order or association for fraternal beneficiary purposes. Said Name. declaration shall also contain the proposed name of the society, order or association, which shall not be the same as, nor too closely resemble, the name of any other society, order or association organized under the laws of this State, or doing business in this State; the mode and manner in which the corporate powers granted by this act are to be exercised; the place of doing business fully and clearly defined; the limit as to age of applicant for beneficiary membership, which shall not exceed fifty-five years, and that medical examinations are required of applicants for life benefits; the names and official titles of the officers, trustees and directors, representatives or other persons, by whatsoever name or title designated, having and exercising the general control and management of its affairs and all its funds, who shall be elected after the first year by representatives chosen by the subordinate lodges, councils or bodies, or grand lodges, grand councils or bodies, as the laws of the society, order or association may provide, and who shall be members of such society, order or association. The president, secretary and treasurer or corresponding officers of such association, shall be citizens of the United States. Approved May 2, 1913. [No. 160.] AN ACT to amend section fourteen of act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," approved June two, nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section fourteen of act number two hundred Section eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 14. Stairways with substantial hand rails shall be Hand rails, provided in manufacturing establishments, and where in the etc. opinion of the factory inspector it be necessary, the steps of such stairs in all such establishments shall be substantially females em ployed covered with rubber securely fastened thereon, for the better Screens, where safety of persons employed in said establishments. The stairs shall be properly screened at sides and bottom where females are employed, and the outside doors of such establishment shall swing outwardly, and no doors shall be locked, bolted or fastened during working hours. Approved May 2, 1913. Section amended. Access to factory, etc. [No. 161.] AN ACT to amend section seven of act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor, to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section seven of act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 7. The commissioner, his deputy and deputy factory inspectors are authorized to enter any factory, workshop, hotel, store or other place where labor is employed when open or in operation, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics relating to hours of labor, wages, industrial, economic Misdemeanor, and sanitary conditions or matters; and if any employer or penalty. his or her agent or agents shall refuse to allow the officers of said department to so enter; or shall refuse to give such information when requested by said commissioner or deputy factory inspector, then such employer or his or her agent or agents shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved May 2, 1913. [No. 162.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two and three of act number one hundred ninety-three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended by act number one hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, the same being compiler's sections five thousand one hundred ten, five thousand one hundred eleven and five thousand one hundred twelve of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and to add a new section to said act to be known as section three-a, said act being entitled "An act to prohibit and prevent adulteration, fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of articles of food and drink." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, two and three of act number one s hundred ninety-three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred a ninety-five, entitled "An act to prohibit and prevent adulteration, fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of articles of food and drink," as amended by act number one hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended, and a new section is added to said act to stand as section three-a, said amended and added sections to read as follows: e St SEC. 1. No person, firm or corporation by themselves or a their agents or servants shall within the State, have in their possession with intent to sell, or offer or expose for sale, or sell any article of food which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act. SEC. 2. The term food as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment intended to be eaten or drank by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed or compound. SEC. 3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated with w in the meaning of this act: First, If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously effect its quality, strength or purity; Second, If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; Third, If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; Fourth, If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or not, or in the case of milk, if it is the product of a diseased animal; Fifth, If it is colored, coated, polished, bleached or powdered whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; a Proviso. Misbranded, Sixth, If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health: Provided, That nothing in this act shall prevent the coloring of pure butter. SEC. 3 (a). An article shall be deemed to be misbranded when deemed. within the meaning of this act: Proviso, variations. on hand. First, If it is an imitation of or is offered for sale under the name of another article; Second, If it is labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package; Third, If in package form every package, box, bottle, basket or other container does not bear the true net weight, excluding the wrapper or container, which shall be stated in terms of pounds, ounces and grains avoirdupois weight or the true net measure, which measure, in case of liquids, shall be in terms of gallons of two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches or fractions thereof, as quarts, pints and ounces or the true numerical count, as the case may be, expressed on the face of the principal label in plain English words or numerals, so that it can be plainly read: Provided, however, That reasonable variations shall be permitted and tolerances therefor and also exemptions as to small packages shall be established Proviso, goods and promulgated by the Dairy and Food Commissioner: Provided, however, That no penalty of fine, imprisonment or confiscation shall be enforced for any violation of subdivision third of this section prior to September first, nineteen hundred fourteen, as to goods in the hands of wholesalers or retailers when this act takes effect or received prior to January one, nineteen hundred fourteen. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to beverages in glass containers; Fourth, If the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, which statement, design or device shall be false or misleading in any particular: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food, if each and every package sold or offered for sale bear the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber or retail merchant with an established business, and be distinctly labeled under its own distinctive name, and in a manner so as to plainly and correctly show that it is a mixture or compound and is not in violation of any of Articles to be the foregoing provisions of this act. Every article of food sold by weight, as defined in the statutes of this State shall be sold by weight, measure or numerical count and as now generally recognized by trade custom, except where the parties otherwise agree, and shall be labeled in accordance with the provi Proviso. measure or numerical count. sions of the food and beverage laws of this State. Only those products shall be sold by numerical count which cannot well be sold by weight or measure. All foods not liquid, if sold by measure, shall be sold by standard dry measure, the quart of which contains sixty-seven twenty one-hundredths cubic inches. Approved May 2, 1913. [No. 163.] AN ACT to regulate the admission to practice of attorneys, solicitors and counselors in the several courts in this State, to provide for a board of examiners and to repeal act number two hundred five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended by act number ninety-three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. The People of the State of Michigan enact: attorneys, SECTION 1. Any practicing attorney resident of another Non-resident state or territory of the United States or of a foreign country how admitted. may be admitted on motion, by the court to try a certain case in such court; but shall not be admitted to the general trial of cases in such court or to the general practice of the law in this State without complying with the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any person being a citizen of this State or a citi- Who admitted zen of one of the other states or territories of the United to practice. States who proves to the satisfaction of the board of examiners that it is his intention to maintain an office in this State for the practice of the law and to practice in this State, who has been admitted and licensed to practice in the court of last resort of a state or territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, and whose principal business for three years or more immediately preceding his application for admission has been the practice of law in the courts of record in such state, territory or district, may be admitted to the general practice of the law in this State on complying with the terms of this section as follows: He shall file his Terms of section. application with the board of examiners showing his qualifications as above prescribed together with the written recommendation of one of the judges of one of the courts named above in this section as to character, education and ability, and a certified copy of the certificates, affidavits and other papers not including examination questions and answers. which were submitted upon his application for admission in |