Zones of taxation. Crediting excessive taxation. Additional tax. Apportionment changed only for errors. such road district. By zones of taxation is meant all lands within certain distances, fixed by the county road commissioners or State Highway Commissioner, from the road to be improved, as fixed when they are in fact making the apportionment of benefits, which lands are all assessed at the same rate per acre. SEC. 80. If a parcel of land shall have been erroneously assessed too high by reason of a mistake in the acreage of the parcel, and one or more years' tax shall have been paid thereon, the board of county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in their next assessment roll after the hearing herein provided, shall credit such parcel with the excessive tax theretofore paid or charged to it, and thereafter shall place the same upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. If a parcel of land theretofore have been assessed too low by reason of a mistake of the acreage of such parcel, the board of county road commissioners or the. State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in the aforesaid next roll, shall charge such parcel with the additional tax which said parcel did not pay or was not charged with on prior rolls by reason of the mistake aforesaid, and thereafter shall place such parcel upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. If any parcel of land has been erroneously omitted from the apportionment of benefits of the tax roll, the board of county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in their next assessment roll shall add such parcel to the roll and charge the same with all taxes theretofore omitted, as well as the tax it should regularly bear on that roll, and thereafter shall place the same upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. It shall be assessed at the same rate per acre as are other lands in the same zone. Where the tax upon any parcel of land has been erroneously computed upon the basis and as though it had been in another zone, such apportionment of tax shall be equalized on the basis of making the apportionment of benefits and tax on the same basis as other lands in the same zone or zones. The county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, in their next assessment roll shall charge such parcel with the tax found to have been omitted, or credit said parcel with the amount of tax theretofore charged in excess of what it should have been; and thereafter they shall place said parcel upon the assessment roll as equalized under this act. SEC. 81. The county road commissioners or the State Highway Commissioner, as the case may be, shall have no power to change the apportionment or tax upon any parcels of land except for the errors as in this act provided, or has been provided in said act number fifty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 227 [No. 126.] AN ACT to provide for the registration of electors. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. CHAPTER I. General Provisions. The inspectors of election at any election in Electors must this State, or in any district, county, township, or city there be registered. of, shall not receive the vote of any person whose name is not registered in the registration book of the precinct in which he offers to vote; but the name of a qualified elector may be registered on the day of any election or official primary election pursuant to section ten of chapter three of this act. SEC. 2. Every person who has the constitutional qualifi- Who cations of an elector, or who will have such qualifications at qualified. the next ensuing election or official primary election, [and] shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the voting precinct in which he resides. CHAPTER II. Registration Books. book "Registration book.' electors. book. SECTION 1. For every election precinct there shall be in which to register the names of all qualified electors residing in that precinct who may apply for registration. Such book shall be known as the "Registration Book" for the precinct in which it is to be used. In each registration book a Female separate section may be provided for the registering of the names of female electors, or a separate registration book may be provided for the registering of the names of female electors. SEC. 2. Every registration book hereafter procured shall Form of be in index form, substantially bound, and contain spaced and Each book ruled lines for at least twelve hundred names. shall have on the front cover thereof the words "Registration Book" and the name of the township or city and ward in which it is to be used; also the number of the election precinct, if the precinct has a number. The pages of each registration Ruling. book shall be arranged and ruled in columns, with headings, so that on each line may be written the name of an elector, the date of his registration, and, if the elector resides in a city or incorporated village, his residence by street and number, or a description of the locality of his residence. There shall also be columns in which may be checked the names of Books used until replaced. New books. Custody of. When delivered to election inspectors. Proviso. When precincts changed. Mutilation. etc., of book, a felony. registered electors as they apply for ballots to vote. There shall be an additional column, headed "Remarks," for special entries or notations. SEC. 3. The registration books in use in the several townships and cities, at the time this act takes effect, shall continue to be the official registration books until replaced by new registration books pursuant to the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. Whenever the registration book for any election precinct is so nearly filled, or so worn, soiled or marked, that, in the judgment of the township or city clerk, as the case may be, a new registration book for such precinct is necessary or desirable, such clerk shall bring the matter to the attention of the township board or legislative body, as the case may be, and, on being authorized by such board or legislative body, shall procure a new registration book for such precinct, and shall write therein, in proper alphabetical order, the names of all persons then remaining residents of such precinct whose names are entered in the old registration book, together with the dates and descriptions as they appear on such old registration book. When the said clerk shall have completed such new registration book, the former registration book shall be deemed invalid, and such new registration book shall be the official registration book of such precinct. SEC. 5. The registration book or books of any township or city shall remain in the custody of the township or city clerk, as the case may be, at all times except when they are in use by boards of registration or boards of inspectors of an election or an official primary election, as provided by this act. SEC. 6. At any election or official primary election, and as soon as the poll in