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[ No. 37. ]

AN ACT to amend section ten of act number two hundred and thirty of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, being an act to amend chapter seven, of act number two hundred and forty-three, of the public acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within the State," and acts amendatory thereof.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section amended. That section ten of chapter seven of act number two hundred and thirty, of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

to act jointly.

SEC. 10. Whenever the commissioners of highways of any Bridges in two two adjoining townships in different counties shall determine constructed and that an exigency exists requiring that a bridge should be maintained. constructed on or across the county line over any stream or sink-hole, either crossing or running along the boundary line between such townships, such bridge shall be built and maintained at the equal joint expense of such townships. The commissioners of the townships interested, either of Commissioners whom may give notice to the other, of meetings of said commissioners for the purposes mentioned in this act, shall jointly agree upon the plans and specifications for such bridge, and shall jointly let contracts for the construction thereof, in the same manner as near as may be, as provided in section one of this chapter for letting similar [contracts] contract: Provided, That no such [contracts] contract shall be proviso. let until the money necessary to cover the contract price shall have been raised or provided for by vote of the electors of said adjoining townships as provided for in sections three and four of this chapter.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 21, 1891.

[ No. 38. ]

AN ACT to amend section six of act two hundred and seventy-three of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for selecting and drawing jurors for the circuit court of the county of Saginaw," being section seven thousand six hundred and thirtyj of Howell's Annotated Statutes.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section amended. That section six of act two hundred and seventy-three of

the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty

Duty of clerk on receiving lists.

Names to be

nine, entitled "An act to provide for the selecting and drawing jurors for the circuit court of the county of Saginaw," being section seven thousand six hundred and thirty j of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 6. On receiving such lists, the county clerk shall file the same in his office, and shall write down the names contained therein on separate pieces of paper of the same size and appearance, as near as may be, and shall fold up each of said pieces of paper so as to conceal the names thereon; and he shall make two separate packages for each township and for each ward in the cities of said county, one package for the names of the grand jurors and one for the names of the petit jurors, upon each of which packages he shall indorse the name of the township, or ward in any city in which the persons whose names are contained in such package reside, and also indorse the words, "grand jurors" and "petit jurors," respectively on such packages containing the names of the same. He shall place in package marked placed in pack "grand jurors" all the names appearing upon the list returned as grand jurors, and in the package marked "petit jurors" all the names returned upon the list marked "petit. jurors," from the township or ward represented by the name indorsed upon such package; and he shall number said packages in numerical order, commencing with number How jury drawn. one. The drawing of jurors for service in said court shall be conducted in the manner provided by the general statutes now, or at any time hereafter in force, regulating the drawing of jurors in courts of record. All names once drawn shall, in case the person so drawn shall serve as a juryman, be destroyed, so that the same person shall not be required to serve as a juryman more than one term of said court in any one year.

ages.

Ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 21, 1891.

Section amended.

[No. 39.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-seven of act two hundred forty-four of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to authorize the incorporation of companies for the construction of union railroad stations and depots, with the necessary connecting [tracks] tracts, and the management of the same," the same being section thirty-four hundred and eighty-four of Howell's Annotated Statutes.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section twenty-seven of act two hundred forty-four of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred eighty

struction within

one, entitled "An act to authorize the incorporation of com-
panies for the construction of union railroad stations and
depots, with the necessary connecting [tracks] tracts, and the
management of the same," the same being section thirty-four
hundred and eighty-four of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be
and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
SEC. 27. If any such company shall not, within one year To begin con-
after its organization, begin the construction of its depots one year, etc.
or tracks, and expend thereon forty per cent on the amount
of the capital stock subscribed, and so far complete as to
put the same in active operation with the necessary machin-
ery and buildings for the most economical and rapid handling
and transaction of all the business of all the companies
using its tracks and station grounds, in three years from the
time of its organization, its act of incorporation shall become
void.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 21, 1891.

[ No. 40. ]

AN ACT to prevent the killing of deer in the counties of
Allegan and Van Buren for a period of three years.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Deer protected That any person or persons who shall kill any deer within for three years. the counties of Allegan or Van Buren for a period of three years shall be punished as provided by section two of this

act.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall kill any deer Penalty. within the counties of Allegan and Van Buren for a period of three years, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars and costs or thirty days imprisonment in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. Approved April 23, 1891.

