[No. 209.] AN ACT to provide for the taking of German carp, pike, pickerel and suckers from the waters of Turtle lake in Alpena and Montmorency counties. The People of the State of Michigan enact: suckers, etc. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful at all times to spear German Lawful to spear carp, pike, pickerel and suckers in the waters of Turtle lake in the counties of Alpena and Montmorency. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 13, 1905. [No. 210.] AN ACT to prohibit the corrupt influencing of agents, employes, or servants. The People of the State of Michigan enact: influencing of SECTION 1. Whoever corruptly gives, offers or promises to Corrupt an agent, employe or servant any gift or gratuity whatever, agents, servants, with intent to influence his action in relation to his principal's, etc., unlawful. employer's or master's business; or an agent, employe or servant, who corruptly requests or accepts a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to himself, under an agreement or with an understanding that he shall act in any particular manner in relation to his principal's, employer's or master's business; or an agent, employe or servant, who, being authorized to procure materials, supplies or other articles either by purchase or contract for his principal, employer or master, or to employ service or labor for his principal, employer or master, receives directly or indirectly, for himself or for another, a commission, discount or bonus from the person who makes such sale or contract, or furnishes such materials, supplies or other articles, or from a person who renders such service or labor; and any person who Penalty for gives or offers such an agent, employe or servant such commission, discount or bonus, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the State prison for a period of not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved June 13, 1905. violation. Certain deeds prima facie [No. 211.] AN ACT to make deeds heretofore or hereafter made upon sale of land reserved and withheld from homestead entry under the provisions of section one hundred thirty-one of act two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, and acts amendatory thereto, prima facie evidence of title in fee in the purchaser. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All deeds heretofore or hereafter made by the Pridente of title. Commissioner of the State Land Office upon sales of land reserved and withheld from entry under the homestead right in pursuance of section one hundred thirty-one of act two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, and acts amendatory thereto shall be prima facie evidence of title in fee in the grantee named in such deeds of the lands described therein. Approved June 13, 1905. Section added. [No. 212.] AN ACT to amend act two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide. for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," by adding thereto a new section to be known as section ninety-eight a. The People of the State of Michigan cnact: SECTION 1. Act two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section ninety-eight a, to read as follows: applying for been paid. SEC. 98a. When taxes have been actually paid to the officer Duty of person authorized by the provisions of this act to receive the same certificate of error, and the entry of such payment was not made upon the tax when taxes have roll, the person thereafter applying for a certificate of error, or a cancelation of the taxes, shall present to the Auditor General the certificate of the proper county treasurer that such taxes were paid on the .... .....day of ... furnish copy delinquent (giving the date), as appears from receipt therefor on file in his office. The county treasurer shall preserve the receipt so Treasurer to presented to him and shall give to the person entitled thereto of receipt. a certified copy thereof. It shall be the duty of the county Notice to treasurer to immediately notify the person or officer receiving treasurer. such payment of the production of such receipt and require payment to be made forthwith to him, the said county treasurer, of the amount not discharged by entry upon the tax roll at the time of payment. And in case of failure of said delin- When county quent treasurer to pay said amount, as requested, within institute suit. thirty days of the receipt of said notice, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer so notifying to institute suit against said delinquent treasurer and his bondsmen for the recovery treasurer to of said amount. Upon the receipt of such money so paid to Money, to whom him, the county treasurer shall at once pay the same over to paid over. the proper township or other officer or fund entitled to the same, and shall notify the board of supervisors at their annual session in October of the several amounts thus collected and paid over. Approved June 13, 1905. Section amended. County treasurer may receive taxes returned. Duplicate receipts. Duties of county clerk. Proviso. Land subject to sale by State for taxes. [No. 213.] AN ACT to amend section fifty-eight of act two hundred six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section three thousand eight hundred eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fifty-eight of act two hundred six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in any wise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section three thousand eight hundred eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 58. After the return of lands for unpaid taxes the county treasurer is authorized to receive, under like provisions as in section fifty-three of this act, the amounts of the several taxes or any of them due, and the board of supervisors in each county may authorize notice to be given to all delinquent taxpayers so far as known. The county treasurer shall issue duplicate receipts for all such taxes received by him, which shall be countersigned by the county clerk, and one of such duplicates shall be left with said clerk, who shall make an entry of the amount for which every such receipt was given, with the name and postoffice address of the person paying such taxes in a book provided for that purpose, and shall on the first Monday of each month, forward all such receipts to the Auditor General, in such manner as he may direct: Provided, That if any description of land is held by the State subject to sale as State tax land, the county treasurer shall not be authorized to receive the amounts due for years subject to payment, where payment thereof is tendered in contempla tion of an application to the Auditor General to purchase the [No. 214.] AN ACT to provide for licensing and regulating the business of transient merchants, to prevent the fraudulent sale of goods by such transient merchants, to provide a lien on the goods of such transient merchants for the license fees prescribed by this act, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: merchant SECTION 1. A transient merchant, within the meaning of Transient this act, is any person or corporation who shall engage in, defined. do or transact any temporary or transient business in any township, city or village in this State, in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, shall hire, lease or occupy any building or room, including rooms in hotels, for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise. This act shall apply Application to and include principals and their agents and employes, and to persons forming a copartnership: Provided, That any Proviso, as to city or village council may, by a two-thirds vote of all the suspension of act. members elect, suspend the provisions of this act in any spe cific instance or case. of act. obtain license. where filed, SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant to Merchant to engage in, do or transact any business in the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, without first having obtained a license therefor as hereinafter provided. Such transient merchant Application for, desiring to engage in, do or transact business in this State what to state. shall file an application for a license for that purpose with the clerk of the township, city or village in which he desires to do business, which application shall state his name, residence, the building or room in which he proposes to do business, and the length of time for which he proposes to do business. If License fee. such transient merchant proposes to transact business in a township, city or village having a population of more than one hundred thousand as shown by the last preceding United States census, he shall pay to such clerk, at the time of filing said application, a license fee of twenty-five dollars per day for the first ten days or any part thereof for which application is made; if such transient merchant desires to transact business in a township, city or village having a population of not less than forty thousand nor more than one hundred thou |