Proviso, number, jurisdiction and salary of justices. Further proviso. the time and manner of nomination and elections of judges, justices and court officers: Provided, That any city may in its charter provide for and limit to one or more the number of justices of the peace and may provide that the civil jurisdiction of such justice or justices shall be increased to five hundred dollars with such exceptions and restrictions as are provided by law; and may also in its charter, or by ordinance, provide that any justice of the peace shall be paid a salary in lieu of fees, the amount of said salary to be fixed by said charter or ordinance, in which case all fees chargeable by such justice of the peace shall be collected by him and shall be forth with paid into the city treasury: Provided further, That any justice of the peace or municipal judge provided for by municipal charter in accordance with the provisions hereof shall have the same jurisdiction as is or may be conferred by law on justices of the peace in townships in both civil and criminal matters. Approved May 10, 1917. Refusal to pay for sup Penalty. [No. 276.] AN ACT making it a felony to neglect or refuse to obey the decree of a court of chancery providing for the support of minor children in certain cases, and to provide a penalty for the violations of the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Where in any decree of divorce granted in this port of child. State, where personal service is had upon the father of any minor child or children, under the age of fifteen years, the court shall order such father to pay any amount to the clerk of the court for the support of such minor child or children, and said father shall refuse or neglect to pay such amount at the time stated in such order and shall leave the State of Michigan, said father shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the State prison for a term not exceeding three years, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, however, If at any time before sentence he shall enter into bond to the people of the State of Michigan, in such penal sum and with such surety or sureties as the court may fix, conditioned that he will comply with the terms of such order, then the court may suspend sentence therein: Provided further, That upon failure of such person to comply with said undertaking he may be ordered to appear before the court and show cause why sentence should not be imposed, whereupon the court may pass sentence, or for good cause shown Proviso, when bond given before sentence. Further proviso, failure to comply. may modify the order and take a new undertaking and further SEC. 2. In the hearing of all complaints under this act the [No. 277.] AN ACT to provide for the payment of the salaries and expenses of the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Department of the Public Domain Commission. The People of the State of Michigan enact: which SECTION 1. The salary and expenses of the State Game, Funds from Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner of the Public Domain payable. Commission, the chief deputy game and fish warden, all assistants, special assistants, all State deputy game and fish wardens, and all other employes; and office expense of the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Department of the Public Domain Commission, which by law are now paid by the State, shall be paid from funds derived from the sale of licenses and all other fees now accruing and credited to the Game, Fish and Forest Fire Department of the Public Domain Commission under existing laws: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall Proviso. affect the amount of any such salaries now fixed by any law of this State. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- Acts repealed. visions of this act are hereby repealed, except as to the provisions of act two hundred forty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, as amended, and the Wayne and Saginaw county game warden acts. Approved May 10, 1917. Transfers made. How paid out. [No. 278.] AN ACT to provide for the transfer between funds of certain unexpended balances of appropriations for the Newberry State Hospital as appropriated by act two hundred seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, act one hundred fifty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, act one hundred ninety-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen and act three hundred nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand four hundred thirtyone dollars and ninety-four cents, or so much thereof as may be needed, being the unexpended appropriations provided for by acts two hundred seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, one hundred fifty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, one hundred ninety-eight of the l'ublic Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen and three hundred nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, for certain building and special purposes at the Newberry State Hospital are hereby transferred to, and made available, for a fund to be expended in the completion of certain other building and special purposes provided for by said acts. SEC. 2. When the transfers provided for in section one of this act are made, the sums so transferred shall be expended in acordance with the provisions of the accounting laws of this State. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Authority granted. [No. 279.] AN ACT to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate money for the marking of historical places within their respective counties. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county in this State is hereby authorized to appropriate any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars in any one year, for the purpose of marking of historical places in their respective counties and for the erection of monuments or other memorials in com memoration of notable events connected with such counties. [No. 280.] AN ACT to amend section ten of act two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled “An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor, to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being compilers' section five thousand three hundred thirty-one of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section ten of act two hundred eighty-five of Section the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor, to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," and acts amendatory thereof, the same being compilers' section five thousand three hundred thirty-one of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: 21 not to to work. SEC. 10. No child under the age of twenty-one years shall Child under be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any theater, work where concert hall, or place of amusement where intoxicating liquors liquor sold. are sold. No child under fifteen years of age shall be em- Child under ployed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with 15, where not any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, billiard or pool room conducted for profit, theater, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, telegraph or messenger service within this State: Provided, This section shall not apply to Child under any child of the age of fourteen years or over, working on Sat day, Satururdays or other days during the school year, outside of school hours or during the established vacation periods in preserving perishable goods in fruit or vegetable canning establishments or in any mercantile institutions, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, telegraph or messenger service within this State. It shall be the duty of Register to every mercantile institution, store, hotel, office, laundry, what to etc. be kept, contain. Child under 16 hired without not to be permit. Return of permit. manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, workshop, telegraph or messenger service or any person coming within the provisions of this act to keep a register in which will be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed under the age of sixteen years, and it shall be unlawful for any such establishment or person to hire or employ, or permit to be hired or employed or suffered to work, any child under the age of sixteen years without there is first provided and placed on file in the business office thereof Who to issue. a permit issued by the superintendent of schools of the school district in which such child resides, or the county commissioner of schools, or some one duly authorized by him in writing, any of whom shall have power to administer oaths in relation thereto. Such permit shall be returned immediately to the issuing officer by the employer when such child leaves such employment. A child shall be considered as having withdrawn from his employment when he or she shall have absented himself or herself from work for five full working days without explanation. Every limited vacation permit, hereinafter to be described, shall, upon its expiration, be void and Inspection of of no effect. The said register and permit shall be produced for inspection on demand of any factory inspector appointed under this act. No fee shall be charged for such permit or other record required by this act by any officer by whom it shall be issued. Every employer complying with the provisions of this section shall be at liberty to employ the person so presenting the permit herein before referred to, and is justi fied in considering and treating such person as of the age shown in such permit and shall not be liable, if it transpire that such person is under the age represented in such permit, to any greater extent than such employer would be liable if such person were of the age represented. The person authorized and required to issue such permit shall not issue the same until he has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers duly executed: Limited vacation permit. permit and Prerequisites to issuance of permit. School report. Limited vacation permits expire Labor Day. Attestation as to birth. Idem, physicians' statement. (a) The school report of said child properly filled out and signed as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That when such permit is issued during the summer vacation or for working on Saturdays or other days during the school year, outside of school hours no such record shall be required, but all such permits, called in this act limited vacation permits, shall expire upon the first Monday in September, commonly called Labor Day, shall contain a conspicuous statement of the time at which they shall expire and shall be of a special color distinct from regular permits; (b) A passport, or duly attested transcript of the record of birth, as kept by any duly authorized public authority, or a record of baptism or other religious record, showing the date and place of birth of such child; (c) A statement from a physician connected officially with the board or department of health, which shall be required, |