dred ten, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Current expenses. How paid. Tax clause. [No. 186.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Industrial School for Boys for current expenses and for special purposes, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for current expenses for the Industrial School for Boys, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, the sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of eightyeight thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in 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. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nine, the sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred ten, the sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars, which amounts when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 1, 1909. [No. 187.] AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of mutual insurance companies to insure against loss by breakage of plate glass, and defining their powers and duties," the same being act number eightyeight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number eighty-eight of the public acts of Act repealed. eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of mutual insurance companies to insure against loss by breakage of plate glass, and defining their powers and duties," is hereby repealed. Approved June 1, 1909. [No. 188.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-two of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of mutual fire insurance companies, and defining their powers and duties; and to repeal chapter ninety-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, and also act number ninety-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventyone, approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred seventyone," as amended, the same being act number eighty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, as amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of act number eighty-two section of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, as amended. amended, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of mutual fire insurance companies, and defining their pow ers and duties; and to repeal chapter ninety-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, and also act number ninety-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, approved April twelfth. eighteen hundred seventy-one," as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: hereafter SEC. 22. No company shall hereafter be organized under Companies the provisions of this act for the purpose of insuring prop-organized. erty other than that mentioned in section one hereof; nor limitations. shall any comany be organized hereafter under the provi Proviso, sions of this act with authority to take any risks or make any insurance in more than three counties of this State, which counties shall be contiguous and shall be named and set forth in its charter: Provided, That nothing herein connow organized. tained shall affect in any manner corporations now organized and doing business under this act. Approved June 1, 1909. corporations Section amended. Suits at law. [No. 189.] AN ACT to amend section twelve of act number eighty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of mutual fire insurance companies, and defining their powers and duties, and to repeal chapter ninety-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, and also act number ninety-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred seventy-one," the same being section seven thousand two hundred seventy-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twelve of act number eighty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of mutual fire insurance companies, and defining their powers and duties, and to repeal chapter ninety-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, and also act number ninety-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred seventy-one," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 12. Suits at law may be maintained by corporations formed under this act against any of its members for any cause relating to the business of such corporation; also suits at law may be prosecuted and maintained by any member against such corporations for claims which may have accrued if payments are withheld more than sixty days after such claim shall have become due. The articles of association may provide for a classified rating of risks according to hazard, and the articles of association or the by-laws may provide for the receiving of applications or agreements from members for insurance with or without taking from the insured any Assessments. premium note or notes. It shall be lawful for any mutual insurance company organized under the provisions of this act to make assessments upon the agreements, or policies issued Classified rating; premium notes. thereon, or upon the premium note or notes, as the case may be, pro rata in accordance with the percentage fixed in the classification to which the risk belongs, and all such premium Lien upon note or notes or agreements or assessments shall be a lien property insured. upon the property insured to the amount of such note, notes, agreements, assessments, costs and interest due thereon. Approved June 1, 1909. [No. 190.] AN ACT in relation to the distribution of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and of the reports and decisions of the supreme court. The People of the State of Michigan enact: counties SECTION 1. In all counties in which circuit court is held Certain in more than one place, it shall be the duty of the Secretary entitled to of State to furnish to the county clerk of such county, for Laws and Compiled the use of said circuit court, one complete set of the Compiled reports. Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, together with the index thereof and acts passed by the legislature subsequent to eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and the State Librarian shall furnish one complete set of the Michigan Supreme Court Reports: Provided, That if for any reason the State Li- Proviso, brarian shall be unable to furnish any of the volumes of said volumes. reports, the Board of State Auditors is hereby authorized, and it is its duty, to purchase such missing volumes to complete such set: Provided further, It shall be the duty of the Further State Librarian to furnish from time to time to said county current clerk, the current volumes of Michigan Supreme Court Re- volumes. ports as they are issued. Approved June 1, 1909. missing proviso, Sections amended. Affidavits, taken in other states, how [No. 191.] AN ACT to amend sections thirty-three and thirty-four of chapter one hundred two of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of evidence," being compiler's sections ten thousand one hundred forty-four and ten thousand one hundred forty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections thirty-three and thirty-four of chapter one hundred two of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of evidence," being compiler's sections ten thousand one hundred forty-four and ten thousand one hundred forty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 33. In cases where by law the affidavit of any person residing in another state of the United States, or in any authenticated. foreign country, is required, or may be received in judicial proceedings in this State, to entitle the same to be read, it. must be authenticated as follows: Admitted in evidence. First, It must be certified by the consul general, deputy consul general or some consul or deputy consul of the United States resident in such foreign country, to have been taken and subscribed before him, specifying the time and place where taken and have the consular seal attached; or Second, It must be certified by some judge of a court having a seal to have been taken and subscribed before him, specifying the time and place where taken; Third, The genuineness of the signature of such judge, the existence of the court and the fact that such judge is a member thereof, must be certified by the clerk of the court under the seal thereof; Fourth, If such affidavit be taken in any other of the United States or in any territory thereof, it may be taken before a commissioner duly appointed and commissioned by the Governor of this State to take affidavits therein, or before any notary public or justice of the peace authorized by the laws of such state to administer oaths therein. The signature of such notary public or justice of the peace, and the fact that at the time of the taking of such affidavit the person before whom the same was taken was such notary public or justice of the peace, shall be certified by the clerk of any court of record in the county where such affidavit shall be taken, under the seal of said court. SEC. 34. The records and judicial proceedings of any court in the several states and territories of the United States and of any foreign country shall be admitted in evidence in the courts of this State, upon being authenticated by the attesta |