has been provided for by the city's sinking fund, this may be This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 73.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number sixty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the cutting of noxious weeds within the state. of Michigan." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of act number sixty-six of the Section Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the cutting of noxious weeds within the state of Michigan," is hereby amended to read as follows: weeds, to be SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of every owner, possessor or Noxious occupier of land or of every person or persons, firm or cor- destroyed. poration having charge of any lands in this state to cut or cause to be cut down and destroyed all Canada thistles, milkweed, (asclepica cornutus), wild carrots, ox-eye daisies, or other noxious weeds growing thereon, at least once in each year, before the first day of July in townships south of range sixteen north, and before the fifteenth day of July in townships north of range sixteen north, including range sixteen north, and as much oftener as may be necessary to prevent them going to seed, and if any owner, possessor or occupier of land, or any person or persons, firm or corporation having charge of any lands in this state shall, knowingly, suffer any Canada thistles, milkweed, wild carrots or other noxious weeds to grow thereon or shall suffer the seeds to ripen, so as to cause or endanger the spread thereof, he or they shall, on conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction be liable to a fine of ten dollars, together with costs of prosecution for every such offense and he or they shall pay the cost of cutting and destroying such weeds: Provided, That nothing in this act Proviso, milkcontained shall be construed as preventing or prohibiting the cultivation or growing of milkweed for the production of fibre: Provided further, That the persons or corporations growing Further such milkweed shall do so in such a way as to prevent the proviso. spreading of the seed to the lands of other property owners in the vicinity. Approved April 22, 1921. weed. [No. 74.] AN ACT to amend section eighteen 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," being section four thousand three hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number one hundred sixteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eighteen 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," being section four thousand three hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number one hundred sixteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 18. In case state reward is to be applied for, the board of county road commissioners shall file with the State Highway Commissioner for his approval, a map of the county showing the location of the proposed system of county roads: Provided, however, That this proposed system may be changed if approved by the State Highway Commissioner. All state rewarded roads composing a part of this system shall be taken over as county roads by the board of county road commissioners, and any road heretofore laid out, or any part thereof, shall become county roads if the board of county road commissioners shall at any time so determine, and in passing through or on the line between townships or incorporated villages or cities, any streets or parts of streets of such village or city may be adopted as a county road, with the consent of the proper authorities of such city or cities, village or villages: etc., streets. proviso. determination. proviso. Provided, That where any street or part of street is taken Proviso, city, over in passing through or on the line between a township and an incorporated village or city, no county road funds shall be expended for the improvement of any such street or part of a street of such village or city to a greater width than twenty feet, nor with material more expensive than concrete or brick: Provided further, That where any such street shall be taken Further over as a county road and is improved as such, city and vil lage authorities shall have the right to further improve such road by surfacing the same outside the portion thereof constructed by the county and by the addition of gutters, curbs, sidewalks, and other improvements, and to provide for the care and maintenance of such improvements and to levy and collect taxes for the same. The vote of the county road commissioners in respect to such determination shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered at large on the records of the said board of county road commissioners. Notice of Notice of such determination shall be forthwith given by the clerk or the highway commissioner of each township and the highway authorities of each city or village in which said road or any part thereof is situated, and published in some newspaper printed and circulated in the county, once in each week for three successive weeks: Provided further, In case there is Further no established printing office within the county, the said clerk, or the highway commissioners may advertise in a newspaper published in an adjoining county. Proof of such service and Proof of publication may be made by affidavit by any person knowing the facts, and be filed with the clerk. Such affidavit or the record thereof, or certified copy of such affidavit or record shall be prima facie evidence of its contents. After service and publication of such notice, the board of county road commissioners shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction and control of such road so embraced within such determination, and the township or municipality within which the same is situated shall be relieved from all responsibility therefor. Immediately Road to be after laying out or taking control of a road said board shall give the same a name by which it shall afterwards be known in its proceedings. The board of county road commissioners May abandon, of any county which has adopted the county road system, is etc. hereby authorized and empowered to, at any time, abandon and discontinue any county road or any part thereof, by a majority vote. The vote of the county road commissioners in respect to such abandonment and discontinuance shall be taken and entered, and notice thereof be given, in the same manner as required in this section, in cases in which county roads are adopted. After proceedings to discontinue and abandon have been had, the jurisdiction and control of such road shall revert to the township or municipality within which the same is situated which, prior to the time of its adoption as a county road, had jurisdiction and control thereof, and the county shall be relieved of the responsibility therefor. Approved April 22, 1921. service. named. Sections amended. Certificate of enrollment. How obtained. [No. 75.