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April 12. Territorial Laws, Vol. II., page 570 .- Authorizes the city to issue due bills in payment of debts, also to elect seven aldermen instead of five as before.
April 12. Territorial Laws, Vol. II., page 480 .- Creates the township of Detroit, to be composed of the city of Detroit.
April 13. Territorial Laws, Vol. II., page 640 .- Authorizes city to elect one supervisor to meet with supervisors of county,
1828. June 23. Territorial Laws, Vol. II., page 685 .- Mayor and aldermen authorized to seize all provisions offered for sale that are deficient in weight or quality, and to send them to the poor-house.
1830. July 14. Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 819 .- Gives register of Detroit power to appoint a deputy.
July 31. Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 842 .- Exempts city firemen from jury and military duty, provided the number does not exceed forty.
1831. March 4. Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 901 .- Prohibits slaughtering of animals within three miles of city and eighty rods of the river, etc.
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1832. May 28, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 913 .- Extends city limits. Went into effect March 31, 1833.
June 29, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 935 .- Authorizes city of Detroit to take measures to promote health, and to detain and examine vessels and persons.
June 29, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 938 .- Author- izes city to open streets, alleys, etc .; empowers authorities to compel convicts to work on the highway, with ball and chain attached.
1833. April 22, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1122 .- Author- izes Common Council, with consent of freemen, to levy a tax of one fourth of one per cent, and makes various other provisions.
April 23, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1238 .- Makes provision for common schools, and provides for the election of six commissioners, six directors, and six inspectors of schools.
1834. February 19, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1269 .- The Common Council required to perform the same duties in regard to the poor as justices and directors of the poor are required to per- form.
March 7, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1286 .- Author- izes Common Council or any individual to transcribe and have recorded the land records of the Governor and Judges, and gives the record the same force as the original.
November 18, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1327 .- Legal- izes the assessment made by the council in 1834.
1835. March 30, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1422 .- Author- izes city to borrow $50,000.
March 30, Territorial Laws, Vol. III., page 1422 .- Empowers city to elect constables to attend the sessions of the mayor's court, and perform duty of police officers.
1836. March 14, State Law, page 23 .- Provides that the town- ship of Detroit may elect two additional justices of the peace.
March 26, page 154 .- City limits extended.
1837. March 21, page 199 .- Fixes time of election of five in- spectors of elections for the Thursday next preceding the first Monday in April ; and provides that if constables elected refuse to perform duties, five citizens may be elected, viva voce, to per- form said duties.
March 21, page 209. - Provides that inspectors of state and county elections shall be chosen by the city.
March 22, page 268 .- Abolishes office of city register, and transfers the duties to county register.
1838. February 8, page 53 .- Extended time for collection of State and county taxes.
Revised Statutes, page 69 .- Provides that Detroit shall con- tinue to have and exercise all powers and privileges heretofore granted.
March 29, page 138. - Authorizes the election of six con- stables at the city election.
1839. March 27, page 31 .- Provides that the council shall con- sist of twelve aldermen, the mayor, and recorder ; divides the city into six wards ; provides for election of an assessor in each ward : changes time of city election after 1839, to the first Monday in March.
1840. February 3, page 10 .- Authorizes city collector to collect county taxes, and pay them over to the county treasurer, and extends the time for collecting taxes.
February 29, page 27 .- Provides for election of two additional justices for Detroit.
March 14, page 42 .- Exempts firemen from both jury and mili- tary duty as long as they reside in any part of the State.
1841. March 27, page 48 .- Gives school inspectors power to organize a school district for colored children between the ages of five and seventeen.
April 2, page 55 .- Authorizes assessors and aldermen of each ward to prepare a list of persons liable to jury duty.
April 13, page 192 .- Empowers council to control and regulate construction of drains and sewers ; to prevent importation of paupers ; to control erection of buildings, and pass ordinances in regard to fires ; to regulate and build sidewalks ; to levy a tax of one half of one per cent ; requires voters to reside thirty, instead
of ten days in a ward before election, and makes provision for mayor's court.
1842. February 11, page 28 .- Prohibits city from issuing any more due bills or re-issuing old ones.
February 15, page 54 .- Provision made for selling lands for taxes. City limits reduced by excluding Witherell Farm.
