Certain existing legal provisions not applicable to

provided for in this act.

from the school fund of said municipality and levied and collected in the same manner as all other school taxes.

(194) SEC. 8. It is further provided that the provisions of act number one hundred and forty-four of the public acts of eighteen class of persons hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children in certain cases," approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, limiting auch compulsory education to a period not exceeding four months in any one year shall not, so far as said limitation is concerned, Certain sections have any application to the class of juvenile disorderly persons provided for in this act. It is also provided that sections six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, of act one hundred and fortyfour, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

repealed.

Children under ten years.

Children not to

be employed in certain cases.

Proviso.

Certificate of

attendance at

by employer.

CHAPTER XXII.

Act No. 39, Laws of 1885, as amended by Act No. 21, Public Acts of 1889.

REGULATING THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

(§195.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That no child under the age of ten years shall be employed in any factory, warehouse or workshop where the manufacture of any goods whatever is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing.

($196.) SEC. 2. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed by any person to labor in any business, unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school, where instruction was given by a teacher qualified to instruct in such branches as are usually taught in primary schools, at least four months of the twelve months next preceding the month in which such child shall be so employed, except in districts in which only three months of school are taught by a qualified teacher: Provided, That a certificate of such attendance from the superintendent of the school, or the director of the school district in which such child shall have so attended school, shall be evidence of a compliance with the provisions of this section, if acted upon by the employer in good faith. If any such superintendent or director shall knowingly make a false certificate, he shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this act, and shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter provided.

($197.) SEC. 3. Certificates given under the preceding section school to be filed shall be deposited with the employer, at the time of employing any such child, and shall be kept by him on file in his office, and shall, at all times, be subject to inspection by the persons authorized to make inspections under this act.

Under 18 years limitation 10 hours

(§198.) SEC. 4. No child, or young person under the age of eighteen years, and no woman, shall be employed in any factory, warehouse, workshop or place where the manufacture of any

kind of goods is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing, for a longer period than an average of ten hours

in a day, or sixty hours in any week, and at least one hour shall Dinner hour. be allowed in the labor period of each day for dinner.

($199.) SEC. 5. Every person who shall employ any female in Seats for female any factory, warehouse, workshop, store or hotel shall provide employes. suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. ($200.) SEC. 6. Any person, company or corporation who shall Penalty for vioviolate any of the provisions of this act, shall, for each offense, ions of this act. forfeit a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered before any com

petent court.

lating provis

to make inspec

of Detroit.

(§201.) SEC. 7. In all cities it shall be the duty of the superin- Duty of officers tendent, or chief officer of police, by suitable inspections, to see tion. that the regulations of this act are observed, and also to prosecute all persons who shall violate the same. Such superintendent, or chief officer of police, shall detail such portion of the force under him as he shall deem necessary, for the inspection, from time to time, of all the aforesaid places where such children or young persons may be employed: Provided, That, in the city of Detroit, Proviso for city the board of building inspectors of said city, or any member thereof, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the superintendent or chief officer of police with like power and authority to personally see that the regulations of this act are observed and also to enter complaint against all persons who shall violate the same. In towns the supervisors thereof shall perform the duties above imposed on the superintendent, or chief officer of police in cities. (§202) SEC. 8. The directors of any corporation which shall Directors of willfully neglect or refuse to obey the provisions of this act, shall personally each be liable to the penalties of this act: Provided, That the fable. provisions of this act shall not apply to any of the penal, reformatory, or benevolent institutions of this State.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Act No. 222, Public Acts of 1887.

TO PREVENT CRIME AND PUNISH TRUANCY.

($203.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any girl between the ages of ten and seventeen years, or boy between the ages of ten and sixteen years, who shall run away, or wilfully absent himself or herself from the school he or she is attending, or from any house, office, shop, farm or other place where such person is legitimately employed to labor, or shall frequent saloons or other places where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, or shall be found lounging around the same, or shall be found lounging upon the public streets, or other public places of any city or village, against the command of his or her parent or guardian, or shall, without the permission of his or her parents

Corporation

Certain girls deemed truant

and boys

and disorderly persons.

Who to make complaint.

Upon convic tion, where to be sentenced.

Term of sentence.

Proviso as to approval of sentence.

Proceedings upon trial.

or guardian, attend any public dance, skating rink or show, shall be deemed to be a truant and disorderly person.

($204.) SEC. 2. Upon complaint upon oath and in writing made before any justice of the peace by the parent or guardian of any girl between the ages of ten and seventeen years, or of any boy between ten and sixteen years of age, or by the supervisor of any township, or the mayor of any city, or president of any village, and in cities of over eight thousand population, by the chief of police, that any such minor has been guilty of any of the acts specified in section one of this act, such justice shall issue his warrant for the arrest of such minor, and upon such conviction, such minor, if a boy, may be sentenced by such justice to the reform school for boys at Lansing; and if a girl, to the State industrial home for girls at Adrian; boys until seventeen 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 reform school for boys, or the industrial home for girls until the sentence therein has been submitted to and approved by the circuit judge of the circuit or the judge of probate of the county in which such conviction shall be had.

