[No. 57.]

AN ACT to amend section one of chapter seven of act number three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninetyfive, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," being section two thousand seven hundred sixty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven; to empower villages to regulate, tax and license saloons.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter seven of act number Section three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," being section two thousand seven hundred sixtynine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER VII-POWERS OF COUNCIL.

powers of

SEC. 1. Every village subject to the provisions of this act, General shall, in addition to such other powers as are conferred, council. have the general power and authority granted in this chapter, and the council may pass such ordinances in relation thereto as it may deem proper, namely:

First, To restrain and prevent vice and immorality; Second, To punish vagrants, disorderly persons and common prostitutes;

Third, To abate nuisances and preserve the public health; Fourth, To prohibit and suppress disorderly and gaming houses;

Fifth, To regulate, license, or suppress billiard tables and ball alleys;

Sixth, To suppress gaming;

Seventh, To suppress, or regulate, tax and license saloons for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and li cense taverns and eating houses;

Eighth, To regulate and license public shows and exhibitions;

Ninth, To license auctioneers, license and regulate hawkers and peddlers, and to regulate or prohibit sales of property at auction, except sales made pursuant to some order of court or public law; and also to require transient traders and dealers to take out licenses before engaging in business, and may regulate by ordinance the terms and conditions of issuing the same;

Tenth, To license and regulate hacks and other public vehicles:

Eleventh, To provide for and regulate the inspection of provisions;

Twelfth, To provide for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures, and to enforce the keeping and use of proper weights and measures by venders;

Thirteenth, To regulate or prohibit bathing in the riv ers, ponds, streams and waters of the village;

Fourteenth, To regulate or prohibit the selling, storing or transportation of combustible or explosive substances or materials within the village, and to regulate and restrain the making of fires in the streets or other open spaces in the village;

Fifteenth, To make ordinances for the organization and regulation of the fire department and for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to establish and maintain definite fire limits;

Sixteenth, To license and regulate solicitors for passengers or for baggage for any hotel, tavern, public house, boat, or railroad; also draymen, carmen, truckmen, porters, runners, drivers of cabs, hackney coaches, omnibuses, carriages, sleighs, express vehicles, and vehicles of every other description used and employed for hire, and to fix and regulate the amounts and rates of their compensation;

Seventeenth, To require horses, mules, or other animals attached to any vehicle, or standing in any of the streets, lanes or alleys in the village, to be securely fastened, hitched, watched or held;

Eighteenth, To prevent and punish horse-racing and immoderate driving in any street, park or alley, and to authorize the stopping and detaining of any person who shall be guilty of immoderate driving or riding in any street, park or alley in the village;

Nineteenth, To prevent the running at large of dogs, to require them to be muzzled, and to authorize their destruction if found at large, in violation of any ordinance of the village;

Twentieth, To establish lines and grades upon which buildings may be erected, and beyond which such buildings shall not extend;

Twenty-first, To prevent the erection and provide for the removal of all buildings deemed unsafe;

Twenty-second, To regulate the placing and provide for the preservation of horse or hitching posts;

Twenty-third, To declare and define the powers and duties of the officers of the village, whose powers and duties are not specifically prescribed in this act;

Twenty-fourth, To require the treasurer, marshal, and such other officers of the village as the council shall deem proper, to give bonds for the discharge of their official duties;

Twenty-fifth, To see that the several officers of the village perform their duties faithfully and that proper measures are taken to punish neglect of duty on the part of any of such officers;

Twenty-sixth, To provide for the care, custody and preservation of the public property of the village;

Twenty-seventh, To adopt such other ordinances and make such other regulations for the safety and good government of the village and the general welfare of its inhabitants as are not inconsistent with the general laws of this State. Approved April 14, 1915.

[No. 58.]

AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of cremation companies and associations.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

incorporators.

SECTION 1. Five or more persons, who shall, by articles Number of of agreement in writing, associate themselves according to the provisions of this act, under any name assumed by them, for the purpose of providing the necessary appliances for the disposal by cremation of the bodies of the dead, and for the purpose of purchasing land for a crematorium or columbarium, or both, in this State, and for fencing, laying out, improving, establishing and maintaining said land, and who shall comply with sections two, three and four of this act, shall, with their successors and assigns, constitute a body Body politic. politic or corporate, under the name assumed by them in

their articles of association: Provided, however, That no two Proviso, name. corporations shall assume the same name.

SEC. 2. The articles of agreement of every corporation Articles of formed under the provisions of this act shall be signed by agreement. the persons associating in the first instance, and acknowledged before some person authorized by the laws of this State to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and shall state: 1. The object for which it is organized.

