Power to char. ter auxiliary corps,

Subordinate corps may incorporate.

Sec. 5. Such corporation when duly formed shall have power to institute and charter corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic within this State, and from time to time issue such orders for the government of corps as are not repugnant to the rules and regulations of the National convention of the Woman's Relief Corps of the United States

Sec. 6. At any time when a subordinate corps, auxiliary to a post of the Grand Army of the Republic, shall by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting of said corps, resolve to become incorporated, the president, senior vice-president, junior vice-president and secretary of such corps may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, specifying as provided in section two of this act, and file a copy of the resolutions passed at a regular meeting of the corps, with the clerk of the county in which such corporation shall be formed, which shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, and thereupon such corps, auxiliary to a post of the Grand Army of the Republic, the officers thereof, their associates and successors shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have successions and shall be persons in law with the same powers, duties and liabilities as the Woman's Relief Corps department of Michigan have under section three of this act, to which they are subordinate: Provided, That a certified copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the circuit court of the county where such record is recorded, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all the courts of this State, of the existence and due organization of such corporation.

Sec. 7. All corporations formed under this act shall be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-one of Howell's Annotated Statutes so far as the same may be applicable to corporations formed under this act.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 8, 1889.

Proviso.

Subject to general law.

[No. 16.]

AN ACT to repeal act number one hundred and fifty-seven of the

public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “ An
act to amend section one of act number forty-three of the laws
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the same being com-
piler's section nine thousand one hundred and eighty-eight of
Howell's Annotated Statutes relative to the fraudulent removal
or embezzlement of property leased or under contract of pur-
chase, and to repeal section two of said act, the same being
compiler's section nine thousand one hundred and eighty-nine
of Howell's Annotated Statutes."
Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That act

Act repealed,

number one hundred and fifty-seven of the public acts of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to amend section
one of act number forty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, the same being compiler's section nine thou-
sand one hundred and eighty-eight of Howell's Annotated Statutes
relative to the fraudulent removal or embezzlement of property
leased or under contract of purchase, and to repeal section two
of said act, the same being compiler's section nine thousand one
hundred and eighty-nine of Howell's Annotated Statutes," be
and the game is hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 8, 1889.

[No. 17.]

AN ACT relative to the fraudulent removal, concealment, dis

posal or embezzlement of property leased or under contract of purchase. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Fraudulent

disposal of . any person who shall embezzle, fraudulently remove, conceal or taip goods, etc: dispose of any goods, chattels or effects leased or let to him by any written lease or instrument in writing intended to operate as a lease, or any personal property or effects of another in his possession under a contract of purchase not yet fulfilled, and any person in possession of such goods, chattels or effects, knowing them to be subject to such lease or contract of purchase, who shall 80 embezzle, remove, conceal or dispose of the same, with the intent to injure or defraud the lessor or owner thereof, shall a felony. be deemed guilty of a felony, if of the value of twenty-five dollars or more, and shall upon conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment in State prison not more than two years or by fine not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months. erty embezzled, removed, concealed or disposed of, as aforesaid, shall not be of the value of twenty-five dollars, the person 80 A misdemeanor. offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be panished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Acte repealed. hereby repealed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 12, 1889.

If the prop

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[No. 18.]

Fraudulent dig. posal of mort

OV r certain amount a feloly.

demeanor.

AN'ACT to provide punishment for the fraudulent removal, con

cealment, disposal or embezzlement of personal property under chattel mortgage.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That if gaged goods to any person who shall have made or executed any mortgage or con

veyance, intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels, shall fraudulently embezzle, remove, conceal or dispose of any such goods or chattels, mortgaged or conveyed as aforesaid, with intent to injure or defraud the mortgagee or assignee of said mortgage or conveyance, which shall be of the value of twentyfive dollars or more, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the State prison, not more than two years, or by fine not more

than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the Under certain county jail not more than six months. If the property embezzled, amount or mis- removed, concealed or disposed of as aforesaid shall not be of the

value of twenty-five dollars, the person thus offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. That any person who shall fraudulently em bezzlə, remove, conceal or dispose of any goods or chattels, which have been mortgaged by another, knowing such goods to have been so mortgaged, with intent to injure or defraud the mortgagee or assignee of any such mortgage, and which shall be of the value of twenty-five dollars or more, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not more than two years, or by fine not more

than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the A misdemeanor. county jail not more than six nionths. If the property removed,

concealed or disposed of as aforesaid shall not be of the value of
twenty-five dollars, the person thus offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding three months, in the discretion of the court.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 13, 1889.

