Manner of holding election. said election, and publishing the same in one or more of the daily papers published in said city for three days prior to said election, which notice shall state the amount of money proposed to be borrowed, the amount of bonds to be issued, and the purposes thereof, and it is hereby made the duty of said common council to cause said question to be duly submitted and to do any and all other legal acts which may be necessary for the proper and legal submission thereof. Sec. 3. Said proposition shall be submitted in the following manner, the same being printed upon the official ballots for said election or upon special ballots if so ordered by the common council. The wording wherein such proposition shall be submitted shall be as follows: "For issuing park bonds for aquarium or other permanent improvements on Belle Isle Park? Yes." "For issuing park bonds for aquarium or other permanent improvements on Belle Isle Park? No." The election shall be conducted and the votes canvassed and returns made in all respects as the aforesaid election held in said city is by law required to be conducted, and immediately upon the conclusion of such canvass the board of city canvassers shall make and sign a certificate showing the whole number of votes cast upon such proposition and the number for and against the same respectively, and said city canvassers shall endorse upon such certificate and declare in writing the result of such election, which certificate and declaration shall then be filed with the city clerk and entered at large upon the records of said city, and a copy of said certificate and declaration certified to by said clerk shall be filed by him with the county clerk of Wayne county. Sec. 4. The board of park and boulevard commissioners shall have full and absolute authority in disposing of the moneys ers to have absolute arising by said issue of bonds and it shall be their duty to devote Park and Boulevard the proceeds thereof to the purposes prescribed by this act. CommissionThe Common Council shall have full authority to provide by authority in disposing of resolution for the advertising and sale of said bonds, the manner moneys. thereof to conform as near as may be practicable to the regulations heretofore prescribed by law for the issuance of sewer bonds. The bonds herein provided for shall run for a period not less than fifteen nor more than fifty years. The issue of bonds herein provided for shall not be subject to the bonding limitation of said city of Detroit as now prescribed by law, but may be shall run. in excess of said limitation. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 26, 1899. Period Bonds Transfer of authority, etc., and title of property. AN ACT To transfer to the city of Detroit the title to all the property of every name and nature now owned, operated and controlled by the Board of Water Commissioners of the city of Detroit, under the powers, rights and privileges granted said Board of Water Commissioners by an Act entitled "An Act to amend the laws relative to supplying the city of Detroit with pure and wholesome water,” approved February fourteen, eighteen hundred fifty-three, and the acts amendatory thereto, and to give to said city of Detroit the possession, control and operation and management of said property, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. The people of the state of Michigan enact: Section 1. That on the first day of July, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, all the authority, rights and powers heretofore exercised and had by the board of water commissioners of the city of Detroit shall no longer be exercised and had by them from and after said date, but shall be continued to, and vested in said city of Detroit, for the purpose of supplying said city and the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome water. All lands, lots, docks, buildings, machinery, pipes, logs, hydrants, mains, settling-basins, intake pipes and appliances, and all other property, fixtures and appliances whatsoever, purchased, designated or used for the present water-works, owned by, or standing in the name of the board of water commissioners of the city of Detroit, are hereby conveyed to, and vested in the city of Detroit, which shall hereafter have full power to regulate, protect, control and operate the same; and for this purpose shall have power to procure, purchase or construct the necessary buildings, engines and other machinery and appliances and fixtures to maintain, operate, extend and improve the system of water-works herein conveyed. The operation, extension and im- Operation, extension etc., to be under provement of said system as above provided, and all work in- direction and supervision of cident thereto, and all work of laying the necessary pipes, mains Board of or aqueducts for the purpose of distributing water in the city, shall be under the direction and supervision of the board of public works of said city. No lands, engines, pipes nor new machinery shall be purchased or contracted for, nor buildings erected, except by the direction of the common council, on the recommen- No purchases dation of the board of public works in the same manner as is ized by Comnow provided by law for the confirmation by the common council of contracts of the board of public works. Public Works. to be made unless author mon Council. Power to lay pipes and Sec. 2. The city shall have power to lay in the highways, alleys and public places in said city, and whenever it shall be- mains. come necessary to lay pipes, mains or aqueducts in or through any private property, and acquire therefor either the title to land or easement therein condemnation proceedings for such purpose may be instituted and conducted in the Recorder's court of said city in like manner as like proceedings for the condem- Right of way. nation of lands for highways may by law be instituted and conducted: Provided, that no such proceedings shall be instituted by the common council without the recommendation of the board of public works and a report in writing from the city engineer. The right to lay pipes, mains or aqueducts in or through private property may be acquired by agreement with the owners thereof. No such agreements, entered into by the board Purchases, etc. to be made on recommenda tion Board Public Works and by direction of Common Council. Indebtedness of public works, shall have any binding force nor be legal, unless approved by a two-thirds vote of the common council. Sec. 3. The common council shall have power, upon the recommendation of the board of public works, to direct the purchase of any land necessary for the maintenance and operation of said water-works and to direct the erection of buildings thereon; also, upon like recommendation, to direct the purchase of new engines or machinery whenever the same may be needed. But no such expense shall be incurred until the money for such purpose has been raised, appropriated or is on hand for such purpose. It shall also have power to adopt ordinances to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, and to regulate the distribution, use and consumption of water, and to protect and preserve the property and appliances of and connected with the water-works system. Sec. 4. All the outstanding bonded indebtedness and all to be assumed other lawful indebtedness of the board of water commissioners by City. of the city of Detroit shall be assumed and paid by the city of Detroit, as the same shall fall due, and all the moneys now set apart as a sinking or other fund for the payment of such bonds are hereby constituted a water works sinking fund, which shall be applied to the payment of such bonds, and shall not be used for any other purpose. All moneys now set apart by said board of water commissioners to pay its contract or other legal indebtedness shall be kept and used for such purpose and no other. The commissioners of the sinking fund of said city shall have ers shall have the custody of and shall have the same powers and authority custody of sinking fund. with respect to said sinking fund as the said commissioners have Sinking fund. by law in respect to the sinking fund of said city. All lawful contract obligations now entered into by said board of water commissioners shall be fully kept, performed and carried out by the city of Detroit, and the common council shall have power |