from the proceeds of the earnings of any woman engaged in prostitution, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years. Any such acceptance, receipt, levy or appropriation of such money or valuable thing shall, upon any proceeding or trial for violation of this section, be presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.

Detention for Debt Unlawful.

(106) SEC. 4. Any person or persons who attempt to detain any female person in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of any debt or debts she has contracted, or is said to have contracted while living in said house, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not less than two nor more than twenty years.

Transporting for Purpose of Prostitution.

(107) SEC. 5. Any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, by any means of conveyance, into, through or across this State, any female person for the purpose of prostitution or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice or compel such female person to become a prostitute shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years; any person who may commit the crime in this section mentioned may be prosecuted, indicted, tried and convicted in any county or city in or through which he shall so transport or attempt to transport any female person as aforesaid.

What Not to Be Defense.

(108) SEC. 6. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in the foregoing sections that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this State, and the offense shall in such case be deemed and alleged to have been committed and the offender tried and punished in any county in which the prostitution was intended to be practiced or in which the offense was consummated, or any overt act in furtherance of the offense shall have been committed. (109) SEC. 7. Any such female person referred to in the foregoing sections shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution.

Kidnapping.

(110) 11499. SEC. 30. Every person who shall maliciously, forcibly, or fraudulently lead, take, or carry away, or decoy or entice away any child under the age of twelve years, with intent to detain or conceal

such child from its parent, or guardian, or from the person or persons who have lawfully adopted said child, or from any other person having the lawful charge of said child, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison not more than ten years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. In case such child shall have been adopted by a person or persons other than its parents, in accordance with the statute providing for such adoption, then this section shall apply as well to such taking, carrying, decoying or enticing away of such child, by its father or mother, as by any other person: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to a parent who has not given written consent that the custody of such child should be committed to another.

Debauchery.

(111) § 11722. SECTION 1. Any female person over the age of fifteen years, who shall knowingly and wilfully debauch the person and deprave the morals of any boy under the age of fifteen years, either by lewdly inducing or enticing any such boy to carnally know any such female person, or by indecent bodily contact with the person of any such boy communicating to him any venereal or other loathsome disease, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for not more than five years, in the discretion of the court.

(112) § 11723. SEC. 2. Any male person over the age of fifteen years who shall debauch and deprave the morals of any boy under fifteen years of age, by enticing or soliciting such boy to commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with any man or beast, or who shall himself commit or attempt to commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature with or upon any such boy, whether with or without the consent of such boy, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for not more than five years, in the discretion of the court.

(113) § 11724. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to post, place or display on any sign board, bill board, fence, building, sidewalk, or other object, or in any street, road, or other public place, any sign, picture, printing, or other representation of murder, assassination, stabbing, fighting or of any personal violence, or of the commission of any crime, or any representation of the human form in an attitude or dress which would be indecent in the case of a living person, if such person so appeared in any public street, square or highway.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Obscene Language.

(114) § 11737. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use any indecent, immoral, obscene, vulgar or insulting language in the presence or hearing of any woman or child within the limits of any township, village or city in the State of Michigan.

(115) § 11738. SEC. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, and in case of the non-payment of such fine when imposed, the court trying the same may make a further sentence that the offender be imprisoned in the county jail for a definite period not exceeding ninety days, unless said fine shall be sooner paid.

Pawnbrokers and Second-Hand Dealers-Dealing with Minors.

[Extract from Act 105, P. A. 1911.]

(116) SEC. 15. No pawnbroker or person doing the business above described as pawnbroking shall receive in pledge or pawn any article or thing whatever from any person after receiving from any police officers or the parent or guardian of any minor or person of unsound mind, written notice that such person is a minor or is of unsound mind or neglects all lawful business, or that he habitually spends his time in frequenting houses of ill-fame, gaming houses or tippling houses, or that from drinking, gaming, idleness or debauchery of any kind he is squandering his earnings or wasting his estate, or that he is likely to bring himself or family to want, or to render himself or family a public charge, or that he is suspected of thievery. No pawnbroker shall receive any pawn from any person under eighteen years of age.

(117) SEC. 16. Whenever complaint shall be made by any person on oath to any magistrate in any city authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that personal property belonging to such complainant has been without his consent taken or retained from his possession, and that he has good reason to believe and does believe that the same is pawned or pledged, and that the complainant believes the same to be in some pawnshop within such city, such magistrate, if he be satisfied that there is reasonable cause for such belief, shall issue a warrant to search for such property in the several pawnshops in said city, which warrant shall be directed to the sheriff of the county or any police officer of such city, demanding such officer to search the several pawnshops where the porperty 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 whom 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 Sundays, said court shall cause said property to be returned to the person from whose possession it was taken.

(118) § 11376. SECTION 1. Every dealer in second-hand goods, junk shop keeper, peddler, rag or paper buyer, pawnbroker or hawker [or his or their agent or clerk] who shall purchase, either directly or indirectly, or by his agent or clerk, any goods, thing, article or articles from any minor under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of the parent or guardian of any such minor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twentyfive dollars nor less than five dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court before which the conviction may be had.

Catching on Railroad Cars.

(119) § 11533. SECTION 1. No person shall jump or step on board of any railroad train, locomotive or car when in motion, except employés and passengers at railway stations; and any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this section, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars, with costs of suit, and in default of the payment of such fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a term of not exceeding thirty days.