Amount of be held, conveyed, etc. added thereto to stand as section twelve, said amended section and said added section to read as follows: SEC. 11. Any lodge or encampment of the Independent property may Order of Odd Fellows, or any association thereof, incorporated under the provisions of this act, may receive, purchase and hold in its corporate capacity, real and personal estate, and the same or any part thereof, demise, convey, mortgage, use and dispose of at pleasure to the amount of two hundred thouMay subscribe sand dollars; and may subscribe to the stock of any incorlodge hall. stock for Number may incorporate, etc. porated company, for the purpose of erecting a suitable edifice, building or hall, with convenient rooms for the meetings and use of the fraternity of Odd Fellows. SEC. 12. Any five or more persons, residents of this State, being members of a subordinate lodge or encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and having been designated or elected as representatives or delegates of two or more subordinate lodges or encampments of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, desirous of becoming incorporated, may make and execute articles of association in like manner as is provided in this act for the incorporation of separate subordinate lodges and encampments, and such corporation shall be governed by, and shall have the benefit of, all the provisions of this act: Provided, That said association shall in laws of grand all respects be subject to the laws of the grand lodge. Approved May 10, 1917. Proviso, subject to lodge. Section amended. [No. 336.] AN ACT to amend section nineteen 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 under 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, to make appropriation for the provisions of this act and to provide a tax therefor," being section fourteen thousand five hundred forty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nineteen of act number one hundred eighty-eight of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, 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, to make appropriation for the provisions of this act and to provide a tax therefor," being section fourteen thousand five hundred forty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: to contain. arrears. The Au- Examiners. SEC. 19. Each county treasurer shall make a report under Quarterly oath to the Auditor General on January, April, July and Oc- report, what tober first of each year of all taxes received by him under this act during the preceding calendar quarter, stating for what estate, by whom and when paid. If in any calendar quarter the county treasurer has received no tax under this act, the report shall affirmatively show this fact. The form of such report shall be prescribed by the Auditor General. If receipts issued by the county treasurer and money re- Interest on ceived thereon are not forwarded within the time specified in section three of this act, he shall pay interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum in addition to the amount of such delinquent taxes then in arrears. ditor General may employ not to exceed four examiners whose duties shall be to make examinations of the records in the several probate courts, county treasurers and registers of deeds in this State and report their findings to him and perform such other duties under the provisions of this act as the Auditor General may direct, at a salary of not to Salary. exceed two thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as the salaries of other State officers are now paid. The expenses of said examiners shall be paid out of the Expenses, general fund in the State treasury upon allowance by the how paid. State Board of Auditors after approval by the Auditor General. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the State treasury a sufficient amount of money to carry out the provisions of this section. The Auditor Gen- Tax clause. eral shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seventeen, and each year thereafter, a sufficient sum to reimburse the general fund in the State treasury for the amount herein appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 103 Title and section amended. [No. 337.] AN ACT to amend the title and section one of act number two hundred seventy-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for procedure in courts of chancery to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner, or agent thereof, of any premises used for such purposes; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to provide for contempt proceedings for disregard or violation of any order or decree of abatement or injunction issued in proceedings under this act, and providing for the forfeiture of the benefits of property exemptions in the enforcement of orders, decrees or writs of execution made or issued by virtue of this act," being section seven thousand seven hundred eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and section one of act number two hundred seventy-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for procedure in courts of chancery to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner, or agent thereof, of any premises used for such purposes; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to provide for contempt proceedings for disregard or violation of any or der or decree of abatement or injunction issued in proceedings under this act, and providing for the forfeiture of the benefits of property exemptions in the enforcement of orders, decrees or writs of execution made or issued by virtue of this act," being section seven thousand seven hundred eightyone of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: Amended title. TITLE. An Act to provide for procedure in courts of chancery to enjoin and abate any building, or places used as houses of lewdness, assignation and prostitution or the manufacture, sale, giving away, bartering, furnishing or otherwise disposing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beverage, any part of which is intoxicating, or for the keeping of a saloon or any other place where such liquors are manu factured, sold, stored for sale, given away or furnished in this State contrary to any law of this State; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner, or agent thereof, of any premises used for such purposes; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to provide for contempt proceedings for disregard or violation of any order or decree of abatement or injunction issued in proceedings under this act, and providing for the forfeiture of the benefits of property exemptions in the enforcement of orders, decrees or writs of execution made or issued by virtue of this act. etc., declared SEC. 1. Whoever shall conduct, maintain, own or lease any Houses of building or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assigna- lewdness, tion or prostitution or for the manufacture, sale, keeping nuisance. for sale, giving away, bartering, storing or possessing, furnishing or otherwise disposing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beverage, any part of which is intoxicating, or who shall keep a saloon or any other place where such liquors are manufactured, sold, stored for sale, given away or furnished contrary to any law of this State is guilty of a nuisance, and the building or place in or upon which such lewdness, assignation or prostitution or the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering, storing or possessing, furnishing or otherwise disposing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beverage, any part of which is intoxicating is conducted, permitted or carried on, and the furniture, fixtures and contents are also declared a nuisance, and shall be enjoined and abated as hereinafter provided. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Act construed. State prohibition, when effective. Intoxicating liquors defined. Sale, what deemed. [No. 338.] AN ACT to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale and possession thereof for such excepted purposes; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. This entire act shall be deemed to be an exercise of the police power of the State, for the protection of the economic welfare, health, peace and morals of the people of the State, and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of those purposes. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, himself or by his clerk, agent or employe, to manufacture, sell or keep for sale, give away, barter, furnish or otherwise dispose of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors; or any mixed liquor or beverages, any part of which is intoxicating; or to keep a saloon or any other place where such liquors are manufactured, sold, stored for sale, given away or furnished in this State, on and after the first day of May, nineteen hundred eighteen, except as herein otherwise provided. SEC. 3. The phrase "intoxicating liquors," wheresoever used in this act, shall be held and construed to include any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented or spirituous liquors, and every other liquor or liquid containing intoxicating properties which is capable of being used as a beverage, whether medicated or not, and all liquids, whether proprietary, patented or not, which contain any alcohol and are capable of being used as a beverage; and all mixtures, compounds or preparations, whether liquid or not, which are intended when mixed with water or otherwise, to produce, by fermentation or otherwise, an intoxicating liquor. Nothing in this act shall have any application to denatured or wood alcohol. SEC. 4. "Sale" shall include exchange, barter or traffic. In case of a sale in which a shipment or delivery of such intoxicating liquor is made by a common or other carrier, the sale thereof shall be deemed to be made in the county wherein the delivery thereof is made by such carrier to the consignee, his |