[ No. 41. ] AN ACT to authorize the cities and villages of this State which own and operate electric light works for the purpose of lighting their streets and other public places, to furnish and supply electric lights to the inhabitants of such cities and villages. nish SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Cities and vil That it shall be lawful for any city or incorporated village is light to in this State not having more than ten thousand inhabit- inhabitants, ants, which now own and operate works for the purpose of supplying such city or village with electric light and lighting their streets and other public places with electric light, to furnish and supply electric light to the inhabitants of such cities or villages upon such terms and under such conditions as the common council may deem expedient. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 42. ] AN ACT to amend section one of act number forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, being "An act for the relief of purchasers and settlers on swamp land, and to repeal act number one hundred and sixty-six, session laws of eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, and act number one hundred and seventy-three, session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the same. being section fifty-three hundred and eighty-six and fifty-three hundred and eighty-seven, Howell's annotated statutes," approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. amended. empted may be SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section one of act number forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, being an act for the relief of purchasers and settlers on swamp land, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Certain lands That in all cases where lands have been in good faith entered and preentered under the preemption or homestead laws of the purchased from United States, at any of the United States land offices in $1.25 per acre. the State of Michigan, and such entry has been afterwards set aside or canceled in consequence of the lands so entered having been found to be State swamp lands, the person so entering such land, or his heirs or assigns may at any time before such lands are sold to any other person, the State for on presentation of a certificate of such entry and cancellation, from the register of the United States land office, where such entry was originally made to the Commissioner of the State Land Office, be entitled to purchase such lands of the State at the price of one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, subject to the condition that such preemptioner or homesteader shall not have any claim against the State for draining such lands, and provided that such lands shall not be offered for sale by the State until the expiration of the two years after the same shall be patPerson purchas- ented to the State: And provided further, That any person making application under this act shall make proof satisfactory to the Commissioner of the State Land Office, by affidavit or otherwise, that he has fully complied with the preemption or homestead laws of the United States up to the time he received notice of such cancellation. Approved March 29, 1895. ing must make certain proofs. Midwives and health officer of [No. 43. ] AN ACT to provide for the prevention of blindness in the newly born by compelling midwives, nurses and others to report in writing to the local health officer any redness or inflammation occurring in the eyes of infants under two weeks of age, and to provide a penalty for the neglect of the same. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, nurses to notify That should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed inflammation in or swollen, or reddened, or should any pus or secretion eyes of infants. form in the eyes or upon the edge of the lids, at any Penalty for failure. time within two weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of any midwife, nurse or other person having charge of such infant, to report in writing within six hours after discovery of such inflammation, redness or formation of pus, or secretion, to the local health officer or some legally qualified practitioner of medicine in the city, town or district in which such case shall occur, the fact that such inflammation, swelling or redness or accumulation in the eyes exists. SEC. 2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved March 29, 1895. [ No. 44. ] AN ACT to amend section thirty-eight of act number one hundred and ninety of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State." amended, SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section thirty-eight of act number one hundred and ninety of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State," be and the same is hereby amended "be so as to read as follows: votes to be made, SEC. 38. After the count of the tickets or ballots has Result of count been completed the result shall be immediately declared, to be declared. and the number of votes received by each candidate or person on the ticket shall be publicly declared by one of the inspectors. The inspectors shall then prepare state- Statement of ment of the result in triplicate, showing the whole number of votes for each office, the names of the persons for which such votes were given, and the number each person received. Such a statement, when certified by the inspectors and duly signed, shall be delivered, one copy to the township or city clerk, to be filed by him in his office, one copy to the inspector appointed by the board to attend the county canvass, and the other, together with one of the original tally sheets, shall by the township or city clerk be, within twenty-four hours after the result is declared, delivered in person or immediately forwarded by registered mail to the said county clerk. Approved March 29, 1895. [ No. 45. ] AN ACT to prevent the introduction of a dangerous communicable disease in any township, city or village in Michigan, except under specified regulations. in case of person tagious