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Gases.

Open for in.spection.

Nuisance.

Sec. 4. All slaughtering of animals shall be conducted without exposure to the public, and the slaughter houses or abattoirs shall be thoroughly washed out after the work of killing each day.

Sec. 5. All gases, including steam from rendering or cooking tanks, or from drying or cleaning rooms, shall be conducted immediately to a reservoir of sufficient capacity filled with cold water, and thus condensed, and after each day's work the water from said reservoir shall be pumped or syphoned into the sewer, or said gases may be conducted into and passed through the fires under the boiler and consumed.

Sec. 6. The agents or employes of the board of health of the city of Detroit and its health officer shall at all times have the unrestricted right to enter and inspect any abattoir or slaughter house, together with its appliances and the method of conducting the work of slaughtering animals, and the care of the same, as well as the disposal of all offal and refuse resulting from the business in question. And it is hereby made the duty of said board to see that the provisions and enactment herein provided for the protection of the health and comfort of the citizens of Detroit are carried out and enforced.

Sec. 7. Any person or persons who shall locate, maintain or operate any slaughter house or abattoir contrary to the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be maintaining a public nuisance, and on the complaint of any citizen or resident freeholder the board of health of said city shall investigate the matter at once, and if it shall be found on investigation that any of the provisions of this act are being violated said board shall take proceedings to abate or remove said nuisance as herein set forth.

Sec. 8. Written or printed notices, or partly written and partly printed notices, shall be personally served upon, or sent by mail to the owner, owners, agent or occupant acting for the owner or owners of any slaughter house, or abattoir located, maintained or operated contrary to the provisions of this act, informing such owner, agent or occupant that said slaughter house or abattoir is a public nuisance, that must be abated or removed within thirty days after the serving of such notice, and a similar notice and order shall be posted up in a conspicuous place on every building in which such nuisance is found to exist.

Notices.

Sec. 9. In case the foregoing described notice and order are May be ennot obeyed and said nuisance is not abated or removed within joined. the time specified therein, the circuit court for the county of Wayne in chancery shall have authority on the application of the said board of health to enjoin the further maintenance and operation of any such slaughter house or abattoir contrary to the provisions of this act.

Punishment for

Sec. 10. Any person or persons who shall knowingly and wilfully violate the provisions of, or shall neglect to perform any violation. of the duties enjoined upon him by this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to punishment therefor by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Approved June 1st, 1895.

Police Court act amended.

Police Justice to be elected.

AN ACT

To amend sections two and five of act number one hundred

sixty-one of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five entitled "An act to establish the Police Court of the city of Detroit," approved June ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, as amended; the same being compilers section six thousand five hundred ninety-one e 9 and section six thousand five hundred ninety-one f 2 of Howell's Annotated Statutes and to add one section thereto to be known as section twenty

seven.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That sections two and five of act number one hundred sixtyone of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to establish the Police Court of the city of Detroit," approved June ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, as amended; the same being compilers' sections six thousand five hundred and ninety-one e 9, and six thousand five hundred ninety-one f 2, of Howell's Annotated Statutes be and the same are hereby amerded so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2. At the April election in eighteen hundred ninetyfive, a police justice shall be elected by the qualified electors of the city of Detroit to hold office for five years from the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred ninety-six, and at the April election in eighteen hundred ninety-seven, a police justice shall be elected by the qualified electors of the city of Detroit to hold office for five years from the fourth of July, eighteen hundred ninety-eight, so that thereafter a police justice shall be

elected at each biennial April election to hold office for four years from the fourth day of July succeeding his election. In case of a vacancy in the office of police justice, the common council of the city of Detroit shall, as soon as practicable, order a special election to fill such vacancy, in like manner as at the time is provided by law in case of a vacancy in the office of mayor of said city; but no special election for police justice shall be held within three months next preceding the time herein appointed for the regular election of a police justice, unless there be more than one vacancy, in which case the common council may in its discretion order such special election to be held within the said three months. The provisions of law relative to holding elections for city officers in said city, canvassing the votes and making returns thereof, and the disposition of and actions upon such returns shall, so far as applicable, regulate and apply to all elections for said police justices. Whenever an election held under the provisions of this act shall, from any cause, occur on the same day with an election held under the charter of the city of Detroit for mayor, city clerk, city attorney, treasurer and councilmen, or for any one or more of said city officers, the names of the persons voted for for police justice shall be placed on the same ticket or ballot with the names of those voted for for the city officers aforesaid.

Police Justice may be removed

Sec. 5. The police justice may be removed from office in like manner and for like cause as is provided by law for the removal of justices of the peace. The clerk and assistant clerks may be removed from office by the police justices upon proof of incompetency, gross neglect of duty, or willful misconduct in office. Resignation of office by any police justice shall be made to the mayor of the city of Detroit, who shall immediately vacancy. inform the common council of said city thereof. Resignation

Resignation and

Testimony to be taken by stenographer.

of office by any clerk, or assistant clerk, shall be made to the
police justices, who shall cause to be made an appropriate record
of the same. Vacancy in office of police justice, clerk and
assistant clerk shall be deemed to exist when the incumbent
shall have died, resigned, been removed from office, ceased to
be a resident of the city of Detroit, or wholly failed for any
cause other than sickness, for a continuous period of three
months, to perform the duties of his office.
office of clerk and assistant clerk shall also be deemed to exist
if such clerk or assistant clerk shall not, within the time fixed
by the common council, file a new or additional security when
required, as provided in section four of this act.

Vacancy in the

Sec. 2. A new section is hereby added to said act, to stand as section twenty-seven and to read as follows: In case of examinations of offenders by said police court for offenses committed against the criminal laws of this state, when said police court has jurisdiction to examine and hold to bail only, it shall be lawful for said police court to cause an order to be entered in the records of such court before or during the pendency of such examination if in the judgment of said court it be for the best interests of the public so to do, appointing some suitable stenographer, to be named by said court, to take down in shorthand the testimony of any such examination; and any stenographer so appointed shall receive such per diem compensation for the time by him expended in so taking down such testimony, and such price per folio for writing out in longhand such testimcny, so taken in shorthand, as shall be fixed by the board of auditors of Wayne county, the same to be allowed and paid out of the treasury of said county; provided that it shall not be necessary for witnesses whose testimony is taken as above provided to sign such testimony, but any witness shall have the

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