[No. 118.] AN ACT to provide for the payment of bounties for the killing of English sparrows. The People of the State of Michigan enact: bounty. SECTION 1. Every person being an inhabitant of this State, Amount of who shall kill an English sparrow in any organized township, village or city in this State, shall be entitled to receive a bounty of two cents for each sparrow thus killed, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided. issue certificate. SEC. 2. Every person applying for such bounty shall take When clerks to such sparrow, in lots of not less than ten, to the clerk of the township, village or city within which such sparrow shall have been killed, in a state of good preservation, and if satisfied with the correctness of such claim, shall issue a certificate stating the amount of bounty to which such applicant is entitled and deliver the same to said applicant, and shall destroy How sparrows such sparrows by burning. destroyed. draw warrant. SEC. 3. Such certificate may be presented by the claimant County clerk to or his agent to the county clerk of the county in which such sparrows have been killed, who shall thereupon draw a warrant for the amount on the treasurer of said county, and said How paid. treasurer shall, upon presentation of said warrant, pay the same from the general or contingent fund of said county. SEC. 4. Any person who collects or attempts to collect any Misdemeanor, bounty under the provisions of this act, on any bird other than what deemed. English sparrows, or who collects or attempts to collect such bounty upon any sparrows not killed in the county in which such collection or attempt to so collect is made, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof Penalty. shall be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect only in such counties as When effective. see fit to adopt it by a majority vote of the board of supervisors. Approved May 11, 1905. Amount appropriated. Further appro [No. 119.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Central Michigan Normal School for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, and for building and special purposes for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current expenses of the Central Michigan Normal School for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, the sum of sixty-six thousand five hundred sixty-five dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, the sum of sixty-six thousand five hundred sixty-five dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby priation for 1906. appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, by purposes and amounts as follows: Five thousand dollars for the purchase of the block of land immediately west of the main grounds of said institution, and the north half of block seven Normal School addition to the city of Mt. Pleasant, on condition that the citizens of the city of Mt. Pleasant raise sufficient funds to complete the purchase of the two said tracts of land; twentyfive thousand dollars for central heating plant for the entire institution. Amounts, how paid. To be incorporated in State tax. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Board of Education, 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. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred five for the Central Michigan Normal School the sum of ninety-six thousand five hundred sixty-five dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred six for said institution, the sum of sixty-six thousand five hundred sixty-five 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. [No. 120.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-two of chapter twenty-one of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, said chapter being entitled "Hawkers and Peddlers," and said section being section five thousand three hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of chapter twenty-one of the Section revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Hawkers and Peddlers," said section being section five thousand three hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 22. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be con- License, who strued to prevent any manufacturer, farmer, mechanic, or may sell without. nurseryman from selling his work or production by sample or otherwise without a license (nor shall any peddler in meat or fish be prevented by anything herein contained from peddling such meat or fish without a license), nor shall any wholesale merchant be prevented by anything herein contained, from selling to dealers by sample without license, but no merchant Who to procure. shall be allowed to peddle, or to employ others to peddle goods not his own manufacture, without the license in this chapter provided. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 121.] AN ACT to amend act number two hundred nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to establish a home and training school for the feeble minded and epileptic, and making an appropriation for the same," as amended, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section thirty. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That act number two hundred nine of the pub- Act amended. lic acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to establish a home and training school for the feeble minded and epileptic, and making an appropriation for the same," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section thirty and to read as follows: When parents, etc., waive right to remove. Proviso. Further proviso. SEC. 30. Any parent, or parents, guardian or custodian, who shall make application to have any person admitted to said institution, shall in said application waive all right to remove such inmate thereafter either permanently or for a limited time: Provided, That any inmate may be discharged upon written request of the Governor or person administering the government of this State: Provided, further, That the superintendent of said institution may grant a leave of absence to any inmate for a limited time. Approved May 17, 1905. No person to drive stakes or set nets in certain territory. Exceptions. Proviso. Penalty for violation. Persons also civilly liable. [No. 122.] AN ACT to define and to protect fishing rights and privileges in that portion of Saginaw bay bordering on Arenac and Iosco counties, State of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person shall drive any stakes for fishing purposes or set or place any nets in the waters of Saginaw bay contiguous or adjacent to the shores of Arenac and Iosco counties in said State, for a distance of two miles from said shores, unless such person is the lawful owner or occupant of the shore frontage, opposite to which said stakes are driven or nets set or placed, or unless such person shall have a license so to do from the said owner or occupant: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the Charities or any other islands situated in Saginaw bay. SEC. 2. Any person or, persons offending against the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and such person or persons shall also be civilly liable, to be recovered in an action of trespass in any court having competent jurisdiction thereof, for all damages to the owner or occupant, or licensee therefrom, of the lands within the water frontage of which, as above defined, the unauthorized act or acts shall have been committed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 123.] AN ACT to amend section one, act number fifty-six of the session laws of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the better drainage of highways in certain cases." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of act number fifty-six of the ses- Section sion laws of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the better drainage of highways in certain cases," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: commissioner to of way. SEC. 1. Whenever it is necessary or more convenient for the When highway proper drainage of any highway in this State that the surplus open drain. water be taken onto or across the land adjacent thereto, the highway commissioner of the township in which said highway is situated, may secure the right of way and may open such drain or outlet for the water, and for these purposes may use any highway moneys of the township not otherwise appropri ated, and such sums as may be voted for that use by the electors of the township, and he may also employ for that purpose the highway labor of the district in which such drain may be situated. The highway commissioner shall secure the right To secure right of way for any such drain by gift or purchase from the owners of the land to be crossed by such drain; but in case of purchase the purchase price must be approved by the township board before any money be paid thereon. Such right of way shall be acquired by deed duly executed by the owner or owners of the lands sought to be crossed by the said drain, and shall be taken in the name of the township wherein the same is located, and filed in the office of the register of deeds of the county before any highway money or labor shall be expended in opening such drain outside the highway limits. This act shall not apply to Alpena county. Approved May 17, 1905. [No. 124.] AN ACT to amend section two of act number two hundred thirty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act authorizing organized townships in the State of Michigan to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of providing for the better construction and care of highways in such townships." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of act number two hundred thirty- Section one of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An amended. |