Repealing clause. SEC. 23. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Appropriation for monument. By whom expended. Duty of commission. of additional member, duties and compensation. [No. 288.] AN ACT supplementary to act number two hundred thirtynine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to make an appropriation for designating by monument the location occupied by the second, eighth, twelfth, fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth and twenty-seventh regiments of Michigan Infantry; and the Batteries "G" and "H,” First Michigan Light Artillery, who participated in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg, within the Vicksburg National Military Park and providing for the erection of the same." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated by act number two hundred thirty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to make an appropriation for designating by monument the location occupied by the second, eighth, twelfth, fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth and twenty-seventh regiments of Michigan Infantry, and the Batteries "G" and "H" First Michigan Light Artillery who participated in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg, within the Vicksburg National Military Park and providing for the erection of the same." Said sum of ten thousand dollars shall be added to, and expended in the same manner and by the same commission, as the said sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated by said act number two hundred thirty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five. SEC. 2. The commission heretofore appointed under act number two hundred forty of the public acts of nineteen hundred three is hereby continued with the same powers and Appointment duties as are prescribed in said act; and the Governor is hereby authorized to appoint an additional member of said commission, who shall be a competent and experienced architect and who shall perform the same duties and have the same compensation as the other members of the said commission, but who shall not be required to have the qualification of service in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg prescribed by said act number two hundred forty of the public acts of nineteen hundred three for the other members of said commission. SEC. 3. The Auditor General of the State shall add to Tax clause. and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be appropriated, levied, assessed and collected, which sum, when collected, shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse said fund, for the amount appropriated by section one of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 289.] AN ACT to authorize the Michigan Dairymen's Association to hold annual meetings during the years nineteen hundred seven and nineteen hundred eight, and such auxiliary meetings each of the above named years as may be determined by the association and making an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: meetings. SECTION 1. The Michigan Dairymen's Association is here- To hold by authorized to hold one annual meeting and as many auxiliary meetings each year, and at such place or places, as may be decided upon by said association, for the dissemination of knowledge pertaining to dairying and dairy products among the people of the State, and said association shall formulate such rules and regulations as it may deem To formulate proper to carry on the work contemplated in this act, and it rules, etc. may employ an agent or agents to perform the duties in con- May employ nection therewith as it may deem best. agents. moneys al SEC. 2. For the purposes mentioned in the preceding sec- Amount of tion, the said Michigan Dairymen's Association may use lowed. such sums as it shall deem proper, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the necessary current expenses of the Michigan Dairymen's Association each year for the years nineteen hundred seven and nineteen hundred eight. All of which How and by whom paid. the State Treasurer shall pay to said association annually on the warrants of the Auditor General from time to time, as its vouchers for the same shall be exhibited and approved. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorpo- Tax clause. rate into the State tax the sum of five hundred dollars annually, for the years nineteen hundred seven and nineteen hundred eight, and such amount is hereby appropriated from the general funds of the State, which said sum shall be included in the State taxes apportioned by the Auditor Gen Act repealed. eral on all taxable property of the State, to be levied, as- Section amended. Trustees, control asylums. [No. 290.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number two hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane and to regulate the care, management and use thereof and to provide for the apprehension of persons believed to be insane and for their care and custody." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number two hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane and to regulate the care, management and use thereof and to provide for the apprehension of persons believed to be insane and for their care and custody," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. The government and sole and exclusive control boards of, to of the several asylums shall be vested in the said several boards of trustees. They may take and hold in trust for the State any grant or devise of land, or any donation or bequest of money, or other personal property, to be applied to the maintenance of insane persons and the general use of their respective asylums. They shall not receive any compen sation for their services, but shall receive their actual and Expenses of, reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid by the State Treasurer, on the warrant of the Auditor General, on the rendering of their accounts out of any money to the credit of the general fund not otherwise appropriated. Each board shall: No compensation. how paid. To have con erty, etc. First, Have the general direction and control of all the trol of prop- property and concerns of the several institutions over which they are respectively appointed, not otherwise provided by law. Each board shall meet regularly at least once a month; Second, Take charge of the general interests of the asylum and see that its design is carried into effect according to law and its by-laws, rules and regulations; Meeting. To have general supervision, suits, etc. Third, Employ with the approval of the Governor of the Employ counState necessary legal counsel in the prosecution of claims se defend or demands against persons or corporations and may defend all suits brought against themselves, officers or employes of the institution, to recover damages because of any act done, or failure to perform any act, while discharging their official duties and may pay any judgment recovered in such suit out of any moneys appropriated for the support of the asylum; Fourth, Appoint, as often as vacancies occur therein, a Appoint medmedical superintendent, who shall be a well educated legally tenden ical superinregistered physician and experienced in the treatment of the insane; ployes. Fifth, Appoint, upon the nomination of the medical super- Appoint intendent, an assistant medical superintendent and neces- other emsary assistant physicians (at least one of whom shall be a woman), a steward and a chaplain. All medical officers shall constantly reside at the asylums and shall be legally registered physicians; urer, bonds. Sixth, Appoint a treasurer, not one of their number, who Appoint treasshall give bonds for the faithful performance of his trust, in such sum and with such sureties as the Auditor General of the State shall approve; salary of limited. Seventh, Determine from time to time by and with the Determine consent of the joint board of trustees, the annual salaries employes. and allowances of the officers of the asylum under its charge, which shall be paid monthly out of the current expense fund How paid. on an officer's voucher, signed by the steward and countersigned by the president of the board of trustees; but in no Salaries case shall the annual salaries so fixed exceed fifteen thousand dollars per annum, except that when the number of patients under treatment in any such asylum shall reach sixteen hundred, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum for each additional one hundred patients may be appropriated and allowed for said purposes. No officers shall Extra fees, be paid or receive fees, perquisites or further compensation lowed. for any service or in any other manner than is provided in this section; etc.,not al Eighth, Establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as Establish they may deem necessary and expedient for regulating the rules, etc. appointment and duties of officers, attendants, assistants and employes, for fixing the conditions of admission, support and discharge of patients and for conducting in a proper manner the business of the asylum and also for the internal government, discipline and management of the same; asylum. Ninth, Maintain an effective inspection of the asylum, for Inspection of which purpose a committee shall visit it once every month, a majority once every three months and the whole board at least once a year and at such other times as may be prescribed in the by-laws; Tenth, Enter in a book kept by them for that purpose, the Record of date of each visit and the condition of the asylum, patients, inspection. Make reports. Record of doings. etc., with such remarks as shall be deemed proper and all the visiting trustees present shall sign the same; Eleventh, Make to the legislature, in the month of January in each alternate year, a report detailing the operations and actual state of the asylum and the result of their visits and inspections, with suitable suggestions, accompanied by the reports of the medical superintendent, steward and treasurer; Twelfth, Keep in a book to be provided for that purpose a fair and full record of all their doings which shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Governor of the State and all persons whom he, or either house of the legislature may appoint. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Wardens, etc., may direct payment. [No. 291.] AN ACT to provide for the payment for overtime of convicts engaged in manufacturing on public account. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The wardens and boards of control of the State prisons in which manufacturing is done on public ac count may, if to them may seem wise, direct the payment to prisoners engaged in manufacturing on State account, such sum quarterly for the time such convicts may work, in addition to or beyond the task fixed by the State in the prison What not to rules, as shall in any quarter of the year not exceed in the exceed. Payments, how made. aggregate for all the convicts engaged in any particular This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |