penses. Per diem and ex- ship highway commissioner may charge to his township the same per diem for this day as one in actual road work, together with his actual expenses for the day, which shall, if reasonable, be allowed by the township board of the township of which he is overseer or commissioner, and every county highway commissioner may charge to his county the same per diem for this day as one in actual road work, together with his actual expenses for the day, which shall, if reasonable, be allowed by the board, or committee, or county auditors who may have the authority in such matters in the county of which he is a county highway commissioner. When overseers, commissioners, etc., to report, what to contain. Penalty for not making report. prosecuted. When State commissioner give advice, etc. SEC. 4. At the request of the State Highway Commissioner, every road district overseer of highways, every township overseer of highways, every township highway commissioner, every county highway commissioner, and every village or city superintendent or commissioner of streets, shall make a sworn report to the State Highway Commissioner, on or before December first each year, answering such questions as the State Highway Commissioner shall deem proper to ask and they able to answer, giving him such information as he may require and their ability permit, appertaining to roads, streets, methods of construction, material, machinery and costs upon blanks which he may furnish and send out. SEC. 5. Any road district overseer of highways, or township overseer of highways, or township highway commissioner, or county highway commissioner, or village or city superintendent or commissioner of streets, who shall refuse or neg lect to make such report at time stated or within thirty days thereafter, when requested to by the State Highway Commissioner, or who shall, in whole or in part, refuse or neglect to make such report at time stated or within thirty days thereafter, or who shall make a report which shall be in whole or in part false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum of not less than ten dollars and costs, and not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs, or be confined in jail not less than ten days, nor more than thirty days, for each and every offense at the discretion of the court. Violations of the provisions of this act may be prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of Michigan, and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county to prosecute for any violation of the provisions contained in sections four and five of this act. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the State Highway Comto furnish plans, missioner to furnish outline plans and specifications for the improvement of public wagon roads, and, when requested to, and where proposed improvements are of sufficient importance to warrant, he shall go or send some one, to give expert advice of how to best build or improve public roads or bridges. He shall also gather all the information possible about all kinds of road building material in the State, its relative value, cost, and also cost of transportation to other places in the State, and to give this information upon request to any road or street official in the State free of charge to them. how construed. SEC. 7. The terms, roads or public roads or public wagon "Roads," etc., roads in this act, shall, at all times be construed to mean, the leading public wagon roads outside of incorporated villages and cities. missioner to maps, etc. SEC. 8. The State Highway Commissioner shall keep a State comcomplete record of the doings of the State Highway Depart- keep records, ment, which record shall be the property of the State, and make township shall as soon as possible make a map of every township in the State showing the roads and the conditions of the roads, together with marks indicating where road building material can be found, and what kind and what quality. Highway De state reward. SEC. 9. Whenever any township shall file notice with the Notice to State State Highway Department, through its township board, or partment for if under the township system, the township commissioners or allotment of overseers of highways, or when any county commissioners in counties under the county road law shall do likewise, notifying the department that the township (or townships acting conjointly on boundary line roads), or county (or counties acting conjointly on boundary line roads), that they have made arrangements to improve a mile or more of public wagon road by building a clay-gravel, a gravel, a stone-gravel, a gravel-stone or a macadam road, and ask for an allotment of State reward, and shall file with the department a profile of the road to be improved made out by a competent surveyor, and make application for outline plans and general specifications; it shall be the duty of the State Highway Commissioner Duty of State to enter such application in the order that it is received, and to furnish the outline plans and general specifications asked for, and provided there are any funds in the State treasury not yet allotted, appropriated for State reward for roads he shall make the allotment, and when any township (or townships acting conjointly on boundary line roads), or any county (or counties acting conjointly on boundary line roads) have built a mile or more of such road as is hereinafter described, and when inspected by the State Highway Commissioner is found to be up to the required standard, he shall verify the same to the Auditor General of the State, who shall draw a warrant upon the State Treasurer, payable to the proper authorities in such township or county, or townships or counties for the amount of reward due them, for the amount of and class of road built. commissioner. SEC. 10. The following described roads, when built, shall Roads meriting merit the reward attached to each description: rewards. $250 per mile (a) For every mile of well graded road on which the Roads meriting steepest incline shall not exceed six per cent and the width of state reward. of which shall not be less than eighteen feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide made in two courses; the bottom course to be of an approved mixture of clay and sand not less than five inches thick after Proviso. Roads meriting mile. $500 per Proviso. Roads meriting $750 per mile. Proviso. Roads meriting $750 per mile. Proviso. rolling, and covered with a layer of gravel which shall not be less than five inches thick after rolling: Provided, That both shoulders and metaled track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly to the side ditches, shall merit, if ap proved by the State Highway Commissioner a reward from the State of two hundred fifty dollars a mile and pro rata for extra miles and fractions thereof in excess of the first mile. (b) For every mile of well graded road on which the steepest incline shall not exceed six per cent, and the width of which shall not be less than eighteen feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide, and which shall consist of not less than eight inches of compacted gravel, which must be applied in