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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," is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 12. There shall be furnished of the annual report of Report of
the Commissioner of Labor, which shall include the report of sioner.
the Bureau of Factory Inspection, two hundred copies for
deposit with the Secretary of State for future use and distribu-
tion, and such number of copies for distribution by the Com-
missioner of labor as the said commissioner shall deem neces-
sary; but the whole number of copies of said report printed
under this section shall not exceed four thousand. Such report
shall not exceed six hundred pages, including index.
pages of such report shall be the size of the pages of the
report of the Commissioner of Labor for the year eighteen
hundred ninety-six. Such report when printed shall be deliv-
ered on the order of the Secretary of State to the Commis-
sioner of Labor.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 24, 1903.

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[No. 10.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty, of chapter two, of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being compiler's section four thousand six hundred sixty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section twenty, of chapter two, of act number Section one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being compiler's section four thousand six hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

CHAPTER II.

voters at dis

SEC. 20. The qualified voters in any school district when Powers of lawfully assembled at the first and at each annual meeting, or trict meetings. at an adjournment thereof, or at any special meeting lawfully called except as hereinafter provided, shall have power:

Temporary officers.

Adjournment.

Election of officers.

Schoolhouse

sites.

Purchase of sites, buildings, etc.

To vote tax for, etc.

Tax for repair,

apparatus, etc.

When may sell schoolhouse,

etc.

May direct suits, etc.

Building committee.

First, At the first meeting and at any meeting after the organization of the district, in the absence of the moderator, to appoint a chairman for the time being, and in the absence of the director to appoint some person to act in his stead, who shall keep a minute of the proceedings of such meeting and certify the same to the director, to be by him entered in the records of the district;

Second, To adjourn from time to time as occasion may require;

Third, To elect district officers as herein provided, and to determine at what hour the annual meeting shall be held; Fourth, To designate, as hereinafter provided, a site or such number of sites as may be desired for schoolhouses, and to change the same when necessary;

Fifth, To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or sites, lawfully determined upon; the building, hiring or purchasing of a schoolhouse or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously established;

Sixth, To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient, to purchase or lease a site or sites, or to build, hire or purchase a schoolhouse or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building a schoolhouse or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred, shall not exceed in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years, two hundred and fifty dollars; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age, it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age, it shall not exceed one thousand dollars;

Seventh, To vote such tax as shall be necessary for the following purposes: To keep their schoolhouse or houses in repair, to provide the necessary appendages and school apparatus, to establish and support a district library, to pay and discharge any debt or liabilities of the district lawfully incurred, to pay for the service of any district officers and to pay for the transportation of pupils to and from school. The tax herein authorized to be voted shall not exceed one-half of the amount which the district is authorized to raise for building schoolhouses;

Eighth, To authorize and direct the sale of any schoolhouse, site, building or other property belonging to the district, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of the district;

Ninth, To give such directions and make such provisions as they shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested;

Tenth, To appoint, as in their discretion it may be necessary, a building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work of building a schoolhouse as they may by vote direct;

school.

Eleventh, At the first and the annual meeting only, to deter- To fix term of mine'the length of time a school shall be taught in their district during the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in districts having eight hundred children over five and under twenty years of age, and not less than five months in all other districts, on pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund; but in case such When district matters shall not be determined at the first or annual meet- term, etc. ing, the district board shall determine the same; and in case the district fails to vote for at least the minimum length required herein, the district board shall make provisions for said minumum length of school;

board to fix

Twelfth, To appropriate the funds derived or to be derived Transportation of pupils. from the one mill tax, or such part thereof as is deemed necessary, for the purpose of transporting pupils to and from school: Provided, That any district may appropriate any Proviso. surplus moneys arising from the one mill tax after having maintained a school in the district at least eight months in the school year for the following purposes: purchasing or enlarging school sites, building or repairng schoolhouses, purchasing any school apparatus, purchasing books for library, or for any incidental expenses of the school. Approved March 24, 1903.

[No. 11.]

