in which the office of such association for the transaction of business may be located; and upon the execution and acknowledgment of such articles, the signers thereof and those who may thereafter become associated with them shall become a body corporate for the purposes set forth in said articles. SEC. 2. Articles of association shall contain: First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance, and their places of residence; Second, The name of such corporation and the place where its office for the transaction of business is located, and the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years; Third, The objects for which it is organized; Fourth, The number of its trustees, if any, who shall be members of the association, and its regular officers, and the time and place of holding its annual meeting; Fifth, The terms and conditions of active and honorary membership therein. Contents of. tion may hold SEC. 3. No such corporation shall have power to take or hold When corporaany real estate, except such as may be necessary for the transac- real estate. tion of its business and the purposes for which it is organized, for a longer term than ten years. corporation's SEC. 4. All the funds received by any such corporation shall Disposition of be used in the first instance, or shall be invested and the income funds. thereof used, for the exclusive purpose set forth in the articles of incorporation, and no portion of the funds of such corporation shall in any case be otherwise applied. Such corporation may take by gift, purchase or devise, property to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, and it shall be lawful to invest the same upon mortgage or by loan, or in bonds, or any city, county, State or United States securities, but no loan shall be made to any trustee or officer of such corporation. members. SEC. 5. The stockholders of such corporation shall have power Admission of to prescribe the terms, rules and regulations as set forth under the article of association of this act upon which members shall be admitted and continue entitled to the benefits provided for in the articles of incorporation thereof; and every member shall be deemed to have assented to such terms and conditions by the act of accepting membership. SEC. 6. A person under the age of twenty-one years, elected or admitted as a member of a society, shall be liable to the payment of fees and otherwise, under the rules of the society, as if he were of full age. Member under age of twentyone years. Money when from claim by SEC. 7. When under the rules of a society money becomes pay- payable to able to, or for the use or benefit of, a member thereof, such member, free money shall be free from all claims by the creditors of such creditors, etc. member; and in case any money is paid in good faith to the person who appears to the treasurer or other officer to be entitled to receive the same, or is applied in good faith for the purposes by the rules provided, no action shall be brought against the treasurer or other officer of the society in respect thereof; but nevertheless if it subsequently appears that the money has been Honorary members. Annual report Additional statement may be required. When deer may be killed. Proviso. Illegal killing of deer, etc. Evidence. Hunting or killing of deer, paid to the wrong person, the person entitled thereto may recover the amount with interest from the society. SEC. 8. All persons who shall donate to any such society the sum of twenty-five dollars or more, or shall subscribe five dollars per annum, shall be constituted honorary members. They shall be entitled to attend all general meetings, and to vote on any matter relating to the society. SEC. 9. Every society or association doing business under the foregoing provisions shall annually, on or before the first day of March in each year, report to the insurance commissioner the location of its principal office in the State, and the names and addresses of its president, secretary, and treasurer, or other [officers] officer answering thereto, and shall make such further statements of its membership and financial transactions for the year ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December, with other information relating thereto, as said commissioner may deem necessary to a proper exhibit of its business and standing. And the commissioner may at other times require any further statement he may deem necessary to be made relating to such society or association. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 276.] AN ACT for the protection of game. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That no person or persons shall pursue or hunt or kill any deer in this State save only from the first day of November to the first day of December inclusive, in each year: Provided, That in the Upper Peninsula deer may be killed between the twenty-fifth day of September and fifteenth day of November only, in each year. SEC. 2. No person or persons shall pursue, hunt, or kill at any time any deer when it is in its red coat, or any fawn when it is in its spotted coat, or have in his possession the skin of such deer or fawn in the red or spotted coat, and the having in his possession the skin of such deer or fawn shall be prima facie evidence of such illegal killing. SEC. 3. No person or persons shall at any time kill or capture where prohib. any deer in the waters of any of the streams, ponds, or lakes within the jurisdiction of this State. ited. Idem. Idem. Idem. SEC. 4. No person or persons shall kill or capture any deer by means of any pit, pitfall or trap. SEC. 5. No person shall make use of any artificial light in hunting deer. SEC. 6. No person or persons shall make use of a dog in hunting, pursuing or killing a deer within the boundaries of this State. deer may be SEC. 7. Any dog pursuing or killing a deer, or following upon Dog pursuing the track of a deer, is hereby declared a public nuisance, and may killed. be killed by any person when so seen, and the owner of such dog shall have no recourse at law against the person so killing such dog. When other game may be SEC. 8. No person or persons shall kill or destroy, by any means whatever, or attempt to take or destroy, any wild turkey killed. at any time except in the months of October and November of each year. SEC. 9. No person or persons shall kill or destroy, by any Idem. means whatever, any woodcock or any partridge or ruffed grouse, save only from the first day of September in each year to the first day of January following. SEC. 10. No person or persons shall kill or destroy, by any Idem. means whatever, any wild duck, wild goose, or other wild water fowl or snipe, save only from the first day of September in each year to the first day of January in the year following: Provided, Proviso. however, That it shall be lawful to hunt and kill jack-snipe, redheaded, blue bill, canvas-back, widgeon, pin-tail ducks and wild geese, between the first day of September in each year and the first day of May next following. violation of act. SEC. 11. The taking, carrying, or sending by any means what- Evidence of ever into or through any county of this State any of the game or animals which have been killed or captured contrary to the provisions of this act, or the hide of such animals, shall be illegal, and is declared to be an offense against the provisions of this act, in any county in or through which such game, animals, or hides may be taken. be killed. SEC. 12. No person shall