etc. May summon inspectors to correct returns, etc. used and made at such elections, to bring said boxes, keys, seals, returns, poll books and tally sheets before said board May open boxes, and said board of canvassers are authorized to open said boxes and take therefrom any books or papers bearing upon the count and return of the election inspectors of such election districts or the returns of such central counting board, but they shall not remove or mark the ballots therein. Said board of canvassers may summon such election inspectors, appear and make or central counting board, before them, and require them to make correct returns in case, in its judgment, after examining such returns, poll books or tally sheets, the returns already made are incorrect or incomplete, and they shall When boxes and canvass the votes from the corrected returns. When the examination of such papers is completed the same shall be returned to the ballot boxes or delivered to the persons entitled by law to the same, and the boxes shall be locked and sealed and delivered to the legal custodians thereof. When To prepare state- said canvass shall have been finished, the said board of county canvassers shall prepare a statement setting forth their findings in the premises, and giving in detail the number of ballots cast for each candidate and the result of the votes cast on all other questions voted on at said election. They shall certify thereto, under their hands, and the seal When to declare of the circuit court of the county. It shall also be the duty result for county of said board to declare the result of the election for county papers to be returned. ment of result. How certified. officers, legislature, etc. Result, how published. officers and members of the legislature, when the county Unlawful to take in certain waters until 1910. [No. 44.] AN ACT to prohibit the taking, catching, or destruction of brook trout and other fish in Piper and Dorance creeks and tributaries thereof, on sections five, seven, eight, twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one, Shelby township, and sections twelve, twenty-five, thirty-five and thirty-six, Binona township, in Oceana county, Michigan, for a period of five years from the first day of May, nineteen hundred five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take, catch or kill, any brook trout or other fish in Piper and Dorance creeks or tributaries thereof on sections five, seven, eight, twenty nine, thirty and thirty-one, Shelby township, and sections twelve, twenty-five, thirty-five and thirty-six, Binona township, in Oceana .county, Michigan, for a period of five years from the first day of May, nineteen hundred five. SEC. 2. Any person who shall be seen along the banks Prima facie of any of the waters mentioned in section one, or in any of evidence of guilt. said waters, with hook and line, or any other fishing device, in his possession, shall be deemed prima facie guilty of attempting to catch fish in said waters. violation. SEC. 3. Any person who shall violate any provisions of Penalty for this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, together with costs of prosecution, and in default of payment of such fine and costs shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding twenty days. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 6, 1905. [No. 45.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the State Public School for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, to meet a deficiency in the current expense appropriation for said school for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four, and to provide a tax for the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand sixty-four dollars Appropriation for and fifty-three cents is hereby appropriated for the State excess expenses. Public School, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, to meet expenditures for its current expenses which were in excess of the amount appropriated by section one, act sixty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, for current expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four. SEC. 2. The sum appropriated by section one of this act How paid. shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Public School, upon the presentation to the Auditor General of a requisition from the board of control of said school, certifying that this amount is needed for immediate use for the payment of current expense bills incurred for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four; and when by the terms of section where amount to one of this act this appropriation becomes available, the be charged. Auditor General shall charge to said appropriation the amount thus advanced, the accounting in all respects to be governed by the general accounting laws of the State. Auditor general to incorporate in State tax. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred five the sum of two thousand sixty-four dollars and fifty-three cents, 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 April 6, 1905. Section amended. Board of supervisors may alter, vacate, etc., townships. [No. 46.] AN ACT to amend section fourteen of chapter eighty-five of act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, approved April eight, eighteen hundred fifty-one, the same as amended being section number two thousand four hundred eighty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fourteen of chapter eighty-five of act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, approved April eight, eighteen hundred fifty-one, the same as amended being section number two thousand four hundred eighty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 14. The boards of supervisors of the several counties of this State shall have power, within their respective counties, and all territory attached thereto, by a vote of twothirds of all the members elected to said board, to vacate, divide or alter in its bounds any township, or erect a new township, upon application to the board, as hereinafter provided, of at least twelve freeholders of each of the townships to be affected by the division, and upon being furnished with a map of all the townships to be affected by the division, Statement of ac- showing the proposed alterations; and if the application tion of supervisors, shall be granted, a copy of said map, with a certified statement of the action of said board thereunto annexed, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such county; and a certified statement of the action of said board shall also be filed Secretary of State in the office of the Secretary of State; and it shall be the where to publish. duty of the Secretary of State to cause the same to be pub debted to State, submitted to lished with the laws of the next legislature, after the filing This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 47.] AN ACT permitting the catching and taking of German carp, gar and dog fish in the waters of Saddle and Silver lakes, in the township of Columbia and county of Van Buren and Gunn lake in the counties of Allegan and Barry. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful to catch or take by spear Lawful to catch or net German carp, gar and dog fish in the waters of Saddle certain fish. and Silver lakes in the township of Columbia, county of Van Buren, and in Gunn lake in the counties of Allegan and Barry: Provided, That no nets with meshes less than four Proviso. and one-half inches extension measurements shall be used: And provided further, That while taking said German carp, Further proviso. gar and dog fish in the waters of said lakes by the use of said nets, all other fish that may be caught in said nets be immediately returned, uninjured, to the waters of said lakes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 6, 1905. Unlawful to catch during certain months. Penalty for violation. [No. 48.] AN ACT to prohibit the taking or catching of fish in Weicamp's lake, sometimes known as Pierce's lake, in the townships of Cross Village and Bliss, in the county of Emmet, State of Michigan, during certain months of the year. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch any fish in the waters of Weicamp's lake, sometimes known as Pierce's lake, in the townships of Cross Village and Bliss, county of Emmet, State of Michigan, during the months of November, December, January, February, March and April in any year. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not to exceed fifty dollars, and costs of suit, or imprisonment in the county jail, not to exceed sixty days; or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful to use tain waters. [No. 49.] AN ACT to prohibit the catching of fish within a radius of one mile from the mouth of the outlet of Muskegon lake, White lake, Duck lake and Lake Harbor, in the county of Muskegon, with nets of any description, and to prohibit the catching of fish with nets of any description in any of the inland lakes in the said county of Muskegon, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person or persons shall fish with, use or nets, etc., in cer- set any seines, gill nets or any form of pound, trap, sweep or set nets, or any like device for taking fish in any of the waters of Lake Michigan within a radius of one mile from the mouth of the outlet of Muskegon lake, White lake, Duck lake and Lake Harbor, in the county of Muskegon, and no person shall fish with any net of any description in any of the inland lakes of the county of Muskegon, State of Michigan. |