Act Amending City Charter

A N ACT to amena an act enttthd " an act to incorpórate the city of Ann Arbor". approved April. J "out tt. eighteen hundred and Jiftij-tme. SiiCTiox 1. The People of the State of Michigan cnact, That the following be added to " au act to incorpórate the city of Ann Arbor," approved April i iburth, eighteon hundred and fifty-one, j and to stand as seclion fifty-nine of rsakl afnended act : Suc. 59. The common council shall Lave power to próvido for keeping clear, repairing and renewing, when ueceasary, all side walks that are now made, i or may hereafter be made, planked or i paved wilhin the city of Ann Arbor, and to make rules and ordioances to requwe the respective owners or occupauts oí real estáte in said city, having a side-walk in front thereaf, to keep it olear and n good repair, or renew, when oecessary, the side-walk in front oí the premisos owned or recupied by them respectivolyj and the common council shaü have jiower to provide for enfofoing, Ijy fine or otherwise, the repair, clearing or renewing the eide walks against the owner or occupant, whose diity it is to repair, clear or renew ihe saine, and rnay prescribe the time and rnanner of nötifying and requiriog persons to clear, repair or renew such side-walks, preparatory to imposing fine or penalty ; and may prescribe the rnanner of assessing, evving, and collecting froin tho person or persons liable to pay from their goods and chattles, or by sale or lea.e for years, of the premises, in front of which such side-walk shall be ; and if by reason of tho neglect of the owner or" occupant, whose duty it rnay be at the time, to clear, repair or renew, the same shall have been cleared, repaired or renewed by or onder the direction of' the proper city officers, the expense of such clearing, repairing or renewing, with the cosí and expense of clearing the same. Sec. 2. This act shall take itnmediaie eflect. Approved Marcb 7, 1863. ll W III EST" The following extracte wbich wo take fro:n the Farewell Address of Washington, we commend to the careful pernsal of our Republican iriends. The wisdom and greatuess of Washington is proverbial and his memorv is still warm in the liearls of a peopie who are indebted to him for thó blessings of a free government : " Indignant'y lrown upon the first dawning ofevery atterapt to aliénate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the" sacred ties which now link together the various paits. "TheConstitution which at a-ny time exists, till cbanged by an expJicit and authentic act of the peopie, is sacredly obligatory upon all. '■ Rèsist v.-ith care tbe spirit of innovation upou ita principies, howover specioua tiie pretests. "The spirit of encronehment tends to consolidata the powers of all departments in one, and thns créate, whatever the form of government, a real despot, ism. " Le títere be no ehange by usurpation; for tbough this in one hmtaace íruiy be the instrument pfgood, it is the customary weapon hy which free government is destroyed '."' For advocaling these very sentiment - the dispassionate teaobinga of the ' Father of our Country"- the demo orats are to-day donounoed as disloyal!