certified and valuations between the several counties in the State. The percentage added to or deducted from the valuations in each county shall be entered upon the records. The valuations of Valuations, the. several counties, as equalized, shall be certified and signed signed, to be basis by the chairman and secretary of the board, and filed in the of apportionment. office of the Auditor General, and shall be the basis for apportionment of all State taxes until another equalization shall be made. certified trans SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Auditor General, as Auditor general soon as may be, after the determination of the State Board of to distribute Equalization shall be filed in his office, to send a certified cripts, etc. transcript thereof to the treasurer of each county, who shall cause the same to be published in one or more papers in the county. to meet. SEC. 6. A meeting of the board of supervisors of each Supervisors, when county shall be held on the fourth Monday in June in the year nineteen hundred six, and on the fourth Monday of June every fifth year thereafter. The said board of supervisors Duties of. shall, when convened, proceed to equalize the assessment rolls in the same manner as is provided in chapter twenty of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, and each of said supervisors shall add up the columns of their respective rolls, enumerating the number of acres of land and the value of the real estate and personal property so assessed so as to show the aggregate of each. SEC. 7. The board of equalizers shall hear any evidence To hear evidence. which may be laid before it by any person appointed by any board of supervisors, and any representation made by such person in behalf of any county. certified copy to SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each board of Clerk to transmit supervisors to make out a tabular statement from the aggre- auditor general. gate of the several assessment rolls of the number of acres of land and the value of the real estate and personal property in each township and ward as assessed and also the aggregate valuation of the real estate of each roll as equalized, and make a certified copy thereof, signed by the chairman and clerk and transmit the same to the Auditor General on or before the second Monday of July following, who shall lay the same before the State Board of Equalization, when organized: Provided, That such statement and copy shall not embrace Proviso. any property taxed under laws passed pursuant to section ten of article fourteen of the constitution as amended. ernor, compen SEC. 9. Any three members of the said board shall consti- Quorum. tute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Lieuten- Lieutenant govant Governor shall receive three dollars a day for actual at- sation of. tendance and ten cents a mile for traveling in, going to, and returning from the seat of government on the usual traveled route which shall be paid out of the State Treasury on the warrant of the Auditor General. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 249.] AN ACT making appropriations for the State Industrial Home for Girls, for building and special purposes and for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and June thirty, nineteen hundred seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current Appropriation for current expenses. expenses of the State Industrial Home for Girls for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, the sum of sixty-eight thousand dollars and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, the sum of sixty-eight thousand dollars. Further appropriation. How used. SEC. 2. The further sum of five thousand six hundred twenty-five dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six for purposes and amounts as follows: For electric wiring purposes, one thousand dollars; for enlarging porches at Palmer and Alger cottages, six hundred dollars; for enlarging porches at Croswell, Clark, Gillespie and Haviland cottages, four hundred dollars; for fire hose, reels and nozzles to be attached to cottages, one hundred twenty-five dollars; for painting Bliss and Alger cottages, school house and hospital, one thousand dollars; for enlarging steam pipes, five hundred dollars; for remodeling old farm house, for hospital for contagious diseases, five hundred dollars; for painting interior of school house, one hundred dollars; for cement walks, five hundred dollars; for one greenhouse, nine hundred dollars: Provided, That if the transfer of funds. amount designated in section two of this act for any one of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after completion of other work or purchase specified in section two, may, by obtaining the consent of the Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General in writing, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable; the intent of this provision being to make the entire five thousand six hundred twenty-five dollars available for, the purposes stated therein, if in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and Auditor General it is deemed advisable to make these transfers. Proviso as to How paid. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Industrial Home for Girls in such amounts and at such times as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. tax. