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enter into any combination to fix prices below market level, (e) directly or indirectly purchase for his or its own account, goods received by him upon consignment without prior authority therefor from the consignor, or shall fail to promptly notify the consignor of such purchase on his own account, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Penalty. fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and the cost of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail or State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, for not less than six months nor more than three years, or by such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court in each and every offense.

SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall apply to retail dealers, real estate dealers or auctioneers selling farm products on commission.

Approved May 2, 1913.

[No. 185.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the State Board of Fish Commissioners for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the State Current Board of Fish Commissioners on account of current ex- expenses. penses, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of thirty-seven thousand three hundred twenty-seven dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, the sum of thirty-four thousand nine hundred fifty-two dollars: Provided, That not Proviso, more than five hundred dollars may be expended by said expenses. board for traveling and incidental expenses outside of the State in each year, on official business.

SEC. 2. The further sum of fourteen thousand six hundred Special purand eighty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year poses, 1914. ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, by stations and for purposes and amounts as follows:

Paris Station: Rebuilding waste and supply race below railroad, with new wagon bridge, concrete work, two hundred fifty dollars; to deepen and rebuild ponds north of hatchery including concrete dam and waste pipe, three hundred dollars; addition to barn with concrete foundation and floor, three hundred dollars; repairs (damaged by flood) three hundred dollars.

Idem, 1915.

Mill Creek Station: New ice house, three hundred dollars; four acres of land adjoining lands now owned, five hundred dollars; completion of pond and constructing new ponds, one thousand dollars; supply pipe line to springs, four thous and feet at twenty cents, four hundred dollars.

Drayton Plains Station: Ten-inch intake pipe for direct and independent feed to pond, five hundred feet at two dollars, ten hundred dollars; power plant and equipment for hatching perch and wall-eyed pike, twelve hundred dollars. Harrietta Station: Enlarging and rebuilding ponds near hatchery, five hundred dollars; repairs, damage done by floods, two thousand dollars.

Sault Ste. Marie Station: New roof, two hundred dollars; coal bin, concrete, one hundred dollars; gasoline launch, thirty foot, with machinery and equipment, six hundred dollars; two hundred barrel tank for reserve water supply, on concrete piers, two hundred dollars.

New Distributing Car: One new car for delivery service, with tanks and permanent equipment complete, five thous and dollars.

Cans: Two hundred steel clad cans at two sixty-five each, five hundred thirty dollars.

SEC. 3. The further sum of fourteen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, by stations and for purposes and amounts as follows:

Paris Station: Independent wastes for ponds west of highway, five hundred dollars; new ponds and to deepen and enlarge old ones below railroad, two thousand dollars.

Mill Creek Station: Construction of new ponds, fifteen hundred dollars; for new hatchery house with permanent equipment complete, four thousand dollars; concrete wall to protect ponds from floods and retaining wall along Pere Marquette railroad embankment, two hundred fifty dollars.

Drayton Plains Station: Two new ponds and connections, five hundred dollars; concrete sewer pipe to provide for floods from Judd's Creek, two hundred eighty dollars; Ten-inch iron intake pipe, for direct and independent feed to ponds, five hundred feet at two dollars, ten hundred dollars.

Harrietta Station: Two large ponds in valley north of highway, twenty-five hundred dollars; ice, food and storage house, five hundred dollars.

Soo Station: Four double hatching troughs, two hundred dollars; additional living room and improvements in second story, two hundred dollars.

Cans: Three hundred steel clad cans at two sixty-five each, seven hundred ninety-five dollars:

Provided, That if the amount designated for any one of the purposes stated in sections two and three of this act, be insufficient to complete the work or purchases, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or pur

chases specified in said sections two and three may be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency exists, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire twentyeight thousand nine hundred five dollars available for the purposes stated herein.

SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Board of Fish Commissioners at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account 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 fiftytwo thousand seven dollars and for the year nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of forty-nine thousand one hundred seventy-seven 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 May 6, 1913.

[No. 186.]

AN ACT to provide and establish a court of domestic relations in each county of this State, which has a population of upwards of two hundred fifty thousand, to define its jurisdiction and for the purpose of this act to provide for additional circuit judges in such counties.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

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SECTION 1. There shall be in each county of this State, Court of which has a population of upwards of two hundred fifty relations. thousand, a court of domestic relations, which shall be a court of record, having one judge whose term of office shall commence on the first day of September, nineteen hundred thirteen. The office of the judge of the court of domestic relations hereby created, shall be deemed vacant from and after the taking effect of this act, and shall be filled by appointment by the Governor of the said State, and such judge shall hold office until the next general election.