February 16, page 72 .- Directs city clerk to advertise lands for unpaid taxes and to bid them in for the city.
February 16, page 101 .- Gives ward assessors power to act as supervisors, and apportion State and county taxes, and authorizes city collector to collect them.
February 17, page 112 .- Creates and provides for the establish- ment of the Board of Education.
1843. February 13, page 22 .- Provides that school taxes col- lected for Board of Education shall be kept separate.
February 28, page 34 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes in Detroit.
March 4, page 38 .- Gives city power to levy special tax of $10,000 in 1843, and $10,000 in 1844 to pay debts.
1844. March 9, page 60. - Register of deeds to record deeds from Governor and Judges at length, and a transcript of the same to be prima facie evidence in cases where the original deed would be evidence.
March 11, page 101 .- Authorizes council to do away with any office and require its duties to be performed by some other officer, and makes provision for appointment of city auditor.
1845. March 8, page 25 .- Council, with consent of freemen's meeting, may levy an extra tax of $8,000 for 1845, and $8,000 for 1846.
March 19, page 56 .- Authorizes extension of Fort Street to in- tersection of road leading to Dearbornville. (See page 236, Laws of 1837.)
1846. Revised Statutes, page 43 .- Directs that the assessor and aldermen of each ward of Detroit be inspectors of elections, the assessor to provide ballot-boxes.
Revised Statutes, page 66 .- Provides for the election of one supervisor for each ward, and that the assessor of each ward be such supervisor.
Revised Statutes, page 119 .- Prescribes that the assessors shall be supervisors, and act as township treasurers.
Revised Statutes, page 168. - Provides that mayor and alder- men shall constitute a Board of Health.
Revised Statutes, page 463 .- Provides for a list of persons to serve as petit and grand jurors, to be made by assessor and alder- men of Detroit.
January 30, page 4 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 23, page 19 .- Divides the city into three assessment districts ; provides that the mayor shall preside in mayor's court only in absence of the recorder.
March 28, page 54 .- Gives the city and inhabitants authority to lay railroad track in front of their premises on the river.
April 7, page 73 .- Legalizes the returns made by various ward collectors.
April 28, page 101 .- Provides that ward collectors shall collect school tax, and that Board of Education may elect their own president.
May 7, page 156 .- Provides that it shall not be necessary to acknowledge or prove a deed which has been or may be granted by the mayor, recorder, and aldermen, under the act of Congress of August 29, 1842.
May 16, page 238 .-- Grants council power to license and regu- late porters, cart-men, livery stables, and all vehicles used for hire.
1847. January 30, page 20. -- Orders assessment rolls to be made before first Monday in March, and extends time for collec- tion of taxes.
March 12, page 50 .- Authorizes Board of Education to raise $1,500 specially for building purposes.
March 16, page 96 .- Gives city control of city Water Works that may lie outside of the city; authorizes an extra tax of $8,000 in 1847, and $8,000 in 1848.
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1848. January 25, page 8 .- Provides for fourteen aldermen in place of twelve, and prescribes boundary of seventh ward.
January 29, page 13 .- Extends time of collecting State and county taxes.
February 8, page 27 .- Legalizes election of officers for new seventh ward.
February 22, page 40 .- Provides for opening of streets, assess- ment and collection of taxes, etc.
1849. January 26, page 10 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 20, page 30 .- Extends the city limits.
February 21, page 32 .- Provides for various city officers ; directs that the assessor of each ward shall be one of the Board of In- spectors of Elections.
March 2, page 47 .- Authorizes council, with consent of citizens' meeting, to levy extra tax of $8,000 for 1849, and $8,000 for 1850.
March 29, page 185 .- Provides for draining low lands in and near Detroit.
April 2, page 313 .- Directs that recorder shall have the same powers as are exercised by Circuit Court Commissioner, and be allowed the same fees.
1850. January 30, page 9 .- Divides the city into three assess- ment districts, and empowers council to raise $10,000 extra tax for each of the years 1851 and 1852.
March 5, page 50 .- Provides for school census between ages of four and eighteen, and authorizes Board of Education to borrow $5,000.
March 8, page 62 .- Empowers council to levy an extra tax of $20,000 during the next three years, and $10,000 additional tax for 1850. The $20,000 to pay water bonds, and the $10,000 to pay interest.
