spective amounts reinsured in each company in which reinsurance has been contracted for or effected, to the Commissioner of Insurance of this State; which statements shall be filed by the Insurance Commissioner in his office, and shall Where filed. be open to the inspection of every officer or agent of any insurance company authorized to do business in this State: Provided, That no contract for reinsurance now in force shall Proviso. be affected by the provisions of this act; but no such contract with a company, corporation or association not authorized to do an insurance business in this State shall be renewed after the expiration thereof fixed in the contract; and in case no time has been fixed upon in the contract for its expiration, then this act shall take immediate effect upon such contract for reinsurance: Provided, also, That nothing in this act Further shall be construed as preventing any insurance company which has lawfully issued a policy of insurance through its resident agent upon property within the State, from reinsuring said risk, or any portion thereof in any authorized company without having said policy of reinsurance signed by a local agent in the State. proviso. tion of act. SEC. 3. Every person, company, corporation or association Fine for violawho shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars for every violation, to be sued for and recovered in the name of the people by the Attorney General, or prosecuting attorney of the proper county, either by action for debt or by criminal prosecution. And the Commissioner of Insurance shall cancel the license and revoke the authority of any fire or marine insurance company, person or association that shall violate any of the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act Repealing are hereby repealed. Approved June 15, 1899. clause. [No. 241.] AN ACT to prohibit the use of the products of petroleum for illuminating purposes which have been adulterated, or which will emit a combustible vapor at a temperature less than one hundred twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer. The People of the State of Michigan enact: oils for SECTION 1. No person shall adulterate with benzine or other Adulteration of substance, for the purpose of sale or for use, any kerosene oil illuminating to be used for lighting or heating in such a manner as to ren- heating and der it dangerous to use; nor shall any person knowingly sell poses prohior offer to sell, or knowingly use, such adulterated oils; nor lighting pur bited. Proviso. Further proviso. Violation of section a misdemeanor. Penalty. Proviso. shall any person knowingly sell or offer for sale, or knowingly Board of supervisors to townships and wards person to appoint in look after burial. etc., of ex-soldiers and marines. Where to be buried. [No. 242.] AN ACT to provide for the burial of the bodies of certain honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines in this State, who shall hereafter die without leaving means sufficient to defray funeral expenses, and to repeal act number one hundred seventy of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyfive. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county in this State to appoint in each township and ward, in their respective counties, a suitable person, other than those designated by law for the care of paupers and the care of criminals, whose duty it shall be, in his township or ward, to look after and cause to be interred in a decent and respectable manner in any cemetery or burial ground within this State, other than those used exclusively for the burial of limited. the pauper dead, at an expense not to exceed forty dollars, Expense the body of any honorably discharged Union soldier, sailor or marine having at any time served in the army or navy of the United States, or of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine having at any time served in the army or navy of the United States in the late war with Spain, who shall hereafter die not leaving means sufficient to defray the necessary funeral expenses. Such person so appointed shall serve with- No compensaout compensation, and shall hold his appointment so long as services. he serves to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors; and Term. whenever any vacancy occurs from any cause, it shall be the Vacancy, how duty of the board of supervisors to fill such vacancy by the appointment of another suitable person. tion for filled. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the person so appointed, as Duty before assuming provided in the foregoing section, before he assumes the charge charge and exand expense of any such burial, to first satisfy himself by a pense of burial. careful inquiry into, and examination of, all the circumstances in the case, that the family of such deceased soldier, sailor or marine, if he had any at the time of his decease residing in such township or ward, is unable, for want of means, to defray the expense of such funeral or burial, whereupon, if he finds such inability to exist, he shall cause such deceased soldier, sailor or marine to be buried as provided in section one of this act, and he shall also immediately report his action to To report to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, setting forth all the facts, and that he found the family of such deceased person, if he had any, in indigent circumstances and unable to pay the expenses of such funeral or burial, together with the name, rank and command to which he belonged as such soldier, sailor or marine, the date of his death, place where buried and his occupation while living; also an accurately itemized statement of the expenses incurred by reason of such burial. clerk. of supervisors. