compiler's section four hundred and nineteen, volume one, Howell's annotated statutes of the State of Michigan, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: boards may SEC. 8. That the boards of the Michigan institutions for Certain educating the deaf and the dumb, the Industrial School for draw money Boys, the Industrial Home for Girls, the State Public School, fund for curfrom general the State Board of Education, the Michigan School for the rent expenses. Blind, the Michigan College of Mines, and the Michigan Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic and Central Normal School, are hereby severally authorized to draw from the general fund of the State treasury in the months of January, February, March and April, in the years in which the regular sessions of the legislature are held, such amount of money as shall be made to appear to the Auditor General to be necessary to meet the current expenses, of the institution for which the money is asked during said months, which amount drawn shall not exceed one-third the amount appropriated for current expenses for such institution for the year preceding said regular session of the Legislature. That the amount so drawn Amount shall be considered as an advance to the institution drawing considered an the money on any appropriation made by the legislature at its advance. regular session for the year in which the appropriation is made, and shall be deducted therefrom and transferred to the general fund. Approved May 29, 1897. drawn to be [ No. 177.] AN ACT to amend sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-eight (38) of act number one hundred thirty-five (135) of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five (1885), entitled "An act to amend, revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane and regulating the care and management thereof, and of the inmates therein, and to repeal act one hundred sixty-four (164), laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine (1859); also act one hundred and ninety-four (194), laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven (1877); also act ninety-one (91), laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873) and the acts amendatory thereto; also act one hundred and seventy-two (172), laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873);" also act two hundred and sixty (260), laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (1895), approved June three, eighteen hundred and eighty-five (1885), being section nineteen hundred and thirty d two (1930d 2) and nineteen hundred and thirty d seven (1930d 7) of Howell's annotated statutes. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-eight (38) of act one hun- amended. When pauper patients returned to county, how expense provided for. dred and thirty-five (135) of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-five (1885), entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane, and regulating the care and management thereof, and of the inmates therein, and to repeal act one hundred sixty-four (164), laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine (1859); also act one hundred and ninety-four (194), laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven (1877); also act ninety-one (91), laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873), and the acts amendatory thereto; also act one hundred and seventy-two (172), laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873)" as amended by act two hundred and sixty (260) of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (1895)," being compiler's sections nineteen hundred and thirty d two (1930d 2) and nineteen hundred and thirty-seven (1930d 7), be, and the same are amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 33. Whenever the trustees shall order an indigent or pauper patient returned from the asylum to the county whence he came, the superintendents of the poor of such county, if such patient be a county charge, shall audit and pay the actual and reasonable expenses of such removal out of the county poor fund, but if any township, village, city or person be legally liable for the support of such patient, the amount of such expenses may be recovered from the township, city, village, or person so liable, for the use of the county by such superintendents of the poor. If such superintendents of the poor neglect or refuse to pay such expenses on demand, the treasurer of the asylum may pay the same and charge the amount to such county, and the treasurer of such county is authorized and directed to pay the same with interest after thirty days. And the board of supervisors of such county shall levy and raise the amount as other county charges are levied and raised. Whenever said trustees shall order such return, or otherwise order the release of an indigent or pauper patient, they shall give or cause to be given not less than ten nor more than thirty days' notice in writing to one of the superintendents of the poor of the county liable for the support and maintenance of such patient, and to the judge of probate of such county whence such patient was sent to such asylum, and to the guardian or some proper near relative of such patient, if the post office address of such guardian or relative be known, which notices shall state the date of such contemplated return or release How notice is and the reason therefor. Such notices may be served personto be served. ally or by mail postpaid and properly addressed according to Notice of return to be given to superintendents of poor. the best knowledge and belief of said trustees or the medical superintendent of such asylum, and the time of service shall be computed from the time when such notices shall have been deposited in some postoffice, and if after the time in said notice has expired, such patient still remains in said asylum, such patient shall be returned to the county from which he came and be placed in charge of the superintendent of the poor of said county. to consign admission to SEC. 38. After sufficient room shall have been provided When illegal for all the insane wards of the State, then and thereafter it insane to shall be illegal for county superintendents of the poor, or for house. County alms any other authorities whatever, to consign to the county alms house any insane person. In case the superintendents of the Preference in asylums find it impossible to receive all patients for whom asylums when application is made, they may, in their discretion, give prefer- lack of room ence to those for whom, in their judgment, treatment is most urgently necessary. To make room for urgent cases, they are When more also authorized to order the removal from the asylum to his quired. home and friends, or to the superintendent of the poor of the county whence he came, of any patient that