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," shall apply in the execution of this act, and the officers mentioned in said act shall be required to report all cases of deaf children residing in their jurisdiction to the superintendent of the Michigan school for the deaf, and they shall enforce this act in the same manner as the said act number two hundred of nineteen hundred five is enforced. The same penalties prescribed for violation of said act are hereby prescribed for violation of this act. Time may remain in school. Dismissal and transfer. Duty of secretary of state. Census enumerator. COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF BLIND CHILDREN. [Extracts from Act 123, P. A. 1893.] (426) § 1474. SEC. 7. The period in which pupils shall be entitled to remain in said school shall be twelve years, or the board of control may, in cases where they deem it advisable, extend such time to fourteen years. This section shall not be so construed as to prohibit the said board of control from dismissing any pupil within the such period for persistent disobedience, immoral conduct, or other sufficient cause, neither shall anything in this act operate to prohibit the transfer of any child over the age of eighteen years to the Michigan employment institution for the blind upon consent granted by the board of control of the Michigan school for the blind, and whenever, in the discretion of said board, the transfer of any such child will be for its best interests or the best interests of the said Michigan school for the blind. NOTE.-Act 188, P. A. 1917, provides for the temporary care and maintenance of blind children under the age of six years in the state public school pending arrangements being made at Michigan school for the blind for care of said children. (427) § 1476. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to make out and forward to the superintendent of the Michigan school for the blind, on or before the first day of November in each year, on blanks prepared for that purpose, a copy in detail of so much of the statistical information received by him by virtue of any law of this state as relates to the blind. It shall be the duty of each school census enumerator provided for in the general school laws of the state, within the district, ward, or portion thereof, allotted to him, to procure the name, age, residence, and the name and residence of the parents or guardians or persons in control or in charge of each blind child, and of each child whose vision is so defective as to make it impossible to properly educate such child in the public schools, between the ages of seven and nineteen years. names of whom made, (a) The said enumerators in addition to their duties now List of prescribed in the general school law shall make a list of the blind chil names of all blind children, or children whose vision is so dren, by defective as to make it impossible to properly educate them etc. in the public schools, together with the data herein authorized to be secured, which list shall be verified by oath or affirmation of the person taking such census, by affidavit appended thereto, or inserted thereon, setting forth that it is a correct list of the names of all the children herein designated, residing within the particular school district, ward, or portion thereof. Said affidavit may be made before the township clerk or any other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments. Blanks for this purpose shall be furnished by the department of public instruction to the secretary of every school board within the state. The said list shall, To whom after it has been properly verified, and within the time prescribed by the general school laws for the filing of census lists, be forwarded by the secretaries of the said school boards to the superintendent of public instruction and a copy thereof shall be filed with the proper officer of the township or city, as the case may be. The said superintendent of public in- Duty of supt. struction shall, immediately upon receipt of the various lists, public inprepare and tabulate a report containing the name, age and residence of each blind child, and each child whose vision is so defective as to make it impossible for it to be properly educated in the schools for the seeing within this state, together with the names and residences of the parents, guardian, or person having the control of any such child, which report shall be forwarded to the superintendent of the Michigan school for the blind. forwarded. struction. school for (b) It shall be the duty of every parent, guardian, or When chilother person, having control or charge of any child or children dren sent to in the state of Michigan, between the ages of seven and nine- blind. teen years who are blind, or whose vision is so defective as to make it impossible to have them properly educated in the schools for the seeing, to send such child, or children, to the Michigan school for the blind, to be received at that school in accordance with the provisions of the statute, and the rules and regulations which are or may be prescribed by the board of control of said school: Provided, That the parents, guar- Proviso, dian or person having control of any such child shall not be exceptions. required to send them to the Michigan school for the blind when they come within any one of the following classes: (1) Any child or children being educated in any private or parochial school; (2) Any child or children physically or mentally incompetent of being educated; (3) Any child or children over the age of seventeen years who have been taught and are employed and are working at a trade; (4) Any child or children of the age of eighteen years employed at the Michigan employment institution for the blind; Duty of superintendent of school. Truant officer. When superintendent to notify truant officer. When to enforce act. Proceedings in indigent cases. Penalty for violation. (c) It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the Michigan school for the blind to furnish to the county commissioner of schools of every county, and to the secretary of the school board in every city or village, a list of the names of such children within such county, city or village, as come within the provisions of this act. Each truant officer shall, when notified by the board of control, or by the superintendent of the Michigan school for the blind, or by anyone appointed or designated by them, or by the county commissioner of schools, that there are within such village, city or county, as the case may be, children who come within the provisions of this act, investigate all such cases and report the conditions found to exist to the superintendent of the Michigan school for the blind, and the commissioners of schools of the county. The superintendent of the Michigan school for the blind shall, upon receipt of such report from any truant