Adoption by township.

Appropriation.

materials and to purchase or hire such tools and equipment, and to incur such other expenses as may be necessary in the work of constructing and completing said road; the compensation to be paid said engineer and other persons employed to be determined by the State Highway Commissioner. The State Highway Commissioner may, if he shall deem it advisable, let contracts for the construction of the whole or any part of said road, or any part of the necessary work upon said road.

SEC. 4. Upon the completion of said road, the same shall be adopted by the township of Seney as a township road, and the same shall thereafter be maintained and kept in repair by said township, in the same manner as other township roads in said township are maintained and kept in repair.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty thousand dollars; one-half of said sum to be immediately available for use in the construction of said road upon the taking effect of this act, and the balance of said sum shall be available for use in the construction of said road immediately after the first day of May, nineteen hunProviso, when dred fourteen: Provided, however, That no part of the fund hereby appropriated shall be available for use in the construction of the road herein provided for, unless and until there shall be deposited by Schoolcraft county with the State Treasurer for use in constructing said road and to be a part of the fund available therefor, the sum of four thousand dollars.

available.

Expenses, how paid.

Tax clause.

SEC. 6. All of the expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer from the fund created hereby, upon warrants of the Auditor General issued upon vouchers duly itemized and approved by the State Highway Commissioner. Any moneys remaining in said fund after paying for the construction of said road as herein provided to be turned into the general State highway fund.

SEC. 7. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax of each of the years nineteen hundred thirteen and nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which when collected shall be paid into the general fund of the State treasury, the said sum so collected and paid into said State treasury to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated.

Approved April 11, 1913.

[No. 59.]

AN ACT regulating the time of payment of wages to employes of all manufacturing, mercantile, street railway, telegraph, telephone, railroad, express, mining, electric light, gas and water companies or corporations, doing business in this State, and employes of every contractor, person or co-partnership in this State, engaged in any manufacturing business, in any of the building trades, in operating quarries, in and upon public works, in the construction or repair of railroads, street railways, roads, bridges or sewers; and providing a penalty for a violation thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan cnact:

SECTION 1. Every manufacturing, mercantile, street rail- Wages, semimonthly payway, telegraph, telephone, railroad, express, mining, elec- ment of. tric light, gas and water company or corporation doing business in this State and every contractor, person or copartnership in this State, engaged in any manufacturing business, in any of the building trades, in operating quarries, in and upon public works, in the construction or repair of railroads, street railways, roads, bridges or sewers, shall on or before the first day of each calendar month pay to each employe engaged in its, his or their business, the wages earned by him during the first half of the preceding calendar month ending with the fifteenth day thereof, and on or before the fifteenth day of each calendar month pay to each employe the wages earned by him during the last half of the preceding calendar month. Any employe leaving his or her employment between the dates of any established pay day hereunder, shall be paid the wages earned and due at the time of leaving on the next following regular pay day, and any employe discharged from his or her employment, or absent from his or her place of employment on such regular pay day, shall be paid the wages earned and due such employe forthwith after demand, as soon as the amount due can with the utmost diligence be ascertained: Provided, That the mailing Proviso. of a check for such wages upon or before the regular pay days herein established shall be deemed to be a compliance with the provisions of this act: Provided, That, unless upon Proviso, such demand, none of the provisions of this act shall apply applicable. to employes working under contract where the amount due cannot be ascertained until the termination of the contract, nor to men employed in the lumbering business while at work in the woods. But in all cases of employes working under contract, the employer shall pay to such employe semimonthly the wages earned by such employe as nearly as the

where not

Further proviso,

same can be estimated, and final and complete payment shall be made at the termination of the contract: Provided disagreement. further, That in the case of a disagreement between employe and employer regarding the amount of wages due an employe, the employer shall be deemed to have complied with the provisions of this act if payment of the wages claimed to be correct by the employer is paid to the employe on the regular pay day on which such wages are due, and in the case the employe proves his claim for more wages due him than has been paid by the employer the employer shall pay the additional amount due the employe on the next regular pay day after the employe's claim has been proved.

