missioner, meanor. for costs, etc. be the owners of lands not previously assessed for benefits in the construction of said drain. Such application, so signed as above, shall give a general description of the beginning, the route and terminus of the drain. In case any Drain comcounty drain commissioner shall directly or indirectly in- when guilty terest himself in the securing of signatures to an applica- of misdetion for any drain, he shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and his office shall thereby become vacant. The applicants for any Applicants, drain shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs and when liable expenses in case the county drain commissioner, upon examination of the route and determination of the survey, shall find that such drain is either unnecessary or impracticable, or in case the proceedings shall be dismissed for any other cause. If any person signing such application shall refuse to pay such costs and expenses, the county drain commissioner shall bring suit in a court of competent jurisdiction and collect such costs and expenses and costs of suit. If, Application upon the presentation of such application, the county drain may be recommissioner shall deem the financial responsibility of the applicants to be insufficient, he shall have the right to return such application for additional signatures. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 20, 1905. turned. [No. 352.] AN ACT authorizing and directing the township board of the township of Greenfield, in the county of Wayne, to divide said township into two election districts and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The township board of the township of Green- who to divide field, in the county of Wayne, is hereby authorized and di- township. rected to divide said township into two election districts. SEC. 2. District number one shall include so much of District No. 1, said township as lies south and west of the following line, included in. what portion viz. Commencing at a point on the southeasterly line of the township, midway between Twelfth and Eighteenth streets; thence northwesterly on the line parallel to and midway between Twelfth and Eighteenth streets to the northwesterly line of the Ten Thousand Acre tract; thence southwesterly along the line of the Ten Thousand Acre tract District No. 2. Repealing clause. to the quarter line dividing fractional section twenty-two and sections fifteen, ten and three, and north on said quarter line to the north line of the township. SEC. 3. District number two shall comprise the remainder of the township lying east and north of said dividing line commencing at a point on the southeasterly line of the township midway between Twelfth and Eighteenth streets; thence northwesterly on the line parallel to and midway between Twelfth and Eighteenth streets to the northwesterly line of the Ten Thousand Acre tract; thence southwesterly along the line of the Ten Thousand Acre tract to the quarter line dividing fractional section twenty-two and sections fifteen, ten and three, and north on said quarter line to the north line of the township. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. What territory included. Taxes levied where paid. Repealing clause. [No. 353.] AN ACT to detach certain territory from the township of China in the county of St. Clair, and attach the same to the township of East China in said county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That the south half of fractional section twenty-five, and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of fractional section thirty-six, all in township numbered four north, of range numbered sixteen east, in St. Clair county, shall be and the same is hereby detached from the township of China, in the county of St. Clair, and attached to and hereafter shall constitute and be made a part of the township of East China in said county. SEC. 2. All taxes heretofore levied upon the territory attached and affected by this act shall be collected and paid over to said township of China, the same as though this act had not been passed. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts contravening any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 354.] AN ACT to provide for the creation and election of a board of county auditors for the county of Washtenaw, and to define its powers and duties and determine the compensation thereof, and to provide for the punishment for the violation of the same, and to repeal act number five hundred forty-five of the local acts of nineteen hundred three, and all other acts and parts of acts anywise contravening the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Auditors oath and file SECTION 1. That a board of county auditors for the Board of county of Washtenaw is hereby created, and the members of created. said board of county auditors for the said county of Washtenaw shall be elected at the time and in the manner as hereinafter provided. Before entering upon the duties of Shall take their office, they shall take and file in the office of the county bond. clerk the constitutional oath of office, and file in the office of the county treasurer a bond to the people of this State conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office, which bond, with the sureties thereto and the penal sum therein mentioned, shall be approved by the judge of the circuit court for said county. and term of SEC. 2. At the general spring election to be held in the When elected, said county of Washtenaw on the first Monday in April, office of. nineteen hundred five, there shall be elected one member of said board who shall hold his office for the term of two years from and after said election and until his successor has been elected and qualified, two for the term of four years from and after said election and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, and each two years thereafter at such spring election a member or members of said board shall be elected for the term of four years to succeed to the office of the expired term or terms. filled. SEC. 3. Whenever a vacancy occurs on said board, said How vacancy vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor of the State of Michigan to fill the unexpired term. when to SEC. 4. The terms of office of the members of said board Term of office shall commence immediately after said election and after commence. said members are duly qualified for said office by filing oath and bond as aforesaid, said members being hereby required to qualify within ten days after receiving notice of election. No member of the board of supervisors of said county shall be eligible to hold the office of county auditor. SEC. 5. Said board of auditors shall organize by electing When to one of their number chairman. The county clerk shall be meet. ex-officio clerk of the board of auditors. Such board when organized shall meet in the court house at the county seat of said county on the first Monday of each month there Powers and duties of. Shall keep a etc., and draw warrants in payment. after, and shall have the power to hear, examine, and adjust all claims against the county of Washtenaw, and the sum so fixed and defined shall be subject to no appeal. Said board of auditors shall have all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities relating to said claims which formerly belonged to and were exercised by the board of supervisors in said county prior to the adoption of a constitutional amendment authorizing the creation of a board of auditors in said county of Washtenaw, and no bills against the county of 'Washtenaw shall be audited, allowed, or paid in any other manner than is provided for in this act. SEC. 6. Such board shall keep a full and complete record list of claims of its proceedings, a list of claims presented and the action of its individual members thereon, and shall draw warrants upon the county treasurer for the payment of all claims allowed, which warrants shall be signed by the chairman and attested by the clerk of the board, and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer of the county of Washtenaw to pay on presentation to him all warrants drawn as herein provided. Such board shall provide for the publication of its proceedings. Sessions limited. SEC. 7. A majority of such board shall be qualified' to transact such business as may lawfully come before them. The said board of county auditors shall remain in session Compensation. not exceeding three days in each month, and each member shall receive for his services the sum of five dollars per day and six cents per mile for traveling expenses one way by the usual traveled route from his home to the county seat. County clerk. The county clerk shall receive a reasonable compensation for his services as clerk of the board, which shall be allowed by the board of supervisors or taken into consideration by the board of supervisors in fixing his salary as county clerk. County treasurer, when to pay out moneys. Penalty for violations of act. Act repealed. SEC. 8. The county treasurer of said county shall not pay any moneys excepting on the warrants drawn by the said board of auditors, which shall be signed by the chairman of said board and countersigned by its clerk, and no warrant or warrants shall be drawn or issued by said board or any member thereof, or countersigned by said clerk excepting for the amount or amounts of claims against said county which shall have been duly audited and allowed by said board. Any member of said board or clerk thereof violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 9. That act five hundred forty-five of the local acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of the board of county auditors for the county of Washtenaw, and to define its powers and duties," ap proved June eighteenth, nineteen hundred three, is hereby re- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 355.] AN ACT to enable the qualified electors of school district number one of the city and township of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, to borrow money and to issue the bonds of said district for the same for the purpose of paying for a schoolhouse site, the erection of school and library buildings, and for the purposes of securing and providing for the location and construction of a State normal、 school in said district in order to save the expense to the district of constructing, equipping and maintaining a training school building; and to make valid the vote had at the special meeting of said school district on the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hundred three, to issue bonds for such purposes to the amount of seventy thousand dollars, and to make valid the bonds issued under said vote. The People of the State of Michigan enact: authorize SECTION 1. That the qualified electors of said district Electors may may, at a general or special meeting called for the purpose, school board vote to authorize the board of education of the district to to issue bonds. borrow money and to issue the bonds of the district therefor, not exceeding the sum of seventy thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying for a schoolhouse site, and to erect and furnish school and library buildings, and to repair, alter and add to the same, and to secure and provide for the location and construction of a State normal school in said district, in order to save the expense to the district of constructing, equipping and maintaining a training school building. And when authorized by such vote said board shall Board shall have power to borrow the sum voted, and to issue the bonds have power to of the district for the same, in the discretion of the board as etc. to rate of interest and time of payment. borrow money, bond issue SEC. 2. The vote had at the special meeting of said dis- vote at special trict held on the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hun- meeting and dred three, voting to issue bonds to the amount of seventy legalized. thousand dollars, for the purposes aforesaid, is hereby declared legal and valid, and the bonds issued by virtue of the same are declared valid and a legal and binding obligation against said district. And this act shall, in all things, relate back to said meeting, and its preliminaries in the same |