April 1, page 232 .- Provides that in the case of deeds and con- veyances of Governor and Judges, that have heretofore been recorded by register of deeds, the record of such, or a certified copy, shall be evidence in place of the original deed ; provided it is proved that the original deed has been lost or destroyed.
April 2, page 364 .- Provides for organization of Police Court.
1851. March 21, page 41 .- Council authorized to levy an ad- ditional tax of $5,000 to pay interest and provide a sinking fund.
April 8, page 231 .- Provides that the alderman of each ward having the shortest time to serve shall act as a supervisor on the Board of Supervisors.
June 28, page 323. Provides that the mayor or recorder, with a majority of the aldermen, shall form a quorum of the council.
1853. February 9, page 64 .- Council to appoint a person in each ward to take census and statistics every ten years, dating from 1854, provided no assessor is elected in said wards.
February 12, page 115 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 14, page 164 .- Prescribes that assessors of the several wards shall be supervisors and collectors, and act as town treas- urers.
February 14, page 180 .- Establishes the Board of Water Com- missioners.
1855. January 20, page 3 .- Gives Board of Education power to establish a High School, appoint a superintendent of schools, and raise a tax of not more than two dollars for each child enumerated by the census.
February 6, page 31 .- Provides that Board of Water Commis- sioners may borrow $250,000.
February 8, page 47 .- Extends the time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 10, page 132 .- Common council authorized to refund any taxes or assessments unlawfully increased during 1854.
February 12, page 209 .- Charter election changed from first Tuesday in March, after 1855, to first Tuesday in February. Offices of city collector and assessor for each ward provided for ; title of city auditor changed to city comptroller. Provisions made for street openings, etc.
1857. January 24, page 5 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 5, page 73 .- Changes corporate name of city to " The City of Detroit." City much enlarged : authorizes assessor and two aldermen from each ward to attend annual sessions of Board of Supervisors to represent city interests ; makes provision for Board of Sewer Commissioners, for six justices, and also further provision for office of comptroller; street opening specially pro- vided for ; power granted to drain lands within three miles of the city, to number dwellings, to license various kinds of business; establishes recorder's court ; prescribes that residence of an elec- tor shall be where he takes his meals ; fixes mayor's salary at $1,200 ; empowers council to elect their own president ; makes provision for one general and two assistant assessors ; orders sep- arate accounts to be kept of the several funds of the city ; pro- vides that city election shall be held on first Tuesday after first Monday of November, and limits amount of tax to one per cent on the valuation.
February 7, page 163 .- Authorizes council to raise $20,000 in- stead of $1,500 as heretofore, for school lots and buildings.
February 10, page 200,- Authorizes Water Commissioners to borrow $250,000.
February 12, page 209 .- Enlarges city limits, and provides for more wards and aldermen.
February 17, page 465 .- Gives police justice power to appoint a clerk.
1859. January 29, page 2 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 12, page 342 .- Invests assessors and aldermen with the duties of supervisors.
February 12, page 393 .- Gives recorder's court power to try cases upon information, without indictment.
February 14, page 483 .- Defines powers and duties of Board of Registration.
February 15, page 1057 .- Authorizes assessors to use discrimi- nation in assessing value of property in outskirts of city.
1861. March 7, page 127 .- Common Council may levy a tax of $20,000 for purchase of lots, and building of school-houses and to support the schools.
March 12, page 180 .- Invests aldermen with powers of police- men. The mayor, and two other persons to be selected by the council, to constitute a Board of Police Commissioners, the chief to be appointed by the council, on nomination of the board ; the council to provide a police-station, and to appoint temporary policemen for forty-eight hours, when necessary ; authorizes division of wards into election districts ; gives council power to order paving, not to exceed in cost $50,000 in any one year, and to levy a tax of $50,000 for this purpose, without consent of prop- erty owners; authorizes the borrowing of $300,000 on city bonds for building purposes; establishes office of receiver of taxes ; prescribes rules for conducting elections ; and provides that plats of subdivisions shall have no validity until approved.
March 15, page 262. - Establishes Detroit House of Correction, and provides for its management.
March 15, page 423 .- Grants to circuit and recorder's courts the power to issue capiases for witnesses in certain cases.
