The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
Section l. No county. city. township, or
other municipal corporation, shall become a
stakeholder in, or make any loan or gift to, or
lend it's credit in aid Of any person, private
corporation or association nor shall any coun-
ty, city, township or other municipality con-
struct or become the owner of any railroad.
The provisions of this section shall not pre-
vent such municipalities from aiding enlist
ments, and in the support Of the families of
soldiers in time Of war or supporting their
poor in such manner as may be provided by
law.
COUNTIES.
Sec. 9. Each organized county shall be a
body corporate. with such powers and immu-
mites as shall be prescribed by law. All suits
and proceedings by or against a county shall
be in the name thereof. The power of coun-
ties to levy taxes, borrow money, and contract
debts shall be restricted by law.
Sec. 3. The board of supervisors of any
county may, by vote of two-thirds Of their
whole number. borrow or raise by tax sum
not exceeding in any one year one mill upon
the dollar of the assessed valuation thereof.
for constructing or repairing public buildings,
highways, or bridges ProUided. The indebt-
ness of a county incurred under this section
shall at no time exceed two mills upon dollar
of such assessed valuation unless authorized
10y u majority of the electors of the county
voting thereon, as shall be provided by law.
Sec 4. No organized county shall ever be
reduced, by the organization of new
counties to less than sixteen town
ships as surveyed by the United States,
electors residing in each county TO be affected
thereby shall SO decide. The Legislature may
organize any city into separate county when
1t has obtained population OF twenty thou
sand inhabitants, without reference to geo
graphical extent, when majority of the elect
20 n ntsf in xyhi m
situated. voting thereon, shall be in favor Of
a separate organization. Nothing herein con-
tanned shall be so construed as to prevent the
Legislature from organizing any county COM
posed wholly of islands within the territory OF
the State, or disseminating any such county
and attaching the same to the nearest county
or counties on the main land.
Sec. 5. In each organized county there shall
be a sheriff, a county clerk, county treas
urer. register of deeds, one or more circuit
court commissioners, and prosecuting at
torney, chosen by the electors thereof once
in two years, whose duties and powers shall
be prescribed by law. The board of supervis-
ors in any county may unite the offices OF
county clerk and register OF deeds in one
office, or disconnect the same.
Sec. 6. The sheriff, county clerk, county
treasurer. judge of probate and register OF
deeds, shall hold their offices at the county
seat.
Sec. Z. The sheriff shall hold no other office.
No person shall be eligible to the Office of
sheriff for more than four in period of six
years. The county shall never be responsible
for his acts.
Sec. 8. A board of supervisors, consisting
of one from each organized township, shall
be established in each county, with such pow.
ers as shall be prescribed by law. Cities and
villages shall have such representation in the
board of supervisors of the counties in which
they are situated as the Legislature may
direct.
Sec. Q. No county seat, once established
shall be removed, until the place to which il
ia proposed to be removed shall be designated
by two-thirds of the board Of supervisors OF
the county, and majority of the electors vot-
ing thereon shall have voted in favor OF the
proposed location, in such a manner as shall
be prescribed by law.
Sec 10. The board OF county auditors IN
such counties as may be authorized by law &c
elect county auditors, and in every Other
county the board of supervisors, SHALL except
as otherwise provided by law, have power tC
prescribe the compensation for all services
rendered for, and adjust all claims against
their respective counties, and such determin.
alton and adjustment shall be subject to no
appeal. Supervisors and county auditors
shall receive for their services such compen
sati IN as shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. IL. The board Of supervisors OF eaci
organized county may provide for laying on
tOhSiuOtiHb DiiAHOo' C'S'''
izing townships, under such restrictions ant
limitations as shall be prescribed by law.
TOWNSHIPS.
Sec. ~. Each organized township shall be
body corporate, with such powers and immu
mites as shall be prescribed by law All suits
and proceedings by or against township shall
be in the name thereof.
Sec. 10. There shall be elected in each or
ganized township annually, on the first Mon