[No. 139.] AN ACT to provide for the lawful spearing of whitefish and Mackinaw trout in Pine lake and Round lake, Charlevoix county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: whitefish during SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be lawful, during the month Lawful to spear of November, for any person to take whitefish by means of November. a spear, in the waters of Pine lake and Round lake, Charlevoix county, providing such spearing does not interfere with any other kind of fish. Mackinaw trout months. SEC. 2. It shall hereafter be lawful, during the months Lawful to spear of January, February and March, for any person to take during certain Mackinaw trout by means of a spear, in the waters of Pine lake and Round lake, Charlevoix county, providing such spearing does not interfere with any other kind of fish. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 25, 1905. [No. 140.] AN ACT making an appropriation for furnishing and for completing the equipment of the psychopathic ward upon the hospital grounds of the University of Michigan, and providing for the internal administration of said ward, and for the establishing, equipping and maintaining therein of a clinical laboratory of research for the instruction of medical students and for the benefit of the State hospitals for the insane, and making an annual appropriation for the payment of the salaries of a pathologist in charge of said ward and of an assistant to said pathologist, and for meeting the current annual expenses of maintaining said Jaboratory of clinical research. The People of the State of Michigan enact: atry investigator, SECTION 1. The joint board of trustees of the asylums for Clinical psychithe insane of this State, in conjunction with the board of who to appoint. regents of the State University, shall select and employ from time to time an experienced investigator in clinical psychiatry, who shall be placed in charge of the psychopathic ward upon the hospital grounds of the State University, and whose Duty of. duty it shall be to conduct the clinical and pathological investigations therein, to direct the treatment of such patients as are inmates of the psychopathic ward, to guide and direct the work of clinical and pathological research in the several asylums of the State, and to instruct the students of the medical department of the University in diseases of the mind. In the conduct of this work he shall be allowed such graduate assistants as may be necessary and as the joint board of trustees of the State asylums and the board of regents of the State University may from time to time by joint action approve. The joint board of trustees of the State asylums and the board of regents of the State University shall by joint action adopt from time to time suitable rules and regulations for the internal administration of said clinical laboratory of research. SEC. 2. The said clinical investigator shall be known as the "Pathologist of the State Asylums for the Insane and Associate Professor of Neural Pathology." His salary and that of his assistants shall be fixed from time to time by the joint board of trustees of the State asylums in conjunction with the board of regents of the State University, to be paid out of the annual appropriation provided by section five of this act. SEC. 3. The said pathologist shall establish and maintain in said psychopathic ward a clinical laboratory of research in which investigations shall be continuously carried on with a view of determining the nature and causes of insanity and of perfecting the means of prevention and cure of diseases of this nature. SEC. 4. There is hereby appropriated out of any of the moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars for the purpose of furnishing and of completing the equipment of said psychopathic ward and for equipping said laboratory of clinical research in such manner as will fit it to accomplish the work for which it was created. SEC. 5. There shall be annually appropriated out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars to meet the payment of the salaries of said pathologist and his assistants, and the cur rent annual expenses of the clinical laboratory of research. SEC. 6. The sums herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the treasurer of the State University upon vouchers rendered to the Auditor General by the treasurer of the State University, and shall be disbursed by joint action of the joint board of trustees of the State asylums for the insane and the board of regents of the State University. Said sums shall be kept by the treasurer of the University entirely separate and distinct from all other funds in his hands. SEC. 7. Said pathologist shall make an annual report to the Governor of the State on or before the first day of July of each year, of the medical work carried on at the psychopathic ward and in the clinical laboratory of research, and copies of such report shall be sent to the several boards of trustees of the various State asylums and to the board of regents of the State University. medical staff SEC. 8. It shall be the privilege of the trustees of each One member of public asylum of the State to have at any and all times at permitted in least one member of the medical staff of said asylum in the laboratory. psychopathic laboratory of clinical research for special study, instruction and research. rated in State tax. SEC. 9. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate Amount incorpowith the State tax for the year nineteen hundred five, the sum of nineteen thousand dollars, and shall likewise add to and incorporate with the State tax each year thereafter the sum of five thousand dollars, which sums, when collected, shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 141.] AN ACT to provide for the exercise by religious societies of corporate powers for certain purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: diocese, etc., may SECTION 1. When there is organized within this State any When organized diocese, synod, conference, district, or other organization, elect trustees. being an association of congregations or societies of a religious denomination, which shall desire to possess corporate powers in order to effectuate the purposes of such organization, such diocese, synod, conference, or board of district stewards thereof may, at a meeting thereof, held and conducted according to the rules and regulations of such organization or association, elect trustees in number not more than nine nor less than three, and also designate the corporate name by which such trustees and their successors in office shall be known. to give certificate SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the officer presiding over Presiding officer such election to give to such trustees a certificate of their of election. election under his hand and seal, specifying the name by which such trustees and their successors shall thereafter be known. Such certificate shall be acknowledged by the per- Certificate, how son making the same, before some officer authorized to take recorded. acknowledgments of deeds, which certificate and the acknowledgment thereof shall be recorded by the county clerk of the county in which such meeting was held, in a book provided acknowledged and for such or similar purposes; such clerk shall be entitled to Recording fees. Trustees to be body corporate. Evidence of incorporation. May hold and convey property, etc. Certified copy of corporate resolution to be an nexed to deed or incumbrance. How corporate existence extended. Duty of presiding officer and secretary. receive ten cents for each folio for recording the same, a certified copy of which shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State; and thereafter such trustees and their successors shall be a body corporate by the name expressed in such certificate; they and their successors shall hold their office for the term of one year, or until the organization or association first making such election elect others to succeed them; and a certified copy of the record of said certificate under the seal of the Secretary of State or of the county clerk where said record is made or kept shall be received as prima facie evidence of the due existence and incorporation of such association in all courts in this State. SEC. 3. Such trustees may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure, and by their corporate name may take into their possession, hold and enjoy all the property, real and personal, purchased for, devised, granted or conveyed to them for the use and benefit of such religious organization; they may also in such corporate name, sue and be sued in all courts, recover and hold all debts, demands, rights and privileges, and they may sell and convey, mortgage or lease any real estate belonging to such organization or held by them as such trustees. And in every case of the conveyance, or incumbrance, of real estate, said trustees shall annex to their deed or mortgage a certified copy of the corporate resolution authorizing such conveyance or incumbrance, and such certified resolution may be recorded with such deed or mortgage in the office of the register of deeds of the county where said real estate is situated, and when so recorded, such record, or a certified copy thereof, made by the register of deeds, shall be received as prima facie evidence of the authority conferred by such resolution in all courts in this State. SEC. 4. Whenever the corporate existence of any corporation organized or existing under the provisions of this act shall be about to terminate by limitation of law, it shall be lawful for such corporate existence to be continued for a further term not exceeding thirty years, by the diocese, synod, conference, district or other organization which shall have organized such corporation. Upon the adoption of a resolution for such extension of the corporate existence at any meeting, lawfully held, it shall be the duty of the presiding officer and secretary to certify before a notary public Resolution where to the adoption of such resolution and to cause the same to be recorded in the office of the county clerk in which shall have been recorded the certificate provided for in section two of this act, and a certified copy of which shall be filed in the New corporation, office of the Secretary of State. Upon the expiration of the time limited for the existence of such old corporation, a new corporation shall be deemed to be formed, which shall at once succeed to all the property and rights of action of the old corporation, and shall be liable for all of its debts and recorded. to succeed to property, etc. other obligations, and the officers of the old corporation shall succeed to like offices in the new corporation. organizations, ing officer and tion. SEC. 5. Any diocese, synod, conference, district, or other Incorporation of organization, being an association of congregations or So how provided for. cieties of a religious denomination now exercising corporate powers by means of a corporation organized under act number thirty, laws of eighteen hundred seventy-five, being an act to provide for the exercise by religious societies of corporate powers for certain purposes, approved March twelve, eighteen hundred seventy-five, may provide for the incorporation, under this act, of such corporation. Whenever such Duty of presiddiocese, synod, conference, district, or other organization secretary, in case shall adopt a resolution for such reincorporation, at a meet- of reincorporaing thereof duly held and conducted according to the rules and regulations of such organization or association, it shall be the duty of the presiding officer and secretary of such meeting to cause to be filed in the office of the county clerk Resolution, in which the original certificate shall have been filed and and filed. recorded, a copy of such resolution, duly certified before a notary public, and a certified copy of which shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. And thereupon such corporation shall be deemed for all purposes to be incorporated under this act and subject to its provisions. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 25, 1905. 25 where recorded |