report when flouring mills. said corporation, officers and directors thereof severally. And in case of all officers and directors other than those managing Neglect to file or actually engaged in the conduct of the affairs and business deemed wilful. of the corporation, the neglect or refusal to file the reports required by this section shall be deemed to be wilful, after the Secretary of State shall have given the notice above provided for, if such report be not made within thirty days thereafter: Provided, Flour milling corporations shall make and deposit Proviso as to annual reports in the month of July or August, and for refusal or neglect to make and deposit the reports required by this section before the first day of September in each year, such corporation or any of its officers or directors shall be liable for all the debts of such corporation contracted during the period of such neglect or refusal, and shall be immediately subject to all the penalties provided in this section. The first Penalty for report under this law shall be made in the year nineteen hun- section. dred. All actions and suits, based on the neglect or refusal Actions, when of the officers or directors of such corporations to make and deposit the reports required by this section shall be commenced within two years next after such neglect or refusal has occurred, and not afterwards. Approved May 17, 1899. violation of commenced. [No. 204.] AN ACT to amend sections one hundred forty and one hundred forty-one of act number two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased, and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," as added by act number two hundred twenty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being sections three thousand nine hundred fifty-nine and three thousand nine hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety seven. Sections amended. Possession of land sold for taxes, how acquired. Notice to land owners, etc. Form of notice. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That sections one hundred forty and one hundred forty-one of act number two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased, and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in any wise contravening any of the provisions of this act," as added by act number two hundred twenty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being sections three thousand nine hundred fiftynine and three thousand nine hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 140. No writ of assistance or other process for the possession of any land, the title to which has been obtained under and in pursuance of any tax sale made after the twentyninth day of August, A. D., eighteen hundred ninety-seven, or of any sale of State tax lands or State bids made after the said twenty-ninth day of August, eighteen hundred ninetyseven, except where such title shall be obtained under the provisions of section one hundred thirty-one of this act, shall be issued until six months after there shall have been filed with the county clerk of the county where the land is situated a return by the sheriff of said county, showing that he has made personal service, or until substituted service, as hereinafter provided, has been made upon the grantee or grantees under the last recorded deed in the regular chain of title to said land, and upon the mortgagee or mortgagees named in all undischarged recorded mortgages, or any assignee thereof of record, of a notice, which shall be in the following form: To the owner or owners of the land herein described, and to the mortgagee or mortgagees named in all undischarged recorded mortgages against said land, or any assignee thereof of record: Take notice that sale has been lawfully made of the following described land for unpaid takes thereon, and that the undersigned has title thereto under tax deed issued therefor, and that you are entitled to a reconveyance thereof, at any time within six months after service upon you of this notice, upon payment to the undersigned of all sums paid upon such purchase, together with one hundred per cent additional thereto, and the fees of the sheriff for the service or cost of publication of this notice, to be computed as upon personal service of a declaration as commencement of suit, and the further sum of five dollars for each description, without other additional costs or charges. If payment as aforesaid is not made, the undersigned will institute proceedings for possession of the land. Amount paid Descriptions Tax for 1(Signed.) Place of business non-residents. Provided, That if grantee or grantees, or the person or per. Proviso. sons holding the interest in said lands as aforesaid, shall be residents of any county in the State other than the county in which the land is situated, then such return as to such persons shall be made by the sheriff of the county where such person or persons reside: Provided further, If any grantee or Proviso as to grantees, or the person or persons holding the interest in said lands as aforesaid, shall be non-residents of this State, if from the said record aforesaid, or from inquiry, the sheriff can obtain the postoffice address of such grantee or grantees, or the person or persons holding the interest in such land as aforesaid, or if the said address be known to him, he shall send to such person or persons aforesaid a copy of said notice by registered letter, and return the receipt as receipts received for said letter or letters with his return to the county clerk's office: deceased guardians. Provide further, That if any person entitled to notice, as Proviso as to hereinbefore provided, is dead, or if his estate shall be under persons, control of a trustee or guardian, then and in such case notice trustees or as hereinbefore provided may be served upon the executor or administrator of said deceased person, or upon his heirs, if there be no executor or administrator, or upon the trustee or guardian of any incompetent person, with like effect as if served upon the grantee, mortgagee or