Sections amended. When surety required. When court without surety. [No. 36.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number two hundred and seventy-six of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to require security to be given on staying proceedings upon verdicts and judgments in the circuit courts of this State." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one and two of act number two hundred and seventysix of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven, entitled "An act to require security to be given on staying proceedings upon verdicts and judgments in the circuit courts of this State," be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 1. That no stay of proceedings upon any verdict or judgment rendered in any circuit court in this State shall hereafter be granted or allowed for the purpose of moving for a new trial or settling a bill of exceptions in the case in which such verdict or judgment was rendered for a longer period than twenty days, unless the party applying for such stay, if judgment shall have been rendered against him, shall execute to the adverse party a bond with sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by the judge of the court in which such judgment was rendered, conditioned to pay such judgment if the same is not set aside or reversed. SEC. 2. In case the party applying for such stay of proceedings may grant stay shall be unable to give such bond by reason of poverty, the judge may, upon due proof of inability for such reason, grant such stay without requiring such bond for such reasonable time as the judge may determine. Approved March 28, 1889. Section amended. [No. 37.] AN ACT to amend section forty-three of chapter forty-six of the compiled laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventyone, relative to the public health, being compiler's section one thousand six hundred and seventy-five of Howell's Annotated Statutes, as amended by act number eleven of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, approved March seventeen, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section forty-three of chapter forty-six of the compiled laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's section one thousand six hundred and seventy-five of Howell's Annotated Statutes, as amended by act number eleven of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, approved March seventeen, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as disease, etc. (§1675.) SEC. 43. Whenever any householder, hotelkeeper, Who to give keeper of a boarding house or tenant shall know, or shall be notice of informed by a physician, or shall have reason to believe that any person in his family, hotel, boarding house or premises is taken sick with small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice in writing thereof to the health officer, the president, or the clerk of the board of health of the township, city or village in which he resides. Said notice shall state the name of the person sick, the name of the disease, if known, the name of the householder, hotelkeeper, keeper of boarding house or tenant giving the notice, and shall, by street and number, or otherwise, sufficiently designate the house in which he resides or the room in which the sick person may be; and if he shall refuse Penalty for or willfully neglect immediately to give such notice, he shall be neglect, etc. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof he shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution; or, in default of payment thereof, by imprisonment not exceeding ninety days in the county jail, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That such fine or Proviso. imprisonment shall not be enforced if a physician in attendance has given to the health officer or other officer herein before mentioned an immediate notice of said sick person and true name of the disease, in accordance with the requirements of this section. Approved March 28, 1889. [No. 38.] AN ACT to amend section nine of act number one hundred and amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section section nine (9) of act one hundred and forty-nine (149) of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one (1881), being an act to provide for the adoption and use of a standard form of insurance policy, be and hereby is amended so as to read as follows: exempt, etc. SEC. 9. The provisions of this act shall not apply to policies what issued by mutual fire insurance companies organized under companies the provisions of act number eighty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, or the acts amendatory thereof, or under the provisions of act number two hundred and sixty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, or the acts amendatory thereof, or under the provisions of act number one hundred and fifty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, or the acts amendatory thereof. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 28, 1889. Any number not less than ten may incorporate. What articles to state. Execution of articles. Body politic and corporate. Seal. [No. 39.] AN ACT to authorize the formation of corporations for the purchase and improvement of grounds to be occupied for summer homes, for camp-meetings, for meetings of assemblies or associations and societies organized for intellectual and scientific culture and for the promotion of the cause of religion and morality, or for any or all of such purposes. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any number of persons not less than ten, who may desire to form an association for the purchase and improvement of lands to be occupied for summer homes, for camp-meetings, for meetings and assemblies of associations and societies organized for scientific or intellectual culture and for the promotion of religion and morality, or any or all such purposes, may, with their associates, successors and assigns, become a body politic and corporate under any name by them assumed in their articles of incorporation, in the manner herein provided. SEC. 2. The persons so associating shall sign articles of association which shall state: First, The corporate name of the association; Second, The names and residence of the persons thus associating; Fourth, The number of trustees to manage the business of the association and their terms of office, also the names of trustees for the first year or until the annual meeting of the association; Fifth, The county