Michigan official directory and legislative manual for the years 1909-1910, Part 19

Author: Michigan. Dept. of State. cn
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Lansing : [State of Michigan]
Number of Pages: 1016


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REPORTS REQUIRED BY STATUTES.


LIST OF REPORTS .- Continued.


§ Compiled Laws, 1897.


Year of pas-


sage of law.


To whom and by whom made.


Subject matter.


1905


4c Women's Clubs.


8351. . .


1895


25 Young Men's Christian As- sociations.


To the State Treasurer.


3667 ...


1895


25 Clerk of the Board of County Canvassers.


Election returns.


2631. . .


1887


23 County Clerks. 3d Detroit House of Correction.


· 8550. . .


1846


13c Each Bank, Railroad, Canal, or Turnpike Company.


7257 .. . 5112 .. .


1903 } 19055


4c Fire, Plate Glass, Accident, Boiler, etc., Insurance Com- panies.


5258. . 5143. .


1867


4c Foreign Express Companies. 5c Foreign Insurance Compa- nies.


Business done, condition, etc. Business done, condition, etc.


5264. ..


1867


6c Foreign Telegraph Com- panies.


1903


Probate Judges, etc.


Certain wills of property in trust for insane persons. Statement of bonds, etc.


5205. . .


1897


4c Surety and Guaranty Com- panies.


To the Attorney General.


7729.


1881


Affairs in detail.


8263. . .


25 Benevolent Societies.


Affairs in detail. 1


8269. .


1879 1881 } [1899]


25 Charitable Societies.


Affairs in detail.


7481. . .


1869


25 Co-operative Mutual Benefit Associations.


Business affairs.


7551. . .


1877


25 Co-operative Savings Asso- ciations.


8295. . . 7430. . .


1863


25 Hospitals and Asylums.


Affairs in detail. Affairs in detail.


2559. . .


1891


28 Prosecuting attorneys.


8351. ..


1895


25 Young Men's Christian As- sociations.


To the Commissioner of the State Land Office.


3925. . . 4395. . .


1897


3c County Treasurers. * Prosecuting Attorney. 3 Supervisors.


Delinquent lands, etc. Actions in drain proceedings. Drain assessments.


4351. . .


1897


To the Auditor General.


2227. . .


1891


3 Boards of State Institutions: Educational, Charitable, Penal, etc.


Annual statements to be pub- lished in reports of.


3926. . .


1893


21c Commissioner of the Land Office.


Lands on which taxes have been paid.


To the Secretary of State .- Concluded.


Executive officers, other facts as required. Affairs in detail.


2159 .. .


1883


Lists of notaries public. Receipts and disbursements. Capital stock paid in.


Condition, business done, etc.


Business done, condition, etc.


25 Associations, Members of the Bar.


Condition, shares, etc.


1857 1903


25 Mechanics' Associations. Probate Judges, etc.


Certain wills of property in trust for insane persons.


Official business, prosecutions, punishments, etc. Affairs in detail.


1899


* No definite time fixed for making report. 20


1865


154


MICHIGAN MANUAL.


LIST OF REPORTS .- Continued.


§ Compiled Laws, 1897.


Year of pas- sage of law.


To whom and by whom made.


Subject matter.


To the Auditor General .- Con.


4635 .. .


1877


8c Commissioner of Mineral Statistics.


S424. .


1877


25 Corporations for prevention of cruelty to Animals.


3893. .


1899


3c County Treasurer. 3c County Treasurer.


Tax sales. Delinquent taxes. Liquor tax collected.


5389. . .


1887


15c County Treasurer.


Taxes collected.


1907


10c Fine Art Associations.


Capital paid in, condition, etc.


Capital paid in, condition, stock- holders, etc.


6502. . .


1881


8c Pipe line companies.


6551. . .


1853 }


4c Plank Road Companies.


6609. . . -


1853 J


24c Quartermaster General.


4023. . .


1853


c Secretary of State.


Expenses, earnings, capital stock. Accounts, vouchers, etc. Copies of reports of certain cor- porations.


4001 . . .


1881


10c Telegraph and Telephone lines.


To the Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction.


1891. . .


1897


Transactions, etc.


1903


16a Board of Control of State Public School.


Operations of school, reports of officers.


1795. . .


1859


3c Board of Regents of the University.


Results of investigations.


2224. . .


