Term of sentence.

Proviso as to approval of sentence.

Proceedings upon trial.

the supervisor of any township, or mayor of any city, or president of any village, and in any city of over eight thousand population by the chief of police, mayor, or other person knowing of the facts of his own knowledge, that such minor has been guilty of any of the acts specified in section one of this act, such justice of the peace, police justice or other criminal magistrate, shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such minor, and upon conviction such minor, if a boy, may be sentenced by such justice of the peace, police justice or criminal magistrate, to the industrial school for boys at Lansing, and if a girl, to the industrial home for girls at Adrian, boys until eighteen years of age, and girls until twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged according to law: Provided, That no person or persons shall be sent to said industrial school for boys or to the industrial home for girls until the sentence therein has been submitted to and approved by one of the judges of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, or judge of the superior court of the city of Grand Rapids, or any circuit judge or probate judge of the county in which such conviction shall be had.

Am. 1899, Act 75.

(223.) § 11767. SEC. 3. The same proceedings shall be had upon the trial of any person charged with being guilty of any of the offenses mentioned in section one of this act before the justice before whom such person is brought as are had in trials for misdemeanor, as far as the same are applicable, and Duty of state the state agent for the care of juvenile offenders of the county wherein such offenders may be on trial shall have authority and take the same action in the premises as is provided by act number one hundred and seventy-one of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three of this state.

agent.

Annual meeting.

Officers to be elected.

POWERS, DUTIES, AND OFFICERS OF TOWNSHIPS.

(From this chapter we quote only such sections as relate to the election, powers, and duties of SCHOOL INSPECTORS.)

(224.) § 2275. SEC. 8. The annual meeting of each township shall be held on the first Monday in April in each year, and at such meeting there shall be an election for the following officers: One supervisor, one township clerk, one treasurer, one school inspector, one commissioner of highways, so many justices of the peace as there are by law to be elected in the township, and so many constables as shall be ordered by the meeting, not exceeding four in number.

Am. 1875, Act 42; 1881, Act 158.

ANNUAL MEETINGS: Annual meetings and general elections distinguished. People v. Knight, 13 / 242. Annual meeting held outside of township.-Id.

OFFICERS: The regulation of township affairs, legally concerning none but the people of the town, cannot be lawfully vested in any officers imposed upon the town from without.-Hubbard v. Springwells, 25 / 153, 156. See

People v. Hurlbut, 24 / 44; Att'y Gen. v. Lothrop, 24/235; Park Commrs. v. Common Council, 28/ 228; Att'y Gen. v. Common Council, 29 / 110; Youngblood v. Sexton, 32 / 416, 417; Allor v. Wayne Auditors, 43 / 98.

chosen by

(225.) § 2276. SEC. 9. Each of the officers named in the officers to be last preceding section, shall be chosen by ballot, and before ballot. proceeding to choose the officers hereinafter directed to be chosen at such meeting.

As to the last clause, see Section 2309.

of school in

(226.) § 2283. SEC. 13. Each school inspector elected as Term of office aforesaid shall hold his office for two years from that time and spectors. until his successor shall be elected and duly qualified, except vacancy. when elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, in which case he shall hold the office during the unexpired portion of the regular term: Provided, That in the year eighteen hundred eightytwo one additional school inspector in each township shall be elected for the term of one year: Provided further, That the township superintendent of schools and school inspectors, now in office shall continue to act as school inspectors, and said superintendent of schools shall continue to act as chairman of the board of school inspectors until the school inspectors provided for by this act shall have been elected and duly qualified and shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices.

elected to fill

(227.) § 2285. SEC. 15. Each township officer elected at Officers a special meeting to fill a vacancy, shall hold his office during vacancies. the then unexpired portion of the regular term of the office, and no longer, unless again elected.

(228.) § 2374. SEC. 95. The following township officers Officers comshall be entitled to compensation at the following rates, for pensated. each day actually and necessarily devoted by them to the service of the township, in the duties of their respective offices, to be verified by affidavit, whenever required by the township boards:

First, The officers composing the township board, board of registration, board of health, inspectors of election, clerks of the poll, commissioners of the highways and school inspectors, one dollar and fifty cents per day, and at the same rate for parts of days;

Second, The township clerk, as clerk of the board of commissioners of highways, of the township board, and of the board of school inspectors, one dollar and fifty cents per day, and at the same rate for parts of a day; but no township officer shall be entitled to pay for acting in more than one capacity at the same time.

Am. 1867, Act 179.

ECORSE TOWNSHIP: Act 343 of 1897 provides salaries for certain officers in Ecorse township, Wayne county, as follows: Supervisor, $600; township clerk. $300; highway commissioner, $300; each justice acting on the township board, $50.

Fifteen or

more teachers

may form corporation.

Notice to be published.

May hold property.

Restrictions upon its use.

Privileges and liabilities of corporations.

TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS.

An Act to incorporate TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS.

[Act 117, 1855.]

(229.) § 7730. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Any fifteen or more teachers, or other persons residing in this state, who shall associate for the purpose of promoting education and science, and improvements in the theory and practice of teaching, may form themselves into a corporation, under such name as they may choose, providing they shall have published in some newspaper printed at Lansing or in the county in which such association is to be located, for at least one month previous, a notice of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting for such association, and shall file in the office of the secretary of state a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said association.