in their judgment may safely reside outside the institution, and if such patient is not removed after the expiration of ten days from the date. of said order, such patient shall be returned to his home and friends, or to the superintendent of the poor of the county from whence he came. Approved May 29, 1897. room re [ No. 178. ] AN ACT to regulate the granting of poor relief to and the admission of certain poor persons to asylums and alms houses, and to provide for the expense of the temporary care and transportation of such persons. poor persons alms houses, SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Non-resident any person who is old, sick, infirm, blind, crippled, idiotic, not entitled to epileptic, insane, or otherwise incompetent to earn a livelihood admission to at the time of such persons' entry into any county, city, village, etc. or township in this State, or any person being otherwise competent who has not maintained himself or herself for one year after such entry, shall not be entitled to admission into any of the State asylums, or county asylums, or alms houses at the expense of the State, or the county, city, village or township aforesaid, or to receive public relief of any nature excepting such temporary care or relief as such person may require pending the return of such persons back to the county where such persons were last continuously settled for one year. ed to last this State. of residence in SEC. 2. All such persons that come from within the State, To be returnshall be transported back to the county where they were last known place continuously settled for one year and the expense of such care, relief and transportation shall be paid by said county, and the county advancing such expense may recover the same if payment is refused or failed to be made within sixty days by the When superintendents of the poor to furnish transportation. county chargeable, by an action at law in the circuit court where such expense was incurred. SEC. 3. If any such persons have come from without the State, the superintendents of the poor, of the county where such persons may be, may furnish transportation and necessary attendance in their discretion to such persons, and the expense of the same shall be allowed by the State board of auditors, and paid by the State on properly attested vouchers from the said superintendents of the poor. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. May incorporate. Who may execute articles of association. Articles to show, what. Articles, etc., to be filed with Secre [ No. 179. ] AN ACT to authorize the incorporation of the Lutheran Bund of the State of Michigan. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Lutheran Bund of the State of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any ten or more persons, residents of this State, being members of said Lutheran Bund of the State of Michigan, including the president or vice president, secretary and treasurer of said Bund, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and shall set forth: First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance and their places of residence; Second, The corporate name by which such Bund or association shall be known in the law; Third, The names of the societies or associations associated together and at the time composing said Bund; Fourth, The object and purpose of such Bund or association which shall be to promote the general welfare of the membership of such Bund and for the purpose of providing for such sick, death or funeral benefits and visitation of the sick and afflicted members of said Bund as may be from time to time provided by the constitution and by-laws thereof; Fifth, The period for which such Bund is incorporated which shall not exceed thirty years; Sixth, The time and place where the next convention of such Bund shall be held. SEC. 3. Said articles of association, together with a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said Bund and of the resolution tary of State. of said Bund authorizing the incorporation thereof (said copies being duly certified by the president and secretary of said real estate. Bund) shall be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Michigan. Thereupon the persons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and fellow members composing said Bund, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, capable of taking, holding and disposing of real and personal property, of suing and being sued, of having a common seal which may be altered or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That Proviso as to the value of such real estate shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, which shall be subject to general taxation. Such cor- May change by-laws etc. poration shall have full power to change its constitution and by-laws and make, establish and change rules and regulations (none of which shall be repugnant to any law of this State) for regulating and governing the affairs and business of said corporation and for the admission and expulsion of members and societies composing the same and for the organization and admission of new or additional societies to membership in said Bund and to designate, elect or appoint from among the members of the societies forming and belonging to such corporation such officers, with such duties as the constitution and by-laws of such corporation may from time to time prescribe. The constitution and by-laws of said corporation may be amended from time to time in such manner as may be provided by such corporation. control cor SEC. 4. The affairs of such corporation shall be controlled Delegate to by a convention of delegates who shall be appointed or elected poration. by the respective societies forming such corporation in such manner as the constitution and by-laws of such corporation shall provide and the number of delegates which each society is entitled to send to such conventions, and the time and place of meeting of such conventions shall be as provided by the constitution and by-laws of said corporation. Subject to the action of such convention, of delegates, the management of the affairs of said corporation may be placed in the control of such officers, trustees or other persons as may be provided by the constitution and by-laws of said corporation. copies of arti dence by SEC. 5. A copy of such articles of association and of the Certified constitution, by-laws and resolution filed therewith or of the cles to be rerecord thereof, duly certified to according to law under the ceived as eviseal of this State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in courts. all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation or Bund and of the contents and legal effect of said original instruments. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |