538 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, 1911.-No. 1. Amendment to section nine of article eleven of the constitution, relative to the apportionment of primary school interest money, Yes (). Amendment to section nine of article eleven of the constitution, relative to the apportionment of primary school interest money, No ( )." It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election at the several voting precincts within their respective counties, within the time ballots to be used at said election are required to be delivered to such inspectors under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning the vote for State officers. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. Amendment to the constitution relative to bonded indebtedness of counties, proposed by the legislature of nineteen hundred nine, and ratified and approved by the people at the November election of nineteen hundred ten. ARTICLE EIGHT. SEC. 12. No county shall incur any indebtedness which shall increase its total debt beyond three per cent of its assessed valuation, except counties having an assessed valuation of five million dollars or less, which counties may increase their total debt to five per cent of their assessed valuation. Amendment to the constitution relative to the apportionment of primary school interest money, proposed by the legislature of nineteen hundred eleven, and ratified and approved by the people at the April election of nineteen hundred eleven. ARTICLE ELEVEN. SEC. 9. The legislature shall continue a system of primary schools, whereby every school district in the State shall provide for the education of its pupils without charge for tuition; and all instruction in such schools shall be conducted in the English language. If any school district shall neglect to maintain a school within its borders as prescribed by law for at least five months in each year, or to provide for the education of its pupils in another district or districts for an equal period, it shall be deprived for the ensuing year of its proportion of the primary school interest fund. If any school district shall, on the second Monday in July of any year, have on hand a sufficient amount of money in the primary school interest fund to pay its teachers for the next ensuing two years as determined from the pay roll of said district for the last school year, and in case of a primary district, all tuition for the next ensuing two years, based upon the then enrollment in the seventh and eighth grades in said school district, the children in said district, shall not be counted in making the next apportionment of primary school money by the Superintendent of Public Instruction; nor shall such children be counted in making such apportionment until the amount of money in the primary school interest fund in said district shall be insufficient to pay teachers' wages or tuition as herein set forth for the next ensuing two years. CERTIFICATE. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE LANSING. I, Frederick C. Martindale, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred eleven was on the second day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred eleven. [L. S.] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature FREDERICK C. MARTINDALE, INDEX TO THE PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1911, WITH REFERENCES TO THE THE COMPILED LAWS OF 1897, VOLUMES 1, 2, AND 3 Prepared and published under the supervision of the Secretary of State in com- |