entitled "An act to provide for the government, management and control of the State Public School at Coldwater, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act," are hereby amended to read as follows: order child school. to contain. finding home SEC. 5. If on such examination the said judge shall find When may that the child is dependent on the public for support, and is sent to admissible to said school, as provided in sections three or seven of this act, he shall enter such finding by a proper order in the journal of his court, certifying that the child is dependent on the public for support, is entitled to admission to the State Public School at Coldwater, and shall order it to be taken to said school by the agent of the Board of Corrections and Charities of the county to which the child belongs and admitted there; and shall deliver to the said agent Order, what a certified copy of such order, which shall contain, besides said findings, a statement of the facts that are herein required to be inquired into, as far as they can be ascertained, to which shall be attached the certificate of the physician required by this act, and the said agent shall deliver such copy with said child, at said school, to the superintendent thereof, as soon as practicable, after the making of said order: Pro- Proviso, as to vided, That in any case where a child under one year of age for child. or between the ages of twelve and fourteen years has been committed to the said school and the agent of the county to which the child belongs shall certify, in writing, to the judge of probate, that he has found a suitable home for the child in his county, where the child will be taken on indenture, or by adoption, the superintendent of said school may, under such regulations as said board may adopt, notify said agent that he may place the child in the family, already provided, without bringing it to the school; the name of the child to be entered on the records of the school and indentured and supervised, when indentured, and subsequently may be adopted as the other wards of said board. Where When judge authority is given to indenture a child without sending it to a place said school, the probate judge will order it to be placed in the family. approved family by the county agent, and shall then send the certified copy of the proceedings before him and the certificate of the physician to said school. Upon entering the order of the court, the child in all cases is admitted to said school and becomes a ward of said board; and the parents of the Parents child are released from all parental duties towards, and re- released. sponsibility for the child; and thereafter they shall have no right to its custody, services or earnings, except in cases where it may be restored to the parents by said board, as hereinafter provided. child in receive certain children. SEC. 7. The State Public School shall receive all children School to committed to it, pursuant to this act, and it shall be unlawful for the superintendents of the poor to retain and support in their county any child admissible to this institution, or to indenture or give away any such child. The expense of trans- Transportaportation of such children to said school, pursuant to law, paid. tion, how Application of act as to age. room. and that of returning them to their counties after their admission, as improper inmates of said school, shall be audited by the Board of State Auditors and paid from the general fund. This act shall, in all respects, apply to children of such age, under one year and between the ages of twelve Proviso, as to and fourteen years as said board may elect: Provided, That in the case of those under one year of age and between the ages of twelve and fourteen years they shall be received into said school when there is room for them and provision has been made for their support and education while .therein, under such regulations as the said board may establish, which shall include the provision that the superintendent of said school, being so authorized by said board, shall endorse on the petition his certificate stating that there is room in the institution for the admission of the child, and that provision has been made for its support and education while therein. When super- In those counties in which the distinction between township and county poor is maintained, it shall be the duty of for township. the superintendents of the poor of such counties, on the written request of the supervisor of such township, to act for such township in securing the admission of dependent children of such township to said school and in all respects, as though such children were supported by the county. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 27, 1907. poor to act Section amended. [No. 302.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, approved May one, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the Board of State Auditors, the Board of Control, Board of Trustees or governing board of certain State institutions, to make, prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the care, order and preservation of buildings or property dedicated and appropriated to the public use and the conduct of those coming upon the property thereof; to prescribe penalties for a violation thereof and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, approved May one, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the Board of State Auditors, the Board of Control, Board of Trustees or governing board of certain State institutions, to make, prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the care, order and preservation of buildings or property dedicated and appropriated to the public use and the conduct of those coming upon the property thereof; to prescribe penalties for a violation thereof and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act," is hereby amended to read as follows: may make etc. SEC. 1. The Board of State Auditors, the Board of Trus- State boards tees of the Industrial School for Boys, the State Board of rules for care Education, the Board of Guardians of the State Industrial of property, Home for Girls, the Board of Control of the Michigan College of Mines, the Board of Trustees of the Eastern Michigan Asylum, the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, the Board of Trustees of the Northern Michigan Asylum, the Board of Trustees of the State Asylum, the Board of Trustees of the Upper Peninsula Hospital for Insane, the Board of Control of the State Prison at Jackson, the Board of Control of the State House of Correction and Branch Prison of the Upper Peninsula, the Board of Control of the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, the