act, and shall take all the property and become subject to the debts and liabilities of the former association. SEC. 6. Any corporation organized under this act, the pur- Powers, etc. pose of which is not primarily or principally for net pecuniary profit, but the objects of which require the transaction of business and the receipt and payment of moneys in the conduct of its affairs, shall have the right and power to transact such business and receive, collect and disburse such moneys, and acquire, hold and convey such properties as are naturally or properly within the scope of its articles of association. rations, how SEC. 7. Hereafter all new corporations not organized for New corpoprofit and having no capital stock, except religious organiza- organized. tions, shall be organized under this act. applied. SEC. 8. Nothing in this act contained shall permit any com- Act, how pany, association or society to transact any insurance business other than the payment of a funeral benefit of not to exceed one hundred dollars. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 172.] AN ACT to provide for the renewing of bonds of guardians, executors and administrators. The People of the State of Michigan enact: new bonds, SECTION 1. Every guardian, executor and admihistrator shall When to give file a new bond whenever required by the probate court to do how signed, so; the said new bond shall be signed by the guardian, executor etc. or administrator with two sufficient sureties residing in the same county where the probate court is held, which sureties shall justify their pecuniary responsibility under oath, before any officer authorized to administer oaths. court to give SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the probate court to give when probate written notice to each guardian, executor or administrator who notice to has been acting as such for five years, and in every case where renew. a new bond is required, to come into court on a certain day, and give a new bond in such sum as the probate judge shall provide. If, after receiving the notice aforesaid, the said In cases of guardian, executor or administrator shall neglect or refuse to neglect, etc. file the bond as required, the probate court shall serve a notice on said guardian, executor or administrator to appear before him at a time and place, to show cause why he should not be removed from said office of trust, and the said probate court shall remove said guardian, executor or administrator and appoint a new one, unless the said bond, complying with all the conditions aforesaid, shall be filed within thirty days. Record of, to be kept. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the probate court to keep a book wherein shall be entered the dates when each guardian, executor or administrator gives a bond, and every five years thereafter the notices shall be served, according to the provisions of this act, and a new bond required. Approved June 2, 1903. Act amended. Treasurers to make transcripts. Fees for. Proviso. Further proviso. [No. 173.] AN ACT to amend act number twenty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to amend act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled 'An act to require county treasurers to furnish transcripts and abstracts of records, and fixing the fees to be paid therefor,'" approved March tenth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being compiler's section twenty-five hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number twenty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to amend act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled 'An act to require county treasurers to furnish transcripts and abstracts of records and fixing the fees to be paid therefor,'" approved March tenth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being compiler's section twentyfive hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The county treasurers of the several counties shall make or cause to be made, on application therefor, transcripts of any papers or records on file in their offices, upon payment by applicants therefor of the following fees. For abstracts of taxes on any description of land, three cents for each year covered by such abstract; for abstracts with statement of name and residence of taxpayers twelve cents per year for each description of land therein; for list of State tax lands or State bids, two cents for each description of land therein; for one copy of any paper or document at the rate of ten cents per one hundred words; for each certificate, fifteen cents: Provided, That for statements in respect to the payment of taxes required by section one hundred and thirty-five of act two hundred six of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, the county treasurer shall receive five cents for each description of land contained therein: Provided further, That in no case shall any abstract, list, copy or statement made as required by this act, be furnished for a less sum than fifteen cents. All moneys collected under the provi sions of this act shall be retained by the county treasurers collecting the same, except in the counties of Wayne, Kent, Saginaw and Bay, in which counties such money shall be placed, by the treasurers, collecting the same, to the credit of the general fund of the county. Approved June 2, 1903. [No. 174.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Industrial School for Boys for special purposes and for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four, and June thirty, nineteen hundred five, and to provide a tax therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: for current expense. SECTION 1. The sum of seventy thousand dollars for the Appropriation fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four and the further sum of seventy thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, or so much of said. sums as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated to defray the current expenses of the Industrial School for Boys. SEC. 2. The further sum of seven thousand three hundred Further ap fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending propriation. June thirty, nineteen hundred four, for the purposes and amounts, as follows: For the maintenance of the department How used. of technology, two thousand dollars; for sidewalks and fences, five hundred dollars; for painting and papering, five hundred dollars; for team, carriage and harness, eight hundred dollars; for steam and water plant repairs, fifteen hundred dollars; for introducing and maintaining sloyd department, fifteen hundred dollars; for ensilage cutter and motor, three hundred dollars; for library books and periodicals, two hundred fifty dollars. The further sum of six thousand two hundred fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, for the purposes and amounts as follows: For the maintenance of the department of technology, two thousand dollars; for sidewalks and fences, five hundred dollars; for painting and papering, five hundred dollars; for steam and water plant repairs, fifteen hundred dollars; for maintaining sloyd department, fifteen hundred dollars; for li brary books and periodicals, two hundred fifty dollars: Pro- Proviso as to vided, That if the amount designated in this section for any of funds. the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchases, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in this section may, by obtaining the consent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities transfer of How paid. To be incorporated in state tax. and Auditor General, in writing, 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 thirteen thousand six hundred dollars available for the purposes stated herein, if, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the Industrial School for Boys at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax, for the year nineteen hundred three, the sum of seventyseven thousand three hundred fifty dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred four, the sum of seventy-six thousand two hundred fifty 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. Certain lands withdrawn from sale, etc. [No. 175.] AN ACT to create a forestry reserve, to provide for its maintenance, management and regulation, by restoring for sale or homestead entry, lands heretofore reserved in certain counties in this State, to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide for a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All delinquent state tax, homestead, swamp and primary school lands now belonging or which shall hereafter be added to and belong to the State in towns twenty-one north, range three and four west; the north half of town number twenty-four north, range four west, and the south half of town number twenty-five north, range four west, are hereby withdrawn from sale and entry, set apart for the creation of a Who to have forestry reserve, and for that purpose placed under the control of the Michigan Forestry Commission created by act number two hundred twenty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hunTo determine dred ninety-nine. It shall be the duty of said Michigan Forestry Commission, first, to investigate and determine what part or portion of the lands belonging to the State, thus withdrawn from sale and entry and set aside, it will be for the best interests of the State and public to retain and devote to the control of. lands to be withdrawn. purpose of forestry, having regard both to the soil and natural characteristics and conditions of said lands and their relative fitness for cultivation and forestry, and also the location of the various descriptions of the same with respect to each other, so that the lands to be devoted to such forestry reserve shall be composed of contiguous territory, or territory as nearly contiguous as possible, so as to render practicable and desirable, the establishment and maintenance of forestry reserves embracing the same. Second, to have care, custody, control Further and superintendence of the lands herein or hereafter set apart for or becoming a part of the forestry reserve, and to provide for the reforestation of the denuded lands so set apart and belonging to the State, by planting and preserving forest trees, establishing and maintaining fire lines and a system of fire patrol in the forestry reserve thus created. powers of. warden. SEC. 2. The Forestry Commission shall have power to appoint Appointment a forestry warden who shall hold office for the term of four of forestry years from the first day of January in the year in which appointed, unless sooner removed by the Forestry Commission. The said forestry warden shall receive an annual salary of not Salary etc., of to exceed one thousand dollars, payable in the same manner as the salaries of State officers are now paid, and he shall be subject to the orders and directions of the Forestry Commission, which shall prescribe his powers and duties and he shall have general charge, control and supervision of all deputy wardens or other persons appointed or employed for the performance of duties or services in respect to forestry lands or forest fires. The said forestry warden may appoint, upon recommendation May appoint of the Forestry Commission, a sufficient number of competent persons as forestry wardens, to hold office at the pleasure of the said commission, who shall be entitled to receive a sum not to Compensaexceed two dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily spent under the direction of the chief warden in the discharge of duties under this act. Said compensation to be paid by the Auditor General on the approval of the president and secretary of the said Forestry Commission. deputies. tion. may sell lands SEC. 3. The said Forestry Commission shall have power to Commission cut, remove or sell, (or to sell to any person with the power and timber. to cut, sell or remove, upon such terms and under such conditions and restrictions as it may deem advisable), any trees, timber or other forest products upon or derived from the said lands so set apart as forestry reserve lands, and shall have power to lease or sell any lands within such forestry reserve, the lease or deed therefor to be executed for and on behalf of the State by the Commissioner of the State Land Office. The May purchase said Forestry Commission shall likewise have authority to purchase such lands within the limits of said forestry reserve as it may deem advisable in order to connect and render contiguous separate tracts. All moneys received by or payable to the said Forestry Commission on account of or arising from revenues from said lands, or from any other source, shall be paid to and received by the secretary of said commission, whose official bond as Commissioner of the State Land Office shall be certain lands. |