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suit in the name of the people of the State of Michigan for the use and benefit of the State Dairy and Food Department for the recovery of said registration or license fee.

commenced.

SEC. 2. Said suit may be commenced in the circuit court Where for the county of Ingham or in the circuit court of the county where the principal business office of such defendant corporation, firm or person shall be located and shall be prosecuted in like manner as in civil suits between individuals, and judgment and execution may follow in like manner and costs may be recovered to be taxed as in other civil cases, and all moneys recovered shall be paid into the State treasury for the use and benefit of the State Dairy and Food Department: Provided, That no suit as authorized by this Proviso, act, shall be commenced until thirty days after the defendant in such suit has been duly notified of his or her delinquency, either personally or by registered letter.

notice.

SEC. 3. All expenses incurred by the State Dairy and Expenses, how Food Commissioner under this act shall be defrayed by the defrayed." State Dairy and Food Department out of its annual appropriation.

Approved April 4, 1913.

[No. 38.]

AN ACT to prohibit the practice of palmistry, clairvoyancy, astrology or fortune telling by cards or other devices for money or gain, and to provide a penalty for violation of the provisions of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

what deemed.

SECTION 1. Any person who shall pretend for money or Misdemeanor, gain, to predict future events by cards, tokens, trances, the inspection of the hands of any person, mind reading so called, or by consulting the movements of the heavenly bodies, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by a Penalty. fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than five days nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. Whoever shall pretend for money or gain, to tell Idem. fortunes or foretell future events by other means than those aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished as provided in section one of this act.

SEC. 3. Any person or persons who shall pretend by or Idem. through means of palmistry, clairvoyancy, astrology or fortune telling by cards or other devices for money or gain, to enable any one to get or recover lost or stolen property, or

Evidence.

to give success in business, enterprise, speculation or games of chance, or to make one person dispose of property, business or valuable thing in favor of another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable as is provided in section one of this act.

SEC. 4. If any person or persons shall publish by card, circular, sign, newspaper or any other means whatsoever, that he or she shall or will predict future events, the said publication may be given in evidence to sustain an indictment under this act. Any person whose fortune may have been told as aforesaid, shall be a competent witness against all persons charged with any violation of this act. Approved April 4, 1913.

Section amended.

Duties of department.

[No. 39.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended by acts numbers one hundred ninety-one, two hundred twenty and two hundred fifty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, 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:

SECTION 1. Section two of act number two hundred eightyfive of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended by acts numbers one hundred ninety-one, two hundred twenty and two hundred fifty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, 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. 2. The duties of such department shall be to collect in the manner herein provided, assort, systematize, print and present to the Governor, on or before the first day of April, nineteen hundred ten, and annually thereafter, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in this. State, including the penal institutions thereof, particularly concerning the hours of labor, the number of employes and sex thereof, the daily wages earned, and savings, the number

and character of accidents, the condition of all manufacturing establishments, hotels, stores and workshops where labor is employed, with such other matter relating to the industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes and the productive industries of the State, including the names of firms, companies or corporations, where located, the kind of goods produced or manufactured, the time operated each year, the number of employes, male or female, the number engaged in clerical work and the number engaged in manual labor, with a classification of the number of each sex engaged in each occupation and the average daily wages paid each. The Commissioner of Labor is Special agents. authorized to appoint special agents to represent the department, with authority to visit firms and establishments, and to collect such statistics and perform such other duties as may be required, with like power as is conferred on said commissioner. The Commissioner of Labor and all ap- Inspections. pointees connected with the department, when so directed by said commissioner, shall have full authority to visit and inspect all manufacturing establishments, workshops, hotels, stores and all places where labor is employed, at any reasonable hour, and shall have authority to gather such statistics as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner: Provided, Proviso, That the Commissioner of Labor or any one connected with averages. his office, shall not publish, make public, nor give to any individual or to the public the individual statistics obtained from any manufacturing establishment, but all such statistics may be published in connection with other similar statistics and given to the public in aggregates and averages: Pro- Further vided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed proviso, state to prohibit other State departments from taking transcripts of such individual statistics for statistical and classification purposes only.

Approved April 4, 1913.

aggregates and

departments.

[No. 40.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number seventy-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of a deputy Attorney General," the same being section one hundred twelve of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section one of act number seventy-two of the Section Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of a deputy Attorney General," is hereby amended to read as follows:

Deputy attorney general.

SEC. 1. The Attorney General may appoint a deputy for whose acts he shall be responsible and may revoke such appointment at his pleasure. Such deputy shall take the constitutional oath of office and shall perform such duties in the Attorney General's Department as may be assigned to him. During the sickness, absence or other disability of the Attorney General such deputy may execute all of the duties. Compensation. of the office. He shall receive for such services the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum from the same fund and in the same way as all other State deputies are paid. Approved April 4, 1913.

Section added.

Additional trustees.

[No. 41.]

AN ACT to amend act number seventy-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to the Wesleyan seminary at Albion and the Albion female collegiate institute,' approved February nine, eighteen hundred fifty-seven," approved May eight, nineteen hundred seven, by adding thereto a new section to stand as section two-a, relative to number of trustees on governing board of said college.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act number seventy-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to the Wesleyan seminary at Albion and the Albion female collegiate institute,' approved February nine, eighteen hundred fifty-seven," approved May eight, nineteen hundred seven, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section two-a, and to read as follows:

SEC. 2a. The board of trustees of Albion college as heretofore constituted, is hereby authorized to increase the number of trustees in said board by the election of not more than nine additional trustees, the same to be elected for such terms and by such process as said board of trustees shall determine, said trustees to be known and designated as board trustees, and to possess all the rights, powers and privileges of the other members of said board.

Approved April 4, 1913.

[No. 42.]

AN ACT to provide for the creation of a county sinking fund commission, to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The county treasurer, the register of deeds, Members the county clerk, the chairman of the board of supervisors and designated. the chairman of the finance committee of the board of supervisors of the several counties of this State, shall constitute and be a board of county sinking fund commissioners.

bonded debt.

SEC. 2. The said board of sinking fund commissioners Outstanding shall from time to time upon the best terms it can make, purchase or pay the outstanding bonded debt of the county, or such part thereof as it may be able to purchase or pay, until the full amount thereof be fully purchased or paid. When- Temporary ever it cannot arrange for the purchasing or paying of said investment. debt, or any part thereof, it shall temporarily and until it can so arrange, invest the moneys belonging to the sinking fund in such interest bearing securities as it may deem advisable; and all matured bonds or evidences of debt so purchased shall be delivered to the county treasurer and shall become and be the property of the county, held and controlled by said board of sinking fund commissioners, and the interest thereon as it thereafter becomes due shall be credited and belong to the sinking fund.

money.

SEC. 3. Said board of sinking fund commissioners shall Control of have exclusive control of the money of the sinking fund, and shall faithfully apply the same whenever possible, or it may appear to the county's interests, to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonded indebtedness of the county, and to no other purpose whatever, excepting as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 4. The annual meeting of said board of sinking fund Annual meeting. commissioners shall be held on the first Tuesday in September of each year. Said board of sinking fund commissioners may meet from time to time for the transaction of business, and may adopt rules of proceeding for its meeting. A majority Majority, etc. of the whole board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but they shall not purchase or pay the outstanding debt of said county or invest any of the money belonging to the sinking fund as above provided, except under a resolution for such purpose passed and approved by a twothirds vote of the whole board by "Ayes" and "Nays" to be entered on record at a regular meeting or a special meeting

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