Members of board, how chosen. Term of office. Rules. Powers. Health officer, powers, etc. Estimates, where filed. favor of the establishment of such district, it shall be the duty of such county clerk to place such certificate before the board of supervisors of the county at the next regular or special session thereof. Said board shall thereupon, by resolution, declare the health district created and shall assign thereto a distinctive number. SEC. 4. Immediately upon the adoption of the resolution aforesaid, the township board of each township, common council or board of trustees of each village embraced within the health district shall select by ballot a member of the district board of health. The person so appointed shall be notified of such fact by the township or the village clerk. The persons so appointed shall constitute said district board, and the first meeting thereof may be called at a suitable time and place within the district by any two of such members on the serving of written notice upon the other members of the board. Each member of such board shall hold his office for two years and until his successor is appointed and qualifies. At such first meeting the board shall proceed to organize by the election of a president, who shall be the presiding officer of the board, and a secretary and treasurer. Said board shall adopt rules governing procedure, its time and place of meeting and other matters necessary to the carrying on of the said work of said board. It shall have general care and oversight of the public health of said district and may exercise all powers granted by the general law of the State to boards of health of townships and villages. Authority is also hereby granted to such board to make such regulations and by-laws respecting nuisances, causes of sickness and other matters pertaining to the public health within such health district as may be deemed necessary for the public health and safety, not repugnant to the general laws of the State. Any person violating such regulation or any by-law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the jail not exceeding ninety days, or to both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. Said district board of health shall have power and authority to provide the necessary means to carry out the provisions of this act, and shall employ a competent physician trained in public health work as district health officer, and shall fix the compensation thereof. Such health officer shall have the same powers and perform the same duties, subject to the control and direction of said district board of health, as are or may be prescribed by the general law of the State for health officers in townships. Such health officer shall hold office during the pleasure of said board. SEC. 6. Prior to the first day of October of each year, said district board of health shall prepare estimates of the amount that will be necessary for the ensuing year for the carrying on of the purposes of this act in said district and shall cause the same to be filed with the township clerk. It shall be the for. duty of said clerk to place said estimates before the township board of the township at the regular October session of the township board thereof. Said township board shall consider the estimate thus presented and shall direct the raising of such amount in the various townships and villages composing such health district as may be required. The Apportionaggregate of such amount shall be proportioned among the ment of tax various townships and villages comprising said health district in accordance with the assessed valuations thereof and shall be certified, spread and collected in the same manner as provided in the general tax laws of the State for the certifying, spreading and collecting of the State and county tax. When collected, such sum shall be paid into the township treasury and shall be by the township treasurer placed in a special fund to be known and designated as "The general fund of health district number.. ...of the county of SEC. 7. Money shall be paid out of the fund provided for in How paid the preceding section only for the purpose of this act and by out. warrant of the secretary and treasurer of the district board of health, countersigned by the president of said board. A full and detailed account of all expenditures shall be made annually by said board and shall be presented to the township board at the same time the estimates hereinbefore provided for are submitted thereto. Such report shall be incorporated in the minutes of the township board and shall be published as a part thereof. etc., when SEC. 8. Any regulation or by-law adopted by said district By-laws, board of health as hereinabove authorized and provided, shall effective. go into force and effect at such time as said board shall direct: Provided, however, That no such regulation or by-law shall become effective unless and until it shall have been published once each week for three weeks in succession in some newspaper having a general circulation throughout the various townships and villages constituting the said district. SEC. 9. Upon the organization of a district board of health General law as hereinabove provided, the provisions of the general law of suspended. the State relative to township and village boards of health and to township and village health officers shall be thenceforth suspended in such district except as herein otherwise indicated, it being the intention hereof that the powers and duties exercised and performed under said general laws, by said township and village board of health and health officers shall, under the operation of this act be performed by the district board of health and by the district health officer employed thereby. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Propagating frogs, license. Fee. Written application. Bond. [No. 131.] AN ACT to authorize and regulate the possession, use, transportation and sale of frogs by persons engaged in the business of propagating and rearing such frogs, and by persons who purchase frogs so reared, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner shall issue a license to any person, partnership or corporation who desire to engage in the business of propagating frogs; also to any person, partnership or corporation engaged in the business of selling frogs propagated in accordance with the provisions of this act or purchased from a person or persons so licensed as aforesaid or when purchased in any other state or country. The fee for issuing any such license shall be one dollar. SEC. 2. Before any such license is issued, a written application therefor shall be filed in the office of the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner by the person, partnerWhat to state. ship or corporation desiring such license. The application shall state the full name and postoffice address of the applicant, with a description of the premises where such business is to be conducted, a description and the location of the premises and buildings where frogs are to be hatched and where frogs are to be sold and whether such frogs are to be sold for consumption, or alive for scientific purposes. Such applicant shall, before such license shall be issued, file with the said commissioner a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars with at least two responsible sureties, payable to the people of this State, which bond shall be conditioned that the licensee shall keep, perform and obey all of the conditions of this act; and if said licensee shall fail to keep, perform or obey any of the conditions or requirements of this act, the makers of said bond shall be liable to pay the sum of fifty dollars to liquidate the bond and full costs of suit for each and every violation of this act. Said commissioner may maintain suit for the recovery thereof in the circuit court in the county having jurisdiction, and said bond shall remain as a continuing security for payment in case of any further breach in the payment of said bond. Said license shall not be transferable. No person shall sell any frogs propagated or reared in accordance with the provisions of this act, or engage in the business of selling frogs unless the license for selling same shall have been issued by said commissioner, as aforesaid, nor unless such license remains uncancelled and in force. Frogs so reared may be sold and transported within or without the State at any time under the provisions of this act, and not otherwise. Not transferable. Sale, etc. provisions SEC. 3. No person shall sell or ship or cause to be sold or Shipment, shipped or transported, and no person or persons shall trans- governing. port any such frogs, unless there shall be made, in duplicate, a bill of lading describing such shipment and signed by the carrier, or its agent, showing the true date of such shipment, and to which shall be attached a true invoice or bill of sale of such frogs, which shall set forth the number and true aggregate weight of such frogs sold, the name and residence. of the seller, shipper or consignor, and of the purchaser or consignee, nor unless the package containing such frogs shall be plainly marked with the name of the consignee, name of the shipper, and that it contains frogs. The seller or shipper of such frogs shall, within twenty-four hours after the shipment has been made, forward one copy of such bill of lading and invoice to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, by mail, or deliver the same to him in person, and the other copy to the consignee; and within six days after the receipt of such frogs, if sold to a purchaser residing in this State, such purchaser or consignee shall forward the said copy of bill of lading to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner by mail, or deliver the same to him in person, together with a true statement showing whether the frogs described therein have been sold or what other disposi tion has been made of the same. retail. exhibited. SEC. 4. No licensee shall sell at retail within this State, or Sale at serve any frogs propagated and reared in accordance with the provisions of this act, except at a regular place of business which is known to the public; nor unless at such place of business there shall be kept posted up in a conspicuous place, so that it may be easily read, the following words: "Frogs sold here"; nor shall any person sell or serve such frogs in any restaurant or hotel, whether secured within or without this State, without having in his possession a license and the invoice for such frogs herein required to be made. Every Invoice person having frogs for sale shall exhibit the invoice for same whenever so requested by anyone purchasing such frogs, or by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner. SEC. 5. Any person or persons who shall ship, transport or Misdemeanor, sell frogs contrary to the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and each sale shall be deemed a separate offense; and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. On conviction for the violation of any of the terms of this act License the license granted to such person may, in the discretion of the court, be cancelled. what deemed. cancelled. Approved April 25, 1917. Maximum weight. Maximum wheel loads. Schedule. [No. 132.] AN ACT to regulate the operation and use of vehicles on the highways. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle upon the public highways of this State, the gross weight of which exceeds fifteen tons. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle, except motor driven vehicles, upon the highways of this State, the gross weight on any wheel of which exceeds that given in the schedule under section three, this act. SEC. 3. Brakes, type of. Tire gauge. Metal tires on trucks, etc., when unlawful. Proviso. Proviso, liability for damage. Trucks, etc., to display information as to. SEC. 4. In case a vehicle is equipped with a braking device said brakes shall be of a friction type and not of a type that will cause a deadlock of the wheels when applied. SEC. 5. No motor trucks or trailers, hereafter operating upon the public highways of the State, shall have a gauge of more than seventy-five inches measured from center of tire to center of tire, and shall not be more than ninety-six inches wide over all nor over twelve feet six inches in height. SEC. 6. No motor trucks or trailers, hereafter operating upon the public highways of this State, shall be equipped with driving wheels the tires of which are of metal that may come in contact with the surface of the road, or which have a partial contact of the metal with the surface of the road, except where chains or other non-skidding devices are used: Provided, That motor trucks or trailers may be used on any road or highway which are not part of the State reward system: Provided, That should any improved highway be damaged by the use of chains or other non-skidding devices, the person, company or corporation owning or operating such vehicle, shall be liable to arrest and penalties as hereinafter provided. SEC. 7. All motor trucks or trailers, now operating or hereafter placed in operation, upon the public highways of this State, shall have placed upon them information relative to their height of wheel, width of tire, gauge, width over |