to contain.

SEC. 4. Whenever a person shall be convicted of crime and Duty of clerk sentenced to imprisonment pursuant to the provisions of this act, the clerk of the court shall make and forward to the warden or superintendent of the institution to which the convict is sentenced, and also to the Governor, a record contain- What record ing a copy of the information or complaint, the sentence pronounced by the court, the name and residence of the judge presiding at the trial, prosecuting attorney and sheriff, and the names and postoffice addresses of the jurors and the witnesses sworn on the trial, together with a statement of any fact or facts which the presiding judge may deem important or necessary for a full comprehension of the case, and a reference to the statute under which the sentence was imposed. One copy of the said record shall be delivered to the When record warden or superintendent at the time the prisoner is received forwarded. into the institution, and one copy shall be forwarded to the Governor within ten days thereafter. In each case in which Compensation. he shall perform the duties required by this act, the clerk of the court shall be entitled to such compensation as shall be certified to be just by the presiding judge at the trial not to exceed three dollars for any one case, which shall be paid by the county in which the trial is had as a part of the expenses of such trial.

whom conferred.

SEC. 5. Authority to grant parole under the provisions of Authority to this act is hereby conferred exclusively upon the Governor in grant parole, upon all cases of murder, actual forcible rape, for offenses by public officers in violation of their duties as such officers, and to all persons convicted and serving sentence for conspiracy to defraud public municipalities, or the bribing or attempt to bribe of public officers. In all other cases such authority is hereby conferred upon the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons. The Governor and the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons acting jointly, shall have authority to adopt such rules as may, by them, be deemed wise or necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this act, and to amend. such rules at pleasure: Provided, Prisoners, under the Proviso. provisions of this act, shall be eligible to parole only after the expiration of their minimum term of imprisonment, and prisoners who have been twice previously convicted of a felony shall not be eligible to parole.

where made,

SEC. 6. Applications shall be made to the Governor or to Applications, the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons upon uniform etc. blanks prescribed by the Governor and the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons acting jointly and supplied by the secretary of the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons to the wardens or superintendents of the penal institutions named

in section one of this act. It shall be the duty of the warden Duty of warden. or superintendent, when requested by a prisoner, whose mini

mum term of imprisonment has expired and is eligible to a parole, to furnish such prisoner with a blank application for parole. The application shall be filled out and delivered to Application, the warden or superintendent who shall immediately forward how delivered.

Governor and Board to investigate.

Convict entitled to good time.

Arrangements

made for convict before parole.

the same to the Governor or to the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, with his recommendation endorsed thereon. Upon receipt of such application and recommendation, the Governor or the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons shall make such investigation in the matter as they may deem advisable and necessary and may, in their discretion, grant such application and issue a parole or permit to such applicant to go at large without the enclosure of the prison. The convict so paroled, while at large, by virtue of such parole, shall be deemed to be still serving the sentence imposed upon him, and shall be entitled to good time the same as if confined in prison.

SEC. 7. No convict shall be released on parole until the Governor or Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons shall have satisfactory evidence that arrangements have been made for such honorable and useful employment of the prisoner as he is capable of performing, and some responsible person (not a relative) shall agree to act as his "first friend and adviser" who shall execute an agreement to employ the prisoner, or use his best efforts to secure suitable employment for him. Said "first friend and adviser" may, in the discretion of the to give security. Governor or the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, be required to furnish a bond, or other satisfactory security to the Governor for the faithful performance of his obligation as such "first friend and adviser." All moneys collected upon such bond or security shall be turned over to the State Treasurer and credited by him to the general fund of the State.

"First friend"

Warden may retake convict at any time.

SEC. 8. Every such convict, while on parole, shall remain in the legal custody and under the control of the warden or superintendent of the prison from which he is paroled and shall be subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of said prison for any reason that may be satisfactory to the warden or superintendent, and full power to retake and return any such paroled convict to the prison from which he was allowed to go at large is hereby expressly conferred upon the warden or superintendent of such prison, whose written order shall be a sufficient warrant authorizing all officers named therein to return such paroled convict to actual custody in the prison from which he was permitted to go at Duty of warden. large. When the warden or superintendent shall return to prison any paroled convict, he shall at once report the fact, and his reasons therefor, to the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, and his action shall stand approved unless reversed by a majority vote of said board.

Convict violating parole, how treated.

SEC. 9. A convict violating the provisions of his parole and for whose return a warrant has been issued by the warden or superintendent shall, after the issuance of such warrant be treated as an escaped prisoner owing service to the State, and shall be liable, when arrested, to serve out the unexpired portion of his maximum imprisonment, and the time from the date of his declared delinquency to the date of his arrest shall

not be counted as any part or portion of the time to be served.

mence.

SEC. 10. Any prisoner committing a crime while at large Second sentence, upon parole or conditional release and being convicted and when to comsentenced therefor shall serve the second sentence to commence from the date of the termination of the first sentence after the first sentence is served or annulled.

limited.

