Salaries to officers, etc., limited. Agreement extending beyond certain period unlawful. [No. 259.] AN ACT relating to the salaries of officers and agents of life insurance companies. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No domestic life insurance company shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than five thousand dollars to any person, firm or corporation unless such payment be first authorized by a vote of the board of directors of such life insurance company. No such life insurance company shall make any agreement with any of its officers, trustees or salaried employes whereby it agrees that for any services rendered or to be rendered, he shall receive any salary, compensation or emolument that will extend beyond a period of twelve months from the date of such agreement; and no officer, director or trustee, who is paid a salary for his services of more than one hundred dollars per month, Proviso as to shall receive any other compensation or emolument: Provided, That the limitation as to time contained herein shall not be construed as preventing a life insurance company from entering into contracts with its agents for the payment Pensions, not of renewal commissions. No such company shall grant any pension to any officer, director or trustee thereof or to any member of his family after his death. limitation of time. to be granted. Acts repealed. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Current expenses. [No. 260.] AN ACT making appropriations for the State Sanatorium for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for current expenses at the State Sanatorium for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of eight thousand dollars and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of eight thousand dollars. purposes. SEC. 2. The further sum of sixty-two thousand dollars is Building and hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, special nineteen hundred eight, for purposes and amounts as follows: For extending main dining-room, two thousand dollars; for three shacks, six thousand dollars; to provide rooms for help, two thousand five hundred dollars; for store-room and ice house, two thousand dollars; for water supply, three thousand dollars; for sewage system, five thousand dollars; for electric wiring, one thousand dollars; for roads and walks, one thousand five hundred dollars; for land, three thousand dollars; for repairs on farm buildings and fences, one thousand five hundred dollars; for furnishings and equipment, three thousand dollars; for horses, harnesses, wagons and buggies, fifteen hundred dollars; for one building, twentyfive thousand dollars; for furnishing said building including laboratory, equipment and supplies, five thousand dollars. SEC. 3. It is hereby provided that if the several amounts Transfer of designated in section two of this act, for any one of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of other work or purchase specified in said section, may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire sixty-two thousand dollars available for the purposes stated in said section, if, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made. funds. SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Sanatorium, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of seventy thousand dollars and for the year nineteen hundred eight, the sum of eight thousand dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Purpose and amount. How paid out. Tax clause. [No. 261.] AN ACT to make an appropriation to aid the Michigan Corn Improvement Association in the prosecution of its work, and provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the Michigan Corn Improvement Association in the prosecution of its work of creating a deeper interest in and a better knowledge of the culture and improvement of corn for each of the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the board of directors of said association in such way as in its judg ment will most effectually attain the ends sought. SEC. 2. The amount appropriated under the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Corn Improvement Association, at such times and in such amounts as the gen eral accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disburs ing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of five hundred dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred eight the sum of five hundred dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Amount levied for general purposes. [No. 262.] AN ACT to provide a tax to meet the several appropriations for which a tax is not otherwise provided for the general expenses of the State government, salaries of the State officers, judicial and other expenses of the State departments and expenses of the legislature for the years nineteen hundred seven and nineteen hundred eight. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There shall be levied upon the aggregate of taxable real and personal property of the State in the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred eight, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be raised by tax to meet the several appropriations made by law wherein no tax is otherwise provided. SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of any act to meet which this act provides a tax shall, so far as moneys are required to be paid to the board or officers of any institution or commission, be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the proper board or officer, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer of such board or commission shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. ment of tax. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall apportion each year Apportionthe amounts herein directed to be raised among the several counties in this State as provided by law for the apportionment of State taxes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 263.] AN ACT to regulate the width of public highways and encroachments thereon, and the setting of poles along such highways. The People of the State of Michigan enact: ments. SECTION 1. All public highways for which the right of Width of way has at any time been given or purchased for a high highways. way sixty-six feet wide, shall be and remain sixty-six feet wide, and no encroachments by fences, buildings or other- Encroachwise which may have been made since the purchase or gift of such sixty-six feet, nor any encroachments which were within the limits of such sixty-six feet at time of purchase or gift, and no encroachments which may hereafter be made, shall give the party or parties, firm or corporation so encroaching, any title or right to the land so encroached upon. SEC. 2. No person or persons, firm or corporation shall Setting of have the right to set a pole or poles along the line of any public highway, within twenty-five feet of the center of the highway on either side, without the consent of the township board in the township in which such highway is located and where such pole or poles are to be set; and in no case shall the poles be set within fifteen feet of the center of the highway on either side. poles. Removal of ments or SEC. 3. Any party or parties, firm or corporation violating encroachany of the provisions of this act, shall, upon demand of the poles. township highway commissioner of the township in which such Section amended. Sessions, when and where held, etc. Proviso, compensation. [No. 264.] AN ACT to amend section four of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a pardoning board, prescribing the powers and duties and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," as amended by act number two hundred thirtynine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, being section one hundred forty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a pardoning board, prescribing the powers and duties and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," as amended by act number two hundred thirty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, being section one hundred forty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. The said board shall hold its sessions when and where occasion may require and shall have full power to send for persons and papers and administer oaths, in the prosecution of its work: Provided, That said board shall not receive compensation for more than two hundred days in each year. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 27, 1907. |