lage by virtue of any provision of this act, the council may This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 95.] AN ACT to provide for a deficiency appropriation for the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand five hundred eight Deficiency. dollars and fifty-four cents is hereby appropriated to the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Howell, to meet the deficiency in appropriation for current expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixteen, and the further sum of five thousand dollars to said sanatorium to meet the deficiency in appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seventeen. SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of How paid out. this act shall be paid out of the general fund of the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium 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 add to and incorporate Tax clause. in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seventeen the sum of eight thousand five hundred eight dollars and fifty-four cents, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropri ated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Special purposes. How paid out. Tax clause. [No. 96.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the erection, construction, furnishing and equipping of new hospital buildings for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the University of Michigan the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars for the erection, construction, furnishing and equipping one or more units of new hospital buildings at Ann Arbor; one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars to be made available in the year nineteen hundred seventeen; one hundred seventyfive thousand dollars in the year nineteen hundred eighteen. SEC. 2. The sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the University of Michigan at such times and in such amounts as the accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seventeen for the University of Michigan for the construction, erection, furnishing and equipping one or more units of said hospital buildings the sum of one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred eighteen the sum of one hundred seventy-five thousand 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. [No. 97.] AN ACT authorizing a war loan and providing for the dis bursements of the proceeds therefrom and for a war loan sinking fund for the purpose of liquidating the loan. Whereas, The United States has reached a crisis making it likely that the President shall call on the State of Michigan for troops and for a naval contingent; and Whereas, It has become necessary for the several states to be prepared for all calls of a military nature made by the general government; therefore: The People of the State of Michigan enact : authorized. SECTION 1. That the Governor and State Treasurer be and War loan they are hereby authorized and directed, in the name and on behalf of the people, and upon the faith and credit of this State, for the purpose of repelling invasion and defending the State and nation in time of war against all enemies and opposers whatever, to purchase and contract for a loan or loans for such sum or sums of money as may from time to time be necessary for the purposes in this act specified, not exceeding five million dollars in all, on the most favorable terms that, in their judgment, can be obtained, redeemable at the pleasure of the State at any time not more than twenty years from the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred seventeen, at a rate of interest not to exceed four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of May and November in each year. Such loans shall How known. be known as "the Michigan War Loan of Nineteen Hundred Seventeen." The proceeds of such loans shall be credited to the war fund and shall be paid out in no other manner and for no other purpose than in this act specified. The Principal and principal, as well as the interest, accruing upon the notes or bonds issued under this act shall be payable from the war loan sinking fund hereinafter provided for. interest. or bonds. SEC. 2. For the purpose of effecting the loan or loans Issue of notes herein authorized, the Governor and State Treasurer are hereby empowered and directed to cause to be issued notes or bonds of the State of Michigan from time to time, as may be deemed necessary and advisable, in sums not less than one hundred dollars each, to be signed by the Governor How signed and countersigned by the Secretary of State and State and drawn. Treasurer, with the seal of State affixed thereto, and with or without the coupons for interest thereto attached. The notes or bonds shall be drawn in favor of the Auditor General, and when endorsed by him become negotiable in such manner and payable at such places as the Governor and State Treasurer may deem expedient. SEC. 3. The moneys arising from the sale of the notes or Money, how bonds by this act authorized to be issued, shall be paid paid out. into the treasury of the State to the credit of the war fund, and shall be drawn therefrom upon the warrants of the Auditor General, which warrants shall be issued upon proper requisitions of the war preparedness board referred to in section nine hereof, after the Governor shall have certified that the amount stated in the requisition is needed for the purposes specified in this act: Provided, That warrants may be issued by the Auditor General upon proper vouchers certified by the Governor for advances made or authorized by the said board for expenditures incurred for the purposes in this act specified before such fund shall have been available. SEC. 4. The moneys provided by this act may be used for the following purposes: (1) For the purpose of carrying on recruitment service to obtain the quota of men and organizations required by the federal government; (2) To provide a fund for the care of dependents of the enlisted force raised by this State under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed; (3) For the preparation, maintenance and equipment of mobilization camps and stations within this State; (4) To provide suitable equipment for enlisted men and officers; (5) To provide an insurance or beneficiary fund for soldiers or their dependents in case of death or disability growing out of their military service; (6) For an organization of home defense units and the proper equipment of the same; (7) To provide for training schools for officers and the maintenance thereof; (8) For the organization of auxiliary relief work within the State; (9) For such other purposes not herein specifically enumerated as may be deemed necessary in the discretion of the Governor for the purpose of State and national defense. SEC. 5. All claims and accounts accruing against this State for expenses and disbursements authorized by this act, shall be audited by a special auditing committee of said board to be designated by the Governor in the same manner that other accounts are now audited and allowed by the Board of State Auditors. SEC. 6. The notes and bonds issued under this act shall be numbered consecutively and registered in a book provided for this purpose, which shall be kept in the Auditor General's office. This register shall contain the date of the note or bond, the number, to whom issued, and the amount of each note or bond; also the date of redemption, number of each note or bond, of whom received and amount of each note or bond. There shall also be kept in the Auditor General's officer a register showing the date of the note or bond, the number, amount, date each coupon is due and the cancellation of such coupons as are paid, with reference to the number of the voucher paying the same. Whenever Cancellation. any such notes or bonds shall be paid, the same shall be immediately cancelled by the Treasurer and the Auditor General shall also keep a full record of all the notes or bonds taken up and paid, as provided above. And immediately after the record shall have been made as aforesaid, the notes or bonds so paid shall also be cancelled by writing across the face of each note or bond, which cancellation shall be signed by the Auditor General and State Treasurer, and such notes or bonds thus cancelled shall be filed with the voucher as the basis of the Auditor General's warrant for their payment. SEC. 7. For the purpose of providing for the payment of Tax clause. the notes or bonds issued under this act, and the interest thereon, it shall be the duty of the Auditor General to add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seventeen the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, and for each year thereafter a like sum until the several amounts levied under this act shall become sufficient to extinguish the debt authorized herein, and which sums when so levied and collected shall be credited each year to the war loan sinking fund as herein directed: Provided, That Proviso. the last levy necessary under this act shall be for such sum only as may be necessary to extinguish the remainder of the debt. SEC. 8. The faith of the State is hereby pledged for the Faith pledged. payment of principal and interest of the notes or bonds which may be made or issued under the provisions of this act. ness board. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Governor, by and with War preparedthe advice and recommendations of a war preparedness board consisting of the Governor, who shall be the chairman of said board, the Attorney General, the Auditor General, the State Treasurer, the Secretary of State and the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State, to expend such part of the above fund as may be necessary to carry out the purposes specified in section four in this act. notes. SEC. 10. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed Promissory as preventing the Governor and the State Treasurer from borrowing any part or portion of the loans authorized by means of promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness, upon the faith and credit of the State, when such loans may be made advantageously in any other manner than by the issuance of bonds, and all such sums borrowed on promissory notes shall be redeemable and paid according to the tenor thereof, in the same manner as if such loans were made by means of the bonds referred to in this act. Bonds and other Exempt from evidences of indebtedness issued under authority of this act shall be exempt from taxation in this State. taxation. SEC. 11. The provisions of this act are hereby declared to Declaration. be within the purview of section ten, article ten of the consti |