Sale and Use of Cigarettes.

An Act to prohibit the manufacture, sale or use of adulterated cigarettes, and prohibiting the use of cigarettes by minors.

[Act 226, P. A. 1909.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(89) SECTION 1. Any person within the State who manufactures, sells or gives to any one, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health, foreign to tobacco, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in a county jail for not more than thirty days.

(90) SEC. 2. Any person within this State who sells, gives to, or in any way furnishes any cigarettes in any form to any person under twenty-one years of age shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days for each offense.

(91) SEC. 3. Any person under twenty-one years of age who shall smoke or use cigarettes, in any form on any public highway, street, alley, park or other lands used for public purposes, in any public place of business, may be arrested by any officer of the law, who may bę cognizant of such offense; and further, it shall be the duty of all such officers, upon complaint of any person and upon warrant properly issued to arrest such offenders and take them to the proper court. In case the offender is found guilty, the court may impose a punishment at its discretion, in the sum of not to exceed ten dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed five days for each offense: Provided, That if said minor person shall give information which may lead to the arrest of the person or persons violating section two of this act, in giving to or selling, or in any way furnishing said minor person tobacco or cigarettes, and shall give evidence as a witness in such proceedings against said party or parties, the court shall have power to suspend sentence against such minor person.

(92) SEC. 4. Any person who knowingly harbors any person under twenty-one years of age, or grants to them the privilege of gathering upon or frequenting any property or lands held by him, for the purpose of indulging in the use of cigarettes, in any form, shall be held in the same penallty as provided for in section two of this act: Provided, That no part of this act shall be construed as to interfere with the rights of parents or lawful guardians in the rearing and management of their minor heirs or wards within the bounds of their own private premises.

Billiard and Pool Rooms.

An Act to regulate the operation of billiard and pool rooms outside of incorporated cities and villages.

[Act 210, P. A. 1911.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(93) SECTION 1. No public billiard or pool room shall be operated in any place in this State outside of an incorporated city or village after the hour of ten p. m., nor on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday, and all persons other than the proprietor or his employes shall be excluded from every room so occupied, and from all rooms adjoining and connected therewith, on Sunday and between the hours of nine p. m. and seven a. m.

(94) SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Sale of Toy Pistols, Firecrackers, Etc.

An Act to prohibit the sale of certain pistols and explosives, and the making of regulations relative to fireworks and firecrackers.

(95)

[Act 56, P. A. 1911.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or keep for sale any blank cartridge, toy pistol, toy gun or toy cannon that can be used to fire a blank cartridge; or to sell or keep for sale, or to fire, explode or cause to explode any blank cartridge or bomb; or to sell or keep for sale, or to set off, explode or cause to explode any fireworks containing any picric acid or picrates, or substance of a like nature, or any firecracker exceeding two inches in length and threeeighths of an inch in diameter or of a greater explosive power than a firecracker of such size containing black powder only: Provided, That this section shall not apply to illuminating fire works set off between the hours of seven o'clock in the afternoon and twelve o'clock midnight, excepting those containing picric acid or picrates, or substances of a like nature, or to the sale of any article herein named to be shipped directly out of the State, or to the sale or use of explosives in the firing of salutes by official authorities, or to the sale or use of blank cartridges for a show or theatre, or for signal purposes in athletic sports or by railroads, or to experiments at any factory for the manufacture of explosives, or the firing of salutes with cannon on shore or on boats, or to the sale for use or the use by the militia or by any organization of war veterans, or in teaching the use of firearms by experts on days other than holidays.

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(96) SEC. 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

OBSCENE BOOKS.

Not to Be Furnished to Children.

(97) § 5557. SEC. 5. Any person who shall sell, give away, or in any way furnish to any minor child any book, pamphlet, or other printed paper or other thing, containing obscene language, or obscene prints, pictures, figures or descriptions tending to the corruption of the morals of youth, or any newspapers, pamphlets or other printed paper devoted to the publication of criminal news, police reports, or criminal deeds, and any person who shall in any manner hire, use, or employ such child to sell, give away, or in any manner distribute such books, pamphlets, or printed papers, and any person having the care, custody, or control of any such child, who shall permit him or her to engage in any such employment, shall on conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

In School, Family, Etc.

(98) § 11700. SEC. 13. If any person shall import, print, publish, sell or distribute any book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper, or other thing, containing obscene language, or obscene prints, pictures, figures or descriptions, manifestly tending to the corruption of the morals of youth, or shall introduce into any family, school or place of education, or shall buy, procure, receive or have in his possession, any such book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing, either for the purpose of sale, exhibition, loan or circulation, or with intent to introduce the same into any family, school or place of education, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

Search for and Destruction of.

(99) § 11701. SEC. 14. Any justice of the peace may issue a search warrant, for the purpose of searching for any such obscene books, pamphlets, ballads, printed papers or other things mentioned in the preceding section, in the manner provided by law in cases of property stolen or embezzled; and all such things, which shall be found by any officer, in executing a search warrant, or which shall be produced or brought into court, shall be safely kept so long as shall be necessary for the purpose of being used as evidence in any case, and as soon as may be afterwards, shall be destroyed by order of the court before whom the same shall be brought.

Sale, Etc., of Obscene Books, Pictures, Etc.

(100) § 11702. SECTION 1. Any person who sells, lends, gives away, or offers to sell, lend, or give away, or shows, or has in [his] possession

with intent to sell, lend, or give away, or to show or advertise, or who offers to loan, give, sell, or distribute any obscene, immoral, lewd, lascivious, or indecent book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, writing, paper, print picture, drawing, publication, or photograph, or any article or instrument of indecent or immoral use, or who designs, copies, draws, photographs, prints, utters, publishes, or otherwise prepares such a book, picture, drawing, paper, or other article or thing, or writes or prints, or causes to be written or printed, a circular, advertisement, or notice of any kind, or gives information orally, stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what process such obscene article or thing can be purchased or obtained: or second, any person who sells, lends, gives away, or shows, or has in his possession with intent to sell, or give away, or to show, advertise, or otherwise offers for loan, gift, or distribution, any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, or other printed paper, devoted to the publication or principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust, or crime; or third, any person who in any manner hires, uses, or employs any minor child to sell, or give away, or in any manner to distribute, or who having the care, custody, or control of any minor child, permits such child to sell, give away, or in any other manner to distribute any book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, story paper, writing, paper, picture, drawing, photograph, or other article or matter coming within the descriptions of articles and matter mentioned in the first and second subdivisions of this section or any of them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than three months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

OFFENSES AGAINST CHASTITY.

Carnal Knowledge of Female Under 16 Years.

(101) § 11489. SEC. 20. If any person shall ravish and carnally know any female of the age of sixteen years, or more, by force and against her will, or shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any female under the full age of sixteen years, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison for life, or for any such period as the court in its discretion shall direct, and such carnal knowledge shall be deemed complete upon proof of penetration only.

Improper Liberties with Female Child Under 14 Years.

(102) § 11719. SECTION 1. If any male person or persons over the age of fourteen years shall assault a female child under the age of fourteen years, and shall take indecent and improper liberties with the person of such child, without committing or intending to commit the crime of rape upon such child, he shall be deemed a felonious assaulter, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not more than ten years, or by fine not exceeding one

thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

PANDERING.

An Act relating to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, to provide for the punishment thereof, and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial thereof.

[Act 63, P. A. 1911.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(103) SECTION 1. Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution; or who shall induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice a female person to become a prostitute; or who by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade, encourage, take, place, harbor, inveigle or entice a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed; or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain therein as such inmate; or any person who by promises, threats, violence, by any device or scheme, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, shall take, place, harbor, inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any female person to enter any place within this State in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of prostitution, or to inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any female person to come into this State or to leave this State for the purpose of prostitution; or who takes or detains a female with the intent to compel her by force, threats, menace or duress to marry him or to marry any other person or to be defiled; or upon the pretense of marriage takes or detains a female person for the purpose of sexual intercourse; or who shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become a prostitute or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of pandering, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than thirty years.

Procuring by Fraud, etc.

(104) SEC. 2. Any person who by force, fraud, intimidation or threat places or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place or leave his wife in a house of prostitution or to lead a life of prostitution shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years.

Appropriation of Earnings.

(105) SEC. 3. Any person who shall knowingly accept, receive, levy or appropriate any money or other valuable thing without consideration