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State To be incortax for the year nineteen hundred five the sum of seventy-three porated in state thousand six hundred twenty-five dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred six the sum of sixty-eight 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. Approved June 16, 1905. [No. 250.] AN ACT to provide for a biological survey of the State, making appropriations therefor, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That the Board of Geological Survey as con- Biological survey, stituted by act number sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hun- who to make, etc. dred sixty-nine, as amended, is hereby authorized and required to make under the general direction of the State Geologist, appointed by them, a thorough biological survey of the State, embracing a determination of the range and distribution of the various plants and animals inhabiting the State and the relation to their environment and the welfare of man. SEC. 2. The powers and duties of said board relative to Powers, etc., as to the expenses incident to such biological surveys, and the expenses. publication thereof shall be the same as they now are relative to the geological and mineralogical survey of the State. number, etc. SEC. 3. The annual report of progress now required of Annual report, the Board of Geological Survey shall include an account of what to include, the progress of said biological survey and there shall be printed of the same, the same number as, and under the same conditions as, the report of the Board of Fish Commissioners as provided in act number two hundred twenty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three. Accounts, how SEC. 4. To carry into effect the provisions of this act, the Appropriation. sum of one thousand dollars for the year nineteen hundred five, and one thousand dollars for the year nineteen hundred six, is hereby appropriated to be drawn from the treasury as needed. The accounts of the members of the board for official services and all other expenses authorized by law shall first paid. be certified to be correct by said board, and shall be paid out of the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General from the fund appropriated for that purpose: Provided, Proviso. No part of said appropriation shall be used for printing reports. To be incorporated in state tax. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, the sum of one thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, the sum of one 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. Topographical map to be made. Board to confer with U. S. geo logical survey. Map, what to show. May enter all lands. Appropriation. [No. 251.] AN ACT providing for the extension of the work of the The People of the State of Michigan enact: That the Board of Geological Survey, as constituted by act number sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine and acts amendatory thereof, is hereby authorized to confer with the director or representative of the United States Geological Survey and to accept its co-operation with this State in the preparation and completion of a contour topographical survey map of this State, which is hereby authorized to be made. Said board shall have power to arrange with the director or representative of the United States Geological Survey concerning this survey and map, its scale, method of execution, form and all details of the work, in behalf of this State, and accept or reject the work executed by the United States Geological Survey. And it is hereby provided that said map shall accurately show the outline of all townships, counties, and extensive wooded areas, in this State as existing on the grounds at the time of the execution of these surveys; the location of all roads, railroads, streams, canals, lakes, and rivers; and shall show by contour lines the elevation and depression of the surface of the country. For the purpose of making the surveys hereinbefore provided for, it shall be lawful for the persons employed in making the same to enter upon all lands within the boundaries of this State, but this act shall not be construed as authorizing any unnecessary interference with private rights. SEC. 2. That there be and is hereby appropriated for the purpose described in the preceding section of this act, and for the work of the board, as heretofore authorized, the sum of two thousand dollars for the year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and the sum of three thousand dollars for the year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid. of this act shall first be certified to be correct by said board, and shall be paid out by the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General from the fund appropriated for the purpose: Provided, That bills for expenses for printing and Proviso as to publication shall, after approval by the board, be presented printing. to the Board of State Auditors, and after allowance by them audited by the Auditor General: And provided further, Further proviso, That the expenditures for the topographical survey shall not be in excess of that expended by the United States Geological Survey from the United States treasury: SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate To be incorin the State tax for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nine-porated in state teen hundred five, the sum of two thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, the sum of three 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. [No. 252.]. AN ACT to appropriate five thousand dollars in aid of the erection of a monument to Major General Alexander Macomb, a native of this State, and a hero of the war of eighteen hundred twelve, and general of the army of the United States. The People of the State of Michigan enact: monument. SECTION 1. That the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby Appropriation appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not for Macomb otherwise appropriated, in aid of the erection of a monument to Major General Alexander Macomb, a native of this State and a hero of the war of eighteen hundred twelve, and general of the army of the United States; said monument to be Where erected. erected in the city of Detroit, his birth place, under the direction of the Society of the Daughters of eighteen hundred twelve. by whom SEC. 2. Said appropriation shall be expended under the di- Appropriation, rection of the officers of said society and, upon completion of expended. the said monument, according to a design accepted by said society, the expenses incurred in the erection of such monument shall be certified by the officers of said society to the |