kill, capture, or destroy, or attempt When quall may to kill, capture, or destroy any colin or quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, before the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and thereafter only during the months of November and December of each year. SEC. 13. No person shall kill or attempt to kill any pinnated Grouse. grouse or prairie chicken until the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and thereafter only in the months of September and October in each year. SEC. 14. No person or persons shall at any time take or capture Other game. or attempt to take or capture any turkeys, partridge, prairie chicken, pigeon, wild duck, wild goose or quail by means of nets, snares, pits, pitfalls, or cages: Provided, That it shall be lawful to trap quail and take them alive for the purpose of keeping them alive through the winter and for no other purpose whatever. Said quail are not to be transported to other places, but must be again liberated in the same place where they were caught when the weather is suitable in spring. or punt gun SEC. 15. No person shall, at any time, make use of a swivel or Use of swivel punt gun for the purpose of killing, or attempting to kill, any prohibited. wild duck or other wild fowl. etc., prohibited. SEC. 16. No person shall, at any time, in any manner, rob, or Robbing nests, destroy, or injure the nest of any wild duck or other wild fowl, Sale of protectgame, prohibited. Proviso. nor in any manner kill or molest the same at night or at any other time on their nesting places. SEC. 17. No person or persons shall sell or expose for sale, or ed when have in his possession for the purpose of selling or exposing for sale, any of the kinds or species of birds or animals protected by this act after the expiration of eight days next succeeding the times limited and prescribed for the killing of any such birds or animals: Provided, however, That it shall be lawful to expose for sale and to sell any live quail for the purpose of preserving the same alive through the winter. And it shall also be lawful for any person to take alive, on his own premises, at any time and in any manner, any wood duck, teal duck, or mallard duck, or wild turkey, for the sole purpose of domestication or for scientific or breeding purposes, and possession and transportation alive of such wild fowl, so taken on one's own premises, may be had for any such purpose: Provided, That in any prosecution for violation of any of the provisions of this act, the person claiming the benefit of this section shall prove on the hearing or trial that in good faith he so took alive such wild fowl or fowls for one of the purposes specified in this section, and if prosecuted for transporting them, that he is in good faith transporting them alive for such purpose; and it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to aver or prove that the taking alive of any such wild fowl or fowls was not done for domestication or for scientific or for breeding purposes. Proviso, as to evidence. Penalty. Proviso. Killing of certain birds a misdemeanor. Penalty. Liability of railroad com transporting protected game. SEC. 18. Any person or persons violating any of the foregoing provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall likewise be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, and shall, on conviction thereof, stand committed to the common jail of the county until such penalty is paid: Provided, That such imprisonment shall not exceed thirty days. SEC. 19. Any person who shall, at any time, within this State, kill any robin, nighthawk, whippoorwill, finch, thrush, lark, swallow, yellow bird, blue bird, brown thrasher, wren, martin, oriole, woodpecker, bobolink, or any song bird, or rob the nests of such birds, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined five dollars for each bird so killed, and for each nest so robbed, or confined in the county jail for ten days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 20. That any railroad, express company, or other common pany, etc., for carriers, or any of their agents or servants or other persons having any of the above named birds or animals in their possession for transportation, or shall transport the same after the expiration of five days next succeeding the time limited and prescribed for the killing of such birds and animals, shall be punished by fine not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided, That no such penalty shall apply to the transportation of live quail which are to be kept alive throughout the winter, or to the transportation of such birds or animals in transit Proviso. through the State from other states where it is lawful to kill such birds or animals at the time of such transportation. maiming, etc., SEC. 21. No person or persons shall use any gun or guns, or Penalty for fire arms to maim, kill, or destroy any wild pigeon or pigeons, pigeons near at or within five miles of the place or places where they are nestings, etc. gathered in bodies for the purpose of brooding their young, known as pigeon nestings; and no person or persons shall use any gun or guns, or fire arms, to maim, kill or destroy, any wild. pigeon or pigeons within their roostings, any where within the limits of this State; and no person or persons shall, with trap, snare, or net, or in any other manner, take, or attempt to take, kill or destroy, or attempt to kill or destroy, any wild pigeon or pigeons, at or within two miles of such nesting place at any time from the beginning of the nesting until after the last hatching of such nesting, any where within the limits of this State; and every person offending against the provisions of this section, or any part thereof, shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars with costs of suit. how brought. attorney, duties SEC. 22. A prosecution may be brought by any person in the Prosecutions, name of the people of the State of Michigan, against any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act before any justice of the peace of the county in which such violation is alleged to have taken place, or before any court of competent jurisdiction; and it is made the duty of all prosecuting attorneys Prosecuting in this State to see that the provisions of this act are enforced in of. their respective counties, and they shall prosecute all offenders, on receiving information of the violation of any of the provisions of this act; and it is made the duty of sheriffs, under sheriffs, Sheriffs, etc, deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers, to inform against duties of. and prosecute all persons whom there is probable cause to believe are guilty of violating any of the provisions of this act. issue permits, SEC. 23. The State game and fish warden is hereby authorized Warden may to issue permits for the hunting and killing any kind of bird when. out of season, said bird being sought exclusively as specimens for scientific purposes. tions to be SEC. 24. All prosecutions under the provisions of this act shall When prosecu be commenced within one year from the time such offense was commenced. committed. SEC. 25. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved July 6, 1889. Acts repealed. [No. 277.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred and seventy of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eightyseven, entitled "An act to establish, protect, and enforce the rights of mechanics and other persons furnishing labor or |