[No. 152.] AN ACT to provide for the regulation and inspection of foundries or establishments where metal castings or cores are made, and to provide for the welfare and safety of persons therein. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All entrances to foundries shall be constructed Entrances, and maintained so as to minimize drafts. how constructed. SEC. 2. All passage ways in foundries, now in operation Passage or hereafter to be built, shall be constructed and maintained ways. of sufficient width to make them reasonably safe for the workmen, and no unnecessary obstructions shall be allowed in such passage ways during the hours of casting. when pro are not vided. SEC. 3. Whenever a foundry is so constructed or oper- Exhaust fans, ated that smoke, steam, dust or noxious gases promptly carried off by the general ventilation, exhaust fans shall be provided. No salamanders or open fire places shall be used unless ample provision is made for conveying the gases arising therefrom directly from the building. SEC. 4. Foundries shall be reasonably well lighted Heating, throughout working hours, and reasonably well heated dur. lighting, etc. ing the cold and inclement weather. Hot water shall be kept Hot water. available for washing purposes during the season in which artificial heating is necessary. When it is thought necessary and advisable by a State Factory Inspector, facilities shall be provided for drying the clothing of persons employed therein. struction of. SEC. 5. All pits around furnaces in any such foundry Pits, conshall be covered with substantial iron gratings, unless a special permit to use wood for such purposes is granted by the State Factory Inspector. All stairways around such furnaces shall be constructed of iron. supplies. SEC. 6. There shall be kept on hand at all times in every Emergency foundry a reasonable supply of lime water, sweet oil, vaseline, bandages and absorbent cotton for use of the workmen in case of burns or accident. factory SEC. 7. It is hereby made the duty of each and every Duty of State Factory Inspector to enforce a reasonable compliance inspector. with the provisions of this act. what deemed. SEC. 8. Any place or establishment where metal cast- Foundry, ings or cores are made shall be deemed a foundry within the meaning of this act. The Commissioner of Labor, or his deputy, or any person authorized by such commissioner to act as factory inspector, or deputy factory inspector, shall be deemed a State Factory Inspector within the meaning of this act. SEC. 9. Any person who shall violate any of the provi- Penalty for sions of this act, whether as owner, lessee, manager, agent, violation, servant or employe, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor Fishing tugs, to be licensed. Application, to whom [No. 153.] AN ACT to regulate and license fishing with tugs, launches or boats, in the waters bordering on this State. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to use for the purpose of commercial fishing, or for the purpose of catching fish to be offered for sale, in any of the waters bordering on this State, any kind of a boat, tug or launch, except row boat, without such boat, tug or launch shall be registered in the office of the State Game and Fish Warden, and a license issued therefor. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation, desiring a license under to state, etc. the provisions of this act, shall make application therefor, made, what State game warden, when to issue. Fees. Proviso, fees. on oath, to the State Game and Fish Warden, on blanks provided by the State Game and Fish Warden, accompanied by the fee hereinafter provided. Such application shall state the name and residence of the applicant, the owner of the tug, launch or boat intended to be licensed. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Game and Fish Warden, when application is made by any person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation, to issue licenses provided for in this act upon payment by the applicant, if a resident of this State, of the following fees: For each steam tug, steamboat or steam launch, without a steam lifter, ten dollars per year; for each steam tug, steamboat or steam launch, or other boat with a steam lifter, twenty-five dollars per year; for any other boat, launch or tug propelled with any other power, except row boats and sail boats, ten dollars a year each; for each sail boat, one dollar per year: Provided, That non-residents of this State shall pay the following fees: For each steam tug, steamboat or steam launch, without a steam lifter, one hundred dollars a year; for each steam tug, steamboat, steam launch, or other boat with a steam lifter, two hundred dollars a year; for any other boat, launch or tug propelled with any other proviso. power, except row boats and sail boats, fifty dollars a year what to set SEC. 4. Upon the payment of the fee provided for in this License, act, the State Game and Fish Warden shall have prepared forth. and shall issue to persons, firms or corporations entitled to the same, a printed or written license signed by him, setting forth the date of issuing the same, to whom issued, the date on which it will expire, and the kind of boat, tug or launch for which said license was issued. credited. SEC. 5. All boat licenses shall expire on the first day of Expiration of. April following their issue. The State Game and Fish Warden shall keep a record of all applications and licenses. On Fees, where the first day of each month, the State Game and Fish Warden shall pay over to the State Treasurer all moneys received by him under the provisions of this act, and said moneys shall be credited to the State Game and Fish Warden's fund and be disbursed in accordance with the law for the enforcement of the statutes regulating and protecting the commercial fishing interests. SEC. 6. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed as Illegal nets, authorizing the taking of fish or the use of illegal nets, or of authorized. the setting of nets at a place or places or times or otherwise forbidden by law. etc., not violation. SEC. 7. Any person, persons, firm, company, copartner Penalty for ship, partnership association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, before any justice having jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, Proviso, however, Each violation shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense. violation separate Approved June 17, 1907. Supervisors may direct use of. May purchase. Payment. [No. 154.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county in the State to purchase and direct the use of voting machines in and for the several voting precincts of said county, and to pay for same out of the general fund of the county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That hereafter the board of supervisors of any county in the State shall have the power to direct the use of voting machines in and for each voting precinct in the county, at all elections held therein. SEC. 2. In case said board determines to use voting machines in the elections to be held in said county in the manner herein before provided, it shall be the duty of said board to purchase such a number of machines and of such type as shall seem necessary and proper for the safe and correct conduct of said elections. SEC. 3. The said board of supervisors is hereby authorized to pay for said voting machines out of the general fund Make contract. of said county, and to make such contract for the purchase of such machines with regard to price, manner of purchase and time of payment as to the said board shall seem proper, and in estimating the amount of taxes to be levied for the general fund, such amount shall be added, extending over such time as may be required to fully pay for such machines. Refunds, townships, etc., entitled to. Repealing clause. SEC. 4. It is further provided that in case any city, township or village of such county in which the use of voting machines shall have been determined upon by the board of supervisors, shall have previously purchased such machines, such city, township or village shall have returned to it from the general fund of said county, such a pro rata amount of the whole cost for the county as the number of voting precincts so previously provided by any such city, township or village, bears to the whole number in the county, but not exceeding the amount previously paid by any such city, township or village. SEC. 5. All acts or parts of acts referring to the election laws of this State, as are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, in so far as they contravene the provisions of this act. Approved June 17, 1907. [No. 155.] AN ACT to amend sections three, four, eleven and nineteen of act one hundred eighty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfer of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain, sale, or gift made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor, or donor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death," as amended by act one hundred ninety-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to amend sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-one of act number one hundred eighty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled 'An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfers of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor, or donor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death.'" The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections three, four, eleven and nineteen of Sections act one hundred eight eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will transfer of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain sale or gift made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor, or donor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death," as amended by act one hundred ninety-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to amend sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-one of act number one hundred eighty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled 'An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfers of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor, or donor, or intended to take effect in |