Section amended. Penalty for removal of timber, etc., from state lands. [No. 210.] AN ACT to amend section sixty-one of chapter sixty of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six and acts amendatory thereto, said chapter relating to the superintendence and disposition of the public lands, the same being section thirteen hundred ninety-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That section sixty-one of chapter sixty of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, and acts amendatory thereto, said chapter relating to the superintendence and disposition of the public lands, being section thirteen hundred ninety-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be, and the same is, hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 61. Every person not thereto lawfully authorized, who shall enter upon or induce or direct any person, or persons, to enter upon any state tax lands, state tax homestead lands, state swamp, primary school, university, state building, salt spring, asylum, agricultural college, or any other lands belonging to the state, and shall cut or induce or direct to be cut, or remove or induce or direct to be removed, any logs, ties, wood, bark, posts, poles, shingle bolts, hoop poles, shrubbery, or trees for decoration, or any timber whatever, from the same; and any person, or persons, who shall injure or remove, or induce, or direct any other person, or persons, to injure or remove any buildings, fences, improvements, or other property belonging or appertaining to the lands above referred to, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction therefor, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state's prison for a term not exceeding two years, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Approved June 16, 1903. [No. 211.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three, four, five and six of act number one hundred twenty-four of the public acts of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred fiftyfive, approved February twelve, eighteen hundred fifty-five, and the acts amendatory thereto, entitled "An act providing for the transfer of causes from one circuit court to another in certain cases," being sections ten thousand one hundred six, ten thousand one hundred seven, ten thousand one hundred eight, ten thousand one hundred nine and ten thousand one hundred ten of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections two, three, four, five and six of act Sections amended. number one hundred twenty-four of the public acts of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred fifty-five, approved February twelve, eighteen hundred fifty-five, and the acts amendatory thereto, entitled "An act providing for the transfer of causes from one circuit court to another in certain cases," being sections ten thousand one hundred six, ten thousand one hundred seven, ten thousand one hundred eight, ten thousand one hundred nine and ten thousand one hundred ten of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Any party desiring to transfer any such suit or Application proceeding as herein before mentioned, may apply to the for transfer judge of any adjoining circuit, who is not within the disqualifications mentioned in the first section of this act, for an order to transfer such suit; such application shall be in writing and shall set forth specifically the grounds for such transfer. The parties to any such suit may, by stipulation in writing, consent to the transfer of such suit or proceeding without any application to the judge, in which case the stipulation shall have the same effect as an order duly made for such transfer under the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. On receiving such application the judge shall ap- Notice of point a time and place of hearing the same, and shall from hearing. time to time, as may be necessary, direct the manner in which notice of such hearing shall be given to all parties interested in such application. for transfer. SEC. 4. On the day appointed for such hearing or on some When judge other day to which said hearing may be adjourned, when it to grant order shall appear that the notice of such hearing has been duly given, the judge shall proceed to hear and determine the application for such transfer, and for this purpose may issue subpoenas for witnesses, and require their attendance as in other cases, and he shall hear the proofs and allegations of the In case parties In case no agreement reached. Jurisdiction of case assigned. parties touching the application before him, and if he shall be satisfied that the judge of the circuit court where such suit is pending is disqualified to sit in said cause within the intent and meaning of the first section of this act, he shall grant an order for the transfer of said cause or proceeding to the circuit court of some other county, which county shall be specified in said order. SEC. 5. In case the parties to said suit or proceeding shall by stipulation in writing or otherwise agree upon the circuit court of the county to which said cause shall be transferred, said circuit judge shall make an order of transfer in accordance therewith; but if no such agreement be reached said judge shall hear such proofs as may be offered by the parties, and such suit or proceeding shall be transferred to the circuit court of the county in which the same can be tried with the most convenience, expedition and economy to the parties interested, and in which the circuit judge shall not be disqualified to sit within the provisions of the first section of this act. SEC. 6. On filing the order of the judge granted as aforecourt to which said in which the proceedings before said judge shall be briefly recited, with the clerk or register of the court to which said suit or proceeding is by said order directed to be transferred, the said court shall have jurisdiction of the same to the same extent as if said cause or proceeding had been legally commenced in said court and may grant such orders as may be necessary to procure the transfer of the existing files and orders in said cause or proceeding to said court, and to cause due notice of such transfer to be made. Approved June 16, 1903. May be incorporated. Number may incorporate. To execute articles. [No. 212.] AN ACT authorizing the incorporation of the Allegemeiner Evangelisch Lutherischer Bunds of the State of Michigan, belonging to the Synod of Ohio. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Associations of the Allegemeiner Evangelisch Lutherischer Bund of the State of Michigan, belonging to the Synod of Ohio may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any number, not less than six, of regularly organized Evangelisch Lutherischer Bunds under the jurisdiction of the Synod of Ohio, may unite to form a union bund and become incorporated under the provisions of this act; and may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be ac knowledged before some officer authorized by law to take What to set acknowledgments of deeds, and shall set forth: First, the name of, the societies associating in the first instance, and their respective location, and names of the delegates acting on behalf of such societies; Second, The corporate name by which such bund shall be known by law; Third, The object and purpose of such bund or association which shall be to promote the general welfare of the membership of such bund and for the purpose of providing for such sick, death or funeral benefits and visitation of the sick and afflicted members of said bund as may be from time to time provided by the constitution, and by-laws thereof; Fourth, The period for which such bund is incorporated which shall not exceed thirty years; Fifth, The time and place where the next convention of such bund shall be held. forth. corporate. by-laws, etc. SEC. 3. Said articles of association, together with a copy Where filed. of the constitution and by-laws of said bund and of the resolution of said bund authorizing the incorporation thereof (said copies being duly certified by the president and secretary of said bund) shall be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Michigan. Thereupon the persons who shall have to be body signed such articles of association, their associates and fellow members composing said bund, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, capable of taking, holding and disposing of real and personal property, of suing and being sued, of having a common seal which may be altered or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real estate shall not Proviso. exceed ten thousand dollars, which shall be subject to general taxation. Such corporation shall have full power to change May change its constitution and by-laws and make, establish and change rules and regulations (none of which shall be repugnant to any law of this State) for regulating and governing the affairs and business of said corporation and for the admission and expulsion of members and societies composing the same and for the organization and admission of new or additional societies to membership in said bund and to designate, elect or appoint from among the members of the societies forming and belonging to such corporation such officers, with such duties as the constitution and by-laws of such corporation may from time to time prescribe. The constitution and bylaws of said corporation may be amended from time to time. in such manner as may be provided by such corporation. SEC. 4. The affairs of such corporation shall be controlled Affairs, how by a convention of delegates who shall be appointed or elected by the respective societies forming such corporation in such manner as the constitution and by-laws of such corporation shall provide, and the number of delegates which each society is entitled to send to such conventions, and the time and place of meeting of such conventions shall be managed. What to be evidence of existence. supervision of provided by the constitution and by-laws of said corporation. Subject to the action of such convention, of delegates, the management of the affairs of said corporation may be placed in the control of such officers, trustees or other persons as 'may be provided by the constitution and by-laws of said corporation. SEC. 5. A copy of such articles of association and of the constitution, by-laws and resolution filed therewith or of the record thereof, duly certified to according to law, under the seal of this State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State, of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation or bund and of the contents and legal Proviso as to effect of said original instruments: Provided, That such insurance corporations shall be subject to the supervision of the Comcommissioner. missioner of Insurance, according to the provisions of sections fifteen, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two of act one hundred and eighty-seven of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the same being compiler's sections seven thousand five hundred eleven, seven thousand five hundred sixteen, seven thousand five hundred seventeen and seven thousand five hundred eighteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, so far as the same may be applicable thereto. Approved June 16, 1903. Certificates regents may grant. [No. 213.] AN ACT to authorize the regents of the University of Michigan to grant teachers' certificates in certain cases, and to repeal act one hundred forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The regents of the University of Michigan, through the faculty of the department of literature, science and the arts, may grant to every person receiving a bachelor's, master's or doctor's degree, and also a teacher's diploma for work done in the science and the arts of teaching in said University, a certificate which shall serve as a legal certificate of qualification to teach in any of the schools of this State, when a copy thereof shall have been filed or recorded in the offices of the legal examining officer or officers of the county, township, city or district where such person expects to teach. Such certificate shall not be liable to be annulled except by the said board of regents; but its effect may be suspended in any county, township, city or district and the holder thereof may be stricken from the list of |