such work relates to the minor children who have been in the custody or under the control of the corporation during the year covered by its report, and such report shall be immediately filed with the State Board of Corrections and Charities Other reports, at Lansing. Reports shall also be made at such times as such State board may request. when made. Board of corrections and charities to visit institu tions and report. Proviso. What officer, etc., to be admitted to SEC. 3. The State Board of Corrections and Charities is hereby authorized and required, as a board, or by some member of such board, or by its secretary, to visit, examine and inspect all institutions or corporations named or described in section one of this act, and to make report thereon in the official report of such State Board, with such recommendations as it shall deem desirable: Provided, That in such official report nothing shall appear to identify any child who may have been placed out in a home by such institution or corporation. For this purpose all persons or officers in charge of such institutions are hereby required to admit to such institutions the members of, or any member or officer of, the State Board of Corrections and Charities, at any and all times into every part institution for of their respective institutions for the purpose of official inspection of the same, and render such board every facility within their power to enable such member or officer to make in a thorough manner their visit, inspection and examination. SEC. 4. The State Board of Corrections and Charities shall prepare, have printed, and shall supply the several incorporated institutions named or described in the first section of this act, all blanks for the reports required by section two of this act, and the several such corporations shall use the blanks so supplied in making such reports. The expense necessarily incurred in the printing and distribution of such blanks and in the securing and supervising of such reports when filed, shall be audited by the Board of State Auditors, and be paid from the general fund. inspection. Blanks for reports, by whom furnished. Who to audit expense for blanks, etc. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful for certain societies, etc., to receive or maintain minor children. [No. 42.] AN ACT to prohibit non-incorporated societies, associations, organizations or persons from receiving, maintaining or placing minor children in homes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any society, association or organization whatever, not incorporated under the laws of this State, or for any person for himself, or as agent, officer or employe of such society, association or organization of this or any other State, to carry on the business of receiving or main- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. a misdemeanor, [No. 43.] AN ACT to make valid certain acts performed by Alexander The People of the State of Michigan enact: declared valid. SECTION 1. All acts performed by Alexander O'Driscoll Certain acts Taylor, of Newport, Rhode Island, between the nineteenth day of May, eighteen hundred ninety-eight, and the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, which would have been valid had the said Alexander O'Driscoll Taylor been, during said time, duly appointed a Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Michigan in the State of Rhode Island, shall be for all purposes as good and as valid, and shall have the same force and effect, as if the same had been taken before any officer authorized to take such acknowledgments, oaths, or af firmations residing in this State. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. character, etc. [No. 44.] AN ACT to provide for the publication and distribution of Laws and Documents, Reports of the several Officers, Boards of Officers and Public Institutions of this State now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the Official Directory and Legislative Manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Secretary of State be and he is hereby directed and required, within twenty days after the close of any session of the Legislature of this State, to carefully examine and classify the acts passed and prepare the same for pubActs of general lication in bound volumes, as follows: All acts of a general character which affect the people of the whole State, all joint and concurrent resolutions, amendments to the constitution of the State adopted after the publication of the laws of the previous session of the Legislature, and so much of the annual report of the State Treasurer of the year in which there is a regular session of the Legislature as shall give an accurate account of the receipts and expenditures of the public moneys, shall be published in one volume, properly arranged with side notes and indexes thereto, as the session laws are usually published, lettered on the back, "Public Acts, Michigan, Session ofAll acts of a local or municipal character, which do not affect the people of the whole State, and the copies of proceedings of boards of supervisors organizing new townships, or changing the boundaries of townships, received and filed in the office of the Secretary of State after the publication of the laws of the previous session of the Legislature, shall be published in one or more volumes, properly arranged with side notes and indexes thereto, and shall be lettered on the back, "Local Acts, Michigan, Session of." The style of printing shall be in long primer, solid type, and the size of the page shall be similar to that of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one. How bound and marked. Acts of local character. How bound and marked. Public acts, to whom distributed. SEC. 2. There shall be published of the volume containing the public acts of each session of the Legislature a sufficient number of copies to supply the following persons, officers, libraries, corporations and societies, with one copy each, viz.: Libraries of State officers, libraries of State institutions, members and libraries of State boards, members of the legislature passing copies, how said acts, ex-members of the Legislature who may request them, the secretary, assistant secretary and clerks of the Senate, and the