Assistant examiners. Salaries, how paid. Expenses, how paid. To file bond. supervision of the Commissioner of the Banking Department, as provided in this act. He may also employ from time to time such examiners to assist him and his deputy in the discharge of the several duties imposed upon them by this act as he shall find necessary. The salaries of the examiners shall be the sum of seventeen hundred dollars per annum. The salaries of the examiners shall be paid monthly, or quarterly, by the State Treasurer, upon a voucher countersigned by the Auditor General. Vouchers for the examiners' salaries must be first approved by the commissioner. All traveling expenses of examiners shall be paid as is indicated in this act and provided for in the payment of expenses of commissioner, deputy and clerks. Bank examiners shall file with the Commissioner of Banking a bond for ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of their duties. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful to catch fish in certain waters Violation of act a misdemeanor. Penalty [No. 48.] AN ACT to prohibit the taking or catching of fish in that portion of Pine River which lies within the counties of Gratiot and Montcalm, in this State, by means of spears, nets, setlines or night lines, snares, artificial lights, or explosive substances, and to prohibit the taking or catching of fish in said river except by hook and line; and to provide a penalty for any violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to take or catch fish in that portion of the waters of Pine River which lies within the counties of Gratiot and Montcalm, in this State, by means of spears, fire arms, nets, trap-nets, setlines or night lines, snares, or by the use of jacks, or artificial lights of any kind, or by the use of dynamite, giant powder, gun powder, or any explosive substance or combination of substances, or by any means or in any other manner than by hook and line. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of section one of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution, for each offense, or imprisonment in the county jail of the county where said offense is committed, not to exceed ninety days, or until such fine and costs are paid, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. facie evidence SEC. 3. In all prosecutions under this act it shall be prima What prima facie evidence, sufficient on the part of the people, to show that the defendant was found upon the waters of said river with either spear, net, trap-net, snare, setline or night-line, jack or artificial light of any kind, dynamite, giant powder, gun powder, or any other explosive substance or combination of substances. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- Acts repealed. visions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 49.] AN ACT to amend act number twenty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled “An act to prevent the Spearing of Fish in the waters of Inland Lakes in the County of Livingston." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That section one of act number twenty-seven of Section the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to prevent the spearing of fish in the waters of the inland lakes in the county of Livingston," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: fish in certain SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful hereafter to fish with Unlawful to any form of spear or spears in the waters of the inland lakes waters. in the township of Hamburg, in the county of Livingston, nor in that part of Whitmore Lake which lies in the township of Green Oak, in the county of Livingston. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Acts repealed. hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 28, 1899. May appoint assistant. Appointment, how to be. Power of. Compensation, how deter mined. [No. 50.] AN ACT to authorize the prosecuting attorney of Genesee county, Michigan, to appoint an assistant prosecuting attor ney for said county, and prescribing his duties, powers and compensation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The prosecuting attorney for Genesee county, Michigan, may appoint an assistant proscuting attorney for said county, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and may revoke such appointment at pleasure. SEC. 2. Such appointment, and the revocation thereof, shall be in writing, under the hand of the prosecuting attorney, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said county; the person so appointed, before entering upon the duties of such office, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this State. SEC. 3. The person appointed as such prosecuting attorney shall have full power and authority to appear for and in behalf of the People of the State in all criminal and other matters, to the same extent as the prosecuting attorney of said county. SEC. 4. The said assistant prosecuting attorney shall receive such compensation as may be determined by the Board of Supervisors of said County. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Location of school. Who to procure site. [No. 51.] AN ACT to provide for the location, establishment and conduct of a Normal School at Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of this State, and to make an appropriation for the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That a normal school shall be located at Marquette, to be known as the Northern State Normal School, for the purpose of instructing persons in the several branches pertaining to a public school education, and in the science and the art of teaching the same. SEC. 2. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to procure a suitable site for the grounds and buildings for said normal school, which site shall consist of at least twenty acres of land, located within one and one-half miles of the education to secure title, etc. present location of the postoffice in said city of Marquette. Said State Board of Education shall pay for such site a sum Amount to be paid. not exceeding one dollar, which sum is hereby appropriated for the use of said State Board of Education out of any moneys State board of in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be drawn on the requisition of said State Board of Education and the warrant of the Auditor General, as the moneys and appropriations are drawn. Said State Board of Education shall procure good and sufficient deed or conveyance of such site and grounds, and have the title for the same duly recorded. When so recorded, the said deed of conveyance, with an abstract of title showing Deed, where to be deposited. a clear and unincumbered title, and all papers relating thereto shall be deposited in the office of the Auditor General. SEC. 3. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby Appropriation appropriated for the erection of a suitable building for the for building. use of said State Board of Education in the establishment of a normal school under the provisions of this act, which building shall be erected in accordance with the suggestions and requirements of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, When buildand shall be ready for occupancy October one, eighteen hun- completed. dred ninety-nine. ing to be for salaries, SEC. 4. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby ap- Appropriation propriated for the payment of the salaries and conduct of said etc. normal school for the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine and For 1899. nineteen hundred, namely: two thousand five hundred dollars For 1900. for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and seven thousand five hundred dollars for the year nineteen hundred, which amounts, together with amount specified in section three of this act, shall be expended under the direction of the State Board of Education and be drawn on their order from the general fund: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be Proviso as to available unless five thousand dollars of the amount volun- gift. teered as a gift from the citizens of Marquette toward the site and beautifying the grounds be donated for the equipment of the school. porated in SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate To be incorwith the State tax for the year eighteen hundred and ninety- state tax. nine the sum of twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be assessed, levied and collected as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sum, when collected, shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse it for the sum appropriated by sections three and four of this act. have control of. SEC. 6. The said Northern State Normal School shall be Board of under and subject to the control of the State Board of Educa- education to tion, according to the provisions of act number one hundred ninety-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eightynine, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws rela- Laws to govern tive to the State Board of Education, and amendments thereto, also according to the provisions of act number one hundred control of. and seventy-five of the public acts. of eighteen hundred and Name changed. [No. 52.] AN ACT to change the name of the "Michigan State Normal The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The institution now known and designated under the name and style of "Michigan State Normal School" shall hereafter be known as the "Michigan State Normal College." SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Appropriation. How paid to treasurer. [No. 53.] AN ACT making an appropriation to cover the deficit of the State Board of Fish Commissioners June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That the sum of five thousand one hundred seventy-five dollars and eighteen cents be and the same is hereby appropriated from the general fund in the State Treas ury, not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of reimbursing the State Board of Fish Commissioners for advances made prior to July first, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, in the prosecution of its work. The amount herein appropriated shall be paid to the treasurer of the State Board of Fish Commissioners by the State Treasurer upon the warrants of the Auditor General, and the vouchers covering the expenditures under this appropriation shall be filed with the Auditor General, as required by the general accounting laws of the State. |