a candidate for nomination to such office, and requesting that the name of such person be printed upon the primary election ballot as the candidate of said political party for said office. In case it is desired to have For county such person become a candidate for representative in the State offices, etc., legislature or county office in said county, such petition or etc. petitions shall be filed in the office of said county clerk and shall be signed by at least fifty qualified voters belonging to said political party and residing in said county of Muskegon. In case it is desired to have such person become a candidate Muskegon for a city office in said city of Muskegon, such petition or city, where filed, etc. petitions shall be filed in the office of the recorder of said city and shall be signed by at least twenty-five qualified voters belonging to said political party and residing in said city of Muskegon. In case it is desired to have such person ward offices. become a candidate for any ward office in said city of Muskegon, such petition or petitions shall be filed in the office of the recorder of said city and shall be signed by at least five qualified voters belonging to said political party and residing in said ward in said city of Muskegon. In case it of Muskegon is desired to have such person become a candidate for a city office in said city of Muskegon Heights, such petition or petitions shall be filed in the office of the recorder of said city and shall be signed by at least ten qualified voters belonging to said political party and residing in said city of Muskegon Heights. And in case it is desired to have such Ward offices. person become a candidate for any ward office in said city of Muskegon Heights, said petition or petitions shall be filed in the office of the recorder of said city and shall be signed by at least three qualified voters belonging to said political party and residing in said ward in said city of Muskegon Heights. No person shall sign the petition for more than No person to one person to become a candidate for the same office at such sign but one primary election. Such petition or petitions shall be filed when filed. in the office of said county clerk, said recorder for the city of Muskegon, or said recorder for the city of Muskegon Heights, as the case may be, not later than five o'clock in the afternoon of the tenth day before the primary election day, and may be substantially in the following form: "We, the undersigned, residents in.. Heights City. petition. State Form of. of Michigan, and qualified voters therein, and belonging to To place names on ballot. the.. ..... ..party, do hereby petition... who resides in the..... (City, ward or township.) ... county of Muskegon, State of Michigan, to become a candidate for nomination for the office of... to be made at the primary election of said party to be held we do hereby request that the name of said... 19...., and ..be printed upon the official primary election ballot, as provided by law, as the candidate of the.. party for said office." If the person so named in said petition or petitions shall be eligible for said office, and unless such person shall file in the office of said county clerk, recorder of said city of Muskegon, or recorder of said city of Muskegon Heights, as the case may be, before five o'clock in the afternoon of the eighth day before the primary election day, his written re fusal to become a candidate for nomination for said office, signed by him, the county clerk, or the city recorder, as the case may be, shall place or cause to be placed the name of said person upon the primary election ballot of the designated party as herein provided. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Authorized to issue bonds. Amount. Proviso. Further proviso. [No. 337.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of education of . the public schools of the city of Wyandotte, in the county of Wayne, to borrow not to exceed fifty thousand dollars and issue the bonds of the public schools of said city of Wyandotte therefor, for the purpose of building a school house and equipping the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The board of education of the public schools of the city of Wyandotte, in the county of Wayne, is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of the public schools of said city of Wyandotte, a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars and issue the bonds of said public schools therefor: Provided, That the issue of said bonds shall be authorized by a majority vote of electors voting at any annual or special election called for that purpose and qualified to vote at such election, as provided by the general school laws of this State: Provided further, That any special election held under the provisions of this act shall be called and held in the same manner provided by law for holding special school meetings in said city, and the votes shall be canvassed and returned in the same manner. able. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of Denomination. not less than three thousand dollars each, payable not more when paythan thirty years from the date of issue, and drawing interest at the rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. Such bonds shall be signed by the presi- Who to sign dent and clerk of said board of education. Any coupons attached thereto shall be signed by the clerk of said board. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved January 26, 1905. bonds. [No. 338.] AN ACT to organize and incorporate the township of North The People of the State of Michigan enact: embraced. SECTION 1. The territory embraced in the township of Territory North Allis, in the county of Presque Isle, is hereby declared to be a single school district, which shall be a body corporate by the name and style of "The public schools of Name. the Township of North Allis," and by that name may sue and be sued for all school debts properly contracted, and shall be subject to all the general laws of this State relating free. who to to corporations, so far as the same may be applicable; and Powers and said school district shall have all the powers and privileges privileges. conferred upon primary and graded school districts by the general laws of this State. All schools in said district, and schools to be all schools hereafter organized therein in pursuance of this public and act, shall, under the directions and regulations of the board of education, be public and free to all persons actual resi dents within the limits thereof five years of age and over. SEC. 2. The officers of said district shall consist of the Board of supervisor of the township, who shall be ex officio president education, of the board and shall not at the same time he is supervisor constitute. hold the office of trustee, and four trustees, who shall constitute the board of education