Ninth, For making canvasses of voters; Tenth, For conveying infirm or disabled voters to and from the polls; Eleventh, For employing as counsel, attorneys licensed to practice in accordance with the laws of the State, and for the necessary expenses of such counsel. None of the provisions of this act shall be construed as relating to the rendering of services by speakers, writers, publishers, or others, for which no compensation is asked or given. treasurer to etc. SEC. 4. Every candidate and every treasurer of a political Candidate and committee shall, within ten days after any primary election, file account, caucus or convention and again within twenty days after any general election, whether State, county, city, municipal, township or district election, in or concerning which he shall have received or disbursed any money, prepare and file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such candidate or treasurer resides, a full, true and detailed account and statement subscribed and sworn to by him before an officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth each and every sum of money received or disbursed by him for nomination or election expenses, the date of each receipt, the name of the person from whom received or to whom paid, and the person to whom and object or purpose for which disbursed. Such statements shall also set forth the unpaid debts and What to set obligations, if any, of such candidate or committee, incurred for the purposes set forth in section three of this act, with the nature and amount of each, and to whom owing, in detail, and if there are no such unpaid debts or obligations of such candidate or committee, such statement shall state such fact. forth. before oath etc. SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful to administer the oath of Account filed office or to issue a commission or certificate of nomination administered, or election to any person nominated or elected to any public office until he has filed an account as required by this act, which account shall upon its face be complete and show a lawful compliance with this act, and no such person shall enter upon the duties of his office until he has filed such account, nor shall he receive any salary or fees for any period prior to the filing of the same. inspection. SEC. 6. All such accounts shall be open to public inspec- Open to public tion in the offices where they are filed and shall be carefully preserved there for a period of one year, and it shall be the duty of the officers having custody of the same to give certified copies in like manner as of other public records. SEC. 7. The several officers with whom statements are re- Statements, inspection, quired to be filed shall inspect all statements of accounts etc. and expenses relating to nominations and elections filed with them within ten days after the same are filed; and if upon examination of the official ballot it appears that any person has failed to file a statement as required by law, or if it Failure to file, etc. Witness, when not excused. Blanks, by whom furnished. appears to any such officer that the statement filed with him does not conform to law, or upon complaint in writing by a candidate or by a voter that a statement filed does not conform to law or to the truth, or that any person has failed to file a statement which he is by law required to file, said officer shall forthwith in writing notify the delinquent per son to comply with this act. SEC 8. Upon the failure of any person to file a statement within ten days after receiving such notice, or if any stateinent filed discloses any violation of any provision of this act, the county clerk shall forthwith notify the prosecuting attorney of the county where said violation occurred, and shall furnish him with copies of all papers relating thereto, and said prosecuting attorney shall on such complaint or the complaint of any other person, forthwith enter the same in a docket kept for that purpose in his office, and within twenty days thereafter examine every such case, and if the evidence seems to him to be sufficient under the provisions of this act he shall, in the name of the people of the State, forthwith institute such civil or criminal proceedings as may be appropriate to the facts. SEC. 9. No person otherwise competent as a witness shall be excused from answering any question, in any proceedings under this act, on the ground that such answer would tend to incriminate him; but no prosecution can afterwards be had against such witness for any such offense concerning which he testified for the prosecution except in an action for perjury in giving such testimony. SEC. 10. The Secretary of State shall, at the expense of the [the] State, furnish to the proper county, city, village or town clerks blanks in a form approved by the Attorney General, suitable for the statements herein before required. Contributions, SEC. 11. No person who is not a candidate, or the treas urer of a political committee, shall pay, give or lend, or agree to pay, give or lend, any money whether contributed by himself or by any other person, for any election expenses whatever, except to a candidate or to a political committee. to whom payable. Money credited to person furnishing. Anonymous contributions. Officer, etc., of corporation, not to contribute. SEC. 12. No person shall make a payment of his own money or of another person's money to any person in connection with a nomination or election in any other name than that of the person who in truth supplies such money; nor shall any person knowingly receive such payment or enter or cause the same to be entered in his accounts or records in another name than that of the person by whom it was actually furnished. SEC. 13. It shall be unlawful for any candidate, or treasurer of a political committee, or person acting as such treasurer, to disburse money received from any anonymous source. SEC. 14. No officer, director, stockholder, attorney, agent or any other person, acting for any