school. Eleventh, At the first and the annual meeting only, to deter- To fix term of mine'the length of time a school shall be taught in their district during the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in districts having eight hundred children over five and under twenty years of age, and not less than five months in all other districts, on pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund; but in case such When district matters shall not be determined at the first or annual meet- term, etc. ing, the district board shall determine the same; and in case the district fails to vote for at least the minimum length required herein, the district board shall make provisions for said minumum length of school; board to fix tion of pupils. Twelfth, To appropriate the funds derived or to be derived Transportafrom the one mill tax, or such part thereof as is deemed necessary, for the purpose of transporting pupils to and from school: Provided, That any district may appropriate any Proviso. surplus moneys arising from the one mill tax after having maintained a school in the district at least eight months in the school year for the following purposes: purchasing or enlarging school sites, building or repairng schoolhouses, purchasing any school apparatus, purchasing books for library, or for any incidental expenses of the school. Approved March 24, 1903. [No. 11.] AN ACT to define and to protect fishing rights and privileges in that portion of Saginaw Bay bordering on fractional sections four, five, seven and eight, township seventeen north, range ten east, and in fractional sections eleven and twelve, township seventeen north, range nine east, State of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: in certain SECTION 1. No person shall drive any stakes for fishing Use of nets purposes or set or place any nets in the waters of Saginaw waters. Bay contiguous or adjacent to sections four, five, seven and eight, in township seventeen north, range ten east, and sections eleven and twelve, in township seventeen north, range nine east for a distance of three miles from the shore of said lands, unless such person is the lawful owner or occupant of the shore frontage opposite to which said stakes are driven. or nets set or placed, or unless such person shall have a license so to do from the said owner or occupant. SEC. 2. Any person or persons offending against the provi- Penalty for sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and violation. on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in This act is ordered to take immediate effect. When board [No. 12.] AN ACT to provide for letting contracts for furnishing fuel, paper and stationery for the use of the State, and also for doing the State printing and State binding, and to provide for heating the capitol by steam conveyed from central heating plant, and to repeal act one hundred sixty-three of the laws of the year one thousand eight hundred fifty-one, as amended, being sections one thousand five hundred thirtyone, one thousand five hundred thirty-two, one thousand five hundred thirty-three, one thousand five hundred thirty-four, one thousand five hundred thirty-five, one thousand five hundred thirty-six and one thousand five hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of the year one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of State Audto publish time itors in the month of April in the year one thousand nine hun for receiving bids. dred three and every second year thereafter, to cause to be published in some newspaper published at the seat of government, in one or more daily newspapers published in the city of Detroit, and in a daily newspaper printed in the city of Grand Rapids, a notice specifying the time and place for receiving separate sealed proposals for furnishing fuel for the State capitol, proposals for furnishing paper for use of the State departments in the State capitol and for printing reports required by laws of the State, proposals for stationery for the use of the State departments in the capitol, and proposals for heating the State capitol with steam conducted to such building by means of underground pipes, which said. notice shall be published at least once in each week for six successive weeks before the time specified for examining such Proviso as to proposals: Provided, That no such proposals shall be received after nine o'clock in the forenoon of the second Wednesday in May; and that said proposals shall be opened on the second Wednesday in May in public, by the board of state.auditors, and the several contracts shall be awarded to letting. the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders on or before the second Wednesday of June following: Provided, That it Proviso. shall be optional with the board of state auditors whether contracts shall be awarded for fuel for the capitol or for heating the capitol with steam conducted to such building by means of underground pipes; and in the month of December, one thousand nine hundred three, and every second year thereafter, cause to be published in the same manner a notice specifying the time and place for receiving separate sealed proposals for printing and binding the laws, journals and documents, all blanks, papers and printing for the legislative, executive and judiciary departments, and all other printing ordered by the legislature, which said notice shall be published at least once in every week for six successive weeks before the time specified for examining such proposals: Pro- Proviso. vided, That no such proposal shall be received after nine o'clock in the forenoon of the third Wednesday in January following; and that said proposals shall be opened on the third Wednesday in January following in public, by the board of state auditors, and the several contracts shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders, on or before the second Wednesday of April following: Provided, Proviso as to however, that the board of state auditors shall have a right bids. to reject any and all bids, and in case the said board of state auditors reject all the bids on any article advertised for, under the provisions of this section, then the said board of state auditors shall, within ten days after such decision, readvertise for the same length of time, in the same manner as near as may be, for such articles for which the bids were so rejected by the board of state auditors, and the bid shall be opened and the contract let in the same manner, as near as may be, as provided for letting contracts had the bids not been rejected, and within the same length of time. rejection of Board to pre are schedule, samples, etc. SEC. 2. The board of state auditors shall prepare [a] schedule of articles desired in bids for paper and stationery and shall prepare samples or require bidders to furnish samples, or partly prepare samples and partly require bidders to furnish samples, as in the case of each article may seem best; or, if advisable, samples may be entirely omitted. All paper, stationery, and supplies in the nature of stationery, of which such a quantity can be foreseen as will last till the next contract is let, and provided they can be bought in sufficient quantities to make it an object, shall be placed under such contracts as the board of state auditors shall determine. In all cases in which bidders are required to furnish samples, such samples shall be marked with the item number corresponding to bid. Ample security shall be required for the faithful per- security formance of each and every contract made in pursuance of required. said notice. SEC. 3. The printing and binding of the laws, journals and style of printdocuments is to be in such style and manner as may be ing, etc. directed by the board of state auditors, or other officer or offi When bids examined. Proviso. When board to make contracts. cers duly authorized by law to fix and determine the same, and to be completed in a reasonable length of time, to be specified in the contract for the same. SEC. 4. At the time and place certified in said notice it shall be the duty of the board of state auditors to meet and there proceed to open and examine all proposals received pursuant to such notice: Provided, That no bid shall be enter tained unless accompanied by a guarantee bond, in such amount as the said board of state auditors shall require, conditioned that the bidders will enter into the contract if awarded to them. The board of state auditors shall properly prepare a schedule of all bids and examine and compare the samples for paper and stationery separately, and immediately enter into written contracts to commence on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred three, with the person or persons whose propositions are the lowest, and who shall execute bonds to the people of the State of Michigan, jointly and severally, with good and sufficient sureties, in such penal sum as the board of state auditors shall require for the faithful performance of said contract, and stipulating that in the case of failure of the bidders to perform their contract, such bondsmen shall pay the difference, if any, between the amount of the bid made by the contractor and the price of such goods in Forfeiture of open market. Failure upon the part of any contractor to furnish goods within a reasonable time, complying with contract sample, shall, in the discretion of the board of state auditors, work a forfeiture of said contract, and the board may purchase such goods in open market, charging any increase of cost thereof to said contractor, and may call upon the bondsmen to pay said amount upon the failure of the contractor so to do; and if such bondsmen shall fail to pay when called upon so to do, said board shall institute, for and on behalf of the State, the proper proceeding or proceedings, to recover any damages sustained because of non-fulfillment of and contract to furnish any of the goods provided herein, and so contracted to furnish. contract. Term of contracts. Proviso. SEC. 5. The contracts for furnishing fuel or for steam heating, as provided in section one of this act, and for furnishing paper and stationery, which shall be made under this act in the year one thousand nine hundred three, shall be for the period of two years beginning July first, one thousand nine hundred three, and ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred five: Provided, That the board of state auditors shall have authority to award contracts for fuel or for steam heating, as provided in section one of this act, for a term of either two or four years; and the contracts for printing and binding, made in accordance with this act, shall be for the period beginning July first, one thousand nine hundred four, and ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred six. And all subsequent contracts shall be for the period of two years or four years as herein provided, from and after the expiration of existing contracts. demands on contracts. SEC. 6. All demands arising against the state under such Auditing of contracts, from time to time, shall be audited by the board of state auditors; but no charge for constructive labor shall in any case be allowed. The auditor general shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer for all sums so audited and allowed, who shall pay the same out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. perform SEC. 7. In case any such contractor shall fail to perform Failure to his contract, it shall be the duty of the said board of state contract. auditors to cause the objects of such contract to be accomplished in any way by them deemed advisable for the best interests of the State; and it shall be the duty of the attorney general forthwith to prosecute the bonds of such delinquent contractor. SEC. 8. Act number one hundred sixty-three of the laws of Act repealed. the year one thousand eight hundred fifty-three, as amended, being sections one thousand five hundred thirty-one, one thousand five hundred thirty-two, one thousand five hundred thirty-three, one thousand five hundred thirty-four, one thousand five hundred thirty-five, one thousand five hundred thirty-six, one thousand five hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 13.] AN ACT to protect fish and prohibit the use of seines, gill nets or any form of pound, trap, sweep or set nets, or like device, in any of the waters of Lake Superior, within an imaginary line from Laughing Fish Point to a point two miles north of the most northerly point of Grand Island, and continuing in an easterly direction to Grand Portal on Pictured Rocks on the southern coast of Lake Superior. The People of the State of Michigan enact: in certain SECTION 1. That no person or persons shall fish with, use Use of netsor set any seines, gill nets or any form of pound, trap, sweep waters. or set nets or any like device for taking fish, in any of the waters of Lake Superior, on either side of Grand Island, or within two miles of the most northerly part thereof, which, within the meaning of this act, shall be defined as those waters between and extending over an imaginary line, drawn from the northerly point of Laughing Fish Point to a place in Lake Superior two miles north of the most northerly point of Grand Island, and from said point north of Grand Island in a south-easterly direction, touching the most northerly |