Section amended When court may order persons sent to state asylum. persons as to sanity. The People of the State of Michigan cnact: SECTION 1. That section nineteen of act number one hundred twenty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the government of the Michigan Asylum for Dangerous and Criminal Insane and the inmates therein, and to repeal act one hundred ninety, laws of eighteen hundred eighty-three and all acts amendatory thereto, and all of that portion of act one hundred forty, laws of eighteen hundred ninety-one, which conflicts with this act, being an act, entitled 'An act to provide for a State Board of Inspectors who shall perform the duties now performed by the Advisory Board in Matters of Pardons and who shall have the complete management and control of the State Prison at Jackson, the State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, the Michigan Asylum for Insane Criminals at Ionia, the Branch of the State Prison at Marquette, the Reform School for Boys at Lansing and the Industrial Home for Girls at Adrian, and to abolish all existing boards and to annul all existing appointments," as last amended by act number eighty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, said section being compiler's section one thousand nine hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be amended to read as follows: SEC. 19. When a person accused of the crime of murder, attempt at murder, rape, attempt at rape, incest, abduction, highway robbery or arson, or attempt to do great bodily harm, shall appear to be insane, or shall have escaped indictment upon the grounds of insanity or shall have been acquitted upon trial upon the grounds of insanity, the court, being certified by the jury or otherwise of the fact, shall carefully inquire and ascertain whether his insanity in any degree continues, and if it does, shall order such person into safe cusInvestigation of tody and to be sent to the State Asylum. If any person in confinement under indictment for the crime of arson, or murder, or attempt at murder, rape, or attempt at rape, or incest, or abduction, or highway robbery, or assault to do great bodily harm, shall appear to be insane, the judge of the circuit court of the county where he is confined shall institute a careful investigation. He shall call two or more reputable physicians and other credible witnesses, and the prosecuting attorney, to aid in the examination, and if it be deemed necessary to call a jury for that purpose, is fully empowered to compel the attendance of witnesses and jurors. If it is satisfactorily proved that such person is insane, said judge may discharge such person from imprisonment and order his safe custody and removal to the State Asylum, where such person shall remain until restored to his right mind, and then, if the said judge shall have so directed, the superintendent of said asylum shall inform the said judge and prosecuting attorney, Who to aid in examination. Insane person discharged from imprisonment, removal to asylum. Duty of superintendent. so that the person so confined may within sixty days thereafter be remanded to prison and criminal proceedings be re sumed, or he be otherwise discharged. If any such person County to be sent to said asylum, the county from which he is sent shall defray expenses. defray all expenses of such person while at the asylum for a period of two years, and the expense of returning home to such county if his discharge is effected during such period. expenses. If he shall not be discharged from the said asylum until after When state to his transfer to the State shall have been effected, under the bear return provisions of a subsequent section, the expenses of his return to said county shall be paid by the State of Michigan. The When may county or State may recover the amount so paid from the recover from person's own estate, if he have any, or from any relative, estate. town, city or county that would have been bound under existing laws to provide for and maintain him elsewhere. Approved June 16, 1905. person's own AN ACT to make an appropriation for designating, by monuments, the locations occupied by the second, eighth, twelfth, fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth and twenty-seventh regiments of Michigan Infantry; and the Batteries G and H, First Michigan Light Artillery, who participated in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg, within the Vicksburg National Military Park, and providing for the erection of the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and Appropriation for the same is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the State monuments. treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting monuments within the Vicksburg National Military Park, to designate the positions occupied in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg by the second, eighth, twelfth, fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth and twenty-seventh regiments of Michigan Infantry, and Batteries G and H, First Michigan Light Artillery. Said sum to be expended under the supervision By whom of the Vicksburg Military Park Commission, created by act expended. number two hundred forty, public acts of nineteen hundred three, who shall receive no pay for their services, except for necessary and actual expense and clerk hire, while engaged in their duties. SEC. 2. The said commission shall at once, after the pas- Duty of sage of this act, proceed to carry the same into effect. They commission. shall determine the design and number of monuments to be erected as contemplated in this act with all convenient speed. Expenses. To be incorporated in state tax. The actual expenses of said commission shall be paid out of the fund hereby appropriated, and they shall report to the Governor of the State of Michigan immediately upon the fulfillment of their duties in detail, making an abstract of expenditures with vouchers thereto, with all acts done or made by them, together with information as gathered from their observations and pertinent in its relation thereto, shall be embraced in their report as the commission shall think proper. SEC. 3. The Auditor General of the State shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year one thousand nine hundred five the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be apportioned, levied, assessed and collected, which sum when collected shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse said fund, for the amount appropriated by section one of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Appropriation for Further appropriation. [No. 240.] AN ACT making appropriations for the current expenses and special purposes for the Michigan College of Mines at Houghton, for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, and June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current current expenses. expenses of the Michigan College of Mines for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, the sum of sixty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred six, by purposes and amounts as follows: Thirtyfive thousand dollars for the purchase of additional land now covered by what are known as the Pope and Hubbell options; five thousand dollars for repairs to power plant and extraordinary expenses for heat and light. How paid. SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan College of Mines at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. tax. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State To be incortax for the year nineteen hundred five the sum of one hundred porated in state thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred six the sum of sixty thousand dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 241.] AN ACT to amend section six of chapter seventy of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the administration and distribution of the estates of intestates" as amended, said section being compiler's section nine thousand three hundred twenty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section six of chapter seventy of the revised Section statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the ad- amended ministration and distribution of the estates of intestates" as amended, said section being compiler's section nine thousand three hundred twenty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven is hereby amended to read as follows: preserve SEC. 6. An administrator appointed according to the pro- Administrator visions of the preceding section shall collect all the goods, to collect and chattels and debts of the deceased, and preserve the same for goods, debts etc. the executor or administrator who may afterwards be appointed, and for that purpose may commence and maintain actions as an administrator, and may sell such perishable and other personal estate as the probate court may order to be sold. All personal actions, the cause of which does by Proceedings in law survive and which may be pending either for or against personal actions the intestate of such special administrator, may be proceeded estate. with and be prosecuted by or against such special administrator, and the same proceedings taken as are provided by law relating to such actions in cases where an executor or general administrator has been appointed. Approved June 16, 1905. for or against Section amended. Salary of stenographer 6th circuit. [No. 242.] AN ACT to amend section nineteen of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being section three hundred eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nineteen of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being section three hundred eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 19. In the sixth circuit the stenographer shall be paid This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. [No. 243.] AN ACT to amend sections five and six of act number sixtyeight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of supreme, grand and subordinate lodges of the 'United Home Protectors Fraternity,' a co-operative fraternal building and loan society or order," being sections seven thousand six hundred eleven and seven thousand six hundred twelve of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and to add four new sections thereto to be known as sections number twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections five and six of act number sixty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of supreme, grand |