The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a chronological cyclopedia of the past and present, Vol I, Part 33

Author: Farmer, Silas, 1839-1902
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Detroit, S. Farmer & co
Number of Pages: 1096

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E. Warriner, W. H. Connor. Seventh Ward: C. M. Rousseau, J. C. Jacob. Eighth Ward : D. Guiney, J. Monaghan. Ninth Ward : M. Haller, T. J. Griffin. Tenth Ward: G. W. Herrick, G. H. Chene. Eleventh Ward : J. B. Ryan, Francis Alter. Twelfth Ward: H. Gross, M. Daly. Thirteenth Ward : Paul Gies, S. C. Karrer.

1880, First Ward : P. J. Ralph, George A. Foster. Second Ward: Thos. Manning, Charles Ewers. Third Ward: Wm. Boydell, M. V. Borgman. Fourth Ward : A. H. Raynor, H. D. Barnard. Fifth Ward: S. Finney, J. E. Vincent. Sixth Ward: W. H. Connor, W. E. Warriner. Seventh Ward: J. C. Jacob, Henry Heck. Eighth Ward : J. Monaghan, D. Guiney. Ninth Ward: T. J. Griffin, M. Haller. Tenth Ward: G. H. Chene, W. E. Todd. Eleventh Ward : F. Alter, Joseph Lingeman. Twelfth Ward: M. Daly, Geo. Dorr. Thirteenth Ward : Paul Gies, Henry Klei.

1881, First Ward : G. A. Foster, C. W. Coolidge. Second Ward : C. Ewers, T. Manning. Third Ward: M. V. Borgman, Thos. Jackson. Fourth Ward : H. D. Barnard. Fifth Ward : J. E. Vincent, S. Finney. Sixth Ward : W. E. Warriner, E. K. Roberts. Seventh Ward: H. Heck, W. A. Owen. Eighth Ward: D. Guiney, P. Shanahan. Ninth Ward: M. Haller, Chas. Appelt. Tenth Ward : W. E. Todd, H. Merdian. Eleventh Ward: J. Lingeman, E. W. Simpson. Twelfth Ward : Geo. Dorr, Alfred E. Hamlin. Thirteenth Ward: Henry Klei, John Kessler.

1882, First Ward: W. E. Warriner, A. Grant. Second Ward: Seymour Finney, J. E. Vincent. Third Ward : E. W. Simpson, J. B. Book. Fourth Ward : C. W. Coolidge, J. W. Fales : Fifth Ward : W. A. Owen, A. Ruoff. Sixth Ward : P. Shanahan, J. Falvey. Seventh Ward : Thomas Manning, Henry Heck. Eighth Ward: E. K. Roberts, W. E. Moloney. Ninth Ward : H. Merdian, Paul Gies. Tenth Ward : Chas. Appelt, George Dorr. Eleventh Ward : Thos. Jackson, Henry Klei. Twelfth Ward : Alfred E. Hamlin, Wm. H. Taylor. Thirteenth Ward : John Kessler, A. Lemmer.

1883, First Ward : Wm. E. Warriner, Thomas Fairbairn. Second Ward : G. A. Chase, Seymour Finney. Third Ward: James B. Book, F. Wettlaufer, Edward Sweeney. Fourth Ward : James W. Fales, C. W. Coolidge. Fifth Ward : Augustus Ruoff, Thomas Beggs. Sixth Ward : Jeremiah Falvey, P. Shanahan. Seventh Ward : Henry Heck, Augustus Kaiser. Eighth Ward : Wm. E. Moloney, John L. Warren. Ninth Ward : Paul Gies, Joseph Nagel. Tenth Ward : George Dorr, A. G. Kronberg, Chas. Appelt. Eleventh Ward : Henry Klei, Henry Merdian. Twelfth Ward : Wm. H. Taylor, Geo. W. Loomer. Thirteenth Ward: August Lemmer, John Kessler.

1884, First Ward : T. Fairbairn, Thos. Jackson. Second : S. Finney, Geo. A. Chase. Third: Ed. Sweeney, L. A. Wilcox. Fourth : P. J. Ralph, J. W. Westcott. Fifth : T. Beggs, F. Alter. Sixth : J. Kelley, J. Falvey. Seventh: A. Kaiser, H. Heck. Eight : J. L. Warren, W. E. Moloney. Ninth: J. Nagel, P. Gies. Tenth : C. Appelt, L. B. Littlefield. Eleventh : H. Merdian, C. J. Wieser. Twelfth: G. W. Loomer, B. O'Reilly. Thirteenth : J. Kessler, August Lemmer.

