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fish exceeding that weight: Provided, It shall be lawful for Proviso, any person or persons to have in his or their possession fish exceptions. in excess of said weight caught from other waters than mentioned in section one of this act or to use said waters as a highway for transporting dynamite, giant powder, or other explosive substances, nets, Indian cockle, or fish caught in other waters as aforesaid, or to have in his or their possession said explosives, nets or Indian cockle for the purpose of sale in the usual line of trade, or for any other lawful use or purpose.

first offense.

SEC. 5. Any person or persons violating any of the provi- Penalties, sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof for the first offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, or by. imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and for the second or any subse- Second quent offense shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine offense. not less than fifty dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and in all cases where a fine and costs are imposed the court shall sentence the offender to be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs are paid, for a period not exceeding the maximum jail penalty provided for such offense.

evidence of violation.

SEC. 6. In all prosecutions under this act it shall be prima Prima facie facie evidence on the part of the people of its violation to show that the defendant or defendants were found upon any of the waters of said rivers, streams, creeks, bayous or part of Saginaw bay or within one-half mile inland from the shores thereof, with a net, except minnow net not exceeding nine square feet in size, Indian cockle, dynamite, giant powder, or any explosive substance, or with more than twenty-five pounds of fish, except carp or one fish exceeding that weight.

SEC. 7. For the purpose of this act, the term "hook and Hook and line" shall mean any kind of a hook or device upon which line,” defined. hooks are attached, that is fastened to a single line.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect April one, nineteen hun- Date of effect, dred eight, and all acts and parts of acts contravening the etc. provisions of this act shall be repealed April one, nineteen hundred eight.

Approved May 6, 1907.

[No. 77.]

AN ACT to make an additional appropriation for procuring plans, material and for building and furnishing a State administration building, and for maintaining the same, on the grounds of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Additional ap- SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated the sum of five propriation for thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirty, ninebuilding. teen hundred eight, as a supplemental appropriation to the amount appropriated by section seven of "An act to create a commission and define its powers and duties, and to make an appropriation for the purpose of making an historical and industrial exhibit upon the part of the State of Michigan at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, to be held on the borders of Hampton Roads, Virginia, in the year nineteen hundred seven, and to provide a tax to meet · the same," approved March sixth, nineteen hundred seven, for the purpose of procuring plans, material, building and furnishing a State administration building, and for maintaining the same on the grounds of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition.

How drawn.

Tax clause.

SEC. 2. The money hereby appropriated shall be drawn from the State treasury and disbursed by the Board of Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition managers in the same manner as the moneys appropriated by the act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred seven, are to be drawn and disbursed.

SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of five thousand dollars which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for moneys hereby appropriated.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 8, 1907.

Section

amended.

[No. 78.]

AN ACT to amend section three of act one hundred fortyone of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the exercise by religious societies of corporate powers for certain purposes."

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of act one hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the exercise by religious societies of corporate

powers for certain purposes," is hereby amended so that said section shall read as follows:

convey prop

SEC. 3. Such trustees may have a common seal, and may May hold and alter the same at pleasure, and by their corporate name may erty, etc. take into their possession, hold and enjoy all the property, real and personal, purchased for, devised, granted or conveyed to them for the use and benefit of such religious organization; they may also, in such corporate name, sue and be sued in all courts, recover and hold all debts, demands, rights and privileges, and they may sell and convey, mortgage or lease any real estate belonging to such organization or held by them as such trustees. And in every case of the convey. Certified copy

of resolution to

ance or incumbrance of real estate, said trustees shall be annexed to
annex to their deed or mortgage a certified copy of the cor- deed, etc.
porate resolution authorizing such conveyance or in-
cumbrance, and such certified resolution may be recorded
with such deed or mortgage in the office of the register of
deeds of the county where said real estate is situated, and
when so recorded such record, or a certified copy thereof
made by the register of deeds, shall be received as prima
facie evidence of the authority conferred by such resolution
in all courts in this State. Such trustees may also, upon vacancy in
the death or resignation of any of their number, fill the trustees, how
vacancy so caused, and the person elected to fill such va-
cancy shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired
term, or until the organization or association electing the
said trustees shall make a new election.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 8, 1907.

filled.

[No. 79.]

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to the Wesleyan Seminary at. Albion and the Albion Female Collegiate Institute," approved February nine, eighteen hundred fifty-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. An act, entitled "An act amendatory to the Act amended. several acts in relation to the Wesleyan Seminary at Albion and the Albion Female Collegiate Institute," approved February nine, eighteen hundred fifty-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

sification,

SEC. 1. Charles M. Ranger, Eugene Allen, John G. Trustees, clasBrown, William Dawe, James H. Simpson, John E. J. Phelps, Albert Beebe, Edward N. Parsons,

Graham, body corpo-
Thomas rate, etc.

