to be evi

corporations. A copy of said contract or consolidation agree- Certified copy ment filed in pursuance of this act with the Secretary of dence, etc. State, and certified by him to be a copy, shall in all courts and places be presumptive evidence of the consolidation of said two companies, and of all the facts therein stated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 306.]

AN ACT to provide for a legislative reference and information department in connection with the State Library, to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

creation of.

SECTION 1. There is hereby created and shall be hereafter Information maintained in connection with the State Library, a depart- department, ment to be known as the legislative reference and information department for the use and information especially of members of the senate and house of representatives, the several State departments and such other persons as may desire to consult the same. It shall be located in the State capitol where loas conveniently as possible for members of the senate and cated. house of representatives.

of, when and

SEC. 2. The State Librarian, within ten days after this Assistant, act shall take effect, shall appoint an assistant, who shall qualifications be a person trained in political economy and otherwise fitted by whom apto perform the duties of this office as herein defined, who pointed. shall have charge of said department under the supervision of the State Librarian and perform the duties hereinafter prescribed. He shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred Salary of dollars, payable in the same manner as the salaries of other assistants in the State Library. The State Librarian shall Clerk, apalso appoint some suitable person, trained in political econ- salary. omy and of known capability in indexing and cataloging, as clerk, who shall receive an annual salary of ten hundred dollars, payable in the same manner as the salaries of other assistants in the State Library are paid.

pointment of,

SEC. 3. The said assistant shall, as soon as possible, make To procure available for ready reference and use, suitable indexes to all information from public such information as is contained in the various public docu- documents. ments of this State and other states, including senate and house documents and legislative journals, and shall keep a complete file of all bills printed by order of either house of the legislature. He shall procure and compile in suitable and tion in other convenient form, for ready reference and access, information countries.

As to legisla

states and

as to proposed and pending legislation in other states, and shall also investigate the operation and effect of new legislation in other states and countries to the end that either house of the legislature or any committee or member thereof or any citizen of the State may have the fullest information thereon. He shall also give such advice and assistance to drafting bills, the member [members] of the legislature as they may require in the preparation of bills and resolutions, and shall draft bills upon such subjects as they may desire.

To assist in

etc.

To file certain bills, etc.

Furnishing of supplies, etc.

Tax clause.

SEC. 4. At the close of each session of the legislature, the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house, shall, at his request, deliver to the said assistant, to be appropriately filed and preserved, such copies of bills and joint resolutions which shall not have been passed and are still remaining in their hands, also all important petitions and memorials and other legislative documents.

SEC. 5. The Board of State Auditors shall furnish, on the requisition of the State Librarian, all such cases as are necessary for the cataloging, indexing and filing of the materials and information collected by said department, and all other supplies of said department shall be drawn by the State Librarian in the manner provided by law. Such printing and binding as may be necessary for said department shall be done as part of the printing and binding for the State.

SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate into the State tax the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars annually, 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 General on all taxable property of the State, to be levied, assessed and collected, as other State taxes, and when so assessed and collected, to be paid into the general fund to reimburse said fund for the appropriation made by this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 28, 1907.

Co-insurance clause, when may be

issued.

[No. 307.]

AN ACT to provide for co-insurance rider clauses to be attached to the Michigan standard policy of fire insurance.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Whenever any person, firm or corporation shall make written application to any insurance company authorized to do business within the State of Michigan, to attach to any existing policy or to one to be issued by such

company, the latter shall have the right to issue and attach such co-insurance clause, but not otherwise.

SEC. 2. Such application shall be made substantially in Application, the following form:

..hereby request that there be attached to

of the ..

form of.

policy number insurance company, the following co-insurance clause, to-wit: "It is hereby agreed that the assured shall maintain in- Clause, form surance during the life of this policy upon the property hereby insured, to the extent of at least

per cent. of

the actual cash value thereof, and that failing to do so, the assured shall be a co-insurer to the extent of the difference between the amount insured and the said ...

per

cent. of the cash value, and to that extent shall bear his, her or their proportion of any loss. It is also agreed that if this policy be divided into two or more items, the foregoing conditions shall apply to each item separately;"

To the provisions of which

consideration of a reduced premium rate.

agree in

It is understood by the undersigned that the effect of the above mentioned co-insurance clause, when attached, will be to reduce the liability of the insurance company, unless the property described in the policy covered by said insurance is insured for per cent. of its actual cash value, except where the loss exceeds the amount of the insurance required under this clause.