1885, First Ward : T. Fairbairn, T. Jackson. Sec- ond : S. Finney, G. A. Chase. Third : E. Sweeney, L. A. Wilcox. Fourth : G. H. Barbour, J. W. West- cott. Fifth : J. C. Jacob, F. Alter. Sixth : Wm. J. Stapleton, J. Falvey. Seventh : A. Kaiser, H. Heck. Eighth : T. J. Griffin, Wm. E. Moloney. Ninth : J. Nagel, P. Gies. Tenth : A. G Kronberg, L. B. Lit- tlefield. Eleventh: J. Hartness, Jr., C. J. Wieser. Twelfth : G. W. Loomer, B. O'Reilly. Thirteenth : J. Baumann, August Lemmer.

1886, First Ward : T. Fairbairn, J. J. Mulheron. Second : S. Finney, Julius P. Gilmore. Third : E. Sweeney, F. N. Reves. Fourth : G. H. Barbour, E. Smith. Fifth : J. C. Jacob, H. Hessler. Sixth : Wm. J. Stapleton, B. Guiney. Seventh : A. Kaiser, J. P. Martz. Eighth : T. J. Griffin, F. Cronenwett, Sr. Ninth : J. Nagel, C. K. Trombly. Tenth : A. G. Kronberg, L. B. Littlefield. Eleventh : J. Hart- ness, Jr., II. Heck, Jr. Twelfth : Geo. W. Loomer, Wm. Plass. Thirteenth : J. Baumann, R. M. Frost. Fourteenth : P. E. Hirth, Geo. W. Wesch. Fif- teenth : F. Smith, J. Holihan. Sixteenth : A. Gray, Ferdinand Amos.

1887, First Ward : J. J. Mulheron, T. Fairbairn. Second : J. P. Gilmore, S. Finney. Third : F. N. Reves, Geo. F. Reichenbach. Fourth : E. Smith, L. Burt. Fifth: H Hessler, J. C. Jacob. Sixth : B. Guiney, J. Considine. Seventh : J. P. Martz, F. J. Bleser. Eighth : F. Cronenwett, Sr., J. E. Lally. Ninth : C. K. Trombly, E. L. Reschke. Tenth : F. A. Lemkie, A. G. Kronberg. Eleventh : H. Heck, Jr., Jas. Hartness, Jr. Twelfth : W. Plass, J. Pfeifer. Thirteenth : R. M. Frost, J. F. Meier. Fourteenth : G. W. Wesch, D. Peterkin. Fifteenth : J. Holihan, F. Smith. Sixteenth : F. Amos, J . McIntyre.

1888, First Ward: T. Fairbairn, Jas B. Lauder. Second : S. Finney, J. P. Gilmore. Third : Geo. F. Reichenbach, F. N. Reves. Fourth : Lou Burt, S. A. Griggs. Fifth : J. C. Jacob, C. P. Karrer. Sixth : J. Considine, B. Guiney. Seventh : F. J. Bleser, J. P. Martz. Eighth : J. E. Lally, DeWitt C. Kellogg. Ninth : E. L. Reschke, C. K. Trombly. Tenth : J. Hayes. Eleventh: J. Hartness, Jr., M. McGuire. Twelfth : J. Pfeifer, J. Tierney. Thirteenth : J. F. Meier, W. O'Regan. Fourteenth : D. Peterkin, Wm. Uthes. Fifteenth : F. Smith, J. Holihan. Sixteenth : J. McIntyre, F. Amos.

CHAPTER XXVII.

THE WARDS: THEIR ESTABLISHMENT AND BOUNDARIES.

FOUR wards were created by ordinance of May 14, 1825, for the sole purpose of forming districts for the fire wardens. A fifth ward was created on September 23, 1835 ; but none of these divisions were wards in the sense in which the word is now used, neither did they include all of the city.

