Appropria tion. How paid. To be incorporated in state tax. [No. 6.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the State Industrial Home for Girls, for grading the grounds, and to provide fire escapes at Bliss Cottage, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand one hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State for grading the grounds at Bliss Cottage at the State Industrial Home for Girls, on account of the inefficiency of the sewerage system and also to provide fire escapes for said cottage as required by law. The amount herein appropriated is hereby made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred three. SEC. 2. The amount appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury, as the general accounting laws of the State shall prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred three the sum of three thousand one hundred 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. Section amended. [No. 7.]. AN ACT to amend section fifteen of chapter thirty-five of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relative to the preservation of the public health, quarantine, nuisances and offensive trades, as amended by act ninety-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, being section forty-four hundred twenty-four of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fifteen of chapter thirty-five of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relative to the preservation of the public health, quarantine, nuisances and offensive trades, as amended by act ninety-seven, of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, being section forty-four hundred twenty-four of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven is hereby amended so as to read as follows: to be quaran of health. SEC. 15. When any person coming from outside the county when person or residing in any township, city or village within this State tined. shall be infected or shall lately before have been infected with a dangerous communicable disease, the board of health of the Duty of board township, city or village where such person may be shall make effectual provisions in the manner in which they shall judge best for the safety of the inhabitants, and they may remove such sick or infected person to a separate house if it can be done without danger to his health, and shall provide nurses and other assistance and necessaries which shall be at the charge of the person himself, his parents, or other persons who may be liable for his support, if able. Provided, If such Proviso. person, his parents, or other person who may be liable for his support be not able to pay for such assistance and necessaries, the board of health shall keep an itemized and separate statement of expenses incurred for each and every person cared for under this section, and shall render such statement to the board of supervisors of the county by filing the same with the county clerk. And the said board of supervisors shall as soon Supervisors to as may be proceed to audit the said bill, and if found that the expenses were necessarily incurred, the services actually and necessarily performed, and the amounts claimed for such expenses and services are severally just and reasonable under the circumstances, the said board of supervisors shall allow the same or such parts thereof as the majority of the memberselect of said board shall deem just and provide for their immediate payment by the said county, and in auditing such Powers of. accounts, said several boards of supervisors shall have full power to examine into the merits of all claims presented to them in accordance with the provisions herein contained, and may subpoena witnesses and take any other measures necessary to arrive at the truth of the same; and the said board of supervisors is hereby empowered, if necessary, to issue orders or borrow money on the faith and credit of the county to pay all such necessary bills and expenses, and to include the same in the next appropriation of money to be raised by taxation in said county. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. audit claims. [No. 8.] AN ACT to amend section six of act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to establish the police court of the city of Detroit," approved June ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That section six of act number one hundred Section amended. sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, Salary of justices and clerks. How paid. entitled "An act to establish the police court of the city of Detroit," approved June ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 6. Each of the police justices shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars. The clerk shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and the assistant clerks shall each receive such annual salary, not exceeding that of the clerk, as the common council may by ordinance prescribe, but the salary of an assistant clerk shall not be increased nor diminished during the term for which he shall be appointed. The salaries provided by this section shall be paid in monthly installments. The police justices, clerk and assistant clerks shall receive no other or further compensation for services rendered, acts done or dúties performed under this act, than the salaries provided by this section. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 19, 1903. Section amended. [No. 9.] AN ACT to amend section twelve of act number forty-four of session laws of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, being "An act to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers and public institutions of this State now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the official directory and legislative manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twelve of act number forty-four of session laws of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, being "An act to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers and public institutions of this State now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the official directory and legislative manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eightynine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, labor commis act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred This act is ordered to take immediate effect. The Size. [No. 10.] AN ACT to amend section twenty, of chapter two, 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 to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being compiler's section four thousand six hundred sixty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty, of chapter two, of act number Section 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 to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being compiler's section four thousand six hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: CHAPTER II. voters at dis SEC. 20. The qualified voters in any school district when Powers of lawfully assembled at the first and at each annual meeting, or trict meetings. at an adjournment thereof, or at any special meeting lawfully called except as hereinafter provided, shall have power: Temporary officers. Adjournment. Election of officers. Schoolhouse sites. Purchase of sites, buildings, etc. To vote tax for, etc. Tax for repair, apparatus, etc. When may sell schoolhouse, etc. May direct suits, etc. Building committee. First, At the first meeting and at any meeting after the organization of the district, in the absence of the moderator, to appoint a chairman for the time being, and in the absence of the director to appoint some person to act in his stead, who shall keep a minute of the proceedings of such meeting and certify the same to the director, to be by him entered in the records of the district; Second, To adjourn from time to time as occasion may require; Third, To elect district officers as herein provided, and to determine at what hour the annual meeting shall be held; Fourth, To designate, as hereinafter provided, a site or such number of sites as may be desired for schoolhouses, and to change the same when necessary; Fifth, To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or sites, lawfully determined upon; the building, hiring or purchasing of a schoolhouse or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously established; Sixth, To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient, to purchase or lease a site or sites, or to build,, hire or purchase a schoolhouse or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building a schoolhouse or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred, shall not exceed in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years, two hundred and fifty dollars; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age, it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age, it shall not exceed one thousand dollars; Seventh, To vote such tax as shall be necessary for the following purposes: To keep their schoolhouse or houses in repair, to provide the necessary appendages and school apparatus, to establish and support a district library, to pay and discharge any debt or liabilities of the district lawfully incurred, to pay for the service of any district officers and to pay for the transportation of pupils to and from school. The tax herein authorized to be voted shall not exceed one-half of the amount which the district is authorized to raise for building schoolhouses; Eighth, To authorize and direct the sale of any schoolhouse, site, building or other property belonging to the dis-' trict, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of the district; Ninth, To give such directions and make such provisions as they shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested; Tenth, To appoint, as in their discretion it may be necessary, a building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work of building a schoolhouse as they may by vote direct; |