Saturdays. suits. etc. able and presentable for acceptance or payment on the secular or business day next succeeding such holiday or half holiday: Provided, That in construing this section, every Saturday, Proviso as to unless a whole holiday, as aforesaid, shall for the holding of court and the transaction of any business authorized by the laws of this State be deemed a secular or business day: Pro- Proviso as to vided also, That in case the return or adjourn day in any suit, matter or hearing before any court, officer, referee or arbitrators shall come on any of the days first above named, except Sunday, such suit, matter or proceeding, commenced or adjourned as aforesaid, shall not, by reason of coming on any of such days except Sunday, abate, but the same shall stand continued on the next succeeding day, at the same time and place unless the next day be the first day of the week, or a holiday, in which case the same shall stand continued to the next day succeeding said first day of the week or holiday, at the same time and place: Provided further, That whenever Proviso as to the first day of the general term of any circuit court, as fixed by the order of a circuit judge shall fall upon either of the days first above named or whenever any circuit court shall be adjourned to any of the days first above named, such court may be adjourned to the next succeeding secular day: And Proviso as to egal process. provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent or invalidate the entry, issuance, service or execution of any writ, summons or confession of judgment or other legal process whatever, holding courts or the transaction of any lawful business except banking on any of the Saturday afternoons herein designated as half holidays, nor to prevent any bank from keeping its doors open or transacting its business on any of the said Saturday afternoons, if by a vote of its directors it elects to do so. Approved June 18, 1903. circuit courts [No. 255.] AN ACT to amend section thirty of act number one hundred fifty-six of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local administrative and legislative powers;" the same being section two thousand five hundred three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section thirty of act number one hundred fifty- Section six of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers," the same being Compensation. Proviso. Proviso as to time actually employed. Amount of may receive at each session. compiler's section two thousand five hundred three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 30. Every member of such board of supervisors shall be allowed a compensation of three dollars per day for his services and expenses in attending the meeting of said board, and six cents a mile for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the place of such meeting: Provided, That no supervisor shall be allowed pay for more than one day for each twenty-four hours that the board of supervisors shall be in session: Provided, Where a member of the board of supervisors in any county of the Upper Penisula has to leave home the day before the meeting of said board in order to arrive at place of meeting of said board in time for the commencement of session, and where members cannot get home the day the meeting adjourns, said members shall be allowed compensation at the rate of three dollars per day for time actually employed in going to and returning home from place of meeting of said board by the most direct and usually traveled route; to be audited by the board and paid by the county; which compensation of three dollars per day shall extend to and be allowed for the first twelve days only of any continuous regular session, and six days only for an adjourned session of said board and of which special sessions there shall be no more than two in any one official year, which said amount shall be in full for all services rendered and expenses in attending the meetings of such board of supervisors and for all services and expenses incurred while acting upon any committee of said board of supervisors during the session of said board, and any supervisor receiving further or other compensation for such services shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five Proviso as to hundred dollars: Provided, The supervisors of Wayne county shall only receive three dollars per day for the first fifteen days of any regular session, and the like sum of three dollars per day for the first three days of any extra session, of which there shall not be more than two in any one year, the same mileage to be allowed as is provided for in the regular sessions, which said amount shall be in full for all services and expenses in attending the meetings of such boards of supervisors, and any supervisor receiving any other or further compensation for such services shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred Proviso as to dollars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be Penalty for receiving extra compensation. Wayne Co. committee work. construed so as to in any way repeal other acts providing for compensation to members of boards engaged in committee work, or change the number of days allowed therein for regular or special sessions in any one year. Said acts shall stand the same as if this act had not passed. Approved June 18, 1903. [No. 256.] AN ACT to provide for the amendment of the articles of association of corporations or associations for charitable, religious, benevolent and educational purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amend SECTION 1. That any corporation organized for charitable, How may