diseases, SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Permit of That no person sick with cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, board of health scarlet fever or any other communicable disease dangerous sick with conto the public health, no corpse of a person dead from one of the above-named diseases, or from any other communicable disease dangerous to the public health, and no article which has been infected or is liable to propagate or convey any such disease, shall come or be brought into any township, city or village in Michigan, without the special permit of the board of health or of the health. Penalty for violation. officer of said township, city or village, and then only under the supervision of the health officer of said township, city or village. SEC. 2. Whoever shall violate the provisions of section one of this act, or the order of the health officer made in pursuance thereof, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by both said fine and imprisonment. Approved March 29, 1895. Sections amended. Governor to appoint jury commissioners, [ No. 46. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, three, nine, ten and fourteen of act number two hundred and thirteen of the session laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide a board of jury commissioners for the county of St. Clair and the manner of selecting jurors to serve in the circuit court for said county and to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, and to punish violations of the act," approved June first, eighteen hundred ninety-three. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, three, nine, ten and fourteen of act number two hundred thirteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide a board of jury commissioners for the county of St. Clair and the manner of selecting jurors to serve in the circuit court for said county and to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, and to punish violations of the act, approved June first, eighteen hundred ninety-three, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The Governor of the State shall appoint a board of jury commissioners for the county of St. Clair, consisting of six persons, each of whom shall be a resident elector and freeholder of the said county. Three of the said persons shall be appointed for two years and three for four years. The said Governor shall from time time appoint persons of like qualifications as successors to the said commissioners, and shall also fill all vacancies. Term of office. Occurring in the said board from any cause. The official term of said commissioners shall begin on the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred ninety-three, and all subsequent appointments, except for the filling of vacancies, shall be for the term of four years; the said commissioners shall respectively serve until their successors appointed and have qualified. Said commissioners shall, before entering upon their duties, take the constitu Oath of office. are tional oath of office and file the same with the county clerk. Said commissioners shall receive as compensation Compensation. for their services three dollars for each day actually engaged in the performance of duty, and such actual expense as shall be incurred in traveling to ascertain the qualifications of jurors and in attendance upon the meetings of the board, to be audited by and proved before the circuit court of the county of St. Clair, and paid by the county treasurer on the certificate of the county clerk, under the seal of the court. selecting petit SEC. 3. Such list shall consist of four names from each List of names, township and ward containing four hundred inhabitants or less, according to the last preceding census, and six names from each township and ward containing more than four hundred inhabitants, according to said census. Said list To be used for when so prepared shall be used in selecting petit jurors jurors. of the said circuit court for the succeeding year, ending on the second Monday of April, and until a new list shall be chosen in accordance with this act, in the place of the lists now required by general law to be returned by the supervisors and assessors of the said county. SEC. 9. At least fourteen days before the first day of selection of any term of the circuit court for the said county, at which jury. a jury is to be in attendance, the said county clerk shall, in the presence of the circuit judge and the sheriff of the said county, to whom he shall give due notice of the time and place at least two days in advance, proceed to select a jury for the next term of the said court in the manner following: The packages containing the names of Manner of, the jurors shall be arranged in alphabetical order and shall in such order, beginning at "A," be separately opened and the slips therein placed in a box to be known as the jury box, the box shall then be well shaken and in such manner as to thoroughly commingle the slips, and one of the persons in attendance shall draw therefrom one of the slips of paper, and the name appearing thereon shall be a juror for the said term of court; the remainder of the packages shall then be successively treated in the same manner in alphabetical order until such number of persons have been chosen as the said circuit judge shall have directed to be drawn for the said term, and such persons so chosen shall be jurors for the said term, and each drawing after the first shall begin in at the package next succeeding in alphabetical order the one last used in the preceding drawing. It shall be the duty of the said circuit circuit judge judge and sheriff to attend at the time and place fixed by the county clerk on receiving the notice herein provided. In case the said judge or sheriff shall not be present at the time and place fixed for the said drawing, the clerk shall make a minute of the fact in the record book and at once secure the attendance of the judge of probate or one of the circuit court commissioners of the county, who, being in attendance, shall have the same powers as the circuit judge and sheriff to attend. |