buildings. instructors. funds. of the State of all the receipts and expenditures of the University: Provided, That the Board of Regents shall not author- Proviso as to ize the building or the commencement of any additional building or buildings or other extraordinary repairs until the accumulation of savings from this fund shall be sufficient to complete such building or other extraordinary expense: Also provided, That the Board of Regents of the University shall Proviso as to maintain at all times a sufficient corps of instructors in all the departments of said University as at present constituted, shall afford proper means and facilities for instruction and graduation in each department of said University, and shall make a fair and equitable division of the funds provided for the sup- Division of port of the University in accord with the wants and needs of said departments as they shall become apparent; said departments being known as the Department of Literature, Science and Art, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Law, School of Pharmacy, Homeopathic Medical College and the Department of Dental Surgery. Should the Board of Re- Tax reduced on gents fail to maintain any of said departments herein pro- tain departvided, then at such time shall only one-twentieth of a mill be so assessed: Provided, further, That the State Treasurer be and Proviso. is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the regents of the University, in the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine and each year thereafter, in such manner as is now provided by law, upon the warrant of the Auditor General, the amount of the mill tax provided for by this act; and that the State Treasury be reimbursed out of the taxes annually received from said mill tax when collected; and said Auditor General shall issue his warrants therefor as in the case of special appropriations. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 7, 1899. failure to main ments. Section amended. Director to furnish month. ly and annual summaries. crop bulletin. [No. 103.] AN ACT to amend section four of act number two hundred forty-six of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninety-five, entitled "An Act to establish a permanent State Weather Service in this State, cooperating with the Weather Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture, for the purpose of the Collection and Compilation of Climatic and Meteorologic data, the accurate and rapid Dissemination of Daily Weather Forecasts, also Frost and Cold Wave Warnings and Weather Crop Conditions; the same to be used for the benefit of the Agricultural, Commercial and Scientific interests of the State and making an appropriation therefor," approved June first, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfive, being section one thousand seven hundred sixty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That section four of act number two hundred forty-six of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninety-five, entitled, "An act to establish a permanent State weather service in this State, cooperating with the weather bureau, United States department of agriculture, for the purpose of the collection and compilation of climatic and meteorologic data, the accurate and rapid dissemination of daily weather forecasts, also frost and cold wave warnings and weather crop conditions; the same to be used for the benefit of the agricul tural, commercial and scientific interests of the State, and making an appropriation therefor," being section one thousand seven hundred sixty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved June first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 4. The director shall furnish to the State Board of Agriculture monthly and annual summaries for publication, which monthly and annual summaries shall be of like form and style as those published by other state weather services. The To issue weekly director shall also, during the agricultural planting, growing and harvesting seasons, issue a weekly weather crop bulletin, which bulletin shall give the weather and crop conditions during those seasons: Provided, That in addition to the appropriation specified in section two and section five of said act number two hundred forty-six of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninety-five, all printing and binding hereby allowed shall be furnished under the contract which the State now has or shall have, and the expense thereof shall be audited and paid for in the same manner as other State printing and binding. Proviso as to printing, binding, etc. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 104.] AN ACT for the Protection of Fish in the Kalamazoo River and its Tributaries, in the Townships of Saugatuck and Manlius, in the County of Allegan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: fish in certain SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or Protection of persons to spear or attempt to spear any fish in the waters of waters of Allethe Kalamazoo river or its tributaries in the townships of gan county. Saugatuck and Manlius, in the county of Allegan. except by hoo SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to Unlawful,, set, place or use any pound, trap, stake, gill or set nets or and line. seines, or to use any device of any kind for the catching of fish, except that of hook and line, in the waters of the Kalamazoo river and its tributaries, in the townships of Saugatuck and Manlius, in the county of Allegan. SEC. 3. Any person offending against the provisions of this Violation of act act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic- a misdemeanor. tion thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined a sum not to exceed thirty dollars or thirty days impris- Penalty. onment in the county jail or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions Repealing of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. clause. [No. 105.] AN ACT to allow the spearing and netting of German carp in The People of the State of Michigan enact: German carp. SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be lawful at any season of Lawful to take the year to catch or kill by the use of spear or net, or with hook and line, German carp in Budd lake, situated in the city of Harrison, Clare county, Michigan. All acts or parts of acts in anywise contravening Acts repealed the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 7, 1899. [No. 106.] Sale of adulterated milk prohibited. Violation of act a misdemeanor. Penalty. AN ACT in relation to the sale and delivery of milk. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person shall offer or expose for sale, sell, exchange of deliver, or have in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any milk to which water, chemicals or preservatives, or any other foreign substance, has been added. The term milk as used in this act shall include all skimmed milk, butter milk, cream and milk in its natural state, as drawn from the cow. SEC. 2. Whoever shall do any of the acts or things prohibited, or neglects or refuses to do any of the acts or things enjoined by this act, or in any way violates any of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution, 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. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 8, 1899. [No. 107.] AN ACT to amend sections one hundred and twenty-seven, one hundred and twenty-eight, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-one and one hundred and thirty-three of act number two hundred and six of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, being "An act to Provide for the Assessment of Property and the Levy and Collection of Taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes Heretofore and Hereafter Levied; making such a Tax a Lien on the Lands Taxed, Establishing and Continuing such Liens, providing for the Sale and Conveyance of lands Delinquent for Taxes, and for the Inspection and Disposition of lands bid off to the State and not Redeemed or Purchased, and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," as amended by act number one hundred and fifty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and act number two hundred and forty of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, being sections three thousand nine hundred forty-nine, three thousand nine hundred fifty, three thousand nine hundred fifty-two, three thousand nine hundred fifty-three and three thousand nine hundred fiftyfive of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That sections one hundred and twenty-seven, Sections one hundred and twenty-eight, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty one and one hundred and thirty-three of act number two hundred and six of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property, and for the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such a tax a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of the lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased, and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening the provisions of this act," as amended by act number one hundred and fifty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and act number two hundred and forty of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, being sections three thousand nine hundred forty-nine, three thousand nine hundred fifty, three thousand nine hundred fifty-two, three thousand nine hundred fifty-three and three thousand nine hundred fifty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: deemed to provisions of SEC. 127. Lands delinquent for taxes for any five years, What lands where said lands have been sold and bid off to the State for abandoned. the taxes of one or more of the said years, and then so held, and no application having been made to pay, purchase or re.deem the said lands for said taxes and no action pending to set aside such taxes or to remove the cloud occasioned thereby, shall, within the meaning of this act, be deemed abandoned lands, unless such lands are actually occupied by the person having the record title thereto. Any lands delinquent for taxes Lands subject for a period of five or more years, and said lands having been this section. sold and bid in by the State and held by the State for the taxes of any of said years, and no application having been made to pay, redeem or purchase the same, and no suit pending to set aside said taxes or remove the cloud from the title occasioned thereby, shall be subject to the provisions of this section. Whenever it shall appear by the records in the Auditor Gen- When title to eral's office that any lands are delinquent for taxes for five absolute. years or more and that said lands have been bid off to the State one or more times by reason of such delinquent taxes, and that the time of redemption of such sale of sales has expired and that no application has been made to pay, to redeem or purchase the same, and it shall appear that no action is pending in the circuit court of the county where said lands are situated to set aside the taxes or remove the cloud on the title occasioned thereby, the title to the State shall be deemed absolute in and to said lands; and it shall be the duty of the State deemed |