[No. 174.] AN ACT to provide for safety to life and property in this State in the use and construction of steam boilers; creating a board of boiler rules to prescribe uniform rules and regulations for boilers used in this State; to define the powers of the board of boiler rules; to provide penalties for the violation of this act and rules and regulations of the board of boiler rules, and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Governor of the State of Michigan shall Membership appoint four citizens of recognized knowledge of the use and of board. construction of steam boilers, who with the professor of mechanical engineering of the Michigan College of Mines or the Michigan Agricultural College or the University of Michigan shall act as members of a board of boiler rules. The Salary and members of the board shall serve without salary and shall meetings. meet twice yearly at Lansing, Michigan, and be allowed their traveling expenses under the rules of the Auditor General's office. This board shall gather statistics of causes of steam Duties. boiler explosions and formulate rules and regulations for the safe and proper use and construction of steam boilers. The rules and regulations so formulated shall be substantially in conformity with the boiler code of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Provided, That railroad locomotive Proviso, exboilers shall be excepted from the provisions of this act. The ception. statistics of steam boiler explosions gathered by said board of statistics. shall be printed and distributed to the members of the next Legislature of Michigan, and to any resident of Michigan making a request for such statistics. Publication effective and SEC. 2. The rules formulated by the board of boiler rules Rules, when shall become effective and binding on manufacturers and in force. users of boilers upon the approval of the Governor and the Attorney General. Rules requiring a change in methods of construction of boilers or in the character of materials used, shall not be enforced until one year after their approval by the Governor and Attorney General. SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of Penalty. the rules and regulations or requirements of the board of boiler rules shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. tion. SEC. 4. The sum of five hundred dollars is appropriated Appropriafor printing and distribution of the rules formulated by the board of boiler rules. The chairman of the board of boiler rules shall sign all vouchers for expenditures under this act. SEC. 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed as abolishing any department, office or officer now existing in any city in this State. SEC. 6. Nothing in this act shall affect any boilers now in use while the ownership remains unchanged. Approved May 2, 1917. Sections amended. Fee for general license. [No. 175.] AN ACT to amend sections three and nine of act number two hundred sixty-three, Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for an angler's license for non-residents of the State to take or catch or attempt to take or catch fish with hook and line or any other device in the lakes and streams within the jurisdiction of the State of Michigan; to provide that licensees may take from the State one day's legal catch; to provide for the issuance of licenses and collection of fees therefor; to authorize and regulate the disbursement of license fees collected; to provide a penalty for the violation of this act, and to repeal act number three hundred twenty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, being sections seven thousand seven hundred thirty-eight and seven thousand seven hundred forty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections three and nine of act number two hundred sixty-three, Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for an angler's license for nonresidents of the State to take or catch or attempt to take or catch fish with hook and line or any other device in the lakes and streams within the jurisdiction of the State of Michigan; to provide that licensees may take from the State one day's legal catch; to provide for the issuance of licenses and collection of fees therefor; to authorize and regulate the disbursement of license fees collected; to provide a penalty for the violation of this act, and to repeal act number three hundred twenty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, being sections seven thousand seven hundred thirtyeight and seven thousand seven hundred forty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen," are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. The fee for each license issued under the provisions of this act authorizing the licensee to fish for all kinds of fish shall be five dollars, which license shall be designated license. lected, where may retain ten per cent. and known as a general license. The fee for a license to fish Special for all kinds of fish except grayling, land-locked salmon and all kinds of trout shall be one dollar and such license shall be designated and known as a "special license." All license Fees colfees so collected shall be paid to the State Board of Fish paid. Commissioners and by them into the State treasury quarterly: Provided, That all public officials hereby authorized to is- Proviso, who sue licenses and collect license fees, and who do not receive a regular salary from the State, may retain ten per cent of all moneys received by them for licenses issued, in full payment for their services in issuing and collecting. The Angler's IlState Treasurer shall place all moneys received from such li cense fees to the credit of a fund to be known as the angler's license fund, which shall