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to furnish blanks.

Reports,

by whom signed.

When and where filed.

Upon default, suspended, etc.

each officer and director of the corporation, and such other Secretary of State information as the Secretary of State may require. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State in the month of December in each year, to mail to each corporation which is subject to the provisions of this act, suitable blanks on which shall be printed a copy of this section. Such reports shall be signed by a majority of the board of directors and verified by the oath of the secretary of the corporation, and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State within the said month of January, accompanied by a filing fee of fifty cents. The Secretary of State shall carefully examine such reports, and if upon such examination they shall be found to comply with all the requirements of this section, he shall then file one of them in his office, and shall forward the other by mail or express to the county clerk of the county in which the office in this State, for the transaction of the business of said corporation, is situated. And it shall be the duty of such county clerk, upon receipt of such report, to immediately cause the same to be filed in his office. If any corporation neglect or refuse to corporate powers make and file the reports required by this section within the time herein specified, and shall continue in default for ten days after the first day of February, its corporate powers shall be suspended thereafter until it shall file such report, and it shall not maintain an action in any court of this State upon any contract entered into during the time of such deDirectors liable. fault; and any director of such corporation so in default, who has neglected or refused to join in the making of such report, shall be liable for all the debts of such corporation contracted since the filing of the last report of such corporation, and shall also be liable to such corporation for any damages sustained by it by reason of such refusal or neglect. And in case a corporation organized or doing business under the provisions of this act shall be dissolved by process of law, or whose term of existence shall terminate by limitation, or whose property and franchises shall be sold at mortgage sale, or at private sale, or if for any reason the attitude of the corporation toward the State shall be changed from that set forth in the articles of association, it shall be the duty of the last board of directors of such corporation within thirty days thereafter to give written notice of such change to the Secretary of State, signed by a majority of such directors, which said notice shall be recorded as amendments are required to be recorded. And in case of neglect to give such notice, they shall each be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each and every secular day during the continuance of such neglect or refusal. The neglect or refusal to file the report, or to record the notice required by this section to be filed or recorded, shall be deemed wilful when such report or such notice is not filed or recorded within the time herein limited. Whenever any corporation has neglected or refused to make and file its report within twenty days after the time limited in this section, the Secretary of State shall cause notice of that fact to

To give notice of dissolution.

Penalty for neglect.

Notice of failure

to make report.

bond, unnecessary

be given by mail to such corporation, directed to its postoffice address. The certificate of the Secretary of State or his deputy, of the mailing of such notices, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of that fact, and that such notices were duly received by said corporation. In case any Corporation filing corporation, filing the annual report provided for in this act, to file annual list shall file with the Secretary of State a bond in the penal sum of stockholders. of twenty-five thousand dollars, with good and sufficient surety for the fulfillment of its contracts for labor and material, said bond to be subject to suit thereon by all resident creditors of said corporation for labor and material, then it shall not be necessary for such corporation under this, or any other act, to file annually a list of the names and addresses of such stockholders, together with the number of shares of stock held by such stockholders in the annual report herein provided. The sufficiency of the surety offered in the bond aforesaid, shall be determined by the Secretary of State. Approved June 7, 1905.

[No. 195.]

AN ACT to amend section eight of chapter one of act two hundred forty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State," approved June eight, eighteen hundred eighty-one, and being compiler's section number four thousand fortythree of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number one hundred forty-two of the session laws of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to amend sections three, five and eight of chapter one, section ten of chapter eleven of act two hundred forty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled 'An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within the State,' approved June eight, eighteen hundred eighty-one," approved May twenty-one, nineteen hundred one.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section eight of chapter one of act two hun- Section dred forty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyone, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and main

Township board to hear proof, etc.

Decision, how signed, where filed, etc.

Dissatisfied party may appeal.

Parties, how considered.

Jurisdiction of circuit court.

tenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State," approved June eight, eighteen hundred eighty-one, being compiler's section number four thousand forty-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number one hundred forty-two of the session laws of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to amend sections three, five and eight of chapter one, section ten of chapter eleven of act two hundred forty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled 'An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State,' approved June eight, eighteen hundred eighty-one," approved May twenty-one, nineteen hundred one, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. S. The township board shall proceed at the time and place specified in the notice to hear the proof and allegations of the parties, and may examine persons on oath in respect to the matter of such appeal. Such decision shall be reduced to writing and signed by the board making the same, and filed in the office of the township clerk, and together with all other papers relating to such appeal shall be recorded as part of the record of the road. No commissioner from whose determination an appeal has been taken, and who may be a member of the township board, shall act on such appeal. Any party or parties, dissatisfied with the determination of such township board, either as to the value of the property taken or as to the determination upon the necessity for laying out, altering or discontinuing a highway, when the amount involved or damages claimed exceeds the sum of three hundred dollars, may appeal therefrom to the circuit court for the county in which said land is situated, and a return may be compelled and the same proceedings shall be had thereupon, as near as may be, and with a like effect as in cases of appeal from judgments rendered before justices of the peace, and the costs thereon awarded and collected in the circuit court in the same manner. And for the purposes of such hearing in the circuit court and for the taxation of costs, the parties signing the application in the first instance, shall be considered and treated in all respects as the plaintiffs on such trial, and the parties opposing such application, either as to the amount found to be the value of the property, or as to the necessity for laying out, altering or discontinuing such highway, shall be considered and treated in all respects as the defendants on such trial; and on perfecting said appeal the proceedings from which said appeal is taken shall be stayed and no further steps therein shall be taken until the determination or dismissal of said appeal; and the said circuit court shall also have full power and jurisdiction over said proceedings to hear and determine the same and render judg ment therein, as if the said proceedings had been originally

commenced before the said circuit court. And either party Trial by jury.
to said proceedings on said appeal shall be entitled to have
the issue in such proceedings tried by a jury, as in ordinary
suits in said court. The duties prescribed to justices of the
peace in cases of appeal from judgments rendered before jus-
tices of the peace shall in cases of appeal under this act de-
volve upon and be performed by the township clerk: Pro- Proviso as to
vided, That in no event shall any costs be taxed against the
township or the township board, nor against the parties
signing the application for the laying out of any highway,
except such party or parties as actually appeal or defend such
appeal.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved June 13, 1905.

costs.

[No. 196.]

AN ACT to provide for the registration and identification of motor vehicles, the registration of chauffeurs, to regulate the use of motor vehicles and the use of public highways by such vehicles and persons passing such vehicles, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

defined.

SECTION 1. The term and words "motor vehicles," used in Certain terms this act, shall be construed to mean all vehicles propelled by power other than muscular power, except traction engines and such motor vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks; the term and words "highway" or "public highway" shall be contrued to mean any public highway, township, county or State road, or any country road, any public street, alley, park, parkway, driving or public place in any city, village or town; the term and words "business portion of any city or village" shall be construed to mean the territory of a city or incorporated village contiguous to a public highway which is at that point either wholly or partially built up with structures devoted to business. The term and word "chauffeur" for the purpose of this act shall mean any person operating a motor vehicle as mechanic, paid employe or for hire.

SEC. 2. Every person now owning or hereafter acquiring a owner to file motor vehicle, shall, for every vehicle owned by him, file in statement. the office of the Secretary of State, a statement containing his name and address, with a brief description of the vehicle so owned by him to be registered, including the name of the maker, factory number, style of vehicle and motor power, on a blank to be prepared and furnished by said Secretary of

Secretary of

state to register vehicle, issue certificate, etc.

State for that purpose. Upon the filing of said statement as aforesaid, said Secretary of State shall register such motor vehicle in a book or index to be kept for that purpose, and assign it a distinctive number, and shall forthwith issue and deliver to the owner of such motor vehicle a certificate of registration together with a seal of aluminium or other suitable metal, which said seal shall be circular in form, approximately two inches in diameter, and shall have stamped thereon the words "Registered Motor Vehicle No. ...... Michigan Motor Vehicle Law," with the registration number inserted therein, which said seal shall thereafter at all times be conspicuously displayed on the motor vehicle, to which such number has been assigned. The said certificate of registration shall contain the same words and number as the seal, and shall further contain the name of the owner of the vehicle so registered as aforesaid, his address, the name of the maker of the said vehicle, factory number, style and motor power, the date of registration and the liber and page of the book in the secreRegistration fee. tary's office in which the same is registered. For the registration and issuing of such certificate and seal, a fee of two dollars shall be paid to the Secretary of State.

Seal to be attached to vehicle.

Proceedings on sale of vehicle.

Number, where displayed, size, color, etc.

Front and rear lamps.

When vehicle not to be used.

SEC. 3. Upon the sale of a registered motor vehicle, registered in accordance with the above section, the vendor shall return to the Secretary of State within ten days from the date of such sale, his said certificate and seal, and in lieu thereof, upon the application by the vendee, the Secretary of State shall issue to said vendee a new certificate and seal containing the number of such previous registration, and such vendee making such application shall pay to the said Secretary a fee of one dollar.

SEC. 4. In addition to the conspicuous display of the seal as provided in section two of this act, it shall be the duty of the owner of each and every motor vehicle, at all times to have displayed upon the rear of such vehicle, in such manner as to be plainly visible, the number assigned to it by the Secretary of State, said numbers to be in Arabic numerals, black on white ground or white on black ground, and not less than three inches in height, and each stroke to be of a width not less than one-half inch, and also as a part of said number the name of the State in full or abbreviated, and of the same color and on the same ground as the numerals, the letters of the name to be not less than one inch in height. There shall also be displayed upon every motor vehicle in use upon any public highway during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, two lamps in the front of said motor vehicle, showing a white light visible within a reasonable distance in the direction which such vehicle is proceeding, and also a red light in the rear of said motor vehicle and visible for a reasonable distance in the reverse direction. SEC. 5. No motor vehicle shall be used or operated upon the public highway after thirty days after this act takes effect which shall not display thereon a registration seal, and on

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