Proviso.

Equipment.

Liability.

otherwise protect any such baggage: Provided, Each passenger shall be entitled to have but one bicycle, baby carriage or go-cart transported under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 27. All railroad companies shall equip their baggage cars with hooks, racks or other appliances for the safe and convenient storage and transportation of bicycles, baby carriages and go-carts. Such hooks, racks or other appliances shall be of such construction as not to scratch, mar or injure the bicycle, baby carriage or go-cart in any way. Any railroad company whose baggage cars are equipped as above provided shall not be liable for any damage to any bicycle, baby carriage or go-cart while being stored or transported, unless such damage results from carelessness or negligence of its employes. Approved March 31, 1911.

Physical training.

How provided for.

[No. 40.]

AN ACT to provide for physical training in the State normal schools and in certain city districts.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Physical training shall be included in the branches where taught. to be regularly taught in public schools in city school dis tricts having a population of more than ten thousand and in the State normal schools, subject to such rules and regulations as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the boards of education in such city school districts and of the State Board of Education to make provisions in the schools and institutions under their jurisdiction for the introduction of a systematic and educational course of physical training; to engage competent instructors; to provide the necessary equipments; to establish and conduct same; and to adopt such methods as shall adapt the same to the capacity of the pupils in the various grades therein; and other boards may make such provisions. The curriculum in all normal schools of this State shall contain a regular teacher's course on physical education under competent jurisdiction.

Approved March 31, 1911.

[No. 41.]

AN ACT authorizing prosecuting attorneys in certain cases to appoint assistant prosecuting attorneys for their respective counties, and prescribing the powers and duties of such assistants.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

attorney may

SECTION 1. The prosecuting attorney of any county is Prosecuting hereby authorized and empowered to appoint an assistant appoint prosecuting attorney, by and with the consent of the circuit assistant. judge of the judicial circuit in which such county may be situated, which appointment shall be in writing and filed with the clerk of his county.

duties, etc.

SEC. 2. Any such assistant prosecuting attorney shall hold Term of office, his office during the pleasure of the prosecuting attorney appointing him, perform any and all duties pertaining to the office of prosecuting attorney at such time or times as he may be required so to do by the prosecuting attorney and during the absence or disability from any cause of the prosecuting attorney, but he shall be subject to all the legal disqualifications and disabilities of the prosecuting attorney, and shall before entering upon the duties of his office take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of Oath. this State and file the same with the county clerk of his county. The compensation of any such assistant prosecuting Compensation, attorney shall be paid by the prosecuting attorney appointing how paid.

him.

local acts.

SEC. 3. This act shall not be construed as repealing any General or general or local act heretofore passed providing for the ap pointment, powers, duties or compensation of assistant prosecuting attorneys of any counties. Approved March 31, 1911.

[No. 42.]

AN ACT to amend section fourteen of act number forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "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 publi cation 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

Section amended.

Reports, printing of.

Distribution.

bundred eighty-nine, approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act," as amended by act number two hundred twenty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, and act number two hundred ninetyseven of the public acts of nineteen hundred five.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of act number forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "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 eightynine, approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred eighty-nine and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act," as amended by act number two hundred twenty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, and act number two hundred ninety-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 14. There shall be printed of the following reports the number of copies herein indicated. Not to exceed one hundred copies of each shall be printed and bound and retained in the office of the Secretary of State for future distribution. The number indicated in section twenty shall be printed for the purposes indicated in section twenty and in addition there shall be printed the number of copies as follows, which shall be distributed by the heads of the departments and institutions making the report: Adjutant General, not to exceed five hundred; Advisory Board of Pardons, not to exceed five hundred; Attorney General, not to exceed five hundred; Auditor General, not General, not to exceed five hundred; Board of Fish Commissioners, not to exceed one thousand; Board of State Auditors, not to exceed five hundred; Commissioner of Banking, not to exceed five hundred; Commissioner of Insurance, fire and marine report, not to exceed twelve hundred; Commissioner of Insurance, life, casualty, assessment and fraternal report, not to exceed fifteen hundred ; Commissioner of State Land Office, not to exceed five hundred ; Dairymen's Association, not to exceed five hundred; Dairy and Food Commissioner, not to exceed one thousand; Game and Fish Warden, not to exceed one thousand; Inspector of

