of domestic and foreign states and governments. The secretary shall distribute one copy of each volume to each of the school libraries, public libraries and grange libraries in the State of Michigan when authoritatively and officially requested so to do by the officers of said school, public and grange libraries, and one copy to each member of the legis lature for the year of publication. The remainder of said copies of said volumes shall be delivered to and be in the custody and care of the secretary to be sold by said secretary at a price not less than seventy-five cents per copy, and the moneys arising from such sales shall be deposited in the State treasury to the credit of the general fund. appropriation. SEC. 3. The several funds appropriated by the provisions Manner of of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the oratio State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 4. From time to time, as the several volumes of the Revision and collections become exhausted, the society is authorized and reprint of history. directed to cause fifteen hundred copies of each volume to be revised and reprinted, the cost thereof, together with binding, proof reading and everything necessary to perfect the edition, to be paid for by the Board of State Auditors, on presentation of vouchers properly approved by any member of the executive committee and the secretary of said society, said books to be disposed of in all respects as the rest of said series is disposed of. officers. SEC. 5. No part of the sums hereby appropriated shall Salaries of be paid for services rendered by its officers to the said society, while in the discharge of their official duties. A clerk shall be employed at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum and not to exceed five hundred dollars additional may be expended for necessary assistance, the salaries of which clerk and additional help shall be paid out of the appropriation provided in section one of this act. Such sum or sums of money heretofore appropriated, not expended Use of unexpended for the purposes hereinbefore indicated may be used by and appropriations. under the direction of the executive committee of the said society in procuring and obtaining exhibits and collections to be placed in said society rooms, and for carrying on the work according to the usual manner of historical societies and which may tend towards facilitating the best interests of said society. All supplies, stationery, etc., necessarily Supplies. incident to the carrying on of the work of said society shall be furnished by the Board of State Auditors in the manner now employed in furnishing supplies, stationery, etc., in other State departments. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate Tax clause. in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful to spear through ice. Penalty for violation. [No. 63.] AN ACT to prohibit the spearing of fish through the ice in the Lake of the Woods, in Decatur and Hamilton townships, Van Buren county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to spear or attempt to spear any kind of fish, at any time, through the ice in the Lake of the Woods, in Decatur and Hamilton townships, Van Buren county. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Persons deemed guilty of [No. 64.] AN ACT defining the crime of burglary with explosives and providing the punishment therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters any building and for the purpose burglary with of committing any crime, uses or attempts to use nitroexplosives. glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than fifteen years nor more than thirty years. Approved April 25, 1907. [No. 65.] AN ACT to amend section fifteen of act number two hundred five of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyseven, as amended, entitled "An act to revise the laws authorizing the business of banking and to establish a banking department for the supervision of such business," the same being section six thousand one hundred four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fifteen of act number two hundred Section amended. five of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, as amended, entitled "An act to revise the laws authorizing the business of banking and to establish a banking department for the supervision of such business," the same being section six thousand one hundred four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is amended to read as follows: directors to committee. SEC. 15. The board of directors of each bank shall ap- Board of point from its members or stockholders an examining com- appoint exmittee or committees, whose duties it shall be to examine examining the condition, of the bank at least once every six months. The examining committee shall report to the board, giving Duty of. in detail all items included in the assets of the bank which they have reason to believe are not of the value at which they appear on the books and records of the bank, and giving the value of each of such items as in their judgment they may have determined. The board shall make a proper Board to record of said report in the minute books of the bank, and and report. a duly authenticated copy thereof shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of the Banking Department. Every bank File list of shall at all times keep a correct list of the names of all its stockholders, and once in each year, on the second Monday of April, file in the office of the county clerk and with said commissioner a correct copy of such list. Approved April 25, 1907. make record stockholders. 1 Unlawful to fish except line. [No. 66.] AN ACT for the protection of fish in the Grand river and its tributaries in the townships of Portland and Danby in the county of Ionia. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or perwith hook and sons to spear or attempt to spear, or catch or attempt to catch any fish in any other manner except with hook and line in the waters of the Grand river or its tributaries in the townships of Portland and Danby in the county of Ionia. Penalty for violation. Repealing clause. SEC. 2. Any person offending against the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, before a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined a sum not to exceed twenty dollars or twenty days imprisonment in the county jail, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Board of review. [No. 67.] AN ACT to amend section ten of chapter nine of act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyfive, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," being section two thousand eight hundred sixty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section ten of chapter nine of act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," being section two thousand eight hundred sixty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 10. The assessor and two qualified freeholders and electors of the village, to be annually appointed by the council, shall constitute a board of review of the assessments. At the time appointed for the review, the board shall meet at the place designated in the notice and continue in session duties. two days, for the purpose of reviewing and correcting such assessments; and for such purpose the board of review shall Powers and have the same powers, and perform like duties in all respects, as are conferred upon and required of boards of review in townships, in reviewing assessments in townships. They shall hear the complaints of all persons considering themselves aggrieved by such assessment, and if it shall appear that any person has been wrongfully assessed, or. omitted from the roll, the board shall correct the roll in such manner as they shall deem just: Provided, That the Proviso, as to council of any village having a population of less than one session. thousand according to the last preceding census whether the same be a State census or a United States census may, by resolution passed at least seven days before the meeting of the board, determine that the board shall remain in session length of but one day: And Provided further, That in villages hav- Further proing a population of more than one thousand according to the viso, idem. last preceding census whether the same be a State census or a United States census the said council may, in their [No. 68.] AN ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Michigan to make contracts for the cure of drunkenness, the morphine and cigarette habits, and other like addictions. The People of the State of Michigan enact petition for drunkards, SECTION 1. Any inhabitant of this State may petition Any inthe board of supervisors of the county, wherein any indi- habitant may gent person addicted to the excessive use of any intoxicating treatment of liquors or of morphia, laudanum, cocaine, opium or other etc. narcotics to such an extent as to become an habitual drunkard, resides, for leave to send such drunkard, at the expense of the county, to any reputable institute for the treatment of such cases, designated by such board of supervisors under the conditions hereinafter contained, which Petition, petition shall set forth the name, age and condition of such what to set drunkard, that such drunkard is not financially able to incur the expense of such treatment, and that such habitual drunkard is willing and has agreed to attend such institute forth. |