Annual duplicate reports. union of the two, and for the incorporation of companies for carrying on any other lawful business, except such as are precluded from organization under this act by its express provisions, and to prescribe the powers and fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations," as amended by act one hundred ninety-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is amended to read as follows: SEC. 12. Every corporation subject to this act, including every foreign corporation admitted to carry on business in this State under the provisions of this act, shall annually, in the month of January or February, make duplicate reports showing the condition of such corporation on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, on suitable blanks to be furnished by the Secretary of State, as hereinafter provided: Proviso, as to Provided, Flour milling corporations shall make and deposit flour milling annual reports in the month of July for the year ending June Proviso, when thirty, preceding: Provided further, That any such corporafiscal year ends tion, which shall make and file with the Secretary of State corporations. other than Dec. 31. to state. a statement in writing certified to by its president and secretary, showing that its fiscal year ends at a time other than December thirty-first and that it is its custom to take an inventory and balance its accounts at the close of such fiscal year, and cannot make an accurate report for any other date, shall make its report showing its condition at the close of its fiscal year, such report to be filed within sixty days after Reports, what such close of its fiscal year. Such reports shall state the amount each of common and preferred capital stock authorized, and the amount thereof subscribed for, and the amount thereof actually paid in in cash, and the amount thereof paid in property; the total value as near as may be estimated, of all property owned by the corporation; the value of different items or classes of property as follows: Real estate used in its business; real estate not used in its business; goods, goods, chattels, merchandise, material and other tangible property; patent rights, copyrights, trademarks and formulas; good will; and all other property, specifying the kind; value of all credits owing to the corporation; the amount of debts of the corporation; the name and postoffice address of each stockholder and the number of shares of preferred and common stock held by him at the date of such report; the name and postoffice address of each officer and director of the corporation, and such other information as the Secretary of State may require. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State in the month of December in each year, or in case of corporations whose fiscal year ends prior to December thirty-first, on application of such corporation, to mail to each corporation which is subject to the provisions of this act, suitable blanks on which shall be printed a copy of this section. Such reports shall be signed by a majority of the board of directors and verified by the oath of the secretary of the corporation, and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, to furnish blanks. Reports, by whom signed. powers. liable. notice of Secretary of State within the said month of January or February, or within sixty days after the close of such fiscal year, accompanied by a filing fee of fifty cents. The Sec- When and retary of State shall carefully examine such reports, and if where filed. upon such examination they shall be found to comply with all the requirements of this section, he shall then file one of them in his office, and shall forward the other by mail or express to the county clerk of the county in which the office in this State, for the transaction of the business of said corporation, is situated. And it shall be the duty of such county clerk, upon receipt of such report, to immediately cause the same to be filed in his office. If any corporation neglect Suspension of or refuse to make and file the reports required by this sec- corporate tion within the time herein specified, and shall continue in default for ten days thereafter, its corporate powers shall be suspended thereafter until it shall file such report, and it shall not maintain an action in any court of this State upon any contract entered into during the time of such default; and any director of such corporation so in default, who has Directors neglected or refused to join in the making of such report, shall be liable for all the debts of such corporation contracted since the filing of the last report of such corporation, and shall also be liable to such corporation for any damages sustained by it by reason of such refusal or neglect. And To give in case a corporation organized or doing business under the dissolution. provisions of this act shall be dissolved by process of law, or whose term of existence shall terminate by limitation, or whose property and franchises shall be sold at mortgage sale, or at private sale, or if for any reason the attitude of the corporation toward the State shall be changed from that set forth in the articles of association, it shall be the duty of the last board of directors of such corporation within thirty days thereafter to give written notice of such change to the Secretary of State, signed by a majority of such directors and accompanied by a recording fee of fifty cents, which said notice shall be recorded as amendments are required to be recorded. And in case of neglect to give such Penalty for notice, they shall each be subject to a penalty of five dollars neglect. for each and every day during the continuance of such neglect or refusal. The neglect or refusal to file the report, or to record the notice required by this section to be filed or recorded, shall be deemed wilful when such report or notice is not filed or recorded within the time herein limited. Whenever any corporation has neglected or refused to make Notice of and file its report within twenty days after the time make report. limited in this section, the Secretary of State shall cause notice of that fact to be given by mail to such corporation, directed to its postoffice address. The certificate of the Sec retary of State or his deputy, of the mailing of such notice, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of failure to that fact, and that such notices were duly received by said This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Theatre tickets, etc., price to be printed on. Misdemeanor for asking excess price. Agencies, etc. excess price, unlawful. [No. 138.] AN ACT to prohibit the scalping and sale of tickets for more than the price printed thereon, for theatres, circuses, athletic grounds and places of public amusement, and declaring same a misdemeanor, and fixing the penalties therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of owners, lessees and managers of every theatre, circus, athletic grounds used for athletic games, place of public entertainment or amusement to have printed on all tickets issued for admission thereto or for seats of such theatre, circus, athletic grounds, place of public entertainment or amusement, in conspicuous type, the price of such ticket, and the number on the seat, when such seats are numbered: SEC. 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, owning, occupying, managing or controlling any building, room, park or enclosure for the sale of tickets for theatres, circuses, athletic games, or places of public entertainment or amusement, who shall ask, demand or receive from any person or persons for the sale of such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment, or amusement, a price in excess of the general admission advertised or charged for the same privilege, or any person, firm or corporation who by themselves, or by any agent or employe, offers for sale upon any public place or thoroughfare, any such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment or amusement, for admission thereto, or for a seat or other privilege therein, at a price in excess of that demanded or received from the general public for the same privilege, or in excess of the advertised or printed rate therefor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, for sale of, at firm or corporation to establish an agency or sub-office for the sale of seat tickets of admission to a theatre, circus, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment or amusement, at a price greater than the sale of seats at the box office of such theatre, circus, athletic grounds, place of pub lic entertainment or amusement, or in excess of the advertised price therefor. owners, etc. SEC. 4. The owner, lessee or occupant of any building, Liability of room, enclosure or other place open to the public, who permits any person, persons, firm or corporation to sell or exhibit for sale in said building, room or enclosure, or other place open to the public, any ticket or tickets for theatre, circuses, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment or amusement, for more than the price printed thereon, shall be equally liable as principal. SEC. 5. Where the owners, lessees or managers of any Misdemeanor for selling circus, theatre, athletic grounds or place of public entertain- non-transferment or amusement have sold tickets of admission thereto able tickets. to specific persons, under restrictive conditions and at a less rate than the general admission charged, and whose names appear on the face of such tickets or are registered in the office of such owners, lessees or managers as the holder of such tickets and where it is printed on the face of such tickets that they are non transferable and sold only to the persons whose names appear on the face of such tickets or are registered, it shall be declared unlawful for the holders of such specific tickets to sell them to other persons, and any Ferson selling such tickets shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 6. Any person, persons, firm or corporation violat- Penalty. ing any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or confined in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 139.] AN ACT to provide for the publication and distribution of a record of all Michigan soldiers and sailors serving in the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection; the records of whom have not been heretofore published; to make an appropriation therefor and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Adjutant General shall, as soon as practic- Regimental history, by able after the passage of this act, prepare for publication a whom to be regimental history, where such history has not been here- prepared. tofore provided for, of all soldiers and sailors who enlisted What to contain. Assistance, etc., may be employed. compiler's compensation. Regimental history, by whom and how distributed. from and were credited to this State during the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine Insurrection. Such history shall contain the name, residence, date of enlistment, date of muster in, rank, promotion, wounds received, capture and imprisonment by the enemy, date of discharge, muster out or death, and such information as can be obtained from the records of this State, the war, navy and other departments of the federal government, or other authentic sources, as will correct or complete the records, making as far as practicable a complete and concise military history of each soldier or sailor so serving; prefacing each volume of such records appropriately, with a concise general history of the organization therein named. For this purpose the Adjutant General is authorized to employ such extra clerical assistance and procure such blanks and stationery as may be necessary in the preparation, compilation, comparing and proofreading, necessary to Proviso as to secure its historical and typographical accuracy: Provided, That the compiler of these records be allowed not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month compensation. SEC. 2. The distribution of said volumes, when published, shall be made under the supervision of the Adjutant General, in the same general manner now adopted for the distribution of regimental histories under section two, act one hundred forty-seven, public acts of nineteen hundred three. One regimental volume to the applicant of the organization in which he served as follows: Any person who served in any Michigan regiment, battery, company or detachment during the Civil War, and has been honorably discharged, or any person who served in any regiment, battery or company from any other state, or in the regular army, or in the navy, properly accredited to the State of Michigan, and has been honorably discharged, or if such person be dead, then his widow if living, or if she be dead, then his father if living, if he be dead, then the mother of any such person, or if she be dead then to his eldest child, if there be any, and any such person who is still in the service, shall be entitled to receive one copy of said work, on application and identification to the Adjutant General, and if the application for such copy be not made in person, by depositing with the Adjutant General necessary postage to cover the expense of sending To libraries, such book. Also complete sets to Adjutants General of other states, and to state and United States public libraries upon application, and to such other libraries in this State as the Governor may approve, and may be purchased by any other persons who may apply, at cost of publication. To whom. etc. Regimental history, when, by and to whom notice served relative to. SEC. 3. So soon as the work of preparation and compilation of the historical records herein provided for shall have progressed sufficiently near completion to enable printers and binders to make accurate estimates of the cost of publication, the Adjutant General shall serve a written notice of that |