cases. jurors. have been provided, such city may, by charter or ordinance, This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 33.] AN ACT to amend sections three and four-a of act number eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, as amended by act number two hundred thirty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, entitled "An act prescribing the fees, taxes and charges to be paid to the state by corporations doing or seeking to do business in this state; prescribing the method and basis of computing such fees, taxes and charges; requiring certain annual reports to be filed by corporations; providing for the disposition of the moneys received under this act and prescribing penalties for non-compliance with the provisions thereof." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections three and four-a of act number eighty- Sections five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, as amended by act number two hundred thirty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, entitled "An act prescribing the fees, taxes and charges to be paid to the state by corporations doing or seeking to do business in this state; prescribing the method and basis of computing such fees, taxes Organization fee. Computation. and charges; requiring certain annual reports to be filed by corporations; providing for the disposition of the moneys received under this act and prescribing penalties for non-compliance with the provisions thereof," are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. Every domestic corporation hereafter organized for profit, and every foreign corporation for profit, hereafter applying for admission to do business within this state, shall at the time of filing its articles or applying for admission, as the case may be, pay to the secretary of state, as an organization fee and for the privilege of exercising its franchises within this state, a sum equal to one-half mill upon the dollar for each dollar of the authorized capital stock of such corporation; and each corporation heretofore, or hereafter incorporated under the laws of or admitted to do business in this state, shall pay a proportionate fee upon each and any increase in its authorized capital stock made subsequent to the passage of this act: Provided, That in case of a foreign corporation, such fee shall be computed upon that portion of its authorized capital stock represented by the portion of its property owned and used in Michigan: And provided further, That in no case either as to a domestic or a foreign corporation, shall the organization fee be less than twenty-five dollars: And provided further, That the rate of fees herein building and provided for, when applied to corporations organized under act Proviso. Further proviso, minimum. Further proviso, loan asso ciations. Privilege fee. number fifty of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyseven, as amended, and generally known as "building and loan associations," shall be one-tenth mill. The term "corporation" as used in this act shall be deemed to include partnership associations, limited, whether domestic or foreign, all joint stock associations having any of the powers of corporations, and such common law trusts or trusts created by statute of this or any other state or country exercising common law powers in the nature of corporations, in addition to such other corporations as are referred to in this act. SEC. 4-a. Every building and loan association organized or doing business under the laws of this state shall at the time of filing its annual report as required by section seven hereof, for the privilege of exercising its franchise and of transacting its business within this state, pay to the secretary of state an annual fee of one-fourth mill upon each dollar of its paid in capital and legal reserve. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 34.] AN ACT to provide for compensation for damage to property caused by bears. The People of the State of Michigan enact: to whom SECTION 1. Whenever any person, partnership or corpo- Complaint, ration sustains any loss or damage to his property by bears, made. such person, partnership or corporation, or his agent may complain to any justice of the peace of the township or city within which the damage occurred. Such complaint shall be in writing signed by the person making it and shall state when, where and how such damage was done. Such justice of the peace Duty of Justice. shall at once examine the place where the alleged damage was sustained and property injured or killed, if practicable. He shall also examine under oath or affirmation any witness called before him. After making diligent inquiry in regard to such claim, such justice shall determine whether any damage has been sustained and the amount thereof. If there be no qualified justice of the peace in the township or city, any quali fied justice of the peace in an adjoining township shall have power to act; but no justice of the peace who is related to the person making the complaint, or financially interested in any of the property damaged, shall be qualified to act on such complaint. damage. SEC. 2. Upon making the examination required in the pre- To certify ceding section, if the justice of the peace shall determine that amount of any damage has been sustained by the complainant, he shall, upon payment to him of his costs up to that time by the complainant, certify to the amount of damage caused. warden to whom SEC. 3. Upon the filing of the complaint the justice of the Game peace shall notify the game warden of that district thereof, notified. by mail. If practicable the game warden shall examine the property alleged to be damaged. As soon as possible after the justice of the peace certified to his finding, allowing a claim, said game warden shall pass upon such findings, both as to whether the damage was caused by bears and the amount awarded. The findings of the justice of the peace, together Findings, with the recommendation of said game warden, shall be sent sent. to the director of conservation. If the warden recommends the disallowance of a claim allowed by the justice of the peace, or the allowance of a different amount, he shall state his reasons therefor. The director of conservation shall thereupon pass upon the claim and shall certify to the auditor general the amount he finds to be due on such claim, and the auditor general shall draw his warrant, in favor of said claimant, on the state treasurer against the general funds of the state not otherwise appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. Who deemed disorderly persons. Penalty. Second offense; penalty. [No. 35.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number two hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act relative to disorderly persons, and to repeal chapter fifty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof," being sections seven thousand seven hundred seventy-four and seven thousand seven hundred seventy-five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, and to repeal sections three, four, six and seven of said act, being sections seven thousand seven hundred seventy-six, seven thousand seven hundred seventy-seven, seven thousand seven hundred seventy-nine and seven thousand seven hundred eighty of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, and to repeal act number four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, being sections fifteen thousand five hundred thirty, fifteen thousand five hundred thirty-one, and fifteen thousand five hundred thirty-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, and to repeal act number three hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one and two of act number two hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightynine, entitled "An act relative to disorderly persons, and to repeal chapter fifty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof," being sections seven thousand seven hundred seventy-four and seven thousand seven hundred seventy-five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. All persons who being of sufficient ability refuse or neglect to support their families; all common prostitutes; all persons who shall be drunk or intoxicated or engaged in any indecent or obscene conduct in any public place; all vagrants; all persons found begging in a public place; all persons found loitering in a house of ill-fame or prostitution, or place where prostitution or lewdness is practiced, encouraged or allowed; all persons who shall be found jostling and roughly crowding people unnecessarily in a public place, shall be deemed disorderly persons. Any person complained of as being a disorderly person and who shall be convicted or who shall plead guilty, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail or in the Detroit house of correction not exceeding ninety days. Any person who shall be convicted a second time of being a disorderly person, the offense being charged as second conviction; offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail or in the Detroit house of correction not less than thirty days nor more than three months, or by such imprisonment and by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution; and for a third and all subsequent convictions, Subsequent the offense being charged as a third or subsequent conviction, penalty. the punishment shall be by imprisonment in the Detroit house of correction, in the state house of correction and reformatory at Ionia or in the state house of correction and branch of the state prison in the upper peninsula at Marquette, not less than six months nor more than two years, or by such imprisonment and by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. and acts SEC. 2. Sections three, four, six and seven of act number Sections two hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred repealed. eighty-nine, being sections seven thousand seven hundred seventy-six, seven thousand seven hundred seventy-seven, seven thousand seven hundred seventy-nine and seven thousand seven hundred eighty of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, and act number four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, being sections fifteen thousand five hundred thirty, fifteen thousand five hundred thirty-one and fifteen thousand five hundred thirty-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, and act number three hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby repealed: Provided, That any proceedings pend- Proviso. ing under any of the acts herein repealed shall not be affected hereby but shall be concluded in accordance with the law of such repealed sections. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 36.] AN ACT to define and punish the crime of incest, and to repeal section fifteen of chapter one hundred fifty-eight of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, being section fifteen thousand four hundred seventy-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person being within the degree of con- Incest. sanguinity with another within which marriages are prohibited or declared by law to be incestuous and void, who shall marry such other person, or shall commit adultery or fornication with such other person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years. |