ered approved. Report to assessing officers. determines, before the second Monday in May in each year, When consid- then the estimate made by such board shall stand as approved and be considered as approved and ratified by such legislative body and reported accordingly, and the amount therein named, levied and collected accordingly. On or before the third Monday in May the secretary of the board shall make to the assessing officers of said city, a written report of the amount of taxes so deemed necessary and approved or standing approved by said legislative body, and the assessing officers shall apportion said amount, and the same shall be levied, assessed, collected and returned the same as other city taxes. No greater sum than six mills on the dollar shall be levied for general school purposes in any one year. For purchasing school lots, erecting school houses, and equipping the same, and paying school bonds and the interest thereon no greater sum than four mills on the dollar in addition to the tax for general school purposes shall be levied in any one year. Tax limit. Approved May 13, 1919. Protection of animals and [No. 406.] AN ACT to protect deer, moose, elk, caribou, badger, beaver, muskrat, pheasant, grouse, partridge and swan in and within two miles from any public park belonging to any city and containing over two hundred acres of which one hundred and fifty acres or more is woodland. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person shall hunt for, pursue, trap, capture, kill or destroy by any means whatever, or attempt to lic parks, etc. trap, capture, kill or destroy by any means whatever, any birds in pub Proviso, keepers, ete. Penalty. animal commonly known as deer, moose, elk, caribou, badger, beaver or muskrat, or any bird commonly known as pheasant, grouse, partridge or swan, in or within two miles from any public park belonging to any city and containing over two hundred acres of which one hundred and fifty acres or more is woodland: Provided, This section shall not apply to any act done in any public park by the superintendent, keeper or custodian thereof. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved May 13, 1919. [No. 407.] AN ACT to amend section two of chapter four of part four of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the State of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this State," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen. amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of chapter four of part four of act Section number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the State of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this State," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: purpose. Proviso, risks other than farm prop erty. not author SEC. 2. Farmers' Mutuals. Any number of persons, not who may less than seven, may associate together for the purpose of associate; mutual insurance of the property of its members against loss by fire or damage by lightning, which property to be insured may embrace dwelling houses, stores and all other kinds of buildings, and upon household furniture, goods, wares and merchandise and any other property: Provided, however, That where the property insured consists of buildings or personal property other than farm property, or dwelling houses and their contents, the amount of any one risk on either of said classes of property assumed by any company organized under the provisions of this section shall not exceed two thousand dollars: Provided further, That nothing herein contained Proviso, risks shall authorize farmers' mutuals organized under the pro- ized. visions of this section to insure risks other than dwelling houses, their contents and farm property, situated within the corporate limits of any city or village whose population is in excess of five thousand inhabitants; nor in any city or villages having a population of less than five thousand inhabitants unless a majority of the members of such mutual company present at an annual meeting shall by affirmative resolution so determine: Provided further, That the limitations contained in the foregoing provisos shall not apply to companies organized under the provisions of section nine of this chapter. Whenever any public or private corporation, board or association in this State has entered into an agree Proviso, tions not to Person acting tion, etc. for corpora Right of corporation to ment for and holds a policy in any such mutual insurance company, any officer, stockholder or trustee of any such corporation, board or association who may be designated by such corporation, board or association, may be recognized as acting for or on its behalf for the purpose of such membership, but shall not be personally liable upon such contract of insurance by reason of acting in such representative capacity. The participate as right of any corporation organized under the laws of this State to participate as a member of any such mutual insurance company is hereby declared to be incidental to the purpose for which such corporation is organized and as much granted as the rights and powers expressly conferred. Approved May 13, 1919. member. Who may incorporate. Articles. [No. 408.] AN ACT providing for the incorporation of the United States World War Veterans, Division of Michigan, and of subordinate posts thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The United States World War Veterans, Division of Michigan, and subordinate posts of the United States World War Veterans, Division of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. The commander, senior vice-commander, junior vice-commander, and adjutant of the Division of Michigan, United States World War Veterans, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which What to con- articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deed, and set forth: tain. Where filed. Body politic. First, The names of the officers above mentioned and their places of residence; Second, The corporate name by which