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of su- Duty of clerk pervisors, upon receiving the report and statement of expenses provided for in section two of this act, to transcribe in a book. kept for that purpose all the facts contained in said report respecting such deceased soldier, sailor or marine. It shall also be the duty of said clerk, upon the death and burial of any such soldier, sailor or marine to make application to the proper authorities under the government of the United States for a suitable headstone, as is now or hereafter may be provided by act of Congress, and to cause the same to be placed at the head of such deceased soldier's, sailor's or marine's grave. SEC. 4. All expenses incurred in such burial, as provided in Expense, how this act, shall be audited and paid by the board of super- audited. visors or board of county auditors, the same as other legal charges against the county. Act repealed. SEC. 5. Act number one hundred seventy of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five the same being sections sixteen hundred ninety-three to sixteen hundred ninety-six, inclusive, Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby repealed. Approved June 15, 1899. Sections amended. Appeal to be time, etc. Proviso. Farther proviso. [No. 243.] AN ACT to amend section six thousand seven hundred thirtyeight of Howell's Annotated Statutes of the State of Michigan, relative to Appeals in, Chancery to the Supreme Court, the same being Compiler's Section five hundred fifty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That sections six thousand seven hundred thirtyeight of Howell's Annotated Statutes of the State of Michigan, the same being compiler's section five hundred fifty of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 144. In all cases disposed of upon pleadings and proofs such appeal shall be claimed by a written claim delivered or transmitted to the register of the court, where such decree or order was entered, within forty days from the settlement of the case on such appeal as provided by law, and in all other cases within forty days from the entry of such decree or final order which said register shall make entry thereof. The court from whose decree said appeal shall be taken and perfected shall not stay proceedings in said cause for a longer period than until said appeal shall have been taken and perfected, unless the party taking such appeal shall within such time file with the register of said court a bond to the appellee or appellees, with sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by a circuit judge or circuit court commissioner of said county, and with such penalty as such judge or commissioner shall approve, conditioned for the performance or satisfaction of the decree or final order of the supreme court in the cause and payment of all costs of the appellee or appellees in the matter of appeal: Provided, That the motion for such approval shall be on a notice of six days to the appellee or appellees, said notice to contain the penalty and the names of the sureties of the proposed bond; and on the hearing of such motion such appellee or appellees shall be heard as to the sufficiency of the penalty named and the pecuniary responsibility of thesureties proposed to such bond: And provided further, That in case of such motion being before a circuit court commis proviso as to sioner, the circuit court or the judge at chambers of the court in which such decree or final order is entered may, on special motion, order an additional bond and fix the penalty thereof and approve the sureties thereto on proper showing: And provided further, That the supreme court, or the circuit judge Further of the county where such decree or final order was made, shall, additional on special motion and such proper showing, have power, after such appeal is perfected, to order an additional bond, and to fix the penalty thereof, and to approve the sureties thereto, or to refer such approval to a circuit court commissioner of the county in which the cause shall have been pending. Approved June 15, 1899. bond. [No. 244.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three and six of chapter six of act number two hundred forty-three, Session Laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to Revise and Consolidate the Laws Relating to the Establishment, Opening, Improvement and Maintenance of Highways and Private Roads, and the Building, Repairing and Preservation of Bridges within this State," approved June eighth, eighteen hundred eighty-one, being sections four thousand one hundred and twenty-two, four thousand one hundred and twenty-three and four thousand one hundred and twentysix of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, three and six of chapter six of act Sections number two hundred forty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State," approved June eighth, eighteen hundred eightyone, being sections four thousand one hundred and twentytwo, four thousand one hundred and twenty-three and four thousand one hundred and twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. If such encroachment shall not be removed within Penalty for neglect to thirty days after the service of a copy of such order, such occu- remove pant shall forfeit the sum of fifty cents for every day after the encroachments. expiration of that time during which such encroachment shall continue unremoved, to be recovered in an action of trespass before any justice of the peace of the township, or of an adjoining township in the same county, and the commissioner |