right to have such testimony read over to him at his request. Such testimony when so written out in longhand shall be received and filed in the recorder's court for the city of Detroit and the circuit court for the county of Wayne without the signature of such witnesses for the same purposes and with like effect as the testimony of witnesses as now provided for by law, which is signed by said witnesses, and such testimony so taken and written out in longhand shall be considered prima facie evidence of the testimony of said witnesses at such examinations. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 5th, 1895. Common Coun AN ACT To amend sections four and six of an act entitled, "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,' approved June 7, 1883, by adding a new chapter thereto," 'approved March 18, 1893. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That sections four and six of an act entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,' approved June 7, 1883, by adding a new chapter thereto," approved March 18th, 1893, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 4. If the common council shall determine that it is Commissioners advisable to establish a plant for public lighting, to be owned cil may direct to make neces sary purchases, by the city, it may direct said commissioners to purchase the not to exceed $800,000. necessary lands, machinery, wires, poles, lamps, towers, and other apparatus and appliances mentioned in the second section of this chapter, the cost of which shall not exceed eight hundred thousand dollars. And it shall thereupon be the duty of said commissioners without further approval or confirmation of their contracts by the common council, to carry into effect the authority thereby conferred, and to make the necessary purchase of lands, machinery, engines, tools, lamps, apparatus and appliances, and construct the buildings required, and cause to be constructed or laid all necessary conduits and lines of wire below ground, and to erect and construct all necessary poles, towers, posts, lines of wire above ground, which they shall deem necessary or required according to such system or systems, as they may deem best for the lighting of said city. not be confirmed Sec. 6. The said commissioners shall have a general super- Contracts need vision and management of all public lighting, and of any plant established by the city, as herein provided for that purpose, and all employes engaged in or about the construction or operation thereof, and shall make the necessary purchases of fuel, tools, supplies, materials, apparatus and appliances required in the operation and management of said plant, without further approval or confirmation of their contracts by the common council: Provided, that the expenditures for the operation and management of said plant shall not exceed in any one year the tax levied for that purpose: And provided further, that after the adoption by them of plans and specifications for the erection of any buildings, the board of public works shall have the immediate supervision or superintendence of construction thereof, and also of the laying of conduits in the public streets, and of the necessary excavation, refilling and repaving caused thereby. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved January 17th, 1895. AN ACT To amend sections two and four of chapter four, section fiftynine of chapter seven, sections one, six, seven and eight of chapter ten, and section twenty-seven of chapter eleven, of an act entitled, "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That sections two and four of chapter four, section fifty-nine of chapter seven, section one, six, seven and eight of chapter ten, and section twenty-seven of chapter eleven of an act entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: Appointment of officers. CHAPTER IV. Sec. 2. There shall be appointed by the common council on the nomination of the mayor, a controller and a receiver of taxes, who shall hold their offices for the term of three years, respectively, beginning on the first day of July in each case. The common council shall also appoint such other officers as are provided by this act to be appointed by them on the nomination of the mayor, and also such members of the respective boards and cor.missions of said city as is directed by the several acts,. providing for said boards and said commissions. The city con troller shall appoint a deputy controller, who shall file an official bond, in such sum and with such sureties as the common council may direct and approve, before entering upon the duties of his office. Such deputy shall assist the controller in the performance of the duties of his office and in case of the inability of the controller to perform his duties by reason of sickness, absence from city or other sufficient cause, or in case of vacancy in the office of controller, he shall be vested with all the powers and perform all the duties of controller until the disability of the controller shall cease, or in case of vacancy until the vacancy be filled. The city clerk shall appoint a deputy city clerk, who shall file an official bond before entering upon the duties of his office in such penal sum as the common council may direct, and with sureties approved by them, and shall, in the absence or inability of the city clerk, be vested with all the powers, and perform all the duties of the clerk; and in case of vacancy in the office of city clerk the deputy city clerk shall continue to perform the duties of the office of city clerk until the next regular election, when the vacancy may be filled. The city treasurer shall appoint a deputy city treasurer, who shall assist him in the performance of the duties of his office, and who shall in the absence or inability of the city treasurer be vested with all the powers and perform all the duties of city treasurer, and who shall file an official bond in such penal sum as the council may direct, and with sureties to be approved by them, and in case of the death or removal of the city treasurer, or vacancy from other cause, the deputy city treasurer shall perform the duties of the office of city treasurer until the next regular election, when the vacancy shall be filled. If the mayor should fail to nominate or appoint any officer, |