Section amended.

Minors or students not allowed in saloons, poolrooms, etc.

[No. 55.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act two hundred sixty of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of children," said section being compiler's section five thousand five hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act two hundred thirty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five.

The 1ople of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of act number two hundred sixty of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of children," said section being compiler's section five thousand five hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act two hundred thirty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. No minor child under seventeen years of age, nor any minor who is a student in any public, private or parochial schools in the State of Michigan, shall be permitted to remain in any saloon, barroom or other place where any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or any wine or beer, or any beverage, liquor or liquors containing any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, beer or malt liquor, is sold, given away or furnished for a beverage; or in any place of amusement known as dance houses, concert saloons, variety theaters or in any house of prostitution; or in any room or hall occupied or used for hire, gain or reward, for the purpose of playing billiards, pool, ninepins, bowling, cards, dice or any other unlawful game, or in any room or hall used or occupied for gaming, pool-selling or betting in any When proprie manner whatever. Any proprietor, keeper or manager of tors guilty of misdemeanor. any such place, who shall permit such child to remain in any such place, and any person who shall encourage or induce in any way such child to enter such place or to remain therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Penalty.

Approved April 25, 1907.

[No. 56.]

AN ACT to amend section forty-four of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," the same being section four hundred six of the Compiled Laws of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section forty-four of act number one hundred Section eighty-three of the public acts of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," the same being section four hundred six of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Thirty-first
Circuit.

SEC. 44. In the thirty-first circuit the stenographer shall Salary in be paid an annual salary of two thousand dollars. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 25, 1907.

[No. 57.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty of act one hundred eighteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, approved May twenty-six, eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch of the State Prison in the Upper Peninsula, and to the House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, and the government and discipline thereof, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," being section two thousand ninety-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty of act one hundred eighteen Section of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, approved amended. May twenty-six, eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State

Salaries of officers.

Increase of salaries.

Board for employes.

Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch of the State Prison in the Upper Peninsula, and to the House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, and the government and discipline thereof, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," being section two thousand ninety-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 20. There shall be paid monthly at the office of each
prison to the officers thereof, the following annual salaries,
to wit: To the warden, a sum not exceeding two thousand
dollars; to the deputy, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars; to the clerk, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars; to the physician, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars; to the chaplain, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars; to the chief engineer, a sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars; to each of the keepers, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars; to each of the guards, a sum not
exceeding nine hundred dollars; as the board of the prison
in its discretion may deem for the best interests of the
prison, and all other employes of each prison shall be paid
such compensation, within the limits above fixed, as said
board may deem just and reasonable and shall direct: Pro-
vided, That any individual salary may be increased beyond
the limit named in the preceding clause by the approval of
the Governor. The warden shall, in addition to his salary,
be allowed the use of house, fuel, lights and provisions for
his family, and for guests who visit him on business con-
nected with the prison, and any officer may, in the discre-
tion of the board, be allowed the use of a house or an apart-
ment free of rent; and no officer or other person employed
in or about the prison shall be permitted to receive in any
way perquisites, emoluments or supplies for himself or his
family from the prison, other than the compensation allowed
by law.
The board of the prison may, if it shall deem it
for the interest of the prison, require the keepers, guards,
and such of the employes as they may designate, to be lodged
and messed or boarded in the prison, and for that purpose
may furnish lodging rooms in a plain and substantial man-
ner, and supply provisions from the prison stock, which
shall be cooked and prepared by the labor of convicts, and
served at such time and on such terms and in such place
as the board may direct.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 25, 1907.

[No. 58.]

AN ACT to amend act two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," by adding thereto a new section to stand as section seventy-three a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act two hundred six of the public acts of Act amended. eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section seventy-three a.

cover

when barred.

SEC. 73a. The right to recover possession of any land, or Right to reto a refunding of the amount paid, by any person claiming sion of land or through or under any deed executed by the Auditor General a refunding or by virtue of a certificate of purchase issued under the provisions of this act shall be forever barred by the actual, open and continuous possession of any person claiming such land adversely to such tax deed, or certificate of purchase, for the period of five years after the purchaser of such tax title, his heirs or assigns, is entitled to a deed thereof, or by failure of such tax title purchaser, his heirs or assigns, to give the notice or notices required by this act for a reconveyance of the premises within the above specified period of five years. In case of such failure to give the when person required notice for reconveyance within the period of five barred from years from the date such purchaser, his heirs or assigns by tax purshall become entitled to a tax deed to be issued by the Auditor General, the person or persons, claiming title under tax deed or certificate of purchase, shall be forever barred

claiming title chase.

from asserting such title or claiming a lien on the land by reason of such tax purchase; and such purchaser, his heirs or assigns shall not thereafter be entitled to a refunding of the amount paid as a condition of the purchase of such tax title by reason of any defect, irregularity, invalidity, or any cause whatever affecting the taxes or the sale of the lands for such tax lien.

Approved April 25, 1907.

Unlawful to catch and sell fish.

Penalty.

Repealing clause.

[No. 59.]

AN ACT to prohibit the catching of fish in the inland lakes of Kent county, for the purposes of sale, and to provide a penalty therefor.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful to catch in any manner any fish in the inland lakes of Kent county, for the purposes of sale, or to offer for sale, or sell fish caught therein.

SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of section one of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 25, 1907.

White fish, when may spear.

[No. 60.]

AN ACT to provide for the lawful taking of white fish in the waters of Elk lake in the counties of Antrim and Grand Traverse, Michigan, by means of a spear.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any person between the first day of November and the tenth day of December of each year, to take white fish in the waters of Elk lake in the counties of Antrim and Grand Traverse, Michigan, by means