Illuminating Oils, not to exceed five hundred; Salt Inspectors, not to exceed four hundred; State Board of Education, not to exceed five hundred; all State penal, reformatory and charitable institutions, not to exceed five hundred each: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the five State asylums each may have printed, not to exceed one thousand; State Treasurer, not to exceed five hundred; State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, not to exceed five hundred; annual meetings of the superintendents of the poor and union associations, not to exceed eight hundred; semi-annual meetings of the joint board of trustees of the State asylums, not to exceed five hundred; abstract of annual report of the county superintendents of the poor, not to exceed five hundred; abstracts of reports of sheriffs relative to jails, not to exceed five hundred; abstracts of statistical information relative to the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic and epileptic, not to exceed one thousand; report of Michigan Academy of Science, not to exceed one thousand copies of two hundred fifty pages each; State Librarian, not to exceed five hundred; State Board of Geological Survey, not to exceed twelve hundred.

Approved April 5, 1911.

[No. 43.]

AN ACT to amend section nineteen of chapter seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the inventory and collection of the effects of deceased persons," as amended, the same being section nine thousand three hundred sixty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section nineteen of chapter seventy-one of the Section Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of amended. the inventory and collection of the effects of deceased persons," as amended, the same being section nine thousand three hundred sixty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

contracts;

SEC. 19. In case a person shall have contracted, or shall Subsisting contract to convey any land, or right, interest, or claim in deceased or to lands, and shall have died, or shall die, before he shall persons. have executed, or shall execute, deeds or conveyances in pursuance of such contract, leaving such contract subsisting and in force; or if such contract shall have been assigned, or shall be assigned, then if the assignee of such contract, entitled to the benefit thereof, and grantee of such contracted premises subject to the contract, shall have died, or shall die, before

Forfeiture.

Deeds, when executed.

Proviso, reference.

Further

proviso, when contract forfeited.

the deeds or conveyances shall have been executed of the contracted premises in pursuance of such contract, leaving such contract subsisting and in force, the executors or administrators of such deceased person, whether the party contracting or his assignee, may demand and enforce payment of the moneys part due or falling due on such contract; and in case a cause of forfeiture of such contract shall have accrued, or shall accrue, and not waived, may declare such contract forfeited; and when such contract shall have been performed so as to entitle the party thereto, or his assigns, to have a deed or conveyance to him executed under the terms of the contract of the premises thereby contracted, the executors or administrators shall be authorized and empowered, if they shall deem it expedient, to execute, duly acknowledge, and deliver deeds or conveyances of the contracted premises in pursuance of the terms of the contract, to the party contracting to purchase, or his assigns, with like effect as if the party contracting to convey had himself executed and delivered such deed or conveyance: Provided, That every deed or conveyance to be executed as aforesaid shall contain a reference to the date and respective parties to the contract in pursuance of which it purports to have been made, and a copy of the original contract under which the grantee named in such deed or conveyance makes his claim, and of any assignment thereof under which he claims, shall be annexed to or embodied in every such deed or conveyance and shall be deemed part and parcel thereof, and as such shall be recorded therewith; and whenever the persons who contracted to purchase shall have deceased, the deed or conveyance for the contracted premises, and embodying the substance of the contract, or a copy of it, may be executed and issued to and in the name of such deceased person, and when so executed and issued shall have the same effect as though it had been executed and delivered during the lifetime of such person: Provided further, That when the contract for any lands, or any right, interest or claim in or to lands heretofore contracted to be sold, shall have been forfeited, and shall have been duly declared to have been forfeited, as aforesaid, all such lands, and rights, interest and claims in or to lands, shall, to all intents and purposes, be thenceforth deemed to be held, and shall be treated in the same manner as lands purchased at mortgage sales by executors or administrators under and in pursuance of section thirteen of said chapter ninety-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

Approved April 5, 1911.