The first real division of the city into wards was by Act of March 27, 1839. The boundaries then defined would now be described as follows: First Ward, all between Shelby Street and east line of Forsyth Farm, and south of Michigan Avenue to the river. Second Ward, all between Randolph and Shelby Streets, and south of Monroe and Michigan Avenues to the river. Third Ward, all between Randolph and St. Antoine Streets, and south of Cro- ghan Street to the river. An ordinance of March 17, 1857, added to the Third Ward the territory be- tween St. Antoine, Randolph, Croghan, and Gratiot Streets. By Act of 1839 the Fourth Ward em- braced all south of the Gratiot Road to the river, and between St. Antoine Street and the east line of the Witherell Farm. By Act of February 15, 1842, the Witherell Farm was thrown outside of the city, and Dequindre Street became the east boundary of the Fourth Ward. Six years later Rivard Street be- came the east boundary, under the Act of January 25, 1848, which created the Seventh Ward. The Fifth Ward, by Act of 1839, embraced the territory between Woodward Avenue and the west line of the Jones Farm, and north of Michigan Avenue to the city limits; an ordinance of December 12, 1875, added to it that part of the addition to the city limits made by Act of May 3, 1875, which lay north of and between an extension of the east and west boun- daries of the ward. As established in 1839, the Sixth Ward embraced all east of Woodward Avenue, and was bounded on the south as follows: On Mon- roe Avenue to Croghan Street, along Croghan to St. Antoine Street, up St. Antoine to Gratiot Road, and along Gratiot Road to the east line of the city. The Act of February 15, 1842, which put the With- erell Farm back into the township of Hamtramck, after it had been for six years a part of the city, made Dequindre Street the east line of the Sixth Ward, thus reducing the ward in size ; it was further contracted by ordinance of March 17, 1857, which added to the Third Ward the portion bounded by

St. Antoine, Randolph, Croghan, and Gratiot Streets. By ordinance of December 17, 1875, which created the Eleventh Ward, the Sixth Ward was shorn of all the territory lying east of St. Antoine Street except that portion of the block bounded by St. Antoine, Hastings, Montcalm, and High Streets, lying west of an alley running north and south through said block; this jog in the boundary was made because at that time one of the aldermen of the Sixth Ward lived in the block indicated, and it was desired to retain him in the ward. An or- dinance of April 7, 1880, remedied this break in the ward line by making St. Antoine Street the east boundary of the Sixth, and the west boundary of the Eleventh Ward. Ordinance of December 23, 1875, added to the Sixth Ward all that part of the addition to the city limits of that year that an ex- tension in straight lines of the east and west boun- daries of the ward would include.

The Seventh Ward, created by Act of January 25, 1848, included all of the city south of Gratiot Avenue to the river, and between Rivard and De- quindre Streets. The Eighth Ward was created by Act of February 20, 1849, and included all of the Forsyth, Labrosse, and Baker Farms added to the city by the same Act. An ordinance of December 23, 1875, added to the Eighth Ward such portion of the addition to the city limits as would fall within its east and west boundary lines extended north- wards to the city line. The Ninth Ward was created by Act of February 12, 1857, and embraced all the territory west of the east line of the Woodbridge Farm, east of the west line of the Porter Farm, and south of the Detroit & Milwaukee and Grand Trunk Railroad tracks to the river. An ordinance of May 30, 1873, created the Twelfth Ward, and made Seventeen-and-a-half and Eighteenth Streets its west boundary. It was slightly enlarged by the ordinance of December 21, 1875, which added to it such of the territory added to the city in that year as an extension in a straight line, northerly to the city limits, of its eastern and western boundaries would include. The Tenth Ward, created at the same time as the Ninth, included all the new territory on the east side of the city, and embraced all east of De- quindre Street, west of Mt. Elliott Avenue, and north of the river. An ordinance of December 17,