Board of Trustees of the Michigan School for the Deaf, the Board of Control of the Michigan School for the Blind, the Board of Managers of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, the Board of Control of the Michigan Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptic, the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind, the Board of Control of the State Public School, the State Board of Agriculture, the State Board of Fish Commissioners, the Michigan State Agricultural Society, the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, and the Board of Trustees of the Michigan State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, shall have authority to make and prescribe rules and regulations for the care, preservation and protection of buildings. and property dedicated and appropriated to the public use, over which they have jurisdiction or power of control and the conduct of those coming upon the property thereof, which may be necessary for the maintenance of good order and the protection of said State property; and shall have authority May enforce to enforce such rules and regulations, and empower one or punish offenders. more persons with the authority prescribed in this act, and cause any person or persons found guilty of a violation thereof to be punished in the manner hereinafter prescribed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 27, 1907. rules and Section amended. Three-eighths mill tax, how assessed and paid. Regents to make annual report to Governor. [No. 303.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number thirty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to extend aid to the University of Michigan, and to repeal an act, entitled 'An act to extend aid to the University of Michigan,' approved March fifteen, eighteen hundred sixty-seven, being sections three thousand five hundred six and three thousand five hundred seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one," as amended by act number one hundred two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number thirty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to extend aid to the University of Michigan, and to repeal an act, entitled 'An act to extend aid to the University of Michigan,' approved March fifteen, eighteen hundred sixtyseven, being sections three thousand five hundred six and three thousand five hundred seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one," as amended by act number one hundred two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. There shall be assessed upon the taxable property of the State, as fixed by the State Board of Equalization, in the year nineteen hundred seven, and in each year thereafter, for the use and maintenance of the University of Michigan, the sum of three-eighths of a mill on each dollar of said taxable property to be assessed and paid into the State treasury of the State in like manner as other State taxes are by law levied, assessed and paid; which tax, when collected, shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the Board of Regents of the University in like manner as the interest on the University fund is paid to the treasurer of said board; and the Regents of the University shall make an annual report to the Governor of the State of all the receipts and expenditures of the University: Provided, That the Board of Regents shall Proviso, as to not authorize the building or the commencement of any additional building or buildings or other extraordinary repairs until the accumulation of savings from this fund shall be sufficient to complete such building or other extraordinary expense: Provided further, That the Board of Regents of the University shall maintain at all times a sufficient corps of instructors in all the departments of said University as at present constituted, shall afford proper means and facilities for instruction and graduation in each department of said University, and shall make a fair and equitable division of the funds provided for the support of the University in accord with the wants and needs of said departments as they buildings. Further proviso, instruc tors. Division of funds. reduced. viso, pay shall become apparent; said departments being known as the department of literature, science and art, department of medicine and surgery, department of law, school of pharmacy, homeopathic medical college and the department of dental surgery. Should the Board of Regents fail to main- Tax, when tain any of said departments herein provided, then at such time shall only one-twentieth of a mill be so assessed: Pro- Further provided further, That the State Treasurer be and is hereby ment, how authorized and directed to pay to the Regents of the Uni- made. versity in the year nineteen hundred seven and each year thereafter, in such manner as is now provided by law, upon the warrant of the Auditor General, the amount of the mill tax provided for by this act; and that the State treasury be reimbursed out of the taxes annually received from said mill tax when collected; and said Auditor General shall issue his Warrants, warrants therefor as in the case of special appropriations. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 28, 1907. how issued. [No. 304.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three, four, six, eight, seventeen and twenty-seven of act number one hundred ninetysix of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, approved June thirteen, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the registration and identification of motor vehicles, the registration of chauffeurs, to regulate the use of motor vehicles and the use of public highways by such vehicles, and persons passing such vehicles, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, three, four, six, eight, seventeen Sections and twenty-seven of act number one hundred ninety-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, approved June thirteen, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the registration and identification of motor vehicles, the registration of chauffeurs, to regulate the use of motor vehicles and the use of the public highways by such vehicles and persons passing such vehicles, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof," are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Every person now owning or hereafter acquiring Owner to a motor vehicle shall, for every vehicle owned by him, file in the office of the Secretary of State, a statement containing the name and address, with a brief description of the vehicle so owned by him to be registered, including the name of the maker, factory number, style of vehicles and motor power, file statement. |