corporation or joint stock company, whether incorporated under the laws of this threaten, etc., or any other State or any foreign country, except corporations formed for political purposes, shall pay, give or lend, or authorize to be paid, given or lent, any money belonging to such corporation to any candidate or to any political committee, for the payment of any election expenses whatever. SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful for any employer, either cor- Unlawful to poration, association, company, firm or person, in paying the employes. salary or wages of any of its, their or his employes, to enclose their pay in pay envelopes, upon which there is written or printed any political notice, device or argument, containing any threat, expressed or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinion, views or actions of such employes so paid. Nor shall it be lawful for any employer, either corporation, association, company, firm or person, with in ninety days of any election or primary election provided by law, to put up or otherwise exhibit in its, their, or his factory, workshop, mine, mill, boarding house, office or other establishment or place where its, their or his employes may be working or be present in the course of such employment, any hand bill, notice or placard containing any threat, notice or information that in case any particular ticket or candidate shall be nominated or elected, work in its, their or his place or establishment will cease, in whole or in part, or its, their or his establishment will be closed, or the wages of its, their or his workmen shall be reduced; or any other threats, expressed or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinion or act of its, their or his employes. vertisements SEC. 16. No publisher of a newspaper or other periodical Newspaper adshall insert, either in its advertising or reading columns, to be marked any paid matter which is designed or tends to aid, injure or paid. defeat any candidate or political party or organization, or measure before the people, unless it is stated therein that it is a paid advertisement. No person shall pay the owner, edi tor, publisher or agent of any newspaper or other periodical to induce him to editorially advocate or oppose any candidate for nomination or election, and no such owner, editor, publisher or agent shall accept such payment. SEC. 17. If any letter, circular, poster, bill, publication or False stateplacard shall contain any false statement or charges reflect- ment, etc. ing on any candidate's character, morality or integrity, the author thereof and every person knowingly assisting in the circulation thereof shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties provided for the violation of this act: Pro- Proviso. rided, That this shall in no wise deprive the injured party of any other action for libel given by law. violation. SEC. 18. Any person who shall incur any illegal election Penalty for expenses, or otherwise violate any of the provisions of this act, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, either or both, at the discretion of the court. Terms defined. Proviso. Unlawful to demand, etc., etc. SEC. 19. Terms used in this act shall be used as follows, unless other meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or unless such construction is inconsistent with the manifest intent of the law: "Candidate" shall apply to any person whose name is printed on an official ballot for public office, or whose name has been presented for public office, with his consent, for nomination or election; "Political committee" or "committee" shall apply to every combination of two or more persons who shall aid or promote the success or defeat of a candidate, or a political party or principle or measure; "Public office" shall apply to any national, State, county or city ward, village or town office which is filled by the voters of this State, as well as to the office of presidential elector and United States Senator; "Town" shall apply to incorporated towns as well as to townships. SEC. 20. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed: Provided, That the repeal of such acts or parts of acts, or any of them, shall not be construed to affect any offense committed, or any prosecution or proceeding instituted or pending under the laws so repealed. SEC. 21. No person or organization shall ask, demand or contribution, request of or from any candidate for any public office subsequent to any public announcement of the candidacy for any nomination for such office, any donation, gift or contribution, purchase of tickets, or similar demands. This section shall be held to extend to include religious, charitable, or social organizations or any person working in their behalf. Approved April 23, 1913. Special purposes. [No. 110.] AN ACT making appropriations for building and special purposes at the Kalamazoo State Hospital for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, for the Kalamazoo State Hospital, the sum of thirty-nine thousand sixty-four dollars and eighteen cents for purposes and in amounts as follows: For water softening plant the sum of seven thousand dollars; for raising the roof over hall three, transfer of finishing and furnishing ways and porches in connection SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of How paid out. this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of Kalamazoo State Hospital at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen the sum of thirtynine thousand, sixty-four dollars and eighteen cents which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. Approved April 23, 1913. [No. 111.] AN ACT making an appropriation for a science building and its equipment for the University of Michigan, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the Univer- Science sity of Michigan the sum of three hundred seventy-five thou- building. sand dollars for the purpose of furnishing said institution with a science building, and equipping the same. |