1881


13d Boards of all State Institu- tions. Essentially Educa- tional.


Results of official labor.


1905


3 Day Schools for Deaf,


Facts required.


4803. . .


1839


15c Incorporated Academies and other Literary Insti- tutions.


officers, students, etc.


1901


3 Secretary of Board of Trustees of Rural High Schools.


8145. . .


1893


3c State Board of Visitors for Incorporated Institutions of Learning.


4759 ...


1881


3c Township Board of School Inspectors.


Management of library and library moneys. Results of official labor.


4694. . .


1905


11 Township Board of School Inspectors.


8148 .. .


1855


15c Trustees of all Institutions of Learning.


Capital paid in, inventory, of- fi cers, students, etc.


3880. . .


1897


1899


23 County Treasurer. 23 County Treasurer.


Inheritance taxes received.


8207. . . 7106. . .


1865


1885


10c Foreign Corporations and Joint Stock Companies, for Smelting, etc., Minerals. Judges of Probate.


1903


Inheritance tax against estates. Capital paid in, condition, etc. 1


Length, stations, poles, etc.


Condition, etc., in detail.


1801. .


1851


3c Board of Visitors of the Uni- versity.


Condition, etc., in detail.


4815. . .


1905


3 County Commissioners of Schools.


Boards of Control of.


Real estate, funds, income,


Condition, etc.


Conditions, courses of study, etc.


1901


27c Board of Control of Mich- igan College of Mines.


Production of mines. Affairs in detail.


155


REPORTS REQUIRED BY STATUTES.


LIST OF REPORTS .- Continued.


§ Compiled Laws, 1897.


Year of pas- sage of law.


To whom and by whom made.


Subject matter.


7420 .. .


1897


4 Bicycle Insurance Compa- nies.


Statement in detail.


1907


6 Burial Benefit Associations


Condition, transactions, officers, etc. Statement in detail.


5146 ...


1897


3 Burglar Insurance Compa- nies.


Affairs, operations, etc.


7200 .. .


1869 1869 1869


(a)4c Life, Fire and Fire and Marine Insurance Compa- nies.


Condition, business, etc.


7243. . .


7247 .. .


1869


5136 ...


1859


7371. . .


1887


Condition, business, etc.


7312. . .


1881


4c Log and Timber Insurance Companies. . 4c Millers' Fire Insurance Com- panies.


Condition, business, etc.


1907


3 Mutual Benefit Societies of Religious Denominations. 4c Mutual Fire Insurance Com- panies, Limited.


Information required by com- missioner. Condition, business, etc.


7273. . .


1873


4c Mutual Fire Insurance Com- panies.


7352. . .


1897


4-5c Mutual Integrity Companies.


7563. . .


1889


6 Mutual Provident Associa- tions.


Condition of business.


5112 .. .


1905


Condition, business, etc.


7283. . .


1873


4c Receiver of Mutual Fire In- surance Companies.


1907


Annual statement.


1907


4 Threshers' Mutual Fire In- surance Companies.


To the State Librarian.


8249 . . . 7717. . . 7704. .


1887 1887


12c Engineering Societies.


Business transactions. Facts, discoveries, etc. Business transactions.


7712. . .


1877


15c Secretary of State Eclectic Medical Society.


8195 ..


1895


a Secretary of Historical, etc., Societies.


7724. . .


1891


15a Veterinary Medical Associ- ations.


1901


3 Librarian of . Registered Grange Library.


Number of volumes contained, yearly circulation, etc.


* No definite time fixed for making report.


(a) See note, page 264, C. L. 1897.


7744. . .


1893


6c Fraternal Beneficiary So- cieties.


7207 ...


7297.


1895


Condition, business, etc.


7274. . .


Statement in detail. Condition, business, etc.


1907


3 Mutual Provident Associ- ations of Organized Fire Departments.


4c Plate Glass, Accident, Live Stock, Steam-boiler and Fidelity Insurance Com- panies.


Condition of business.


3c Retail Lumber Dealers' Mu- tual Ins. Association.


Condition of business.


*a Pharmacists' and Druggists' Associations.


1879


15a Secretary of State Medical Society.


Business transactions. Business transactions. Facts, discoveries, etc.


To the Commissioner of In- surance.


156


MICHIGAN MANUAL.


LIST OF REPORTS .- Continued.


§ Compiled Laws, 1897.


