People ex rel. Board of Water Commissioners v. Common Council

Marston, J:

The legislatule in 1813 passed an act to incorporate a board of water commissioners for tire city of Bast Saginaw, to supply tbe city with pure water, and to provide for the completion and management of the Bast Saginaw water works.

The first section of this act authorized and empowered and made it the duty of the common council of Bast Saginaw to appoint five persons, residents and freeholders of the' city, who, and their successors, should be a body corporate with certain powers, and amongst others, to purchase, hold and convey personal and real estate, to make by-laws, ordi*166nances,…