How and when paid. Tax clause. SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the warden of the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of nine thousand eight hundred dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Probate register, by whom appointed, salary. Term of office, duties. [No. 121.] AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a probate register for the county of Keweenaw, to prescribe his duties and to fix his compensation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of Keweenaw county shall have power to authorize the probate judge to appoint a probate register for said county, who shall receive such annual salary, payable monthly from the county treasury, as the board of supervisors shall prescribe, which shall be not to exceed one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. Such probate register shall be appointed by the probate judge and shall hold office during the pleasure of such probate judge, and shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath and file the same with the county clerk, when he shall have power to receive petitions, fix the time for hearings, administer oaths, and do all other acts required of the probate judge, except judicial acts, and shall receive no other fees than are now prescribed by general law for judges of probate. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 122.] AN ACT relative to gifts for religious, educational, charitable and benevolent purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: etc., not in certain reasons. in trustee, if SECTION 1. No gift, grant, bequest or devise to religious, Gift, grant, educational, charitable or benevolent uses which shall in other validated for respects be valid under the laws of this State, shall be invalid by reason of the indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as the beneficiaries thereunder in the instrument creating the same, nor by reason of the same contravening any statute or rule against perpetuities. If in the instru- Title to vest ment creating such a gift, grant, bequest or devise, there named. is a trustee named to execute the same, the legal title to the lands or property given, granted, devised or bequeathed for such purposes, shall vest in such trustee. If no trustee when court shall be named in said instrument, or if a vacancy occurs in to appoint the trusteeship, then the trust shall vest in the court of chancery for the proper county, and shall be executed by some trustee appointed for that purpose by or under the direction of the court; and said court may make such orders or decrees as may be necessary to vest the title to said lands or property in the trustee so appointed. trustee. SEC. 2. The court of chancery for the proper county shall Jurisdiction have jurisdiction and control over the gifts, grants, bequests of chancery and devises in all cases provided for by section one of this court. The prosecuting attorney of the county in which the of prosecutor. court of chancery shall have jurisdiction and control shall represent the beneficiaries in all cases where they are uncertain or indefinite, and it shall be his duty to enforce such Duty of. trusts by proper proceedings in the court, but he shall not be required to perform any duties in connection with such trusts in any court outside of this State. Approved June 4, 1907. [No. 123.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred ninety-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to prohibit the use of ferrets in hunting or killing rabbits in certain counties in this State." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred nine- Section amended. ty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled Use of ferrets prohibited in certain counties. "An act to prohibit the use of ferrets in hunting or killing rabbits in certain counties of this State," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or persons to use a ferret for the purpose of hunting or killing rabbits in the counties of Tuscola, Lapeer, Cass, Kalamazoo, Saginaw, Paw Paw township in Van Buren, Charlevoix, Grand Traverse, Ingham, except in the city of Lansing and Lansing and Meridian townships, Lake, Livingston, Washtenaw, Calhoun, Ottawa, Clinton, Kent, Macomb, Barry, Jackson, Monroe, and in the county of Allegan except in the townships of Saugatuck, Ganges and Casco. Approved June 4, 1907. Safeguard on corn huskers. Penalty for violation. [No. 124.] AN ACT requiring corn huskers to be protected by an automatic feeder or other safety device, and making the sale or use thereof, unless so protected, a misdemeanor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, association or corporation, or for any officer or agent thereof, to sell or offer for sale, or to use within the State of Michigan, the machine commonly known as a corn husker, unless the same is safeguarded by an automatic feeder or other safety device, that shall compel the person, or persons, feeding said machine, to stand at a reasonably safe distance from the snapping rollers, and designed effectually to protect the person or persons operating the same from bodily injury while engaged in such operation. SEC. 2. Any person, partnership, association or corporation, or officer or agent thereof, who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of section one of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Approved June 5, 1907. [No. 125.] AN ACT to amend section fifteen of act number one hundred ninety-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State Board of Education," being section one thousand eight hundred twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fifteen of act number one hundred Section ninety-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty. amended. nine, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State Board of Education," being section one thousand eight hundred twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: grant cer SEC. 15. Said board shall hold at least two meetings Meetings of each year, at which they shall examine teachers, and shall board to grant certificates to such as have taught in the schools of tificates. the State at least two years and who shall, upon a thorough and critical examination in every study required for such certificate, be found to possess eminent scholarship, ability and good moral character. Such certificate shall be signed Certificate. by the members of said board, and be impressed with its seal, and shall entitle the holder to teach in any of the public schools of this State without further examination, and shall be valid for life unless revoked by said board. No certificate shall be granted except upon the examination herein prescribed: Provided, That the said State Board of Educa- Proviso, intion may, in its discretion, indorse State teachers' certifi- dorsement of cates, granted upon examinations, normal school diplomas tificates. or certificates, or other State certificates granted in other states, if it be shown to the satisfaction of said board that such certificates are for life and that the examinations required or courses of study pursued are fully equal to the requirements of this State. Approved June 5, 1907. certain cer Section amended. Board of trustees, meetings. Powers. [No. 126.] AN ACT to amend section four of act number one hundred forty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of rural high schools." -The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of act number one hundred fortyfour of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of rural high schools," is amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. Said board of trustees shall meet on the third Monday in April of each year and organize by electing one of the trustees as president. Regular meetings of the board shall be held on the second Mondays of May, August, November and February in each year. Special meetings may be called upon five days' notice by the president or secretary. The board shall have power: (a) To supervise and visit the school; (b) To admit all children of the township above the sixth grade and to admit and provide rates of tuition for non-resident pupils if they so elect; but nothing in this act shall be so construed as to limit the operation. of the laws of this State relative to the compulsory education of children, or the liability of children to attend school thereunder, and it shall be the duty of the officers charged by law to enforce the provisions of said laws relative to the compulsory education of children, to enforce in like manner the attendance at such high schools of children admitted to attendance thereat under the terms of this act; (c) To select and adopt text-books; (d) To appoint legally qualified teachers; (e) To fix wages, make general rules and regulations for the control of the school, suspend or expel pupils, fix the time of school which will not be more than ten months nor less than seven in any one year; (f) To rent or to purchase and hold real estate for such township high school, build and furnish schoolhouses, determine location of grounds and building, which shall be as near the center of the township as practicable, according to sanitary conditions, and to receive and hold bequests and gifts for the benefit of the school, and to dispose of property belonging to the district subject to the provisions hereinafter named; (g) To provide a course of study which shall be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the president of the Michigan Agricultural College, and shall not consist of more than four years' work; said course of study may |