No. 335

AN ACT to incorporate the Village of Applegate, in the county of Sanilac.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Section 1 - Territory to contain. The following described territory to wit: The south half of section twenty-five and the north half of section thirty-six, all in township eleven, north, range fifteen east, the same being in the organized township of Washington, in the county of Sanilac, be and the same is hereby constituted a village corporate to be known as the village of Applegate. 

Section 2 - First election. The first election of officers in said village shall be held at the store of J.S. Sherman, in the said of village of Applegate, on the second Monday in April, in the year nineteen hundred three, due notice of which election shall be given by the board of registration hereinafter appointed, by posting notices thereof in three public places, ten days before said election. 

Section 3 - Registration board. Benjamin Bond, Ethan F. Ennest and Silas Mark are hereby constituted a board of registration for the said first election of the village of Applegate, who shall meet at the store of J.S. Sherman in said village on the Saturday next preceding the day of said first election, for the purpose of registering the voters in said village and shall remain in session the same hours as are required by law for the boards of registration at general elections, and shall register the names of all persons residing in said village having the qualifications of voters at annual township meetings and who shall apply to said board to be registered. Due notice of such meeting for the purpose of registration shall be given by said board by posting notices thereof in three public places in said village ten days previous to said day of registration.

Section 4 - Election commissioners. The board of registration named and provided for in section three of this act shall also be the board of election commissioners for the said first election in the village of Applegate. 

Section 5 - Inspectors of election. William H. Ennest, Nelson Jeffrey and James Leslie shall constitute the board of inspectors of election for the above said fire election for the village of Applegate, and shall perform the same duties and in the same manner as is provided by law for inspectors of elections for villages as set forth in the act under which the said village of Applegate is hereby incorporated. 

Section 6 - Village, how governed. Said village of Applegate shall in all things not herein otherwise provided be governed by an act, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred ninety-five, and the several acts amendatory and supplemental thereto.

Section 7 - Other elections. In case the said village election shall not be held at the time designated in section two of this act, an election of officers may be held at any time within one year from the time designated in said section two, due notice thereof being given as herein required. 

This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 

Approved March 17, 1903.