License fees, where credited. When possession, etc., lawful. Penalty for violation. tion. All moneys received from the sale of licenses as provided in this act shall be forwarded to the auditor general and shall be accredited to the game and fish protective fund and paid out of said fund as provided in act number eighty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five. SEC. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting the buying or having in possession at any time the fur, hides or pelts of animals mentioned in this act legally killed within or without the state and of the pelts of moose and deer legally killed within or without the state upon proof that the pelts were so taken and possessed. SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation by themselves or their agents or servants who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars nor more than one hundred dollars together with the costs of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and shall forfeit to the state all furs, hides and pelts illegally bought, sold or held. In cases in which a fine with costs is imposed, the court shall sentence the offender to be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs are paid, but for a period not exceeding the maximum jail penalty provided for this offense. Approved May 14, 1927. May investigate, etc., claim. [No. 186.] AN ACT to authorize the state administrative board to investigate the claim of Gaylord W. Rosebrook, and to award compensation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The state administrative board is hereby authorized to investigate the claim of Gaylord W. Rosebrook for the alleged loss of his right arm by coming in contact with the laundry machinery in the Michigan reformatory at Ionia, and if such claim is found to be true, to award such an amount as they see fit, not to exceed three thousand dollars, as full compensation therefor. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 187.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-five of act number two hundred seventy-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and for revising and amending their charters", being as amended, section three thousand three hundred twentyeight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number four hundred three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of act number two hundred Section seventy-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and for revising and amending their charters", being as amended, section three thousand three hundred twenty-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number four hundred three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: what to verified. SEC. 25. The initiatory petition herein referred to shall Petition, be addressed to and filed with the city clerk. Such petition state. shall state what body or organization, if any, or if no body or organization, then what person or persons are primarily interested in and responsible for the circulation of such petition or petitions and the securing of such amendment or amendments. Such petition shall be verified by the affidavit or affi- How davits of the person or persons who obtained the signatures and shall be signed by a number of qualified electors of the municipality equal to fifteen per centum of the total vote cast for the chief executive office or of the highest vote case for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government or where the commission or council is not selected in such manner as to permit the highest vote for any one to be ascertained, then of the highest vote cast for the highest elective officer whose vote can be ascertained at the last municipal election. Such verification shall state that the petitions were circulated at the request of and pursuant to the directions of the association, organization, person or persons desiring the said amendment and shall also state that such signatures were obtained by the persons so verifying said petition; that such signatures are the signatures of the persons purporting to sign the same and that each of them signed in his presence and that the person verifying such petition has good reason to believe and verily does believe that the signers obtained thereto are duly qualified electors of such municipality and are the identical persons their signatures purport to be. Any Perjury. person who shall wilfully affix another's signature, or subscribe and swear to a verification false in any material particular shall be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury; and any person who shall take the oath of another to such petition not knowing him to be the identical person he represents himself to be or knowing that the petition or petitions or any part thereof are false or fraudulent in any material particular, or shall falsely represent that the proposed amendment or amendments is or are proposed by parties other than the true sponsors, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be liable to the same punishment as provided for perjury. Within fifteen days from the date of the receipt of any such petition, the city clerk may check over names on such petition with the registration rolls of the municipality or in some other proper manner determine whether petitioners are duly qualified voters of the municipality whose charter is to be affected by such amendment. And if he shall believe that the number of duly qualified electors signing such petition equals or exceeds fifteen per centum of the total vote cast for the chief executive office or of the highest vote cast for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government or where the commission or council is not selected in such manner as to permit the highest vote for anyone to be ascertained, then of the highest vote cast for the highest elective officer whose vote can be ascertained, at the last preceding election, and in all other respects conforms to the provisions of this section, he shall certify to such facts and report the same to the city commission or council, as the case may be. If upon examination and investigation, it shall be found the petition contains spurious signatures, or false affidavits, or if he shall find that there are less than the required number of signatures, he shall report such fact to the city commission or council and no further action upon such petitions shall be had. Upon affirmative showing that the finding of such city clerk is erroneous, any registered elector of the city may sue out a writ of mandamus in the circuit court of the county where the city is located or obtain other appropriate legal relief. When such petitions shall contain the number of signatures equal to twenty per centum of the total vote cast for the chief executive office or of the highest vote cast for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government or where the commission or council is not selected in such manner as to permit the highest vote for anyone to be ascertained, then of the highest vote cast for the highest elective officer, whose vote can be ascertained, at the last preceding election, and when such petition shall request that the proposal petitioned for shall be submitted at a special election to be called for the purpose of submitting the same, it shall be the duty of the city clerk of such city within sixty days of the date of the filing of such petitions, to call such special election, the same to be held not less than ninety days nor more than one hundred days after the date of filing such petitions unless a primary or regular election shall occur or a special election shall have been or shall be called for other purposes to be held within one hundred days after the date of the filing of such petitions. In that event the proposal shall be submitted at such primary, regular or special election and no special election shall be so called. Other proposals, whether initiated by a fifteen per centum petition as hereinbefore pro: vided or proposed by the legislative body within the times respectively within this act provided, may be submitted at such special election. No proposal submitted to the electors by the initiative and receiving an affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon shall be held unconstitutional, invalid or void on account of the insufficiency of the petition by which submission of the same was procured: Provided, That each Proviso. signer of such initiatory petition shall inscribe upon such petition, immediately after his signature, the date of signing, his street address, and if known, his ward and precinct. Any signatures obtained more than one year before the filing of such petition with the city clerk shall not be counted: vided, That in cities having a population of two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants and upwards that a petition containing a number of signatures equal to ten per centum of the votes cast as herein before provided shall be sufficient to initiate such proposal for submission at any regular election. Approved May 16, 1927. Pro- Proviso. [No. 188.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the commissioner of pardons and paroles 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 SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts fund for the commissioner of pardons and paroles for the fiscal purposes. year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-eight, the sum of thirty-four thousand eight hundred twenty-five dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, the sum of thirty-four thousand three hundred twenty-five dollars, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows: Personal service Supplies, materials and con tractual service. Equipment Totals For fiscal year 1928 $25,150.00 For fiscal year 1929 $25,850.00 How paid out. Fees, etc. 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 of the state treasury at such times and in such manner as is or may be provided by law. SEC. 3. All fees or other moneys received by said commissioner of pardons and paroles 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 such purposes as may be provided by law. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 14, 1927. Amounts and purposes. [No. 189.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the department of insurance, 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: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund for the department of insurance for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-eight, the sum of one hundred twelve thousand one hundred twenty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, the sum of one hundred twelve thousand one hundred twenty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows: How paid out. 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 of the state treasury at such times and in such manner as is or may be provided by law. |