Salaries, how allowed and paid. Excess, where paid. Annual report. Governor to issue and revoke certificates. Board may register certificate state. Proviso. plicants. All bills for expenses and salaries shall be allowed in open meeting of the board and shall be paid from the fees received under the provisions of this act. All money received in excess of payments shall be paid into the State Treasury at the end of each year, and so much thereof as shall be necessary to meet the current expenses of said board shall be subject to the order thereof, if, in any year, the receipts of said board shall not be equal to its expenses. The board shall make an annual report to the Governor, containing a full account of its proceedings, and render an annual financial account to the Board of State Auditors. SEC. 4. The Governor shall issue certificates to those persons who are recommended to him by the Board of Accountancy as having qualified under the provisions of this act. The Governor may revoke any certificate for sufficient cause, after written notice to the holder thereof, and a hearing thereon, and shall issue such notice whenever requested to by the board. SEC. 5. The Board of Accountancy may, in its discretion, issued in another register the certificate of any certified public accountant who is the lawful holder of a C. P. A. certificate issued under the law of another state, and may issue to such certified public accountant a certificate of registration, which certificate shall entitle the holder to practice as such certified public accountant, and to use the abbreviation C. P. A. in the State: Provided, however, That such other state extends similar privileges to certified public accountants of this State. The regular fee of twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such certificate. Certificates of registration may be cancelled in the same manner as section four provides for the revoking of certificates issued under this act. Misdemeanor, what deemed. Penalty. Holder of certifi SEC. 6. If any person shall hold himself out to the public as having received a certificate, as provided in this act, or shall assume to practice as a certified public accountant or use the abbreviation C. P. A., or any other letters, words or figures to indicate that the person using the same is such certified public accountant, without having received such certificate or after the same shall have been revoked he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty for which shall be a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months. SEC. 7. Every person, having been granted a certificate cate to give bond. under the provisions of this act, shall give a five thousand dollar bond to the Secretary of State before entering upon his duties, for the faithful performance of the same. Approved May 4, 1905. [No. 93.] AN ACT to amend section seven of act forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, being "An act to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers, and public institutions of this State now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the official directory and legislative manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act one hundred twenty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightynine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eightynine, act twenty of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section seven of act number forty-four of the Section public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act amended. to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers and public institutions of this State now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the official directory and legislative manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act one hundred twentytwo of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act twenty of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act," is hereby amended to read as follows: board of agriculture. SEC. 7. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture Report of state shall report to the legislature at every regular session thereof, and to the Governor on the first Wednesday of January of each year when the legislature is not in session, which report shall embrace all statements, accounts, statistics, prize essays and other information relative to agriculture in general, the bulletins of the experiment station, the proceedings of the State Board of Agriculture, of the State Agricultural College and farm, and of the State Agricultural Society, to be approved by the board. As many copies, not exceeding Number of copies. eight thousand, of this report, as the State Board of Agriculture shall, in their discretion, deem necessary, shall be printed and bound prior to the first day of May, and delivered on the order of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, to be distributed as the board shall direct; also a sufficient num- To whom disber of copies to supply crop correspondents of the Secretary tributed. of State with one copy each; also two hundred copies for deposit in the office of the Secretary of State for future disProviso as to size. tribution: Provided, That such reports shall not exceed six hundred pages of the size of pages of the report for the year eighteen hundred ninety-five. Approved May 4, 1905. What evidence may be introduced by defendant. To what actions applicable. Repealing clause. [No. 94.] AN ACT to regulate the introduction of evidence in actions brought for the recovery of damages for libel. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. On actions brought for the recovery of damages for libel in this State, it shall be competent for the defendant or defendants in such action to show in evidence upon the trial of such action that the plaintiff in such action has heretofore recovered a judgment or judgments for damages in an action or actions for a libel or libels to the same, or substantially the same purport or effect as the libel for the recovery of damages for which such action has been brought, or that the plaintiff in such action has theretofore brought an action or actions for such a libel or has received or agreed to receive compensation for such a libel. SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall apply to the trial of actions now pending as well as to the trial of actions which may hereafter be brought. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts in anywise contravening Amount of appropriation. [No. 95.] AN ACT to provide for the expenses and publication of the collections of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, making an appropriation therefor and providing a tax to meet the same, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred six, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund, to the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, the sum of four thousand dollars for each of the fiscal years end ing June thirtieth, nineteen hundred six, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seven, which sum shall be used in the dis- How used. cretion of the executive committee of said society, in collecting, arranging and preserving a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials illustrative of and relating to the history of Michigan; in rescuing from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers; in procuring and preserving narratives of their early exploits, perils, privations, hardy adventures, and noble achievements; in collecting materials of every description, relative to the history, genius, progress or decay of our Indian tribes; in exhibiting faithfully the past and present recources [resources] of Michigan; and in collecting for publication historical and other materials relative to and illustrative of the history of the State. Said Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society shall Society shall collect, arrange and prepare the materials for etc., material for said volumes for printing, which said volumes in editions of printing. not more than two thousand five hundred copies each, and containing not to exceed seven hundred fifty pages each, shall be printed and published in the kind of type, quality of paper, Style of printing and style of binding and printing as those heretofore published by said society; said printing to be done by the state printer, and binding by the state binder, under the direction and superintendence of said society. The cost in full of said How paid. volumes to be paid from the general fund of the State treasury upon vouchers therefor, approved by the president and secretary of said society, after allowance and audit by the Board of State Auditors. collect, arrange, and binding. volumes. SEC. 2. The State Librarian shall be the custodian of the State librarian publications of the society, and shall exchange with the pio- of publications. to have custody neer and historical societies of domestic and foreign states and governments. The State Librarian shall distribute one Distribution of copy of each volume to each of the school libraries, public libraries and grange libraries in the State of Michigan when authoritatively and officially requested so to do by the officers of said school, public and grange libraries, and one copy to each member of the legislature for the year of publication, if called for by said member. The remainder of said copies of said volumes shall be delivered to and be in the custody and care of the State Librarian, to be sold by said librarian at a price not less than seventy-five cents per copy, and the moneys arising from such sales shall be deposited in the State treasury to the credit of the general fund. priated, how SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions Amount approof this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State paid out. treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 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. SEC. 4. From time to time, as the several volumes of the When extra copcollections become exhausted, the society is authorized and printed. ies may be How paid. No amount to be paid officers. Salary of clerk, how paid. How balance used. Stationery, supplies, who to furnish. Amount to be incorporated in State tax. directed to cause fifteen hundred copies of each volume to be revised and reprinted, the cost thereof, together with binding, proof reading and everything necessary to perfect the edition, to be paid for by the Board of State Auditors, on presentation of vouchers properly approved by the president and secretary of said society, said books to be disposed of in all respects as the rest of said series is disposed of. SEC. 5. No part of the sums hereby appropriated shall be paid for services rendered by its officers to the said society, while in the discharge of their official duties. A clerk shall be employed at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum and not to exceed five hundred dollars additional may be expended for necessary assistance, the salaries of which clerk and additional help shall be paid out of the appropriation provided in section one of this act. Such sum or sums of money heretofore appropriated, not expended for the purposes herein before indicated may be used by and under the direction of the executive committee of the said society in procuring and obtaining exhibits and collections to be placed in said society rooms, and for carrying on the work according to the usual manner of historical societies and which may tend towards facilitating the best interests of said society. All supplies, stationery, etc., necessarily incident to the carrying on of the work of said society shall be furnished by the Board of State Auditors, in the manner now employed in furnishing supplies, stationery, etc., in other State departments. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred five the sum of four thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred six, the sum of four thousand 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. Section amended. [No. 96.] AN ACT to amend section eleven of chapter one hundred eighteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred fortysix, being chapter three hundred and section ten thousand eight hundred sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven relative to the voluntary dissolution of corporations, and of the abatement of suits by and against them. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eleven of chapter one hundred eighteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, being |