in which its real estate shall be situate and its meetings held; Sixth, The term of its existence, which shall not exceed thirty years; Seventh, They may also state therein the qualifications of persons eligible to the office of trustee and the terms and conditions of membership, and such other provisions for the management of the business and the disposition of the real and personal property of the association as they may desire, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act and the laws of this State. SEC. 3. The execution of such articles of association shall be acknowledged by the persons signing the same before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. Such articles shall thereupon be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the real estate of the association is situated, and the county clerk, after making such record, shall certify upon such articles the date and place of record thereof and return the same to the association. SEC. 4. Upon compliance with the foregoing provisions of this act the persons so associating, their successors and assigns, shall become and be a body politic and corporate by the name assumed in their articles of association, and shall have and possess all the general powers and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities of a corporation. Such corporation may have a common seal; sue and be sued in all the courts of this State; may take and acquire SEC. 5. Such corporation may improve and ornament its lands, Improvement of erect and maintain churches, houses of worship, and other build- lands, etc. ings thereon for its own use, or for the use and occupation of assemblies, societies and people who may desire the same, and may hold meetings, employ speakers and lecturers for the promotion of intellectual and scientific culture, religion and morals, and may also lease portions of its lands to societies organized for the promotion of like purposes. It may cause its lands to be drained, construct docks necessary and convenient upon the banks or shores of any stream, bay or lake upon which its lands border, and may make such provision as may be necessary for supplying its grounds and the people thereon with water and for sanitary and fire purposes. meeting. SEC. 6. The annual meeting of such association shall be held at Annual some suitable place on its grounds at such time as shall be fixed by the board of trustees, and may adjourn from day to day as may be necessary for the transaction of its business. At the first annual meeting the entire number of the board of trustees shall be elected, and at each annual meeting thereafter there shall be elected such number of trustees as shall be necessary to fill the places of trustees whose term of office then expires, and all vacancies in such board. Such election shall be by ballot, and any person receiving a majority of all the votes cast shall be elected. Any and all business of the association may be considered and acted upon at such meeting, and such instructions given to the board of trustees as may be determined upon. If, for any reason, the annual Special meeting of the association shall not be held at the time fixed therefor, the board of trustees shall, within sixty days thereafter, call a special meeting of the association, at a time fixed by it for that purpose, and notify each member of the association thereof by mailing a notice addressed to him or her to his or her place of residence, if known; and such special meeting, when so called and held, shall have the same powers as the annual meeting would have had if held at the time fixed therefor. At any meeting of vote. the association each member thereof shall be entitled to one vote. The trustees shall make to such annual meeting a report, in writing, of their doings and of the management of the business of the meeting. assomation, the soudition of the property, concerns, and ine sesete Bus 1600 MF, and such other TLATLATE Be to them slal seem proper. bas. 1. 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The board of trustees shall have the management and control of the business, finances, rights, interests, buildings, and all property, real and personal, of the association, and shall represent the association, with full power and authority to act for it in all things whatsoever, subject only to the provisions of this act and the by-laws of the association, and any special directions that may be given with regard thereto by a vote of any annual meeting. It shall fix the times for holding the annual meetings of the association, or special meetings thereof. Such board shall have jurisdiction over the lands of the association, the streets and highways passing through or over the same: Provided, That the right of the public to the control, repair and use of such highways and streets as are now or may hereafter be used and necessary for the public travel through or across such grounds shall not be affected hereby: And further provided, That the public shall not be liable for the condition, safety or repair of such other streets, alleys or highways as may be laid out, [opened] operated and used under the authority and control of said association, and the waters within or in front thereof, and all buildings thereon, whether leased or not; to keep all such lands and premises of the association, and the waters within or in front thereof, in good sanitary condition; to preserve the purity of the waters of all springs, streams, bays or lakes within or bordering upon the said lands; to license such number of drays as may be thought desirable; to prohibit any persons from carrying on the business of carrying goods, trunks, baggage or commodities on the lands of the association without such license; to provide for the protection of the property from loss or damage from fire, and to protect the occupants of its grounds from contagious diseases, and to remove therefrom any and all persons afflicted with any such disease; to prevent and prohibit on its grounds vice and immorality; to prohibit all disorderly assemblies and conduct, all gaming and disorderly houses, all billiard tables, bowling alleys, fraudulent and gaming devices; to prohibit on said ground the selling or giving away of spirituous or fermented liquors, and also all shows, meetings and exhibitions without its consent first had therefor; to prohibit and abate all nuisances and all slaughter houses, meat markets, butcher shops, glue factories, stables, horse barns, and all other |