meet. for malfeasance in office and incompetency, or for unprofessional conduct. The governor shall have authority to fill any vacancy, caused by the removal of any member of the board, by his resignation or death, from a list of all licensed chiropodists who have practiced not less than two years in the state of Michigan. The board of registration in chiropody shall, When to within two weeks after their appointment, meet at the state capitol at Lansing and shall then elect a president from their own members and a secretary. The secretary shall give to the treasurer of the state of Michigan a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor, for the faithful discharge of his duties. The board shall hold one regular meeting in each year, beginning with the year nineteen hundred twenty-seven, on the second Tuesday of June, and such additional meetings not exceeding three each year at such times and places as it may determine. where All moneys received by said board shall be paid to the Moneys, state treasurer monthly, and shall be credited to the chirop- credited. odist fund of the state, and a receipt for the same shall be filed by the secretary of the said board in the office of the auditor general. The incidental and traveling expenses of said board, and such salary to the secretary as said board. may fix, shall be paid from such fund only. The members of said board, except the secretary, shall receive no compensation for their services except necessary traveling and hotel expenses in attending meetings of the said board, and in no case shall any more be paid them than was actually expended. Such incidental and traveling expenses shall be approved by said board and sent to the auditor general of the state of Michigan, who shall issue his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amounts due, as in case of other bills and accounts under the provisions of law: Provided, That the amount so Proviso. paid shall not exceed the amount received by the treasurer of the state from said board in advance, as herein specified; and as much of said receipts as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the compensation and expenses of said board as aforesaid. All printing, postage and other contingent expenses necessarily incurred by the secretary shall be approved by the board and shall be sent to the auditor general of the state who shall issue his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amounts due, as in case of other bills and accounts under the provisions of law. All funds accruing under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the state treasurer as aforesaid and shall be carried on the books of the state treasurer and known as the chiropodist fund. Any balance remaining at the end of the fiscal year, after the payment of all necessary expenses, shall become a part of the general fund of the state of Michigan. SEC. 4. In addition to the initial license fee herein pro- Renewal vided, each licensed chiropodist shall pay an annual renewal fee. license fee of three dollars to the secretary of the board of Unlawful practice deemed felony. To whom not applicable. Unlawful to registration in chiropody, said annual license fee to be paid on or before the first day of June of each year. In the event that said sum of three dollars is not paid within three months after the first day of June of each year, said license shall become automatically suspended, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the board to notify such delinquent chiropodist of the suspension of his license. Any such chiropodist whose license shall have thus been suspended shall be entitled to a new license only upon the payment of a fee of fifty dollars to the secretary of the board, in addition to the annual license fee hereinbefore provided. Said sums of money so collected shall be paid over to the state treasurer in the chiropodist fund, to be expended as herein provided. It shall be the duty of each chiropodist licensed under this act to display his license in a conspicuous place in the office where he shall practice chiropody. SEC. 5. Any person who shall practice chiropody in this state, or who shall advertise in any form or hold himself out to the public as a chiropodist, and who is not the lawful possessor of a certificate of qualification or license issued under and pursuant to the provisions of this act, or without first complying with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, except as provided in subdivision five of section two of this act, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment of not more than two years in the state penitentiary, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for each offense. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the counties of this state to prosecute violations of the provisions of this act. SEC. 6. This act shall not apply to the commissioned surgeons of the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service in the actual performance of their official duties, nor to physicians and surgeons nor to osteopathic physicians and surgeons regularly licensed under the laws of the state of Michigan, nor to a visiting chiropodist called into consultation in this state from another state where he is duly qualified under the laws of that state to practice chiropody. SEC. 7. On and after the passage of this act it shall be incorporate. unlawful for any person or persons to incorporate under the laws of this state for the purpose of practicing chiropody within this state, and it shall be unlawful for any foreign corporation organized for such purpose to attempt to practice chiropody within this state: Provided, however, That this section shall not prohibit chiropodists associating themselves together in the same suite of offices and practicing chiropody. Proviso. What prima facie evidence of practice. SEC. 8. If any person shall use the name or title "Chiropodist" or "M. Cp." or "D.S.C." or the words "Foot Specialist," "Foot Correctionist," or words which would designate him as a chiropodist or imply that he was or is qualified to practice chiropody under the provisions of this act, it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of practicing chiropody within the meaning of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 26, 1927. [No. 78.