AN ACT to define and to protect fishing rights and privileges in that portion of Saginaw Bay bordering on fractional sections four, five, seven and eight, township seventeen north, range ten east, and in fractional sections eleven and twelve, township seventeen north, range nine east, State of Michigan.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

in certain

SECTION 1. No person shall drive any stakes for fishing Use of nets purposes or set or place any nets in the waters of Saginaw waters. Bay contiguous or adjacent to sections four, five, seven and eight, in township seventeen north, range ten east, and sections eleven and twelve, in township seventeen north, range nine east for a distance of three miles from the shore of said lands, unless such person is the lawful owner or occupant of the shore frontage opposite to which said stakes are driven or nets set or placed, or unless such person shall have a license so to do from the said owner or occupant.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons offending against the provi- Penalty for, sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and violation on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not

more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the court, and such person or persons shall
also be liable civilly, to be recovered in an action of trespass
in any court having jurisdiction thereof, for all damages to the
owner or occupant or licensee therefrom of the lands within
the water frontage of which, as above defined, the unautho-
rized act or acts shall have been committed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 25, 1903.

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[No. 12.]

AN ACT to provide for letting contracts for furnishing fuel, paper and stationery for the use of the State, and also for doing the State printing and State binding, and to provide for heating the capitol by steam conveyed from central heating plant, and to repeal act one hundred sixty-three of the laws of the year one thousand eight hundred fifty-one, as amended, being sections one thousand five hundred thirtyone, one thousand five hundred thirty-two, one thousand five hundred thirty-three, one thousand five hundred thirty-four, one thousand five hundred thirty-five, one thousand five hundred thirty-six and one thousand five hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of the year one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of State Audto publish time itors in the month of April in the year one thousand nine hun

for receiving

bids.

dred three and every second year thereafter, to cause to be published in some newspaper published at the seat of government, in one or more daily newspapers published in the city of Detroit, and in a daily newspaper printed in the city of Grand Rapids, a notice specifying the time and place for receiving separate sealed proposals for furnishing fuel for the State capitol, proposals for furnishing paper for use of the State departments in the State capitol and for printing reports required by laws of the State, proposals for stationery for the use of the State departments in the capitol, and proposals for heating the State capitol with steam conducted to such building by means of underground pipes. which said notice shall be published at least once in each week for six successive weeks before the time specified for examining such Proviso as to proposals: Provided, That no such proposals shall be

letting.

received after nine o'clock in the forenoon of the second Wednesday in May; and that said proposals shall be opened on the second Wednesday in May in public, by the board of state auditors, and the several contracts shall be awarded to

the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders on or before the second Wednesday of June following: Provided, That it Proviso. shall be optional with the board of state auditors whether contracts shall be awarded for fuel for the capitol or for heating the capitol with steam conducted to such building by means of underground pipes; and in the month of December, one thousand nine hundred three, and every second year thereafter, cause to be published in the same manner a notice specifying the time and place for receiving separate sealed proposals for printing and binding the laws, journals and documents, all blanks, papers and printing for the legislative, executive and judiciary departments, and all other printing ordered by the legislature, which said notice shall be published at least once in every week for six successive weeks before the time specified for examining such proposals: Pro- Proviso. vided, That no such proposal shall be received after nine o'clock in the forenoon of the third Wednesday in January following; and that said proposals shall be opened on the third Wednesday in January following in public, by the board of state auditors, and the several contracts shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders, on or before the second Wednesday of April following: Provided, Proviso as to however, that the board of state auditors shall have a right bids. to reject any and all bids, and in case the said board of state auditors reject all the bids on any article advertised for, under the provisions of this section, then the said board of state auditors shall, within ten days after such decision, readvertise for the same length of time, in the same manner as near as may be, for such articles for which the bids were so rejected by the board of state auditors, and the bid shall be opened and the contract let in the same manner, as near as may be, as provided for letting contracts had the bids not been rejected, and within the same length of time.

rejection of

pare schedule,

SEC. 2. The board of state auditors shall prepare [a] sched- Board to preule of articles desired in bids for paper and stationery and samples, etc. shall prepare samples or require bidders to furnish samples, or partly prepare samples and partly require bidders to furnish samples, as in the case of each article may seem best; or, if advisable, samples may be entirely omitted. All paper, stationery, and supplies in the nature of stationery, of which such a quantity can be foreseen as will last till the next contract is let, and provided they can be bought in sufficient quantities to make it an object, shall be placed under such contracts as the board of state auditors shall determine. In all cases in which bidders are required to furnish samples, such samples shall be marked with the item number corresponding to bid. Ample security shall be required for the faithful per- Security formance of each and every contract made in pursuance of required. said notice.

SEC. 3. The printing and binding of the laws, journals and Style of printdocuments is to be in such style and manner as may be ing, etc. directed by the board of state auditors, or other officer or offi

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