SEC. 2. At the first general election held in said counties, Election of respectively, after this act shall take effect, the qualified when. judge, how, electors of each such county shall, in the manner prescribed by law for the election of circuit judges, elect a judge of the court of domestic relations of such county, and his term of office shall continue until the first day of January, nineteen

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hundred eighteen. Thereafter all judges shall be elected every six years at the April election next preceding the expiration of the term of the then incumbent. In case of a vacancy office of judge. in the office of judge of the court of domestic relations, the Governor shall fill said vacancy, and the incumbent so appointed shall hold office until the next general election. The provisions of law relative to nomination and election of circuit judges shall in all cases govern the nomination and election of judges of the court of domestic relations.

Duties of judge.

Jurisdiction.

Exceptions.

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SEC. 3. Said judge, by virtue of his office, shall be a circuit judge of the circuit court of the same county, and as such it shall be his duty to hear and determine all suits for divorce, all suits for annulment of marriage, and all other such suits, actions and proceedings shall be for that purpose assigned to him by the presiding judge of said circuit court. court of domestic relations shall have original jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all criminal cases wherein the crime, misdemeanor, offense or felony charged shall have been committed within the county in which said court of domestic relations is located, which crime, misdemeanor, offense or felony shall be because of violation of the laws: First, compelling the support of wife and minor children by the husband and father; second, forbidding the desertion and abandonment of wife or minor children by the husband and father; third, prohibiting contributing to the delinquency of children; fourth, compelling the compulsory education of children; and fifth, forbidding cruelty to children. Said court shall have original jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all actions brought to compel the support of illegitimate and bastard children under the laws of the State of Michigan. In furtherance of the foregoing purposes, said courts of domestic relations shall also have original jurisdiction of all prosecution and proceedings in behalf of the people of this State, for all crimes, misdemeanors and offenses arising under the laws of this State, and committed within the limits of their respective counties, except in cases which, under the constitution of this State, may be exclusively cognizable by the police courts and justice of the peace of such counties, under and by virtue of the following statutes of this State, to wit: Act number two hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act relative to disorderly persons," etc., being section nine hundred twenty-three of the Michigan compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, so far as the same relates to the abandonment or threat to abandon wives or children, and refusal or neglect to support them; act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide a penalty for cruelty to children," being section eleven thousand five hundred seven of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number two hundred thirteen of the Michigan public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven ;

act number one hundred forty-four of the Michigan public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to prevent a desertion and abandonment of wife or children by persons charged by law with the maintenance thereof; to make such abandonment and desertion a felony and to prescribe punishment therefor; to provide for the care of the dependent wife and children, and to repeal act number thirty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three;" act number two hundred eighty-four of the Michigan public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide punishment for wife desertion in certain cases;" act number three hundren fourteen of the Michigan public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide for the punishment of the persons responsible for or contributing to the delinquency of children;" act number two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalty for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same, as amended by act number seventy-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, and act number two hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred eleven," and under and by virtue of any and all other statutes amendatory of, or supplementary to any of the statutes above specified, and any and all other statutes relating to the crimes, misdemeanors and offenses above specified.

SEC. 4. In all cases determined by any police court or justice of the peace within the limits of their respective counties, under either or any of the statutes hereinbefore specified, an appeal may be taken to the court of domestic relations of the same county, in the same manner and with the same effect as prescribed by the general laws of the State for appeals from convictions by justices of the peace within this State to the circuit court in criminal cases; and said courts of domestic relations are hereby given exclusive juris diction of all appeals from convictions under said statutes.

SEC. 5. Said court of domestic relations shall have power to issue all lawful writs and process, and to do all acts which may be necessary and proper to carry into complete effect the powers and jurisdiction given by this act. And further, in all prosecution and proceedings for the punishment of misdemeanors, under and by virtue of the statutes above mentioned, to issue all writs and process, and to do all acts which justices of the peace within their respective jurisdictions may issue and do by the laws of this State, and shall therein as far as applicable be governed by the provisions of law regulating criminal cases and proceedings before justices of the peace.

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