tificate of the facts and shall file the original affidavit of said. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 256.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter six of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section four thou sand seven hundred seventeen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter six of act number one Section hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred amended, eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions. of this act," being section four thousand seven hundred seventeen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is amended to read as follows: borrow money for estimate SEC. 1. Any school district may, by a majority vote of District may the qualified voters of said district present at an annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, sites. borrow money, and may issue bonds of the district therefor, to pay for a school house site or sites, and to erect and furnish school buildings. The district board, or board of Board to education, shall estimate the amount of money necessary to amount necbe raised and shall state their estimate in the notices of essary. the annual or special meeting, at which the question of borrowing money and issuing bonds shall be submitted to the people; and at said meeting the voters shall have power May ratify to ratify by the vote aforesaid the estimate of the district estimate or board, or board of education, or to fix a new limit on the amount to be borrowed and for which bonds may be issued: Provided, That no school district shall issue bonds for an Proviso as to bond limit. amount greater than five per cent of the total assessed valuation of said district, and in districts having one hundred or more children in the school census the bonded indebtedness shall not exceed seventy-five dollars per capita of such census, nor shall the bonded indebtedness of a district extend beyond the period of fifteen years for money bor fix new limit. conducting elections. Proviso as to rowed: Provided further, That in all proceedings under this section, the district board and one person selected by the qualified voters present at said meeting shall constitute a board of inspectors, who shall cause a poll list to be kept and a suitable ballot box to be used, and the polls shall be kept open at least two hours. The votes shall be by ballot, either printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, and the canvass of the same shall be conducted in the same manner as at township elections, or as far as the laws governing the same are applicable, and when said laws are not applicable the board of inspectors shall prescribe the manner in which the canvass shall be conducted. Approved June 27, 1907. Act repealed. [No. 257.] AN ACT to repeal act number one hundred thirty-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the lawful taking of suckers from the waters of Gull lake in Kalamazoo and Barry counties of Michigan.” The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred thirty-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the lawful taking of suckers from the waters of Gull lake in Kalamazoo and Barry counties of Michigan," is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Appropriation for current expenses. [No. 258.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic at Lapeer, for current expenses and for building and special purposes, for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current expenses of the Michigan Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of one hundred twenty thousand dol lars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of one hundred thirty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of forty-five thousand five hun- For specific dred dollars is hereby appropriated for building and special expenses. purposes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for purposes and amounts as follows: For one dormitory, asylum group, twenty-two thousand dollars; furnishings for cottage, three thousand dollars; bakery and machinery, eight thousand dollars; enlargement of farm house, two thousand five hundred dollars; grading, fencing, roads, trees, etc., one thousand dollars; engine and dynamo, seven thousand dollars; fire protection, one thousand dollars; addition to sewer plant, one thousand dollars. expenses. SEC. 3. The further sum of forty-nine thousand dollars is Further hereby appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal specific year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, for purposes and amounts as follows: For one dormitory and diningroom and kitchen, asylum group, forty-two thousand dollars; furnishings for cottage, dining-room and kitchen, four thou sand dollars; for coal shed, three thousand dollars. SEC. 4. If the amount designated in sections two and Transfer of three of this act, for any one of the purposes stated, be in- funds. sufficient to complete the work or purchase, the 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 provision being to make the entire ninety-four thousand five hundred dollars available for the purposes stated in sections two and three of this act. SEC. 5. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid. of this act shall be paid out of general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptic, 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. 6. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of one hundred sixty-five thousand five hundred doliers, and for the year nineteen hundred eight, the sum of one hundred seventy-nine thousand dollars, which, when collected, shall be paid into the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 42 Salaries to officers, etc., limited. Agreement extending beyond certain period unlawful. [No. 259.] AN ACT relating to the salaries of officers and agents of life insurance companies. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No domestic life insurance company shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trus tee or director thereof, nor any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than five thou sand dollars to any person, firm or corporation unless such payment be first authorized by a vote of the board of directors of such life insurance company. No such life insurance company shall make any agreement with any of its officers, trustees or salaried employes whereby it agrees that for any services rendered or to be rendered, he shall receive any salary, compensation or emolument that will extend beyond a period of twelve months from the date of such agreement; and no officer, director or trustee, who is paid a salary for his services of more than one hundred dollars per month, Proviso as to shall receive any other compensation or emolument: Provided, That the limitation as to time contained herein shall not be construed as preventing a life insurance company from entering into contracts with its agents for the payment Pensions, not of renewal commissions. No such company shall grant any pension to any officer, director or trustee thereof or to any member of his family after his death. limitation of time. to be granted. Acts repealed. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Current expenses. [No. 260.] AN ACT making appropriations for the State Sanatorium for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for current expenses at the State Sanatorium for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of eight thousand dollars and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of eight thousand dollars. special SEC. 2. The further sum of sixty-two thousand dollars is Building and hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, purposes. nineteen hundred eight, for purposes and amounts as follows: For extending main dining-room, two thousand dollars; for three shacks, six thousand dollars; to provide rooms for help, two thousand five hundred dollars; for store-room and ice house, two thousand dollars; for water supply, three thousand dollars; for sewage system, five thousand dollars; for electric wiring, one thousand dollars; for roads and walks, one thousand five hundred dollars; for land, three thousand dollars; for repairs on farm buildings and fences, one thousand five hundred dollars; for furnishings and equipment, three thousand dollars; for horses, harnesses, wagons and buggies, fifteen hundred dollars; for one building, twentyfive thousand dollars; for furnishing said building including laboratory, equipment and supplies, five thousand 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 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 sixty-two thousand 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. funds. SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Sanatorium, 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. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of seventy thousand dollars and for the year nineteen hundred eight, the sum of eight 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. |