month to be specified, which notice shall be served personally, if practicable, upon each person so drawn, by the deputy sheriff to be detailed for duty in said justices' courts, and a return in writing of the time and manner of such service shall be made and filed with the clerk of said justices' courts. The actual attendance of the persons duly notified for jury service may be required and enforced according to law. The persons so serving as jurors shall be entitled to receive from the county of Wayne the sum of one dollar for each day's actual service, which sum shall be paid by the county auditors on certificate of the clerk of said justices' courts. Whenever by law a judge of the circuit court for Wayne county is required or directed to be present at or participate in any part of the proceedings to select jurors for that court, the senior justice or acting senior justice of said justices' courts shall perform like duty in like proceedings to select jurors for said justices' courts.

Sec. 12. The jury empaneled in any case as herein provided Province of jury shall determine any and all questions of fact in such case, but and justice. it shall be the duty of the justice hearing such cause to decide all questions of law arising therein, and it shall also be the duty of the said justice to instruct the jury as to the questions of law applicable to the case. If it shall appear in such trial that either party is entitled to a verdict as a matter of law and that no question of fact exists requiring the determination of said jury, then said justice shall direct a verdict accordingly.

Sec. 13. Act number two hundred eighty of the local acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, being an act entitled "An act relative to justices' courts in the city of Detroit," approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred eighty-three, and all acts amend

atory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved June 1st, 1895.

AN ACT

To amend chapter one of "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred eighty-three, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof, by adding thereto a new section to stand as section eleven.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That chapter one of "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred eighty-three, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof, be amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

Greenfield township highway fund to be turned overto

Detroit.

Sec. 11. That all moneys belonging to the road districts highway funds of Greenfield township, or any part thereof that were taken into the city of Detroit by act three hundred twenty-four the City of of the session laws of eighteen hundred ninety-one or that may be taken into said city in the future in proportion to the amount of such road district or districts as were or may be so taken into said city from the township of Greenfield, shall be turned over to the city treasurer of the city of Detroit together with interest thereon from the time such territory was taken into said city until the payment of all such moneys and the board of public works shall expend all such moneys on the same streets that it should have been expended upon as provided in the township highway laws, had not this territory been annexed to the city of Detroit.

Provided, further, that in all such high

way district or districts of Greenfield township owning personal property, tools or machinery taken into said city, where one-half or more of the assessed property of such road district was or may be taken into said city, all such moneys, property, tools or machinery shall be turned over to the said city and placed at the disposal and use of the board of public works of said city.

Approved June 1st, 1895.

AN ACT

To more clearly define nuisances and to provide surer means for their abatement, and to regulate the slaughtering of animals and the maintaining and operating of abattoirs or slaughterhouses in the city of Detroit.

be done in

houses.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Slaughtering to That no person or persons shall slaughter any cattle, sheep, slaughter calves or hogs in the city of Detroit, except and only in abattoirs or slaughter houses located, constructed, operated and conducted as provided by this act.

Sec. 2. Every abattoir or slaughter house shall be provided Construction of slaughter with a water-tight floor, and with proper catch basins of sufficient houses." capacity, into which all the wash of the house shall be conducted, and pass through the compartments or spaces formed therein by different partitions, in such a way as to hold back and retain all the fats and offal, allowing only water to flow into the sewers. All fats shall be removed from the water, and all offal carted away in vehicles having water-tight and properly covered boxes, unless dried on the premises.

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Sec. 3. Neither blood, bristles, hair, entrails, or any offal Sewers shall whatever shall be allowed to enter any public sewer, and all en- taminated. trails shall be emptied, all blood cooked and all offal cleaned up at the place of slaughtering within six hours after such slaughtering takes place.