be used by the State Board of Fish Commissioners for the purposes necessary in the propagation and distribution of fish, including the acquiring of lands, construction of ponds, buildings and equipment, and such other purposes as are authorized by act number sixty-three, Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five. SEC. 9. This act is ordered to take effect January first, nineteen hundred eighteen. Approved May 2, 1917. cense fund. [No. 176.] AN ACT authorizing and requiring the purchase of certain primary school lands for general State public purposes, and making an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: authorized. SECTION 1. The Board of State Auditors are hereby au- Land transfer thorized and required to purchase and hold, and the Public Domain Commission to sell and convey to said Board of State Auditors, all that certain parcel of land, situate in the city of Lansing, described as block one hundred twenty-five of said city, according to the plat thereof, the same being primary school lands granted under the act of Congress dated June twenty-third, eighteen hundred thirty-six. The consideration for such sale and transfer shall be the sum of one dollar. SEC. 2. The lands and premises to be so sold and con- Public purveyed shall be occupied and used, or the proceeds from the pose only. sale thereof, by the State and only for public purposes, and if used to the contrary, the title thereto, herein authorized to be transferred, shall thereupon revert to the Public Domain Commission to be held as primary school lands. The deed to said lands shall be deposited with the Auditor General. Appropriation. SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one dollar, which sum shall, upon the completion of the conveyance herein authorized, be accredited by the State Treasurer to the primary school fund of the State, and such crediting shall constitute and be the payment of the consideration for such conveyance. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. [No. 177.] AN ACT to amend section two of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," being section four thousand three hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, and to add two new sections to be known as section eighteen and section nineteen of chapter five, for the purpose of making an appropriation to be used for salaries and running expenses of the State Highway Department for the two fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nineteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred. nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," being section four thousand three hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended, and two new sections added to said act to stand Sections as sections eighteen and nineteen of chapter five thereof, said added. amended section and added sections to read as follows: In Office elective. office. SEC. 2. The chief officer of said department shall be de- State highnominated as the State Highway Commissioner. He shall missioner. be a competent highway engineer experienced in the administration of highway affairs and shall be a citizen of this State. He shall have his office at the seat of government and shall personally superintend the duties thereof. the year nineteen hundred thirteen and every four years thereafter, a State Highway Commissioner shall be nominated and elected by the people of the State of Michigan at the same time and in the same manner as the justices of the Supreme Court are nominated and elected. The commis- Oath. sioner so elected shall on the first day of July following his election take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and shall file the same in the office of the Secretary of State, and the said commissioner shall give the people of the State of Michigan a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the Auditor General, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. His term of office shall Term of be four years from that date and until his successor is duly elected and qualified. He shall receive an annual salary of Salary. three thousand five hundred dollars. The State Highway Deputy. Commissioner may appoint a deputy who shall be a competent highway engineer experienced in road building. Such deputy shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and whenever the commissioner shall be disabled from executing the duties of this office, his deputy, duly appointed, shall execute the duties of said commissioner until such disability be removed. The salary of such deputy Salary. shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum and be fixed by the State Highway Commissioner. The commissioner may employ such other clerks and en- Clerks and gineers as may be necessary to perform the duties incumbent engineers. upon the department. The salaries of the commissioner, How salaries deputy commissioner and others employed by authority of paid. this act shall be paid upon the warrant of the Auditor General in the same manner as other State officers and employes are paid; and all other expenses shall be approved by the Board of State Auditors and paid upon the warrant of the Auditor General. Whenever a vacancy shall occur vacancy, in said office of commissioner by reason of death, resignation how filled. or otherwise, the Governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, but such appointee shall hold office only until the next general State election when a new commissioner shall be elected for the unexpired term. The commissioner Biennial shall make a biennial report to the Governor, which report report. shall contain the name and compensation of each and every person that may be or has been employed by the depart |