Relative to voting at elections. To elect directors annually. SECTION 1. In all elections for directors of any corporation organized under any general law of this state, other than municipal and banking corporations, every stockholder shall have the right to vote in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him for as many persons as there may be directors to be elected, or to cumulate said shares, and give one candidate as many votes as will equal the number of directors multiplied by the number of shares of his stock; or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit. All such corporations shall elect their directors annually, and the entire number of directors shall be balloted for at one and the same Proviso as to time and not separately: Provided, That associations formed for social, yachting, hunting, boating, fishing and rowing purposes under an act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of clubs for social purposes," being act number twentytwo of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-three, approved April tenth, eighteen hundred eighty-three, or under section four thousand eight hundred seventeen of Howell's Annotated Statutes, may elect a portion of their directors for a longer term than one year, as may be provided in their by-laws. certain associations. Approved June 18, 1903. Section amended. [No. 224.] AN ACT to amend section five, of act number seventy of the public acts of the legislature of the state of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to establish and regulate a mining school in the Upper Peninsula," approved May one, eighteen hundred eighty-five; as amended by act eighty-one of the public acts of the legis lature of the state of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being section eighteen hundred eighty-eight of the Compiled Laws of the state of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number seventy of the public acts of the state of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to establish and regulate a mining school in the Upper Peninsula," approved May one, eighteen hundred eighty-five; as amended by act number eighty-one of the public acts of the legislature of the state of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being section eighteen hundred eighty-eight of the Compiled Laws of the state of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred ninety seven, be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: instruction, embrace. fet. tuition. SEC. 5. The course of instruction shall embrace geology, Course of mineralogy, chemistry, mining and mining engineering, and what to such other branches of practical and theoretical knowledge as will, in the opinion of the board, conduce to the end of enabling students of said institution to obtain a full knowledge of the science, art and practice of mining and the application of machinery thereto. The board of control shall Matriculation establish a matriculation fee to be paid by all students, which shall be not less than ten dollars for all persons who have been bona fide residents of this state for not less than one year immediately peceding their matriculation as students in said institution, and not less than twenty-five dollars for all others. Tuition shall be twenty-five dollars per year in Rates of said institution to all students who have been bona fide residents of this state for not less than one year immediately preceding their matriculation in said institution, and the board of control shall establish rates for tuition of all others which shall aggregate not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars per year, and reasonable charges shall be made against any student for incidental expenses and use of laboratories and apparatus and for all materials consumed; but the board shall not be obliged to furnish books, apparatus or other materials for the use of students: Provided, That Proviso. as to all charges mentioned in this section the board shall have the power to remit the same in whole or in part in the case of deserving and needy students (who are bona fide residents of Michigan), by establishing scholarships or otherwise: And provided further, That in case the United Further States congress shall pass any act for the assistance or toward the support of said institution to be dependent on said institution being free to all residents of the United States, the said board of control shall have power to declare said institution to be free in accordance with the terms of such act of congress, and such declaration shall have the same force and effect as if the same were made by an act of the legislature of this state: Provided further, That this act Further shall not apply to students who were matriculated in said institution prior to August thirtieth, eighteen hundred ninetyseven: And provided also, That no change shall be made in Further the rate of tuition charged any student, matriculated and entered as a resident student prior to April first, nineteen hundred three. Approved June 18. 