each precinct is open, the clerk having the custody of the registration book shall cause it to be placed in the hands of the inspectors of election, who shall use such registration book during such election, and return it to the clerk immediately thereafter: Provided, That the words "official primary election" shall be deemed to include and mean official nominating primaries. SEC. 7. Whenever any township or city shall be divided, pursuant to law, into two or more election precincts, or the boundaries of the election precincts of any township or city shall be changed, the township or city clerk, as the case may be, shall procure a new registration book for each such precinct so established, or whose boundaries shall have been changed, and shall transcribe to such new registration book from the township or city registration books the names of such electors as are residents of such new or changed precincts. Such new registration books, when completed, shall be the official registration books for such precincts. SEC. 8. Whoever shall wilfully cut, burn, mutilate or destroy any registration book, or copy thereof filed for preservation, or shall unlawfully take and carry away any such reg istration book or copy, or shall unlawfully conceal or refuse or neglect to surrender the same with intent to prevent its being used, as authorized by law, shall be deemed guilty of a felony. Whoever shall falsify such registration book, or copy What deemed thereof, by unlawfully erasing or obliterating any name or forgery. entry lawfully made therein, or by unlawfully inserting there in any name, note or memorandum, shall be deemed guilty of forgery. CHAPTER III. Registering of Electors. tion, when SECTION 1. Any person, not already registered, who pos- Application sesses the constitutional qualifications of an elector, or who for registrawill, on the day of the next ensuing regular or special election made. or official primary election, possess such qualifications, may make application for registration to the clerk of the township or city in which he resides on any day other than Sunday, a legal holiday, the day of any regular or special election or official primary election, and the days intervening between the third Saturday preceding any such election and the day of said election: Provided, however, That in any organized Proviso, township or city having a population of less than ten thou- certain cities, sand, the clerk may receive applications for registration up to and including the second Saturday preceding any such election. Any such clerk shall not be required to receive any application for registration at any other place than his office, or the place or places designated pursuant to section three of this chapter, but may, in his discretion, receive such application wherever he may be. etc. receive SEC. 2. In case any township or city clerk does not regu- When city, larly keep his office open daily during certain hours, he shall etc., clerk to not be required to be at his office, for the purpose of receiving applications. applications for registration, on any particular day, nor during any specific hours of any day, except as provided in the next following section. SEC. 3. In every township and city the clerk thereof shall Registration be at his office, or in some other convenient place therein days. (which place shall be designated by the township clerk or the city clerk, as the case may be), on the fourth and third Saturdays preceding any election or official primary election in said township or city, and on such other days prior to said third Saturday as shall be designated by the township board or legislative body of said city, not exceeding five days in all, for the purpose of reviewing the registration and registering such of the qualified electors of said township or city as shall appear and apply therefor. Each said clerk shall be at the place designated at the hour of eight o'clock a. m., and there remain until the hour of eight o'clock p. m., of each said day. Notice. How given. Where not to receive applications. Review of list. The said clerk shall give at least one week's public notice of the days that he will be at his office, or other convenient place, designating it, for the purpose aforesaid, specifying the hours of each day, as required by the provisions of this section. Such notice shall be given by posting written or printed notices in at least one of the most conspicuous places in each election precinct, and by publishing such notice in some newspaper or newspapers published in said township or city, if any newspaper be published therein, if in the discretion of the township board or legislative body of said city publication shall be considered advisable and necessary in addition to the written or printed notices posted as aforesaid. SEC. 4. No township or city clerk shall receive any application for registration in any room or building where intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes are sold or kept for sale, or in any room adjacent to a room where such liquors are sold or kept for sale, or connected by hall or doorway with such room or saloon where intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes are sold or kept for sale. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 5. On the day or days designated, pursuant to section three of this chapter, for reviewing the registration, the township or city clerk, as the case may be, shall review the list of names in the registration book for each precinct in the township or city. If at any time it shall come to the knowledge of the said township or city clerk, or if, upon such review, it shall be found that any person whose name is registered in any registration book has died, or has removed from the precinct and ceased to reside therein, the said clerk shall, at such time, or at the time of such review, write the word "dead" opposite the name of each such deceased person, and the word "removed" opposite the name of each such person who has removed, together with the initials of the person making the entry and the date of the entry. Thereafter such names shall be considered and False entry a treated as no longer upon such registration book. In case any such entry by the clerk shall be made falsely, maliciously and without credible information, the said clerk shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. If any such entry shall be erroneously made, and the person opposite whose name such erroneous entry was made shall thereafter appear at any election in his precinct and claim the right to vote, the board of inspectors of election, being satisfied that such person is a qualified elector of such precinct, shall cause his name to be registered anew. In any such case the board of election inspectors may, in their discretion, require that such person be sworn as to his qualifications to vote in that precinct. misdemeanor. Who may register, etc. SEC. 6. Upon application, as provided in this act, to the clerk of the township or city in which he resides, it shall |