1 Duty of officer, grades, etc. Proviso, promotion. Compensation for various grades. Proviso. Further proviso. Repealing clause. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the chief officer of each department of the State government to grade said clerical positions as follows: Grade A, Grade B, Grade C, Grade D and Grade E. All persons newly appointed to fill such clerical positions shall, upon entering upon their duties, be assigned to Grade E, and thereafter shall be promoted for efficient service in a manner as shall be determined by the chief officer of the department: Provided, That no clerk shall be promoted out of any grade until he or she has served therein six months. SEC. 3. The following compensation shall govern for positions in the grades hereinbefore designated: Grade E, eight hundred dollars per annum; Grade D, nine hundred dollars per annum; Grade C, one thousand dollars per annum; Grade B, eleven hundred dollars per annum, and Grade A, twelve hundred dollars per annum: Provided, That the average compensation in each of said departments for all such clerical positions shall at no time exceed one thousand dollars per annum for each clerk: Provided further, That clerks transferred from one department to another shall be eligible to retain their same grade. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved June 1, 1909. Title. Board of commissioners, how constituted. [No. 196.] AN ACT to establish a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. This act shall be known as "An act to establish a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States." SEC. 2. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the Governor shall appoint three suitable persons, and they and their successors are hereby constituted "A board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in Vacancy, how the United States." Any vacancy in said board by resignation, death or otherwise arising, shall be filled by an appointment by the Governor of a suitable person. filled. Duty. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said board to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, insolvency, the descent and distribution of property, the execution and probate of wills, and other subjects upon which uniformity of legislation in the various states and territories of the Union is desirable, but which are outside the jurisdiction of the congress of the United States, to confer upon these matters with the commissioners appointed by other states and territories for the same purpose, to consider and draft uniform laws to be submitted for approval and adoption by the several states, and generally to devise and recommend such other and further course of action as shall accomplish the purpose of this act. transactions. SEC. 4. The said board of commissioners shall keep a Record and record of all its transactions and shall, at the next session report of of the legislature, and may at any other time, make a report of its doings and of its recommendations to the legislature. SEC. 5. No member of said board shall receive any com- Compensation. pensation for his services, but the board may annually draw a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for the actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred by its members in the discharge of their official duties and for the expenses incurred in drafting uniform laws and for printing and clerical expenses incurred by the conference of commissioners from the several states in the prosecution of their work; the vouchers therefor to be audited by the said board Vouchers, and by the Board of State Auditors, and said board shall keep a full account of its expenditures. Approved June 1, 1909. how audited. [No. 197.] AN ACT to amend the title and section one of act number thirty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightythree, being compiler's section five thousand one hundred twenty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to allow mutual fire insurance companies of other states to do business within this State." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and section one of act number thirty- Title and six of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, being section compiler's section five thousand one hundred twenty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: TITLE. When may transact business. Capital. AN ACT to allow mutual fire insurance companies of the State of Michigan and of other states to do business within this State. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any mutual fire insurance company, organized under the laws of the State of Michigan or of any other state of the United States, and being possessed of at least two hundred thousand dollars of actual net cash assets, to transact the business of fire insurance in this State, in like manner as stock companies of the State of Michigan or other states may do, upon receiving from the Commissioner of Insurance a certificate of authority. Such amount of two hundred thousand dollars shall be deemed to be the actual capital of such company, and shall be treated as capital by the Commissioner of Insurance in determining the solvency of such company. In all other respects such mutual fire insurance companies shall be subject to all the penalties and provisions of law applicable to stock fire insurance companies of other states transacting business in this State. Approved June 1, 1909. Bond, procuring and payment of. [No. 198.] AN ACT relative to the cost of bonds required of any person who acts as disburser for United States funds for the organized militia. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whenever any person is required to give a bond as a disburser of any United States funds for the organ ized militia, he may procure the required bond from any surety company authorized by the laws to execute the same, and the cost thereof, not exceeding one-half of one per cent, shall be paid out of the treasury of the State of Michigan upon the warrant of the proper officer, after being first allowed by the Board of State Auditors. Approved June 1, 1909. [No. 199.] AN ACT to encourage rifle practice in the organized militia of Michigan, and to provide for the regulation of passenger fares charged by street car and interurban railroads to members of the organized militia of Michigan, going to and from rifle ranges. The People of the State of Michigan enact: to designate SECTION 1. The range officer in charge of any rifle range Range officer established for the use of the organized militia of Michigan, embarkment if it is necessary or convenient for members thereof to travel points, etc. over any street railroad or interurban railroad to go to or return from said range, shall designate a point at which said members shall be allowed to disembark and embark. Every street car or interurban passenger car, whether a reg- Cars to stop. ular, special or limited car, shall hereafter stop at the point designated by the range officer to allow members to disembark or embark for the purpose of going to the range for instruction in small arms practice. The provisions of this act When proshall not be binding on any street railway or interurban rail- binding." road, unless the members of the organized militia presenting themselves as passengers are in uniform at the time, and the provisions of this section shall not apply to a special car Special cars. hired by other persons for a special purpose. visions not SEC. 2. No street railway or interurban railroad shall Car fare. charge any member of the organized militia, if the member is in uniform and presents himself in uniform as a passenger en route to a rifle range and returning to the home station, a sum to exceed one cent per mile for car fare. If the route Transfers. traveled is partly over a street car line and partly over one or more interurban lines, or if the route is partly over the lines of two or more interurban railroads the total fare shall be computed at the rate of one cent per mile for each mile trav eled. If the total mileage is less than five miles, the fare Minimum may be fixed at a minimum of five cents: Provided, That fare. said fare shall be prorated to the various street car companies prorated. or interurban companies in accordance with the number of miles traveled over each line. Approved June 1, 1909. Proviso, Continuing fund. [No. 200.] AN ACT to prevent any unexpended portion of the "Armory building fund" from reverting to the general fund, if the same is unexpended during the years for which the same is appropriated. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The "Armory building fund" shall be a continuing fund available only for the purpose of erecting and equipping armories, and shall not be diverted to any other fund or purpose. Approved June 1, 1909. Uniforms of army or navy, unlaw ful wearing of. Penalty. [No. 201.] AN ACT prohibiting the wearing of the uniforms of the United States army or navy or national guard, and providing a penalty for the violation hereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Every person, other than an officer or enlisted man of the national guard of the State of Michigan, or of any other state, or of the United States army or navy, marine corps or revenue service or forest service, or instructor or student in a military school, or inmate of any veterans' or soldiers' home, who at any time wears the uniform of the United States army or navy or national guard, or any part of such uniform, or a uniform or part of a uniform similar thereto, within the bounds of the State of Michigan, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and if found guilty of such offense shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting persons of the theatrical profession from wearing such uniform in any playhouse or theatre while actually engaged in following said profession: Provided further, That proviso, civic nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting the uniform rank of civic societies parading or traveling in a body or assembling in a lodge room: Provided further, That whenever the national guard or any part thereof is in active service, or is called into actual service, no civic organization or member thereof shall parade or appear in uniform in the locality where said national guard is in service. Proviso, theatrical profession. Further societies. Further proviso. |