[No. 37.] AN ACT to provide for the establishing and maintaining of free employment bureaus. The People of the State of Michigan enact: created in SECTION 1. That free employment bureaus are hereby Authorized authorized to be created in every city in this State having certain cities. a population of over fifty thousand, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment, and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. Such bureaus shall Name. be designated and known as Michigan Free Employment Bureaus. of labor to to be received. commissioner. SEC. 2. The Commissioner of Labor shall organize and Commissioner establish in all cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or over, establish. in this State, a free employment bureau, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment, and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. No com- No compensation pensation or fee shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, from persons applying for employment or help through any such bureau. It shall be the duty of said Com- Duty of missioner of Labor to use all diligence in securing the cooperation of employers of labor with the purposes and objects of said employment bureaus. To this end it shall be com- How may adverpetent for said commissioner to advertise in the columns of newspapers, or to use other mediums, for such situations as he has applicants to fill, and he may advertise in a general way for the co-operation of large contractors and employers, in such trade journals or special publications as reach such employers, whether such trade journals are published within the State of Michigan or not. The expenses for said Advertising advertising shall not exceed five hundred dollars per annum, how paid. and shall be paid from any appropriations made for the Department of Labor, and shall be audited the same as other items of expense. tise for positions. expenses, office, etc. furnished. SEC. 3. When the Commissioner of Labor shall deem it Board of auditors necessary to establish a free employment bureau under the to provide provisions of this act, the Board of State Auditors shall provide a suitable office for the same, with necessary furniture; Printing, binding. and all printing, binding, blanks, stationery and supplies etc.. how shall be done and furnished under any contract which the State now has, or shall hereafter have, for similar work with any party or parties; and the expense thereof shall be Expenses, in the discretion of the Board of State Auditors, audited how paid. and paid for in the same manner as other State printing and supplies are paid for. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 30, 1905. Appropriation. Proviso, as to money for immediate use. How paid out. To be incor porated in state tax. [No. 38.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the completion of two detached buildings for patients at the Northern Michigan Asylum for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, and to provide for a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for the completion of two detached buildings for patients, now in course of construction on the grounds of the Northern Michigan Asylum: Provided, That the board of trustees may obtain money under this section before July first, nineteen hundred five, in such amounts as they may, by requisition, certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use, which amounts thus advanced shall be deducted from the total amount appropriated when the appropriation becomes available. SEC. 2. The amount appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the Northern Michigan Asylum 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. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred five the sum of two thousand five hundred 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. Supervisors to appoint suitable persons. [No. 39.] AN ACT to provide for the burial of the bodies of certain honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines or the wives or widows of said soldiers, sailors or marines in this State, who shall hereafter die without leaving means sufficient to defray funeral expenses, and to repeal act number two hundred forty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county in this State to appoint in each township and ward, in their respective counties, a suitable per son, other than those designated for the care of paupers and the care of criminals, whose duty it shall be in his township Duty of. or ward, to look after and cause to be interred in a decent and Where to provide respectable manner in any cemetery or burial ground within burial. this State, other than those used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead, at an expense not to exceed forty dollars, Expense limited. the body of any honorably discharged Union soldier, sailor or marine having served in the army or navy of the United States, during the civil war or the late war with Spain, or the wives or widows of such soldiers, who shall hereafter die not leaving means sufficient to defray the necessary fun eral expenses. Such person so appointed shall serve without No compensation compensation, and shall hold his appointment so long as he for services. serves to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors; and whenever any vacancy occurs from any cause, it shall be the Vacancy, how duty of the board of supervisors to fill such vacancy by the appointment of another suitable person. filled. and expense of SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the person so appointed, Duty before as provided in the foregoing section, before he assumes the assuming charge charge and expense of any such burial, to first satisfy himself burial. by a careful inquiry into, and examination of all the circumstances in the case that the family of such deceased soldier, sailor or marine, or the wife or widow of any soldier, sailor or marine as aforesaid, if he or she had any at the time of his or her decease, residing in such township or ward, is unable for want of means, to defray the expense of such funeral or burial, whereupon, if he finds such inability to exist, he shall cause such deceased soldier, sailor or marine or the deceased wife or widow of such soldier, sailor or marine to be buried as provided in section one of this act, and he shall also immediately report his action to the clerk of the board To report to clerk. of supervisors of the county, setting forth all the facts, and that he found the family of such deceased person, if he or she had any, in indigent circumstances and unable to pay the expenses of such funeral or burial, together with the name, rank and command to which such soldier, sailor or marine belonged, and in case of such wife or widow, the rank and command to which her husband or deceased husband belonged, the date of his or her death, place where buried and his or her occupation while living; also, an accurately itemized statement of the expenses incurred by reason of such burial. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of Duty of clerk supervisors upon receiving the report and statement of expenses provided for in section two of this act, to transcribe in a book kept for that purpose all the facts contained in said report respecting such deceased soldier, sailor or marine or the deceased wife or widow of the same. It shall also be the duty of said clerk, upon the death and burial of any such soldier, sailor or marine to make application to the proper authorities under the government of the United States for a suitable headstone, as is now or may hereafter be provided by act of congress, and to cause the same to be placed at the head of such deceased soldier's, sailor's or marine's of supervisors. Expense, how audited. Act repealed. grave. And also, to cause a suitable headstone to be placed SEC. 4. All expenses incurred in such burial, as provided SEC. 5. Act number two hundred forty-two of the public Section amended. Unlawful to take except with hook and line. [No. 40.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred fiftytwo of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of fish in Brevoort lake, county of Mackinac and State of Michigan," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to take, catch, kill or destroy fish with seines or any species of continuous net, or with any form of spear or trap or in any manner whatsoever, except with hook and line in the waters of said Brevoort Fishing shanties lake, Mackinac county, Michigan, and it shall be unlawful to employ the use of fishing shanties or tents of any kind whatsoever for fishing through the ice on said lake, except during the months of January and February in each year; and it shall be unlawful to dispose of or sell any fish caught through the ice during said months. prohibited in certain months. When unlawful to sell. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful to catch in Otsego lake. [No. 41.] AN ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of Otsego The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful to take, catch or kill any fish by any means whatsoever from the waters known as Otsego lake in Otsego county, for a period of ten years violation. SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act Penalty for shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed twenty-five dollars, and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail, not to exceed thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. In all prosecutions under this act, it shall be Prima facie prima facie evidence, on the part of the people, of the viola- evidence. tion of the provisions of this act, to show that the defendant was found upon the waters of said lake, with any other device or devices than herein mentioned, for the catching and taking fish from the said waters. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. AN ACT to define the duties and liabilities of hotel keepers and innkeepers with relation to the personal property of their guests, and to provide for the protection of inn and hotel keepers, and to repeal act number two hundred twenty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, and act number fifteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: keepers. SECTION 1. The liability of the keeper of any inn, whether Liability of individual, partnership or corporation, for loss of or injury hotel and inn to personal property of his guest, shall be that of a depository for hire: Provided, however, That in no case shall such Proviso as to liability exceed the sum of two hundred fifty dollars; and amount. in case of the loss of a trunk or chest, and its contents, it shall not exceed the sum of one hundred fifty dollars; in case of the loss of a valise, portmanteau, grip, telescope or dress suit case, and contents, it shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars; and in case of the loss of a box, bundle or package, and contents, it shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall Further proviso. prohibit an innkeeper from assuming a greater liability than the sum of two hundred fifty dollars for the personal effects |