SEC. 11. At the time of granting parole to any prisoner Time of parole either by the Governor or the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, they shall each respectively determine the length of time the prisoner shall remain on parole, which shall not be more than four years in any case. After any prisoner has When prisoner faithfully performed all of the obligations of his parole for discharged. the period of time so fixed, and has regularly made his monthly reports as required by the rules providing for his parole, he shall be deemed to have fully served his entire sentence, and shall then receive a certificate of final discharge from the warden or superintendent in whose custody he is. A duplicate copy of such final discharge shall at once be sent to the secretary of the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons who shall file the same in the office of the Governor.

of paroled

SEC. 12. On the last day of each month, each paroled con- Monthly report vict shall make a written report to the warden or superin- convict. tendent of the prison from which he was released, showing his conduct during the current month, his employment, earnings and expenditures, his probable postoffice address and place of employment for the coming month; and the warden Warden to or superintendent in charge of each prison of this State transmit report. named in section one of this act, shall, not later than the fifteenth day of each month, tabulate and report to the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, in writing, the information thus received and he shall communicate to the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons immediately all violations and infractions of the rules governing such paroled convicts. In their annual report to the Governor, the Ad- Annual report visory Board in the Matter of Pardons shall include a sum of advisory board. mary of the paroles and releases under this act, the names of all prisoners who have violated their paroles, the nature of such violations, together with such other information concerning the operations under the law as may be deemed to be of public interest.

SEC. 13. There shall be kept in each prison named in sec- Warden to keep tion one of this act, by the warden or superintendent thereof, record. a book containing a full and accurate record of each and every transaction had under the provisions of this act. A summary Summary, of such record for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, shall where filed. be filed with the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, to be by said board compiled and included in the annual report of the Advisory Board, which report shall be submitted in writing to the Governor on or before the first day of December in the year nineteen hundred five, and on or before December first of each year thereafter, and said report shall

This act to apply to all prisoners.

Who to provide blanks.

Power of governor not impaired, etc.

Act repealed.

be accompanied by such recommendations as the board may see fit to make.

SEC. 14. The provisions of this act, in so far as they pertain to the paroling of prisoners shall apply to all convicts now serving sentence in any of said penal institutions whose offenses come under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 15. The Secretary of the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons is hereby authorized to provide all blanks required for the proper execution of the provisions of this act after the forms for such blanks have been approved by the Governor and the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons. SEC. 16. Nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere or impair the power of the Governor to grant pardons or commutations of sentence; nor shall anything herein contained be construed to interfere with the right of any person who may be serving out a term of imprisonment in any penal institution in this State by virtue of a sentence imposed under any law heretofore or now in force.

SEC. 17. Act number one hundred thirty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 7, 1905.

Appropriation.

How used.

Transfer of funds.

[No. 185.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the State Asylum for special purposes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and to provide a tax therefor.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated the sum of fourteen thousand two hundred fifty dollars for the use of the State Asylum for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six for the purposes and amounts as follows: For water supply and fire protection, ten thousand dollars; for dynamo room, eight hundred dollars; for laundry machinery, eight hundred dollars; for horses, five hundred dollars; for drainage, five hundred dollars; for books, one hundred fifty dollars; for refrigerator one thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. If the amount designated in section one for any of the purposes stated be insufficient to complete the work, any surplus remaining after the completion of any other work specified in section one, may be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, by obtaining the consent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General in writing before any expense in

excess of the specific appropriation is incurred, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire fourteen thousand two hundred fifty dollars available for the purposes stated herein, if in the judgment of the State Board of Correction and Charities and Auditor General it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made.

SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of How paid. this act shall be paid out of the State Treasury to the treasurer of the State Asylum at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder.

rated in state tax.

SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State To be incorpotax for the year nineteen hundred five the sum of fourteen thousand two hundred fifty dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated.

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

[No. 186.]

AN ACT to authorize the sale of State tax lands located within the limits of the city of Saginaw and other lands located within the limits of said city and bid off to the State for unpaid taxes and now held by the State, at less than the total of taxes, interest and other charges against said lands, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

for reduction of

SECTION 1. Any person owning any lands in the city of When unpaid Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw, upon which the taxes are taxes may be unpaid for the year A. D., nineteen hundred, and prior years, paid. may, at any time after this act shall take effect, pay said taxes in accordance with the provisions of the general tax laws of the State of Michigan: Provided, Any person owning any Proviso, may lands, or in which he has any interest, within the corporate petition council limits of the city of Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw, upon taxes, etc. which taxes are unpaid for the year A. D., nineteen hundred, and prior years, or cancelled or set aside for those years and thereafter reassessed, may at any time after this act shall take effect, by petition in writing, apply to the common council of the city of Saginaw for a reduction of the total amount of city taxes, interest and charges against said lands at the time of said application; and the common council of the Council may city of Saginaw is hereby authorized and empowered by the applicant.

settle with