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1875, which divided it, and created the Thirteenth Ward, defined its north boundary as follows : Catherine Street east to Elmwood Avenue, up Elm- wood Avenue to German Street, and thence east to Mt. Elliott Avenue. By ordinance of December 23, 1875, all of the territory added to the city that year that an extension of the east and west boundaries of the Tenth Ward in straight lines would include was added to the ward. An Act of April 29, 1873, an- nexed part of Grosse Pointe and Hamtramck to the city, and defined the annexed territory as the Eleventh Ward, but the Supreme Court pronounced the Act unconstitutional, as it interfered with the political rights of voters. The failure of this Act explains why the Twelfth Ward existed two years before the Eleventh Ward. The Eleventh Ward was definitely created by an ordinance of December 17, 1875, which took effect October 1, 1876. It included all east of St. Antoine Street, except the piece of land noted in connection with boundaries of the Sixth Ward, and all west of Dequindre and north of Gratiot Street to the city limits. The ordi- nance of April 7, 1880, corrected the broken ward- line, making St. Antoine Street the west boundary. The Twelfth Ward was created by ordinance of May 30, 1873. It embraced all west of Seventeen- and-a-half and Eighteenth Streets and east of west ·line of Porter Farm, and extended from the river to the city limits. By ordinance of December 21, 1875, such part of the territory added to the city that year as an extension of its east and west boundary lines in straight lines to the new city limits would include was added to the ward. The Thirteenth Ward was created by ordinance of December 17, 1875, taking effect October 1, 1876. It included that part of the city lying east of Dequindre Street and west of Mt. Elliott Avenue. It was bounded on the south by Catherine Street to Elmwood Avenue, thence on Elmwood Avenue to German Street, and east on German Street to Mt. Elliott Avenue.

The authority to divide and create wards was formerly vested solely in the Legislature, but on April 17, 1871, a charter amendment gave this pre- rogative to the city. The council, however, was loath to exercise this power, and up to 1881 there was great inequality in the area and the population of the wards. Several of those lying along the river, in the southern part of the city, were con- trolled almost entirely by those who had least at stake in the government of the city. These facts led to the radical changes in boundaries made by Act of the Legislature on May 5, 1881. Under this

Act all the wards were made to extend from the northern limits of the city to the river.

In the new arrangement, each ward includes a portion of the residence, manufacturing, and river districts and much greater equality in valuation of the wards, and character of the population is se- cured. The boundaries established by Act of 1885, when city limits were extended, are as follows :

FIRST WARD : Between Woodward Avenue and Beaubien Street.

SECOND WARD : All that part of the city bounded on the east by Woodward Avenue and on the west by First Street, from the Detroit River to Grand River Avenue, up Grand River Avenue to Second Street, and along Second Street to the city limits.

THIRD WARD : All between Beaubien and Has- tings Streets.

FOURTH WARD : All between the west boundary line of the Second Ward and Crawford Street, from the city limits to Grand River Avenue, down Grand River Avenue to Fifth Street, and down Fifth Street to the Detroit River.

FIFTH WARD : All between Hastings and Rus- sell Streets.

SIXTH WARD : All between the west boundary of the Fourth Ward and Trumbull Avenue.

SEVENTH WARD : All between Russell and Dequindre Streets.

EIGHTH WARD: All between Wabash and Trumbull Avenues.

NINTH WARD: All between Dequindre and Chene Streets.

TENTH WARD: All between the west line of Loranger and east line of Godfroy Farms.

ELEVENTH WARD: All between Chene Street and McDougall Avenue.

TWELFTH WARD: All lying between the west lines of the Porter and Loranger Farms.

THIRTEENTH WARD: All lying between Mc- Dougall and Mt. Elliott Avenues.

FOURTEENTH WARD : All between the westerly line of Porter Farm and the westerly line of P. C. 47.

FIFTEENTH WARD: All between Mt. Elliott Avenue and the city limits and including Belle Isle.

SIXTEENTH WARD: All between the west line of P. C. 47 and the city limits.

In all cases where the streets are not open to the river or extended to the northern limits of the city, the ward lines are where the lines of the streets would be if opened or extended.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH TAXATION .- TERRITORIAL TAXES .- STATE AND COUNTY TAXES .- CITY TAXATION AND FINANCES .- UNITED STATES TAXES.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH TAXATION.

UNDER French rule the inhabitants of Detroit paid to the receiver of the domain, as rent to the Crown, an annual tax of from one to two sols per foot front. The English commandants required the occupants of farms adjoining the town to support the troops and to furnish at first one cord of wood, and then two cords, for each acre of frontage on the river. In 1762 the tax on the inhabitants within the fort amounted to one hundred and eighty-four pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence; two years later it was one hundred and fifty-eight pounds, New York currency. In 1768 a tax of one shilling per foot front for lots in the fort, and ten shillings per acre for the farms adjoining, was ordered to be paid; this would have yielded about four thousand pounds, New York currency. The inhabitants pro- tested against this tax as exorbitant, and asked to have the work done by commissioners, whom they agreed to pay. The indications are that their plan was adopted.