(230.) § 7731. SEC. 2. Such association may hold and possess real and personal property to the amount of five thousand dollars; but the funds or property thereof shall not be used for any other purpose than the legitimate business of the association in securing the objects of its corporation.

(231.) § 7732. SEC. 3. Upon becoming a corporation as hereinbefore provided, they shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties of a corporation, according to the provisions of chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of this state [Chap. 130, compiled laws of 1871], so far as such provisions shall be applicable in such case and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Chap. 55 referred to is Sections 8527-51, C. L. 1897.

"Public moneys" defined.

STATE ACCOUNTS.

An Act to provide for the safe keeping of PUBLIC MONEYS.

[Act 131, 1875.]

(232.) § 1197. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all moneys which shall come into the hands of any officer of the state, or of any officer of any county or of any township, school district, highway district, city, or village, or of any other municipal or public corporation within this state, pursuant to any provision of law authorizing such officer to receive the same, shall be denominated public moneys within the meaning of this act.

See Fire and Water Commrs. v. Wilkinson, 119 / 659.

As to county treasurers, see Perley v. Muskegon Co., 32 / 132. See also Section 2539 and notes.

to be kept

(233.) § 1198. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of every officer Public moneys charged with receiving, keeping or disbursing of public moneys separate from to keep the same separate and apart from his own money, and all other funds. he shall not commingle the same with his own money, nor with the money of any other person, firm, or corporation.

(234.) § 1199. SEC. 3. No such officer shall, under any How used. pretext, use nor allow to be used, any such moneys for any purpose other than in accordance with the provisions of law; nor shall he use the same for his own private use, nor loan the same to any person, firm, or corporation, without legal authority so to do.

to constitute a

(235.) § 1200. SEC. 4. In all cases where public moneys Interest on are authorized to be deposited in any bank, or to be loaned to public moneys any individual, firm, or corporation, for interest, the interest general fund. accruing upon such public moneys shall belong to and constitute a general fund of the state, county, or other public or municipal corporation, as the case may be.

receive con

deposit of money.

(236.) § 1201. SEC. 5. In no case shall any such officer, di- Officers not to rectly or indirectly, receive any pecuniary or valuable consid- sideration for eration as an inducement for the deposit of any public moneys with any particular bank, person, firm, or corporation. (237.) § 1202. SEC. 6. The provisions of this act shall ap- Provisions of ply to all deputies of such officer or officers, and to all clerks, ply to depuagents, and servants of such officer or officers.

this act to ap

ties, etc.

violating pro

(238.) § 1203. SEC. 7. Any person guilty of a violation Penalty for of any of the provisions of this act shall, on conviction thereof, visions of this be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or act. imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall pre- Proviso. vent a prosecution under the general statute for embezzlement in cases where the facts warrant a prosecution under such general statute.

ment of

(239.) § 1204. SEC. 8. Any officer who shall wilfully or Penalty for corruptly draw or issue any warrant, order, or certificate for illegal paythe payment of money in excess of the amount authorized by money. law, or for a purpose not authorized by law, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished as provided in the preceding section.

REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO DOGS AND SHEEP.

(From this chapter we quote only the section relating to the apportionment of the surplus DOG TAX to school districts.)

[Act 48, 1901.]

damages.

(240.) SEC. 6. At the annual meeting of the township Payment of board in each year, and at a meeting of the common council of each city in April of each year, the said board or council, as the case may be, shall examine all certificates of damage filed by the clerk, as aforesaid, during the preceding

Apportionment of surplus.

Proviso.

year, and if satisfied that in any case or cases the certified damages are excessive, they may reduce the same to such amount as they may consider just, and may order the payment of all such loss as they may deem just, out of the fund aforesaid, if it be sufficient for that purpose, and if not sufficient they may order a proportionate payment of each claim. If money remains of such fund, after satisfactory payment of all claims aforesaid in any one year, over and above the sum of one hundred dollars, it shall be apportioned among the several school districts of such township or city in proportion to the number of children therein of school age: Provided, That no payment of loss shall be made as provided for in this section unless the party applying for the same shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the township board or common council that he has made all due efforts and has not been able to obtain satisfaction therefor, from the owner or owners of the dog or dogs which shall have done the damage.

EXPLANATORY NOTE BY SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: The apportionment must be based upon the whole number of children of school age residing in the township, and include all districts whether lying wholly or partly in such township. In case of a fractional district in which the school-house is situated in a different township, the money be longing to such district must be paid over to the treasurer of the township in which the school-house is situated, and by that treasurer paid to the district in the same way as in the case of the one-mill and other taxes.

To be a body corporate.

erty of normal school, etc.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

An Act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the STATE BOARD OF

EDUCATION.

[Act 194, 1889.]

(241.) § 1812. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That for the purpose of rendering more efficient their organization, and to enable them more fully to carry into effect the provisions of the constitution relative thereto, the state board of education shall be and they are constituted a To hold prop body politic and corporate, and are hereby empowered to purchase, have, hold, possess and enjoy to themselves and their successors, all the lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects of every kind now belonging to the state normal school or that may hereafter be acquired by the same; and the same to grant, alien, invest, sell and dispose of; to sue and [to] be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts. in this state; to have and use a seal, and the same to change, alter and renew at pleasure, and to make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper for the government and conduct of said [board] and for the transaction of its business: Provided, The same be not repugnant to the constitution or laws of this state or of the United States: Provided further, That said corporation shall be subject to the pro

Proviso.

Further proviso.