Unlawful to catch except line. [No. 20.] AN ACT to protect fish and regulate fishing in the waters of Lyon, Long, Pine and Fish Lakes in the Township of Fredonia, County of Calhoun. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful hereafter for any person with hook and or persons to take, catch or kill any fish in the waters of Lyon, Long, Pine or Fish Lakes in the Township of Fredonia, County of Calhoun, with any kind of spear or grap-hook, or by the use of jacks or artificial light of any kind, or by the use of set lines, or any kind of net, or any kind of firearms or explosive, or other device, except by hook and line under the immediate control of the person. Day's catch limited. Limit as to SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person to take, in any manner, in said lakes, in any one calendar day, to exceed in number twenty-five fish of any or all the following named fish, to-wit: Black bass, striped bass, calico bass or strawberry bass, perch, blue-gills, roach, sunfish or wall-eyed pike. SEC. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to length of fish. take, in any manner, in said lakes, any black bass, striped bass or wall-eyed pike of less length than eight inches, or any calico bass or strawberry bass, perch or blue-gills of less length than five inches, or any roach or sunfish of less length than three inches, and as otherwise provided by this act and by the laws of the State of Michigan. Unlawful to catch minnows. Penalty for violation. SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful, hereafter, for any person or persons to catch minnows by means of any dip net or seine in the waters of Lyon Lake, Township of Fredonia, Calhoun County. SEC. 5. Any person or persons who shall be found guilty of a violation of any of the above sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor against the people of the State of Michigan, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor to exceed fifty dollars, and costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 21.] AN ACT to amend sections two, five and twenty-five of chapter three of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," approved May twentyfirst, eighteen hundred eighty-one, being sections four thou sand six hundred sixty-seven, four thousand six hundred seventy and four thousand six hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, five and twenty-five of chapter Sections three, of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and pri mary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred eighty-one, being sections four thousand six hundred sixty-seven, four thousand six hundred seventy and four thousand six hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. A school district office shall become vacant upon when office any of the following events: First, The death of the incumbent; Second, His resignation; Third, His removal from office; Fourth, His removal from the district; Fifth, His conviction of any infamous crime; Sixth, His election or appointment being declared void by a competent tribunal; Seventh, His neglect to file his acceptance of office, or to give or renew any official bond according to law; Eighth, His ceasing to be a taxpayer in the school district. vacant. SEC. 5. Within ten days after their election or appoint- Acceptance ment the several officers of each school district shall file with of office. the director written acceptances of the office to which they have been respectively elected or appointed, accompanied by an affidavit, properly acknowledged, that they are qualified voters, that their name appears on the assessment roll, and that they are the owners in their own right of the property so assessed, and such acceptances and affidavits shall be entered in the records of the district by said director. SEC. 25. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of each school district: First, To execute to the district, and file with the director Treasurer to within ten days after his election or appointment, a bond in give bonds. double the amount of money to come into his hands as such treasurer during his term of office, as near as the same can be Where filed. To pay orders. To keep books. To make report. When to appear in suits. Deliver books, etc., to successor. ascertained, with two sufficient sureties who shall be residents of the same county, and each of whom shall be required to justify under affidavit, to the amount of said bond unless the treasurer shall furnish a bond of some surety company authorized to do business in this State, to be approved by the moderator and director conditioned for the faithful application of all moneys that shall come into his hands by virtue of his office, and to perform all his duties of his said office as required by provisions of this act. Said bond shall be filed with the director, and none of the books or money of the district shall be placed in the hands of the treasurer until this bond has been filed, and in case of any breach of the condition thereof, the moderator shall cause suit to be commenced thereon in the name of the district, and any moneys collected thereon shall be paid into the township treasury, subject to the order of the district officers, and shall be applied to the same purposes as the moneys lost should have been applied by the treasurer; Second, To pay all orders of the director, when lawfully drawn and countersigned by the moderator, out of any moneys in his hands belonging to the fund upon which such orders. may be drawn; Third, To keep a book in which all moneys received and disbursed shall be entered, the sources from which the same have been received, and the persons to whom and the objects. for which the same have been paid; Fourth, To present to the district board at the close of the school year a report in writing, containing a statement of all moneys received during the preceding year, and of each item of disbursements made, and exhibit the voucher therefor; Fifth, To appear for and on behalf of the district in all suits brought by or against the same, when no other directions shall be given by the qualified voters in district meeting, except in suits in which he is interested adversely to the district, and in all such cases, the moderator shall appear for such district, if no other directions be given, as aforesaid; Sixth, At the close of his term of office to settle with the district board, and deliver to his successor in office all books, vouchers, orders, documents and papers belonging to the office of assessor, together with all district moneys remaining on hand; Seventh, To perform such other duties as are or shall be by law required of the assessor. Approved April 2, 1903. [No. 22.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twentynine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being sections three hundred sixty-three to four hundred fourteen, inclusive, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, by adding a new section to stand between sections fortyeight and forty-nine of said act, to be known as section forty-eight-c. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred eighty-three of the Act amended. public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being sections three hundred sixty-three to four hundred fourteen, inclusive, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended by adding a new section to stand between sections forty-eight and forty-nine of said act to be known as section forty-eight-c, to read as follows: ographer of SEC. 48c. In the thirty-eighth circuit of the State of Salary of stenMichigan the stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of 35th circuit. not less than seven hundred dollars nor more than ten hundred dollars, as same shall be fixed by the board of supervisors of Monroe county. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 23.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan School for the Deaf for building and 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: expense. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current Appropriation expenses of the Michigan School for the Deaf for the fiscal for current year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four, the sum of eighty-six thousand one hundred fifty dollars, and for the Further appropriation. How used. Proviso. Further proviso. How paid. To be incorporated in state tax. fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, the sum of eighty-eight thousand two hundred dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of eighteen thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four, for purposes and amounts as follows: For the erection of a new barn, five thousand dollars; for the erection of a store house and cold-storage plant, five thousand dollars; for the purchase, erection and equipment of a storage battery, five thousand dollars; for the building and repairing of necessary fences and walks, and the caring for, beautifying and cultivation of the grounds, one thousand dollars; for painting and calcimining, one thousand dollars; for roofs and gutters, one thousand dollars; for increasing and maintaining the pupils' library and reading rooms, five hundred dollars: Provided, That if the amount designated in this section for any one of the purposes stated be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, 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 and Auditor General in writing before any expense in excess of the specific 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 eighteen thousand five hundred dollars available for the purposes stated herein if, in the judg ment 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: Provided further, That the board of control may obtain money under this section before July first, nineteen hundred three, in such amounts as they may by requisition certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use, which amounts thus advanced shall be deducted from the total amount appropriated when the appropriation becomes available. 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 Michigan School for the Deaf 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 one hundred four thousand six hundred fifty dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred four the sum of eighty-eight thousand two hundred dollars, which when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. Approved April 9, 1903. |