not less than two layers, each layer to be rolled separately: Provided, That both shoulders and metaled track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly to the side ditches, shall merit, if approved by the State Highway Commissioner, a reward from the State of five hundred dollars a mile and pro rata for extra miles and fractions thereof in excess of the first mile. (c) For every mile of well graded road on which the steepest incline shall not exceed six per cent, and the width of which shall not be less than eighteen feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide made in two courses; the bottom course to be of crushed stone, which shall not be less than four inches thick after thorough rolling; and a top course consisting of a layer of gravel which shall not be less than three inches thick after being thoroughly rolled: Provided, That both shoulders and metaled track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly to the side ditches, shall merit, if approved by the State Highway Commissioner a reward from the State of seven hundred fifty dollars a mile and pro rata for extra miles and fractions thereof in excess of the first mile. (d) For every mile of well graded road on which the steepest incline shall not exceed six per cent, and the width of which shall not be less than eighteen feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide made in two courses; the bottom course to be of gravel and not be less than four inches thick after thorough rolling; and a top course consisting of a layer of crushed stone, which shall not be less than three inches thick after being thoroughly rolled and properly bonded with sufficient stone screenings: Provided, That both shoulders and metaled track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly to the side ditches, shall merit, if approved by the State Highway Commissioner, a reward from the State of seven hundred fifty dollars a mile and pro rata for extra miles and fractions thereof in excess of the first mile. $1,000 per mile. (e) For every mile of well graded road on which the Roads meriting steepest incline shall not exceed six per cent, and the width of which shall not be less than eighteen feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide of well compacted macadam not less than six inches thick, laid in not less than two courses, each to be properly bonded with sufficient stone screenings and thoroughly rolled: Provided, Proviso. That both shoulders and metaled track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly, to the side ditches, shall merit, if approved by the State Highway Commissioner a reward from the State of one thousand dollars a mile and pro rata for extra miles and fractions thereof in excess of the first mile.. SEC. 11. No claim for State reward for improved roads of Reward limited over two miles in any one township in any one year shall be in one year. allowed by the State Highway Commissioner: Provided, Proviso. however, If any township or county shall have raised money by tax or by sale of bonds to build more than two miles of road such as merits State reward in a township in a year, and the road built is approved by the State Highway Commissioner, and this road is kept in as good condition as when approved by the commissioner, such township or county shall have its application number remain upon the books of the department and draw each year the maximum amount allowed to a township in a year until such time as the township or county has received the amount due for the class and amount of road built: Provided, Money has been appropri- Proviso. ated for the purpose. In case the road building money was raised by the sale of bonds, the State reward money shall be used only for the payment of the principal of the bonds. commissioner may refuse to SEC. 12. The State Highway Commissioner is hereby given When State the authority to refuse to grant any further road reward to any township or county that has been rewarded by the State grant reward. for improving roads, that does not keep these State rewarded roads in proper repair, but, upon his refusal to any township or county for an allotment of State reward, it shall be the Commissioner's duty to inform such township or county of what repairs are necessary to place them in a position to again be eligible to receive State reward, and if these repairs are made satisfactorily to the Commissioner, he shall reinstate them to the eligible reward list. commissioner SEC. 13. The decision of the State Highway Commissioner Decision of shall be final, relative to whether the road is built well enough l or not to merit State reward, and shall have the right to retain any amount of the reward he deems advisable until the road has been thoroughly tested. roads made SEC. 14. This act gives no authority to pay any reward No reward on for any improvements made in public wagon roads prior to prior to this act. the passage of this act. SEC. 15. There shall be assigned to the State Highway Office, who to Commissioner, by the Board of State Auditors, suitable rooms provide, etc. Appropriation. Expenses, reward fund. To be incorporated in state tax. at Lansing for the conducting of the business of the State Highway Department, and they shall provide suitable furniture and office equipment. SEC. 16. To carry out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, the sum of sixty thousand dollars; of which ten thousand dollars each year constitutes the sum that may be used for the running expenses of the department, and the balance constitutes the State reward fund, for encouraging the improve ment of the public wagon roads. SEC. 17. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred five, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred six, the sum of sixty 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. Who may issue warehouse certificates. [No. 147.] AN ACT to regulate the issuing of warehouse certificates in certain cases. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All persons, firms or corporations owning or dealing in flour, grains, beans, seeds or other farm products, or engaged in the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or hogs, and dealing in the various products therefrom, or buying or selling sugar, butter, eggs, cheese, dressed poultry or any other merchandise, who own or control the structures wherein any such business is conducted, or such commodities stored, may issue elevator or warehouse certificates or receipts for any such commodities actually on hand and in store, the property of such person, firm or corporation, and may, by the issue of such certificates, sell, sign, encumber or pledge such comWhat to contain. modities. Such certificate or receipt shall contain the date of its issue, the name and address of the person, firm or corporation issuing the same, and the name and address of the party to whom issued, the location of the elevator, warehouse or structure wherein the commodity therein described is stored, the quantity of each commodity mentioned therein, the brands. or marks of identification thereon, if any, and shall be signed by the person, firm or corporation issuing the same. |