[No. 41.]

AN ACT to provide for the protection of associations and unions of workingmen and artisans, or other persons in their labels, trade-marks, and forms of advertisement, and to punish the counterfeiting and fraudulent use of such labels, trade-marks, and forms of advertisement.

imitate trade

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Unlawful to That whenever any association or union of workingmen or mark, label, etc. artisans or other persons, citizens of the United States, have

Use of counterfelt, false, and fraudulent labels

adopted or shall hereafter adopt for their protection, or for the purposes of designating or advertising the manufactured goods or product of any member or members thereof, any label, trade-mark or form of advertisement to be attached to such goods or product, or to any box, boxes, case, cases, package or packages, containing or made to contain any such goods or product, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to make or procure to be made any counterfeit or imitation of such label, trade-mark or form of advertisement, or any false and fraudulent label, trade-mark or form of advertisement which is intended or liable to deceive the public into the belief that it is the genuine label, trademark or form of advertisement of such association or union, or any false or fraudulent label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement purporting on its face to have been issued by, or by authority of any such association or union.

SEC. 2. No person, firm or corporation, shall use any of the counterfeit, false or fraudulent labels mentioned in secprohibited, etc. tion one of this act, nor display the genuine label, trademark, or form of advertisement of any such association or union in any manner not authorized by such association or union; nor sell, offer, or expose for sale any manufactured article or articles on which, or on the box, case or package in which such manufactured article or articles are packed or inclosed, shall be attached any of the counterfeit, false or fraudulent labels, trade-marks or forms of advertisement mentioned in section one of this act; nor in any way use the name or seal of any such association or union, or of its officers or any of them, in and about the sale of goods, or otherwise, without authority or license from such association, union, officer or officers; nor use for boxing, encasing or packing any goods, product or manufacture not produced by such association or union, or any member or members thereof, any box, case or package to which the genuine label, trade-mark or form of advertisement of any such association or union, has previously been lawfully In case of suits, attached. In suits or proceedings for damage, or for equitable relief by or on behalf of any such association or union, on account of the violation of any provision of this act, it shall not be necessary to prove that such violation was knowingly or willfully committed.

etc.

misdemeanor.

Violation of, a SEC. 3. Any person, whether a member of a firm or corporation, or otherwise, who shall violate any of the provisions of section one of this act, or who shall knowingly or willfully violate any provisions of section two of this act, shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor thereby, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Penalty,

SEC. 4. In actions at law

or proceedings in equity

request, or in whose behalf any such request shall have been made, or shall make known to any person any name selected and returned on any jury list before the same may have been drawn from the jury box, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- Penalty for. demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one month, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 23. Said board of jury commissioners shall, when List of grand ordered by the circuit court for the county of Wayne, make jurors, a list of suitable persons having the qualifications of petit jurors to serve as grand jurors. Such list shall contain one hundred and fifty names, and shall be made up from the county at large, without reference to any division into wards or townships; and when a grand jury shall be ordered to be drawn, the clerk shall give the same notices and take the same proceedings as is provided in the case of drawing petit jurors for drawing the names of twenty-three persons from said list of grand jurors, to serve as grand jurors, and the same shall be summoned and served in like manner and with like pay as petit jurors. If any of the persons whose names shall be drawn as grand jurors shall not appear, or shall be exempted or excused, the court may order a sufficient number to be drawn and summoned to complete the panel. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 24, 1891.

[ No. 43. ]

AN ACT to amend section six of an act entitled "An act to provide for a State Board of Equalization," approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as amended by act number eighty-five, public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section three hundred and twentyfour of Howell's Annotated Statutes.

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section six of an act entitled "An act to provide for a State Board of Equalization," approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as amended by act number eighty-five, public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section three hundred and twenty-four of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

equalize assess

SEC. 6. A meeting of the board of supervisors for the Meeting to year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be held on the ment rolls. fourth Monday of June, and on the fourth Monday of June every fifth year thereafter; and when convened, the board shall proceed to equalize the assessment rolls in the same

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