Designate sites. Purchase site and Fourth, To designate, as hereinafter provided, a site or such number of sites as may be desired for schoolhouses, and to change the same when necessary; Fifth, To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or sites, build school- lawfully determined upon; the building, hiring or purchasing of a schoolhouse or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously established; house. Vote tax for site and schoolhouse. Vote tax for repairs, etc. Sell school property. Provisions in suits. Appoint building committee. Determine length of school year. Sixth, To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient, to purchase or lease a site or sites, or to build, hire or purchase a schoolhouse or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building a schoolhouse or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred, shall not exceed in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years, two hundred fifty dollars; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age, it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age, it shall not exceed one thousand dollars; Seventh, To vote such tax as shall be necessary for the following purposes: To keep their schoolhouse or houses in repair, to provide the necessary appendages and school apparatus, to establish and support a district library, to pay and discharge any debt or liabilities of the district lawfully incurred, to pay for the service of any district officers, and to pay the premium upon any surety bond required by law to be given by any officer of such school district, and to pay for the transportation of pupils to and from school. The tax herein authorized to be voted shall not exceed one-half of the amount which the district is authorized to raise for building schoolhouses; Eighth, To authorize and direct the sale of any schoolhouse, site, building or other property belonging to the district, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of the district; Ninth, To give such directions and make such provisions as they shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested; Tenth, To appoint, as in their discretion it may be necessary, a building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work of building a schoolhouse as they may by vote direct; Eleventh, At the first and the annual meeting only, to determine the length of time a school shall be taught in their district during the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in districts having eight hundred children over five and under twenty years of age, and not less than five months in all other districts, on pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund; but in case to determine. such matters shall not be determined at the first or annual When board meeting, the district board shall determine the same; and in case the district fails to vote for at least the minimum length required herein, the district board shall make provisions for said minimum length of school; one mill tax. Twelfth, To appropriate the funds derived or to be derived To appropriate from the one mill tax, or such part thereof as is deemed necessary, for the purpose of transporting pupils to and from school: Provided, That any district may appropriate any Proviso. surplus moneys arising from the one mill tax after having maintained a school in the district at least eight months in the school year for the following purposes: Purchasing or enlarging school sites, building or repairing schoolhouses, purchasing any school apparatus, purchasing books for library, or for any incidental expenses of the school. SEC. 2. A school district office shall become vacant im- When school mediately upon any of the following events:` First, The death of the incumbent; Second, His resignation; Third, His removal from office; Fourth, His removal from the district; Fifth, His conviction of any infamous crime; Sixth, His election or appointment being declared void by a competent tribunal; Seventh, His neglect to file his acceptance of office, or to give or renew any official bond according to law; Eighth, His ceasing to be a taxpayer in the school district; Ninth, Upon the expiration of twenty days after failure of the district to elect a successor at the annual meeting, at the expiration of which period the board of school inspectors shall appoint such successor. district office deemed vacant. board to different compensation SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the district board to esti- District mate the amount necessary to be raised, in addition to other estimate school funds, for the entire support of such schools, includ- amounts for ing teachers' wages, fuel and other incidental expenses, and purposes. for deficiencies of the previous year for such purposes and for the services of district officers: Provided, That in dis- Proviso, as to tricts having less than fifty scholars drawing money from of officers. the primary school interest fund the tax for the services of district officers shall not exceed ten dollars for the services of the director, ten dollars for the services of the treasurer, and five dollars for the services of the moderator, and this shall be for all services performed by such officers for the district. When such amount has been estimated and voted When board by the district board, it shall be reported for assessment and may borrow collection, the same as other district taxes. When a tax has been estimated and voted by the district board under the provisions of this section or when the district has voted a tax and the money is needed before it can be collected, the district board may borrow to an amount not exceeding the amount of said tax. money. Duty of treasurer. To file bond. May furnish bond of surety company. Form, approval, etc., of bond. SEC. 25. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of each school district: First, To execute to the district and file with the director within ten days after his election or appointment and each year thereafter during his term of office a bond in double the amount of money on hand, plus the amount to come into his hands as such treasurer during the ensuing year of his term of office, as near as the same can be ascertained, with two or more sureties, each of whom shall be required to justify in writing and under oath to the amount for which he is holden in said bond, or he may furnish the bond of some surety company authorized to do business in this State, the premium on which surety bond may be paid by the district; the form of the bond, the penalty and the sufficiency of the sureties to be subject to the approval of the moderator and director, conditioned for the faithful application of all moneys that shall come into his hands by virtue of his office, and to perform all the duties of his said office as required Where filed, by the provisions of this act. Said bond shall be filed with the director, and none of the books or money of the district shall be placed in the hands of the treasurer until his bond has been so filed; and in case of any breach of the conditions thereof the moderator shall cause a suit to be commenced thereon in the name of the district, and any moneys collected thereon shall be paid into the township treasury, subject to the order of the district officers, and shall be applied to the same purposes as the money lost should have been applied Proviso, as to by the treasurer: Provided, That the school board of any etc. deposit of funds. Proviso, as to amount of deposit, etc. Pay orders of director and moderator. school district in which the amount of money coming into the hands of the treasurer during the fiscal year, shall exceed three thousand dollars, shall provide by resolution for the deposit in banks or trust companies of any or all moneys coming into the hands of the treasurer of the board: Provided, however, That no bank shall receive a larger deposit than the amount of its paid-in capital stock, and in no event to exceed thirty thousand dollars. Such bank or banks shall give a good and sufficient surety company bond, approved by said district board, in a sum at least equal to the amount designated as the penalty in the bond given by the treasurer to said school district and conditioned for the receipt, safe keeping and payment over of all money which may come under its custody under and by virtue of this act; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the school district to see that a greater sum than that contained in the bond is not deposited in such bank or banks, and said treasurer and his bondsmen shall be liable for any loss occasioned by deposits in excess of such bond; Second, To pay all orders of the director, when lawfully drawn and countersigned by the moderator, out of any moneys in his hands belonging to the fund upon which such orders may be drawn; record of Third, To keep a book in which all moneys received and To keep disbursed shall be entered, the sources from which the same moneys. have been received, and the persons to whom and the objects for which the same have been paid; Fourth, To present to the district board, at the close of To make the school year, a report in writing, containing a statement annual report. of all moneys received during the preceding year, and of each item of disbursements made, and exhibit the voucher therefor; district in Fifth, To appear for and on behalf of the district in all To represent suits brought by or against the same, when no other direc- suits. tions shall be given by the qualified voters in district meeting, except in suits in which he is interested adversely to the district, and in all such cases the moderator shall appear for such district, if no other directions be given as aforesaid; with board Sixth, At the close of his term of office to settle with the To settle district board, and deliver to his successor in office all books, and turn vouchers, orders, documents and papers belonging to the over papers, office of treasurer, together with all district moneys remaining on hand; etc. Seventh, To perform such other duties as are or shall be Other duties. by law required of the treasurer. Approved May 15, 1907. [No. 92.] AN ACT to allow fishing with set lines in the township of The People of the State of Michigan enact: set lines. SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be lawful to fish with set May fish with lines in any of the waters in the township of Argentine, in the county of Genesee. All acts or parts of acts in anywise contravening Repealing the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 15, 1907. 15 clause. Lands withdrawn from sale. [No. 93.] AN ACT to withdraw Agricultural College lands in Iosco and Alcona counties from the market. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All lands belonging to the Agricultural College of Michigan and known as agricultural lands, and lying within the counties of Iosco and Alcona are hereby withdrawn from entry and sale until July one, nineteen hundred seven, except insofar as the same have been heretofore entered. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Land authorized conveyed to U. S. for weather [No. 94.] AN ACT to authorize the State Board of Agriculture to convey to the United States government a tract of land to be used for the purpose of erecting a building to be used and maintained for a weather station observatory or such observatory and postoffice combined. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to convey to the United States government from the land upon which the State Agricultural College is observatory. located, a tract not exceeding one acre in extent, the location and boundaries of which are to be determined by the said board, for the use of said United States government in erecting a building at the said college to be used and maintained for a weather station observatory or such observatory and postoffice combined. Approved May 22, 1907. Liability of bank for [No. 95.] AN ACT fixing the liability of banks for the payment of forged or raised checks to a depositor. The People of the State of Michigan cnact: SECTION 1. No bank shall be liable to a depositor for the payment by it of a forged or raised check unless within three raised checks, months after the return to the depositor of the voucher of payment of forged or |