trustees powers and duties shall be severally the same as those conferred upon and required of the moderator and director of school districts, in the State, except so far as the same are varied or modified by the provisions of this act, or other acts relating to said district. The trustees and officers of the district hereto- Board of fore known as Adrian union school district number one, shall be and they are hereby constituted the trustees and officers of the public schools of the city of Adrian; and the moderator shall be the president, and the director the secretary of said public schools, and said trustees so elected shall continue to hold their said offices for the same time and in the same manner as though this act had not been passed. Said board of trustees Vacancies shall have power to fill any and all vacancies that may occur in their number, or in the officers appointed by them, until the next annual meeting of the district. in board. board. Sec. 3. From and after the passage of this act, said board of Powers of trustees shall have all the powers and privileges conferred upon district and union school district boards by general law; and all the powers and duties of the present board of school inspectors of the city of Adrian, shall be transferred to said board of trustees, who shall be ex-officio the board of school inspectors of said city of Adrian, and shall make their reports directly Report of. to the clerk of the county of Lenawee. Said board of trus- Examina tees shall, before hiring any teacher, examine into his or her teachers. qualifications, and all teachers employed by said board shall be considered as legally qualified, without any further examination or certificate by the school inspectors. tion of keep school repair, &c. Sec. 4. Said board of trustees shall provide all necessary Board to appendages for the school-houses to keep the same in good houses in condition and repair, and shall keep an accurate account of all expenses incurred by them; and all claims for such expenses Expenses. shall be audited by the said board of trustees, and paid by the Claims, how treasurer out of any money provided for that purpose by the paid. district, on the order of the secretary, countersigned by the president of said board. Said board shall present, at each an audited and Statement nual meeting of the district, a statement of all receipts, expen of receipts, &c ; esti- ditures and accounts, audited and allowed by them, together with an estimate of the expenses necessary to be incurred mate of ex· penses. during the ensuing year for such purposes, and to pay the debts of the district and the services of any district officer; Amount vo- and such amount, when voted by such annual meeting, shall collected. be assessed and collected in the same manner as other district ted, how Treasurer. Bond. Power to collect mo. I ney taxes; but no tax for these purposes shall be voted at a special meeting unless a notice of the same shall be expressed in the notice of such meeting. Sec. 5. The treasurer of the city of Adrian, by virtue of his office, shall be treasurer of said district; and within ten days after his election, and before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, he shall give bond to the district in such sum and with such sureties as shall be approved by the district board, for the faithful discharge of the duties of said office, and to account for and pay over over all moneys that shall come into his hands by virtue of such office; and he shall have power, by suit at law, under the direction of the district board, in the name of the public schools of the city of Adrian, to collect all moneys due said district from the several township, ward, or city collectors, or for the tuition of scholars who are not actual residents of said district, or that may be due said district in any Said bond shall be filed with the sec Bond, where other manner whatever. filed. how filled.. Vacancies, retary, and in case of any vacancy in the office of treasurer, or in case said treasurer shall fail to give such bond within the time above limited, the board may appoint a treasurer, who' shall hold his office until a new city treasurer shall be elected and qualified; and in case of such appointment, the treasurer so appointed shall give such bond as before mentioned. Effects and liabilities of ion school Sec. 6. All the lands, school-houses and sites, together with Adran Un the furniture, library, property, effects and estate of Adriau distric No. union school district number one, both real and personal, and all debts or demand due or owing to said district, are hereby transferred to and declared the property of the public schools of the city of Adrian; and all bonds, debts, one to be transferred. dues, obligations and contracts of the said union school. house sites, nated. ued in use. Sec. 7. The qualified voters of said district shall have School power, when lawfully assembled, to designate, by a vote of how desig two-thirds of those present, any number of sites for schoolhouses, and to change the same by a similar vote, at any regular meeting: Provided, That in case two-thirds cannot agree Proviso. upon a site