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to the Governor. The persons so appointed shall hold office respectively, two for six years, two for four years and one for two years, beginning with the first day of November, nineteen hundred nine, and thereafter the Governor shall appoint, before the first day of November of each biennial period, such number of persons as there are terms expiring qualified as aforesaid to hold the office, for six years from the first day of November next ensuing. The Governor shall also fill vacancies occasioned by death or otherwise, and may remove any member for the continued neglect of the duties required by this act. Vacancies in said board shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of this act for the appointment. of the original board, and any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the unexpired term of the member whose place he fills. No member of any optical school or college or an instructor in optometry or connected in any way therewith, nor any person connected with any manufacturing, wholesale or jobbing house of optical supplies or instruments used by optometrists shall be eligible to an appointment upon said board. The business of said board. shall be transacted by and receive the concurrent vote of at least three members.

SEC. 3. After January first, nineteen hundred ten, all men and women engaged in the practice of optometry or who wish to begin the practice of the same in this State, shall make application to said board to be registered and for a certificate of said registration. Such registration and certificate shall be granted to such applicants, but only upon compliance with at least one of the following conditions contained in subdivisions one and two of this section:

(1) The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration if he shall present a certified copy or certificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant by any other state, where the requirement for registration shall be deemed by said board to be equivalent to those of this act: Provided, That such state shall accord a like privilege to holders of certificates of said board. The fee for registering such applicants shall be five dollars;

(2) From and after the first day of May, nineteen hundred ten, any applicant for registration under this act shall be required to pass an examination as hereinafter provided. Such applicant shall be twenty-one years of age, of good moral character and shall be possessed of an education equal to a four years' high school course, Michigan standard: Provided, That should the applicant be unable to prove four 1 years' actual attendance at a high school, then the board may determine the applicant's qualifications by proper examination, the expense of which shall not exceed five dollars, the same to be paid by the applicant. The applicant shall have been employed in the office of an optometrist registered under this act, as an assistant, for a period of not less than two years or shall be a graduate of an optical school or col

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lege approved by this board, requiring an attendance of not less than one year's course. The said board shall examine all applicants shown to have the necessary qualifications above set forth in normal and abnormal refractive, accommodative and muscular conditions and coordination of the eye, and subjective and objective optometry, including the fitting of glasses, the principles of lens grinding, frame adjusting and such other subjects as may be deemed necessary by said board to determine the applicant's qualifications to practice optometry. The examination shall be deemed satisfactorily passed and the applicant registered and given a certificate of registration, if he shall attain an average standing of not less than seventy-five per cent on all subjects submitted. The fee for applicants of this class shall be fifteen dollars examination fee and five dollars registration fee: Provided, That in addition to the fees herein before provided for, every registered optometrist shall, at the time of his registration and prior to the first day of May in each and every year thereafter, pay to the said board of examiners the sum of two dollars as a license fee for such year: Provided further, That in default of the payment of such fee by any optometrist, his certificate may be revoked by the said board after thirty days' notice of such default shall have been mailed by said board to the person so in default.

SEC. 5. Every person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall immediately thereafter cause the same to be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the person principally carries on the practice of optometry, for which recording the county clerk shall receive a fee of fifty cents. Every registered optometrist shall display his certificate of registration in a conspicuous place in the principal office wherein he practices optometry, and whenever required to, shall exhibit such certificate to the said board or its representatives, and whenever practicing the said profession of optometry outside or away from his said principal office or place of business he shall deliver to each customer or person so fitted with glasses a memorandum of purchase which shall contain his signature, home and postoffice address and the number of his certificate of registration. Whenever the certificate of any registered optometrist is revoked, it shall be the duty of the secretary and treasurer of said board to notify the county clerk of the county in which said registered optometrist is legally registered, notifying him of the revocation of said certificate, and it shall be the duty of such county clerk to make a proper entry upon the records of his office showing such revocation.