Fraudulent dis. posal of goods mortgaged by ano: her, etc.

A felouy.

[No. 19.]

AN ACT authorizing and instructing the Auditor General to

balance certain accounts of the Michigan School for the Blind by transfer of funds.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Auditor General is hereby authorized and instructed, upon

Auditor General
authorized to
transfer
moneys, etc.

auditing the account current of the Michigan School for the Blind
for the month ending December thirty-one, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-eight, to transfer moneys from funds, except-
ing that for horses and cows and for iron balconies, where there
may be a surplus sufficient to balance funds where there may be a
deficit, the aggregate balance on hand, excepting that in the
account for horses and cows and for iron balconies, to be covered
into the State treasury, reserving sufficient to pay all liabilities
incurred prior to December thirty-one, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-eight.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 15, 1889.

[No. 20.]

amnended,

AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred and

sixty-three of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to provide for the prepara-
tion, publication and distribution of a Legislative Manual,"
approved May thirty-one, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine, as amended by act number seventy-nine, public
acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, approved
April twenty-one, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

SCETION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section
section one of act number two hundred and sixty-three of the
public acts of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,
entitled “ An act to provide for the preparation, publication and
distribution of a Legislative Manual,” approved May thirty-
one, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, as amended
by act number seventy-nine, public acts of one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-seven, approved April twenty-one, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Secretary of hereafter the Secretary of State shall cause to be prepared and anate Pobles ha published biennially a Legislative Manual, to be distributed by Manual, him to the persons and officers hereinafter named. That said what to con manual shall contain the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this State, with all amendments thereto; maps showing the congressional, senatorial and representative districts and judicial circuits of the State, and the population of each as shown by the last preceding census; a railroad map of the State and tables showing distances between stations on the railroad lines; the vote for Governor at the last preceding November elec- County clerks tion in the several counties by townships and wards, which for Governor. information shall be returned to the Secretary of State by the several county clerks, on or before the fifteenth day of December next preceding a regular session of the Legislature; lists of the

distribute

!

copies to be

postoffices, newspapers and banking institutions in the State; the latest statistics of the educational, charitable, reformatory and penal institutions of the State; a table of the valuation of the taxable property in the several counties of the State as fixed by the State Board of Equalization at their last preceding meeting; the rules and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives of this State; diagrams of the Senate chamber and Representative hall; the names, ages, occupations and residences of the members and officers of both houses; the names and residences of the State officers and members of State boards, and principal officers of the State institutions; a list of the standing committees of both

houses of the Legislature; and such other matter as may be Number of deemed essential. A sufficient number of copies of said manual published.

shall be published to supply the members and officers of the Legislature in office at the time of the publication of said manual with one copy each; also a sufficient number of copies to supply

the following persons and officers with one copy each, viz: Officers, etc., to Governor and State officers, members and officers of the next be supplied.

following Legislature, members of State boards, the principal officers of State institutions, Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State, United States circuit and district

judges in this State, justices of the Supreme Court, and judges Newspapers.

of the circuit and superior courts in this State, each newspaper

published in this State, and the clerks regularly employed in the Graded Schools. several State departments, and each graded school library in the

State. That in addition to the foregoing there shall be published copies.

forty-one hundred copies of said manual, one hundred copies of For State which shall be deposited in the State library for the use of said Library. library, and for exchanges, thirty-seven hundred copies of which

shall be for distribution in such manner as may be directed by by Legislature. the Legislature in office at the time of publication; and the

remaining three hundred copies shall be deposited in the office of
the Secretary of State for sale by the Secretary of State at a
fair price, not less than the actual cost thereof, and that the
money received therefor shall be paid into the State Treasury
monthly.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 19, 1889.

Additional

For distribution

For sale,

(No. 21.]

AN ACT to amend section seven of act number thirty-nine of

the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, entitled “An act to regulate the employment of children, young persons, and women in certain cases," approved April ten, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section seven of act number thirty-nine of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, entitled “An act to

Section amended.