for such school-house, a majority of the voters present, at such meeting, shall have the power to. instruct the school board to locate said site. The site for the central union Sites now occupied to school, and the several primary schools, heretofore located and be contin now held by Adrian union school district number one, including the school-house recently erected on the corner of Broad and Hunt streets, in said city, shall be and they are hereby declared and deemed school-house sites for the public schools of the city of Adrain; and no location of a site for a school-house, heretofore made by said Adrian union school district number one, or by the school board of said district, shall be deemed invalid or affected, nor shall any contract or obligation of said district be deemed invalid or affected by reason of said district having located and holding more than five sites, nor by reason of such location being made before the title to such premises was vested in said district, or of any informality in the location. of such site. and against schools of Sec. 8 Suits may be brought by or against the public schools suits by of the city of Adrian, on all contracts, obligations, debts, public bonds or demands due and unpaid from or to said Adrian said city. union school district number one, in like manner as they might have been by or against said Adrian union school district num ber one, if this act had not been passed. Sec. 9. This act shall take immédiate effect. [No. 154. ] AN ACT to authorize the board, of supervisors of the county of SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Tax and is board of supervisors of the county of Ontonagon be and are authorized. hereby authorized and empowered to raise the sum of three sue of bonds To be appro priated to harbor. thousand dollars by a county tax, to be assessed and collected pro rata on the taxable property of the county, or of borrowing that sum on the county bonds of the county, drawing not to exceed ten per cent. annual interest, and payable within ten years, and pledging the property of the county for the payment of the principal and interest; and if the bonds are issued, and the money received, for the purpose aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to levy and collect, by tax, a sufficient sum, annually, to pay the interest on said bonds, and a pro rata portion of the principal each year, so that the whole amount of bonds issued shall be paid at the expiration of ten years Sec. 2. The board of supervisors of the county of Ontonagon improving are hereby authorized and empowered to apply the money raised by tax or loan, as provided in section one of this act, in protecting and improving the harbor at the mouth of the Ontonagon river. Sec. 3. This act shåll take immediate effect. Approved March 13, 1861. [No. 155.] AN ACT to amend section one of an act entitled an act to provide for the drainage and reclamation of swamp lands by means of State roads and ditches, being act number one hundred and seventeen of session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of an act entitled an act to provide for the draining amended. and reclamation of swamp lands by means of State roads and Section ditches, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: to be estab lished SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be laid out and established, by commissioners to be State roads appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, upon the most direct and eligible routes between the places hereinafter designated, the following State roads: First. A road from or near Ionia, in Ionia county, to Hough- Ionia and ton lake, in the county of Roscommon, to be known as the Ionia Lake. and Houghton lake State road; Houghton and North. Second. A road from the south line of township eight north, Newaygo of range twelve west, through Newaygo, in the county of Ne-port. waygo,] to Northport, to be known as the Newaygo and Northport State road; Third. A road from Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair, to Fort Huron, Bay City Bay City, via Vassar; thence westwardly to the meridian and Lansing township line, between ranges two and three west; thence southerly to Lansing, in Ingham county, to be known as the Port Huron, Bay City and Lansing road; naw and Fourth. A road from East Saginaw, in the county of Sagi. East Sagi. naw, to Bay City, in Bay county, and thence via Ottawa Sable. Bay to the river Sable, to be known as the East Saginaw and Sable State road; and Lapeer. Fifth. A road from Lexington, in Sanilac county, westwardly Lexington to the Flint river, in the county of Lapeer; river and Mackinaw. Sixth. A road from St. Mary's Falls to the straits of Macki-St. Mary's naw, to be known as the St. Mary's river and Mackinaw State road; and State Seventh. A road from the village of Ontonagon southerly to Ontonagon the State line, to be known as the Ontonagon and State line line road; and Bay de Eighth. A road from Marquette, on Lake Superior, to Little Marquette Bay de Ncc, (or Marquette [Nocquette,]) to be known as the Noc. Marquette and Bay de Noc State road; Ninth. A road from Houghton village, by way of L'Anse Bay, |