quired. contain, etc. rooms, voked by the factory inspector at any time the health of the community or of those so employed may require it: Provided Further proviso, light, further, That in all stores where goods are manufactured, heat, etc., in altered or repaired, work rooms shall be provided with suf- certain stores. ficient light, heat and ventilation, as prescribed in this section. It shall be framed and posted in a conspicuous place in the room, or in one of the rooms to which it relates. Every person, firm, company or corporation contracting for Production of the manufacture of any of the articles mentioned in this sec- permit retion, or giving out the incomplete material from which they or any of them are to be made, or to be wholly or partially finished, shall, before contracting for the manufacture of any of said articles, or giving out said material from which they. or any of them are to be made, require the production by such contractor, person or persons of said permit from the factory inspector, as required in this section, and shall keep a written register of the names and addresses of all persons Register to be to whom such work is given to be made, or with whom they kept what to may have contracted to do the same. Such register shall be produced for inspection and a copy thereof shall be furnished on demand made by the factory inspector or one of his deputies: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so con- Proviso, strued as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any seamstress. family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None Sleeping of the work mentioned in this section shall be done in any certain work room or apartment used for living or sleeping purposes, or not to be done which is connected with the room or rooms used for such purposes, and which has not a separate and distinct outside entrance, except by members of the family dwelling therein. Not less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space Light, shall be allowed for each person employed, and all work etc. rooms shall be provided with sufficient means of light, heat and ventilation as may be prescribed by the chief factory inspector. It shall be the duty of local boards of health, health Contagious officers and physicians to report within twenty-four hours diseases. to the deputy factory inspector in their respective districts each and every case of contagious or infectious disease coming officially to their knowledge. The chief factory inspector Inspectors or any duly appointed deputy factory inspector shall have and disinfect power to seize and take charge of all articles found that are certain being made or partially made, finished, cleaned or repaired in unhealthy or unsanitary places where there are contagious or infectious diseases, in violation of the law, and may proceed to disinfect, condemn or destroy the same as in the opinion of the local board of health officer, the public health or safety may require. Whenever it is reported to the chief Certain goods factory inspector or to the State Board of Health, or to State. either of them, that any of the articles named in this section are being or have been shipped into this State, having previously been manufactured in whole or in part under un in. ventilation, articles. shipped into Further proviso, certain stores. healthy conditions, said chief factory inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture, and if upon such examination said goods or any of them are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall make report thereof to the State Board of Health, which board shall thereupon make such order or orders as the public health and safety may require: Provided further, That in stores where goods are manufactured, altered or repaired, workrooms shall be provided with proper heat, light and ventilation, as prescribed in this section. Approved June 18, 1907. Section amended. Open season for certain water fowl. Proviso, spring duck shooting. [No. 170.] AN ACT to amend section thirteen of act number two hundred fifty-seven, of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirteen of act number two hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 13. No person shall injure, kill or destroy, or attempt to injure, kill or destroy by any means whatever any kind of wild duck, snipe, plover, wood cock, or any kind of wild water fowl save only from September first in each year to January first of the year following both inclusive and then only from one-half hour before sunrise until one hour after sunset of each day: Provided, however, That in addition to the open season for wild fowl shooting hereinbefore in this section established, it shall be lawful to hunt and kill blue bills, canvas back, read head, widgeon, pin tails, whistlers, spoon bills, butter ball, and snipe, between the second day of March and the twenty-fifth day of April both inclusive in each year: And Provided further, That it shall be lawful to hunt and kill wild geese, brant and saw bill ducks and saw bills. between the first day of September in each year and the first day of January in the year following and from the second day of March to the twenty-fifth day of April. No person or persons shall hunt, pursue, worry or kill any wild water Further proviso, geese, brant Floating devices unlawful. fowl by any means whatever during such time, as said person or persons are upon any floating device or contrivance propelled by or using any motor power, steam, gas, naphtha, oil, gasoline or electricity or when upon any sail boat, nor shall any person or persons make use of any swivel or punt gun for killing any of the wild water fowl or make use of any battery, sink boat.or similar device whatever, save only gun. a gun of not greater size than ten gauge, such gun to be held Gauge of in the hand at the time of firing, and it shall be unlawful for any person to kill in any one day more than twenty-five Number of game fowl or birds mentioned in this section, and it shall be birds limited. unlawful for any person to have at any time in his possession or in the possession of any person, firm or corporation for him, more than seventy-five such game, fowl or birds. Approved June 18, 1907. [No. 171.] AN ACT to amend section two of act one hundred fifty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to confer upon fire and marine insurance companies authority to insure property against loss or damage by lightning, wind and water." