working places. He shall keep a careful watch over the ventilating apparatus and air ways, together with all of the stoppings, doors and other means of directing the air current. He shall examine the escape shaft, man-way, the traveling ways leading thereto from the main entries, or cause them to be examined by a competent person, once each day, and a written report of the conditions of such shaft, man-way and traveling ways shall be made and filed in the office at that mine, which shall be open for examination at all reasonable times to the representatives of the employes and such other persons entitled thereto. A copy of such report shall be sent each month to the mine inspector. If he finds the conditions of the escape shaft, man-way or traveling ways impassable or dangerous, he shall immediately upon the discovery of the defect, place such instructions at the defective place as may be reasonably necessary to apprise the employes of the danger.

Caution as to Property. Doors, Etc.

SEC. 39. No workman or other person shall knowingly injure a water-gauge, barometer, air-course, brattice, equipment or machinery, obstruct or throw open any air way, disturb any part of the machinery connected with the mine; open a door of a mine and neglect to close it, endanger the mine or those working therein; disobey any order given in pursuance of law, or do a wilful act whereby the life of persons working therein or the. security of the mine or the machinery connected therewith may be endangered; and it shall be unlawful for any workman or person to place any refuse material or any obstruction in any part of the air-course or any part of the breakthrough, entries or rooms other than as by this act provided.

Blasting in Mines.

SEC. 40. When the time for blasting arrives, blasting shall be in rotation, beginning at the innermost working place in each entry. Immediately upon lighting blast, miners must notify the succeeding miners by shouting the word “fire.”

Riding Loaded Cars.

SEC. 41. It shall be unlawful for any employe, except employes in charge of such trip, to ride on any loaded trip of

cars.

Intoxicants.

SEC. 42. No person shall go into, at, or around a mine, or the buildings, tracks or machinery connected therewith, while under the influence of intoxicants. No person shall use, carry or have in his possession, at, in, or around a

mine, or the buildings, tracks or machinery connected therewith, any intoxicants.

Shall Prop Roof, Etc.

SEC. 43. Each miner, or other person employed in the mine, shall securely prop the roof of the working place therein under his control, and shall obey any reasonable order, or orders, given by the superintendent or mine foreman relating to the security of the mine in the part thereof where he is at work. Such miner or other person, shall not be held to have violated the provisions of this clause if the owner, lessee or agent fails to supply the necessary props, caps and timbers as provided for in this act.

Shall not Waste Props, Etc.

SEC. 44. Each miner, or other person shall avoid waste of props, caps, timber or other material. When he has props, caps, timber or other material unsuited for his purpose, he shall not cover up or destroy same, but shall place it near the track where it can be readily seen, and it must immediately be removed by the operator upon request of the miner.

Intent to Defraud.

SEC. 45. No person shall erase or change a mark of reference or monument made in connection with measurements; change the checks or cars; wrongfully check a car, or do any act with intent to defraud, and operator shall place stamp mark at end of each measurement in narrow work.

Sanitary Conditions.

SEC. 46. For the purpose of observing the best sanitary conditions possible in the mines of this State, no employe therein shall use any portion of the mine excavations as a water closet that is not at least twenty-five feet from any air current.

Penalty.

SEC. 47. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 48. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved May 2, 1913.

Leave of absence, etc.

[No. 178.]

AN ACT to fix the leave of absence and furlough of officers and men in the police department of cities having a population of over two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. In cities having over two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, officers and men of the police department shall each be entitled to a leave of absence of one day of twenty-four hours off duty in every fourteen days, and a furlough of twenty days once in each year. Approved May 2, 1913.

Offal, etc., un

to animals,

[No. 179.]

AN ACT to regulate, prevent and punish the feeding of the flesh of old, decrepit, infirm, sick or diseased animals and unwholesome offal to animals or fowls, and provide a penalty for the violation thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. No person shall feed to animals or fowls the lawful to feed flesh of an animal which has become old, decrepit, infirm or sick, or which has died from such cause, or offal or flesh that is putrid or unwholesome.

etc.

Misdemeanor, penalty.

SEC. 2. Whoever shall do any of the acts or things prohibited by this act, or in any way violates any of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. This act is immediately necessary for the preservation of the public health.

Approved May 2, 1913.

[No. 180.]

AN ACT to amend sections one, two and fifteen of act number one hundred eleven of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine as amended, entitled "An act to protect fish and to regulate fishing in the waters of this State by providing closed seasons for certain kinds of fish, by prohibiting the catching of fish in certain specified ways, by prohibiting the catching of fish of certain sizes and in certain waters and for certain purposes, by prohibiting the catching and killing, in the lakes, rivers and streams of this State of more than a certain number of certain specified kinds of fish in any one day, and prohibiting the taking away and having in possession of more than a certain number of such fish at any point away therefrom, by prohibiting the obstruction of the free passage of fish, and by prohibiting the sale of certain kinds of fish; to protect persons engaged in fish culture, and to repeal inconsistent acts."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Sections one, two and fifteen of act number Sections one hundred eleven of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine as amended, are hereby amended to read as

follows:

SEC. 1. No person shall catch or take from any lake, river Closed season. or stream of this State, by any means whatever, any speckled trout, landlocked. salmon, grayling, California trout, commonly called rainbow trout, Loch Leven trout or steel head trout, from the fifteenth day of September to the first day of May following thereafter.

SEC. 2. No person shall purchase, buy or sell, or attempt Unlawful to to purchase, buy or sell, any of the kinds of fish nafned in buy, etc. the foregoing section at any season of the year, or have in possession any of the kinds of fish named in the foregoing section during the prohibited periods above named.

SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful for any person, under the Number may penalties provided in section fourteen of this act, to kill or take, etc. capture in any of the lakes, rivers or streams in this State, or any of their tributaries more than thirty-five fish of any of the kinds hereinbefore mentioned, in any one day, or to take with him therefrom, or to have in his possession at any point away therefrom, more than fifty fish of said kinds at any one time.

Approved May 2, 1913.

Sections amended.

Registration, application.

Description.

Application, filing, etc.

[No. 181.]

AN ACT to amend sections two, four, five, fifteen and eighteen of act number three hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act providing for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles operated upon the public highways of this State, and of the operators of such vehicles."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections two, four, five, fifteen and eighteen of act number three hundred eighteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act providing for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles operated upon the public highways of this State, and of the operators of such vehicles," are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. Sub. 1. Registration of motor vehicles. Every owner of a motor vehicle which shall be operated or driven upon the public highways of this State shall, for each motor vehicle owned, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, cause to be filed by mail or otherwise in the office of the Secretary of State a verified application for registration, on a blank to be furnished by the Secretary of State for that purpose containing:

(1) A brief description of the motor vehicle to be registered, including the name of the manufacturer, the style, number and diameter of cylinders, type and factory number of such vehicle, the character of the motor power and the amount of such motor power stated in figures of horse power, in accordance with the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers' standard rating, except electric and steam power motor vehicles, which shall be taken at the manufacuturer's rating;

(2) The name, residence and business address of the owner of such motor vehicle and the name of the county in which he resides.

Sub. 2. Registration book. Upon the receipt of an application for registration of a motor vehicle or vehicles as provided in this section and in section four of this act, the Secretary of State shall file such application in his office and register such motor vehicle or vehicles, with the name, residence and business address of the owner, manufacturer or dealer, as the case may be, together with the facts stated in such application, in a book or index to be kept for the purpose, under the distinctive number assigned to such motor vehicle by the Secretary of State, which book or index shall be open to inspection during reasonable business hours.