Year of pas- sage of law.


To whom and by whom made.


Subject matter.


1899


To the State Oil Inspector. 24c Deputy Oil Inspectors. To the State Board of Agri- culture.


Record of work done for month.


1858. . .


1861


15c Faculty of Agricultural Col- lege.


Condition of College. Summary of publication.


1761. .


1899


24 Director Michigan Weather Service.


1905


* Transportation Companies.


Shipment of nursery stock im- properly labeled.


To the Board of State - Auditors.


1905 1899


3 Board of Accountancy.


Financial account. Moneys received and disbursed.


1899


24c Deputy Oil Inspectors ..


Record of work done for month. Receipts and disbursements.


42 .. .


1895


16 Sergeant-at-arms of the


Inventory of furniture.


1899


23c State Oil Inspector.


Receipts and disbursements.


1354-7.


1849


3c Commissioner of the Land Office.


To the State Board of Health.


4404 .. .


1873


3c Boards of Health of Town- ships, Cities, and Villages. 15c State Eclectic Medical So- ciety.


Transactions.


7717. . .


1887


*a Secretary of Pharmacists' and Druggists' Associa-


tions.


1899


4a State Oil Inspector.


Inspections by inspector and deputies.


2017 .. .


1907


14c Secretary of State.


Statistics as to the blind.


To the President of the United States.


1901


4c Adjutant General.


Returns of state militia.


To the State Agricultural Society.


5960. . .


1855


15c Incorporated Societies.


Agricultural


Transactions, receipts and dis- bursements.


5305. . .


1905


. . 3c Michigan Board of Pharm- acy.


Senate and House.


To the Regents of the University.


University land sales and fund.


Proceedings.


7712 .. .


1877


Facts collected, discoveries, etc.


To the Superintendent of the Michigan School for the Blind.


3 Board of Examiners in Horseshoeing.


* No definite 'time fixed for making report.


-


157


REPORTS REQUIRED BY STATUTES ..


LIST OF REPORTS .- Continued.


§ Compiled Laws, 1897.


Year of pas- sage of law.


To whom and by whom made.


Subject matter.


To the Commissioner of Bank- ing Department.


6104 .. . 6110. . .


1907


7 Banks, Boards of Directors. 23 Banks.


1218. . .


1897


Bankers' and Trust Corpora- tions.


1907


Safety and Collateral De- posit Companies (semi-an- nual.) 25 Societies for Receiving,


Affairs in detail.


6170. . .


1891


23 Trust, Deposit and Security Companies.


To Boards of Control, State Prison, Branch State Prison, and Michigan Reformatory.


2089. . .


1893


24c Wardens of each Institu- tion.


To the State Board of Library Commissioners.


1903


11 County Commissioner of Schools.


1899


3 Free Libraries.


To State Board of Corrections and Charities.


1903


10 County Superintendents of Poor.


Insane persons in poorhouses.


1903


23 Medical Superintendent of Asylums. Municipal officers.


Names, ages, date, etc., of dis- charge of patients.


1903


Insane persons for whom aid is asked.


1899


9, 25 Organizations for placing minor children in homes.


To Board of Trustees of State Asylum.


1965. . .


1899


16a Medical Superintendent of Asylum.


To the County Commission- ers of Schools.


4815. . .


1905 1901


3c Boards of School Inspectors. 3 Boards of Trustees of Rural High Schools.


1903


9 Librarians of Public Libra- ries.


Location, condition and support of libraries.


4918. . .


1905


To the Salt Inspector.


24c Deputy Salt Inspector.


Quality and quantity of salt in- spected.


Condition, list of stockholders. Resources, assets, and liabilities. Escheated deposits, to report every 3rd year in June. Condition, amount of trusts, bonds, etc.


1899


Loaning and Investing money.


Resources, assets and liabilities.


Receipts and disbursements.


Complete list of Public Libraries in county. Doings, etc.


Work done.


Accounts, records, results, etc.


Results of official labor. Condition.


1887


158


MICHIGAN MANUAL.


LIST OF REPORTS .- Concluded.


§ Compiled Laws, 1897.


Year of pas- sage of law.


To whom and by whom made.


Subject matter.


To Dairy and Food Commis- sioner.


1905


7 Proprietors of Skimming stations, creameries, etc.


1901


3 State Inspector of Apiaries.


Amount of milk or cream received. Number, condition, etc., of ap- iaries.


