Unlawful use of nets. Hook and be used in of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, being compiler's section five thousand eight hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch, or attempt to take or catch, any fish at any time with seines, pound nets, gill nets or any species of nets, in any of the waters of this State, except Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron and Erie, and the bays and harbors connected with said lakes, Saginaw bay and the Sault Ste. Marie, St. Clair, Saginaw and Detroit rivers. It shall be line only may unlawful for any person to take, catch or kill any fish in any certain waters. manner whatever, except by hook and line, in the St. Clair river below the village of Algonac, in St. Clair county, or in any of the channels through which the said river empties into Lake St. Clair, or in any of the bays, channels, or other waters known as the St. Clair flats, and that part of Lake St. Clair lying north, northeast, and east of a line drawn from the south end of the United States ship canal at the mouth of the south or main ship channel to the mouth of the Milk river: Provided, however, That the use of dip nets in catching mullet, redsides and suckers shall not be unlawful. Proviso. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 73.] AN ACT to permit judges of the circuit court to hold courts for each other. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Judges of the circuit court may hold courts for each other. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 74.] AN ACT to amend section twenty of act number one hundred nineteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetythree, entitled "An act to define what shall constitute fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations, to provide for their incorporation and the regulation of their business, and for the punishment for violation of the provisions of the act of their incorporation, and to repeal all existing acts inconsistent therewith," the same being compiler's section seven thousand seven hundred fifty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty of act number one hundred Section nineteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to define what shall constitute fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations, to provide for their incorporation and the regulation of their business, and for the punishment for violation of the provisions of the act of their incorporation, and to repeal all existing acts inconsistent therewith," the same being compiler's section seven thousand seven hundred fifty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 20. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed Certain to affect any grand or subordinate lodge or branch of any not affected. lodges, etc. such fraternal beneficiary society, order or association, which limits its certificate holders to a particular religious denomination, or to the employes of a particular town or city designated, firm, business house or corporation, nor the grand or subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as they now exist, nor any grand, subordinate lodge, or other body of Free and Accepted Masons, nor the grand or any subordinate lodge of the Knights of Pythias, exclusive of the endowment rank, nor the Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Association: Provided, That the United States Benevolent Society of Proviso, Saginaw, the Michigan Home and Hospital Association of ties exempted Grand Rapids, the National Protective Society of Bay City, istic work. the American Benevolent Society of Traverse City, heretofore incorporated and doing business, are hereby exempted from the provisions of said act requiring a lodge system with ritualistic form of work, on complying with all other provisions of said act. Approved May 12, 1909. certain socie from ritual Impaneling juries in certain cases. [No. 75.] AN ACT to regulate the practice in circuit courts. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. In any judicial circuit in this State wherein more than one judge is trying jury cases at the same time, it shall be lawful to impanel a jury in one room from jurors drawn in the usual manner by a judge in charge of a case in another room where a jury may at the same time be in the process of being impaneled, and the different courts are authorized to make appropriate rules to properly guide and govern this practice. Approved May 12, 1909. Act repealed. Proviso, actions, receiverships, etc. [No. 76.] AN ACT to repeal act number sixty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of supreme, grand and subordinate lodges of the United Home Protectors' Fraternity, a cooperative fraternal building and loan society or order." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number sixty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, as amended, entitled, "An act to provide for the incorporation of supreme, grand and subordinate lodges of the United Home Protectors' Fraternity, a cooperative fraternal building and loan society or order," is hereby repealed: Provided, That the repeal of said act number sixty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three shall not affect or interfere with any existing right or relieve any person, firm or corporation from liability, or affect any criminal or civil proceeding pending or instituted, or hereafter to be instituted, or be construed to affect any matter in relation to any receivership pending or instituted, or hereafter to be instituted, at the time this act shall take effect. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 77.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-two of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's section three hundred seventyseven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number seventy-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of act number one hundred Section eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's section three hundred seventy-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number seventy-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 22. In the ninth circuit the stenographer shall be Salary. paid an annual salary of two thousand dollars. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 78.] AN ACT to provide a tax to meet the amounts disbursed by the State for the current expenses of the Michigan State Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula and the Michigan Reformatory. The People of the State of Michigan enact: current SECTION 1. The Auditor General shall add to and incor- Tax levy for porate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nine, 1909, prisons, the sum of one hundred two thousand dollars for the purpose expense. of reimbursing the State treasury for money disbursed under existing laws on account of current expenses for the Michigan State Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula and the Michigan Reformatory, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun Tax levy for 1910. Sums, how paid out. dred seven, by institutions as follows: For the Michigan State Prison, the sum of forty-eight thousand dollars; for the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula, the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars; for the Michigan Reformatory, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred ten, the sum of one hundred thirty-two thousand dollars for the purpose of reimbursing the State treasury for money disbursed under existing laws on account of current expenses for the Michigan State Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula and the Michigan Reformatory, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eight, by institutions as follows: For the Michigan State Prison, the sum of fifty-eight thousand dollars; for the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula, the sum of forty-six thousand dollars; for the Michigan Reformatory, the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars. The money arising from the taxes levied under the provisions of this act shall when collected be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse the same for the money previously expended. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated or disbursed bythe provisions of law for which this tax is levied shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the proper board or officer of the respective institutions, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. Approved May 12, 1909. Transfer authorized. [No. 79.] AN ACT authorizing the transfer of any moneys credited to the "War Fund" to the general fund in the State treasury. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized to transfer to the credit of the general fund in the State treasury the sum of two hundred forty-five dollars now remaining on hand to the credit of the so-called "War Fund" authorized and collected under the provisions of act number five of the extra session of the legislature of eighteen hundred sixtyone. The Auditor General and State Treasurer are hereby |