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destroying muskrats on or along such dykes, when damaging said dykes.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall be found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine of not more than one dollar and costs of prosecution for each and every animal killed.

Approved May 11, 1899.

Fans or blowers in certain workshops.

missioner of

Labor.

[No. 202.]

AN ACT to provide Fans or Blowers in all Workshops or establishments where wheels composed partly of Emery or Buffing wheels or Emery belts are used.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That all persons, companies or corporations, operating any factory or workshop, where wheels or emery belts of any description are in general use, either leather, leather covered, felt, canvas paper, cotton or wheels or belts rolled or coated with emery or corundum, or cotton, wheels used as buffs, shall provide the same with fans or blowers, or Power of Com- similar apparatus, when ordered by the Commissioner of Labor, which shall be placed in such a position or manner as to protest the person or persons using the same from the particles of dust produced and caused thereby, and to carry away the dust arising from, or thrown off by such wheels or belts, while in operation, directly to the outside of the building or to some other receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such dust, and the same shall be placed in such factory or workshop within three months after this act shall take effect, in the manner and according to the directions and specifications as herein, in this act set forth: Provided, That grinding mawater grinders. chines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact shall be exempt from the conditions of this act. And provided further, That this act shall not apply to solid emery wheels used in saw-mills or planing-mills or other wood-working establishments.

Provision

relative to

Proviso as to solid emery

wheels.

Duty of proprietors.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any person, company or corporation operating any such factory or workshop to provide or construct such appliances, apparatus, machinery or other things necessary to carry out the purpose of this act, as set Apparatus, how forth in the preceding section, as follows: Each and every such wheel shall be fitted with a sheet or cast iron hood or hopper of such form and so applied to such wheel or wheels that the dust or refuse therefrom will fall from such wheels or will be thrown into such hood or hopper by centrifugal

constructed.

force and be carried off by the current of air into a suction pipe attached to same hood or hopper.

to suction pipes.

SEC. 3. Each and every such wheel six inches or less in diam- Regulations as eter shall be provided with a three inch suction pipe; wheels six inches to twenty-four inches in diameter with four inch suction pipe; wheels from twenty-four inches to thirty-six inches in diameter with a five inch suction pipe; and all wheels larger in diameter than those stated above shall be provided each with a suction pipe, not less than six inches in diameter. The suction pipe from each wheel, so specified, must be full size to the main trunk suction pipe, and the said main suction pipe to which smaller pipes are attached shall, in its diameter and capacity, be equal to the combined area of such smaller pipes attached to the same; and the discharge pipe from the exhaust fan, connected with such suction pipe or pipes, shall be as large or larger than the suction pipe.

tors relative

blowers.

or blowers.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of any person, company or cor- Duty of proprieporation operating any such factory or workshop, to provide to fans and the necessary fans or blowers to be connected with such pipe or pipes, as above set forth, which shall be run at such a rate of speed as will produce a velocity of air in such suction or Velocity of fans discharge pipes of at least nine thousand feet per minute or an equivalent suction or pressure of air equal to raising a column of water not less than five inches high in a U-shaped tube. All branch pipes must enter the main trunk pipe at an angle Branch pipes, of forty-five degrees or less. The main suction, or trunk pipe, trunk pipes. shall be below the polishing or buffing wheels and as close Main suction to the same as possible and to be either upon the floor or be- of. neath the floor on which the machines are placed to which such wheels are attached. All bends, turns or elbows in such pipes must be made with easy smooth surfaces having a radius in the throat of not less than two diameters of the pipe on which they are connected.

how to enter

pipe, position

authority of

officials.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of any factory inspector, sheriff, Duty and constable or prosecuting attorney of any county in this State, certain in which any such factory or workshop is situated, upon receiving notice in writing, signed by any person or persons, having knowledge of such facts, that such factory or workshop, is not provided with such appliances as herein provided for, to visit any such factory or workshop and inspect the same and for such purpose they are hereby authorized to enter any factory or workshop in this State during working hours, and upon ascertaining the facts that the proprietors or managers of such factory or workshops have failed to comply with the provisions of this act, to make complaint of the same in Complaints, writing before a justice of the peace, or police magistrate having jurisdiction, who shall thereupon issue his warrant directed to the owner, manager or director in such factory or workshop, who shall be thereupon proceeded against for the How proceed. violation of this act as hereinafter mentioned, and it is made

whom to have jurisdiction.

Duty of prosethe duty of the prosecuting attorney to prosecute all cases cuting attorney. under this act.

Failure to com

ply with act deemed a misdemeanor.

Penalty.

SEC. 6. Any such person or persons or company or managers or directors of any such company or corporation who shall have the charge or management of such factory or workshop, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days, or exceeding ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved May 17, 1899.

Section amended.

[No. 203.]

