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Salary of judge

SEC. 6. The judge of said superior court shall receive from of superior court. the treasury of the State of Michigan the same annual salary as may be payable to circuit judges, and payable quarterly; he shall also receive from the treasury of the city of Grand Rapids from and after May one, nineteen hundred six, such additional salary as shall be sufficient, with the sum so received from the State, to make the salary of said judge three thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid monthly by the city treasurer upon a salary voucher made therefor by the said judge and to such treasurer delivered.

When paid.

Approved June 7, 1905.

Channel to be

river.

[No. 178.]

AN ACT to provide for the protection of fish in the Saginaw river and its tributaries, and to repeal act number one hundred eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen. hundred one and act number four hundred forty-nine of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That at all times hereafter, in order to permit kept in Saginaw the passage of fish up and down the Saginaw river, there shall be kept and maintained in the Saginaw river, free from any pound, trap, stake, gill or set nets or seines, or like device of any kind for taking fish, a channel, one-third of the full width of the river at low water mark and extending from the mouth of said Saginaw river, in the county of Bay, to the headwaters thereof, said channel to be thread or middle line of the deepest water in the main channel of said river: Provided, That no nets shall extend more than one-third of the whole width of the stream, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to set, place or use any pound, trap, stake, gill or set net or seine, or any like device of any kind for taking or catching fish in that portion of the Saginaw river in this section described.

Proviso as to taking fish, etc.

Unlawful to catch

and line.

SEC. 2. No person shall lay, set or stake, or attempt to lay, except with hook set or stake any nets for the purpose of catching fish, nor fish or attempt to fish with any device other than hook and line in the Saginaw river and its tributaries from the fifteenth day of April to the first day of November in each year and then only in the manner prescribed by this act.

Unlawful to place nets, etc.

SEC. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to set, place or use any pound, trap, stake, gill or set nets or seines of any kind, for taking fish in any of the tributaries of

the Saginaw river: Provided, That suckers, perch, bull heads, Proviso as to red sides and carp may be taken with hand dip nets, or pound suckers, etc. nets with mesh not less than three inches as manufactured,

in any of the tributaries of the Saginaw river.

fish.

SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful to use any drive or trammel Unlawful to use for the purpose of taking or catching fish in the waters of the drive or trammel. Saginaw river or its tributaries. That it shall not be lawful Unlawful to take for any person or persons to take or catch with any species of or ship certain net whatever and retain for sale or use or ship or attempt to ship for use or sale any black, green or small mouthed bass or sell or offer for sale or make use of any perch of a less length than eight inches, or any pike, pickerel or cat fish or [of] a less weight than one pound, and it shall be the duty of Replace underany person who shall take any perch, pike, pickerel or cat fish weight and underof a less weight or length than herein prescribed or any black, green or small mouthed bass to replace the same alive and without injury in the waters from which the same were taken at liberty.

size fish in water.

sorted at nets;

at liberty.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons Fish to be to have any fish of less length than above described in any unlawful fish set box, crib, dummies or any device for holding fish or any black, green or small mouthed bass. All fish must be sorted at nets and unlawful fish set at liberty at once without any injury to any of aforesaid unlawful fish.

SEC. 6. The right to fish in the tributaries of the Saginaw Where may fish. river extends only to the mouth of Bad river.

what deemed.

SEC. 7. Any person who shall be found guilty of a violation Misdemeanor, of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be pun- Penalty. ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default thereof shall be confined in the county jail, but such confinement shall not exceed sixty days.

SEC. 8. Act number one hundred eighty-five of the public Acts repealed. acts of nineteen hundred one and act number four hundred forty-nine of the local acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, and all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved June 7, 1905.

Section amended.

Salary in 25th circuit.

[No. 179.]

AN ACT to amend section thirty-eight of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled, "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," the same being section four hundred of the Compiled Laws of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section thirty-eight of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled, "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," the same being section four hundred of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 38. In the twenty-fifth circuit the stenographer shall
be paid an annual salary of three thousand dollars.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved June 7, 1905.

