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nual meeting or at an adjournment thereof, or at any special meeting lawfully called, shall have power to vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient to purchase or lease a site or sites, and to build, hire, or purchase a home for the use of the teachers employed in the district, and to vote a tax necessary to furnish said home. And any school district Bonds, may may, by a majority vote of the qualified school electors of said district present and voting at an annual meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, borrow money, and may issue bonds of the district therefor, to pay for the erection of a home for the use of the teachers employed in the district, to pay for the furnishing of the same, and to buy a site for such home. The district board, or board of educa- Board to tion, shall estimate the amount of money necessary to be raised and shall state their estimate in the notices of the annual or special meeting, at which the question of borrowing money and issuing bonds shall be submitted to the people; and at said meeting the voters shall have power to ratify by vote aforesaid the estimate of the district board, or board of education, or to fix a new limit on the amount to be borrowed and for which bonds may be issued: Provided, That in all Proviso, proceedings under this section, the district board and one person selected by the qualified voters present at said meeting shall constitute a board of inspectors, who shall cause a poll list to be kept and a suitable ballot box to be used, and the polls shall be kept open at least two hours. The votes shall be by ballot, either printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, and the canvass of the same shall be conducted in the same manner as at township elections, or as far as the laws governing the same are applicable, and when said laws are not applicable the board of inspectors shall prescribe the manner in which the canvass shall be conducted.

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SEC. 2. Whenever any school district shall have voted to Bonds, forms, borrow any sum of money for said purpose, the district board of such district is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of such district in such form, and executed in such manner by the moderator and director of such district, and in such denominations, not less than fifty dollars, as such district board shall direct, and with such rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum per annum, and payable at such time or times as the said district shall have directed.

SEC. 3. Whenever any money shall have been borrowed by Authority to any school district for the purpose aforesaid, the board of impose tax. education of such district is hereby authorized, at a legal meeting of said board, to impose a tax on the taxable property in such district, for the purpose of paying the principal thus borrowed, or any part thereof, and the interest thereon, to be levied and collected as other school district taxes are collected.

Approved April 22, 1921.

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[No. 77.]

AN ACT to amend section three of act number two hundred ninety-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act concerning industrial banks, defining the same and providing for their incorporation, powers, supervision and control," as amended.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section three of act number two hundred ninety-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act concerning industrial banks, defining the same and providing for their incorporation, powers, supervision and control," as amended, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 3. Every corporation incorporated under the provisions of this act shall be known as an industrial bank and shall use the words "industrial bank" as a part of its corporate title, except when a corporation is organized under this act in any city or village in which is located and doing business a bank which has the word "industrial" or the words “industrial bank" as a part of its corporate name, then the corporation organizing under this act shall not be required to use the word "industrial" or the words "industrial bank” as a part of its corporate title, but may organize under some other title or name.

Approved April 22, 1921.

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weapons, etc.,

[No. 78.]

AN ACT making it a felony for any person to convey into any asylum or state hospital for the insane, any disguise or any instrument, tool, weapon or other thing adapted or useful to aid any insane patient of such asylum or state hospital for the insane in making his escape with intent to facilitate the escape of any such insane patient there detained or by any means whatever to aid such insane patient in his endeavor to make his escape therefrom or to forcibly rescue any such insane patient, and prescribing a penalty for any violation of this act..

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Every person who shall convey into any state into hospitals, hospital for the insane, any disguise or any instrument, tool, etc., a felony. weapon or other thing adapted or useful to aid any insane

patient of such state hospital for the insane, in making his escape with intent to facilitate the escape of any such insane patient therein detained, or shall by any means whatever aid or assist any such insane patient in his endeavor to make escape therefrom, whether such escape be effected or attempted or not, and every person who shall forcibly rescue any such Penalty. insane patient held in custody by such state hospital for the insane shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of not less than one year and not more than five years.

Approved April 22, 1921.

[No. 79.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number sixty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of tuition in and transportation to another district, of children who have completed the eighth grade in any school district; and to repeal act number one hundred ninety of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening the provisions of this act," being compilers' section five thousand eight hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number eleven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen.

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SECTION 1. Section one of act number sixty-five of the Section Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of tuition in and transportation to another district, of children who have completed the eighth grade in any school district; and to repeal act number one hundred ninety of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening the provisions of this act," being compilers' section five thou sand eight hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number eleven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

tuition.

SEC. 1. The district board or board of education of any Payment of school district which does not maintain a high school, shall have authority and is hereby required to vote a tax sufficient to pay the tuition to any high school which is approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, of any children of school age, residents of said district at the time of giving

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notice as hereinafter provided, who have completed the
studies of the eight grades not exceeding in amount the per
capita cost per year based on the average enrollment for the
preceding school year in the high school where said children
may attend, but in no case shall said amount exceed sixty
dollars per pupil, per year, unless the voters appropriate a
larger sum at the annual school meeting, or at a special meet-
ing called for that purpose, and may vote a tax to pay the
transportation during school days of such children, such
tuition to be paid by the treasurer of the district in which the
pupil resided at the time of giving the notice herein provided,
to the treasurer of the district where the high school attended
is located: Provided, That a parent or the legal guardian of
such children, or the person in parental relation to such chil-
dren, shall give written notice to the district board or board
of education on or before the fourth Monday of June, that'
such children desire to attend any high school during the en-
suing year. Upon receiving written notice of children
eligible to attend high schools, the district board or board of
education shall vote a tax sufficient to cover the necessary
expense for tuition as herein provided, and may vote a tax
sufficient to cover the necessary expense for daily transpor-
tation of such children: Provided, That the district board
or board of education of a district having sufficient money
in the general fund may pay the tuition of those who have
completed the studies of the eight grades as provided in this
act even though the notice required has not been filed in due
time by the parent, legal guardian, or other person in par-
ental relation to such children, and the district board or
board of education of a township school district maintaining
a legal high school as provided in this act may pay the tuition
of its eighth grade graduates to some other legal high school
if in the judgment of said board the educational interests of
such eighth grade graduates will be better served: Provided,
That any surplus moneys in the treasury of said district be
longing to the primary fund may be used in paying necessary
tuition in lieu of a tax therefor: Provided, That the per
capita cost herein referred to shall not be interpreted to in-
clude the cost of sites, school buildings, and the repairs on
the same.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 22, 1921.

[No. 80.]

AN ACT to amend chapter twenty-five of act number two hundred three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the holding of elections, to prescribe the manner of conducting and to regulate elections, to prevent fraud and deception in the conducting of elections and to guard against abuses of the elective franchise."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Chapter twenty-five of act number two hun- Act ameuded. dred three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the holding of elections, to prescribe the manner of conducting and to regulate elections, to prevent fraud and deception in the conducting of elections and to guard against abuses of the elective franchise," is amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as Section section seventeen.

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SEC. 17. In cities having an election commission authorized Failure to to appoint inspectors of election, failure on the part of any in- report, misspector, clerk or election official, accepting an appointment as such, to report at the polling place designated on election morning, at the time specified, unless excused, shall be con- Penalty. sidered a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed ten dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ten days, or both, within the discretion of the court: Provided, however, That should any inspector, Proviso, preclerk or election official notify the election commission or other officers in charge of elections of his or her inability to serve at the time and place specified, at least three days prior to the holding of any election, or shall be excused from duty by the said election commission, board or officers in charge of elections for cause shown, then such inspector, clerk or election official shall not be liable for such fine or imprisonment.

Approved April 22, 1921.

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