elector or other person; or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any other person whether living or dead, or in or upon any name not his own; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently vote more than once for any candidate for the same office, except as authorized by law; or shall vote or attempt to, or offer to vote in any election district without having a lawful right to vote therein; or vote more than once, or vote in more than one election district, or having once voted shall vote or attempt to or offer to vote again; or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence or attempt to influence any elector in giving his vote; or prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder any qualified voter from freely exercising the right of suffrage; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently interfere with, delay, or hinder in any manner, any inspector of election, clerk or other officer of election in the discharge of his duties. Every person shall, upon convicted thereof be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be punished for each and every such offense by imprisonment in the Detroit House of Correction for not less than six months nor more than five years.

Punishment for falsifying re

turns.

Sec. 60. Every inspector of election, registrar, clerk or other officer or person having the custody of any record, registry of voters, election list of voters, affidavit return or statement of votes, certificate, poll book, or of any paper, document or vote of any description, in this act directed to be made, filed or preserved, who is guilty of stealing, willfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or secreting the whole or any part thereof; or who shall fraudulently make any entry, erasure, or alteration therein, except as allowed and directed by the provision of this act; or who permits any other person so

to do, shall upon conviction thereof be punished for each and every such offense by imprisonment in the Detroit House of Correction for not less than six months nor more than five years.

Punishment for

false returns.

Sec. 61. Any person who shall be convicted of wilfully and corruptly swearing or affirming, in taking any oath, or affirma- certifying to tion prescribed by or upon any examination provided for in this act, shall be adjudged guilty of willful and corrupt perjury, and shall be punished therefor, as provided by and according to the laws of this state.

Approved June 4th, 1895.

Chap. XI of charter amended.

AN ACT

To amend 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, by adding a new section thereto to stand as section forty-six.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That 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 is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto to be known as section forty-six and to read as follows:

Plank road comSec. 46. Whenever the common council shall determine to panies to be assessed for street grade, or grade and pave, or repave any street within the city openings.

of Detroit, if any incorporated plank or gravel road company shall have acquired a right to construct and maintain a plank or gravel road over any part of the street so to be improved, and over which part of the street such corporation is in the habit of charging and taking toll for travel, the board of assessors shall, unless otherwise ordered by the common council, assess such corporations so much of the cost and expense as in the judgment of said board shall be just; such assessment shall be made according to the benefits which such corporation will receive by reason of the making of such improvements, but shall not in any case exceed the due proportion of the cost and expense con

sidering the benefits to be derived by the holders and owners of other property if any, liable to assessment for said improvement. Such assessment shall be entered upon an assessment roll, and shall be subject to review and revision by the board of assessors, as provided in relation to other special assessments. After the completion and confirmation of such assessment roll, such assessment shall constitute a lien until paid upon all property rights and franchises of such corporation, and may be collected in the same manner that other like assessments are collected, and such assessment shall at once become a debt from such corporation to the city, and shall become due at the same time or times, and in like proportions at each time as assessments provided by law for paving. The city may maintain an action of assumpsit to recover such installment thereof, as it becomes due. Upon the trial of any such action the assessment roll or rolls shall be prima facie evidence of the right of the city to recover the amount of such assessment, and all the proceedings relating thereto shall be presumed to be valid until the contrary is shown. The remainder of the cost and expense of such improvements, after deducting the amount assessed against such corporation, shall be assessed and collected by special assessment or paid, by general taxation, as the case may require, as elsewhere provided This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved May 28th, 1895.

Free school act amended.

Removal of members of School Board.

AN ACT

To amend an act relative to free schools in the city of Detroit, approved February twenty-fourth, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the subsequent amendments thereto, by adding thereto a section to be known as section twenty-eight.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That an act relative to free schools in the city of Detroit, approved February twenty-fourth, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the amendments thereto, be amended by adding thereto a section to be known as section twenty-eight, the same to read as follows:

Sec. 28. The board of education of the city of Detroit may, respectively, by vote of two-thirds of all the members thereof, expel or remove from office any of their own members, for corrupt or willful malfeasance or misfeasance in office, or for willful neglect of the duties of his or her office, and in such case the reason for such expulsion or removal shall be entered on the records of said board of education with the names and votes of the members voting on the question: Provided, however, that no such member shall be expelled or removed unless he or she shall first be furnished with a copy of such charges as are laid against such member, which shall be in writing, and also be allowed to be heard in his or her defense, with aid of counsel, and for this purpose the said board of education shall have power