religions, benevolent or educational purposes, under any law articles. of this State or under any law of the Territory of Michigan, may amend its articles of association under the respective acts under which said corporation or association was originally organized and the several acts amendatory thereof, by complying with the following conditions: executed. SEC. 2. Whenever the trustees, wardens, vestrymen or other How proper persons, de jure or de facto, shall execute in triplicate, and acknowledge before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, amended articles of association and shall annex thereto sworn copies of the original articles of association, of such corporation or association, such amended articles of association to be, as far as may be, in all respects in accordance with and subject to the provisions of said respective acts under which such corporation or association was originally organized and the several acts amendatory thereof: Provided, That such Proviso as to amended articles of association shall be approved by the vote approval. of the members of such corporation or association in all cases in which such approval of the original articles of association shall be required by the respective acts under which such corporation or association was originally organized, and shall Where filed. file one copy of such amended articles of association in the office of the county clerk of the county where such corporation shall have been formed and one copy shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, such amended articles of association shall be deemed sufficient when so filed, and shall from that time forward be in all respects deemed to be the articles of association of such corporation, and shall have the same force and effect in all respects as if the same had been originally filed in compliance with the original acts respectively under which such corporation or association was originally organized. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. [No. 257.] AN ACT to amend sections three and four of chapter eightythree of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Marriage and the solemnization thereof," being sections eight thousand five hundred ninety and eight thousand five hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections three and four of chapter eighty-three of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Marriage and the solemnization thereof," being sections eight thousand five hundred ninety and eight thousand five hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 3. No man shall marry his mother, grandmother, not to marry. daughter, granddaughter, stepmother, grandfather's wife, son's wife, grandson's wife, wife's mother, wife's grandmother, wife's daughter, wife's granddaughter, nor his sister, brother's daughter, sister's daughter, father's sister, or mother's sister, or cousin of the first degree. Describing persons man Drescribing persons marry. SEC. 4. No woman shall marry her father, grandfather, women not to Son, grandson, stepfather, grandmother's husband, daughter's husband, granddaughter's husband, husband's father, husband's grandfather, husband's son, husband's grandson, nor her brother, brother's son, sister's son, father's brother, mother's brother, or cousin of the first degree. Approved June 18, 1903. JOINT RESOLUTIONS, 1903. [No. 1.] JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing and directing the Auditor General of the State of Michigan to settle with Charles A. Buhrer, county treasurer of the county of Wayne, for moneys received by him as such county treasurer prior to February tenth, nineteen hundred two, belonging to the taxable inheritance account of the State of Michigan, by said county treasurer deposited in the City Savings Bank of Detroit, Michigan. WHEREAS, Charles A. Buhrer was duly elected treasurer of the county of Wayne and State of Michigan at the election in said county held in the year nineteen hundred for the period of two years commencing on the first day of July, A. D. nineteen hundred one, and entered upon the discharge of the duties of said office; and WHEREAS, The said Charles A. Buhrer, county treasurer as aforesaid, received certain moneys payable to him under and by virtue of the provisions of act number one hundred eighty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, providing for the taxation of inheritances; and WHEREAS, The said Charles A. Buhrer, county treasurer, did deposit said moneys so received by him from time to time in the City Savings Bank of Detroit, Michigan, in accordance with the order and direction of the board of county auditors of the said county of Wayne, fixing the said City Savings Bank as the legal depository for the funds received by said county treasurer; and WHEREAS, The said county treasurer did make quarterly reports to the Auditor General, in each year, as required by law, of all taxes received by him under the said act mentioned, and did, at the same time, pay to the State Treasurer all such taxes received by him not previously paid into the State treasury; and WHEREAS, On the tenth day of February, A. D. nineteen hundred two, there had been received by said Charles A. Buhrer, county treasurer of said county of Wayne, from taxes due and payable under the act aforesaid the sum of fifteen thousand, nine hundred and twenty-six and thirty-six one hundredths dollars, belonging to the account of taxable inheritance of the State of Michigan, but held awaiting transfer thereto at the date of the next quarterly report as provided by law, and not paid into the State treasury, and which said moneys had been deposited by said county |