clerk and assistant clerks of the House of Repre sentatives, of this State; Senators and Representatives of this State in Congress; the Secretary of State of the United States, the United State Senate library and the library of Congress; judges and clerks of circuit and district courts of the United States in this State; justices and clerks of the supreme court, judges of the circuit courts, judges and clerks of the superior and police courts; county clerks, prosecuting attorneys, circuit court commissioners, sheriffs, judges of probate, register of deeds, county treasurers, county superintendents of the poor, county surveyors, county drain commissioners and coroners; supervisors, clerks and justices of the peace of townships; clerks and justices of the peace of incorporated villages and cities; public, free and incorporated libraries, and to publishers of newspapers published at that time in this State who may request them. In addition to the foregoing, there shall be published of said public acts twelve hundred copies, two Additional hundred copies of which shall be deposited in the State distributed. Library, for use in said library and for exchanges, and the remaining one thousand copies shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for sale and future distribution. And the Secretary of State is further authorized to publish and distribute to all persons who shall require them, in pamphlet form, duly annotated and indexed, compilations of the general laws upon the following subjects: Elections, schools, drains, Miscellaneous highways and bridges, live stock sanitation, manufacture, sale and use of spirituous liquors, public health, game and fish, support of poor persons, railroads, banking, mining corporations, manufacturing and mercantile corporations, insurance corporations, building and loan associations, general charter for villages, general charter for cities of the fourth class, biennial supplement to the township officers' guide, marriage and divorce, and all acts of a general nature given immediate effect Immediate by the Legislature within thirty days after their passage. The effect acts. Auditor General shall publish and distribute all pamphlets of Pamphlets on the general tax law, or of all other laws relating to the rev- to distribute. enues of the State as may be required. compilations. tax law, who whom SEC. 3. There shall be published of the volume or volumes Local acts, to containing the acts of a private or municipal character a distributed. sufficient number of copies to supply the following persons, officers, libraries and corporations with one copy each, viz.: Libraries of State officers, libraries of State institutions, libraries of State boards; members of the Legislature passing said acts, the secretary and assistant secretary of the Senate, the clerk and assistant clerks of the House of Representatives; judges and clerks of circuit and district. courts of the United States in this State; justices and clerks of the supreme court, judges of the circuit courts, judges and State laws, etc., how branded. Laws, who may sell. Official journal, how printed etc. To whom distributed Additional copies. Report of state board of agriculture. Number of copies, when printed, etc. How dis. stributed. clerks of superior and police courts; county clerks, prosecuting attorneys, circuit court commissioners; clerks of such townships, villages and cities as are directly affected by any of said acts, and two hundred copies, which shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, for sale and future distribution. SEC. 4. All the volumes of the State laws, legislative manuals and other books, hereafter published and distributed, and required to be retained in any library, or passed over by any officer to his successor in office, shall have marked or branded on both covers thereof the words "State property." SEC. 5. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell, in his discretion, at a fair price, such extra copies of the session laws as will not be required for distribution, which sale shall be at not less than the actual cost thereof, and shall account for the same to the State Treasurer, and pay the money received therefor into the State treasury monthly. SEC. 6. The official journal of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be printed in long primer, solid type, same size of page as that of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, and a sufficient number shall be printed and bound, in volumes of convenient size, to supply the following persons, officers, libraries and corporations with one copy each, viz.: Libraries of State officers, libraries of State institutions, libraries of State boards; members of the Legislature of the year when said journals are issued, the secretary, assistant secretary and clerks of the Senate, the clerk and assistant clerks of the House of Representatives; Senators and Representatives in this State in Congress, the United States Senate library and the library of Congress; judges and clerks of the United States circuit and district courts in this State; justices and clerk of the supreme court, judges of circuit courts, and county clerks. In addition to the foregoing, there shall be published two hundred copies for deposit in the office of the Secretary of State, to supply future demands. SEC. 7. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall report to the Legislature at every regular session thereof, and to the Governor on the first Wednesday of January of each year when the Legislature is not in session, which report shall embrace all statements, accounts, statistics, prize essays and other information relative to agriculture in general, proceedings of the State Board of Agriculture, of the State Agricultural College and Farm, of the State Agricultural Society, and of the county and district agricultural societies, to be approved by the board. As many copies, not exceeding eight thousand, of this report, as the State Board of Agriculture shall, in their discretion, deem necessary, shall be printed and bound prior to the first day of May, and delivered on the order of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, to be distributed as the board shall direct; also a sufficient number of |