TERRITORIAL TAXES.

Under the Northwest Territory, by law of August I, 1792, the Court of Common Pleas appointed annually a commissioner of land tax, with collectors for each district. Act of December 19, 1799, trans- ferred the appointment of these officers to the Court of Quarter Sessions, who were required to lay off the districts. All the lands in each district were to be divided by the commissioners into three classes, the first grade to pay eighty-five cents, the second sixty cents, and the third twenty-five cents on each hundred acres.

Detroit was in the district or township of Sargent, and the following copy of an old French letter, found among the archives of the county, shows that delinquent tax-payers are not a modern insti- tution :

RIVER RAISIN, 13th August, 1799.

MONSIEUR F. I. BELLECOUR,-

I have received orders from you to appear at the fort to-morrow to render my account of Taxes.

I have to announce to you that it is impossible for me to quit. My harvest at this moment is being ravaged by blackbirds. The

people don't pay, not having any money, and I can't very well compel them. Do you know what you have to do, it is to send your orders so as to give more force, so as to constrain them to pay.

I am your humble servant,

HIS JOSEPH X MENARD, MARK Collector for district of Sargent.

The fort was then the most prominent object in the place, and "going to the fort " was the cus- tomary phrase of people going to the town. M. Bellecour was evidently collector of the land tax. Etienne Dubois, who served in 1801, is the only other person known to have acted in this capacity.

The following officers were appointed in March, 1801 : lister of lands for Detroit and Huron dis- tricts, A. Dequindre; appraisers of houses for town- ship of Detroit, Joseph Thibeaut and Gabriel God- froy ; collector of territorial tax, Elias Wallen. On June 13, 1801, François Pequise was appointed to take the enumeration of persons and property for Detroit township, and on June 7, 1803, T. McCrae and Gabriel Godfroy were appointed assessors and appraisers for Detroit. In December, 1803, they were succeeded by Joseph Thibeaut and Joseph Campau. Under Michigan Territory, a law of Sep- tember 10, 1805, imposed taxes as follows : "On every coach, chariot, phaeton, chair, calash, chaise or other riding carriage, one dollar for every wheel ; and on every sleigh, carriole, or other conveyance for riding in winter, two dollars,-one half thereof to become due upon the first day of April in every year, to be collected by the Marshal." The law also declared that "every male inhabitant in the Terri- tory, over the age of sixteen years, should pay annually the sum of one dollar as a capitation tax." The number of tax-payers in the Territory on October 1, 1805, was five hundred and twenty-five, and an aggregate assessment of $1,143 seems to have been nearly all paid. The highest sum assessed to any one person was eighteen dollars and fifty cents, and the lowest one dollar. A few of the names and amounts on the old roll are as follows : James May, $18.50; Joseph Campau, $10.50; James Abbott, $8; Solomon Sibley, $2; Elijah Brush, $4.50; Barnaby Campau, $3 ; Archibald Horner,

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$2; Gabriel Richard, $3; Abram Hull, $3, and Peter Desnoyers, $1.

Under this law, on June 5, 1807, the District Court for Detroit appointed the following officers : Stanley Griswold, treasurer ; John Henry, Charles Moran, and Chabert Joncaire, assessors ; Wm. McD. Scott, collector.

In addition to the regular taxes, licenses were required from merchants, tavern and saloon keepers. The total territorial receipts from all sources were estimated, in 1808, at $5,000; but no one save the Governor and Judges knew the amount collected, or the use made of the money. Meanwhile Governor Hull and Judge May erected their expensive resi- dences, and their expenditures seemed so lavish that the Grand Jury of the Territory undertook to investigate the accounts of the assessors, collectors, and treasurers; but to their great surprise, they found that neither of these officers could be com- pelled to render any statement whatever to the people. Indeed, the Governor and Judges told the Grand Jury, "The laws do not authorize you to inquire into these matters," which information the Grand Jury, though surprised and indignant, could not gainsay. In the words of a contemporary, " The Governor and Judges continued to serve as the raters of taxes, the assessors, the collectors, the treasurers and expenders."

