Short term loans.

Local officer agent of district.

Tuition for non-resident

pupils.

(404) SEC. 13. In addition to its other powers, it may with the consent of the legislative body of the city, authorize its financial officers to borrow for a period of one year or less, on the best terms obtainable, any sums necessary to pay any awards in condemnation proceedings.

(405) SEC. 14. Any local agency or local officer charged by special or local act passed by the state legislature, with any duty or responsibility to any school or school district, is hereby on the revision or amendment of said act by local authority made the agent or officer of the school district for the performance of the said duty and the discharge of the said responsibility.

(406) SEC. 15. It shall have no power to admit pupils, both of whose parents live outside the city, to its schools without payment of a tuition fee, nor shall it exercise any power herein conferred except in the manner provided by law for its guidance.

Boards to collect certificate fees.

When collected by director, etc.

Receipt.

Disposition of fees.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.

An Act to provide for the better support of teachers' institutes, and to repeal sections three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand seven hundred and ninety, and three thousand seven hundred and ninety-one of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

[Act 53, P. A. 1877.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(407) § 5970. SECTION 1. That all boards or officers, authorized by law to examine applicants for certificates of qualification as teachers, shall collect, at the time of examination, from each male applicant for a certificate, an annual fee of one dollar, and from each female applicant for a certificate, an annual fee of fifty cents, and the director and secretary of any school board that shall employ any teacher who has not paid the fee herein before provided, shall collect, at the time of making contract, from each male teacher so employed, an annual fee of one dollar, and from each female teacher so employed, an annual fee of fifty cents. All persons paying a fee as required by this section, shall be given a receipt for the same, and no person shall be required to pay said fee more than once in any school year.

ACT VALID: This act does not conflict with Const., Art. x, section 1, on the ground that the fees are specific taxes; nor on the ground that the fees are not uniform. This section is not defective, incomplete, ineffectual and is valid.-Hammond v. School Board, 109/676.

(408) § 5971. SEC. 2. All such fees, collected by the director or secretary of any school board, shall be paid over to the secretary of the county board of school examiners of the county in which they were collected, on or before the

fifteenth day of March, June, September and December, accompanied by a list of those persons from whom they were collected, and all of such fees, together with all those that shall be collected by the county board of school examiners, shall be paid over by the secretary of said board of school examiners to the treasurer of the county in which they were collected, on or before the last day of March, June, September and December, in each year, accompanied by a complete list of all persons from whom said fees were collected, and a like list, accompanied by a statement from the county treasurer that said fees have been paid to him, shall be sent by said secretary to the superintendent of public instruction. All moneys paid over to the county treasurer, as provided by this act, shall be set apart as a teacher's institute fund, to be used as hereinafter provided.

institute.

when optional

In case of

(409) § 5972. SEC. 3. The superintendent of public in- Annual struction shall annually appoint a time and place in each or- county ganized county for holding a teachers' institute, make suitable arrangements therefor, and give due notice thereof: Provided, That in organized counties having less than one Proviso, thousand children between the ages of five and twenty years, with superthe holding of such institute shall be optional with the said intendent. superintendent, unless requested to hold such institute by fifteen teachers of the county in which such institute is to be held: Provided, however, That if there shall not be a suffi- Proviso. cient number of teachers in any county to make such request, then teachers of adjoining counties who desire to attend such institute may unite in the required application to said superintendent: Provided, also, That the said superintendent may, Proviso. in his discretion, hold an institute for the benefit of two or more adjoining counties, and draw the institute fund from each of the counties thus benefited, as hereinafter provided. (410) § 5973. SEC. 4. The superintendent of public instruction, in case of inability personally to conduct any in- inability of stitute, or to make the necessary arrangements for holding tendent. the same, is hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person for that purpose, who shall be subject to the direction of said superintendent. Every teacher attending any institute Certificates of held in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be attendance. given by the superintendent of public instruction, or by the duly appointed conductor, a certificate setting forth at what sessions of said institute such teacher shall have been in attendance, and any teacher who shall have closed his or her school, in order to attend said institute, shall not forfeit his or her wages as teacher, during such time as he or she shall have been in attendance at said institute, and the certificate herein before provided shall be evidence of such attendance. (411) § 5974. SEC. 5. For the purpose of defraying the Expense of expenses of rooms, fires, lights, or other necessary charges, institute, and for procuring teachers and lecturers, the said superintendent, or the person duly authorized by him to conduct said institute, may demand of the county clerk of each county for

superin

how paid.

May draw on state treasurer.

Yearly state institute.

Proviso.

Vouchers for payments.

the benefit of which the institute is held, who shall thereupon draw an order on the county treasurer of his county for such sum, not exceeding the amount of the institute fund in the county treasury, as may be necessary to defray the expenses of said institute; and the treasurer of said county is hereby required to pay over to said superintendent or duly appointed institute conductor, from the institute fund in his hands, the amount of said order.

(412) § 5975. SEC. 6. In case the institute fund in any county shall be insufficient to defray the necessary expenses of any institute held under the provisions of this act, the auditor general shall, upon the certificate of the superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute and that the county institute fund is insufficient to meet the expenses thereof, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such additional sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each institute, and shall be paid out of the general fund.

