[No. 6.] AN ACT to provide for the rental of the Armories of the The People of the State of Michigan enact: to pay rent. paid. SECTION 1. That the State Military Board may pay out Military board of the military fund to the several companies of the Michigan State National Guard, the rents for the armories of the respective companies in like manner and for the same amounts that said companies respectively received from the State Military Board prior to April one, eighteen hundred ninety-eight. These several sums shall be paid in behalf of the several companies where the same Money, how have not resigned or left the service of the State, and where they have either resigned or have been mustered out of the State service, and have enlisted, or a majority of them have enlisted in the volunteer service of the United States, and the same shall be paid to the trustees or other proper person having the custody of the several armories used by the respective companies before their entry into the service of the United States. Such payments shall continue to be made until the Payments to mustering out of the Michigan Volunteers from the service of the United States, or until the respective companies shall be discharged from the service of the Michigan State National Guard, or until payments for the rent of the armories shall be otherwise provided for. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. continue. [No. 7.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the current and running expenses of the Michigan Soldiers' Home until the general appropriation for that purpose shall be available. The People of the State of Michigan enact: appropriated. SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated for the Amount Michigan Soldiers' Home, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, for the purpose mentioned in section two of this act. SEC. 2. Said money hereby appropriated shall be im- When mediately available, and shall be used for the purpose of pay- How used. ing the current and running expenses of said home from January first, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, until the regular and ordinary appropriation for that purpose shall be made available. available, and the sum hereby appropriated shall be deducted This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful to catch fish Penalty. [No. 8.] AN ACT for the protection of fish in the lakes known as Eagle lake, in the townships of Bloomingdale and Cheshire, in the counties of Van Buren and Allegan, and the lakes known as Pugsley's lake and Four-mile lake, in the township of Paw Paw, in the county of Van Buren, for a period of ten years. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful to catch, kill or destroy fish with seines or with any species of continuous net or with any form of spears, or with any description of firearms or other explosives in the inland lakes known as Eagle lake in the townships of Bloomingdale and Cheshire, in the counties of Van Buren and Allegan, and Pugsley's lake and Four-mile lake, in the township of Paw Paw, county of Van Buren, for a period of ten years from and after the passage of this act, except that it shall be lawful and permitted to spear pickerel in said lakes through the ice in the months of December, January, February and March of each year. SEC. 2. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail not less than five nor more than sixty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the pro Acts repealed. Visions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 9.] AN ACT to authorize the prosecuting attorney for the county of Tuscola, Michigan, to appoint an assistant prosecuting attorney, and prescribing his powers, duties and compensation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: assistant. SECTION 1. The prosecuting attorney for Tuscola county, May appoint Michigan, may appoint an assistant prosecuting attorney, for whose official acts he shall be in all respects responsible, and may revoke such appointment at his pleasure. etc.. to be in SEC. 2. Every appointment of such assistant prosecuting Appointments. attorney, and every revocation thereof shall be in writing, writing. under the hand of the prosecuting attorney, and shall be filed Where filed. and recorded in the office of the clerk of Tuscola county, and every such assistant prosecuting attorney shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take the oath prescribed by the twelfth article of the constitution of this State. SEC. 3. Said assistant prosecuting attorney shall have full Power. power and authority to appear for and in behalf of the people of the State in all criminal and other matters or proceedings, to the same extent as the prosecuting attorney of said county, and generally shall have the same power and authority in all respects as is possessed by said prosecuting attorney. SEC. 4. The said assistant prosecuting attorney shall re- Compensation. ceive such salary or compensation as the board of supervisors of the county of Tuscola shall at any time direct. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 10.] AN ACT to amend section five, chapter one hundred fortythree, of Howell's Annotated Statutes, entitled "Libraries and Lyceums," being compiler's section four thousand four hundred eleven of Howell's Annotated Statutes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That section five, chapter one hundred forty- Section three of Howell's Annotated Statutes, entitled "Libraries and Lyceums," being compiler's section four thousand four hundred eleven of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be amended so as to read as follows: of corporation. SEC. 5. The said proprietors may raise such sums of money Certain powers by assessment on the shares as they shall judge necessary for Amount of estate may hold. the purpose of preserving, enlarging and using the library; and This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Who may incorporate. Το acknowledge articles of association. [No. 11.] AN ACT for the organization of Corporate Methodist The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for any number of members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of full age, not less than nine, with the consent of the presiding elder of the district in which the proposed church is to be located, to organize and procure the incorporation of a Methodist Episcopal Church. SEC. 2. The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, articles of association in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church, which shall be governed by the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church. To such articles of association there shall be attached a certificate by the presiding elder of Presiding elder the district in which said church is to be located that the said church was organized by and with the consent of said presid ing elder. to attach certificate. What articles of association to contain. Form of articles. SEC. 3. Said articles of association shall contain the following items: First, The name of said church; Second, The township, village or city, and the county in which said church shall be located; Third, The time for which said corporation shall be created; Fourth, An agreement to worship and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church. Said articles may be in the following form: .... We, the undersigned, desiring to become incorporated under the provisions of act number of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act for the organization of corporate Methodist Episcopal churches," do hereby make, execute and adopt the following articles of association, to wit: First, The name assumed by this corporation, and by which Name. it shall be known in law, is "The ...... Methodist Episcopal church;" county of Location. Second, The location of said church shall be in the..... of ... ... and State of Michigan; Third, The time for which said corporation shall be created Period of shall not exceed thirty years from .... the date of its incorporation. govern. organization; Fourth, The members of said church shall worship and Rules to labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States of America, as from time to time authorized and declared by the general conference of said church and the annual conference within whose bounds said corporation is situated. In witness whereof, we, the parties hereby associating for Acknowledg the purpose of giving legal effect to these articles, hereunto sign our names and places of residence. ment. day of A. D. before me, a in and for said county, personally ap I. presiding elder of the district, of the Certificate of -annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, presiding elder. the same being the district in which the church mentioned in the foregoing articles of association is to be, or is now located, do hereby certify that such church was organized by and with my consent and concurrence. Dated at Mich., A. D. 189 Presiding Elder. SEC. 4. Said articles of association shall be executed in Articles to be executed in duplicate, and acknowledged before some officer authorized by duplicate: law to take acknowledgment of deeds. One of such duplicate where filed. copies shall be retained by such corporation and one copy shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county, where such corporation is formed. When said articles of association and said certificate of the presiding elder shall have been recorded or left for record in the office of the said county clerk, the said persons so signing said articles of |