increase of capacity at the same time: Provided, That at any annual Proviso, as to township meeting, the electors of the township may, by a compensation. majority vote of those present and voting, increase the compensation of any or all of the officers mentioned in this section, excepting as above provided for the supervisor, to a sum not to exceed two dollars per day. Approved May 22, 1907. [No. 99.] AN ACT making appropriations for the West Michigan State Fair Association for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the use of Appropriation. the West Michigan State Fair Association for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of five thousand dollars; and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of five thousand dollars. proviso. SEC. 2. The amounts appropriated by section one of this How used. act are to be used by said association for the payment of premiums to be awarded at the annual fair of nineteen hundred seven, and the annual fair of nineteen hundred eight, on agricultural, horticultural, manufactured and domestic products and live stock grown or produced in the State of Michigan, said premiums to be awarded under the direction of the executive committee of said association: Provided, Proviso. That said association shall award and pay the further sum of five thousand dollars in premiums at each of the annual fairs of the years above mentioned: Provided further, That Further five thousand dollars in premiums to be paid by the West Michigan State Fair Association shall be exclusive of any premiums paid by said association for speed purposes. SEC. 3. The five thousand dollars appropriated by this How paid. act for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, shall be paid out of the general fund of the State treasury to the treasurer of the West Michigan State Fair Association on presentation of a requisition signed by a majority of the executive committee of said association, accompanied by a certificate signed by the president and secretary of said association that the amount of five thousand dollars has been awarded and paid in premiums upon exhibits of products grown or produced in the State of Michigan at the annual fair in nineteen hundred seven, exclusive of any Proviso, vouchers. Further proviso. Further proviso. Tax clause. premiums paid by said association for speed purposes: Provided, That within thirty days after the payment of the said five thousand dollars by the State, the executive committee shall file vouchers with the Auditor General showing the amount of premiums paid on account of said fair in the year of nineteen hundred seven: Provided further, That in case the said premiums, exclusive of those paid by said association for speed purposes, shall amount to less than ten thousand dollars as shown by the vouchers thus filed by the Auditor General, the treasurer of said society shall accompany the vouchers with a draft in such an amount as added to the total payments represented by the vouchers will equal ten thousand dollars: Provided further, That the five thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, shall be subject to the same requirements as provided for the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight. No portion of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, shall be paid to the treasurer of said West Michigan State Fair Association, unless the provisions applicable to the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, shall have been complied with. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of five thousand dollars and for the year nineteen hundred eight, the sum of five 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. Appropriation, for 1908. How used. [No. 100.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, Michigan, for general repairs and other improvements for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, Michigan, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of three thousand seven hundred seventy-five dollars for purposes and amounts as follows: For general repairs, two thousand two hundred fifty dollars; for library, two hundred dollars; for stationery and printing, two hundred fifty dollars; for farm, garden and lawn, three hundred seventy-five dollars and for furnishing the kitchen and administration buildings, seven hundred dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of three thousand seventy-five For 1909. dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, for purposes and amounts as follows: For general repairs, How used. two thousand two hundred fifty dollars; for library, two hundred dollars; for stationery and printing, two hundred fifty dollars and for farm, garden and lawn, three hundred seventy-five dollars. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the warden of the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of three thousand seven hundred seventy-five dollars and for the year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of three thousand seventy-five dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 101.] AN ACT to regulate the carrying on of business under an assumed or fictitious name. The People of the State of Michigan enact: conducted assumed SECTION 1. No person or persons shall hereafter carry on How business or conduct or transact business in this State under any as- may be sumed name, or under any designation, name or style, cor- under porate or otherwise, other than the real name or names of name. the individual or individuals owning, conducting or transacting such business, unless such person or persons shall file in Certificate to the office of the clerk of the county or counties in which such what to set person or persons own, conduct, or transact, or intend to forth, etc. cwn, conduct or transact such business, or maintain an office or place of business, a certificate setting forth the name under which such business owned is, or is to be conducted, or transacted, and the true or real full name or names of the be filed, Proviso. Provisions fees, etc. person or persons owning, conducting or transacting the same, with the home and post office address or addresses of said person or persons. Said certificate shall be executed and duly acknowledged by the person or persons so owning, conducting, or intending to conduct said business: Provided, That the selling of goods by sample or through traveling agents or traveling salesmen or by means of orders forwarded by the purchaser through the mails, shall not be construed for the purpose of this act as conducting or transacting business so as to require the filing of said certificates. SEC. 2. Persons now owning or conducting such business under an assumed name, or under any such designation referred to in section one, shall file such certificate as hereinbefore prescribed, within thirty days after this act shall take effect, and persons hereafter owning, conducting or transacting business as aforesaid shall, before commencing said business, file such certificate in the manner hereinbefore prescribed. County clerks SEC. 3. The several county clerks of this State shall keep to keep index, an alphabetical index of all persons filing certificates, provided for herein, and for the indexing and filing of such certificates, they shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents. A copy of such certificate duly certified to by the county clerk in whose office the same shall be filed, shall be presumptive evidence in all courts of law in this State of the facts therein contained. Not to apply to certain SEC. 4. This act shall in no way affect or apply to any corporation, partnership association, limited or special partcorporations, nership duly organized under the laws of this State, or to any corporation organized under the laws of any other state and lawfully doing business in this State. etc. Penalty for violation. SEC. 5. Any person or persons owning, carrying on or conducting or transacting business as aforesaid, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and each day any person or persons shall violate any provision of this act shall be deemed a separate offense. Approved May 22, 1907. [No. 102.] AN ACT to prohibit fishing with, using or setting seines, gill nets, or any form of pound, trap, sweep or set nets, or like device, or any spear, night lines or set lines, in any of the waters of Little Bay de Noquette and the tributaries thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: etc., pro SECTION 1. No person or persons shall fish with, use or Nets, spears, set any seines, gill nets, or any form of pound, trap, sweep hibited. or set nets, or any like device, or use any spear, night line, or set line, for taking fish in any of the waters of this State known as Little Bay de Noquette, which within the meaning of this act, shall be defined as those waters of Little Bay de Noquette, and tributaries north from a line drawn from the extreme end of Saunder's Point on the west shore to the extreme end of Squaw Point on the east shore. violation. SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating any of the pro- Penalty for visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice having jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and cost of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. certain SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Game Warden, Duty of the commissioners of State fisheries and the sheriffs, within officers. their respective jurisdictions, to enforce the provisions of this act, and when, upon complaint or information otherwise obtained, they shall discover any violations thereof, to institute the necessary proceedings to punish the offenders, and it shall be their duty to seize and destroy any nets found, used or set in violation of this act. nuisance. SEC. 4. Any and all such nets set in said prohibited waters Nets declared in violation of the provisions of this act are hereby declared public to be a public nuisance, and may be taken up and destroyed by any person finding the same, without criminal or civil liability. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts contravening the pro- Repealing visions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take effect October thirty, nineteen hundred seven. Approved May 22, 1907. 16 clause. |