Visitors, who Report of board. the board of trustees as provided in section two of this act; when the entire number of graduates with the bachelor's degree shall have reached nine hundred, said Alumni Association may, as hereinbefore provided, elect and maintain five representatives in said board of trustees, and when the total number of graduates with the bachelor's degree shall have reached one thousand, then and thereafter said Alumni Association shall be empowered to elect and maintain six trustees, as provided in section two, making the total number of trustees, including the president of the college, nineteen, and no more. SEC. 8. The Michigan and Detroit Annual Conferences of may appoint. the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Alumni Association of Albion College shall have the power to appoint visitors to said college, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State may appoint three visitors annually; the board of trustees shall make a full report of the state and condition of said college to the Michigan and Detroit Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church and to the Alumni Association at each annual session, and to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State, who shall incorporate the same in his annual report or so much thereof as he may deem proper. Endowment Fund Commit terms, etc. SEC. 9. A committee is hereby constituted and continued, tee, members, to be known as the Albion College Endowment Fund Committee, to consist of three persons who shall be chosen or elected by the board of trustees of Albion College, each of whom shall serve for a period of six years from and after the first day of January immediately succeeding the date of his election as a member of said Albion College Endowment Fund Committee, except as provided in section ten hereof. Compensation. The members of said committee may receive such reasonable compensation for their services as said board of trustees shall allow; all vacancies occurring in said committee shall be filled by said board of trustees. Said committee shall appoint one of their own number treasurer, with power and authority to execute and acknowledge discharges of all liens, mortgages or other securities held by said committee whenever the same shall have been paid in full, and said treasurer shall give to the board of trustees of Albion College a good and sufficient bond to be approved by said board of trustees. Treasurer, power, bond, etc. Present mem- SEC. 10. The members of said Albion College Endowment Fund Committee as now constituted shall be and are hereby continued, that is to say: The committee shall consist of Samuel Dickie, of Albion, Michigan, whose term of office as a member of said committee shall terminate January first, nineteen hundred ten; Clement Smith, of Hastings, Michigan, whose term of office shall terminate January first, nineteen hundred twelve, and William H. Brace, of Detroit, Michigan, whose term of office shall terminate January first, nineteen hundred fourteen. Committee as SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of said committee to receive Duty, etc., of all moneys and other property, real and personal, that may to moneys. be subscribed, collected, donated, devised or bequeathed for the purpose of increasing the endowment fund of said Albion College and to invest the same in such manner as the committee shall deem best, having due regard to the security of the investment as well as to the income derived therefrom, it being intended hereby to charge said committee with the sole management and control of said endowment fund in trust for said Albion College. SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of said committee to report Report. to the board of trustees, semi-annually and at such other times as said board may require, the amount and condition of said fund and the amount of interest which shall have accrued on the same, and to pay over semi-annually the interest so accruing to the said board of trustees, the same to be paid to the treasurer of the board of trustees of Albion College. SEC. 13. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Repealing provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. clause. [No. 80.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-five of chapter two hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "Wills of real and personal estate," being compiler's section nine thousand two hundred eighty-five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of chapter two hundred Section forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "Wills of real and personal estate," being compilers' section nine thousand two hundred eighty-five, is hereby amended to read as follows: after making SEC. 25. When any child shall be born after the making Provision for of his father's or his mother's will and no provision shall be children born made therein for such child, he or she shall have the same of will. share in the estate of the testator as if the parent had died intestate. And the share of such child shall be assigned to him as provided by law in case of intestate estates, unless it shall be apparent from the will that it was the intention of the testator that no provision should be made for such child. Approved May 8, 1907. Unlawful to defraud [No. 81.] AN ACT for the protection of boarding house keepers. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person who shall stop, put up, board or boarding lodge at any boarding house as a guest or boarder by the day, house keepers. week or month, or shall procure any food, entertainment or accommodation without paying therefor, unless there is a distinct and express agreement made by such person with the owner, proprietor or keeper of such boarding house for credit, with intent to defraud such owner, proprietor or keeper out of the pay for such board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodation, or any person who, with intent so to defraud, shall obtain credit at any boarding house for such board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodation, by means of any false show of baggage or effects brought thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Penalty. What deemed prima facie evidence. SEC. 2. Proof that board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodation was obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of baggage, or that the person refused or neglected to pay for such board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodation on demand, or that he absconded or left the premises without paying or offering to pay for such board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodation, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his baggage, shall be prima facie proof of the fraudulent intent mentioned in section one of this aet. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 82.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, six, seven, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two, as amended, of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for a county and township system of roads and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers having the charge thereof;" to amend section twenty-five of said act as added by act number ninety-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyfive; to amend sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of said act as added by act number two hundred thirty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five; to amend and renumber sections twenty-five and twenty-six of said act as added by act number one hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven; to amend section thirty of said act as added by act number seventy of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, and to add one new section to said act to stand as section number thirty-one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: numbered and SECTION 1. Sections one, two, six, seven, twenty, twenty- Sections one and twenty-two, as amended, of act number one hundred amended, reforty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, added. entitled "An act to provide for a county and township system of roads and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers having the charge thereof," are hereby amended; section twenty-five of said act as added by act number ninety-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five is hereby amended; sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of said act as added by act number two hundred thirty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, are hereby amended; sections twenty-five and twenty-six of said act as added by act number one hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven are hereby amended and renumbered to stand as sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine; section thirty of said act as added by act number seventy of the public acts of nineteen hundred five is hereby amended; one new section, to stand as section number thirty-one is hereby added to said act; said amended and added sections to read as follows: mission of. SEC. 1. On petition of not less than ten freeholders resid- Question, subing in each of the several organized townships, incorporated villages and cities, of any county, or upon a majority vote of the members of the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors of such county shall submit the question of adopting the county road system to a vote of the electors of such county. The said board of supervisors may submit the question at a general or special election called for that purpose, but they shall submit it not later than at the next general Resolution, form of. Time to elapse before election.. Notice, by whom given, etc. election. The following form of resolution shall be sufficient general or special election) to be held on the day of ... SEC. 2. At least three weeks shall intervene between the adoption of the resolution by the board of supervisors and the time of holding such election. After the adoption of the resolution by the board of supervisors, the county clerk shall give notice thereof. Such notice shall be addressed to the electors of the county and shall set forth the action of the board of supervisors together with a copy of the resolution, and shall further give notice that said question will be stated upon the ballot to be used at said election, as follows: Form of ballot. "Shall the county road system be adopted by the county of ?" Said notice may be in the form follow County road commissioners, ing, viz.: "To the electors of the county of............. "Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the board of supervisors of said county, held on the day of...... .19...., the following resolution was adopted, viz.: (here set forth the resolution). "Notice is further given that said question will be stated on the ballots to be used at said election, as follows: 'Shall the county road system be adopted by the county of..... SEC. 6. In any county where the county road system shall when elected, be adopted, a board of county road commissioners, not exceednumber, etc. ing three in number, shall be elected by the people of such county. The number of county road commissioners shall be fixed by the board of supervisors. In the first instance such commissioners shall be appointed by the board of supervisors or elected at a general or a special election called for that purpose, as shall be ordered by the board of supervisors. If such commissioners are appointed, they shall hold office only until the general election held on the first Monday in April then next following, at which time their successors shall be elected. If such commissioners are to be elected at a general election, notice thereof, embodying a copy of the resolution of the board of supervisors, giving the number and terms of office of the commissioners to be elected, shall be published by the clerk in the newspaper or newspapers Notice of election. |