License to sell. solved or become extinct, the title to said property belonging to said corporation shall pass to the annual conference within whose bounds said property is located. And said annual conference may, by such officer or committee as said conference may designate for that purpose, apply to the circuit court for the county in which said property may be, for license to sell the same. And such license may be granted by said court, after such notice of said application, as the court may direct, and thereupon said property may be sold and the proceeds of such sale disposed of as provided in the book of Corporation, discipline of the Methodist Protestant church; and said when may be dissolved. court, upon the hearing of said application, may dissolve said corporation when it shall appear by proof that said society has ceased to support a pastor, or perform the usual functions of a church, for a period of two years. Process, how served. Amendments to articles. Society heretofore incorporated. Former acts, how construed. SEC. 10. In all suits or legal proceedings brought against corporations organized under the provisions of this act, process may be served upon the chairman or any member of the board of trustees. SEC. 11. It shall be lawful for any church society incorporated under the provisions of this act, at a meeting called for that purpose, of which four weeks' notice shall have been given by announcement at a regular service, by a vote of two-thirds of all the qualified members present and voting, to amend its articles of association in any way not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or the book of discipline of the Methodist Protestant church; and such amendment shall become operative when said amended articles are executed and acknowledged in the same manner as stated in sections two and three of this act and the same has been recorded, or left for record as provided in section four of this act. SEC. 12. Any Methodist Protestant church society heretofore incorporated, or the trustees of which have heretofore exercised the powers of a body corporate, may, by a twothirds vote of its qualified members, place itself under the provisions of this act, the same as if originally incorporated under it, by two-thirds of the qualified members executing articles of association as herein before provided and recording the same as also hereinbefore provided. SEC. 13. In all proceedings or suits that may arise or be brought in any of the courts of this State, touching or in any way concerning churches that may be incorporated under this act, or by a vote of the qualified members have placed themselves under its provisions, all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be interpreted and construed in such manner as to give full force and effect to all the provisions of this act, and to all the rights and privileges granted by this act to churches incorporated or placed thereunder. SEC. 14. It is further provided that the execution by the trustees of said corporation, of any deed, mortgage, note, appointment. bond or other obligation, or contract of said corporation in Officers, prima facie evidence of proper form shall be prima facie evidence of the proper ap- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 27.] An act to repeal act number one hundred seventy-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, entitled "An act to regulate the width of wagon tires to be used with lumber wagons," being compiler's sections four thousand two hundred twenty-six and four thousand two hundred twenty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred seventy-nine of the Act repealed. public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, being compiler's sections four thousand two hundred twenty-six and four thousand two hundred twenty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 26, 1907. [No. 28.] AN ACT to prohibit the killing of deer for a period of five years in the county of Arenac. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. For a period of five years from and after the Protection of passage of this act, it shall be unlawful to kill any deer in deer. the county of Arenac. violation. SEC. 2. Any person who shall be found guilty of violating Penalty for the provisions of section one of this act shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each deer which he may have killed, or, in default of the payment of such fine, imprisonment in the county jail, or Detroit House of Correction for a period of not more than This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Co-ordinate power of each judge. [No. 29.] AN ACT to amend section two of act twenty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for three additional circuit judges for the third judicial circuit," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, said section being compiler's section two hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number one hundred nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, approved June ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of act number twenty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for three additional circuit judges for the third judicial circuit," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, said section being compiler's section number two hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number one hundred nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, approved June ninth, eighteen hundred ninetynine, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. Whenever any cause, matter or proceeding, or any motion, application or other business shall be assigned to one of said judges, a journal entry thereof shall be made by the clerk of the court and the said judge shall proceed to hear, try and dispose of the business so assigned to him with the same force and effect as if he were the only judge of said circuit and subject to and with the power and authority conferred by all the rules of practice and of the law applicable to circuit courts having only one judge, and thereupon said judge may proceed with the trial or hearing or other business,,so assigned to him, in the principal court room or in a separate room attended by the clerk, or one of his deputies, by a stenographer and by jurymen not engaged in the trial of other causes, if it be a cause to be tried by a jury, and such judge while so sitting for the transaction of business shall have all the powers of any circuit judge sitting in any circuit court in this State, and the proceedings shall how regarded. be regarded as proceedings of the circuit court had in open court and at a session of said circuit court. If a sufficient Proceedings, Jurors. number of jurors shall not be in attendance upon the court This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 30.] AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter two hundred ninety-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "Proceedings against debtors by attachment," being compiler's section ten thousand five hundred seventy-four. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter two hundred nine- Section ty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "Proceedings against debtors by attachment," being compiler's section ten thousand five hundred seventyfour of the Compiled Laws, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 20. The plaintiff shall file his declaration in said Manner of filing declaraattachment in the same manner and within the same time tion. and serve the same as is provided by the rules and practice governing proceedings in circuit court in other cases in assumpsit. If a copy of the attachment shall not have been Right of plaintiff upon served upon any of the defendants and none of them shall ling affidavit appear in the suit, the plaintiff, on filing an affidavit of pub- of publication. lication of the notice hereinbefore required for six successive weeks, or on filing due proof of personal service of such notice on any defendant not less than fifteen days prior to the filing of such proof, may proceed in such suit as if a copy of such attachment had been personally served upon' the defendants. Approved March 27, 1907. 5 Sections amended. Secretary to be custodian of documents. Minor associa mit copy of [No. 31.] AN ACT to amend sections six and seven of act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of State, county or municipal historical, biographical and geographical societies," approved April twenty-five, eighteen hundred seventy-three, being sections eight thousand one hundred ninety-five and eight thousand one hundred ninety-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections six and seven of act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventythree, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of State, county or municipal historical, biographical and geographical societies," approved April twenty-five, eighteen hundred seventy-three, being sections eight thousand one hundred ninety-five and eight thousand one hundred ninetysix of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 6. The secretary of any State association organized under this act shall be the custodian of all collections of documents, publications, periodicals, newspapers, books, maps, pictures, specimens and curiosities which may be made by such association, and shall prepare and have custody of and distribute the printed reports of the association. SEC. 7. District, county, town, city or village associations to trans- tions shall, within thirty days after their transactions are transactions. published, transmit a copy of said published transactions to Dissolution of the secretary of the State association. Whenever such asso associations. ciation shall be dissolved, or for any cause cease to exist as a corporation, all collections which may be made by said State society shall be placed in the State Library in charge of the State Librarian and shall be regarded as State property. Approved April 3, 1907. Act repealed. [No. 32.] AN ACT to repeal act number one hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of rabbits in Washtenaw, Oakland, Charlevoix, St. Clair and Lake counties." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to pro |