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 pro- applicable. visions of said act two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five are made applicable hereto except in so far as they may be inconsistent herewith. Am. Id. Act 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: care, etc., (366) § 1480. SECTION 1. The state board of education Blind children, shall have power to provide for the suitable care, mainte- of certain. nance and instruction 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. (367) § 1481. SEC. 2. For the purpose of providing Maintenance, such care, maintenance and education the said board of edu- education, etc cation 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 Proviso. written consent of the parents or surviving parent of any such child. to be kept. (368) § 1482. SEC. 3. Such contract shall continue in Time child force and the care, maintenance and education provided therein shall continue until such child attains the age of six years. (369) § 1483. SEC. 4. There shall be included in the tax Tax clause. 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. (370) § 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 or disorderly persons. Who to make complaint. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES. An Act to prevent crime and to punish truancy. [Act 222, P. A. 1887.1 The People of the State of Michigan enact: (371) § 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, highways or other public resorts or at places of amusement of dissolute or improper character, or who shall against any such command or for any [such] disorderly or dishonest purposes attend any public dance, skating rink, or show shall be deemed guilty as a truant or disorderly child. A charge that respondent was a disorderly juvenile offender and was a truant and is an unmanageable child, is insufficient to sustain a conviction.— People v. Turja, 157 / 530. (372) 15577. SEC. 2. Upon the complaint upon oath and in writing made before any justice of the peace, police justice or other criminal magistrate, by the parent or guardian, or other person knowing of the facts of his own knowledge, that any girl between the age of ten and seventeen years, or that any boy between the age of ten and sixteen years, or by the supervisor of any township, or mayor of any city, or president of any village, and in any city of over eight thousand population by the chief of police, mayor, or other person knowing of the facts of his own knowledge, that such minor has been guilty of any of the acts specified in section sentence. one of this act, such justice of the peace, police justice or Term of other criminal magistrate, shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such minor, and upon conviction such minor, if a boy, may be sentenced by such justice of the peace, police justice or criminal magistrate, to the industrial school for boys at Lansing, and if a girl, to the industrial home for girls at Adrian, boys until eighteen years of age, and girls until twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged according to law: Provided, That no person or persons shall be sent Proviso as to the said industrial school for boys or to the industrial of sentence. home for girls until the sentence therein has been submitted to and approved by one of the judges of the recorder's court. of the city of Detroit, or judge of the superior court of the city of Grand Rapids, or any circuit judge or probate judge of the county in which such conviction shall be had. Am. 1899, Act 75. to approval upon trial. (373) § 15578. SEC. 3. The same proceedings shall be Proceedings had upon the trial of any person charged with being guilty of any of the offenses mentioned in section one of this act before the justice before whom such person is brought as are had in trials for misdemeanor, as far as the same are applicable, and the state agent for the care of juvenile offenders Duty of of the county wherein such offenders may be on trial shall have authority and take the same action in the premises as is provided by act number one hundred and seventy-one of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three of this state. An Act to provide for the punishment of persons responsible for or contributing to the delinquency of children. [Act 314, P. A. 1907.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: state agent. of delinquent of, penalty. (374) § 2028. SECTION 1. In all cases where any child shall Parents, etc., be a delinquent child, or a juvenile delinquent person, as de- children, refined by the statutes of this state, the parent or parents, legal sponsibility guardian or person having the custody of such child, or any other person, responsible for or by any act encouraging, causing or contributing to the delinquency of such child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment: Provided, That the court may, in its discretion, Proviso as to suspend sentence upon any person found guilty under this act upon conditions which may be imposed by the court at the time of the suspension of such sentence. suspension of sentence. Minors or students, not permitted in saloon, etc. An Act to provide for the protection of children. (From this act only such portion is quoted as relates directly to students in schools.) (375) $ 7223. SEC. 2. No minor child under seventeen years of age, nor any minor who is a student in any public, private or parochial school in the state of Michigan, shall be permitted to remain in any saloon, bar room or other place where any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or any wine or beer, or any beverage, liquor or liquors containing any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, beer or malt liquor is sold, given away or furnished for a beverage; or in any place of amusement known as dance houses, concert saloons, variety theaters; or in any house of prostitution; or in any room or hall occupied or used for hire, gain or reward, for the purpose of playing billiards, pool, cards, dice or any other unlawful game; or in any room or hall used or occupied for gaming, pool-selling or betting in any manner whatever; or in any room or hall in which any cigars or tobacco are sold Misdemeanor. or kept for sale, where any such games are played. Any proprietor, keeper or manager of any such place who shall permit such minor child or minor student to remain in any such place, and any person who shall encourage or induce in any way such minor child or minor student to enter such place or to remain therein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Penalty. Am. 1905, Act 236; 1907, Act 55; 1909, Act 203. Child under 21 not to work sold. EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN. [Extract from Act 285, P. A. 1909.] (376) § 5331. SEC. 10. No child under the age of twenwhere liquor ty-one years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any theater, concert hall, or place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold. No child under fifteen years 15, where not of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in Child under to work. or in connection with any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, billiard or pool room conducted for profit, theater, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, telegraph child under kept, what to 16, not to be or messenger service within this state: Provided, This sec- Proviso, tion shall not apply to any child of the age of fourteen years 14, on Saturor over, working on Saturdays or other days during the day. etc. school year, outside of school hours or during the established vacation periods in preserving perishable goods in fruit or vegetable canning establishments or in any mercantile institutions, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, telegraph or messenger service within this state. It shall be the duty of every mer- Register to be cantile institution, store, hotel, office, laundry, manufactur- contain. ing establishment, mine, bowling alley, workshop, telegraph or messenger service or any person coming within the provisions of this act to keep a register in which will be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed under the age of sixteen years, and it shall Child under be unlawful for any such establishment or person to hire or hired without employ, or permit to be hired or employed or suffered to permit. work, any child under the age of sixteen years without there is first provided and placed on file in the business office thereof a permit issued by the superintendent of schools of Who to issue. the school district in which such child resides, or the county commissioner of schools, or some one duly authorized by him in writing, any of whom shall have power to administer oaths in relation thereto. Such permit shall be returned imme- Return of diately to the issuing officer by the employer when such child leaves such employment. A child shall be considered as having withdrawn from his employment when he or she shall have absented himself or herself from work for five full working days without explanation. Every limited vacation permit, Limited vacahereinafter to be described, shall, upon its expiration, be void and of no effect. The said 'register and permit shall be pro- Inspection of duced for inspection on demand of any factory inspector ap- register. pointed under this act. No fee shall be charged for such per- No fee for mit or other record required by this act by any officer by whom it shall be issued. Every employer complying with the provisions of this section shall be at liberty to employ the person so presenting the permit hereinbefore referred to, and is justified in considering and treating such person as of the age shown in such permit and shall not be liable, if it transpire that such person is under the age represented in such permit, to any greater extent than such employer would be liable if such person were of the age represented. The person authorized and required to issue such permit Prerequisites shall not issue the same until he has received, examined, ap- permit. proved and filed the following papers duly executed: permit. tion permits. permit and permit. to issuance of urdays, vaca (a) The school report of said child properly filled out School report. and signed as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That Proviso, Satwhen such permit is issued during the summer vacation or tion, etc. for working on Saturdays or other days during the school year, outside of school hours no such record shall be required, but all such permits, called in this act limited vacation per |