Vacancies, in board of

trustees, how filled.

Term.

Certificate of

recorded, etc.

Cox, Charles W. Baldwin, Frank P. Glazier, David D. Erwin, Dempster D. Martin and Edward A. Elliott are hereby constituted and continued a body corporate by the name of Albion College, and shall be trustees of said corporation with the classification which now exists in the board of trustees of said Albion College, for the purpose of maintaining and conducting an institution of learning located at the city of Albion in the county of Calhoun in the State of Michigan; and the said Albion College shall be and hereby is vested with all the corporate powers, privileges and rights of the Wesleyan Seminary at Albion and the Albion Female College as heretofore existing, except as hereby changed or altered and with all the corporate property of said previously existing corporations as fully to all intents and purposes as before vested in the said previously existing corporations.

SEC. 2. The power to fill vacancies occurring in the board of trustees of said Albion College by death, expiration of term of office, or otherwise, is hereby and hereafter vested in the Michigan Annual Conference of the of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Detroit Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Alumni Association of said Albion College, so that each of said annual conferences shall elect two trustees in each and every year and shall fill vacancies occurring in the classification belonging to each of said annual conferences to serve for the unexpired term of the person or persons whose places he or they may be elected to fill. Each of said trustees elected for a regular term shall hold his office for the term of three years and until his successor shall be elected. The election in said annual conference shall be by ballot. Each trustee so elected election, where shall receive a certificate of his election from the secretary of the annual conference by which he is elected, and such certificate shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county of Calhoun, State of Michigan. The Alumni Association of said Albion College shall, at its annual meeting in June of each year, elect by such method as the association shall from time to time direct, except as hereinafter provided, one trustee whose election shall be certified by a certificate signed by the secretary of said association, and such certificate shall be recorded as above in the office of the county clerk in the county of Calhoun, State of Michigan. Trustees so elected shall serve for a regular term of three years and said association may elect, for the purpose of filling vacancies, trustees who shall serve for the unexpired Eligibility of term of the vacancy so filled. If any person so elected as a trustee shall be a graduate of said college, in order to be eligible to said office, he shall have graduated at least five. years previous to the time of entering upon his said office, and no person graduating from said college shall be qualified to vote at any election of trustees by said alumni until the

Election of trustee by Alumni

ciation.

graduates.

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year following his graduation, and it shall be understood that no member of the Alumni Association is eligible to vote in the election of said trustees except graduates of the College of Liberal Arts.

tees.

confer.

SEC. 3. The said trustees shall have power to make by- Power of truslaws for their own government and for the government of the institution; to elect or appoint the faculty or board of instruction of said college; to prescribe the course of study; to attend the examinations of the classes; to regulate the government and instruction of students and manage the affairs of said corporation in such manner as they think best calculated to promote and carry out the objects contemplated in this act. They shall have power to confer the Degrees may bachelor's degree upon such persons as shall have completed satisfactorily to the faculty and said trustees the course of study prescribed. They shall have power to confer the master's degree on such graduates of Albion College or of other institutions of similar grade as they shall judge worthy, and they shall have power, also, to confer such honorary degrees as are usually conferred by colleges and universities and shall have all other powers and privileges belonging to colleges according to the laws of this State: Provided always, That the course of study for graduation Proviso. shall be equal to that which is required in the University of Michigan.

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SEC. 4. The president of said Albion College shall be President of elected by the board of trustees and by virtue of his office tion of, memof president shall be a member of said board of trustees with ber of board. all the powers and privileges of a trustee, so that the whole number of trustees of said college as herein provided shall be sixteen and no more, except as herein provided. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

gifts, have

SEC. 5. The said corporation shall be capable of suing May receive and being sued and receiving by gift, will or bequest, property, seal, etc." real and personal, and of holding and conveying the same. The said corporation shall have power to make and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure.

to be vitiated

SEC. 6. This act shall be and hereby is declared to be a pub- Provisions not lic act; no non-user of any of the privileges hereby granted by irregularito the said corporation shall create or produce a forfeiture of ties. the same and no misnomer of said corporation in any deed, will, testament, gift, grant, demise or other instrument, contract or conveyance shall defeat or vitiate the same, provided that the corporation be sufficiently described to ascertain the intent.

SEC. 7. When the total number of persons who have grad- When may inuated from Albion College with the bachelor's degree shall crease trustees. have reached eight hundred, the Alumni Association of said Albion College shall be empowered to elect four trustees instead of three and to keep that number of representatives in

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