of said district; the terms of office of said trustees shall be four years each and until their successors are elected and qualified. Said trustees shall when elected. be elected by ballot at the annual township meeting of the township of North Allis, upon the same ticket, and the vote for members of the board of education shall be canvassed in the same manner as is the vote for township officers. The first First election. election under the provisions of this act shall be held on the first Monday of April in the year nineteen hundred five, at the usual place of holding the township election, at which Notice. Form of ballot. Clerk to notify trus time there shall be elected four trustees who, with the supervisor of the township, shall constitute the board of education thereof. Notice of the time and place of such election shall be given by the township clerk by printed or written notices posted in at least five public places in said township, at least ten days before the holding of such election. One trustee shall be elected for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and one for the term of four years, and at said first election the term for which the trustee is elected shall be designated on the ballot as follows: "For member of the board of education for the term of one year," etc. At the annual township meeting of each succeeding year one trustee shall be elected to fill the vacancy occurring at that time. SEC. 3. Within five days after the annual township meettees, elected. ing in said township, the township clerk shall notify in writ ing the persons elected as trustees under the provisions of section two of this act, and within five days thereafter the said trustees so elected shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the eighteenth article of the constitution, before the township clerk or some other officer authorized to administer oaths, and file the same with the township clerk, who shall record the same in the records of the proceedings to be kept by said board of education; and any trustee hereafter elected shall be notified in the same manner and shall take the same oath of office within five days after his notification as is herein provided for the trustees first elected. The term of office of all trustees elected as provided in this act shall commence on the third Monday of April following the annual township election at which they are elected. When to subscribe oath of office. Oaths recorded. Term of of fice, when to commence. Township clerk, to be clerk of board. First meeting. To fill vacancy. Regular meetings. SEC. 4. The township clerk of the township of North Allis annually elected, shall be, ex officio, clerk of said board of education and shall perform such duties as said board may require, but shall not be entitled to vote therein; and in case of the absence of said clerk the board may by resolution appoint some suitable person to perform such duties. SEC. 5. The board of education, elected at the annual township meeting in the year nineteen hundred five, shall meet on the third Monday of April following said election, and annually thereafter, and elect from their own number a treasurer, who shall hold his office for one year from said third Monday of April and until his successor is elected and qualified. The board of education may fill by appointment any vacancy that may occur in the office of trustee, until the next annual election, and each trustee so appointed shall within ten days thereafter file with the clerk of said board the oath of office as prescribed in section three of this act. SEC. 6. A majority of the members of said board of education shall constitute a quorum and the regular meetings of said board shall be on the third Mondays of April, August, September, December and March in each year, and no notice of such meetings shall be required; and the president and who may clerk, or any two members of said board, shall be sufficient adjourn. to adjourn any meeting from time to time until a quorum be present; and special meetings of said board may be called Special. at any time on the request of the president, or two members of said board, in writing delivered to the clerk, and the clerk on the receipt of such request shall at once notify in writing each member of said board of the time of holding such meeting, which shall be at least three days subsequent to the time of receiving such request by said clerk. All meet- Where to be ings of said board shall be held at the office of the township clerk, unless otherwise directed by resolution of the board of education; and all business which the board of education is authorized to perform shall be done at a regular meeting thereof, or at a special meeting properly called. All the Custody of records and papers of said school district shall be kept in records, etc. the custody of said township clerk and shall be open to inspection at any time by any legal voter of said district. held. vested in SEC. 7. All the school property, real and personal, within All property the limits of the township of North Allis heretofore belong public schools. ing to the different primary school districts in the township of North Allis, shall by force of this act become the property of said public schools of the township of North Allis hereby organized; and all the credits of the several primary school districts at the passage of this act shall belong to the said public schools of the township of North Allis hereby organized; and all the indebtedness of said several primary school districts at the time of the passage of this act shall be assumed and paid by the public schools of the township of North Allis hereby organized. SEC. S. The board of education of said district shall have Powers of Board. power and authority to designate and purchase schoolhouse sites, erect buildings and furnish the same, by a majority vote of said district board, and shall have power to employ legally qualified teachers; provide books for district library; to make by-laws in accordance with the general laws of the State, as to taking the school census of all children in said district between the ages of five and twenty years; to make all necessary reports and transmit the same to the proper officers as designated by law, so that the said district may be entitled to its proportion of the primary school interest fund; to make all necessary rules and regulations concerning the general management of the school; and to select textbooks for the use of the schools in said township: Provided, Proviso. Their acts in this respect are not inconsistent or do not conflict with any general law relative to textbooks; and generally to do the things needful and desirable for the maintenance, prosperity and success of the schools of said district, and the promotion of the thorough education of the children thereof. And it shall be the duty of said board to apply |