....

of.

form stated

SEC. 3. All co-insurance rider clauses attached to any in- To be in surance policy in pursuance of the application mentioned in and signed. the preceding paragraph shall be in the form therein stated and duly signed by the company or its authorized agent. This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 308.]

AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of boards of control of hospitals, asylums, homes for the care of indigent, aged or infirm persons, or other charitable institutions.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

of charitable

SECTION 1. Whenever there shall exist any hospital, asy- Incorporation lum, home for the care of indigent, aged or infirm persons, institutions. or any other charitable institution in this State, the legal title to which and the land used in connection therewith has been conveyed to one or more persons in trust, for charitable purposes, and the care and management of which institution is entrusted to a board of control consisting of five or more

Articles of, what to contain.

Name and place.

Object.

Names of members of board of control, etc.

Number of members.

Elective

offices.

Terms of membership.

Board of control,

powers of.

Gifts of moneys, how invested.

persons, appointed from one or more charitable, religious or fraternal bodies, in pursuance of the provisions contained in the deed conveying the legal title of such institution and land to such trustees, such board of control may become incorporated by executing under their hands and acknowledging before some person in this State authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, duplicate articles of incorporation, one of which shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and one of which shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the county in which the office of such corporation may be located, and upon the execution and acknowledgment of such articles, the signers thereof shall become and be a body politic and corporate, for the objects and purposes set forth in said articles, and may sue and be sued, adopt a common seal and change the same, and may exercise all the powers and shall be subject to all the responsibilities conferred and imposed by this act.

SEC. 2. Said articles of incorporation shall contain and declare:

First, The name of the corporation, the place where its office for the transaction of its business is located, and the city, town or county in which such hospital, asylum, home for the care of indigent, aged or infirm persons, or other charitable institution is located and the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years;

Second, The objects of said corporation, which shall be stated with all convenient fullness and certainty;

Third, The names of the members of the board of control incorporating in the first instance, their places of residence, and the charitable, religious or fraternal body or bodies from which they were appointed respectively;

Fourth, The total number of persons composing said board of control;

Fifth, The regular offices of said corporation, to be filled by election;

Sixth, The terms and conditions of membership therein. SEC. 3. The persons forming such corporation shall have power to adopt by-laws and to provide by such by-laws for the officers of the corporation and their election, also the time and place of holding its annual meetings, and may make such other provisions in the by-laws as they may deem expedient for the proper control of said corporation; such bylaws may also provide how the same may be altered and amended.

SEC. 4. Such corporation may receive gifts and bequests of money for the benefit of the hospital, asylum, home for the care of indigent, aged or infirm persons, or other charitable institution which it has in its charge, and invest the same in its corporate name in such securities as it may deem prudent, unless the class of securities in which such money is to be invested is specified in the gift or bequest of the same, in which case it shall be invested in the class of securi

sale of, how

ties specified in such gift or bequest. It may also receive Gifts of real gifts and devises of real estate and personal property for estate, etc. like purposes, and shall have power to sell such real estate and personal property as shall be given to it, and invest the Proceeds from proceeds thereof in the same manner as is provided in this invested. act for the investment of gifts and bequests of money whenever, in the judgment of the proper officers or committee or committees of such corporation it may be deemed beneficial to such institution.

istence, how

SEC. 5. Any corporation organized under the provisions Corporate exof this act, whose corporate existence is about to expire may be by limitation, may extend its corporate existence for a term extended. not exceeding thirty years, by filing with the Secretary of State and county clerk of the county where such corporation is located, duly attested copies of a resolution adopted by such corporation at a meeting of its members, called in accordance with the provisions of its by-laws, expressing a desire to so extend its corporate existence, and upon the filing of such resolution as above specified, the corporate existence of such body shall be extended in accordance with the provisions of such resolution, for a period of not exceeding thirty years from the date of the expiration of its former term, and all rights of property and of contract shall remain unimpaired and the corporate identity of such corporation remain unchanged.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 309.]

AN ACT to amend the title and sections two, three, nine, eleven, sixteen and seventeen of act number one hundred forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, being an act, entitled "An act to create and establish a State highway department by the appointment of a State Highway Commissioner and assistants, and defining the powers and duties of the office, and to provide for a system of State co-operation with townships and counties in the improvement of the public wagon roads, and to make an appropriation therefor for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, and to provide a tax to meet the same."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

tions amended.

SECTION 1. The title and sections two, three, nine, eleven, Title and sersixteen and seventeen of act number one hundred forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, being an act, en