[ No. 142. ] By whom list of petit jurors in the upper peninsula selected. Proviso. Meeting of said of list, etc. AN ACT to provide for selecting petit jurors in the upper peninsula. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county clerk, judge of probate, sheriff, and county treasurer of each county in the upper peninsula are hereby constituted a board for the purpose of selecting a list of names of persons, annually, to act as petit jurors in the circuit courts in such counties: Provided, The provisions of this act shall not apply to the counties embraced in the eleventh judicial district. SEC. 2. Said board shall meet annually in the month of May, at board, selection such time and place as they may agree upon, and it shall be their duty to select a list of persons qualified to serve as jurors in courts of record, and file such list with the county clerk. Said list shall be used in drawing petit jurors for the succeeding year ending May thirty, instead of the lists now required by law to be annually returned by the supervisors of townships. Said board, in selecting and returning the names of persons to be drawn as jurors, shall be controlled by the general laws of this State governing supervisors in selecting jurors, not inconsistent herewith. Legality of list SEC. 3. After such lists are made and filed, their legality or regnot to be ques- ularity shall not be questioned, providing it appears that the signatures of a majority of said officers are affixed to such lists. tioned after it is filed. Laws governing proceedings. Section amended, Who entitled to copy of work. SEC. 4. All other proceedings in the selecting and drawing of such petit jurors, not herein provided for, shall be governed by the general laws of the State. Approved June 5, 1883. [No. 143.] AN ACT to amend section three of act number one hundred and sixty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eightyone, being an act entitled "An act to provide for the republication and disposition of thirty thousand copies of Robertson's 'Michigan in the war,' and such additional copies as may be required to supply the demand therefor." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section three of act number one hundred and sixty-seven, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the republication and disposition of thirty thousand copies of Robertson's Michigan in the war,' and such additional copies as may be required to supply the demand therefor," be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 3. Any person who served in any Michigan regiment, battery, or company during the late war and has been honorably discharged, or any person who served in any regiment, battery, or company from any other State, or in the regular army, or in the navy, properly accredited to the State of Michigan, and has been honor ably discharged, or if such person be dead, then his widow, if This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 144.] AN ACT to provide for the compulsory education of children in certain cases. dians, etc., to SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Parents, guarevery parent, guardian, or other person, in the State of Michigan, send children having control and charge of any child or children between the to school, ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be required to send such child or children to a public school for a period of at least four months in each school year, commencing on the first Monday of September, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at least six weeks of which shall be consecutive, unless such child or children are excused from such attendance by the board of the school district in which such parents, or guardians reside, upon its being shown, to their satisfaction, that his bodily or mental condition has been such as to prevent his attendance at school, or application to study for the period required, or that such child or children are taught in a private school, or at home, in such branches as are usually taught in primary schools, or have already acquired the ordinary branches of learning taught in public schools: Provided, Proviso. In case a public school shall not be taught for four months during the year, within two miles by the nearest traveled road of the residence of any person within the school district, he shall not be liable to the provisions of this act. fourteen years of SEC. 2. No child, under the age of fourteen years, shall be Children under employed by any person, company, or corporation, to labor in any age not to be business, unless such child shall have attended some public or pri- employed, etc. vate day school, where instruction was given by a teacher qualified to instruct in such branches as are usually taught in primary schools, at least four months of the twelve months next preceding the month in which such child shall be so employed: Provided, Proviso. That a certificate from the director of the school district in which such child shall have attended school, shall be evidence of a compliance with the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. Every parent, guardian, or other person, having charge or Children discontrol of any child from eight to fourteen years of age, who has charged from embeen temporarily discharged from any business or employment, went to school. ployment to be Board to furnish shall send such child to some public or private day school, for the period for which such child shall have been discharged, unless such child shall have been excused from such attendance by the board of the school district, for reasons as stated in section one hereof. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the school district board, of each certain children district of the State, to purchase and furnish, at the expense of the district, such text books as may, in the judgment of said board, be necessary for the use of children whose parents are not able to furnish the same, the expense of such books to be levied in like manner as other district taxes. with books. Punishment for failure to com ply with pro visions of this act. Establishment of for certain SEC. 5. In case any parent, guardian, or other person, shall fail to comply with the provisions of sections two, three, or four of this act, such parent, guardian, or other person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, for the first offense, and of not less than ten dollars for each subsequent offense. SEC. 6. In all cities and villages in this State, having a populaungraded schools tion of five thousand, and upwards, the board of education, or such children. other officer, or officers, having charge of the schools of said cities, townships, and villages, may establish one or more ungraded schools, for the instruction of children, as defined and set forth in the following sections: What children subject to provisions of this act. Truant officers. Notice to be ers and their parents, guardians, etc. SEC. 7. All persons between the ages of eight and fourteen [sixteen] years, who are habitual truants from school, or who, while in attendance at any public school, are incorrigible, vicious, or immoral in conduct, and all persons between said ages, who absent themselves from school, and habitually wander about streets and public places, having no business, or lawful occupation, shall be deemed juvenile disorderly persons, and subject to the provisions of this act. SEC. 8. In all cities having a duly organized police force, it shall be the duty of the police authority, at the request of the school authority, to detail one or more members of said force, to assist in the enforcement of this act, and in cities, or villages having no regular police force, it shall be the duty of the board of education, or the school district officers, to designate one or more constables, of said city, township, or village, whose duty it shall be to assist in the enforcement of this act, as occasion may require, and said board of education shall fix and determine the compensation to be paid such constable for the performance of his duties under this act. Members of any police force, or any constable designated to assist in the enforcement of this act, as provided in this section, shall be known as truant officers. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of any such truant officer or officers given to offend detailed to enforce the provisions of this act, to examine into any cases of truancy, when requested so to do by the district board or by its authorized officers, and to warn such truants, their parents or guardians, in writing, of the final consequences of truancy if persisted in, and also to notify the parent, guardian, or other person having the legal charge and control of any juvenile disorderly person that the said person is not attending any school, and to require said when parents, to cause said attend, etc. reference to parent, guardian, or other person to cause [the] said child to attend the ungraded school, established as provided for in this act, within five days from said notice, and it shall be the duty of said parent, guardian, or other person having the legal charge and control of said child to cause the attendance of said child at the ungraded school established in the city or village. If said parent, guardian, Proceedings or other person having the legal charge and control of said child guardians, etc., shall willfully refuse, fail, or neglect to cause said child to attend refuse or neglect said ungraded school, it shall be the duty of said officer to make or children to cause to be made a complaint against said parent, guardian, or other person having the legal control and charge of such person, before a justice of the peace in the city where the party resides, except in the city of Detroit, where complaint shall be made in the recorder's court thereof, for such refusal or neglect, and upon conviction thereof said parent, guardian, or other person, as the case may be, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, or the court may in its discretion require the person so convicted to give a bond in the penal sum of one hundred dollars, with one or more sureties, to be approved by said court, conditioned that said person so convicted shall cause the child or children under his legal charge or control, to attend at the ungraded school, within five days thereafter, and to remain at said school during the full school term: Provided, That if said parent, Proviso in or guardian, or other person in charge of said child shall prove ina- inability of bility to cause said child to attend said ungraded school, then said parents, etc., to parent, or guardian, or other person shall be discharged, and said to attend. justice of the peace, or court shall, upon complaint of said truant officer, or other person, that said child is a juvenile disorderly person, as described in section seven of this act, proceed to hear such complaint, and if said justice of the peace or court shall determine that said child is a juvenile disorderly person within the meaning of this act, then said justice of the peace or court shall thereupon sentence said child to the reform school at Lansing, or the industrial home for girls at Adrian, as the case may be, until said child shall arrive at the age of sixteen years, unless sooner discharged by the board of control of said reform school or industrial home for girls: Provided, however, That such sentence may be suspended in Proviso in the discretion of said justice of the peace, or judge of the recorder's suspension court for such time as said child shall regularly attend school, and of sentence, properly deport himself. It is further provided that if for any cause the parent, or guardian, or other person having charge of any juvenile disorderly person, as defined in this act, shall fail to cause such juvenile disorderly person to attend said ungraded school, then complaint against such juvenile disorderly person may be made, heard, tried, and determined, in the same manner as is provided for in case the parent pleads inability to cause said juvenile disorderly person to attend said ungraded school, and it is further provided that no child under the age of ten years shall be sent to the reform school. cause child reference to sent to ungraded SEC. 10. In case any child, while in attendance upon any public Children may be school, shall be incorrigible, vicious, and persistently refuses to obey school from any reasonable rule for the government of said school, the school other schools. Books to be provided in certain cases. Duties of officers in prosecutions under this act. Proceedings against corporations for violations. Section amended. What suits to be dismissed. authorities may direct said child to attend at the ungraded school provided for in this act; and any such child who, after such requirement, shall be incorrigible, vicious in conduct, or habitually truant from such ungraded school, may be proceeded against as a juvenile disorderly person, under the provisions of section nine of this act. SEC. 11. When it appears to the school authorities that the parent, guardian, or other person is unable to provide suitable books for said child, said child shall be furnished by the school board with such books as are required in the course of studies pursued in such ungraded school, and said books shall be the same in all respects as those in use in other schools in said city, township or village, and no distinction in form, color or substance shall be permitted. The expense of said books shall be paid for from the school fund of said municipality, and levied and collected in the same manner as all other school taxes. SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the officers detailed or appointed under the provisions of this act, to assist in the enforcement thereof, to institute, or cause to be instituted, proceedings against any parent, guardian, or other person having legal charge and control of any child, or any person, company, or corporation, violating any of the provisions of sections one, two, three, four, and five of this act; and in school districts and cities, and villages of less than five thousand inhabitants, it shall be the duty of the school board to institute, or cause to be instituted such proceedings. SEC. 13. When any of the provisions of this act are violated by a corporation, proceedings may be had against any of the officers or agents of said corporation who in any way participate in or are cognizant of such violation by the corporation of which they are the officers or agents, and said officers or agents shall be subject to the same penalties as individuals similarly offending. Approved June 5, 1883. [No. 145.] AN ACT to amend section five thousand and fifty-nine, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended by act number one hundred and twenty-nine, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, relative to the jurisdiction of circuit courts in chancery. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section five thousand and firty-nine, of the compiled laws of eighteen bundred and seventy-oue, as amended by act number one hundred and twenty-nine, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: (5059.) SEC. 23. Such courts shall dismiss every suit concerning property, excepting suits between co-partners, and suits for the enforcement of mechanics' liens, suits for the foreclosure of |
