several pawnshops in said city, which warrants shall be directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county, commanding such officer to search the said several pawnshops where the property for which he is required to search is believed to be concealed, which places, and the property or thing to be searched for shall be designated and described in the warrant, and to bring such property or other thing before the magistrate issuing the warrant. The court before which Return to any property so seized shall be brought, shall cause the same to be delivered to the complainant on his issuing a bond as hereinafter provided, and if such bond be not executed within twenty-four hours, excluding Sunday, said court shall cause said property to be returned to the person from whose possession it was taken. owner. SEC. 16. The said bond shall be in double the value of Bond of complainant. the property claimed, with such surety as such court shall approve, and shall be given to the person from whose possession the property was taken, with condition that the obligor so claiming the same will pay all the costs and damages that may be recovered against him by the obligee in any suit brought within ten days from the date of such bond. SEC. 17. No license granted under the provisions of this Closed act shall authorize any business to be transacted by pawn- Sunday brokers or loan agents on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday. violation of SEC. 18. Any person who shall violate any of the pro- Penalty for visions of this act, whether as owner, or as clerk, agent, ser- act. vant or employe, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 19. Upon any such conviction of any person doing License, business as a pawnbroker or loan agent under the provisions of this act, or on conviction of any clerk, agent, servant or employe of any such person, the license of such person shall forthwith be revoked by the mayor of the city, and no part of the license fee of such party shall be returned to him, and no further license as a pawnbroker or loan agent shall be granted to such person for the period of one year from the date of such revocation. Approved June 28, 1907. revocation of. Section amended. Persons not to be held as out certificate. tain persons under guardianship in Wayne county. may be removed to [No. 335.] AN ACT to amend section fourteen of act two hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws organizing asy lums 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," approved June sixteen, nineteen hundred three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fourteen 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," approved June sixteen, nineteen hundred three, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 14. No person who is a resident of this State shall patient with be held as a public or private patient in any asylum, public or private, or in any institution, home or retreat, for the care or treatment of the insane, except upon certificates of insanity and an order for admission as hereinafter provided: Proviso, cer- Provided, That in the county of Wayne such persons as may have been or may hereafter be adjudged to be so addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, or narcotic or noxious drugs, as to be in need of medical and sanitary treatment and care for whose person a guardian has or may be appointed with power to restrain his said ward in some suitProviso, when able hospital or asylum for treatment: Provided, Whenever it shall appear to a judge of any court of record, or a police justice of any city or county, where such person may be, from a certificate of two legally qualified physicians, to be necessary and essential so to do, said judge or police justice may authorize any superintendent of the poor or peace offi cer of said city or county to take into custody and cause to be removed to any hospital or other place of detention, any person believed to be insane against whom no proceedings have been instituted under this act, and such person may be detained until such proceedings as hereinafter provided shall be instituted in the probate court: Provided further, That the period of such temporary detention shall not exceed five days, unless the probate court shall by special order enlarge the time. hospital, etc. Further proviso, period of temporary detention. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 336.] AN ACT to prohibit the maintaining of a bucket shop, office, store or other place wherein is conducted or permitted the pretended buying or selling of the shares of stock or bonds of any corporation, or petroleum, cotton, grain, provisions or other produce, either on margins or otherwise, without any intention of receiving or paying for the property so bought, or of delivering of the property so sold, and defining a bucket shop. The People of the State of Michigan enact: defined. SECTION 1. A bucket shop, within the meaning of this Bucket shops act, is defined to be an office, store or other place wherein the proprietor or keeper thereof, or other person or agent, either in his or its own behalf, or as an agent or correspondent of any other person, corporation, association or. copartnership within or without the State conducts the business of making or offering to make contracts, agreements, trades or transactions respecting the purchase or sale, or purchase and sale of any stocks, grains, provisions or other commodity or personal property wherein both parties thereto, or said proprietor or keeper contemplated or intended that the contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall be, or may be closed, adjusted or settled according to or upon the basis of the market quotations or price made on any board of trade or exchange, upon which the commodities or securities referred to in such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions are dealt in, and without a bona fide transaction on such board of trade or exchange, or wherein both parties or such keeper or proprietor shall contemplate or intend that such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall be or may be deemed closed or terminated, when the market quotations of prices made on such board of trade or exchange for the articles or securities named in such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall reach a certain figure, and also any office, store or other place