Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-24
Special Meeting Saturday Night-Re-
port of Committee ON Amending
er-Re-incOrporation Recom-
nlended.

| "AiSs diiu suoSCohc'. dS III Hat
been drawn by Mr.. W.S Humphrey
that he be requested to read the report
Mr.. Humphrey proceeded to read tn,
same, which was as follows:
To the Honorable the Common Council, of tht
| Village of Cheboygan:
| We. the undersigned. your COMMITTEES
to whom was referred the matter of pro.
posing amendments to the charter OF
the village of ChebOygan, having had the
same under consideration. beg leave to
report:
That, upon examining the Session
| Laws of 1875, we find a general act for
the incorporation of villages. with char.
ter fully and minuteiy defining the pow
ers and privileges Of village corporations,
and which, in the judgment of your
committee, is. on the whole. hetter adapt
ed to the perfect government of said vii
lage than we could, by amendment. make
the now existing charter of said village,
and recommend to your Honorable BODY
that the village of Cheboygan be REIN
corporated under said general act, subject
TO the provisOes in the bill for re-incor-
porating said village hereto attached.
and which is hereby made part of this
report.
All OF which we. your committee, here
by respectfully submit for your consider
alton. JAMES j. BROWN.
WATTS s. HUMPHREY,
GEO. w. BELL.
+. M. SAMMONs,
Committee.
\ bill to re-incOrpOrate the yilllge of
Cheboygan, in the county of Cheboy-
gan:
SECTION l. The people of TIE state of
Michigan enact that the territory de-
Scribed as fractional sections twenty
nine (29). thirty (30). thirty-one (3D and
thirty-twO (32). in fractional township
thirty-eight (3S) north, Of range one 0)
west, i'll the county of Cheboygan. shall
be, and the same is hereby. re-incorpo-
rated as the village OF CnebOygan.
SEC. 2. The officers of said village now
i'll Office shall continue i'm office with the
same powers and duties as are con-
conferred by this act upon like officers
until their successors shall be elected
pursuant to the provisions of this act,
and the general law relating to villages.
entitled. IAN act granting and defining
the powers and duties of Incorporated
Villages. approved April l. 1872
SEC. 5. All ordinances and resolutions
of said village of Cheboygan shall con-
time in force until repealed.
SEC. 4. The first election under this
act shall be held on the second Tuesday
III April. eighteen hundred and seventy
seven, at the council room. on Third
street, Ill the village of Cheboyoan
Notice of the time and place of holding
such election shall be given by publica-
tlon III newspaper published in said vii
lage, at least two weeks previous to the
holding of such election. The present
President OF the .ilage of ChebOygan.
and the three trustees OF said village,
whose term of Office would first exrire,
shall constitute the Board of Registration
for said first election, and said Board
shall meet on the Saturday previous to
the day of holding said first election. at
the council room. in the village of Che
bOygan, at 8 o'clock i'm the forenoon of
said day. for the purpose of completing
the list OF qualified electors of said vii
lage, and in such proceedings shall have
the same powers and proceed i'm the
same manner, as near as may be, as Is
now provided by law for regulating and
defining the powers and duties OF Boards
SEC. 8. Said village of Cheboygan is
hereby made subject to the general law
entitled, "An act granting and defining
the powers and duties of Incorporated
Villages" approved April /, 1875. Said
be subject to all the duties and liabilities
imposed by said act Provided, however.
that nothing i'm this act or the general |
lour ooutoipol chon ,,,oEa ipor,n hanf
on the said corporation to build or keep
in repair any of the bridges now con-
structed. or hereafter to be constructed, |
limits of said village, and provided, |
further. that for the purpose of building. |
and repairing the bridges |
over the said ChebOygan river, within |
the limits of the said village, the town. |
ship within which said village is situated |
shall be deemed a township as it existed |
before the incorporation Of the said viii |
age of Cheboygan, and shall be subject |
10 all the provisions of the general laws
IF this state relative to the building, |
and keeping in repair such |
bridges.
SEC. 6. The village, as re-incorpOrated,
shall possess all the property and rights |
md be subject to all the liabilities anu |
of the village as heretofore
SEC. z. This act shall take immediate |
Effect.
Mr.. Humphrey stated that there was a
question whether or not the village was
egally incorporated. 1t being originally |
under special act, and af-
re-incorporated under the gen.
nral law of 1873, portion of which law
nad been declared unconstitutional by |
he Supreme Court of this state, and that
after this decision the village had return
sd to and was acting under the original
charter, thus raising question as to the
legality of its organization, and he
thought that the best way to settle the
question was to be re-incorporated under
The general law of 1875, which was re-
vision of the law of 1873, and enacted SO