1901


Deputy Factory Inspectors.


Factories inspected, etc. -


To State Board of Assessors.


1905


10-11c Certain Corporations.


1905 15 County Clerk.


To Advisory Board in Matter of Pardons.


1905


3c Wardens of Prisons.


Transactions under Indetermi- nate Sentence Act.


WHEN MADE.


1 Years legislature not in session.


2 Regular sessions legislature.


3 Annually.


4 Annually, January.


5 Annually, February.


6 Annually, March.


7 Annually, April.


8 Annually, May.


9 Annually, June.


10 Annually, July.


11 Annually, August.


12 Annually, September.


13 Annually; October.


14 Annually, November.


15 Annually, December.


16 Biennially.


a Printed.


b Printed with session laws.


17 Biennially, January.


18 Biennially, October.


19 Biennially, November.


20 Semi-annually, January, July.


21 Semi-annually, May, November.


22 Semi-annually, February, September.


23 Quarterly. 24 Monthly.


25 Whenever required.


26 Biennially, September.


27 Biennially, December.


28 Semi-annually, June, December.


29 Quarterly as required.


30 Within 90 days after sentence.


31 After each State encampment.


c Filed.


d Compiled.


Location, nature of business, value of real estate, etc. Record of equalization of board of supervisors.


To Commissioner of Labor.


INCORPORATED CITIES OF MICHIGAN.


References to acts of incorporation, etc., as villages and cities, corrected to October, 1908.


For an act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class, see P. A. 1895, Act No. 215. Amended P. A. 1897, Acts Nos. 152, 239; P. A. 1899, Act No. 136; P. A. 1901, Act No. 156; P. A. 1905, Acts Nos. 106, 231, 246; P. A. 1907, Acts Nos. 110, 320.


* Population as a village.


City.


County.


Popula- tion, 1904.


Incor- porated.


References to acts of incorporation, etc.


Adrian .


Lenawee ..


10,680


1853


Incorporated as a village by legislature, S. L. 1836, p. 179; amended, S. L. 1841, . p. 66; 1843, p. 134; 1846, p. 134; 1847, p. 24; 1848, p. 316; 1850, pp. 46, 207. Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1853, p. 27; amended, S. L. 1853, p. 73; 1855, p. 181; 1857, p. 267; revised, S. L. 1865, p. 586; amended, S. L. 1867, Vol. 2, p. 1023; 1869, Vol. 2, pp. 465, 630; 1871, Vol. 2, p. 488; L. A. 1875, p. 570; 1879, p. 128; 1885, p. 155; reincorporated, L. A. 1887, p. 138; amended, L. A. 1889, p. 882; 1891, p. 763; 1893, p. 1184; 1895, p. 60; 1897, p. 82; 1901, p. 385; 1903, pp. 403, 606; 1905, pp. 476, 1021.


Albion ... . .


Calhoun.


4,943


1885


Incorporated as a village by the legislature, S. L. 1855, p. 65; amended, S. L. 1859, p. 30; 1873, Vol. 2, p. 93. Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1885, p. 93; amended, L. A. 1895, p. 356; 1907, p.


Allegan.


Allegan.


*2,795


1907


Incorporated as a village by the legislature, S. L. 1838, p. 110; amended, S. L. 1846, p. 95; 1858, p. 81; revised, S. L. 1859, Vol. 2, p. 112; amended, S. L. 1871, Vol. 2, p. 929; amended, L. A. 1875, p. 218; 1881, p. 290; revised, L. A. 1883, p. 518; amended, L. A. 1887, p. 863. Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1907, pp. 754-69, See pp. 422-3.


Alma ... . .


Gratiot.


*2,566


1905


Incorporated as a village by board of supervisors January 2, 1872; reincorporated by legislature, L. M. 1873, Vol. 2, p. 773; amended, 1875, p. 569; reincorpor- ated by legislature, L. A. 1883, p. 20.


Alpena ...


Alpena. ..


12,400


1871


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1905, pp. 107, 110; amended, 1907, p. 53. Never incorporated as a village.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1871, Vol. 2, p. 793; amended, S. L. 1873, Vol. 2, pp. 4, 1116; L. A. 1875, p. 650; 1877, p. 289; 1879, pp. 221, 239; 1885, p. 433; 1887, p. 653; 1889, pp. 177, 582; 1891, pp. 130, 1042; 1893, p. 1367; 1897, pp. 25, 211, 540; L. A. 1899, p. 188; 1901, p. 475; 1905, pp. 774, 1047; 1907, pp. 1052, 1058.