1903 45 proviso. proviso. proviso. Sections amended. Printing and distribution of report of su of public instruction. [No. 225.] AN ACT to amend sections eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-one and twenty-three of act forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers and public institutions of this State now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the official directory and legislative manual of the State of Michigan and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-one, and twenty-three of act forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers and public institutions of this state now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to. provide for the publication and distribution of the official directory and legislative manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act number one hundred twenty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred eightynine, approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred eightynine, act number twenty of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this act," be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 11. There shall be printed of the annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a sufficient number perintendent to supply all school libraries in the State with one copy each, also one copy each to the following persons or institutions: To each superintendent of public instruction, State university, college of mines and state normal school in the United States, each living ex-superintendent and deputy superintendent of public instruction in this State, each member of county boards of examiners, each city superintendent of schools; two hundred copies for deposit with the Secretary of State for future distribution, and such number of additional copies as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may, in his discretion, deem necessary, and not exceeding three hundred copies. Said report shall not exceed three hundred pages including context and index, such pages to be the size of the pages of the report of the Superintendent of Public proviso. distribution of railroad SEC. 13. There shall be printed of the annual report of the Printing and Commissioner of Railroads one hundred copies for deposit report of with the Secretary of State for future use and distribution; ' commissioner.. one copy to each railroad commissioner in the United States, and one copy to each of the following named persons, to-wit: To each president, vice-president, general manager, superintendent and head of a department of any railroad company owning or operating a railroad in this State, such additional copies, not to exceed six hundred, as the Railroad Commissioner may deem necessary for distribution; such report when printed shall be delivered on the order of the Secretary of State to the Commissioner of Railroads. Such report shall not exceed three hundred pages, including context and index, the pages to be of the size of the pages of the report of the Commissioner of Railroads for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven. In addition to the reports provided for in this section, the Commissioner of Railroads shall also be authorized to have printed not to exceed five hundred volumes containing the annual reports in full of the railroad companies which are made to the Commissioner of Railroads, such volumes to contain not to exceed seven hundred pages each; such additional reports to be distributed by the Commissioner of Railroads in his discretion. printed of cer for head of SEC. 14. There shall be printed of the following reports the Additional number of copies herein indicated. Not to exceed one hun- copies to be dred copies of each shall be printed and bound and retained in tain reports the office of the Secretary of State for future distribution. departments. The number indicated in section twenty shall be printed for the purposes indicated in section twenty, and in addition there shall be printed the number of copies, as follows, which shall be distributed by the heads of the departments and institutions making the report: Adjutant General, not to exceed five hundred; Advisory Board of Pardons, not to exceed five hundred; Auditor General, not to exceed five hundred; Board of Fish Commissioners, not to exceed one thousand; Relative to crop report. Bulletins of food department. State library bulletins. State board of health. Paper to be used for publication. Proviso. Commissioner of Insurance, fire and marine report, not to exceed twelve hundred; Commissioner of Insurance, life, casualty, assessment and fraternal report, not to exceed fifteen hundred; Commissioner of State Land Office, not to exceed five hun dred; Court of Mediation and Arbitration, not to exceed five hundred; Dairymen's Association, not to exceed five hundred; State Board of Education, not to exceed five hundred; State Treasurer, not to exceed five hundred; State Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner, not to exceed five hundred; Annual meetings of the Superintendents of the Poor and union associations, not to exceed eight hundred; Abstract of the annual report of the county superintendents of the poor, not to exceed five hundred; Abstracts of reports of sheriffs relative to jails, not to exceed five hundred; Abstracts of statistical information relative to the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic and epileptic, not to exceed one thousand; Report of Michigan Academy of Science, not to exceed one thousand copies of two hundred and fifty pages each; State Librarian, not to exceed five hundred; SEC. 15. The crop reports of the Secretary of State shall be printed as at present provided by law, and the sum so expended for printing and binding shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars in any one year. The Dairy and Food Commissioner shall print monthly bulletins as provided by act number two hundred sixty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; The State Librarian is authorized to expend in any one year not exceeding one hundred dollars for printing and binding bulletins. The State Board of Health is hereby authorized to expend, in any one year, not exceeding one hundred dollars for printing and binding bulletins. SEC. 21. The paper to be used for all State publications shall be what is known in trade as first-class calendered book paper, so water-marked with the word "Michigan" that a portion of said water-mark shall appear on each page of every publication: Provided, That the provisions of this section as to watermark shall not apply to the kind of paper now being used for printing the Legislative Manual. |