Assessment, county seat of said county, if there be one, if not in some paper printed in said county, if there be any, at least five days before the time at which said assessor is required to appear; and where practicable personal notice by mail shall be given prior to said hearing to all persons whose assessments are to be considered. A copy of said order shall also be served upon the supervisor or assessing officer in whose possession said roll shall be at least three days before he is required to appear with said roll. The said board, or any member thereof, shall appear at the time and place mentioned in said order, and the supervisor or assessing officer upon whom said notice shall have been served shall appear also. with said assessment roll. The said board or any member thereof, as the case may be, shall then and there hear and hearing, etc. determine as to the proper assessment of all property and persons mentioned in said notice, and all persons affected or liable to be affected by review of said assessments thus provided for may appear and be heard at said hearing. In case said board, or the member thereof who shall act in said review, shall determine that the assessments so reviewed are not assessed according to law, he or they shall, in a column provided for that purpose, place opposite said property the true and lawful assessment of the same. As to the property Property not not upon the assessment roll, the said board, or member there on roll. of acting in said review, shall place the same upon said assessment roll by proper description and shall place thereafter, in the proper column, the true cash value of the same. Said Certificate board shall also spread upon said roll a certificate, signed roll by each member officiating at the review proceedings, showing the day and date on which said assessment roll was reviewed. For appearing with said roll as required herein the supervisor or assessing officer shall receive the same per diem as is received by him while in attendance at the meeting of the board of supervisors, to be presented to and paid by the proper officers of the municipality of which he is the assessing officer in the manner as his other compensation is paid. The action of said board or member done as provided in this Action final. act shall be final. When any property has been reviewed, assessed and valued by said board as herein authorized, such property shall not be assessed or valued at a lower figure within a period of three years, where the property remains substantially the same, without the written consent of said board. spread on SEC. 153. In addition to the secretary and chief clerk said Clerical board may employ such other clerical assistance as may be assistance. necessary and required to perform the duties imposed upon it by this act. The average compensation paid for such Compensation. clerical assistance shall not exceed one thousand dollars per annum for each clerk employed: Provided, That said board may employ such expert assistance as may from time to time be necessary and essential to a proper exercise of the powers and performance of the duties prescribed in this act. The compensation for such expert assistance shall be fixed by said. Proviso. board at such amount as shall be approved by the Board of State Auditors: Provided, That the compensation herein authorized and all other necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be allowed by the Board of State Auditors, upon proper vouchers approved by the president and secretary of the board and paid by the State Treasurer out of the general fund. Approved March 23, 1911. Section amended. Articles, etc., filing of. Proviso, real estate value limited. [No. 18.] AN ACT to amend section three of act number twenty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks," being compiler's section eight thousand eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number thirty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of act number twenty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks," being compiler's section eight thousand eighty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number thirty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together with the charter and constitution of the grand lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks shall be filed with the Secretary of State; and thereupon the persons who have signed such articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in law, capable to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, estates, real and personal, of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal, which may be altered or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars and that they and their successors shall have the power to give, grant, sell, lease, mortgage, demise and dispose of said real and personal estate, or part thereof, at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents and income shall be devoted to the protection and aid of its members and their families, and for no other purpose. Said corporation shall have full power to make and establish Corporation, rules, regulations and by-laws, for regulating and governing power of. all the affairs and business of said corporation not repugnant to, or inconsistent with the constitution, rules and edicts of the grand lodge of the order, or with the Constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States, and to elect and appoint from its members such officers, under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the by-laws of said corporation. Approved March 24, 1911. [No. 19.] AN ACT to provide for the purchase of books and other material for the Michigan State Library, and books and equipments for the Michigan traveling libraries, and for printing and binding, making an appropriation therefor, 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 Appropriation. ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twelve, the sum of five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of five thousand dollars, for purposes during each of said fiscal years as follows: For the purchase of books for the State Library, five Purpose. thousand dollars. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated for the purchase of Michigan traveling books and equipment for the Michigan traveling libraries for libraries. the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twelve, the sum of five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of five thousand dollars. SEC. 3. The printing and binding necessary to carry on Printing, etc. the work of the State Library and traveling libraries shall be furnished by the Board of State Auditors and paid for out of the general fund as other State printing is paid for. SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of How paid out. this act shall be paid out of the general fund of the State treasury to the State Librarian, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State shall prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of ten thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred twelve, the sum of ten thousand dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. Examination of teachers. Certificates. Commissioner, duty of. Certificates, [No. 20.] AN ACT to amend sections four, five and six of act number one hundred forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, to define the duties and fix the compensation of the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand eight hundred eleven, four thousand eight hundred twelve and four thousand eight hundred thirteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hun dred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections four, five and six of act number one hundred forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, to define the duties and fix the compensation of the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand eight hundred eleven, four thousand eight hundred twelve and four thousand eight hundred thirteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. The board of school examiners shall, for the purpose of examining all persons who may offer themselves as teachers for the public schools, hold two regular public examinations in each year at the county seat, which examinations shall begin on the last Thursday of April and the second Thursday of August of each year. From these two examinations certificates of all grades may be granted. It shall be the duty of the county commissioner to make out a schedule of the times and places of holding such examinations and to cause it to be published in one or more newspapers of the county at least ten days before each examination. SEC. 5. The board of school examiners shall meet on the when granted. Saturday of the week following each public examination held according to the provisions of section four of this act, and shall grant certificates to teachers in such form as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prescribe, licensing as second or certificates. proviso, teachers all persons who have attained the age of eighteen years, who have attended such public examinations and who shall be found qualified in respect to good moral character, learning and ability to instruct and govern a school, but no certificate shall be granted to any person who shall not have passed a satisfactory examination in orthography, reading, writing, grammar, geography, arithmetic, theory and art of teaching, United States history, civil government, physiology and hygiene with reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics upon the human system, school law and the course of study for the district schools of Michigan prepared by the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, That Proviso, any commissioner may upon the request of any holder of a third grade second or third grade certificate send the papers written by such person, properly certified and under seal, to the county board of school examiners of any other county for its examination, and such board of school examiners may in its discretion receive such papers, and if it accept them shall treat them in the same manner as if written at a public examination in its own county: Provided further, That the Further board of examiners shall have the right to renew without ex renewal of amination the certificates of any persons who shall have previously attained an average standing of at least eighty-five per cent in all the studies covered in two or more previous examinations, and who shall have been since such last named examination continuously and successfully teaching in the public schools: Provided further, That an indorsed first grade Further certificate may be renewed in the county where issued or in proviso, first the county where the holder may be teaching at the time of certificate. its expiration. All certificates shall be signed by the county Certificates, commissioner and by at least one of the members of the board of examiners. No person shall be considered a qualified teacher within the meaning of this act, nor shall any school officer employ or contract with any person to teach in any of the public schools under the provisions of this act who has not a certificate in force granted by the board of school examiners or other lawful authority. All examination ques Questions. tions shall be prepared and furnished by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the county commissioner under seal, to be opened in the presence of the applicants for certificates on the day of examination. certificates. grade signing of. SEC. 6. There shall be three grades of certificates granted Certificates, grades. by the board of school examiners in its discretion and subject to such rules and regulations as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may prescribe, which grades of certificates shall be as follows: The certificate of the first grade shall be First grade, granted only to those who have taught at least one year with to whom ability and success, and it shall be valid throughout the State for four years: Provided, That all examination papers for Proviso. first grade certificates favorably passed upon by the board of examiners, together with such certificate, shall be forwarded to the Superintendent of Public Instruction within granted. |