years, and who by reason of deafness or imperfect hearing cannot be taught successfully in the public schools, shall be required to send such child or children to a day school for the deaf, the Michigan school for the deaf, located at Flint, or to such other school for the deaf as the said parent, guardian, or other person in parental control, prefers: Provided, Proviso. That should the parent, guardian or other person in parental control of said child or children fail to meet the foregoing provision, then such child or children shall be sent to the Michigan school for the deaf, located at Flint.

tion given

poor children.

paid and

(292) SEC. 2. In cases where such parent, guardian or Transportaother person, on account of their poverty, 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 deaf shall furnish 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, where 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 Sums, how and shall be paid out of any moneys in the general fund, not where 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 belongs, to be collected and returned to the general fund the same as any state taxes are required to be by law. (293) SEC. 3. Act number two hundred of the public Certain act acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "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," 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 Penalties. 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.

to apply.

Time may remain in school.

transfer.

An Act to provide for the maintenance, supervision and government of the Michigan school for the blind, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

[Extract from Act 123, P. A. 1893.]

(295) § 2017. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the secrebe entitled to remain in said school shall be twelve years, or the board of control may, in cases where they deem it advisDismissal and able, 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.

Duty of secretary of state.

Census

enumerator

List of names of blind chil

dren, by whom made, verified, etc.

Am. 1907, Act 116.

(295) § 2017. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the secreiary 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.

(a) The said enumerators in addition to their duties now prescribed in the general school laws shall make a list of the names of all blind children, or children whose vision is so defective as to make it impossible to properly educate them 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

forwarded.

public in

furnished by the department of public instruction to the secretary of every school board within the state. The said To whom list shall, 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 superintend- Duty of supt. ent of public instruction shall, immediately upon receipt of struction. the various lists, prepare 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.

children to be

for blind.

(b) It shall be the duty of every parent, guardian, or When other person, having control or charge of any child or chil- sent to Michdren in the state of Michigan, between the ages of seven and igan school nineteen 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 par- Proviso, ents, guardian or person having control of any such child exceptions. shall not be 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;

erintendent

(c) It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the Mich- Duty of supigan school for the blind to furnish to the county commis- of school. sioner 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 Truant 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

officer.

When superintendent to

officer.

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 notify truant 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.

When to enforce act.

Proceedings in indigent

cases.

Penalty for violation.

Act

applicable.

(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 such penalties as are prescribed in said act two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five as amended for the violation of any of its provisions. All provisions of said act two hundred of the public acts of nine

teen hundred five are made applicable hereto except in so far as they may be inconsistent herewith.

Am. Id.

OF

CARE AND INSTRUCTION OF BLIND BABIES.

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:

of certain.

(296) SECTION 1. The state board of education shall have Blind children, power to provide for the suitable care, maintenance and in- care, etc., struction of babies and children under school age 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.

education, etc.

(297) SEC. 2. For the purpose of providing such care, Maintenance, 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: Pro- Proviso. vided, That such contract shall be made by and with the written consent of the parents or surviving parent of any such child.

to be kept.

(298) SEC. 3. Such contract shall continue in force and Time child the care, maintenance and education provided therein shall continue until such child attains the age of six years.

(299) SEC. 4. There shall be included in the tax to be Tax clause. 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.

(300) 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.

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