Unlawful to use nets. [No. 135.] AN ACT to prohibit the taking or catching or attempting the taking or catching of fish of any kind, in waters of Black river, Belle river and Pine river, within the county of St. Clair, Michigan, by pound or gill net, or any set net of any description, and to repeal act number fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, and all other acts contravening the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch, or attempt to take or catch by pound or gill net, or any set net of any description, any species of fish in the waters of Black river, Belle river and Pine river, Proviso, date within the county of St. Clair, Michigan: Provided, however, That the provisions of this act will not take effect until April first, nineteen hundred eight. of effect. Penalty for violation. Act repealed. SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined a sum not less in amount than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail at St. Clair county for a term not exceeding ninety days nor less than twenty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. Act number fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, and all other acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take effect April first, nineteen hundred eight. Approved June 12, 1907. [No. 136.] AN ACT to provide for furnishing, at public expense, suitable markers for the graves of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines, who served in the army of the United States. The People of the State of Michigan enact: upon petition. SECTION 1. The common council, board of trustees or Markers to township board of every city, village or township in this be furnished State shall, upon the petition of any five reputable freeholders of any such city, village or township, procure for and furnish to said petitioners at the expense of such city, village or township, some suitable and appropriate metal marker for the grave of each and every honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine who served in the army of the United States and who is buried within the limits of said city, village or township or within the limits of any eeme. tery belonging to any such city, village or township, to be placed on the grave of such soldier, sailor or marine for the purpose of marking and designating said grave for memorial purposes. what to set SEC. 2. In all petitions to such common councils or Petitions, boards, the petitioners shall set forth the names of all such forth. soldiers, sailors and marines, whose graves have not been appropriately marked as contemplated in this act, and the number of such graves at the time of petitioning. Approved June 12, 1907. [No. 137.] AN ACT to amend section twelve, act two hundred thirty-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws providing for the incorporation of manufacturing and mercantile companies or any union of the two, and for the incorporation of companies for carrying on any other lawful business, except such as are precluded from organization under this act by its express provisions, and to prescribe the powers and fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations," as amended by act one hundred ninety-four, of the public acts of nineteen hundred five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twelve, act two hundred thirty-two of Section the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws providing for the incorporation of manufacturing and mercantile companies or any Annual duplicate reports. union of the two, and for the incorporation of companies for carrying on any other lawful business, except such as are precluded from organization under this act by its express provisions, and to prescribe the powers and fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations," as amended by act one hundred ninety-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is amended to read as follows: SEC. 12. Every corporation subject to this act, including every foreign corporation admitted to carry on business in this State under the provisions of this act, shall annually, in the month of January or February, make duplicate reports showing the condition of such corporation on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, on suitable blanks to be furnished by the Secretary of State, as hereinafter provided: Proviso, as to Provided, Flour milling corporations shall make and deposit flour milling annual reports in the month of July for the year ending June Proviso, when thirty, preceding: Provided further, That any such corporafiscal year ends tion, which shall make and file with the Secretary of State corporations. other than Dec. 31. to state. a statement in writing certified to by its president and secretary, showing that its fiscal year ends at a time other than December thirty-first and that it is its custom to take an inventory and balance its accounts at the close of such fiscal year, and cannot make an accurate report for any other date, shall make its report showing its condition at the close of its fiscal year, such report to be filed within sixty days after Reports, what such close of its fiscal year. Such reports shall state the amount each of common and preferred capital stock authorized, and the amount thereof subscribed for, and the amount thereof actually paid in in cash, and the amount thereof paid in property; the total value as near as may be esti mated, of all property owned by the corporation; the value of different items or classes of property as follows: Real estate used in its business; real estate not used in its business; goods, chattels, merchandise, material and other tangible property; patent rights, copyrights, trademarks and formulas; good will; and all other property, specifying the kind; value of all credits owing to the corporation; the amount of debts of the corporation; the name and postoffice address of each stockholder and the number of shares of preferred and common stock held by him at the date of such report; the name and postoffice address of each officer and director of the corporation, and such other information as the Secretary of State may require. