from time to time when received by him. In the event of Assistant the inability of said bailiff at any time to attend court.or to bailiff. serve process or perform the duties required of him, the judge of said court shall be authorized to appoint an assistant bailiff to perform such services for which said assistant bailiff shall receive, to be allowed by the common council and paid by the city treasurer, the sum of two and one-half dollars per day. The said bailiff or his assistant Authority of when appointed by the court, shall have full power and bailiff. authority to bring prisoners to the bar of said court from the county jail, and to return the same to the county jail when so required by the judge of said court. The sheriff Sheriff. of said county, or his deputies, shall likewise, when required by the order of said court, produce persons charged with crime before said court and return the same to the county jail in the same manner and without other charge than is made to the county for bringing prisoners from the county jail to the circuit court of the county of Kent and returning the same. Actual disbursements in the execution of criminal process or the service of subpoenas in criminal cases shall be a charge against the county of Kent in the same manner as disbursements of a like character in criminal cases pending in the circuit court for the county of Kent. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 24, 1907. [No. 217.] -AN ACT to repeal "An act to prescribe the measure of damages in actions for negligent injuries to persons where deaths result and where the actions are prosecuted under the survival act, and to provide for the distribution of the amounts paid on account of such damages without participation by creditors of the deceased," being act number eighty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number eighty-nine of the public acts of Act repealed. nineteen hundred five, approved May three, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to prescribe the measure of damages in actions for negligent injuries to persons where deaths result and where the actions are prosecuted under the survival act, and to provide for the distribution of the amounts paid on account of such damages without participation by creditors of the deceased," is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 24, 1907. Section amended. First circuit, salary of stenographer. Duty as to [No. 218.] AN ACT to amend section number fourteen of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of 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," said section being compiler's section number three hundred seventy-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section number fourteen of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's section number three hundred seventy-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 14. In the first circuit, composed of Hillsdale county, the stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of fourteen hundred dollars; and it shall be the duty of the stenographer inquests, etc. in said first judicial circuit, when the same shall not conflict with his official duties relative to the work connected with the circuit court, to attend, when so directed by the circuit judge, all preliminary examinations before justices of the peace or coroner's inquests in said county of Hillsdale, take full stenographic minutes of the testimony, transcribe the same and furnish the prosecuting attorney of the county of Hillsdale with a copy of the transcription, without extra compensation therefor. Approved June 27, 1907. [No. 219.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Central Michigan Normal School for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and for building and special purposes for said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: current ex SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current Amount apexpenses of the Central Michigan Normal School for the propriated for fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the penses. sum of seventy-four thousand five hundred ninety dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of seventy-four thousand five hundred ninety dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of fifty-six thousand eight hun- For specific dred dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution expenses. for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, by purposes and amounts as follows: For physical training building, fifty thousand dollars; for women's lavatory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for converting present gymnasium into class rooms, one thousand five hundred dollars; to complete heating of training school building, including motor and fan, two thousand dollars; for new boiler for heating plant, one thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 3. It is hereby provided that if the several amounts Transfer of designated in section two of this act, for any one of the funds. purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of other work or purchase specified in said section, may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire fifty-six thousand eight hundred dollars available for the purposes stated in said section, if, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made. SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Board of Education, 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. Tax clause. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen 'hundred seven, for the Central Michigan Normal School, the sum of one hundred thirty-one thousand three hundred ninety dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred eight, for said institution, the sum of seventy-four thousand five hundred ninety 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. Approved June 27, 1907. Amount ap [No. 220.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Eastern Michigan The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand six hundred fifty propriated for dollars is hereby appropriated for the Eastern Michigan Asywater system. lum for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for renewing the domestic water supply system by the erection of a water tower and a replacement of worn-out piping with new piping. For fire system. For heating plant. For light. For creation of SEC. 2. The further sum of seven thousand nine hundred eighty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for the purpose of extending to completion the fire protection system by deepening the present well, providing a duplex pump and extending mains to the detached buildings. SEC. 3. The further sum of thirty-one thousand one hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for the purpose of establishing a central heating plant by the purchase of one new boiler, with necessary purifier and connections; by the construction of tunnels to the detached buildings, and by the installation of necessary piping and fixtures. SEC. 4. The further sum of one thousand seven hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for the purchase of a small electrical unit for the hours of light load. SEC. 5. The further sum of sixty-six thousand sixty-six dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for the creation of additional provision for patients by converting present dining rooms into dormitories and by the further conversion of the present assembly hall into a congregate dining room, and by the erection of a new assembly building. of certain funds. SEC. 6. The further sum of three thousand five hundred For equipment dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending building. June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for the necessary furnishings for the equipment of a new building for patients, for which building an appropriation was made by the legislature of nineteen hundred five, under section two, act three hundred twenty-one, public acts of nineteen hundred five. SEC. 7. It is hereby provided that if the amount desig- Transfer of nated in sections one, two, three, four, five and six of this act for any one of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchases, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchases, may, by obtaining the consent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General, in writing before any expense in excess of the specific appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire one hundred twenty thousand nine hundred ninety-six dollars available for the purposes stated herein, if in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made: Provided Proviso as to further, That the board of trustees of the Eastern Michi- obtaining adgan Asylum, at Pontiac, may obtain money under this sec- eys. tion before July one, nineteen hundred seven, in such amounts as they may, by requisition, certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use, which amounts, thus advanced, shall be deducted from the total amount appropriated when the appropriation becomes available. vanced paid. mon SEC. S. The several sums appropriated by the provisions Appropriaof this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the tions, how treasurer of the Eastern Michigan Asylum in such amounts and at such times as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 9. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of one hundred twenty thousand nine hundred ninety-six 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. |