2. The amount of land which it owns or proposes to purchase, and the town and county in which the same is situated.

3. The amount of its capital stock and the number of shares into which the same shall be divided.

4. The name by which such corporation shall be known. 5. The names of those who shall constitute the first board of directors, and the name of the first treasurer.

What to state.

Certificate of organization.

6. The names of the subscribers to the articles of association, and the number of shares subscribed by each, toward the required capital.

7. The term of duration of such corporation, which shall not exceed thirty years.

SEC. 3. Within one week after the organization of any corporation organized under this act, the secretary shall make out a certificate of the organization of such corporation, giving the information referred to in section two, which certificate shall be signed by the president and secretary of such corporation, and shall forthwith record such certificate in the office of the Secretary of State and the clerk of the county in which the company or association organized under the provisions of this act is located. And the said Recording fee. Secretary of State and county clerk shall be each entitled to receive twenty cents a folio for recording the same.

Where

recorded.

Power to acquire land.

Proviso, incumbrances.

Exemption from taxation.

SEC. 4. Such corporation shall have power to acquire by gift, devise or purchase, and hold in fee simple so much land as may be necessary and appropriate for its purposes: Provided, That no land thus held shall be in any way encumbered by such corporation.

SEC. 5. All the lands of said corporation enclosed and set apart for crematorium or columbarium purposes, and all the buildings erected thereon, used for such purposes as well as all rights of inurnment therein, shall be wholly exempt from taxation of any kind whatsoever except special assessProviso, stock ments for public improvements: Provided, That all stock taxable. owned by said stockholders shall be taxed in the manner provided by law.

Mortgages,

etc., prohibited.

Annual meeting.

Board of directors.

SEC. 6. No mortgage or other lien or encumbrance, shall be executed upon the lands or buildings of such corporation actually used for the disposal of the dead as specified in the provisions of this act.

SEC. 7. The annual meeting of every such corporation shall be held on the second Monday of May in each year, unless some other day shall be fixed by the by-laws thereof, and in such case it shall be held upon the day so fixed. The participants at the initial annual meeting shall elect a board of directors of seven, of which three shall serve for one year and four for two years, their successors at subsequent anTerm of office. nual meetings being elected in each case for a period of two years. These directors shall hold office until their term expires and their successors shall be chosen, and shall transact such business relating to the affairs of the corporation as Right to vote. may properly come before them. At such meetings the owners of stock shall have the right to vote, either in person or by proxy, in proportion to the amount of stock held by them respectively, each owner thereof being entitled to one vote for each share of stock. Special meetings of any such corporation may be provided for by the by-laws thereof, and shall be held when called in accordance with such provision.

Special meetings.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of said board of directors to officers. choose from their own number a president and vice-president, and also to elect suitable persons as treasurer and secretary of such corporation, and from time to time to appoint a superintendent and such other subordinate officers as may be required by the by-laws.

directors.

SEC. 9. The board of directors shall have the general Powers of management of such corporation, and shall have the power: To purchase land for such company or association, but for no other purpose; to levy assessments upon the subscribers to the articles of association, not exceeding the amount severally subscribed by them payable at such times as the directors shall determine, and to enforce the collection thereof either by suit or forfeiture; to maintain and operate a crematorium or columbarium, or both, and to dispose of niches in the aforesaid urn-hall, fix the prices thereof and to guarantee to the owners of niches the perpetual maintenance and care of said columbarium. To invest the moneys received from incinerations or the sale of niches or both, and to prescribe, from time to time, the interest or dividends which shall be paid to holders of the stock of such corporation, subject to the restrictions hereinafter named.

cremations.

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of any company or as- Record of sociation incorporated under this act, to keep a record showing the name, age, and last place of residence of every person incinerated in the crematorium maintained by said corporation, as well as the number of the cremation permit and name of the officiating undertaker.

niches.

SEC. 11. Corporations organized under this act and Record of operating a columbarium shall also keep a record of the owners of names and addresses of the owners of niches, as well as the numbers of the niches to which they hold title and names of deceased whose remains are inurned therein.

of grounds.

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of such board of directors Improvement to lay out and embellish the grounds, and to see that they are well kept and in good condition.

of fund.

SEC. 13. One-half of the moneys received from the sale of Trust fund. niches shall be transferred to a trust fund until a sufficient amount has accumulated to insure the perpetual maintenance and care of the columbarium, in which case they may be diverted to the treasury of the corporation. Moneys re- Investment ceived for the trust fund shall only be invested in such securities as are considered legal investments for banks and trust companies in the State of Michigan. All interest re- Interest. ceived from such investments, however, shall be payable to the treasurer of the corporation and be used as aforesaid. Approved April 14, 1915.