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, four, five, and seven of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to encourage the breeding of horses; to regulate the public service of stallions; to require the registration of stallions, and to provide for the enforcement thereof," as amended by act number forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, being compilers' sections fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-one, fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-two, fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-four, fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-five and fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, two, four, five, and seven of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to encourage the breeding of horses; to regulate the public service of stallions; to require the registration of stallions, and to provide for the enforcement thereof," as amended by act number forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, being compilers' sections fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-one, fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-two, fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-four, fourteen thousand eight hundred eightyfive and fourteen thousand eight hundred eighty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. After January first, nineteen hundred twenty-three, every person, firm, association or company offering for use for public service any stallion in this state shall cause the name, description, pedigree and physical condition of such stallion to be enrolled by the State Veterinary Board and shall procure a certificate of such enrollment from said board. The word "stallion" whenever used in this act shall be construed to include "jack." The word "mare" whenever used in this act shall be construed to include "jenny." SEC. 2. In order to obtain the enrollment certificate hereinafter provided for, the owner of each stallion shall forward to the State Veterinary Board the stud book, certificate of registration, and any other document that may be necessary to define and describe such stallion, his breeding and ownership. The officers of the State Veterinary Board shall examine and pass upon the merits of such pedigree and shall use as their standard of action the stud books and signatures of the duly authorized officers of the various pedigree registration associations, societies or companies recognized by the State amination. form of, etc. Veterinary Board. When upon verification of the pedigree or Notice of excertificate of breeding, the State Veterinary Board shall determine that such stallion is pure-bred, the said board shall notify the owner of such stallion to this effect and shall proceed to examine such stallion at the owner's premises to determine the condition of soundness of such stallion. Any member of the State Veterinary Board, or its regularly appointed representative, shall at the time and place designated in said notice to said owner make an examination of such stallion and shall certify to the best of his knowledge and belief the physical condition of such stallion, specifying the nature and extent of unsoundness, if any, of such stallion, and shall immediately forward such certificate, which shall be in a form designated by the State Veterinary Board, to the said board. SEC. 4. The State Veterinary Board shall issue enrollment Certificate, certificates which shall be in a form designated by the said board. Such enrollment certificate shall have a distinctive number and be such as to show the true breeding and physical condition of the stallion enrolled. Enrollment certificates shall not be issued by the said board for any stallion which, upon verification of pedigree or certificate of breeding is determined by the State Veterinary Board to be other than purebred. The State Veterinary Board may refuse to issue an en- When may rerollment certificate for any stallion in which stallion the presence of any one of the following named diseases in a transmissible, hereditary or contagious form shall be shown so as to render such stallion unsuitable to improve the horse stock of the state: Cataract; amurosis (glass eye); periodic opthalmia (moon blindness); laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling); pulmonary emphysema (heaves, broken wind); chorea (St. Vitus' dance, crampiness, shivering, string halt); bone spavin; ring-bone; side bone; navicular disease; bog spavin, curb, with curby formation of hock; glanders; farcy; maladie du coit; urethral gleet; mange; melanosis; or any contagious or infectious disease. The own- Posting of cerer of any stallion to whom an enrollment certificate shall be issued shall post and keep affixed copies of such enrollment certificate in a conspicuous place both within and upon the outside of every building where such stallion is kept for public service. fuse to issue. tificate. fee. SEC. 5. A fee of five dollars shall be paid by the owner of Enrollment each stallion offered for enrollment to the State Veterinary Board at the time of the first application for a certificate of enrollment. The fee so paid shall be in full for the examination and enrollment of such pedigree, the physical examination of such stallion, and the issuance of a certificate of enrollment. Enrollment certificates shall expire December Expiration of thirty-first of the year immediately following the year in certificate. which issued. The owner of any stallion whose certificate of enrollment has expired may make application for a new certificate of enrollment by filing with the State Veterinary |