INCORPORATED CITIES OF MICHIGAN.


159


160


INCORPORATED CITIES .- Continued.


City.


County.


Popula- tion, 1904.


Incor- porated.


Ann Arbor.


Washtenaw. . .


14,599


1851


Au Gres.


Arenac.


1905


Incorporated as a city by the legislature, L. A. 1905, p. 1042-4.


Au Sable.


Iosco


917


1889


Bad Axe.


Huron.


*1,423


1905


Battle Creek.


Calhoun.


22,213


1859


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1905, p. 115-18.


Incorporated as a village by legislature, S. L. 1850, p. 338; amended, 1851, p. 148; 1853, p. 77; 1857, p. 68.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1859, p. 50; amended, 1861, p. 73; 1865, p. 291; 1867, Vol. 2, pp. 5, 26; 1869, Vol. 2, p. 65; 1871, Vol. 2, p. 776; 1873, Vol. 2, p. 798; L. A. 1875, p. 528; 1879, p. 93; 1883, p. 1; 1885, p. 434; 1887, p. 400; 1889, pp. 593, 837; 1891, p. 870; 1893, pp. 602, 1189; L. A. 1895, p. 368; L. A. 1897, p. 351; L. A. 1899, pp. 91, 290; 1901, p. 612; 1903, p. 555; 1905, pp. 128, 1023, 1116; 1907, pp. 313, 795, 1057.


Bay City (a) ..


Bay ..


27,644


1865


Originally lower Saginaw, name changed to Bay City, S. L. 1857, p. 195; incor- porated as a village by legislature, S. L. 1859, p. 166; amended, S. L. 1861, p. 35; 1863, p. 347.


Beaverton ..


Gladwin. . . ..


681


1903


References to acts of incorporation, etc.


Incorporated as a village by legislative council, 1833, Ter. Laws, Vol. 3, p. 1208; amended, S. L. 1846, p. 159; which was repealed by S. L. 1850, p. 228. Incorporated. as a city, S. L. 1851, p. 121; amended, 1857, p. 11; 1859, pp. 107, 320; 1861, p. 61; 1863, p. 87; 1867, Vol. 2, p. 745; 1871, Vol. 2, p. 489; 1873 Vol. 2, p. 121; L. A. 1877, pp. 24, 285; 1879, p. 174; 1885, p. 299; 1887, p. 393 : reincorporated, L. A. 1889, p. 215; amended, 1891, pp. 420, 662; 1893, p. 1013; L. A. 1895, p. 78; 1897, p. 1086; L. A. 1899, pp. 125, 176; 1903, p. 892; 1905, p. 482; 1907, pp. 197, 930. Never incorporated as a village.


Incorporated as a village by board of supervisors, Oct. 15, 1872; reincorporated by legislature, L. A. 1885, p. 297; amended, 1887, p. 686. Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1889, p. 978; L. A. 1895, p. 590. Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1885, p. 75; amended, L. A. 1893, p. 1049.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1865, p. 735; amended, S. L. 1867, Vol. 2, pp. 341, 717; 1869, Vol. 2, p. 561; 1871, Vol. 2, p. 1366; 1873, Vol. 2, p. 270; L. A. 1875, p. 746; 1877, p. 468; revised, L. A. 1881, p. 142; amended, L. A. 1883, p. 470; 1885, p. 257; 1887, pp. 289, 467, 573, 763; 1889, pp. 704, 803; charter amended, L. A. 1891, pp. 840, 1061; 1893, pp. 390, 1052; L. A. 1895, p. 667; revised, L. A. 1897, p. 830; amended, L. A. 1899, pp. 99, 104, 505; 1901, pp. 588, 652; 1903, pp. 269, 659; 1905, p. 1152; 1907, pp. 338, 825, 1025, 1034, 1090. Incorporated as a village by board of supervisors, Jan. 9. 1896. Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1903, p. 137; amended, 1907, pp. 137, 735.


MICHIGAN MANUAL.


Belding ..


Ionia ..


3,654


1893


Never incorporated as a village.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1893, p. 608; amended, L. A. 1895, p. 481; 1905, p. 144; 1907, pp. 111, 948.