assignee. non-residents, published. Provided further, That if the sheriff of the county where Proviso as to any such lands are located shall make a return that after care- whose address ful inquiry he is unable to ascertain the whereabouts or the is unknown. postoffice address of the grantee named in the last recorded deed, or the mortgagee named in the last recorded mortgage, or the assignee of record of said mortgage of said premises. or of the heirs of said grantee or mortgagee or assignee, or the whereabouts or the postoffice address of the executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of such grantee, mortgagee or assignee, then such notice as is herein provided for shall be Notice to be published six successive weeks in some newspaper published and circulating in the county where such lands are located, and due proof of publication, by affidavit of the printer or pub- Publisher to lisher of such newspaper, shall be filed with the county clerk, and shall be in lieu of the personal service above provided for. SEC. 141. Any grantee or grantees under the last recorded Redemption of deed to such land, or any mortgagee or mortgagees named in the last recorded mortgage, or any assignee thereof of record at the time of the giving of said notice, or any executor, administrator, heir, trustee or guardian of such grantee, mortgagee or assignee, as provided in section one hundred forty make affidavit. land, how to proceed. Costs of redemption. Proviso. Proviso relative to reconveyance. Further proviso. of this act, shall be entitled to receive from the person so claiming under and by virtue of such tax, deed, at any time within six months after the personal service of such notice, or the date of mailing said notice by registered letter, or the first publication of such notice, as so provided, a reconveyance of such interest 'n such lands so held, upon payment to the grantee under such tax deed of the amount paid upon such purchase, together with one hundred per cent in addition thereto, and the lawful fees or costs for such personal service, or substituted service, which fees shall be the same as provided by law for service of subpoenas or for orders of publication, or the cost of such service by registered mail, and the further sum of five dollars for each description, without additional cost or charge: Provided, That any person or persons to whom the notice herein provided for is to be given shall, at any time before such notice is so given, be entitled to a reconveyance of any such lands to the parties in interest, as appears of record, on the payment to such person or persons claiming title under and by virtue of such tax deed of the amount paid upon such purchase, together with one hundred per cent in addition thereto, and the further sum of five dollars for each description: Provided further, If any reconveyance is made to any mortgagee or mortgagees, or assignee thereof, that such conveyance shall not operate as an absolute conveyance of the title to such lands, but shall be considered and treated as an additional lien upon said lands, and shall be added to the amount of such mortgage, and the mortgagor or person or persons claiming under him shall be entitled to a reconveyance of the tax title interest in such land from said mortgagee or mortgagees, or assignees thereof, upon the payment of all sums so paid to such person or persons claiming under any such tax deed, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from date of such payment, and such reconveyance shall in no way operate as a release or discharge of such mortgage lien: Provided further, That any such application for a writ of assistance shall show that such applicant has complied with the provisions of this act as to the giving of notice as herein directed, and he shall attach to such application a copy of the notice aforesaid, and the return of the sheriff serving the same, or a copy of the proof of publication, or the registry receipt or receipts from the registry department of the postoffice, showing that such notice has been served by registered mail. Approved May 17, 1899. [No. 205.] AN ACT to compel the maintenance of Water-closet accommodations for Workmen on Buildings during course of erection. The People of the State of Michigan enact: insert clause SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of all architects to Architects to insert a clause in the specifications for all buildings provid- relative to ing for suitable temporary water-closets for the use of work- water-closets. men employed on such buildings while in the course of erection, unless closets are already maintained on such premises; and it shall also be the duty of the contractor or person erecting such building to erect such closet within the first week after commencing work thereon. a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Violation of act act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five Penalty. dollars or more than twenty-five dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved May 17, 1899. [No. 206.] AN ACT to authorize the formation of corporations for the prevention of cruelty to children, animals, birds and fowls. The People of the State of Michigan enact: may incor SECTION 1. That any number of persons, not less than ten, Number who may become a body corporate for the purpose of the preven- porate. tion and punishment of cruelty to children, animals, birds and fowls. Such corporation shall be formed by the persons asso- How formed. ciated for these purposes executing under their hands and acknowledging before some person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, articles of association, which shall contain: First. The proposed corporate name of the association; Second, The place where the principal office of the association shall be located; Third, The period for which the association shall continue; Fifth, The names of the persons so associating and their respective places of residence; Sixth, The number of directors and regular officers; What articles shall contain. |