Unlawful to taunt certain persons. Penalty. [No. 249.] AN ACT making it a misdemeanor to taunt or otherwise accuse a person with having been a convict or an inmate of any jail, prison or reformatory, and to provide a punishment therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person shall taunt or otherwise accuse another of having been a convict or an inmate of any jail, prison or reformatory. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of section one of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the common jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved June 27, 1907. County agent; first friend for prisoners. [No. 250.] AN ACT to authorize the county agent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to act as first friend and advisor for non-resident paroled prisoners, in certain cases. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The county agent of the State Board of Corcertain paroled rections and Charities, in each county, when requested by the Governor, or the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, shall act as the first friend and advisor for non-resident paroled prisoners, while on parole from any of the prisons of Appointment, this State; and shall, within thirty days after his appointment as county agent, notify the secretary of the board of pardons of his appointment as such county agent. who to be notified of. Compensation of agent. SEC. 2. Said county agent, when acting as first friend and advisor for any prisoner on parole, shall receive the sum of one dollar each month for each paroled prisoner, while under his care, to be paid from the same fund and in the same manner as his compensation for other services is now paid. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 251.] AN ACT to provide for the establishment in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of a bureau of information for the benefit of school officers, superintendents and teachers. The People of the State of Michigan enact: bureau, SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction Information shall establish and maintain in his office a bureau of in- establishing formation wherein teachers desiring employment may reg- of. ister and file such papers as to their qualifications as they may deem fit, and wherein school officers and superintendents may register vacancies in their respective schools. teacher so registering shall pay a fee of one dollar to the registering. Superintendent of Public Instruction, which fees shall be deposited with the State Treasurer, and by him placed to the credit of the general fund. Each Fee for SEC. 2. Such information as is contained in said bureau Information free. shall be given without charge to all school officers, superintendents and teachers who may ask therefor, but neither the Superintendent of Public Instruction nor any one employed in his office shall be required to recommend any teachers for positions. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 252.] AN ACT to require hair picking machines in upholstering and mattress establishments and other places where hair, moss, tow, or cotton is used for filling. The People of the State of Michigan enact: certain fac SECTION 1. All persons, companies, or corporations op- Hair picking erating any upholstering or mattress establishments or other machines; establishment, factory or place where hair, moss, tow, or tories to be provided with. cotton is used for filling, shall provide the same with hair picking machines when ordered by the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Labor, which shall be placed in such a position or manner as to carry away the dust arising from or thrown off by such machines while in operation directly to the outside of the building or to some other receptacle established so as to receive and, confine such dust, and the same shall be placed within such establishment, place or placing of. Time limit for Penalty. factory within three months after having been ordered to be so placed by the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Labor. SEC. 2. Any person or persons or company or managers or directors of any such company or corporation who shall have the charge or management of such establishment, factory, or place, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved June 27, 1907. Section amended. Under-size fish not to be sold. Proviso as to when may be sold. [No. 253.] AN ACT to amend section three of act one hundred seventy, public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize and regulate the possession, use, transportation and sale of brook trout and rainbow trout by persons engaged in the business of propagating and rearing such fish, and by persons who purchase fish so reared, and to provide for licensing persons engaged in such business or other branch of the same." The People of the State of Michigan cnact: SECTION 1. Section three of act one hundred seventy, public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize and regulate the possession, use, transportation and sale of brook trout and rainbow trout by persons engaged in the business of propagating and rearing such fish, and by persons who purchase fish so reared, and to provide for licensing persons engaged in such business or other branch of the same," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. No such fish shall be sold or transported of a size less than seven inches in length, except when such fish are sold and transported alive for the purpose of stocking other waters within or without this State: Provided, That such fish may be sold and transported within or without this State at any time under the provisions of this act and not otherwise. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 254.] AN ACT making appropriations for the State Industrial Home for Girls for building and special purposes and for current expenses for fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: for current SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the State In- Appropriation dustrial Home for Girls, for current expenses, for the fiscal expenses. year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of seventy-two thousand dollars and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of seventy thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of fourteen thousand nine hun. For specific dred twenty-five dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal expenses, year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for purposes and amounts as follows: For an electric light plant, three thousand four hundred fifty dollars; for porches at Clark, Gillespie, Haviland and Croswell cottages, one thousand five hundred dollars; for porch in rear of Palmer cottage, two hundred dollars; for fire protection, stand pipes and reels, six hundred dollars; for painting two cottages and administration building, seven hundred fifty dollars; for repairing and enlarging farm house, eight hundred dollars; for porch on engineer's cottage, three hundred dollars; for wood house for engineer's cottage, one hundred seventy-five dollars; for cement walks, five hundred dollars; for cement floors in administration building and three cottages, five hundred dollars; for new floors in Palmer, Clark, Central, Gillespie and Haviland cottages, one thousand one hundred dollars; shed for farm implements, four hundred seventy-five dollars; one new surrey, one hundred seventy-five dollars; for new plumbing, four hundred dollars and for new assembly hall, four thou sand dollars: Provided, That if the amount designated for Proviso as to any of the purposes stated in this section be insufficient to funds. complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of other work or purchase, 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 a deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire fourteen thousand nine hundred twenty five dollars available for the purposes stated in section two of this act, if in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General it is deemed advisable to make the transfers. transfer of SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid. Tax clause. of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Industrial Home for Girls, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of eighty-six thousand nine hundred twenty-five dollars and for the year nineteen hundred eight, the sum of seventy thousand 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. Section amended. Bounty for [No. 255.] AN ACT to amend sections one and four of chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the destruction of wolves and other noxious animals," being sections five thousand five hundred seventyone and five thousand five hundred seventy-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one and four of chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the destruction of wolves and other noxious animals," being sections five thousand five hundred seventy-one and five thousand five hundred seventy-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Every person who shall kill a full grown wolf, or killing wolves. wolf whelp in any organized county in this State, shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty-five dollars for each wolf over six months old, and ten dollars for each wolf's whelp under the age of three months, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided. Duties of clerk relative to marking pelt, etc. SEC. 4. If it shall appear to said clerk that the wolf or whelp was taken and killed within some organized township in his county by the person applying for such bounty, he shall make three punch marks through the butt of both ears of such wolf or whelp, large enough to be readily found by examination of such ears, and return such hide or pelt to the owner thereof, and deliver to the person so applying a cer |