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Penalty.

Procuring by fraud, etc.

Money, etc.. tion of.

or to inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any fe male person to come into this State or to leave this State for the purpose of prostitution; or who takes or detains a female with the intent to compel her by force, threats, menace or duress to marry him or to marry any other person or to be defiled; or upon the pretense of marriage takes or detains a female person for the purpose of sexual intercourse; or who shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become a prostitute or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of pandering, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than thirty years.

SEC. 2. Any person who by force, fraud, intimidation or threat places or leaves, or procures any other person or per sons to place or leave his wife in a house of prostitution or to lead a life of prostitution shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years.

SEC 3. Any person who shall knowingly accept, receive, misappropria- levy or appropriate any money or other valuable thing without consideration from the proceeds of the earnings of any woman engaged in prostitution, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years. Any such acceptance, receipt, levy or appropriation of such money or valuable thing shall, upon any proceeding or trial for violation of this section, be presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.

Debts, detaining inmate for, unlawful.

Penalty.

Transporting female for prostitution.

Penalty.

Acts com

State.

SEC. 4. Any person or persons who attempt to detain any female person in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of any debt or debts she has contracted, or is said to have contracted while living in said house, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not less than two nor more than twenty years.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, by any means of conveyance, into, through or across this State, any female person for the purpose of prostitution or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice or compel such female person to become a prostitute shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years; any person who may commit the crime in this section mentioned may be prosecuted, indicted, tried and convicted in any county or city in or through which he shall so transport or attempt to transport any female person as aforesaid.

SEC. 6. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any mitted outside of the acts prohibited in the foregoing sections that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this State, and the offense shall in such case be deemed and alleged

to have been committed and the offender tried and punished in any county in which the prostitution was intended to be practiced or in which the offense was consummated, or any overt act in furtherance of the offense shall have been committed.

witness.

SEC. 7. Any such female person referred to in the fore- May be going sections shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution.

Approved April 12, 1911.

[No. 64.]

AN ACT to amend section two of chapter nine of act number two hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district officials."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter nine of act number two Section hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred amended. nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district officials," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. At the time and place designated the commissioner Jury, how shall direct some disinterested person to write down the formed. names of twelve disinterested freeholders, from which list the owner or occupant of the land to be crossed by such road and the applicant for the road shall strike out three names

Necessity of road, determination of.

Proviso.

each, and the balance remaining on the list shall form the jury. In case the owner or occupant or the applicant shall not be present, or being present shall neglect or refuse to strike, the commissioner shall strike for the party so absent or neglecting or refusing. The commissioner shall issue a citation to such freeholders to appear before him at a time certain within forty-eight hours to determine as to the necessity of such road and the damages resulting therefrom in case such road shall be deemed necessary, and the hearing of the application shall then stand continued until the time. when the citation is returnable: Provided, however, That when from any cause a sufficient number of jurors to form a panel shall not appear at the given time, the commissioner may direct some disinterested freeholder to write down the names of disinterested freeholders enough to equal twice the number of vacancies to be filled. The commissioner shall strike off one-half of the names from such list, and shall issue a citation to such freeholders to appear before him forthwith. Approved April 12, 1911.

Outside show case, breaking, etc., unlawful.

Penalty.

[No. 65.]

AN ACT to make the breaking and entering, or entering without breaking at any time, any outside show case or other place used for the display of goods, wares or merchandise, with the intent to commit the crime of larceny, a felony, and providing a penalty therefor.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Every person who shall break and enter, or enter without breaking, at any time, any outside show case or other place used for the display of goods, wares or merchandise, with intent to commit the crime of larceny, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days or by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Approved April 12, 1911.

[No. 66.]

AN ACT to fix the salary of the Commissioner of Insurance; to provide for the disposition of all moneys received by said. commissioner in the performance of duties connected with his office, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Insurance,

SECTION 1. From and after the date this act shall take Commiseffect, the Commissioner of Insurance shall receive an annual sioner of salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, payable monthly salary. or quarterly. He shall also receive his necessary and actual Expenses. traveling expenses while engaged in the performance of his official duties, which expenses, after audit and allowance by the Board of State Auditors, shall be paid by the State Treasurer on warrant of the Auditor General: Provided, That said Proviso. Commissioner of Insurance shall not retain as perquisites any fees or other moneys received by him, directly or indirectly, for the performance of duties connected with his office.

SEC. 2. All fees and charges for official services performed Fees, etc.. by said commissioner, his deputy or employes, shall, when where placed. collected, be forthwith turned over to the State Treasurer and

his receipt taken therefor.

SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts contravening the pro- Conflicting visions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act being immediately necessary for the protection of the public peace, health and safety, it is hereby ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved April 12, 1911.

acts.

[No. 67.]

AN ACT to amend sections seven, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-seven, forty-four, forty-five, fifty-one, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-four and seventyfive of act number eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to increase the efficiency of the military establishment of the State of Michigan, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal all former acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act," and to add a new section to said act to stand as section number eighty-five.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1.

Sections

Sections seven, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four- amended.

teen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twentythree, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-seven, forty-four, forty-five, fifty-one, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-four and seventy-five of act number eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to increase the efficiency of the military establishment of the State of Michigan, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal all former acts or parts of acts Section added. inconsistent with the provisions of this act," are hereby amended, and one new section is hereby added to said act to stand as section number eighty-five, said amended sections and added section to read as follows:

Militia, who to compose.

tion.

What known

as.

SEC. 7. The permanent organized militia shall be composed of volunteers between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, to be known as the Michigan national guard and as the Michigan naval brigade, as the case may be, and in the case of war, rebellion, invasion, the suppression of riots or the aiding of civil officers in the execution of the laws of the State, Mobilization. shall be the first to be ordered into service. Whenever the president of the United States shall issue his order for the mobilization of any part or all of the national guard of Michigan for federal service, such organization of the national guard of Michigan as may be sufficient to comply with the orders of the president of the United States shall be mobilized Companies, as required by said orders. Immediately upon the mobilizaetc., organiza- tion of any of said forces, and as soon as they shall be in the service of the United States, it shall be the duty of the Governor to organize and muster into the service of the State of Michigan such number of companies, battalions or regiments as he may deem necessary to adequately protect the State. The organization so mustered into the service of the State of Michigan shall be known as the national guard reserve, and whenever one regiment or more of the national guard of Michigan shall have been mobilized for the federal service at least one battalion of the national guard of Michigan not in the service of the United States, or at least one battalion of the national guard reserve, shall be designated as a depot battalion, and shall be used for the purpose of recruiting men for service with those organizations theretofore ordered into the federal service. This battalion shall be stationed at such place as the commander in chief may designate, and the officers assigned to duty therewith shall be selected for their fitness to perform the duties required for Vacancy, how such an organization. Whenever any part or parts of the national guard reserve shall be mustered into the federal service, an equal number of companies, battalions or regiments shall forthwith be organized and mustered into the service of the State of Michigan, to fill the vacancy in the national guard reserve created by the muster into the federal service of such organization. Whenever any part of the national guard of this State shall be relieved from duty in the service of the United States, such organization shall resume its for

Depot battalion.

Where stationed.

filled.

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