Special conto exempt

SEC. 2. No company, corporation, contractor, person or tract, etc., not co-partnership specified in section one shall by any special company, etc. agreement, contract or understanding, verbal or written, made with any such employe or intended employe, exempt itself, himself or themselves from the provisions of section one; and any such agreement, contract or understanding so made in violation of section one shall be null and void. All assignments of future wages payable as provided herein except for advances actually made shall not be valid if made to the company, corporation, contractor, person or co-partnership from whom such wages are to become due, or to any person on behalf of any such company, corporation, contractor, person or co-partnership, or if made or procured to be made to another company, corporation, contractor, person or co-partnership for the purpose of relieving the employer from the obligation to pay as in section one provided.

Failure to comply, penalty.

SEC. 3. Any employer mentioned in section one of this act, who, unless prevented by act of God, proceedings in bankruptcy or orders or process of any court of competent jurisdiction, or circumstances over which such employer has no control, shall fail to make payment of the wages due to any such employe, as provided in section one of this act, shall, as liquidated damages for such failure, pay to such employe for each day that the amount due him remains unpaid, ten per cent of the amount due him in addition thereto, and said damages may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction of the suit to recover the amount due to such employe.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after September first, nineteen hundred thirteen. Approved April 11, 1913.

[No. 60.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan State Prison for general repairs and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

special pur

SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred eighty-seven thou- General resand eight hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the pain and Michigan State Prison for the fiscal year ending June thir- poses. tieth, nineteen hundred fourteen, for purposes and in amounts as follows: For general repairs and reconstruction of prison buildings, twenty thousand dollars; for purchase of Greenwood farm, twenty-five thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars; for purchase of Chanter farm, twenty-four thousand dollars; for lease of farms, fifteen hundred dollars; for teams, two thousand dollars; for fencing, one thousand dollars; for dormitory, three thousand dollars; for barn and silo, three thousand dollars; for general repairs and hog pen, one thousand four hundred twenty-five dollars; for incidentals, one thousand dollars; for laundry, machinery and equipment, five thousand dollars; for addition to State account fund, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That if the amount Proviso, transdesignated in this section for any of the purposes stated, ex- fer of funds. cept the appropriation for State account fund, be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in this section may, by obtaining the consent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General, in writing before any expense in excess of the specific appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this provision being to make the entire eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars available for the purposes stated herein if, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made: Pro- Further rided further, That the board of control of the Michigan State Prison may obtain money for the following funds, viz.: Ten thousand dollars of the money hereby appropriated for general repairs and reconstruction of prison buildings; and the sixty-two thousand eight hundred dollars hereby appropriated for the purchase of farms and improvements of land, and the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for State account fund before July first, nineteen hundred thir teen, in such amounts as it may, by requisition, certify to the Auditor General as necessary for immediate use, which amounts thus advanced shall be deducted from the total amount when the appropriation becomes available.

proviso.

How paid out.

Tax clause.

SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the warden of the Michigan State Prison, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of this State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General therefor.

SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of one hundred eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars, which, when collected, shall be added to the general fund in the State treasury to reimburse same for the amounts appropriated by this act.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 11, 1913.

Number may incorporate.

Articles of association.

Incorporators.

Name of corporation.

Office.

Purposes.

Directors, etc.

[No. 61.]

AN ACT to provide for the organization of insurance companies to do a general automobile insurance business; to prescribe their powers and duties and to regulate the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Seven or more persons may become a corporation for the purpose of writing insurance on automobiles covering in one policy, fire, theft, property damage, liability and collision insurance, together with any other proper form of automobile insurance which may be approved on application to the Insurance Commissioner.

SEC. 2. The persons so associating shall subscribe articles of association which shall contain:

1. The names of the incorporators, their places of residence respectively and also the number of shares subscribed for by each respective proposed incorporator;

2. The name by which the corporation shall be known which shall not be the same as or too closely resembling the name of any other corporation organized under the laws of this State or doing business in this State;

3. The place where its principal office for the transaction of its business is to be established and the period for which it is to be incorporated, which period shall not exceed thirty years;

4. The purposes of the corporation as mentioned in the first section of this act;

5. The manner in which the corporate powers are to be exercised; the number of directors and other officers and the manner of electing the same and how many of the directors shall constitute a quorum and the manner of filling vacancies;