Benton Harbor .....


Berrien.


6,702


1891


Name changed from Bronson Harbor to Benton Harbor, S. L. 1865, p. 269. Incorporated as a village, S. L. 1869, Vol. 3, p. 1381; amended, L. A. 1875, p. 480; 1879, p. 252; 1881, p. 2; 1885, p. 144; 1887, p. 700; 1889, p. 592. Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1891, p. 933; amended, L. A. 1893, p. 708; territory


2


detached, 1893, pp. 1009, 1010; reincorporated 1903, p. 535; amended, L. A. 1905, pp. 122, 1154; 1907, p. 129, see page 733.


Bessemer.


Gogebic ..


3,111


1889


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1887, p. 82.


Big Rapids


Mecosta .


4,852


1869


Never incorporated as a village.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1869, Vol. 3, p. 1635; amended, S. L, 1871, Vol. 2, p. 738; 1873, Vol. 2, p. 326; revised, L. A. 1875, p. 49; amended, L. A. 1877, p. 54; 1881, p. 128; 1887, p. 46; 1889, p. 16.


Boyne City.


Charle voix


*2,453


1907


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1885, p. 143; territory attached, L. A. 1905, p. 1012.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1907, pp. 42-3


Brown City


Sanilac. .


*676


1907


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1887, p. 10.


Cadillac.


Wexford.


6,893


1877


Incorporated as village of Clam Lake, by legislature, L. A. 1875, p. 534; act re- pealed and incorporated as city of Cadillac, L. A. 1877, p. 53; amended, L. A. 1879, p. 44; reincorporated, L. A. 1885, p. 44; amended, 1889, p. 268; 1893, p. 997; reincorporated, L. A. 1895, p. 485; amended, 1897, p. 183; 1903, p. 200; 1907, pp. 450, 1040.


Charlevoix. .


Charlevoix.


*2,395


1905


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1879, p. 87; amended, L. A. 1881, p. 385; 1889, pp. 173, 600; 1891, p. 865.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1905, pp. 785-9; amended, L. A. 1907, pp. 870, 955, see p. 714.


Charlotte


Eaton. .


4,726


1871


Incorporated as a village by board of supervisors, Oct. 12, 1863.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1871, Vol. 2, p. 837; amended, S. L. 1873, Vol. 2, p. 1128; L. A. 1881, p. 393: 1883, p. 742; 1893, p. 581; reincorporated, L. A. 1895, p. 160; 1903, p. 449; amended, 1905, pp. 438, 1016.


Cheboygan ..


Cheboygan .. . .


6,730


1889


Incorporated as a village by legislature, S. L. 1871, Vol. 2, p. 1398; reincorpor- ated, L. A. 1877, p. 119


Clare ..


Clare ..


1,413


1891


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1889, p. 269; amended, 1891, p. 2; L. A. 1895, p. 123; L. A. 1897, p. 546; L. A. 1905, p. 306; L. A. 1907, pp. 333, 334. Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1879, p. 250; amended L. A. 1901, p. 631.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1891, p. 18; amended, L. A. 1893, p. 982.


(a) West Bay City annexed, see L. A. 1903, p. 659.


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INCORPORATED CITIES OF MICHIGAN.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1907, pp. 190-4.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1889, p. 517; amended, 1891, p. 570; special charter, 1893, p. 178; amended, L. A. 1895, p. 43.


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INCORPORATED CITIES .- Continued.


City.


County.


Popula- tion, 1904.


Incor- porated.


References to acts of incorporation, etc.


Coldwater ..


Branch


6,225


1861


Incorporated as a village by legislature, S. L. 1837, p. 17; amended, S. L. 1845, p. 63; 1851, p. 147; 1855, p. 85; 1857, p. 471.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1861, p. 86; resurvey, S. L. 1867, Vol. 2, p. 325; amended, S. L. 1867, Vol. 2, p. 662; 1871, Vol. 2. p. 1415; 1873, Vol. 2. p. 738; L. A. 1877, p. 461; 1879, pp. 158, 215; 1881, p. 232; 1887, p. 689; 1889, p. 618; L. A. 1895, p. 641; L. A. 1897, pp. 537, 675; L. A. 1905, pp. 498, 1035; 1907, p. 772.


1


Coleman ..


Midland.


*990


1905


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1887, p. 39. Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1905, p. 300-3.


