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necessary in order that the schools may be properly managed and maintained, and for deficiencies in such funds for the preceding year, if any, and for the services of district officers. All such taxes when collected and received shall be accounted for under the title of "General fund;" all primary money shall be accounted for under the title of "Primary fund:" Provided, That the tax for the services of district Proviso. officers herein provided for in districts having less than fifty children shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, and in districts having between fifty and one hundred children the tax shall not exceed fifty dollars. When the taxes herein provided for Amount have been estimated and voted by the district board they shall may borrow. be reported for assessment and collection the same as other district taxes. When any tax has been estimated and voted by the district board or by the district under the provisions of law and the money is needed before it can be collected, the district board may borrow on the strength of such tax a sum not exceeding the total of such tax.

SEC. 11. The district board shall apply and pay over all School money, accounting of. school moneys belonging to the district in accordance with the provisions of the law regulating same, and no moneys received from the primary school fund shall be appropriated to any other use then the payment of teachers' wages, tuition and transportation of children as provided by law, and no part thereof shall be paid to any teacher who shall not have received a certificate of qualification from proper legal authority before the commencement of his school. No school district Sectarian schools shall apply any of the moneys received by it from the primary school interest fund or from any and all other sources for the support and maintenance of any school of a sectarian character, whether the same be under the control of any religious society or made sectarian by the school district board.

Approved April 8, 1911.

[No. 58.]

AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to protect public libraries, scientific, historical, library and literary associations and societies," being sections eleven thousand six hundred forty and eleven thousand six hundred forty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections one and two of act number three of Sections amended the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to protect public libraries, scientific, historical, library and

Books, etc., unlawful to mutilate.

Penalty.

Misappropria

tion.

Penalty.

literary associations and societies," are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Any person who shall willfully, maliciously or wantonly tear, deface or mutilate, or write upon, or by other means injure or mar any book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof belonging to or loaned to any public library, or to the library of any literary, scientific, historical or library society or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two dollars nor more than one hun dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more. than sixty days in the discretion of the court; and all justices of the peace in their respective counties shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all prosecutions under this act.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall procure, or take in any way from any public library or the library of any literary, scientific, historical or library society or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, any book, pamphlet, map. chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof, with intent to convert the same to his own use, or with intent to defraud the owner thereof, or who having procured or taken any such book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof, shall thereafter convert the same to his own use or fraudulently deprive the owner thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than three months in the discretion of the court.

Approved April 7, 1911.

Appropriation, deficit.

How paid out.

[No. 59.]

AN ACT making an appropriation for the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic at Lapeer for the purpose of liquidating the present indebtedness thereof, 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 Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic the sum of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of satisfying a present deficit in the funds of that institution.

SEC. 2. The sum appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury

to the treasurer of the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded
and Epileptic at such times and in such manner as the ac-
counting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer
shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder.
SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause.
tax for the year nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of twenty
thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred twelve,
the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which amounts when col-
lected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the
same for the moneys hereby appropriated.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 7, 1911.

[No. 60.]

AN ACT to amend section five of act number one hundred ninety of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State," being section three thousand six hundred sixteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section five of act number one hundred ninety Section of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled amended. "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State," being section three thousand six hundred sixteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 5. On the day of election the polls thereof shall be Polls, when open at seven o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as open. may be, and shall be continued open until five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day and no longer; but in townships the board may adjourn the polls at twelve o'clock, noon, for

one hour, in its discretion. The inspectors shall cause procla- Proclamation. mation to be made upon opening the polls and cause proclamation to be made of the closing of the polls, one hour, thirty minutes and fifteen minutes, respectively, before closing thereof: Provided, That in counties where all the voting precincts Proviso, votin the county use voting machines, the polls in such counties shall be continued open until seven p. m. of the same day and no longer.

Approved April 7, 1911.

ing machines,

Boundaries, change of.

[No. 61.]

AN ACT in relation to the division of or changing of boundaries of primary school districts.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Hereafter the township board of any township may divide or change the boundaries of any primary school district regardless of whether such school district was formed or created under the general school law or under any local or special law, in accordance with the same rules and in such manner as is prescribed for the formation and alteration of school districts. In those instances in which the school district lies in more than one township, such action shall be taken at a joint meeting of the boards of the various townships interested.

Approved April 7, 1911.

Certain advertisements unlawful.

Penalty.

[No. 62.]

AN ACT to prohibit certain classes of immoral advertising and provide punishment for violators thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any person who shall advertise in his own name or the name of another person, firm or pretended firm, association, corporation or pretended corporation, in any newspaper, pamphlet, circular, periodical or other written or printed paper, or the owner, publisher or manager of any newspaper or periodical who shall permit to be published or inserted in any newspaper or periodical owned or controlled by him, an advertisement of the treating or curing of venereal diseases, the restoration of "Lost manhood" or "Lost vitality or vigor," or shall advertise in any manner that he is a specialist in diseases of the sexual organs, or diseases caused by sexual vice, self-abuse, or in any diseases of like cause, or shall advertise in any manner any medicine, drug, compound, appliance or any means whatever whereby sexual diseases of men or women may be cured or relieved, or miscarriage or abortion produced, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or both in the discretion of the court.

tribution

SEC. 2. Any person publishing, distributing or causing to Advertising be distributed or circulated any of the advertising matter matter, disherein before described, either in newspaper or other printed unlawful. or written forms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor as noted Penalty. in section one and punished as therein described: Provided, Proviso. That this act shall not be construed as creating a penalty in addition to that specified in act number two hundred thirtyseven of the public acts of eighteen hundred niney-seven, as amended by act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, for the acts made unlawful therein.

SEC. 3. It is further enacted that any advertisement found Prima facie in any newspaper, pamphlet or circular containing the words evidence. "Lost manhood," "Lost vitality or vigor," or other expressions synonymous therewith, shall be prima facie evidence of the guilt of the party or parties subscribing to the said advertisements, their agents or representatives, and the same penalties shall apply to the publishers of papers containing the same as prescribed in section one.

Approved April 12, 1911.

[No. 63.]

AN ACT relating to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, to provide for the punishment thereof, and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Pandering,

SECTION 1. Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution; or who shall induce, per- etc., unlawful. suade, encourage, inveigle or entice a female person to become a prostitute; or who by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade, encourage, take, place, harbor, inveigle or entice a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed; or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain therein as such inmate; or any person who by promises, threats, violence, by any device or scheme, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, shall take, place, harbor, inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any female person to enter any place within this State in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of prostitution,

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