Board to make report.

What to set forth.

Blind persons to be received.

partially blind.

ed.

directed so to do by the said board; and discharge such other duties as the board may prescribe.

SEC. 14. The board of trustees shall make and submit a biennial report to the Governor and the legislature on or before the tenth day of November preceding each regular session of the legislature, which report shall set forth, among other things, a statement of the progress, condition, and needs of the several departments of the institution, the industries, occupations, and branches of knowledge taught or pursued and the progress made therein, the number, names and residences of all the blind persons of each description received and discharged during the two fiscal years closing on the thirtieth day of the preceding June, and of those remaining in charge or in the employ of said board, also of all the officers, instructors, and employes and assistants connected with said institution, together with their respective rates of compensation, and a detailed account of the receipts and disbursements of said board during such biennial period, with estimates of the amount needed for the support of the institution for the ensuing two years, and such other information relating to the said institution and the objects thereof as they may deem proper.

SEC. 15. There shall be received in said institution as apprentices or learners, as assisted wards, or as wage-workers all those blind persons, residents of this State, or, if minors, whose parents or guardians are residents of this State, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, who are of good moral character and in suitable condition of body and mind to receive the instruction therein afforded or, by their labor or servProviso as to ices, to earn the cost of their own support: Provided, That partially blind persons, whose defective sight is such as to prevent them from successfully engaging in those common pursuits wherein the possession of vision is deemed requisite to success, may be admitted to the privileges and benefits of said institution upon such just and reasonable terms as How instruct the said board of trustees may prescribe. Such persons as may be duly admitted to said institution as dependent wards, apprentices, or polytechnic students shall be so instructed, trained, and maintained at said institution or by said board for a limited time, not to exceed three years in any case while acquiring any useful art, trade, or calling, without charge for tuition. board, lodging, washing, medicine, or medical attendance: Provided, That the board of trustees may, in their discretion, admit persons between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years with the approval of the Board of Control of the Michigan School for the Blind at Lansing, and may in their discretion admit persons over sixty years of age: And prorided, further, That in case of the unavoidable suspension of the industrial or manufacturing department of the institution, or of any trade or calling pursued in said institution, no charge shall be made for the maintenance of those wage-workers or blind employes whose opportunity for earning their own support shall be thereby interrupted, unless such suspension shall

Proviso.

Further proviso.

discharge of

continue for a longer time than fourteen weeks in any one year: And provided, further, That said board of trustees shall Proviso as to have power to dismiss and discharge any inmate or beneficiary inmates. of said institution whenever they shall deem it advisable so to do on account of persistent disobedience, immoral conduct, or other sufficient cause, or in consequence of such person having completed the course of training or otherwise accomplished the purpose for which he or she may have been admitted to said institution.

ents of poor to

institution.

SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the superintendents of the Superintend poor of the several counties of this State to send or cause to be send certain sent to the said employment institution for the blind all such persons to persons as are entitled to admission therein, who are a charge upon their respective counties or any township or city therein. To provide Such superintendents of the poor shall, before sending any them with cerblind persons to said institution under the provisions of this tain articles. section, cause them to be decently and comfortably clothed, and shall provide them with comfortable clothing while they remain at said institution, and shall defray their traveling expenses in going to and returning from said institution, and provide them with such articles of necessity and convenience as may be required by the rules and regulations of said institution to be furnished by the inmates thereof, and shall also pay for the board of such persons during any vacation or other necessary suspension of the work of such persons, not exceeding fourteen weeks for any individual during any one year, if they are permitted to remain at said institution during such vacation or other necessary suspension of their work. All persons entitled to admission to said institution who are not a charge upon any county of this State, but who, on account of their poverty, are unable to furnish themselves with proper clothing and other articles required by the rules and regulations of said institution, shall receive the same aid from the superintendents of the poor of their respective counties while attending said institution as is provided in this section for those who are a county charge. All expenses incurred by the superintendents of the poor under this section shall be a proper charge against their respective counties, and shall be defrayed out of the poor fund of such county.

tion.

SEC. 17. The sum of one dollar, or so much thereof as shall Appropriabe necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purchase or acquirement of said site or sites; the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, for the payment on contracts provided for in section six of this act, and for the purpose of purchasing furniture, bedding, cooking utensils, and such other necessary furniture and equipments as may be required for said institution, is hereby appropriated; the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for power, tools, implements, and such working material as may be deemed necessary in the different departments; the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the current expenses of said institution for the fiscal year

To be incorporated in State tax.

ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred four and the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred five. The Auditor General is hereby authorized and required to add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred three the sum of eighty-five thousand one dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred four the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, from which amount the general fund shall be reimbursed for any and Proviso as to all amounts appropriated under this section: Provided, That

transfer of

funds.

Repealing clause.

if in any case the sum or sums hereby appropriated for any particular purpose shall not be necessary for the purpose indicated, then said board shall have the authority to expend any surplus funds for any purpose or purposes deemed necessary in the said institution.

SEC. 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved June 2, 1903.

Section amended.

[No. 170.]

AN ACT to amend section fifteen of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, being an act to amend act number two hundred seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing of vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beverage any part of which is intoxicating, and to prohibit the keeping of any saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of such liquors or beverages, and to suspend the general laws of the State relative to the taxation and regulation of the manufacture and sale of such liquors in the several counties of this State under certain circumstances; to authorize the qualified electors of the several counties of this State to express their will in regard to such prohibition by an election, and to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the several counties, after such election, if they shall determine the result to be in favor of such prohibition, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing, of any such liquors, or the keeping of a saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of the same in their respective counties, and to provide for penalties and rights of action in case of its violation."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That section fifteen of act number one hundred eighty three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine,

being an act to amend act number two hundred seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beyerage any part of which is intoxicating, and to prohibit the keeping of any saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of any such liquors or beverages, and to suspend the general laws of the State relative to the taxation and regulation, of the manufacture and sale of such liquors in the several counties of this State under certain circumstances; to authorize the qualified electors of the several counties of this State to express their will in regard to such prohibition by an election, and to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the several counties, after such election, if they shall determine the result to be in favor of such prohibition, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing of any such liquors, or the keeping of a saloon or any place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of the same, in the respective counties, and to provide for penalties and rights of action in case of its violation," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

provisions to

SEC. 15. The prohibitory provisions of this act shall take When certain effect and have full force within such county of this State on take effect. and after the first day of May, immediately following the adoption by the board of supervisors of such county of the resolution ordering such prohibition and upon publication of the notice of the adoption of such resolution: Provided, however, Proviso. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the sale of wine for sacramental purposes, nor shall anything herein contained prohibit druggists or registered pharmacists from selling or furnishing pure alcohol for medicinal, art, scientific and mechanical purposes, nor prohibit the sale of wine or cider from home-grown fruit in quantities of not less than five gallons, nor shall the provisions of this act be construed to prohibit the manufacture of wine or cider, nor shall the provisions of this act be construed to prohibit the sale at wholesale of wine or cider manufactured in said county to parties who reside outside of said county.

Approved June 2, 1903.

Number may 'incorporate.

Certificate,

what to set forth.

Further provisions.

When to become body corporate, powers, etc.

Term of office of directors.

May reincor

[No. 171.]

AN ACT for the incorporation of associations not for pecuniary profit.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any five or more persons who shall desire to associate themselves for any lawful purposes other than pecuniary profit may make, sign and acknowledge before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds in this State and record in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the clerk of the county in which the headquarters or principal business of the corporation is to be conducted, a certificate in writing in which shall be stated:

First, The name or title by which said corporation is to be known in law;

Second, The purpose or purposes for which it is formed;
Third, The principal office or place of business;

Fourth, The number of trustees or directors, which shall not be less than five;

Fifth, And the names of the trustees or directors selected for the first year of its existence.

SEC. 2. The certificate may also contain any desired provisions prescribing the qualifications of officers and members whereby they may be required to be members in good standing of any fraternal, religious or beneficiary order or society, which provisions shall be binding upon the members and offi cers. The certificate may also contain any other provision for the regulation of the business and conduct of the affairs of the association, and any limitation or regulation of the powers of the corporation, and of its officers and members, not inconsistent with law or with this act, which the incorporators may choose to adopt.

SEC. 3. Upon delivery for record of such articles the persons who have signed and acknowledged such certificate, their associates and successors, shall thereupon become a body politic and corporate and shall have power:

First, To sue and be sued;

Second, To appoint such officers, managers and agents as the affairs of the corporation may require;

Third. To make by-laws for the regulation of its affairs; Fourth, To acquire and convey all real, personal and mixed property suitable or necessary for the object of the corporation, and to do all things and be liable for all acts in relation thereto in the same manner and to the same extent as a natural person.

SEC. 4. The trustees or directors shall hold their office for one year or for such term as the by-laws shall provide and until their successors are elected.

SEC. 5. Any corporation not for pecuniary profit, heretofore porate under incorporated under the provisions of any act of the legislature of Michigan, may re-incorporate under the provisions of this

this act.