Corunna


Shiawassee .. . .


1,601


1869


Incorporated as a village by board of supervisors, Oct. 11, 1858; legalized and amended by legislature, S. L. 1859, p. 1055; incorporated and limits enlarged by legislature, S. L. 1863, p. 69; amended, S. L. 1867, Vol. 2, p. 51.


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1869, Vol. 2, p. 287; amended, S. L. 1871, Vol. 2, p. 2; L. A. 1883, p. 460; 1889, p. 589; 1891, p. 883.


Croswell.


Sanilac. .


*961


1905


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1881, p. 278.


Crystal Falls.


Iron.


2,981


1899


Detroit ..


Wayne. .


317,591


1806


Ter. Laws, Vol. 4, p. 3.


The town of Detroit was incorporated by the legislative council and house of representatives of the Northwest Territory, and approved at Chillicothe, January 18, 1802. The bases of the town, or city, of Detroit, were established by the governor and judges, Sept. 14, 1806. This act was repealed Feb. 24, 1809, Ter. Laws, Vol. 4, p. 83. On Oct. 24, 1815, the act of 1802 was repealed, and the city of Detroit incorporated by the name of "The City of Detroit," the trustees to be the body politic by the name of "The Board of Trustees of the City of Detroit," see Ter. Laws, Vol. 1, p. 534. March 30, 1820, boundaries changed, Ter. Laws, Vol. 1, p. 541; amended, Ter. Laws, Vol. 1, pp. 314, 878. On August 5, 1824, the city of Detroit was continued, and the body politic was to be known by the name of "The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Freemen of the City of Detroit," Ter. Laws, Vol. 2, p. 221. On April 4, 1827, the city was again incorporated, Ter. Laws, Vol. 2, pp. 339, 570; May 28, 1832, limits extended, Ter. Laws, Vol. 3, p. 913; amended April 22, 1833, Ter. Laws, Vol. 3, p. 1122; limits again extended March 26, 1836, S. L. 1836, p. 154; on March 21, 1837, charter amended, S. L. 1837, p. 199; 1638, p. 138. The following references show amendments to city charter: Amended, S. L. 1839, p. 31; 1841, p. 192; 1844, p. 101; 1845, p. 25; 1846, p. 19, 1847,


MICHIGAN MANUAL.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1905, p. 82-5; amended, territory attached 1907, p. 376.


Incorporated as a village by supervisors, Jan. 24, 1889; reincorporated, L. A. 1891, p. 386; 1893, p. 1069.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1899, p. 81.


Dowagiac ..


Cass ...


4,404


1877


Incorporated as a village by board of supervisors, Oct. 13, 1863; amended, S. L. 1865, p. 238.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1877, p. 74; amended, L. A. 1879, p. 149; 1881, p. 246; 1883, p. 665; 1889, p. 695; 1891, p. 1032; 1893, p. 463; see L. A. 1907, p. 443.


East Lansing. . ..


Ingham.


1907


Never incorporated as a village.


East Tawas ..


Iosco ..


1,830


1895


Incorporated as a village by legislature, L. A. 1887, p. 35; amended, L. A. 1891, p. 663.


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1895, p. 98.


Eaton Rapids.


Eaton


2,197


1881


Incorporated as a village by legislature, S. L. 1871, p. 1295; amended, L. A. 1875, p. 717.


Escanaba.


Delta ..


11,098


1883


Incorporated as a city, L. A. 1883, p. 335; amended, L. A. 1887, p. 569; reincor- porated, L. A. 1891, p. 134; L. A. 1895, p. 312.


Flint ..


Genesee.


14,884


1855


Incorporated as a city, S. L. 1855, p. 322; amended, S. L. 1857, p. 35; 1861, p. 34; 1865, p. 333; revised, S. L. 1867, Vol. 2, p. 614; amended, 1869, Vol. 3, p. 1080; 1871, Vol. 2, pp. 1, 561; 1872, Vol. 1, p. 47; 1873, Vol. 2, p. 88; L. A. 1877, p. 269; 1879, p. 142; 1881, p. 203; 1883, p. 569; 1887, p. 636; 1891, p. 48; 1897, p. 560; L. A. 1899, p. 174; 1901, p. 211; 1903, p. 214; 1905, p. 271; 1907, pp. 28, 172, 381, 401, 404, 527.




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