AN ACT to amend section twelve of act number two hundred thirty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, being an act entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of all manufacturing companies, except such as are contemplated by act number forty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, which provides for the incorporation of persons or corporations engaged in the manufacture of salt, and mercantile companies, or any union of the two, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, as amended by act number one hundred seventy of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightynine, acts seventy-six and one hundred eighty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, act one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyfive, and act two hundred sixty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being section four thousand one hundred sixty-one b one volume three of Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan and section seven thousand forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That section twelve of act number two hundred thirty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyfive, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of all manufacturing companies, except such as are contemplated by act number forty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, which provides for the incorporation of persons or corporations engaged in the manu

facture of salt, and mercantile companies, or any union of the two, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, as amended by act number one hundred seventy of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, acts seventy-six and one hundred eighty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, act one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, and act two hundred sixty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being section four thousand one hundred sixty-one b one volume three of Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan and section seven thousand forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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SEC. 12. Every such corporation carrying on its manufactur- Annual reports ing or mercantile business within or without this State shall duplicate. annually, in the month of January or February, make dupli- what to state. cate reports for the fiscal year of such corporation, which shall state the amount of the capital stock of the corporation, and the amount actually paid in, the amount invested in real and in personal estate, the amount of debts of the corporation, and the amount of credits, the name of each stockholder, and the number of shares held by him at the date of such reports, the name and postoffice address of each officer and director of such corporation, and such other information as the Secretary of State may require; which duplicate reports shall be made on suitable blanks furnished by the Secretary of State on ap- Secretary of plication, signed by a majority of the directors, verified by the blanks. oath of the secretary of the corporation, and deposited in the and verified. office of the Secretary of State; such duplicate reports shall be so deposited within the said month of January or February. The Secretary of State shall carefully examine such Secretary of reports, and if, upon such examination they shall be found to amine reports, comply with all the requirements of this section, he shall file etc. one of them in his office, and shall forward the other by mail to the county clerk of the county in which the office in this State for the transaction of the business of the corporation so reported is situated, and it shall be the duty of such county Duty of county clerk, upon receipt of such report, to immediately cause the same to be filed in his office. If any of the directors of any Penalty for such corporation shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make and neglect to make deposit the report required by this section, within the time herein specified, they shall each be liable for all the debts of such corporation, contracted during the period of such neglect or refusal, and subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, and Penalty. in addition thereto the sum of five dollars for each and every secular day after the first day of March in each year during the pendency of such neglect or refusal, which penalty shall be for the use and benefit of the general fund of this State.

State to ex

clerk.

report.

Secretary of
State to make
report to
Attorney

General.

Attorney

General to institute proceedings.

Board of State audit and pay

Auditors to

expense of prosecution.

Termination of corporate existence, etc.

Secretary of State and county clerk to be notified.

Penalty for neglect to notify.

The Secretary of State shall, during the last week in June in each year, report to the Attorney General, in writing, the name and postoffice address of each and every corporation which has failed to comply with the provisions of this section, and upon the receipt of such report it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect said penalties, and all necessary expenses incurred by the Attorney General in such proceedings shall be audited by the Board of State Auditors, and paid from the general fund of the State. And in case a corporation organized and existing under the provisions of this act shall be dissolved by process of law, or whose term of existence shall terminate by limitation, whose property and franchises shall be sold at mortgage sale or at a private sale, or for any reason the attitude of the corporation toward the State shall be changed from that set forth in the articles of association, except as is provided in sections two and seventeen, it shall be the duty of the last board of directors of such corporation, within thirty days thereafter, to give written notice of such change to the Secretary of State and the county clerk of the county where the office of such corporation is located, signed by a majority of such directors, which said notice shall be recorded as amendments are required to be recorded; and in case of neglect to give such notice they shall be subject to the same penalties provided in case of neglect to make annual reports, which said penalties shall be collected and applied in the same manner as in case of neglect in making annual reports. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State during the month of December, A. D. eighteen hundred ninety-nine, to cause to be mailed to every corporation subject to the provisions of act number two hundred thirty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, as amended, a printed copy of this act. The neglect or redeemed wilful. fusal to file the reports required by this section to be filed shall, as to managing officers and directors, and officers and directors actually engaged in conducting the business of the corporation of which they are such officers or directors, be deemed to be wilful when the report required is not filed within the time herein limited. Whenever any corporation has neglected or refused to make and file its report within twenty days after the time limited in this section, the Secretary of State shall cause notice of that fact to be given by mail to such corporation, and to each officer and director thereof, directed to their respective postoffice addresses, and the notice to the corporation shall be accompanied by blanks upon which to make such report. The certificate of the Secretary of State, or Deputy Secretary, of the mailing of such notices and blanks shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of that fact, and that said notices and blanks were duly received by

Copy of act to be mailed to corporations.

When neglect to file report

Notice to officers and directors.

Certificate of mailing of notices to be prima facie evidence.

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