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section two of act one hundred fifty-four of Section the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to confer upon fire and marine insurance companies authority to insure property against loss or damage by lightning, wind and water," is amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed Liability for damage from as in any way limiting or changing the liability under the water. ordinary fire policy for damage resulting from water in case of fire. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Title and sections amended. [No. 172.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections one and four of an act, entitled "An act in relation to life insurance companies transacting business within this State," as amended, being sections seven thousand one hundred ninety and seven thousand one hundred ninety-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections one and four of an act, entitled "An act in relation to life insurance companies transacting business within this State," as amended, being sections seven thousand one hundred ninety and seven thousand one hundred ninety-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are amended to read as follows: Title. Number may incorporate for life insurance or ing business. TITLE. An act in relation to life and casualty insurance companies and surety bonding companies transacting business within this State. SEC. 1. Any number of persons, not less than thirteen, may associate together to form an incorporated company for the surety bond- purpose of making insurance upon the lives of individuals, and of every insurance pertaining thereto, and to grant, purchase and dispose of annuities; also, against sickness, accidental injuries and death by accident; the indemnity of employers against injury or death by accident of their employes, and injury or death of persons occasioned by the explosion of steam boilers, the insurance of persons holding positions of public or private trust, and the doing of a general inReinsurance. demnity and surety bonding business. Every company organ Fire and marine insurance prohibited. Capital stock, how increased, ized under this act shall have authority to reinsure any risk bereafter authorized to be undertaken by them, and to grant re-insurance upon any similar risk undertaken by any other company, but shall not have power to undertake marine and fire risks, or any other species of insurance whatever, except upon lives, or to be in any way connected in their business with any company undertaking other risks than upon the lives of individuals, except as herein provided. The provisions of this section shall apply to any company heretofore organized, or that may hereafter be organized, under its provisions, for the purpose of insuring the lives of individuals, or for the purpose of paying indemnity for accidental injuries and sickness. SEC. 4. The capital of any stock company organized under this act shall not be less than one hundred thousand dol state capital, de pany. lars in shares of fifty dollars each, which capital stock may be increased by a vote of two-thirds of the stockholders present or represented at any regular meeting called for that purpose to not more than five hundred thousand dollars; and no such stock company, and no company organized to Deposit with do business on the mutual plan, shall be authorized to issue treasurer. policies or assume any risk whatever until they shall have deposited with the State Treasurer, as security for any liability to insured parties, stocks or bonds of the United States or of this State, or of any city or county in this State authorized by act of legislature to issue the same, or first mortgage bonds of corporations organized under the laws of the State of Michigan, to the amount in par value, exclusive of interest, of not less than one hundred thousand dollars, which stocks or bonds shall be retained by the State Treasurer, and disposed of as hereinafter directed: Provided, That the capital Proviso, as to of any stock company organized to do a general indemnity posit, etc., of and surety bonding business shall be, for the separate pur- surety compose of such surety bonding business and additional to the capital required in any other business in which it may be lawfully engaged, not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars nor more than one million dollars, and its deposit of securities with the State Treasurer as herein provided for shall not be less than two hundred thousand dollars, and such capital and such deposits shall be used solely in, and shall be liable only for the debts and liabilities of such surety bonding business: Provided further, That personal obligations Further secured by first mortgage on improved and productive real mortgages. estate within this State, worth at least double the amount of the lien and bearing interest of not less [than] five per centum · per annum, may be received by the State Treasurer instead of the bonds or stock hereinbefore provided for in this section. Such mortgages shall be properly assigned to the State Treasurer as provided for in section twenty-one of this act, but any examination by the State Treasurer or under his Examination. direction to satisfy him respecting the title or value of the property mortgaged shall be at the expense of such company; and no mutual insurance company shall commence business, by issuing policies, until they shall have received at least five hundred applications for insurance, on which the pre- Insurance miums shall amount to at least five thousand dollars, nor companies, until the examination by the Attorney General and commis- issue policies. sioner as hereinafter provided: Provided further, That the Further net indebtedness of said city or county shall not exceed five proviso. per cent of the assessed valuation of all the real estate of said city or county, said valuation to be on the basis of the last preceding equalization of the State board for counties, and the proportionate amount thereof. The term net indebtedness in this section shall be construed to denote the indebtedness of any, city or county, omitting debt created for supplying the inhabitants with water, and deducting the amount of sinking funds available for the payment of such proviso, when may |