In a memorial to President Madison, the following complaint was made :

The taxes on our people are very heavy, and the public money, when intrusted to the discretion of Mr. Hull, is wantonly wasted. He authorized a number of commissioners to explore a road to the Miami, in the dead of winter, when the country was but one sheet of ice and snow,-and which it would be impossible for the same, or any other persons, to find again in the summer time,-and expended four hundred and eighty-two dollars, raised by taxes on a sparse and poor population, on this useless and injudicious pro- ject,-money which might be productive of some good if the dictates of common sense had been complied with, and a proper season of the year selected for the purpose.

From 1812 to 1820 there was no direct territorial tax on lands, but license fees were required from stores, taverns, and ferries.

On May 8, 1820, provision was made for taxing personal property and lands in each county ; and in case the taxes were not paid, and no personal property could be found upon which to levy, the sheriff was authorized to imprison delinquents. Under law of April 21, 1825, provision was first made for the sale of lands for non-payment of taxes, and the first enforcement of this law created great indignation.

STATE AND COUNTY TAXES.

These taxes originate as follows : Appropriations made by the Legislature are apportioned by the

auditor-general, who communicates the proportion of the county to the Board of Supervisors, through the county clerk, and the board apportions them with the regular county tax. The amount of the county tax is determined by the Board of Auditors.

Once in five years the State Board of Equaliza- tion examines the apportionments of the State tax made by the auditor-general, and, as far as possible, equalizes the amounts.

Under the tax law of March 14, 1882, and Act of June 6, 1883, the State and county taxes, for each current year, become a lien on the property on December 1, and one per cent on the amount is allowed the township treasurers for collecting the same. After January I four per cent is allowed the township treasurers. Within the city of Detroit the taxes are payable to the county treasurer up to December 16 without any percentage. If not paid by December 16, four per cent is added to the amount of the original tax, which must be paid by the first of February, unless the time is extended by the Common Council or the Township Board ; but not over one month of additional time can be granted. If not paid by the first of March, two per cent additional is added, and then one per cent a month up to June I, and if not then paid, a further sum of twenty per cent per year is charged until paid.

On the first of March a list of all lands on which the taxes are unpaid is forwarded by the county treasurer to the auditor-general, and if the taxes remain unpaid one year or more after the first of July, the lands are then sold on the first of May in the next year. The sale is made by the county treasurer, who, within twenty days after the sale, must file with the clerk of the Circuit Court a list of the lands sold, and unless objection is made, within eight days thereafter the sale is confirmed. At any time within one year thereafter the court can set aside the sale, upon such terms as are deemed just ; but no sale can be set aside after the purchaser or his assignee has been in possession for five years.

A tax receipt, to be valid, must describe the property as fully as it is described on the tax roll ; and it is well for persons to observe for themselves that the tax is marked "Paid" on the collector's books.

Under law of 1827, and up to 1879, the county taxes in Detroit were collected by the ward col- lectors under direction of the Common Council; since 1879 they have been payable to the county treasurer, or to collectors of his appointment.

The total territorial and county, and State and county taxes, for several decades, with other inter- esting facts, are given in following table :

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Year.

Total Co. Tax.

Total State and Co. Tax.

Paid by Detroit.

County Debt.

Populat'n of Co.

1820

$1,688

$1,303

3,574

1830

$999

5,720

$3,620

5,000

6,781

1840

12,716

34,067

21,35I

24, 173

1850

13,944

52,514

33,097

42,756

1850

21,512

67,466

51,886

75,547

1370

53,099

250,658

181,449

119,068

1880

177,804

406,531

299,228

337,050

166,444

Formerly many county officers were entitled to the fees received, but under Acts of May 22 and 24, 1879, the fees received by all county officers, after that year, were required to be paid to the county treasurer, and credited to the general fund.

The credit of the county and its finances were fur- ther cared for by an Act of June 7, 1881, which pro- vided for funding the debt of the county for ten years, at four and a half per cent interest, and for the raising by tax, each year until paid, of not less than one tenth of the amount of the county debt.

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The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a chronological cyclopedia of the past and present, Vol I, Part 33

Author: Farmer, Silas, 1839-1902 Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Detroit, S. Farmer & co Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Farmer, Silas, 1839-1902
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Detroit, S. Farmer & co
Number of Pages: 1096