agent in charge of any business office of such association within this State, or if neither of such officers or agents can be found, then such service may be made by posting a true copy thereof in some conspicuous place at the business office of the association in this State. Approved May 14, 1913. Section amended. Clothing, etc., furnished discharged convict. Railroad ticket. [No. 399.] AN ACT to amend section sixty-two of act number one hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State Prison, to the State House of Correction and Branch of the State Prison in the Upper Peninsula, and to the House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, and the government and discipline thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," being compiler's section two thousand one hundred forty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven; relative to transportation of released prisoners to place from where sentenced. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section sixty-two of act number one hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the State Prison, to the State House of Correction and Branch of the State Prison in the Upper Peninsula, and to the House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, and the government and discipline thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," being compiler's section two thousand one hundred forty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 62. When any convict shall be discharged from prison by pardon or otherwise, the warden shall furnish such convict with clothing, if he be not already provided for, not exceeding ten dollars in value, and such sum of money, not less than five dollars nor exceeding ten dollars, as the warden may deem necessary and proper. Whenever any discharged convict shall have been convicted and sentenced from any other city or village than that in which the prison from which he is discharged is located, the warden shall purchase a railroad ticket to such city or village for the use of such discharged convict, or a railroad ticket to any other point in the State selected by such discharged convict where the cost of transportation does not exceed the amount required to carry such discharged convict to the point from which sentenced, the cost of such transportation to be paid out of the general fund of the State. Upon release such convict shall be conducted to the station of the railroad from which such transportation has been purchased, by an attendant of said prison, and placed upon the proper train of such railroad. The attendant shall thereupon deliver to the conductor of such train the ticket so purchased for the use of such convict. The con- Duty of conductor. ductor so receiving such ticket, if the place of destination of such convict shall be without the limits of the run of such conductor, shall deliver to such convict, upon reaching such limits, the unused portion of such ticket. It shall be the duty of every such released convict to continue to the place of destination as indicated upon such ticket and failure so to do shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as such. Approved May 13, 1913. [No. 400.] AN ACT to amend section six of chapter four of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," as amended by act number one hundred fortyeight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, approved April twenty-six, nineteen hundred eleven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section six of chapter four of act number two Section hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways, and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township, and district highway officials," as amended by act number one hundred forty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, approved April twenty-six, nineteen hundred eleven, is here amended to read as follows: Board of county road commissioners, election, etc. Notice of election. Proviso. Further proviso, certain counties. CHAPTER IV. SEC. 6. In any county where the county road system shall be adopted, a board of county road commissioners, and not exceeding five in number, shall be elected by the people of such county. In the first instance such commissioners shall be appointed by the board of supervisors or elected at a general or special election called for that purpose, as shall be ordered by the board of supervisors. If such commissioners are appointed they shall hold office only until the first day of May next following. Their successors shall be elected at the general election held on the first Monday in April following the date of their appointment. If such commissioners are to be elected at a general election, notice thereof, embodying a copy of the resolution of the board of supervisors, giving the number and terms of office of the commissioners to be elected, shall be published by the clerk in the newspaper or newspapers selected by the board of supervisors, as required by section three of this act; if a special election is called for the election of such commissioners a like notice shall be given by the clerk, which notice shall be posted and published in such newspapers as required by section three. In the month of March in each year thereafter in which a county road commissioner is to be elected, the county clerk shall give notice that a county road commissioner is to be elected at the following election, to be held on the first Monday of April, and shall publish the same in a newspaper or newspapers in manner aforesaid: Provided, That in the counties of Wayne and Mason the election of county road commissioners shall be held at the general election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November; the notice thereof shall be given at the time notice is given of the general election: Provided further, That the election of county road commissioners, as herein provided, shall not be mandatory in any county which contains more than twenty-six surveyed townships, either entire or fractional, as determined by the government survey thereof. In such county or counties the board of supervisors may, by a majority of its members-elect, appoint such county road commissioner. Approved May 14, 1913. [No. 401.] AN ACT to amend sections one and three of act number one hundred one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise the law relative to the care of the feeble-minded and epileptic," approved May eighteen, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide for a change of name of the institution established for the care of the feeble-minded and epileptic. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections one and three of act number one Sections hundred one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise the law relative to the care of the feeble-minded and epileptic," approved May eighteen, nineteen hundred nine, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The institution for the custody, care, education, Name treatment and discipline of the feeble-minded and epileptic changed. persons, at Lapeer, shall hereafter be known as the "Michigan Home and Training School." SEC. 3. The members of said board of control shall consti- Board of control, body tute a body corporate under the name and style of "The corporate. Board of Control of the Michigan Home and Training School," and shall have the right to use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. substituted. SEC. 2. Wherever the name "Michigan Home for the Where name Feeble-minded and Epileptic," appears in act number one hundred one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, or in any amendment thereto, or in any act relating to the said Lapeer institution, the name "Michigan Home and Training School" shall be substituted therefor. Approved May 14, 1913. [No. 402.] AN ACT to amend section nine of chapter three, and to repeal section eight of chapter thirteen of act number one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred seventy-four and four thousand seven hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as last amended by act number fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, relative to compensation of district officers. Section amended. Running expenses, taxes voted for. Accounting. Proviso. Assessment, etc. Section repealed. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter three of act number one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section four thousand six hundred seventy-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 9. The district board shall have authority to vote such taxes as may be necessary for the regular running expenses of the school, which shall include school furnishings and all appurtenances, the care of school property, teachers' wages, water supply, premium upon indemnity bond for the treasurer of the district, transportation of the pupils, record books and blanks, and all apparatus and material which may be necessary in order that the schools may be properly managed and maintained, and for deficiencies in such funds for the preceding year, if any, and for the services of district officers. All such taxes when collected and received shall be accounted for under the title of "general fund;" all primary money shall be accounted for under the title of "primary fund:" Provided, That the tax for the services of district officers herein provided for in districts having less than fifty children shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, and in districts having between fifty and one hundred children the tax shall not exceed fifty dollars, the amounts to be allowed for such services to be determined by the electors at the annual meeting. When the taxes herein provided for have been estimated and voted by the district board, they shall be reported for assessment and collection the same as other district taxes. When any tax has been estimated and voted by the district board or by the district under the provisions of law, and the money is needed before it can be collected, the district board may borrow on the strength of such tax a sum not exceeding the total of such tax. SEC. 2. Section eight of chapter thirteen of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section four thousand seven hundred seventy-two of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended, is hereby repealed. Approved May 14, 1913. |