Tax levy. General. There is hereby appropriated out of the general This act is ordered to take immediate effect. : Election of managers. Voting of shares. [No. 45.] AN ACT to secure to the minority of members in partnership associations organized under the provisions of act number one hundred ninety-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-seven, and acts amendatory thereto, the same being compiler's chapter one hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the power of electing a representative membership in the boards of managers of such partnership associations. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. In all elections for managers of partnership associations organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven and acts amendatory thereto, every member of such partnership association shall have the right to vote in person or by proxy the number of shares owned by him for as many persons as there may be managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as will equal the number of managers multiplied by the number of his shares of stock; or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he Election to be shall think fit. All such partnership associations shall elect their managers annually, and the entire number of managers shall be balloted for at one and the same time and not separately: Provided, That the by-laws of any such partnership association shall not be so amended as to reduce the number of managers of such partnership association, in case the votes of a sufficient number of shares are recorded against such proposed amendment, which, if cumulatively voted as herein provided, would elect one or more managers where the same number of shares, if cumulatively voted, would not be sufficient to elect the same number of managers of the reduced board of managers. annual. Proviso, managers, number of, not to be reduced. Approved April 21, 1909. [No. 46.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred fifty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act relating to the salaries of officers and agents of life insurance companies." The People of the State of Michigan enact: limited. agreement, SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred fifty- Section amended. nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act relating to the salaries of officers and agents of life insurance companies," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. No domestic life insurance company shall pay Salary to any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee officers, etc., or director thereof, nor any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than five thousand dollars to any person, firm or corporation, unless such payment be first authorized by a vote of the board of directors of such life insurance company. No such life insurance com- Certain pany shall make any agreement with any of its officers, unlawful. trustees or salaried employes whereby it agrees that for any services rendered or to be rendered he shall receive any salary, compensation or emolument that will extend beyond a period of twelve months from the date of such agreement; and no officer, director or trustee who is paid a salary for his services of more than one hundred dollars per month shall receive any other compensation or emolument: Pro- Proviso, vided, That the limitation as to time contained herein shall certain not be construed as preventing a life insurance company with agents. from entering into contracts with its agents for the payment of renewal commissions or salaries and commissions to any officer, agent or employe based on the amount of business produced. No such company shall grant any pension to any Pensions, not officer, director or trustee thereof or to any member of his to be family after his death. contracts granted. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Acts repealed. provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved April 21, 1909. 10 Sections amended and [No. 47.] AN ACT to amend sections five and nine of act number one hundred forty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the government, management and control of the State Public School at Coldwater, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act," as amended by act number three hundred one of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven; and to add new section to said act number one hundred forty-three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections five and nine of act number one section added, hundred forty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the government, management and control of the State Public School at Coldwater, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act," as amended by act number three hundred one of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, are hereby amended, and a new section is hereby added to stand as section eighteen, said amended sections and said added section to read as follows: Finding, entry of, etc. Order for admittance, what to contain. Physician's certificate. Proviso, indenture or adoption. SEC. 5. If on such examination the said judge shall find that the child is dependent on the public for support and is admissible to said school, as provided in sections three or seven of this act, he shall enter such finding by a proper order in the journal of his court, certifying that the child is dependent on the public for support, is entitled to admission to the State Public School at Coldwater, and shall order it to be taken to said school by the agent of the Board of Corrections and Charities of the county to which the child belongs, and admitted there, and shall deliver to the said agent a certified copy of such order, which shall contain besides said findings a statement of the facts that are herein required to be inquired into, so far as they can be ascertained, to which shall be attached the certificate of the physician required by this act, and the said agent shall deliver such copy with said child at said school to the superintendent thereof as soon as practicable after the making of said order: Provided, That in any case where a child has been committed to the said school and the agent of the county to which the child belongs shall certify in writing to the judge of probate that he has found a suitable home for the child in his county where the child will be taken on indenture or by adoption, the superintendent of said school may, under such regulations as said board may adopt, notify said agent that he may place the child in the family records of duty of. already provided without bringing it to the school; the Name of child name of the child to be entered on the records of the school entered on and indentured and supervised when indentured, and sub- school. sequently may be adopted as the other wards of said board. Where authority is given to indenture a child without send- Probate judge, ing it to said school, the probate judge will order it to be placed in the approved family by the county agent, and shall then send the certified copy of the proceedings before him and the certificate of the physician to said school. Upon Parental entering the order of the court, the child in all cases is release of. admitted to said school and becomes a ward of said board, and the parents of the child are released from all parental duties towards and responsibility for the child; and thereafter they shall have no right to its custody, services or earnings, except in cases where it may be restored to the parents by said board as hereinafter provided. rights, as to mind certificate. SEC. 9. Whenever, on the examination provided for in Examination this act, the judge of probate shall determine that the child and body. is dependent on the public for support, he shall cause it to be examined by the county physician of that county, if there be one, and if not, then by another reputable practicing physician, and shall in no case enter the order in his journal showing the child has been committed to said school, unless the physician making such examination shall certify Physician's in writing, under oath, filed in said court, that the child what to state. examined by him is in his opinion of sound mind and body and has no chronic or contagious disease, and in his opinion has not been exposed to any contagious disease within fifteen days prior to such examination before the judge of probate. A copy of such certificate shall be attached to the other papers Copy required by this act to accompany each child to said school. attached. The provisions of this section shall apply to all children ordered to be sent to said institution under any law of this State. assistance. SEC. 18. Any person who shall aid or assist a ward of Escape of the State Public School to escape therefrom, or who shall wards, aid or aid, assist or entice a ward of the State Public School to escape from a home in which said ward has been placed by officers of the school, or shall aid any such ward to leave the State, without the consent of the board of control of said institution, may be punished by imprisonment in the Penalty. State prison or State house of correction and reformatory for a term not exceeding two years or in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved April 21, 1909. Section amended. Apportion ment of benefit to township. Proviso, limit, unless necessity certified by commissioner. [No. 48.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter five of act number The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter five of act number two hundred fifty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and to repeal all other laws relative thereto," the same being compiler's section four thousand three hundred forty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, having been last amended by act number two hundred seventy-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The county drain commissioner shall shall apportion the per cent of the cost of construction of such drain which any township traversed or benefited thereby shall be liable to pay by reason of the benefit to the public health, convenience or welfare, or as the means of improving any highway: Provided, That for these purposes there shall not be spread upon the tax rolls of any township or townships through which the drain may pass more than twenty-five per cent of the entire cost of said drain, unless the township highway commissioner shall, before such apportionment is made, certify in writing to such drain commissioner that, as a means of improving any highway within the township, it is necessary that more than twenty-five per cent of the entire cost be assessed to such township, in which case the county drain commissioner shall determine the percentage of the entire cost to be assessed to such township. He shall also apportion the per cent of benefits to accrue to any piece against lands. or parcel of land by reason of the construction of such drain, over and above the per cent assessed against such township as aforesaid, which per cent of benefits shall be apportioned upon and assessed against the lands benefited according to such assessment of benefits, and which apportionments he shall announce at the time and place of letting, as provided in chapter four. Such assessment of per cent for benefits shall thereupon be subject to review and correction, Apportionment and assessment Review and correction. |