violation. (e) Anyone refusing to comply with any of the provi- Penalty for sions of this act, and any parent, guardian or other person who shall wilfully refuse to send any children coming within the provisions of this act and not herein expressly exempted, to the Michigan School for the Blind, or who shall detain any such children who should be in attendance at said school, shall, upon conviction by any court of competent authority, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to such penalties as are prescribed in said act two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five as amended for the violation of any of its provisions. All pro- Act applicable. visions of said act two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five are made applicable hereto except in so far as they may be inconsistent herewith. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 117.] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of mutual provident associations of volunteer, part paid and fully paid members of organized fire departments. The People of the State of Michigan enact: poration. SECTION 1. Any number of persons not less than seven, Number necesbeing volunteer, part paid or fully paid members of organ- sary for incorized fire departments, desirous of being incorporated for the purpose of raising, maintaining and disbursing a fund for the mutual aid of active firemen, to be applied in any or all of the following manners, under such rules and regulations as may be established by the corporation: First, To provide an indemnity for members totally incapacitated from following their employment by accident or disease; Second, To provide indemnity to members for the loss of hands or feet, or either hand or foot; Third, To provide a death benefit not to exceed one hundred dollars for the burial of such deceased fireman; may become a body corporate in pursuance of this act. Purposes of incorporation. how executed, SEC. 2. Such persons shall execute under their hands and Articles of acknowledge before some person authorized to take acknowl- agreement, edgments of deeds, two or more duplicate articles of agree- where filed. ment, as hereinafter specified, one copy of which shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Commissioner of Insurance, and a record shall be made of such articles, or of a certified copy thereof, in the clerk's office in the county and State where the office of such association for the transaction Articles of association, what to contain. Election of of bonds, etc. of business may be located; and upon the execution and ac- SEC. 3. The articles of association shall contain: First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance and their places of residence; Second, The name of such corporation and the place where its office for the transaction of business is located; Third, The objects for which said association is organized and the period for which it is incorporated, not to exceed thirty years; Fourth, The number of trustees and officers, and the time and place of holding its annual meeting; Fifth, The terms and conditions of active and honorary membership therein. SEC. 4. Such association shall not commence business unofficers, filing til it has fully organized by the election of the proper officers, and the secretary and treasurer shall have given good and sufficient bonds to the association to be held by the president of the association for the faithful performance of their duties, which bonds shall not be less than two thousand dollars and shall be at least twice the amount of money liable to come in their hands as such officers at any one time; said bonds to be approved by the Commissioner of Insurance. Acquisition of real estate. Funds, how used. Salaries of officers, etc. Trustees may regulations. SEC. 5. No such corporation shall have power to take or hold any real estate, except such as may be necessary for the transaction of its business and the purposes for which it is organized. SEC. 6. All funds received by any such corporation shall be used in the first instance, or shall be invested and the income thereof used for the exclusive purposes set forth in the articles of association, and no portion of the funds of said corporation shall in any case be otherwise applied. No premium shall be paid to any person for procuring members to such association, and the total amount of salaries paid by any such corporation shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per year for each five hundred members. SEC. 7. The trustees of such corporation shall have power make rules and to prescribe the terms, rules and regulations as set forth under the articles of association, upon which members shall be admitted and continued, and entitled to the benefits provided for in the articles of incorporation thereof, and every member shall be deemed to have assented to such terms and conditions by the act of accepting membership. Benefits, not subject to claims of creditors. SEC. 8. When, under the rules of any society formed under this act, any money shall become due for the use or benefit of a member, such money shall be free from all claims by the creditors of such member. honorary SEC. 9. The members of any association formed under Election of this act, by a two-thirds vote at any regular meeting, may members. elect any person to be an honorary member of the society, but no honorary member shall hold office or receive any money benefits from such association. SEC. 10. Every association doing business under this act Annual report. shall annually, on or before the first day of March in each year, report to the Commissioner of Insurance the names and addresses of its president, secretary, treasurer and other officers, and the location of the principal office of such society in this State; and shall make any further statement of its membership and financial transactions for the year ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December, with such other information relating thereto as said Commissioner may deem necessary for a proper exhibit of its business and standing; and the Commissioner of Insurance may at any other Examination time require any further statement he may deem necessary to be made relating to the proper exhibit of the business of such society or association. For the purpose of verifying any such statement, or of ascertaining the true condition of the association making it, the Commissioner of Insurance may at any time make, or cause to be made, an examination of the affairs of any such association doing business under this act, at the expense of such association. of affairs. of authority. SEC. 11. Upon the filing of such annual statement, if the Certificate commissioner shall find that the association making the same is still organized and doing business in conformity to the provisions of this act, and that the financial condition of the association is satisfactory, and the society has complied with the provisions of the law, he shall issue his certificate authorizing such association to do business in this State for a period of one year from the first day of April of the year of its issuance, unless sooner revoked. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. AN ACT to make appropriations for the State Public School 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: expenses. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current Current expenses of the State Public School, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of forty thou For specific purposes. sand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of forty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of thirteen thousand two hundred ninety dollars is hereby appropriated by amounts and for purposes as follows: Eleven thousand nine hundred ninety dollars for improvements and repairs; five hundred dollars for furniture and bedding; five hundred dollars for library books and supplies; and three hundred dollars for Proviso as to industrial training supplies: Provided, That the board of control of said school may obtain money under this section before July first, nineteen hundred seven, in such amounts as they may by requisition certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use, which amounts thus advanced shall be deducted from the total amount appropriated when the appropriation becomes available. obtaining advanced moneys. How paid. Tax clause. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury, to the treasurer of the State Public School, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven the sum of fifty-three thousand two hundred ninety dollars and for the year nineteen hundred eight the sum of forty thousand dollars, which sum 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. Delinquent tax lands by whom deeded. AN ACT to authorize the Auditor General to deed certain delinquent tax lands to the city of Grand Rapids. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Upon filing with the Auditor General due when, to and proof that the city of Grand Rapids is the owner of the fee of the lands hereinafter specified, and upon receiving payment of the amount due for State taxes, interest and charges thereon, the said Auditor General shall, within one year from the date this act shall take effect, deed to the city of Grand Rapids the following described lands, to-wit: Lots one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve, and the east nine feet of lot thirteen, all in block eighteen, and lots twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty Lands specified. three, twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six and lot five, all convey tax lien. [No. 120.] AN ACT making appropriations for special purposes for the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and to provide a tax therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: appropriation. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the fiscal Amount of year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula, the sum of nine thousand eight hundred dollars for purposes and amounts as follows: Five hundred ninety dol- Purposes. lars for farm, garden, stock and grounds; six hundred sev enty-five dollars for engineer's department; six hundred twenty-five dollars for cold storage room; one hundred sixty dollars for extractor for laundry; five hundred dollars for galvanized cornice; four hundred fifty dollars for ceiling and plastering engine room; six hundred dollars for approach to gate; two thousand dollars for general repairs; four thou sand two hundred dollars for the following described land, namely: Southeast quarter of southwest quarter and lots two and four, all in section thirty-six, town forty-eight north, range twenty-five west, Marquette county, Michigan, being ninety-two and fifty one hundredths acres more or less: Pro- Proviso as to vided, That if the amount designated in this section for any propriations. one purpose stated be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in this section may, by obtaining the consent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and of the Auditor General in writing before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the amount or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable; the intent of this proviso being to make the entire nine thousand eight hundred dollars available for the purposes stated herein if in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and of the Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made. transfer of ap |