March 16, page 549 .- Provides for sessions of Board of Regis- tration.
May 10, page 602 .- Authorizes aldermen to afford relief to families of soldiers, to an amount not exceeding $15 per month for each family, payable out of the county treasury.
May 10, page 611 .- Authorizes ward collectors to collect State and county taxes on real and personal property.
1863. February 13, page 26 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
March 6, page 66 .- Provides for submitting to citizens at a public meeting the question of voting a tax or issuing of bonds to pay $40,000 advanced by citizens for bounties during summer of 1862.
March 19, page 295 .- Authorizes Common Council to appoint a person to disburse $15 per month for relief of the families of volunteer soldiers.
March 20, page 331 .- Defines powers of police court.
March 20, page 423 .- Authorizes the city assessor to make copy
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of assessment rolls of each ward, assess the State and county taxes, and place the rolls with ward collectors for collection.
1864. February 4, page 20 .- Provides that the Board of Police Commissioners shall consist of the mayor and two persons ap- pointed by the council, and defines the powers of the board.
February 5, page 69 .- Makes lengthy provision for registration of voters.
February 5, page 94 .- Extends time for collection of State and county taxes.
1865. January 31, page 15 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes in sixth ward.
February 9, page 38 .- Extends time for collecting State and county taxes.
February 28, page 99 .- Establishes Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners.
March 2, page 147 .- Defines duties of county treasurer in con- nection with the collecting of the State and county taxes.
March 16, page 350 .- Provides that city may raise for Board of Education $3 per child enumerated by school census, but that any excess must be submitted to council and citizens' meeting ; and if approved by them, then $25,000 additional may be raised.
March 18, page 508 .- Defines powers of ward collectors and provides for their giving bonds.
March 21, page 678 .- Makes provision for preserving maps and records pertaining to real estate ; for levying a tax annually of $40,000 for purpose of constructing sewers, and defines various powers of the council.
1867. February 1, Vol. II., page 19 .- Extends time for collect- ing State and county taxes.
February 14, Vol. II., page 38 .- Authorizes council to elect its president, the clerk to preside until a president is elected.
March 1, Vol. II., page 115 .- Provides that eleven members of the Board of Education shall constitute a quorum.
March 9, Vol. II., page 265 .- Defines powers and duties of Board of Police Commissioners.
March 26, Vol. II., page 931 .- Creates Board of Fire Commis- sioners, and abolishes office of fire marshal ; directs council to raise money estimated to be needed by the commission.
March 27, Vol. I., page 172 .- Provides that persons may not be jurors in Circuit Court, or any court of record in Detroit, who have been on a jury within a year in said court ; and in a justices' or police court the same persons may not sit as jurors more than three times a year.
March 27, Vol. I., page 175 .- Provides that criminal women from any part of the State may be sentenced to the House of Correction.
March 27, Vol. I., page 223 .- Provides that an extreme sen- tence in either Circuit or Recorder's Court is not invalidated, but is good for the extent of the lawful penalty.
March 27, Vol. I., page 266 .- Directs supervisors of each ward to ascertain yearly the number of births and deaths during the preceding year.
March 27, Vol. II., page 1033 .- Gives council power to divide wards into two election districts, and makes provision for regis- tration in such districts. Gives power also to divide any existing ward into two wards.
March 28, Vol. II., page 1110 .- Grants additional power in regard to opening streets ; gives council power to raise a $50,000 sewer tax yearly, and provides for paying members of council not more than $1.50 for each session of the council attended.
1869. January 30, Vol. II., page 46 .- Extends time for collec- tion of State and county taxes to Ist of March.
February 17, Vol. II., page 61 .- Authorizes Board of Water Commissioners to borrow $250,000.
February 24, Vol. II., page 71 .- Gives larger power to Board of Education ; provides for two school inspectors from each ward, one to be elected each year; makes further provision for superintendent of schools ; authorizes board to borrow $15,000 on their bonds, and provides that a special tax of five mills on a dollar may be levied for purchase of school lots and erecting buildings.
March 2, Vol. II., page 111 .- Extends time for collection of State and county taxes to March 20.
