Qualifications of persons named in list. Duty of clerk on names. of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act in relation to jurors in courts of record in the county of Wayne, and to revise the laws relative thereto," be and the same is hereby repealed, and that sections five, seven, seventeen, twenty-one and twenty-three, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 5. The persons whose names shall be returned by said board of jury commissioners shall be suitable to serve as jurors. They shall have the qualifications of electors in the town or ward in which they reside, and for which they are returned by said board; they shall be persons of good character, of approved integrity, of sound judgment and well informed, conversant with the English language, in possession of their natural faculties, not infirm or decrepit and otherwise free from all legal exceptions. No person shall be returned or shall be qualified to be or become one of a panel of jurors in any court of record in Wayne county, who, within three years prior thereto, has been or acted as a member of a panel of jurors, whether summoned on the original panel or added thereto as talesman in a court of record; and it shall be the duty of each of said courts, on the return day of the venire to inquire of the jurors summoned, if any of them have served as jurors during the preceding three years, and to excuse from service any jurors who have so served. SEC. 7. The clerk of the court, on receiving said list shall receiving list of file it in his office, shall forthwith write the names of the persons thus selected on separate strips of paper of the same size and appearance, as nearly as may be, shall fold up each of said strips of paper in the same manner so as to conceal the name thereon, and deposit and preserve the same in a box, to be called and labeled "jury box," and the persons whose names are thus returned and deposited in said jury box, shall be liable to serve as jurors for one year, and until another list shall be selected, returned, and filed with said clerk, and the names thereon deposited in said jury box in the manner aforesaid. Immediately upon the depositing of the names so returned, in the jury box, the clerk shall seal up such list of jurors and said list shall remain sealed unless otherwise ordered by the presiding judge of the court for which such list is filed. Petit jurors. Certain acts a misdemeanor. SEC. 17. Whenever for cause petit jurors shall not have been drawn or summoned to attend any term of said court, or a sufficient number of qualified jurors shall fail to appear, said court may, in its discretion, order a sufficient number of petit jurors to be forthwith drawn from said jury box, and summoned to attend such court. SEC. 21. Any person who shall request said commissioner or any of them, to be selected and returned as a juror, or who shall request that any other person be so selected and returned, and any commissioner who shall cause any person to be selected and returned, who shall have made any request, or in whose behalf any such request shall have been made, or shall make known to any person any name selected and returned on any jury list before the same may have been drawn from the jury box, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- Penalty for. demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one month, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 23. Said board of jury commissioners shall, when List of grand ordered by the circuit court for the county of Wayne, make jurors. a list of suitable persons having the qualifications of petit jurors to serve as grand jurors. Such list shall contain one hundred and fifty names, and shall be made up from the county at large, without reference to any division into wards or townships; and when a grand jury shall be ordered to be drawn, the clerk shall give the same notices and take the same proceedings as is provided in the case of drawing petit jurors for drawing the names of twenty-three persons from said list of grand jurors, to serve as grand jurors, and the same shall be summoned and served in like manner and with like pay as petit jurors. If any of the persons whose names shall be drawn as grand jurors shall not appear, or shall be exempted or excused, the court may order a sufficient number to be drawn and summoned to complete the panel. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 24, 1891. [ No. 43. ] AN ACT to amend section six of an act entitled "An act to provide for a State Board of Equalization," approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as amended by act number eighty-five, public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section three hundred and twentyfour of Howell's Annotated Statutes. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section six of an act entitled "An act to provide for a State Board of Equalization," approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as amended by act number eighty-five, public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section three hundred and twenty-four of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: equalize assess SEC. 6. A meeting of the board of supervisors for the Meeting to year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be held on the ment rolls. fourth Monday of June, and on the fourth Monday of June every fifth year thereafter; and when convened, the board shall proceed to equalize the assessment rolls in the same manner as is provided in chapter twenty of the revised This act is ordered to take immediate effect. as to Section amended. Mexican war soldiers to be diers' Home, [ No. 44. ] AN ACT to amend section eleven of act number one hundred and fifty-two of the session laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to authorize the establishment of a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and marines in the State of Michigan," approved June 5, 1885, being compiler's section number one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four k, of Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section eleven of act number one hundred and fifty-two of the session laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to authorize the establishment of a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and marines in the State of Michigan," approved June fifth, eighteen hundred eighty-five, being compiler's section number one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four k, of Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 11. All honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and admitted to Sol- marines, who have served in the army or navy of the United States in the late war of the rebellion, or in the Mexican war, and who are disabled by disease, wounds or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living, and who would be otherwise dependent upon public or private charity, shall be entitled to be admitted to said home, subject, to the rules and regulations that shall be adopted by the board of managers to govern the admission of applicants to said home: Provided, That no applicant shall be admitted to said home who has not been a resident of the State of Michigan for one year next preceding the date of the original passage of this act, unless he served in a Michigan regiment or was accredited to the State of Michigan. Proviso, This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 45. ] AN ACT to prohibit the use of oleomargarine, butterine, or any other substitute for butter in any of the public institutions of this State, and to provide the punishment therefor. garine, etc.. prc SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Use of olecmarThat the use of oleomargarine, butterine, or any other sub- hibited. stitute for butter, in any of the public institutions of this State, be and the same is hereby prohibited. SEC. 2. Any warden, superintendent or other officer of Misdemeanor. any such institution, who shall knowingly violate the provisions of section one of this act, or shall knowingly permit the same to be violated shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and every violation shall constitute a separate offense and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a Penalty. fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, together with costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail of the county in which said institution is situated, not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Approved April 29, 1891. [No. 46. ] AN ACT to amend sections twenty-six and twenty-nine of an Sections amended. Stenographer five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight and twentynine, approved May twenty-third one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections twenty-six and twenty-nine of act number one hundred and forty-seven of the session laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act to revise and amend sections six, eleven, thirteen, nineteen and twentyone of the act entitled 'An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids to be called the superior court of Grand Rapids,"" being act number forty-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, as amended by act number one hundred of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to amend sections twenty-six, twenty-eight and twenty-nine of act number one hundred and forty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven entitled 'An act to revise and amend sections six, eleven, thirteen, nineteen and twenty-one of an act entitled 'An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids to be called the superior court of Grand Rapids,' being act number forty-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and to add six new sections to the act to stand as sections twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, and twenty-nine, approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,"" be and they are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 26. It shall be the duty of said stenographer to to attend court. attend upon the court, during the term thereof, and to take full stenographic notes of all testimony given and proceedings had upon the trial of each issue of fact before the court or jury; said stenographer shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, to be paid in monthly installments, from the general fund, in the same manner as other demands against the city. Salary. furnish copies of notes. Stenographer to SEC. 29. It shall be the duty of said stenographer to furnish without delay, copies of the notes taken by him, written out in legible English, to any party who may request the same; and he shall be entitled to demand and receive therefor not to exceed six cents for each folio of one hundred words for the first copy and two cents per folio for each additional copy. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |