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of petition, etc.

When supervisors may make contract for treatment.

Drunkard, defined.

Contract to

be made with Michigan institution.

Persons

treated may reimburse county.

Repealing clause.

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for the cure of drunkenness, which petition shall be verified by the person making such request and shall contain in addition thereto the written agreement of such drunkard to take such treatment, if allowed by the board, and a further statement signed by three reputable taxpayers of the county, and the supervisor of the township, ward or village, where such drunkard resides, stating that they are familiar with the facts set forth in the petition and with the financial circumstances of the drunkard and that they deem it a proper case for such action by the board of supervisors.

SEC. 2. When such petition is filed, the board of supervisors may, if satisfied that the facts set forth in the petition are true, make and enter into a contract with the institution for the cure of such cases, for the treatment of the same, and the said board of supervisors shall order that the expense for the treatment, not exceeding one hundred dollars, be paid out of the county treasury in the manner that other claims and bills against the county are paid.

SEC. 3. A drunkard, as defined herein, shall include all persons who use alcoholic, spirituous, malt, brewed, fermented or vinous liquors, or morphia, laudanum, cocaine, opium or other narcotic to such an extent as to deprive him or her of a reasonable degree of self-control.

SEC. 4. Such contract with such institute for the cure of said cases shall be made and entered into with one which is located in the State of Michigan, that can satisfy said board that not less than seventy-five per cent. of the persons having taken a full course of treatment, consisting of not less than four weeks, have been cured and have re-mained cured for at least one year thereafter.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall be treated at any institute under the provisions of this statute may at any time reimburse the county by paying to the county treasurer the amount thereof, and the treasurer shall give him a receipt for the amount so paid, which receipt shall state that such payment is for reimbursement, as aforesaid, and the amount so paid shall be turned into the general fund.

SEC. 6. All acts or parts of acts contravening any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved April 30, 1907.

[No. 69.]

AN ACT to repeal act number ninety-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to amend the title and sections one and two of act number one hundred four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, entitled 'An act for the protection of fish in the Kalamazoo river and its tributaries in the townships of Saugatuck and Manlius in the county of Allegan.'"

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act number ninety-three of the public acts Act repealed. of nineteen hundred three is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 30, 1907.

[No. 70.]

AN ACT to amend act number sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to authorize the use of any thoroughly tested and reliable voting machine at any election held in this State," as amended by act number two hundred thirty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, and by act number two hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, by adding a new section thereto to stand as section seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act number sixty-one of the public acts of Act amended. eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to authorize the use of any thoroughly tested and reliable voting machine at any election held in this State," as amended by act number two hundred thirty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred three and by act number two hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto to stand as section seventeen and to read as follows:

challenged.

SEC. 17. When the right of any person offering to vote Proceedings, has been challenged, the inspectors of election shall tender when voter is to him such of the oaths required by the election laws of the State, as he may claim to contain the grounds of his qualification to vote. If such person, so challenged, will take either of the oaths provided by law his vote shall be received, and he shall have the right to cast a ballot in the manner provided in section eleven of this act for voting an

Proviso.

irregular ballot, or in the ballot box provided in section five of act sixty-one, public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, for voting on any question or matter not provided for by the voting machine: Provided, The ballot so cast shall comply with the provisions of sections three thousand seven hundred twenty and three thousand seven hundred twenty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety

seven.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 30, 1907.

When society

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corporation.

[No. 71.]

AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of a mutual benefit society in the county of Mason, State of Michigan.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any society heretofore or hereafter organized, may incorpo- the membership in which, at the time of becoming members, is confined to the residents of Mason county, and having for its object the payment of a sum or sums of money to designated beneficiaries, on the death of a member, or the payment of sick or funeral benefits, or all or any one of such objects, may become a body corporate in the following Manner of in- manner: At any regular meeting of such society, due notice having been given at the preceding regular meeting, a vote shall be taken on the question, "Shall this society become a body corporate?" And when said question shall have been adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon, said society shall file in the office of the Secretary of State, and also in the office of the county clerk, a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said society, and also a copy of the above vote, certified to by the president and secretary of said society, and said society shall thereupon become a body corporate and may sue and be sued.

Rights of corporation.

Funds.

Mortuary fund.

SEC. 2. No corporation formed in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall issue stock or borrow money, or hold invested funds, or acquire or hold real estate, except such as may be necessary for the transaction of its business.