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State in the month of December in each year, or in case of corporations whose fiscal year ends prior to December thirty-first, on application of such corporation, to mail to each corporation which is subject to the provisions of this act, suitable blanks on which shall be printed a copy of this section. Such reports shall be signed by a majority of the board of directors and verified by the oath of the secretary of the corporation, and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, to furnish blanks. Reports, by whom signed. corporate liable. notice of Secretary of State within the said month of January or February, or within sixty days after the close of such fiscal year, accompanied by a filing fee of fifty cents. The Sec- When and retary of State shall carefully examine such reports, and if where filed. upon such examination they shall be found to comply with all the requirements of this section, he shall then file one of them in his office, and shall forward the other by mail or express to the county clerk of the county in which the office in this State, for the transaction of the business of said corporation, is situated. And it shall be the duty of such county clerk, upon receipt of such report, to immediately cause the same to be filed in his office. If any corporation neglect Suspension of or refuse to make and file the reports required by this sec- powers. tion within the time herein specified, and shall continue in default for ten days thereafter, its corporate powers shall be suspended thereafter until it shall file such report, and it shall not maintain an action in any court of this State upon any contract entered into during the time of such default; and any director of such corporation so in default, who has Directors neglected or refused to join in the making of such report, shall be liable for all the debts of such corporation contracted since the filing of the last report of such corporation, and shall also be liable to such corporation for any damages sustained by it by reason of such refusal or neglect. And To give in case a corporation organized or doing business under the dissolution. provisions of this act shall be dissolved by process of law, or whose term of existence shall terminate by limitation, or whose property and franchises shall be sold at mortgage sale, or at private sale, or if for any reason the attitude of the corporation toward the State shall be changed from that set forth in the articles of association, it shall be the duty of the last board of directors of such corporation within thirty days thereafter to give written notice of such change to the Secretary of State, signed by a majority of such directors and accompanied by a recording fee of fifty cents, which said notice shall be recorded as amendments are required to be recorded. And in case of neglect to give such Penalty for notice, they shall each be subject to a penalty of five dollars neglect. for each and every day during the continuance of such neglect or refusal. The neglect or refusal to file the report, or to record the notice required by this section to be filed or recorded, shall be deemed wilful when such report or notice is not filed or recorded within the time herein. limited. Whenever any corporation has neglected or refused to make Notice of and file its report within twenty days after the time make report. limited in this section, the Secretary of State shall cause notice of that fact to be given by mail to such corporation, directed to its postoffice address. The certificate of the Secretary of State or his deputy, of the mailing of such notice, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of failure to that fact, and that such notices were duly received by said This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Theatre tickets, etc., price to be printed on. Misdemeanor for asking excess price. Agencies, etc. excess price, unlawful. [No. 138.] AN ACT to prohibit the scalping and sale of tickets for more than the price printed thereon, for theatres, circuses, athletic grounds and places of public amusement, and declaring same a misdemeanor, and fixing the penalties therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of owners, lessees and managers of every theatre, circus, athletic grounds used for athletic games, place of public entertainment or amusement to have printed on all tickets issued for admission thereto or for seats of such theatre, circus, athletic grounds, place of public entertainment or amusement, in conspicuous type, the price of such ticket, and the number on the seat, when such seats are numbered. SEC. 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, owning, occupying, managing or controlling any building, room, park or enclosure for the sale of tickets for theatres, circuses, athletic games, or places of public entertainment or amusement, who shall ask, demand or receive from any person or persons for the sale of such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment, or amusement, a price in excess of the general admission advertised or charged for the same privilege, or any person, firm or corporation who by themselves, or by any agent or employe, offers for sale upon any public place or thoroughfare, any such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment or amusement, for admission thereto, or for a seat or other privilege therein, at a price in excess of that demanded or received from the general public for the same privilege, or in excess of the advertised or printed rate therefor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, for sale of, at firm or corporation to establish an agency or sub-office for the sale of seat tickets of admission to a theatre, circus, athletic grounds, or place of public entertainment or amusement, at a price greater than the sale of seats at the box office of such theatre, circus, athletic grounds, place of pub |