April 3, Vol. I., page 264 .- Provides that Circuit Court Com- missioners shall not issue writs of habeas corpus or certiorari in a criminal case, but that justice of Supreme Court or Circuit Court judge may ; makes special provision for imprisonment and detention of lewd women.
April 5, Vol. III., page 1678 .- Authorizes Board of Water Commissioners to assess tax of three cents per foot front on vacant lots.
April 5, page 1686 .- Defines with great detail powers of the council ; gives city power to vacate any street or alley by resolu- tion.
1871. February 2, Vol. III., page 9 .- Extends time for collect- ing State and county taxes.
February 24, Vol. I., page 24 .- Authorizes superintendent of House of Correction to receive and keep for short periods of time all persons sentenced to the institution while they are waiting for bail, or for other reasons are not fully committed.
March 18, Vol. III., page 75 .- Enlarges and defines with greater clearness the powers of the Board of Fire Commissioners.
March 31, Vol. III., page 127 .- Gives Board of Education dis- cretionary power to elect a Board of Commissioners to take charge of the Public Library.
March 31, Vol. III., page 133 .- Legalizes certain acts of the Board of Fire Commissioners.
March 31, Vol. III., page 134 .- Provides that the police justice shall receive no fees, and not over $1,200 a year for services.
April 13, Vol. II., page 1231 .- Makes provision for printing ordinances and proceedings of the council, and especially for printing the proceedings and official notices in German.
April 13, Vol. III., page 177 .- Authorizes council to divide any existing ward into election districts, to contain not more than five hundred electors.
April 15, Vol. III., page 186 .- Legalizes certain acts of the Board of Police Commissioners.
April 15, Vol. II., page 1322 .- Appoints Board of Park Com- missioners, and provides for purchase of park.
April 17, Vol. II., page 1371 .- Gives the council power to regu- late the election or removal of certain officers, and to fix the amount of their fees ; to control the river, wharves, parks, and streets ; to number the buildings and to collect of the owners for so doing ; to sub-divide wards ; to drain low lands within three miles of the city ; to license various kinds of business. Gives power to tax insurance companies ; authorizes council to issue three-year bonds for purpose of paying three fourths of cost of paving streets, thus granting citizens three years in which to pay paving assessments ; also authorizes issue of $300,000 worth of bonds for building sewers, if citizens' meeting approve ; directs that property be assessed at cash value.
April 17, Vol. III., page 230 .- Reorganizes Board of Metropoli- tan Police and names commissioners, one to go out every two years ; future appointees to be appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, and to serve eight years.
April 18. Vol. III., page 273 .- Establishes Board of Public Works.
1872. March 29, page 57 .- Empowers council to require any officer or board to furnish reports on any matter under their con- trol, and also fix or alter the time at which estimates shall be made by any of the officers or boards.
March 29, page .60 .- Provides that no election district shall embrace parts of two wards, and that no district shall contain less than five hundred electors.
1873. March 8, Vol. III., page 37 .- Authorizes Board of Water Commissioners to borrow $1,000,000 to build new Water Works in Hamtramck.
March 14, Vol. II., page 100 .- Makes provisions concerning the purchase of a park.
March 27, Vol. III., page 74 .- Provides that the Board of Edu- cation may elect a superintendent for three years, appoint a secretary, and erect a Public Library building.
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March 28, Vol. I., page 61 .- Establishes Superior Court.
March 28, Vol. II., page 265 .- Abolishes citizens' meeting and creates Board of Estimates.
April 4, Vol. III., page 140 .- Provides for appointment of a stenographer for recorder's court.
April 12, Vol. III., page 123 .- Relates to powers and duties of Board of Water Commissioners. Gives them power to condemn property for use of the board, and to erect works and extend pipes outside of the city ; and requires them to charge double rates for all water supplied to persons outside the city limits.
April 12, Vol. II., page 636 .- Annexes a large portion of Ham- tramck and Grosse Pointe to the city. This act was declared illegal by the Supreme Court.
April 29, Vol. III., page 175, to go into effect January 1, 1874 .- Establishes present Board of Public Works.
April 30, Vol. II., page 1279 .- Provides for opening streets ; authorizes purchase of land for City Hospital; provides that judge of Superior Court shall preside over recorder's court in absence of the recorder, and that the tax for the repaving of streets shall be levied on the property, instead of being paid by general tax as before.
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