where the keeper, person or agent or proprietor thereof, either in his or its own behalf, or as an agent as aforesaid therein, makes or offers to make, with others, contracts, trades or transactions for the purchase or sale of any such commodity, wherein the parties thereto do not contemplate the actual or bona fide receipt or delivery of such property, but do contemplate a settlement thereof based upon differences in the price at which said property is or is claimed to be bought and sold. The said crime shall be complete Offer alone, against any proprietor, person, agent or keeper thus offer- completes a ing to make any such contracts, trades or transactions, whether such offer is accepted or not. It is the intention of Intent of act. this act to prevent, punish and prohibit within this State, crime. Felony to keep, maintain, etc. Penalty. Second offense. In case of corporation. Accessories, who deemed. Penalty. Statement, certain furnished on demand. the business now engaged in and conducted in places commonly known and designated as bucket shops, and also to include the practice now commonly known as bucket shopping by any person or persons, agents, corporations, associations or copartnerships who or which ostensibly carry on the business or occupation of commission merchants or brokers in grain, provisions, cotton, coffee, petroleum, stocks, bonds or other commodities whatsoever. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful, and the same is hereby made a felony for any corporations, association, copartnership, person or persons, or agent to keep or cause to be kept within this State, any bucket shop, and any corporation, person or persons, or agents whether acting individually or as a member or as an officer, agent or employe of any corporation, association or copartnership, who shall keep, maintain or assist in the keeping and maintaining of any such bucket shop within this State shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, and any person or persons who shall be guilty of a second offence under this statute, in addition to the penalty above prescribed may, upon conviction, be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court, and if a corporation, it shall be liable to forfeiture of all its rights and privileges as such; and the continuance of such establishment after the first conviction shall be deemed a second offence. SEC. 3. Any corporation, association or copartnership, person or persons or agent or agents who shall communicate, receive, exhibit or display in any manner, any statements of quotations of the prices of any property mentioned in section one hereof, with a view to any transactions or transaction in this act prohibited, shall be deemed an accessory, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined and punished the same as the principal, as provided in section two of this act. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of every commission merchant, copartnership, association, corporation, person or persons, or agent or broker in this State, engaged in the business of buying or selling of or buying and selling stocks, bonds, grain, provisions or other commodities or personal property for any person, principal, customer or purchaser, to furnish, upon demand, to any customer or principal for whom such merchant, broker, copartnership, corporation, association, person or persons, or agent or agents has executed any order for the actual purchase or sale of the commodities herein before mentioned, either for immediate or future delivery, a written statement containing the names of the parties from whom the property was bought, or to whom it shall have been sold, as the case may be, the time when, the place where, and the price at which the same was either bought or sold, and in case such commission merchant, broker, person or persons, or agent or agents, copartnership, corporation or. association shall refuse promptly to furnish the statement upon reasonable demand, the fact of such refusal shall be prima facie evidence that Fact of refusal prima such property was not sold or bought in a legitimate man- facie violaner, but was bought in violation thereof. tion. SEC. 5. Nothing herein shall be construed as to change, Effect on modify, or repeal present and existing laws relating to the existing laws. subject matter hereof. Approved June 28, 1907. [No. 337.] AN ACT regulating the loaning of money when, as security for such loan, a lien is taken upon household furniture and effects, musical instruments, typewriters and sewing machines or any other personal chattels, or any assignment or transfer of any salary or part thereof, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: tain cities. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful, notwithstanding any other Loans on law to the contrary, for any individual, partnership, associa- hold goods, tion or corporation lending money in any city in this State, etc., in cercontaining more than twenty thousand inhabitants according to the last enumeration taken by the State, and taking as security for the repayment thereof, an assignment or transfer of the whole or a part of any salary, or a lien upon any household furniture and effects, musical instruments, typewriters and sewing machines or any other personal terest. sum not to chattels, whether such lien shall be in the nature of a conditional sale, chattel mortgage, bill of sale, whether recorded or unrecorded, or any other lien of any character Lawful inwhatsoever, to charge for the use of money not to exceed the rate of two per cent interest per month thereon. No Additional additional sum, either in the way of a bonus, attorney fee be charged. or as a charge for examining or valuing the property offered as security or otherwise, shall be required or exacted from the borrower: Provided, That a fee in addition to the in- Proviso, fee terest allowed by this act may be charged as follows: For allowed. sums not exceeding fifty dollars, not to exceed one dollar; for all sums exceeding fifty dollars, not to exceed two dollars: And Provided further, That it shall not be lawful Proviso, to divide or split up loans under any pretext whatsoever of vision, etc., for the purpose of requiring or exacting any other or greater charges than prescribed herein: And Provided further, That Proviso, it shall not be lawful to make any charge for renewals or renewals, etc. of loans. charge for |