SEC. 3. The funds of such corporation shall be derived from assessments upon its members and shall be collected and applied only as prescribed in its constitution and bylaws.

SEC. 4. Such corporation may provide, in its constitution and by-laws, and in its certificates of membership, that each person, upon becoming a member of such society, shall pay an equal and stipulated sum, into its mortuary fund, to be

deposited in a savings or other bank, and that such fund so accumulated, with its own earnings, shall constitute the amount of benefits to be paid to the beneficiary or beneficiaries of the member first dying, and that upon the death of a member, a new mortuary fund shall be created by a like assessment upon each of said members remaining and each new member upon becoming a member, so that the amount of death benefits to be paid by such society shall be governed by the number of members in good standing, and the amount earned by such fund, so deposited in such bank.

Insurance

. SEC. 5. Every such corporation shall, when by him re- Report to quested to do so, and upon blanks, by him furnished, report Commissioner. to the Insurance Commissioner, all facts concerning its business, which he may require, and shall be subject to the supervision of said commissioner, according to the provisions of sections fifteen and twenty-two of act one hundred eightyseven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, so far as the same may be applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act.

rations may

SEC. 6. Any society, coming within the purview of this Former corpoact, that may have heretofore become incorporated under and receive benefit by virtue of any other law, may secure the benefits and of this act. provisions of this act, by filing in the office of the Secretary of State and also in the office of the county clerk of said Mason county, notice in writing, signed by its president and secretary, of its desire so to do.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 30, 1907.

[No. 72.]

AN ACT to regulate the granting of relief to and the admission of certain poor persons to the asylums and almshouses, and to provide for collecting the expense of the temporary care and transportation of such persons, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

The People of the State of Michigan cnact:

entitled to

SECTION 1. Any poor person who is incompetent to earn Persons not a livelihood at the time of such person's entry into any admission to county in this State, or becomes so incompetent within one asylums, etc. year from the time of such entry, shall not be entitled to admission into any of the State asylums or county asylums or almshouses at the expense of the State or county or to receive any public relief of any nature, when the name of the county or State from whence said person came can be ascertained, excepting such temporary care or relief as such Temporary person may need pending his return, as hereinafter provided, relief. to the county where he was last continuously settled for one year.

Duty of superintendents of the poor.

Form of notice.

Service of notice.

Proof of service.

Denial of liability by superintendents of poor.

SEC. 2. The superintendents of the poor, or any of them, of the county in which such person shall have entered, as aforesaid, in which such person may require temporary relief, shall, within ten days after ascertaining the county in which such person shall have been last continuously settled for one year previous to the time of such entry, give notice, in writing, to the superintendents of the poor of such county, which said notice shall be substantially in the following form:

To the Superintendents of the Poor of the county of

Take Notice, That.

who was last continuously settled for
county of... . . .

" a poor person, one year in the before leaving said county and is temporarily and is receiving such re

coming into the county of.......
in the county of.....
lief and care as h... may require on account of h... being
such poor person, and will continue to receive such care
at the expense of your county; and you are required, forth-
with, to cause said poor person to be transported into your
own county, pursuant to the provisions of the statute in
such case made and provided.
Dated this....

..day of....

Superintendent of the Poor of

A. D.......

..County.

The said notice may be served by any superintendent of the poor of the county where such poor person may temporarily be as aforesaid, upon the superintendents of the poor of the county in which such poor person was last continuously settled for one year, by delivering said notice personally to any of said superintendents of the poor, or by sending a copy of said notice by registered mail, addressed to the superintendents of the poor of said county, at the county seat of said county; and in any action arising under or by virtue of the provisions of this act, an affidavit of the fact of serving such notice made by the superintendent of the poor making personal service of said notice, as aforesaid, or the affidavit of such superintendent of the poor of the fact of registering and mailing said notice, accompanied by the postoffice receipt for such registered letter and a true copy of the notice enclosed in said letter, shall be sufficient proof of such service.

SEC. 3. It shall [be] the duty of the superintendents of the poor, or any of them, of the county sought to be charged with the care, relief, support and return transportation of poor persons by means of the notice required in section two of this act, if they, or any of them, shall deem their county not legally responsible for the care, relief, support and return transportation of such poor persons, to serve a

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