(8205.) 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 misDuty of State demeanor, as far as the same are applicable, and 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.

District to vote

on question of furnishing free text-books.

Proviso.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Act No. 147, Public Acts of 1889.

FREE TEXT BOOKS.

($206.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That from and after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, each school board of the State shall purchase, when authorized, as hereinafter provided, the text books used by the pupils of the schools in its district in each of the following subjects, to wit: Orthography, spelling, writing, reading, geography, arithmetic, grammar (including language lessons), national and State history, civil government, and physiology and hygiene; but text books once adopted under the provisions of this act shall not be changed within five years: Provided, That the text book on the subject of physiology and hygiene must be approved by the State board of education, and shall in every way comply with section fifteen of act number one hundred and sixty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, approved June

ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: And provided fur- Proviso. ther, That all text books used in any district shall be uniform in

any one subject.

to select text

at first annual

the passage of

($207.) SEC. 2. The district board of each school district shall District board select the kind of text books on subjects enumerated in section books. one to be taught in schools of their respective districts: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall require any change in text Vote to be taken books now in use in such district. They shall cause to be posted meeting after in a conspicuous place, at least ten days prior to the first annual this act. school meeting from and after the passage of this act, a notice that those qualified to vote upon the question of raising money in said district shall vote at such annual meeting to authorize said district board to purchase and provide free text books for the use of the pupils in said district. If a majority of all the voters, as above provided, present at such meeting shall authorize said board to raise by tax a sum sufficient to comply with the provisions of this act, the district board shall thereupon make a list of such books and file one copy with the township clerk and keep one copy posted in the school, and due notice of such action by the district shall be noted in the annual report to the superintendent of sublic instruction. The district board District board to purchase shall take the necessary steps to purchase such books for the use text books when of all pupils in the several schools of their district, as hereinafter provided. The text books so purchased shall be the property of the district purchasing the same, and shall be loaned to pupils free of charge, under such rules and regulations for their careful use and return as said district board may establish: Provided, Proviso. That nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from buying his or her books from the district board of the school in which he or she may attend: Provided further, That nothing Proviso. herein contained shall prevent any district having once adopted or rejected free text books from taking further action on the same at any subsequent annual meeting.

authorized.

tract with pub

(§208.) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the district board of Board to con any school district adopting free text books provided for in this lishers, etc act to make a contract with some dealer or publisher to furnish books used in said district at a price not greater than the net wholesale price of such books: Provided, That any district may, Proviso. if it so desires, authorize its district board to advertise for proposals before making such contract.

annual estimate

raised.

(8209.) SEC. 4. The district board of every school district in Board to make the State adopting free text books under this act shall make and of amount to be prepare annually an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be raised to comply with the conditions of this act and shall ald such amount to the annual estimates made for money to be raised for school purposes, for the next ensuing year. Said sum shall be in addition to the amount now provided by law to be raised; which amount each township clerk shall certify to the supervisor of his township to be assessed upon the taxable property of the respective districts as provided by law for raising the regular annual estimates of the respective district boards for

When director to purchase books, etc.

Refusal or

neglect of duty

Penalty.

Proviso.

school purposes and when collected shall be paid to the district treasurer in the same manner as all other money belonging to said district is paid.

($210.) SEC. 5. On the first day of February next after the tax shall have been levied, the director of said district may proceed to purchase the books required by the pupils of his district from the list mentioned in section one of this act, and shall draw his warrant, countersigned by the moderator, upon the treasurer or assessor of the district for the price of the books so purchased, including the cost of transportation.

($211.) SEC. 6. If the officers of any school district, which has a misdemeanor. 80 voted to supply itself with text books, shall refuse or neglect to purchase at the expense of the district for the use of the pupils thereof, the text books as enumerated in section one of this act, or to provide the money therefor as herein prescribed, each officer or member of such board so refusing, or neglecting, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than fifty dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, That any district board may buy its books of local dealers if the same can be purchased and delivered to the director as cheap as if bought of the party who makes the lowest bid to the district Further proviso. board: Provided further, That school districts in cities organized under special charters shall be exempt from the provisions of this act, but such districts may, when so authorized by a majority vote of their district boards, submit the question of free text books to the qualified voters of said districts. If a majority of the qualified electors vote in favor of furnishing free text books, such district boards shall have authority to proceed under the provisions of this act.

In cities boards

may submit question to

voters of district.

NOTE.

APPORTIONMENT OF SURPLUS DOG-TAX TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

Under the provisions of Act No. 198, Public Acts of 1877, as amended by Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1881, it is required that in all the townships and cities of the State there shall annually be levied and collected a tax of one dollar upon every male dog and of three dollars upon every female dog. The money thus obtained is to constitute a fund in the several townships and cities for the payment of damages sustained by owners of sheep by reason of having such sheep killed or wounded by dogs. Section six of the law referred to provides that "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