Annual statement, what to state, etc. tained by any court in this State unless same is made by the Attorney General. SEC. 12. Every association transacting business under this act shall annually, on or before the first day of March, file with the Commissioner of Insurance in such form as he may require, a statement under oath of its president and secretary or corresponding officers, of its condition and standing on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, and of its transactions for the year ending on that date, and shall also furnish such other information as the Commissioner of Insurance may deem necessary. The Commissioner of Insurance may at any other time require any other and further statement he may deem necesssary relating to such association. Upon receipt of such report, the Commissioner certificate of of Insurance shall, on or before the thirty-first day of March, if he shall be satisfied the association is solvent and carrying out its contracts with its members in good faith, renew the certificate of authority for the succeeding year. Renewal of authority. Benefit funds, investment of. Proviso. Articles, amendment of, examination, etc. Certain associations may Proviso. SEC. 13. The benefit funds of such association shall be invested only in securities permitted by the insurance laws of this State: Provided, Such an association may own real estate for an office building not exceeding in value fifty thousand dollars. No part of such funds shall be used for any other purpose than paying funeral benefits, and for the payment of such necessary clerical expenses as may be designated by any such association. SEC. 14. Any association incorporated under this act may amend its articles of association at any regular or special meeting of the members duly called. Notice of such meeting shall be given at least fifteen days prior to the time fixed for holding such meeting, and such notice shall state the time, place and purpose of such meeting. Such amendments shall be concurred in by a majority of the members present and voting upon the same. Such amended articles shall not take effect until they have been examined, approved and filed in the manner provided in section two of this act. SEC. 15. Associations organized under act one hundred reincorporate. Seventy-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act for the incorporation of associations not for pecuniary profit," that are engaged in a burial benefit business may reincorporate under this act and shall thereby become subject to all its provisions: Provided, That if any such association shall not reincorporate under this act such association shall accept no new business or new membership at less rates than those provided to be collected under the provisions of this act: Provided further, That the membership now existing may continue to follow out the plan in force in such associations at the date of the passage of this act: Provided further, That the funds collected from such new members shall be used only for paying benefits to the beneficiaries of such members. Further proviso. Further proviso. Approved June 27, 1907. [No. 299.] AN ACT authorizing the withdrawal from sale of the Agricultural College lands in the counties of Iosco and Alcona, such lands to be held as a forest reserve for the benefit of the same college; and defining the permanent use thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: lands set SECTION 1. All of the lands belonging to the Agricultural Forest reCollege of this State, situated in the counties of Iosco and serve, certain Alcona, be and the same are hereby withdrawn from sale apart for. and are now set apart and declared to be a forest reserve to be held by the State for the Board of Agriculture and its successors, to be managed and used by said board as a fund, the income of which shall be applied to the uses and purposes of the Agricultural College of this State. The fee of said lands is hereby declared to be vested in the State forever appropriated to the uses of the Agricultural College. etc. SEC. 2. The Board of Agriculture is charged with the Duty of duty of caring for and reforesting, by natural growth and board of agriplanting of seeds and seedlings,, the said reserve with white reforesting. and red Norway pine and such other valuable timbers as the soil may be found most suitable for, using as far as possible the available students of the college; and in the same manner Surveying. to cause the said reserve to be gradually surveyed and platted and a complete record made and kept of the condition and character of the soils. The board shall also see that the Protection lands and their growth are properly protected from fire and from fire, etc. trespass. So far as practicable, the said forest reserve shall Reserve to be used for the instruction of the students of the college and be used for for the practice of its forestry students. instruction. be sold. control of sale of tim certain pro SEC. 3. The board is authorized to sell timber in or from Timber may said forest reserve and to use the proceeds in the care and protection of the forest so long as needed for such purposes: Provided, That the lumbering operations are to be under the Proviso as to direction and control of the board and its agents specially lumbering. designated for that purpose. No contract of sale of timber Contract of thereon shall be made, which does not provide for the cut- ber, to have ting of trees selected and designated for the proper clearing visions. up on all cut-over areas of tops, branches and other waste, and the burning of all not available for use under inspection, to prevent the spread of fire to the injury of the young growth and the remaining forest. The necessary provision shall be made to protect and reserve from fire, and the Forest Fire and Game Warden shall co-operate with the Board of Agriculture and its agents to that end. No person shall Hunters, etc., hunt or camp within the limits of said forest reserve with- without perout permission from the board or its agents in charge, and mission. not allowed Penalty for violating. Penalty for cutting, etc., of trees, etc. only so long as he complied strictly with the terms of such permit. And for any violation hereof the person so violating upon conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 4. Any person who shall without authority cut or carry away any trees or timber growing or lying on the aforesaid land, shall forfeit three times the value of said timber or trees to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in an action brought by the State Board of Agriculture. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 27, 1907. Salary. [No. 300.] AN ACT to fix the salary of the State Librarian. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The salary of the State Librarian shall be the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars for the year nineteen hundred seven, and the same sum for each year thereafter, payable monthly out of the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General. Approved June 27, 1907. Sections amended. [No. 301.] AN ACT to amend sections five and seven of act number one hundred forty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the government, management and control of the State Public School at Coldwater, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections five and seven of act number one hundred forty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the government, management and control of the State Public School at Coldwater, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act," are hereby amended to read as follows: order child to contain. finding home SEC. 5. If on such examination the said judge shall find When may that the child is dependent on the public for support, and is sent to admissible to said school, as provided in sections three or school. seven of this act, he shall enter such finding by a proper order in the journal of his court, certifying that the child is dependent on the public for support, is entitled to admission to the State Public School at Coldwater, and shall order it to be taken to said school by the agent of the Board of Corrections and Charities of the county to which the child belongs and admitted there; and shall deliver to the said agent Order, what a certified copy of such order, which shall contain, besides said findings, a statement of the facts that are herein required to be inquired into, as far as they can be ascertained, to which shall be attached the certificate of the physician required by this act, and the said agent shall deliver such copy with said child, at said school, to the superintendent thereof, as soon as practicable, after the making of said order: Pro- Proviso, as to vided, That in any case where a child under one year of age for child. or between the ages of twelve and fourteen years has been committed to the said school and the agent of the county to which the child belongs shall certify, in writing, to the judge of probate, that he has found a suitable home for the child in his county, where the child will be taken on indenture, or by adoption, the superintendent of said school may, under such regulations as said board may adopt, notify said agent that he may place the child in the family, already provided, without bringing it to the school; the name of the child to be entered on the records of the school and indentured and supervised, when indentured, and subsequently may be adopted as the other wards of said board. Where When judge authority is given to indenture a child without sending it to my place said school, the probate judge will order it to be placed in the family. approved family by the county agent, and shall then send the certified copy of the proceedings before him and the certificate of the physician to said school. Upon entering the order of the court, the child in all cases is admitted to said school and becomes a ward of said board; and the parents of the Parents child are released from all parental duties towards, and responsibility for the child; and thereafter they shall have no right to its custody, services or earnings, except in cases where it may be restored to the parents by said board, as hereinafter provided. child in released. receive cer SEC. 7. The State Public School shall receive all children School to committed to it, pursuant to this act, and it shall be unlawful tain children. for the superintendents of the poor to retain and support in their county any child admissible to this institution, or to indenture or give away any such child. The expense of trans- Transportaportation of such children to said school, pursuant to law, paid. tion, how Application of act as to age. room. and that of returning them to their counties after their admission, as improper inmates of said school, shall be audited by the Board of State Auditors and paid from the general fund. This act shall, in all respects, apply to children of such age, under one year and between the ages of twelve Proviso, as to and fourteen years as said board may elect: Provided, That in the case of those under one year of age and between the ages of twelve and fourteen years they shall be received into said school when there is room for them and provision has been made for their support and education while therein, under such regulations as the said board may establish, which shall include the provision that the superintendent of said school, being so authorized by said board, shall endorse on the petition his certificate stating that there is room in the institution for the admission of the child, and that provision has been made for its support and education while therein. In those counties in which the distinction between township and county poor is maintained, it shall be the duty of the superintendents of the poor of such counties, on the written request of the supervisor of such township, to act for such township in securing the admission of dependent children of such township to said school and in all respects, as though such children were supported by the county. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 27, 1907. When superintendent of for township. poor to act Section amended. [No. 302.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, approved May one, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the Board of State Auditors, the Board of Control, Board of Trustees or governing board of certain State institutions, to make, prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the care, order and preservation of buildings or property dedicated and appropriated to the public use and the conduct of those coming upon the property thereof; to prescribe penalties for a violation thereof and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, approved May one, nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the Board of State Auditors, the Board of Control, Board of Trustees or governing board of certain State institutions, to |