(413) § 5976. SEC. 7. The superintendent is authorized to hold, once in each year, an institute for the state at large, to be denominated a state institute, and for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of such institute, the auditor general shall, on the certificate of said superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed four hundred dollars and shall be paid out of the general fund: Provided, That not more than three thousand dollars shall be drawn from the treasury or any greater liability incurred in any one year to meet the provisions of this act.

(414) § 5977. SEC. 8. The superintendent of public instruction, or the conductor of the institute by him appointed, drawing money from the county treasurer, under section five of this act, shall, at the close of each institute, furnish to the county treasurer, vouchers for all payments from the same in accordance with this act, and he shall return to the county treasurer whatever of the amount that may remain unexpended, to be replaced in the institute fund.

Sec. 9. Repealing clause.

Information

bureau, establish

ing of.

An Act to provide for the establishment in the office of the superintendent of public instruction of a bureau of information for the benefit of school officers, superintendents and teachers.

[Act 251, P. A. 1907.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(415) § 5825. SECTION 1. The superintendent of public instruction shall establish and maintain in his office a bureau of information wherein teachers desiring employment may

registering.

register and file such papers as to their qualifications as they may deem fit, and wherein school officers and superintendents may register vacancies in their respective schools. Each Fee for teacher so registering shall pay a fee of one dollar to the superintendent of public instruction, which fees shall be deposited with the state treasurer, and by him placed to the credit of the general fund. (416) § 5826. SEC. 2. Such information as is contained Information in said bureau shall be given without charge to all school officers, superintendents and teachers who may ask therefor, but neither the superintendent of public instruction nor any one employed in his office shall be required to recommend any teachers for positions.

free.

An Act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the

same.

[Act 200, P. A. 1905.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

to attend

(417) § 5979. SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian or What chilother person in the state of Michigan, having control and dren required charge of any child between the ages of seven and sixteen school. years, shall be required to send such child, equipped with the proper text-books necessary to pursue his or her school work, to the public schools during the entire school year, and such attendance shall be continuous and consecutive for the school year fixed by the district in which such parent, guardian or other person in parental relation may reside: Provided, That Proviso. in school districts which maintain school during the entire year, and in which the school year is divided into quarters, no child shall be compelled to attend the public school more than three quarters in any one year; but the absence of no child shall be permitted for any two consecutive quarters: Pro- Proviso, vided, That in the following cases children shall not be re- required to quired to attend the public schools:

(a) Any child who is attending regularly and is being taught in a private or parochial school which has complied with all the provisions of this act and teaches such branches as are taught in the public schools to children of corresponding age and grade as determined by the course of study for the public schools of the school district within which such private or parochial school is located, or who, upon the completion of the work in such schools, shall present satisfactory evidence to the county commissioner of schools, and in appropriate cases, to the superintendent of schools, that he has completed sufficient work to entitle him to an eighth grade diploma;

children not

attend.

Possessor of

diploma.

(b) Any child who has received an eighth grade diploma eighth grade from the public schools; or who is regularly employed as a page or messenger of either branch of the legislature, during the period of such employment;

Physically unfit.

When services essential to support of parents.

Proviso,

outside school hours.

Distance from school.

Proviso,

free transportation.

Member of confirmation class, etc.

Permit required.

To report monthly.

(c) Any child who is physically unable to attend school. If the truant officer is notified of the non-attendance of any child at school, and he shall find the one in parental control claiming that such child is physically unable to attend school, the truant officer may secure a written statement of a competent physician, certifying that such child is physically unable to attend school;

(d) Children over fourteen years of age who have completed the work of the sixth grade whose services are essential to the support of their parents may be excused by the county commissioner of schools or city superintendent of schools from attendance at school, on the recommendation of the board of education of the district in which such children reside, and said board shall certify to the officers herein mentioned the facts in all such cases: Provided, Nothing in this act or any other act shall prevent children fourteen years of age or over from procuring a permit to work outside of school hours, during the school year;

(e) Children under nine years of age, whose parents do not reside within two and one-half miles, by the nearest traveled road, of some public school: Provided, That if transportation is furnished for pupils in said district, this exemption shall not apply;

(f) Any child twelve to fourteen years of age while in attendance at confirmation classes conducted for a period of not to exceed five months in either of said years; any child claiming exemption from attending school under subdivisions (a) and (b) hereof upon the ground of having completed sufficient work to entitle him to an eighth grade diploma, shall secure such permit as may be required under the statutes of Michigan covering the employment of minors, and shall be regularly employed at some lawful work if physically able so to do, or any child who has completed the work of the eighth grade who wishes to be employed at some labor for which a labor permit is not required may be granted an excuse for such work by the county commissioner of schools or the superintendent of schools of a city district, or duly authorized agents. Such child must present to the officer who issued the excuse satisfactory evidence each month that he or she is actually performing the work for which the excuse was issued.

Am. 1917, Act 179; 1919, Act 132.

As to the permit contemplated in paragraph (f), see section 441. A child over 16 years of age is not between the ages of 7 and 16 years, and as to construction of age limit, see Jackson v. Mason, 145/338. The board of supervisors may reimburse a deputy sheriff for attorney's fees paid to defend himself against an action of malicious prosecution for arrest on a warrant fair on its face, where the officer acted in good faith and was held not liable.-Messmore v. Kracht, 172/120. Charge held insufficient to sustain conviction.-People v. Turja, 157/530.