law for the registration of male electors in any such city, Section amended. Personal property defined. [No. 8.] AN ACT to amend section eight of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteeen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied, making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravenng any of the provisions of this act," said section being compiler's section four thousand two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eight of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied, making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," said section being compiler's section four thousand two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 8. For the purposes of taxation, personal property shall include: 1. All moneys; 2. All annuities and royalties; 3. All goods, chattels and effects within the State; Moneys. Goods, chat- 4. All ships, boats and vessels and their appurtenances be- Boats. longing to inhabitants of this State, whether at home or abroad; without state. 5. All goods, chattels and effects belonging to inhabitants Goods situate of this State, situate without this State, except that property actually and permanently invested in business in another state shall not be included; 6. All credits of every kind belonging to inhabitants of Credits. this State over and above the amounts respectively owed by them, whether such indebtedness is due from individuals or from corporations, public or private, and whether such debtors reside within or without the State; 7. All shares in corporations organized under the laws of Shares in corthis State, when the property of such corporations is not porations. exempt, or is not taxable to itself; or when the personal prop erty is not taxed; buildings. 8. All shares in banks organized within this State under Bank shares the laws of this State or of the United States, at their cash and certain value, after deducting the assessed value of real property owned by and assessed to such banks, and the value of any buildings erected upon leased lands by any bank, when the value of such real property is also assessed to said bank; 9. All shares in foreign corporations, except national Foreign corbanks, owned by citizens of this State; poration Interests in 10. All interests owned by individuals in lands, the fee of which is in this State or the United States, except as herein public lands. otherwise provided; leased lands. 11. All buildings and improvements situate upon leased Improvelands, except where the value of the real property is also ments on assessed to the lessee or owner of such buildings and improvements; vaults. 12. Tombs or vaults built within any burial ground, or Public kept for hire or rent, in whole or in part, and the stock of any corporation or association owning any such tombs, vaults or burial grounds; 13. All other personal property not herein enumerated and Omnibus not especially exempted by law; clause. 14. All nursery stock and trees while growing on any land Nursery stock. or in preparation for replanting or in transit; 15. All produce, seeds and grain on hand stored in ware Produce. house or mill, and in transit, owned within this State; companies. 16. The personal property of all gas and coke companies, Gas, light natural gas companies, electric light companies, water works and water companies, and hydraulic companies to be assessed in the township, village or city where the principal works are located. The mains, pipes and wires of such companies laid in or along roads, lanes, streets or alleys shall be assessed as personal property in the township, village or city where the same Transportation, road and bridge companies. are laid or placed. The personal property of street railroad, Power to suspend, etc., open season. Petition for additional protection. Public hearings. [No. 9.] AN ACT to provide for the better protection and preservation of game and fur-bearing animals and game birds protected by the laws of this State, and to provide a method by which the open season for the taking thereof may be suspended, abridged or otherwise regulated in any designated area of the State, and to provide a penalty for the violation of its several provisions. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner of the Public Domain Commission, shall have power to suspend, abridge or otherwise regulate the open season on any kind of game or fur-bearing animals or game birds found in a wild state in any designated area, where it becomes necessary to assist in the increase or better protection of any particular kind or species of such game, or fur-bearing animals or birds which may be threatened from any cause with depletion or extermination, in accordance with this act. SEC. 2. Whenever he shall receive from any district comprising either the whole State or any part thereof constituting a unit of one or more counties, a petition or petitions collectively bearing the signatures and addresses of a majority of the supervisors of each county in said district, requesting him to give to any one or more species of game or fur-bearing animals or game birds, existing in a wild state in the district in which said petitioners reside, additional protection to that afforded under the laws of this State, because of the threatened depletion or extermination of such species from any cause, the said State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner shall thereupon designate a date or dates and one or more places in the district described by such petitioners, upon and at which he will hold a public hearing or hearings on the allegations of said petitioners; and he shall cause to be published three successive times in a newspaper, if any there be, printed and of general circulation in each of the counties of pending or SEC. 3. If after such hearing the said Game, Fish and For- Order susest Fire Commissioner shall determine that such game or fur- abridging. bearing animals or game birds, or any species, of them, are in danger of extermination or depletion and require additional protection in the district designated in said petition or in any part thereof he shall make and sign an order suspending or abridging in such district or any part thereof comprising one or more counties, as in his judgment may be required, the open season declared by law for the pursuing, hunting or taking of any or all of the species of game or fur-bearing animals or game birds described in said petitions, and shall specify What to clearly in said order the limits of the districts, the portion of specify. the said open season, and the number of years, not to exceed five, covered by said order. Such order shall be published Publication. at least thirty days before it shall take effect and at least once annually thereafter while in force, in at least one newspaper, if any there be, published in each county affected thereby and posted. a copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of each Copy filed. county in said district and a copy of such order in placard form shall be furnished to the township clerk of each township in the district to be affected, and by said township clerk posted in a conspicuous place in his township. Proof by affidavit of Placard the newspaper publication so made shall be filed in the office of said commissioner. Such order shall also be included, so Printed with long as it shall remain in force, in the authorized biennial laws. compilation of the Michigan game and fish laws, and a placard containing said order printed in good legible type shall be displayed on the bulletin board or in some other prominent place in the court house of each county in the State: Provided, Proviso. That the Public Domain Commission shall approve of such order before publication thereof. game and fish scinded SEC. 4. Whenever, in any district in which the open sea- When order son during which any species of game or fur-bearing animals geded or or game birds may be taken shall have been suspended or modified. abridged by order of the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, as hereinbefore provided, it shall appear, while said order is still in force, that the conditions existing in said district no longer demand such additional protection for such species, the said commissioner shall cause a thorough investigation to be made of such district and the conditions therein prevailing; and if from such investigation he shall be satisfied that by reason of the increase of the species of game or fur-bearing animals or game birds protected by said order in said district or the removal of the cause threatening said species with depletion or extermination, the additional protection afforded by such order is no longer needed, he may, iu his discretion, rescind or modify said original order so as to restore wholly or partially the open season established by law for the taking of said species in the said district; and notice of the rescinding or modifying order shall be published and placarded in the same manner as notice of the original order and filed in like manner in the offices of the clerk of each Proviso, wild county in such district: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to suspend, abridge or regulate the open seasons established by federal or State laws for the killing or taking of wild water fowl. water fowl. Penalty. SEC. 5. Any person who shall violate the provisions of any such order, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution or by imprisonment for a period of not less than ten days nor more than ninety days in the county jail of the county, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved March 15, 1917. Section amended. [No. 10.] AN ACT to amend section four of chapter twenty-two of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, being "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," as amended by act number one hundred ten of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven and act number two hundred twentyone of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, the same being section three thousand two hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter twenty-two of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, the same being "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," as amended by act number one hundred ten of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven and act number two hundred twenty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, the same being section three thousand two hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: |