increased annual appropriation for agricultural experimental stations and regulating the expenditure thereof," is hereby granted and the moneys thereby appropriated are accepted under the conditions and terms named in said act. how used. SEC. 2. All moneys derived by authority of said act shall Moneys, be exclusively used in support of the department designated as "an agricultural experimental station" in connection with the State Agricultural College of Michigan. Approved March 31, 1909. [No. 21.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-one of 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 twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being section three hundred eighty-three of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of act one hundred eighty- Section 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 twentyninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being section three hundred eighty-three of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: assistant. SEC. 21. In the eighth circuit the stenographer shall be paid Salary. an annual salary of two thousand dollars. Such stenographer shall from time to time under the provisions of this act furnish at his own expense an assistant when necessary. Approved March 31, 1909. Section amended. Salary. [No. 22.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-eight of act one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, 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," the same being compiler's section number three hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty-eight of act one hundred eightythree 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," the same being compiler's section number three hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 28. In the fifteenth circuit the stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. Approved March 31, 1909. Section amended. Judgment, appeal from. Proviso. [No. 23.] AN ACT to amend section eighteen of chapter ninety-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Jurisdiction and procedure of justices' courts in criminal cases," being section one thousand thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eighteen of chapter ninety-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, being compiler's section one thousand thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 18. The person so charged with, and convicted by any such justice of the peace of any such offense may appeal from the judgment of such justice of the peace to the circuit court: Provided, Said person shall enter into a recognizance to the people of the State of Michigan in a sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, within ten days after the rendition of the judgment, with one or more sufficient return. sureties, conditioned to appear before said court on the first day of the next term thereof to prosecute his appeal at said term to effect and to abide the orders and judgment of said court; and the justice from whose judgment an appeal Special is taken shall thereupon discharge the person so convicted or order his discharge, shall make a special return of the proceedings had before him and shall cause the complaint, the warrant and 'the return, together with the recognizance and the testimony taken by him, to be filed in the said circuit court on or before the first day of the circuit court next to be holden for said county. In case there shall be any ob- Objections to jections to the complaint, warrant or other proceedings and complaint. the decision of the justice thereon which would not be allowed to be made on the trial of the appeal, the same may be set forth specifically in such recognizance. Such justice shall, in addition to his return as required by this section, make a full and complete return as to all matters specifically mentioned in said recognizance, and the same shall be deemed issues of law for the determination of such circuit court. The complainant and witnesses may also be required to enter Recognizance. into recognizances, with or without sureties in the discretion. of the court, to appear at said circuit court at the time last aforesaid and to abide the order of the court therein. Approved March 31, 1909. for appearance. [No. 24.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections two, thirteen and twenty-six of act number two hundred twenty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act relating to warehousemen and warehouse receipts, and to establish the lien of warehousemen in certain cases," the same being compiler's sections five thousand thirty-one, five thousand forty-two and five thousand fifty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and to add new section following section twenty-six to be known section twenty-seven. one as The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended and SECTION 1. The title and sections two, thirteen and twenty Title and six of act number two hundred twenty of the public acts of sectious eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act relating to section added. warehousemen and warehouse receipts, and to establish the lien of warehousemen in certain cases," the same being compiler's sections five thousand thirty-one, five thousand forty-two and five thousand fifty-five of the Compiled Laws Lien for storage charges, etc. Penalty for violation. Right of recovery. When owner, mortgagee, etc., may examine property. Refusal, of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended and SEC. 2. Every warehouseman shall have a lien on all goods, SEC. 13. Any warehouseman who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this act, except as hereinafter provided for in section twenty-seven, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars in amount or by imprisonment in the State prison or county jail not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and every person or persons aggrieved by the violation of any of the provisions of this act may have and maintain an action at law against the person or persons violating any of said provisions to recover the damages which he or they may have sustained by reason of any such violation as aforesaid before any court of competent jurisdiction, whether such person shall have been convicted of misdemeanor as aforesaid under this act or not. SEC. 26. All persons owning property or who may be interested in the same by way of chattel mortgage, contract of sale, or where property has been sold on lease, when stored in any public warehouse, at all times during ordinary business hours, shall, on production of either the warehouse receipt, chattel mortgage, contract of sale, lease, or any other written instrument showing that said person is interested in said property so stored, be at full liberty to examine such property, and all proper facilities shall be extended to such person by the warehouseman, his agents and employes for such examination. SEC. 27. Any warehouseman who shall refuse any person the right to examine property stored in his warehouse and who shall not extend to such person or persons proper facilities for so doing, either by himself, his agents or employes, when such person or persons have a lawful right by the terms of section twenty-six of this act so to do, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars in amount or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and every day said warehouseman shall so refuse shall Per diem penalty. be deemed a distinct and separate offense and shall subject said warehouseman to the penalty herein provided for. Approved March 31, 1909. [No. 25.] AN ACT to punish the making or use of false statements to obtain credit. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person who, either individually or in a False representative capacity: First, shall knowingly make a false statements. statement in writing to any person, firm or corporation engaged in banking or other business respecting his own financial condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as a member, director, officer, employe or agent, for the purpose of procuring a loan or credit in any form, or an extension of credit from the person, firm or corporation to whom such false statement is made, either for his own use or for the use of the firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, or; Second, hav- Previous ing previously made, or having knowledge that another has statements. previously made, a statement in writing to any person, firm or corporation engaged in banking or other business respecting his own financial condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, shall afterwards procure on faith of such statement from the person, firm or corporation to whom such previous statement has been made, either for his own use or for the use of the firm or corporation with which he is so connected, a loan or credit in any form, or an extension of credit, knowing at the time of such procuring that such previously made statement is in any material particular false with respect to the corporation with which he is so connected, or; Third, shall Statements deliver to any note broker or other agent for the sale or negotiation negotiation of commercial paper, any statement in writing, knowing the same to be false, respecting his own financial' condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, for the purpose of having such statement used in furtherance of the sale, pledge or negotiation of any note, bill or other instrument for the for sale or of commercial paper. |