the association or corporation shall be known in law; Third, The object and purposes of such association or corporation which shall be to promote the general welfare of the order known as the United States World War Veterans, and the period for which it is incorporated, which shall not exceed thirty years. SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together with a copy of the rules and regulations of the United States World War Veterans, shall be filed with the Secretary of State, and thereupon the persons who shall sign such articles of association or incorporation, their associates and suc trustee, etc. cessors, 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 capable to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, estates, real and personal, of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal which may be altered or changed at pleasure, but said corporation shall have no power to divert any gift, grant, or bequest from the specific purpose or purposes designated by the donor or donors. It shall also have the power to act as trustee Power as under any gift or bequest for any specified purpose within those named by its rules and regulations, or the spirit thereof, and may administer such trust by such officers and in such manner as is in accordance with such rules and regulations of the order and with its specified instructions of the donor or donors, and such trust when so created shall not be invalid for want of the names of specific beneficiaries to be benefited thereby, and in case the charter of any such post or division shall be taken away or surrendered, or whenever such post or division should become defunct as a corporation and incapable of carrying out the provisions of any such trust as trustee thereof, the same shall be turned over to and received by commission or board of trustees, of not more than three persons in number, which said board of trustees shall be appointed by the circuit court of the county in which said camp was organized, or if said property be real estate, by the circuit court for the county in which such real estate is situated, which said board of trustees shall continue to administer said trust fund in accordance with the provisions and spirit of the rules and regulations of the United States World War Veterans, and the conditions expressed in said trust, and they shall account to and be governed in the management thereof by the said court, and may be required to give the same bonds as receiver appointed under the general powers of the court: Provided, That the value of the real estate and personal estate owned in fee by said post or division shall not exceed the value of two hundred fifty thousand dollars; and that they and their successors shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of such real and personal estate or any part thereof to be disposed of, together with the proceeds, rent and income, as directed by such corporation under its rules and regulations. Said corporation Rules and byshall have sole power to make and establish rules and by-laws for regulating and governing all its affairs and business not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State or of the United States, and to designate, elect, or appoint from its members such officers under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations of the United States World War Veterans. Proviso, real and personal estate. laws. Evidence of organization. Corporate power. Subordinate posts. Articles. Body politic. Proviso, evidence of organization. Memorial edifice, etc. Proviso, union with township, etc. SEC. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of association under the seal of the State, duly certified by the Secretary of State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of the State of existence and due organization of such corporation. SEC. 5. Such corporation when duly formed shall have power to institute and charter posts of the United States World War Veterans, within this State, and from time to time issue such orders for the government of posts as are not repugnant to the rules and regulations of the commander-inIchief of the United States World War Veterans. SEC. 6. At any time when a subordinate post of the United States World War Veterans of America shall by two-thirds vote of the members present, at any regular meeting of said post, resolve to become incorporated, the commander, senior vice-commander, junior vice-commander, adjutant or other corresponding officers, of such post, 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 resolution passed at a regular meeting of the post, 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 post of the United States World War Veterans, 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 succession and shall be persons in law with the same power, duties, and liabilities as the United States World War Veterans, Division of Michigan, have under section three of this act: 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 courts in this State of the existence and the due organization of such corporation. SEC. 7. Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act may erect and own such suitable memorial edifice, building, or hall, as to such corporation may seem proper for its purpose, and it may, if so desired, create for that purpose a capital stock of not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than ten dollars each, which said shares may be subscribed for and held by any person, but in case such person or any persons holding shares who are not members of said post, or of the division encampment of said division, or agents of the same, they shall have no voice in the control of said building during the life of said corporation: And provided further, In case any such corporation so desires, it may for the purpose of building any such memorial building, unite in the erection thereof with any township, village, city or county, to be used jointly for the purposes of the World War Veterans, and the public |