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the department of public welfare for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, for maintenance and operation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: and pur SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts fund for the department of public welfare for the fiscal year poses. ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-eight, the sum of sixty-four thousand three hundred fifty dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twentynine, the sum of sixty-five thousand three hundred fifty dollars, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows: Each of said amounts shall be used solely for the specific purposes herein stated, subject to the general supervisory control of the state administrative board. SEC. 2. The amounts hereby appropriated shall be paid out How paid of the state treasury at such times and in such manner as is out. or may be provided by law. SEC. 3. All fees or other moneys received by said depart Fees, etc. ment of public welfare shall be forwarded to the state treasurer each month and shall be by said treasurer deposited in the state treasury to be disbursed in such manner and for This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Title and sections amended. Section added. Single school districts. When district divided. [No. 79.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections one, three, five, seven, eight, eleven, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen of act number one hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," and to add thereto a new section to stand as section twenty-four. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections one, three, five, seven, eight, eleven, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen of act number one hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," are hereby amended, and a new section is added thereto to stand as section twenty-four, said amended title, sections, and added section to read as follows: TITLE An Act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred twenty-five thousand and less than five hundred thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; to prescribe the powers and duties of such board; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts, general or special, in any wise contravening the provisions of this act. SEC. 1. Each city having a population of more than one hundred twenty-five thousand and less than five hundred thousand inhabitants, shall constitute and be one school district and be known as the "School District of the City of If, at the time this act takes effect in any city, there shall be in existence within the limits of the city more than one school district or parts of more than one school district, then, from the taking effect of this act in that city, the school districts, or parts of districts, within the limits of the city shall constitute and be the "School District of the City of.... ..," and shall be under the jurisdiction of the board of education herein provided for. SEC. 3. If, by reason of the taking effect of this act in any city, a school district or school districts shall be divided, the school property within the city except cash and taxes levied but uncollected shall vest in and be the property of the city district. The cash and taxes levied and uncollected and district indebtedness shall be divided between the former school districts and the city district in proportion as the relative values of the taxable property left without and brought within the city district by this act bear to the aggregated value of the taxable property in the entire districts affected, before the division, as determined by the last preceding assessment roll. Each district affected hereby shall be liable for and shall pay its proportion of such indebtedness: Provided, That Proviso, indebtedwhen a district has been divided which shall have outstand- ness. ing bonds for school purposes. and the property or buildings which constitute the avails of such bonds are located wholly or partially in one of the territorial divisions, the city district. and the remainder of the divided district shall, if possible. agree upon an equitable division of the obligation for the payment of such indebtedness based on the beneficial use of such property and the needs of the district and the particular circumstances of same. In the event the city district and the Arbitration. remainder of the divided district are unable to agree, the matter shall be submitted to a board of arbitration consisting of three circuit judges of the county, or if there be not three circuit judges in such county, or if one be unable to act, then the two remaining circuit judges shall appoint a third arbitrator. The arbitrators shall by order fix a day for hearing, Hearing. and give notice of such hearing as provided in such order; they will make such rules for the proceedings as they may deem proper, and shall make a final order determining the just rights of the parties interested and file the same with the county clerk. Taxes shall be levied and collected in the manner therein provided and such determination shall be final. SEC. 5. This act shall be in force in all cities having the where act · requisite population according to the United States census of nineteen hundred twenty at the date of the taking effect of this act, and shall be in force in all cities thereafter attaining the requisite population, as soon as the superintendent of public instruction, upon request of the board of education, having first ascertained by United States census or by official estimate of the United States census bureau that the city has the requisite population shall so declare. The first elec- First tion of members of the board of education hereunder shall occur at the first city election held after the taking effect of this act in any city. The first board shall meet and organize on the first Monday in May following such election. Until such first Monday in May, the laws theretofore governing the schools shall continue in force and shall govern the administration of the schools of such city. effective. election. SEC. 7. The board of education shall consist of nine mem- Board of bers elected from the city at large. The term of office shall education, membership, commence on the first Monday of May in each year and con- etc. tinue until a successor is elected and qualified. The members |