officer, determine whether or not the children in question are included within the provisions of this act, and if in his judgment such children are included within the provisions of this act, and are not included within the exempted classes named herein, he shall notify the proper truant officer, who, upon receipt of such notice, shall take such steps against the parents, guardian or other person having charge or control of any such child or children, to enforce the provisions of this act, as are now prescribed in act two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, as amended, relative to compulsory education under the general school law. (d) In case when such parent, guardian or other person, on account of indigent circumstances, are unable to furnish such child or children with transportation to and from such school, the board of trustees of the Michigan school for the blind shall provide such transportation each year, and the said board of trustees may include therewith transportation for such parent, guardian or other person to said school and return, when the child is under twelve years of age, and for that purpose may issue a certificate directed to the auditor general that said amount is necessary for the benefit of such individuals, who shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer therefor, and any such sums are hereby appropriated, and shall be paid out of any moneys in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, and the auditor general shall charge all such moneys, so drawn, to the county of which such parent, guardian or other person is a resident, or to which he or she shall belong, to be collected and returned to the general fund, the same as any state taxes are required to be by law. (e) Anyone refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this act, and any parent, guardian or other person who shall wilfully refuse to send any children coming within the provisions of this act and not herein expressly exempted, to the Michigan school for the blind, or who shall detain any such children who should be in attendance at said school, shall, upon conviction by any court of competent authority, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to applicable. An Act authorizing the superintendent of public instruction to afford suitable instruction and vocational training to adult blind persons in their respective homes and communities, with a view to meeting their educational needs and enabling them to contribute to their own support, and to employ assistants therefor, and making an appropriation to meet the same. [Act 219, P. A. 1919.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: (428) SECTION 1. The superintendent of public instruc- Instruction, tion is hereby authorized to provide direction and supervision blind adults. of suitable instruction and training of adult blind residents of this state in their respective homes or communities, with a view to meeting their educational needs and enabling them to contribute to their own support. (429) SEC. 2. In the discharge of the foregoing powers, Co-operation. the superintendent of public instruction is authorized to cooperate with the boards of education of local communities and with such organizations and institutions as he shall deem necessary. assistants. tion. (430) SEC. 3. The superintendent of public instruction May employ is hereby authorized to employ such assistants, not in excess of two, as may be necessary to carry out the intents and purposes of this act. The compensation of such assistants shall Compensanot exceed the sum of one hundred twenty-five dollars per month and actual and necessary expenses for the time actually engaged in such work; and the same shall be paid from the How paid. general fund on warrant from the auditor general in the same manner that the clerks in the department of the superintendent of public instruction are paid. Sec. 4. Appropriation clause. An Act to provide for the care, maintenance and instruction of blind babies and children under school age. [Act 258, P. A. 1913.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: (431) § 1480. SECTION 1. The state board of education Blind chilshall have power to provide for the suitable care, mainte- dren, care. nance and instruction of babies and children under school age tain. etc., of cer Maintenance, education, etc. Proviso. Time child to be kept. Tax clause. residing in this state, who may be born blind or become blind in any case where by reason of lack of means or other cause the parent or parents of such children may be unable to properly care for, maintain and educate such children. (432) § 1481. SEC. 2. For the purpose of providing such care, maintenance and education the said board of education shall have power to contract with any institution having or furnishing facilities for such care, maintenance and education in this or any other state at a contract price to be agreed upon, not exceeding five dollars per week per child: Provided, That such contract shall be made by and with the written consent of the parents or surviving parent of any such child. (433) § 1482. SEC. 3. Such contract shall continue in force and the care, maintenance and education provided therein shall continue until such child attains the age of six years. (434) § 1483. SEC. 4. There shall be included in the tax to be levied for state school purposes, a rate sufficient to raise the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, in addition to all other sums provided by law, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. (435) § 1484. SEC. 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to repeal or in any way modify any existing law with reference to the education of the deaf, dumb and blind. What children deemed truants, etc. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES. An Act to prevent crime and to punish truancy. The People of the State of Michigan enact: (436) 15576. SECTION 1. That every boy between the age of ten and sixteen years, or any girl between the age of ten and seventeen years, who shall frequent or be found lounging about saloons, disreputable places, houses of ill fame, or who shall be an inmate or resident or a member of a family who [reside] resides in any house of ill fame, or conduct any other disreputable place, or who shall frequent other rooms or places where dissolute and disreputable people congregate, or where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, or who shall, against the command of his or her parents or guardian, run away or wilfully absent himself or herself from the school he or she is attending, or from any house, office, shop, firm or other place where he or she is residing or legitimately employed with labor, or who shall against such command of his or her parents or guardian or for any immoral, disorderly or dishonest purposes be found lounging upon the public streets, |