SEC. 6. From the fees paid to said board, the said board shall cause to be paid all necessary expenses incurred in the administration of this act, including reasonable compensation of the examiners for their services, which compensation to each examiner shall not exceed eight dollars per day for each

day actually engaged in the duties of his office, and the neces-
sary actual expenses incurred by him in the discharge of such
duties, and no salary or other fees whatever shall be paid any
member thereof except the secretary and treasurer. The
salary of the secretary and treasurer shall be fixed by the
board biennially at the meeting by which said board shall
organize: Provided, That all compensation and expenses of Proviso.
the members of said board or made necessary for the carrying
out of the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the fees
received by said board under the provisions of this act from
applicants, and from no other fund or source whatsoever:
Provided further, That all moneys in excess of actual re- Further
quirements as herein before specified shall be paid annually proviso.
to the State Treasurer and be placed to the credit of the gen-
eral fund.

etc., unlawful

SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person registered un- Medicines, der this act to use, prescribe, give away, sell, offer for sale or to sell. have in his possession for the purpose of sale, any eye remedies, lotions, salves or medicines of any kind or description, practice medicine or surgery within the provisions of act number two hundred thirty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, or acts amendatory thereto, or use the prefix Dr. or any title or appellation used in a sense to indicate the practice of medicine. It shall also be unlawful for any person not a registered optometrist under the provisions of this act to hold himself out by the use of any sign, newspaper advertisement, pamphlet, circular, or the use of any sign "eyes tested here" or similar words, as qualified to practice optometry. Any person making a sworn state- Perjury, what ment or affidavit in connection with any matter relating to this act proven to be false, shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in section nine of this act.

Approved May 2, 1913.

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Fish-breeding establishments, location of.

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from tax.

[No. 148.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number sixty-three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to establish a State Board of Fish Commissioners, and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-four, Session Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, act number seventy-one, Session Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-five, and act number three, Session Laws of eighteen hundred eightytwo," as amended by act number one hundred fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of act number sixty-three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to establish a State Board of Fish Commissioners, and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-four, Session Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, act number seventy-one, Session Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-five, and act number three, Session Laws of eighteen hundred eighty-two," as amended by act number one hundred fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners to select suitable locations within this State whereon to establish and maintain fish-breeding establishments for the propagation and cultivation of whitefish, and such other kinds. of food fish as they may direct, for the purpose of stocking with such fish and replenishing the supply of the same in such of the inland and bordering waters of this State as they may know, or have reason to believe are suitable for the kinds of fish they may select. All property owned or leased by the fish commission shall be exempt from taxation so long as Superintend- held and used for State purposes under this act. Said board ent of fisheries, of commissioners shall employ a competent person as superintendent of fisheries, whose duty it shall be to devote his entire time to gathering ova, hatching and planting, or distributing fish, and superintending generally the practical operations of the work, under the direction of the board of commissioners at a salary of not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. They may also employ such other assistants as the exigencies of the work may require. All persons employed by the board shall be governed by the regulations it may adopt for that purpose. Approved May 2, 1913.

salary.

Assistants.

[No. 149.]

AN ACT to provide for the purchase of books for the Michigan State Library, and books and equipment for the Michigan traveling libraries, and for printing and binding, making an appropriation therefor, and providing a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

There is hereby appropriated for the purchase Special of books for the State Library for the fiscal year ending June purpose. thirty nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, the sum of five thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated for the purchase of Further apbooks and equipment for the Michigan traveling libraries for propriation. the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty nineteen hundred fifteen, the sum of five thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. The printing and binding necessary to carry on the Printing, etc. work of the State Library and traveling libraries shall be furnished by the Board of State Auditors and paid for out of the general fund as other State printing is paid for.

SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund of the State treasury to the State Librarian, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State shall prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder.

SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of ten thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred fourteen the sum of ten thousand dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated.

Approved May 2, 1913.

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