ests or over the waste lands aforesaid; the conservation and increase of the water supply of the rivers, streams and lakes of the State by reforestation; the protection from trespass and other depredations of timber growing on lands in which the State is interested; the policy best calculated to further and encourage the settling up, improvement, reforestation and other utilization of said delinquent State tax lands, or such portions thereof as are deemed most suitable for one or other of the purposes aforesaid, having due regard to all interests and to all the conditions affecting the problems involved; and the economical administration of the business and affairs of the State, and the due protection and betterment of its inhabitants as affected by any of the matters aforesaid. contain. SEC. 3. It shall also be the duty of the Commission of To prepare report to legisInquiry, after full investigation as aforesaid, to prepare and lature, what to submit to the next legislature a full report embodying a comprehensive plan for dealing with all of the matters aforesaid, to the end that the State may hereafter pursue a complete and consistent policy in reference thereto. The report of the Commission of Inquiry shall contain or be accompanied by such findings and recommendations as the Commission of Inquiry shall deem advisable, including specific recommendations defining, or prescribing some method of defining, the limits of forest reserves to be established and maintained and the manner in which the delinquent State tax lands, now owned or that shall hereafter be acquired, shall become a part of said forest reserves or be devoted to other purposes, or be otherwise dealt with. The report shall Draft of proalso contain or be accompanied by a draft of such proposed law or laws as, in the judgment of the Commission of Inquiry, will best enable the State to perfect its title to said delinquent State tax lands, protect the timber thereon, pro- Delinquent vide the most practical means of checking and preventing lands. the starting and spreading of fires thereon, or on other waste Fires. or forest lands situated in the State, and such other law or laws as the Commission of Inquiry may deem necessary for the most profitable and economical administration of the business and affairs of the State in reference to the matters which are the subject of this investigation. posed law. State tax printer, etc. SEC. 4. The report of said Commission of Inquiry, in- Report, when cluding the plan, findings, recommendations and draft of ready for proposed legislation above mentioned, shall be ready for the State printer by the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred eight; and it is hereby made the duty of the State Board of Auditors to cause three thousand copies of the said report to be printed and bound, and to have the same ready for Distribution. distribution not later than the first day of October, nineteen hundred eight; two thousand copies to be used for distribution among the citizens of the State and one thousand copies to be reserved for the use of the members of the legislature. Duty to study situation, etc. Surveys. Assistance, books, maps, etc. pense. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Commission of Inquiry to make a thorough study of the whole situation; and they shall have power to cause to be made such surveys and examinations as may be deemed necessary of the lands aforesaid, or adjacent regions, and to investigate any natural or other conditions affecting any of the problems bearing upon the matter involved in their investigation. The said Commission of Inquiry shall have power to employ assistance, to purchase books, maps, stationery and other materials, and Audit of ex- to travel in the performance of their duties; and their expenses incurred therein and in the performance of their duties, including the publication of the report herein mentioned, shall be audited and allowed by the Board of State Auditors, upon vouchers and bills properly sworn to and duly certified by the secretary or some authorized member of the commission, and also shall be paid from the general fund of the State. The Commission of Inquiry shall have the use of suitable quarters for its meetings and its work in the First meeting, State capitol. It shall hold its first meeting in the capitol president, sec- at Lansing on the twenty-fifth day of June, nineteen hundred seven, for the purpose of organization, at which time it shall elect from its members a president and secretary, and shall meet thereafter at such times and places as it may deem necessary. Quarters in capitol. retary. State officers to co-operate, etc. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Michigan Forestry and employes Commission, of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, of the Auditor General, and of every department, officer or employe of the State having information or charge of books, or others matters, desired for use by the commission, or whose help is needed to aid in its inquiries, to promptly furnish the same and any information or aid asked for by the commission, on request of the secretary or presiding officer or other authorized member of the Commission of Inquiry. Attorney Gen- It shall be the duty of the Attorney General and of the eral, duty to State officers aforesaid to attend, advise and assist the Commission of Inquiry on request in every way desired in its work. assist. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 189.] AN ACT to amend section nine of act one hundred ninety of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and [deception] deceptions at elections in this State," being compiler's section three thousand six hundred twenty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of act one hundred ninety of the Section public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act amended. to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and [deception] deceptions at elections in this State," being compiler's section three thousand six hundred twenty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: commis SEC. 9. In each county of the State, the judge of probate, Board of eleccounty clerk and county treasurer shall constitute a board tion sioners for of election commissioners, two of whom shall constitute a each county. quorum and of which board the judge of probate shall be chairman and the county clerk shall be secretary: Provided, Proviso, in cerThat in the counties of Kent, Ottawa and Wayne, the board tain counties, of county canvassers, together with the county clerk, who tuted. shall not be entitled to vote on said board, shall constitute a board of election commissioners, two of whom shall con how consti stitute a quorum. In the counties last above specifically chairman and mentioned, the chairman of said board of county canvassers clerk. in the event of his unavoidable absence the board may select one of his deputies to act in his stead, and in case of a In case of vavacancy in said board of county canvassers, acting as a cancy. board of election commissioners, the members of the board who are present may fill said vacancy. When the said board compensation. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. When lawful to take ciscos. Proviso. [No. 190.] AN ACT to provide for the lawful taking of cisco fish in the waters of Corey Lake, in St. Joseph county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any person, during the time from sunset to sunrise during the month of November, to take cisco fish in the waters of Corey Lake, in St. Joseph county, by means of legal mesh nets not more than ten rods in length: Provided, That the taking of such cisco fish shall in no way interfere with or destroy other fish protected under Further pro- the laws of this State: And Provided further, That the ineshes in said nets authorized to be used under the provisions of this act shall, in no case, be less than one and onehalf inches. viso, size of mesh. Not to be sold, etc. SEC. 2. Any cisco fish taken lawfully in Corey Lake between the dates herein provided, may be retained by the peror persons so taking them, but shall not be sold or offered for sale. son This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Squirrels, unlawful to take or kill, etc. Penalty. [No. 191.] AN ACT to prohibit the taking, killing or destroying of any fox squirrel, gray squirrel or black squirrel within the village of Paw Paw and within certain portions of Paw Paw and Antwerp townships, Van Buren county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful at any time by any means whatever to take, kill or destroy any fox squirrel, gray squirrel or black squirrel within the limits of the vil lage of Paw Paw or on sections one, two, eleven and twelve in the township of Paw Paw or on sections six and seven in the township of Antwerp in the county of Van Buren. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars or imprisonment in the county jail of said county for not less. than five days nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 18, 1907. [No. 192.] AN ACT to authorize the trustees of the Michigan School for the Deaf to sell certain lands belonging to said school and buy other lands, and to hold the money received from the sale until it can be advantageously used for said pur. chases. The People of the State of Michigan enact: authorized. SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the Michigan School Sale of land for the Deaf is hereby authorized to sell certain tracts of land now owned by the said school, described as follows: Be- Description. ginning at a point in the south line of reservation lot eight of Smith's reservation, being eleven chains and fifty links westerly along said line from the northeast corner of section twenty-four of town seven north of range six east; thence southerly parallel to east line of said section twenty-five, fifteen chains; thence westerly at right angles, two chains and sixty-four links; thence southerly parallel to said east line twenty-six chains, eighty-eight links to post in north line of Gates land; thence westerly along Gates' north line nine chains, seventy-two links to a post; thence northerly on a course parallel to the east line of section twenty-four, thirty-four chains, twenty-three links to the south line of said reservation lot eight to a post; thence easterly along said reservation line fourteen chains and fifty-five links to the place of beginning, except, however, a strip of land one hundred feet in width running easterly and westerly across said land, heretofore deeded to the Grand Trunk Railway system as a right of way for railroad purposes. Also, a tract described as beginning at a point where the west line of section eight of Smith's reservation intersects the south line of West Court street, and running thence south eightynine degrees, east one thousand three hundred forty-five feet, along the south line of said West Court street to the intersection of said south line of West Court street with the northerly line of the Miller road, thence running along the north line of the Miller road as follows, to wit: South fortyeight degrees, ten minutes west, one hundred sixty feet; thence south, thirty-one degrees, thirty minutes west, two hundred thirty-five feet; thence south twenty-one degrees west, two hundred sixty-eight feet and six inches; thence south thirty-one degrees west, one hundred ninety-two feet; thence south forty-four degrees twenty minutes west, ninetysix feet; thence south fifty degrees west, eighty-five feet; thence south fifty-eight degrees west, four hundred thirteen feet to the section line; thence leaving said north line of the Miller road and running north twenty-one degrees, forty-five minutes west, one thousand one hundred fifty-seven feet six inches, along the aforesaid west line of section eight of |