no physician or midwife in attendance, then the father, householder, manager or superintendent of a public or private institution, or other person whose duty it shall become to file the certificate of birth as provided in section one of this act, shall draw a line through the words "I hereby certify that I attended the birth of the above child," and shall write in lieu thereof the words "No physician or midwife," filling out the remainder of the certificate in regard to the year, month, day and hour of birth, and signing the certificate as father, householder, owner of premises, manager or superintendent of institution, as the case may be, with his address; Twenty-first, Exact date of filing in office of local registrar, attested by his official signature, and registered number of birth as hereinafter provided. The certificate shall be written legibly in permanent black ink, and no certificate shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information specified above, if possible to obtain them, or satisfactorily account for the omission of any of said items. Approved May 1, 1913. [No. 133.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections four, five, six and seven of act number two hundred nine of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to revise, amend and consolidate the laws for the incorporation of ecclesiastical bodies," as amended by act number seventyeight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, and by act number one hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: sections SECTION 1. The title of act number two hundred nine of the Title and Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An amended. act to revise, amend and consolidate the laws for the incorporation of ecclesiastical bodies," as amended by act number seventy-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, and by act number one hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, and sections four, five, six and seven of said act are hereby amended to read as follows: By-laws, filing, etc. What to prescribe. istence, when suspended. TITLE An act to revise, amend and consolidate the laws for the incorporation of churches, religious societies, church and Sunday schools, church societies and other societies for the purpose of diffusing moral or religious knowledge. SEC. 4. The persons forming such corporations shall adopt by-laws, and execute and acknowledge them in the same manner as the articles of association above provided for, and such by-laws shall, within ninety days after the filing of the articles of association, be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county where such corporation is to hold its regular meetings. Such by-laws shall prescribe the qualifications of members; the manner in which they shall be admit ted, suspended or expelled; the number and official titles of the person or persons who control the temporal affairs of the corporation; their terms of office; the manner of their selection and removal from office; their respective official duties; the time and manner of calling and holding meetings and the number of members constituting a quorum; how far the corporation shall be subject to the control of any other corporation, which corporation shall be named; the manner and condition under which property, both real and personal, may be acquired, held and disposed of; and such other by-laws as may be deemed necessary for the manageCorporate ex- ment of the affairs of such corporation. In the event that such by-laws are not made and filed within said period of ninety days, the corporate existence shall thereby be suspended after said period until such by-laws are made and filed, to the extent that such corporation shall have no power to acquire property or enforce contracts. The by-laws shall also prescribe how the same may be altered, amended or repealed, but no such alteration, amendment or repeal shall be effective until a copy thereof duly certified under the seal of the corporation to be such, by the officer or officers having official custody of such seal shall be recorded in the same manner that the original by-laws were recorded. The articles of association may likewise be amended at any meeting of the members of the corporation called for that purpose pursu ant to the by-laws, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present at such meeting, and it shall be the duty of the person or persons controlling the temporal affairs of the corporation to make, sign and acknowledge in the same manner that the original articles of association were made, signed and acknowledged, triplicate copies of a certificate, containing the name of the corporation, a copy of the call for the meeting at which the amendment was made, the numher of members present at such meeting, the number of members voting in favor of the amendment and a copy of the Amendment of articles. amendment; and it shall be the further duty of the same person or persons to cause two of such copies to be filed in the same manner that the original articles of association were filed, and upon such filing and not until then the amendment shall be effective. SEC. 5. Every such corporation shall adopt a corporate Powers of seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire personal estate by corporation. gift, purchase or bequest, and may apply the same or the proceeds thereof to the purposes of its organization, and to that end may sell, pledge or mortgage the same; may acquire real estate by gift, purchase or devise for the purpose of having and holding land and buildings for its own use and occupancy, including, if the corporation be a church or religious society, a pastor's residence, a church cemetery, church and Sunday school buildings and grounds and church society buildings and grounds, and may sell or mortgage such real estate; and the corporation, if a church or religious society, shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities, so far as any church cemetery owned by it is concerned, which corporations organized to establish rural cemeteries have and enjoy under section ten of act number twelve of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine. SEC. 6. Any corporation organized under this act may re- Gifts, etc.. ceive gifts or bequests of personal estate, and may invest the may receive. same and use the revenues derived therefrom for the lawful purposes of the corporation; and may acquire real estate by gift, devise or foreclosure to enhance the revenues of the corporation; but such real estate so received shall be sold within six years from the time it becomes the property of the corporation, and the proceeds derived from such sale shall be invested in like manner as if the original bequest had been in money. existence, how SEC. 7. Any corporation organized under the provisions Corporate of any other act, the purpose or purposes of which corpora- extended. tion will permit its incorporation under this act, and any corporation organized under the provisions of this act, the charter of which will expire by limitation within one year, may reorganize and extend its corporate existence under this act in manner following: A meeting of the members of Meeting. the corporation shall be called for that purpose pursuant to its by-laws, and two-thirds of the members present at such meeting shall vote in favor of a resolution that the corporation reorganize under the provisions of this act for a period of time to be designated in such resolution; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the person or persons controlling the temporal affairs of the corporation to make, sign and acknowledge in the same manner that original articles of association are made, signed and acknowledged under this act, triplicate copies of a certificate, containing the name of the corporation, the act under which it was incorporated and the date when its corporate existence will expire by limitation, a copy of the call for the meeting at which the resolution for Act repealed. [No. 134.] AN ACT to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act providing a method of vendors in contract for the sale of real estate to terminate the interest of vendees therein on default; fixing the rights of vendors and vendees in respect to forfeiture of the interest of the vendees in such cases; providing for redemption by vendees after such forfeiture; and providing a penalty for the refusal by such vendors to certify to such redemption." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number two hundred of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act providing a method for vendors in contract for the sale of real estate to terminate the interest of vendees therein on default; fixing the rights of vendors and vendees in respect to forfeiture of the interest of the vendees in such cases; providing for redemption by vendees after such forfeiture; and providing a penalty for the refusal by such vendors to certify to such redemption," is hereby repealed. Approved May 1, 1913. [No. 135.] AN ACT to prevent unfair commercial discrimination between different localities for the purpose of ruining the business of a competitor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person, firm, company, association or cor- Unfair discrimination, poration, foreign or domestic, doing business in the State, what deemed. and engaged in the production, manufacture or distribution of any petroleum products, that shall intentionally, for the purpose of destroying the business of a competitor in any locality, discriminate between different sections, communities or cities of this State, by selling such commodity at a lower rate in one section, community or city, than is charged for said commodity by said party in another section, community or city, after making due allowance for the difference, if any, in the grade or quality and in the actual cost of transportation from the point of production, if a raw product, or from the point of manufacture, if a manufactured product, shall be deemed guilty of unfair discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared unlawful. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, company, association or corpo- Penalty. ration violating any of the provisions of the preceding section, and any officer, agent or receiver of any firm, company, association or corporation, or any member of the same, or any individual found guilty of a violation thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed one year, or suffer both penalties. SEC. 3. All contracts or agreements made in violation of Contracts any of the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be void. void. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the county prosecuting Enforcement. attorneys in their counties, and the Attorney General of the State, to enforce the provisions of the preceding sections of this act by appropriate actions in courts of competent jurisdiction. |