of word.

SEC. 4. No person shall use in any way, in connection "Butter", etc., or association with the sale or exposure for sale or adver- unlawful use tisement of any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, the word "butter," "creamery," or "dairy," or the name or representation of any breed of dairy cattle, or any combination of such word or words and representation, or any other words or symbols or combination thereof commonly used in the sale of butter.

what deemed.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of this act the word "butter" "Butter", shall be understood to mean the food product usually known as butter, and which is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter.

rine, what

SEC. 6. For the purpose of this act certain manufactured Oleomargasubstances, certain extracts and certain mixtures and com- designated as. pounds, including such mixtures and compounds with butter, shall be known and designated as "oleomargarine," namely: All substances heretofore known as oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; all lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; all lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, intestinal fat, and offal fat, made in imitation or semblance of butter, or when so made, calculated or intended to be sold or used as butter or for butter.

SEC. 7. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Penalty for act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- violation. viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail or State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, for not less than six months nor more than three years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 8. Act number one hundred forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, is hereby repealed. Approved April 16, 1913.

Food

what deemed

[No. 64.]

AN ACT to define and fix standards of purity for foods, beverages, condiments, confectionery and drugs in this State in prosecutions arising under the food, beverage and drug laws of the State of Michigan.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. In all prosecutions arising under the food and products, etc drug laws of this State for the manufacture or sale of an legal standards adulterated, misbranded or otherwise unlawful article of of purity. food, drink, condiment or drug, the latest standards of purity for food products, established by the United States secretary of agriculture, shall be accepted as the legal standards, except in cases where other standards are specifically prescribed by the laws of this State.

Approved April 16, 1913.

Section amended.

Deputy state treasurer.

Salary.

[No. 65.]

AN ACT to amend section nine of chapter twelve of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relating to certain State officers, the same being compiler's section seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter twelve of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relating to certain State officers, the same being compiler's section seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 9. The State Treasurer may appoint a deputy, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and may revoke such appointment at pleasure; and such deputy may execute the duties of the office during the sickness or absence of the State Treasurer, and shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per year, payable semi-monthly from the general fund in the State treasury, in the same manner that the salaries of other State officers are paid.

Approved April 16, 1913.

[No. 66.]

AN ACT to amend sections two, three, four and five and to add two new sections to be numbered six and seven to act number one hundred seventy-nine of the Public Acts of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to authorize the incorporation of the Lutheran Bund of the State of Michigan," being sections eight thousand one hundred thirty-five, eight thousand one hundred thirty-six, eight thousand one hundred thirty-seven, eight thousand one hundred thirty-eight and eight thousand one hundred thirty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended

SECTION 1. Sections two, three, four and five of act num- Sections ber one hundred seventy-nine of the Public Acts of eighteen and added. hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to authorize the incorporation of the Lutheran Bund of the State of Michigan," being sections eight thousand one hundred thirty-five, eight thousand one hundred thirty-six, eight thousand one hundred thirty-seven, eight thousand one hundred thirty-eight and eight thousand one hundred thirty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended, and two new sections to be numbered six and seven are hereby added to said act, the said amended sections and added sections to read as follows:

association,

SEC. 2. Any ten or more persons, residents of this State, Articles of being members of said Lutheran Bund of the State of Michi- who may exegan, including the president or vice president, secretary and cute. treasurer of said bund, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of what to set association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and shall set forth:

First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance and their places of residence;

Second, The corporate name by which such bund or association shall be known in the law;

Third, The names of the societies or associations associated together and at the time composing said bund;

Fourth, The object and purpose of such bund or association which shall be to promote the general welfare of the members of the bund, and to provide such visitation of the sick and afflicted members of the bund, and to provide such sick, death and funeral benefits for the members of the bund and their families, as may be from time to time provided by the constitution and by-laws of the bund;

forth.

Where filed, etc.

Proviso.

Membership.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Reserve fund.

Fifth, The period for which such bund is incorporated, which shall not exceed thirty years;

Sixth, The time and place where the next convention of such bund shall be held.

SEC. 3. Said articles of association, together with a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said bund and of the resolution of said bund authorizing the incorporation thereof, said copies being duly certified by the president and secretary of said bund, shall be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Michigan. Thereupon the persons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and fellow members composing said bund, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, capable of taking, holding and disposing of real and personal property, of suing and being sued, of having a common seal which may be altered or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real estate shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars, which shall be subject to general taxation.

SEC. 4. The bund shall have power to receive into membership societies, either incorporated or unincorporated, existing either within or without the State of Michigan, and individuals residing either within or without the State of Michigan; and the bund shall have power to receive into membership individuals who are not affiliated with any local society: Provided, however, That only societies shall participate in the selection of delegates to the convention and only delegates shall vote for officers and trustees. All members of each local society, which is a member of the bund, shall thereby ipso facto be members of the bund: Provided, Such members originally possess and continue to possess the necessary qualifications. Such corporation shall have full power to change its constitution and by-laws, and make, establish and change rules and regulations, none of which shall be repugnant to any law of this State, for regulating and governing the affairs and business of said corporation, and for the admission and expulsion of members and societies composing the same, and for the organization and admission of new or additional societies to membership in said bund, and to designate, elect or appoint from among the members of the societies forming and belonging to such corporation such officers, with such duties as the constitution and bylaws of such corporation may from time to time prescribe. The constitution and by-laws of said corporation may be amended from time to time in such manner as may be provided by such corporation.

SEC. 5. The bund shall have power to create a reserve fund for the purpose of providing against unforeseen contingencies and calamities, and to loan only to its own members upon real estate security or invest only in bonds issued by the State of Michigan or any political division or munici

pality thereof, such portions of said reserve fund as are not immediately required: Provided, however, The creation and Proviso. amount of said reserve fund and directions regarding the investment of the same shall be under the exclusive control of the convention of delegates, although the convention of delegates may delegate under general directions the details of investment to such officers as they deem proper.

to control.

SEC. 6. The affairs of such corporation shall be controlled Affairs, who by a convention of delegates who shall be appointed or elected by the respective societies forming such corporation in such manner as the constitution and by-laws of such corporation shall provide, and the number of delegates which each society is entitled to send to such conventions, and the time and place of meeting of such conventions shall be as provided by the constitution and by-laws of said corporation. Subject to the action of such convention of delegates, the management of the affairs of said corporation may be placed in the control of such officers, trustees or other persons as may be provided by the constitution and by-laws of said corporation.

of articles.

SEC. 7. The articles of association may be amended by Amendment the vote of two-thirds of all the delegates present and voting at any convention of delegates; but the amendment shall only become effective when a copy thereof duly certified under the seal of the bund by the president and secretary to be a true copy of the amendment passed by the vote aforesaid, shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Michigan. Copies of all amendments of the constitution Where filed. and by-laws, duly certified under the seal of the bund by the president and secretary to have been made pursuant to law, shall be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Michigan before such amendments shall become effective. A copy of such articles of association and the amendments thereof, and a copy of the constitution and by-laws and resolution filed therewith, and all amendments of the constitution and by-laws, when duly certified to according to law under the seal of this State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation or bund, and of the contents and legal effect of said original instruments.

Approved April 16, 1913.