Lawful to take

[No. 180.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred ninety-eight, of the session laws of eighteen hundred fiftynine, entitled "An act to prevent fishing with seines and every kind of nets in certain counties in the State of Michigan.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful hereafter to fish with minnows with net. seines for the purpose of catching minnows for bait only, namely, chubs, shiners, suckers, dace and stonerollers, in any of the waters in the counties of Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Ottawa and Calhoun.

Repealing clause.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved June 7, 1905.

[No. 181.]

AN ACT relative to the nomination of party candidates for public office, and delegates to political conventions, in certain cases, to regulate and protect primary elections, and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions hereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

CHAPTER I.

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OF DIRECT NOMINATIONS.

shall be nominated

SECTION 1. In any city, county, legislative district or When candidates congressional district in this State, whenever an election shall by direct vote. be held pursuant to the provisions of this act, at which election a majority of the qualified voters of any political party voting thereat shall vote in favor of the direct nomination of the candidates of such party in such city, county or district, thereafter the nomination of all candidates of said party for election at the November election to any elective office in such city, county or district, as the case may be, and in the case of any such city the nomination of all candidates of said party for election to any elective office in such city at the next ensuing city election, shall be made. by direct vote of the qualified voters of such political party in such city, county or district, as hereinafter provided, and such method of nomination of the candidates of said party for said offices shall prevail in such city, county or district, until a majority of the qualified electors of such political party voting on said proposition at an election held pursuant to law, shall vote against said proposition when re-submitted to them under the terms of this act. No person shall vote Voter must at such primary unless he shall have been enrolled as hereinafter provided as a member of said political party. Said Proposition may proposition may be re-submitted and decided by a majority of the qualified voters of any political party voting thereon in any such city, county or district, in the same manner, at the primary election held in such city, county or district on the second Tuesday of June preceding any general November election as hereinafter mentioned. The provisions herein made for the submission of the proposition in the first instance shall apply to the re-submission of the said proposition herein provided for. Such primary election, when authorized When primary as above, for the nomination by direct vote of the candidates to be held. of any such party, shall be held in the several election precincts of such county or district, as the case may be, on the first Tuesday in September preceding any November elec

be enrolled.

be re-submitted.

In case of cities. tion. In the case of any city, said primary election for the nomination of city offices, when authorized as above, shall be held on the second Tuesday preceding the day on which the officers of said city are to be elected.

Certain words, how construed.

Proviso.

Notice of primary, who to give, etc.

Primary elections, how conducted.

Expenses, how defrayed.

SEC. 2. The words "primary" and "primary election" shall be construed to mean an election as herein provided for, to decide by ballot who shall be the nominees of any or all political parties for the next ensuing November election, or for any city election, and delegates to conventions. The word "election" shall be construed to mean a general or local election as distinguished from a primary election: Provided, That nothing in this act shall apply to the nomination of any circuit or supreme judge.

SEC. 3. All officers required by law to give notice of registration shall also give notice, when necessary, that a primary election will be held, and shall state the date, the place where it will be held and the time the polls shall be open, and the purposes for which such primary will be held.

SEC. 4. Primary elections shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be conducted and regulated as near as may be in every particular, as prescribed by law for the regulation and conduct of general elections. All officers required by law to perform any duty, or to provide places, ballot boxes, and equipment and supplies for general elections, are likewise to do and provide for primary elections with the like power and compensation. All expenses of primaries shall be defrayed from the same fund from which are defrayed like expenses of election.

CHAPTER II.

When taken.

OF PARTY ENROLLMENT.

SECTION 1. A party enrollment shall be taken in each election district of this State of the voters in the respective political parties in the following described manner: At the election held on the first Monday of April, nineteen hundred six, and on the first Monday of April in every second year thereafter, in each election district of this State, the board of election inspectors shall make an enrollment of the names of all persons voting at said election who apply for enrollment as members of any political party. Notice of such enrollment shall be included in the notice of such election. Such enrollment shall be made in a separate, suitable book, in which the names shall be enrolled in alphabetical order, Secretary of State such book to be furnished by the Secretary of State to the county clerk and by him delivered to said board at the same time and in the same manner as is now provided by law for

Notice of.

Manner of enrollment.

to furnish book.

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