value, etc., of, by and annum. The Commissioner of Insurance shall, upon request Tables of of the Auditor General, prepare such tables of values, ex- preparing pectancies and other matters as may be necessary for use in and furnishing computing, under the provisions of this act, the value of to whom. life estates, annuities, reversions and remainders, which shall be printed and furnished by the Auditor General to the several judges of probate upon request: Provided further, Proviso as to That the clear market value of the transfer of a money money legacy. legacy, presently taxable, shall for the purposes of this act be taken to be the face value of the money at the date of death of decedent. by and to SEC. 19. Each county treasurer shall make a report under Report of oath to the Auditor General on January, April, July, and taxes, when, October first of each year of all taxes received by him under whom made. this act during the preceding calendar quarter, stating for what to state. what estate and by whom and when paid. If in any calendar quarter the county treasurer has received no tax under pay moneys. by whom salary. this act, the report shall affirmatively show this fact. The Form of. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. how paid. Sections amended. Deputy Secretary of State, salary. Deputy [No. 156.] AN ACT to amend sections five and twenty-six of chapter The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections five and twenty-six of chapter twelve of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six relating to certain State officers, the same being sections sixty-nine and ninety-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. The Secretary of State may appoint a deputy, and revoke such appointment at pleasure; and whenever the Secretary of State shall, by reason of sickness, absence, or other cause, be disabled from executing the duties of his office, his deputy, duly appointed, shall execute the duties thereof until such disability be removed or until a secretary shall be appointed, and such deputy shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per year, payable monthly from the general fund in the State treasury, in the same manner that the salaries of other State officers are paid. SEC. 26. The Auditor General may appoint a deputy for This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 157.] AN ACT to make it unlawful for any physician or surgeon engaged in the practice of medicine in this State to employ any solicitor, capper or drummer for the purpose of procuring patients; to subsidize any hotel or boarding house; or to pay or present to any person money or other valuable gift for bringing patients to him, and to prescribe the punishment therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: of solicitor, SECTION 1. Any physician or surgeon engaged in the prac- Employment tice of medicine in this State, who shall employ any solicitor, etc., unlawful. capper, or drummer for the purpose of procuring patients, or who shall subsidize any hotel or boarding house, or who shall pay or present to any person money or other valuable gift for bringing patients to him, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- Penalty. meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 158.] AN ACT to amend section fifteen of act number two hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane and to regulate the care, management and use thereof, and to provide for the apprehension of persons believed to be insane, and for their care and custody." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section fifteen of act number two hundred Section seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane and to regulate the care, management and use thereof, and to provide for the apprehension of persons believed to be insane, and for their care and custody," is amended to read as follows: Certificates SEC. 15. Certificates of insanity must be made by two of insanity. reputable physicians, under oath, appointed by the probate Form of. Physician not to be interested personally. Personal examination. Certificates, What to show. court of the county where such alleged insane person resides, or is an inhabitant, to conduct the examination. The physicians must be permanent residents of the State, duly registered according to law, have the qualifications prescribed by the laws of this State for the practice of medicine and surgery therein, and shall not be related by blood or marriage to the alleged insane person, nor to the person applying for such certificate, and such qualification shall be certified to by the clerk of the county in which such physicians reside, which certificate shall be in the following form: is a duly registered physician and surgeon, and has the qualifications prescribed by the laws of this State for the practice of medicine and surgery therein, as shown by.... .certificate of registration now on file in my office. (Seal.) County Clerk. Neither of such physicians shall be a trustee, superintendent, proprietor, officer, stockholder, or have any pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, or be an attending physician, in the institution to which it is proposed to commit such person. The physicians are empowered to go where said alleged insane person may be and make such personal examination of him as to enable them to form an opinion as to his sanity or insanity, and no certificate of insanity shall be made except after such personal examination. Certifi cates of insanity must show that it is the opinion of the physicians that the alleged insane person is actually insane, and shall contain the facts and circumstances upon which the opinion of the physicians is based, and show that the condition of the person examined is such as to require care and treatment in an asylum for the care, custody and treatCompensation. ment of the insane. Each physician making such examination and certifying the condition as to the sanity of such alleged insane person, shall, regardless of whether he finds such person to be insane or not, be entitled to receive for such services a sum of not less than five dollars, and ten cents per mile for travel necessarily performed in going to the place of such examination, and such further sum for expenses as the probate court shall allow. Approved June 17, 1907. [No. 159.] AN ACT to amend section forty-eight b of act number fortyone of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to amend act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of. eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan,' approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, by adding a new section to stand between sections forty-eight a and forty-nine of said act, to be known as section forty-eight b." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section forty-eight b of act number forty-one Section of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An amended. act to amend act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan,' approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, by adding a new section to stand between sections forty-eight a and forty-nine of said act, to be known as section forty-eight b," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 48 b. In the thirty-seventh circuit of the State of Stenographer, Michigan the stenographer shall be paid the annual salary salary of. of fifteen hundred dollars. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 160.] AN ACT to provide for the salary of a stenographer in the thirty-ninth judicial circuit. The People of the State of Michigan enact: stenographer, SECTION 1. In the thirty-ninth judicial circuit, the circuit circuit court court stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of twelve salary of. hundred dollars, out of the treasury of Lenawee county, in the manner required by law. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |