times when and the amounts thereof which the condition of This act is ordered to take immediate effect. when issued. [No. 312.] AN ACT to empower the United States of America to acquire lands in the state of Michigan by purchase or otherwise for establishing, consolidating and extending national forests, and to grant to the United States of America all rights necessary for the proper control and administration of lands so acquired. The People of the State of Michigan enact: national for SECTION 1. That the consent of the state of Michigan be Lands for and is hereby given to the acquisition by the United States, est, U. s. by purchase, gift, or condemnation with adequate compensa- may acquire. tion, of such lands in Michigan as in the opinion of the federal government may be needed for the establishment, consolidation and extension of national forests in the state: Provided, That the state of Michigan shall retain concurrent Proviso, jurisdiction with the United States in and over lands so jurisdiction. acquired so far that civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the state of Michigan against any person charged with the commission of any crime without or within said jurisdiction. may be executed thereon in like manner as if this act had not been passed. concurrent legislation. SEC. 2. Power is hereby conferred upon the congress of Federal the United States to pass such laws and to make or provide for the making of such rules and regulations, of both a civil and criminal nature, and provide punishment therefor, as in its judgment may be necessary for the administration, control, and protection of such lands as may be from time to time acquired by the United States under the provisions of this act. Approved May 25, 1923. Schools for crippled children. Separate instruction. Equipment. Courses of study, etc. Teachers. Annual report. Sum included in budget to maintain classes, etc. [No. 313.] AN ACT to authorize the board of education of any school district to establish and maintain schools or classes for those who are crippled, to provide for the expense of the same, to provide for the supervision of such schools or classes, and other help to carry out the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The board of education of any school district may, upon a petition of parents or guardians of five or more resident children between the ages of six and twenty years who, by reason of being crippled, cannot profitably or safely be educated with the other classes in the public schools of such district, establish and maintain within the limits of the district, one or more schools or classes for the instruction of such children. In all cases the crippled shall be given separate instruction. Such special schools or classes shall be placed in rooms properly equipped for such special classes and shall be maintained so long as there shall be an actual attendance of not less than five children who are crippled, if the parents or guardians of such children are legal residents of this state. Such necessary equipment shall comprise the books, appliances, and apparatus necessary for the instruction of such children. SEC. 2. Courses of study, adequacy of methods of instruction, qualifications of teachers, the conditions under which teachers are employed, and the necessary equipment and any special services for such children for any school year must comply with the requirements prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction. Teachers shall be employed in the same manner as other public school teachers of the district are employed. All persons appointed to teach in any such schools or classes for the crippled shall have had special training for such teaching. SEC. 3. The board of education of any district which maintains one or more such schools or classes shall make an annual report to the superintendent of public instruction or oftener if he shall so direct, which report shall include an itemized statement of all expenditures for said schools or classes, including the salaries of teachers, special equipment, special material, together with such other facts relative to such schools or classes as the superintendent of public instruction may deem necessary for the proper administration of this act. SEC. 4. The board of education of a school district where one or more such schools or classes are established shall include in its annual budget a sufficient sum to provide special service for said pupils and to maintain said schools or classes and out of said sum it shall pay said teacher or teachers monthly. To reimburse said city or district for such expenditure, the state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay to the treasurer of the proper school district, out of the general fund of the state, on or before July first in each year, upon the warrant of the auditor general, the actual expense incurred for teachers' salaries, for the purchase of the necessary special school equipment and for any special services required for such schools or classes, which shall have been conducted in accordance with this act during the same number of months of school as is prescribed for the school district for other classes, as shown by vouchers filed with the auditor general and certified to be correct by the superintendent of public instruction. The total amount per pupil paid to any per capita. one school district for the purpose herein provided shall not exceed the difference between the average per capita cost of instruction and equipment for the other children in the first eight grades of said school district and the average per capita cost required to pay teachers' wages and the cost of the necessary special school equipment to educate the children enrolled in the classes established for those children who may be included within the provisions of this act. no case shall the amount paid exceed two hundred dollars for each child instructed in said school district during the school year, and a part of such sum proportionate to the time of instruction of any pupil so instructed less than the number of months prescribed for the school district for the year. The board of education of any school district that Tuition to does not maintain a class for the children named in this act other school. may pay the tuition of any such children to a school maintaining such schools or classes. SEC. 5. The board of education maintaining one or more Vouchers to such schools or classes shall cause to be executed monthly, ent of public superintendvouchers in triplicate upon forms prepared and furnished by instruction. the auditor general so as to show the rate of salary paid to instructors of such schools or classes and the time covered by such payment; also, vouchers in triplicate upon forms prepared and furnished by the auditor general showing the special school appliances purchased and the price paid for each article or series of articles. The treasurer of said school district is required to forward two copies of these receipted vouchers to the superintendent of public instruction within the first five days of the month succeeding the month covered by the payment. On or before the fifteenth day of each month the superintendent of public instruction shall present one set thereof to the auditor general, authorizing him to pay to the treasurer of the proper school district the amount covered by the certified vouchers presented. Approved May 25, 1923. Terms defined. Label. [No. 314.] AN ACT to regulate the selling, offering or exposing for sale of agricultural seeds, provide a penalty for the violation of this act, and repeal certain acts. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. For the purposes of this act, the term "agricultural seeds" or "agricultural seed" is defined as the seeds of Canada blue grass, Kentucky blue grass, brome grass, fescues, Kaffir corn, millets, tall meadow grass, orchard grass, red top, Italian rye grass, perennial rye grass, sorghums, Sudan grass, timothy, alfalfa, soy beans, alsike clover, crimson clover, red clover, sweet clover, white clover, field beans, field peas, cow peas, vetches, lupines, lespedeza, serradella, other grasses, and forage plants, buckwheat, flax, rape, barley, corn, oats, rye, wheat, and other cereals possessed for the purpose of being sold, or offered or exposed for sale for sowing or seeding purposes within this state. SEC. 2. Every lot, package, parcel, bag or bulk lot of agricultural seeds containing one pound or more, defined in section one of this act, except as herein otherwise provided, which is offered or exposed for sale for sowing or seeding purposes, shall have affixed thereon, or attached thereto, in a conspicuous place on the outside of each container, or be delivered with bulk sales of said agricultural seeds, a plainly written or printed tag or label, in the English language, stating: (a) Commonly accepted name of such agricultural seeds; (b) The approximate percentage by weight of pure seed present; meaning, the freedom of such agricultural seeds. from inert or foreign matter and from other seeds distinguished by their appearance; (c) The approximate percentage by weight of inert matter; (d) The approximate percentage by weight of foreign seeds; the term "foreign seeds" as used herein being defined as all seeds other than the agricultural seed indicated under "a" of this section; (e) The name of each kind of the seeds of noxious weeds, as herein defined, which are present singly or collectively: (1) In excess of one seed, singly or collectively, in each five grams of timothy, red top, orchard grass, Canada blue grass, Kentucky blue grass, fescues, brome grass, tall meadow grass. Italian rye grass, perennial rye grass, crimson clover, red clover, sweet clover, white clover, alsike clover and alfalfa, and all other grasses and clovers not otherwise classified; (2) One in twenty-five grams of millet, rape, flax, and other seeds not specified in one or three; (3) One in one hundred grams of corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, vetches, and other seeds as large or larger than wheat; (f) The approximate percentage of germination (vital seed) of such agricultural seed, together with the month and year said seed was tested; (g) The state, territory, or foreign country in which the seed of red clovers, alfalfa, soy beans and field corn were grown; seeds. (h) The name and the address of the vendor of the seed. SEC. 3. The seeds of quack grass (Agropyron repens), Noxious weed Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), dodders (any species of Cuscuta), mustards (charlock, black mustard and Indian mustard, species of Brassica or Sinapis), and wild carrot (Daucus carota), are hereby defined as noxious weed seeds. SEC. 4. Mixtures of alsike clover and timothy, alsike and Mixtures, how white clover, red top and timothy, alsike and red clover, when sold, offered or exposed for sale as mixtures and in lots of one pound or more, shall have affixed thereon, or attached thereto, in a conspicuous place on the outside of each container, or be delivered with bulk sales of such mixture of seeds, a plainly written or printed tag or label, in the English language, stating: (a) That such seed is a mixture; (b) The name and approximate percentage by weight of each kind of agricultural seed present in such mixture in excess of five per cent by weight of the total mixture; (c) The approximate percentage by weight of inert matter; (d) The approximate percentage by weight of foreign seeds; the term "foreign seeds" as used herein being defined as all seeds other than the agricultural seed indicated under "b" of this section; (e) The name and approximate number of each kind of the seeds and the noxious weeds listed in section three of this act which are present per pound of the mixture; (f) The approximate percentage of germination of each kind of agricultural seed present in such mixture in excess of five per cent by weight of the entire mixture, together with the month and year said seed was tested; (g) The state, territory or foreign country in which the seed of red clovers, alfalfa, soy beans and field corn were grown; (h) The name and the address of the vendor of such mixture. labeled. mixtures. SEC. 5. Special mixtures of agricultural seeds, except as Special specified in section four of this act, when sold, offered or exposed for sale as mixtures, in bulk, packages, or other containers of eight ounces or more, shall have affixed thereon, or attached thereto, in a conspicuous place on the outside of each container, or be delivered with bulk sales of such mixture, a plainly written or printed tag or label, in the English language, stating: (a) That such seed is a mixture; |