Order of commitment. Proviso, allowance for care of child by mother. When child placed in public hospital, etc. "An act to define and to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children, to prescribe the jurisdiction of the probate court, and the powers, duties and compensation of the probate judge and the probate register with regard thereto; to provide for. the appointment of county agents, register of the juvenile division and probation officers, and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation, and to provide for the granting of rehearings and modifications of orders, sentences and decrees of said court," being section two thousand seventeen of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 7. When any child under the age of seventeen years shall be found to be a dependent or neglected child within the meaning of this act, the court may make an order committing the child to the care of some suitable state institution, subject to the laws and regulations governing such institution, or to the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character, or to the care of some training school, or industrial school, as such provided by law, or to the care of some duly incorporated and licensed association willing to receive it, embracing in its objects the purpose of caring for or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children, which association shall have been approved by the State Board of Corrections and Charities: Provided, That if the mother of such dependent or neglected child is unmarried or divorced, or is a widow, or has been deserted by her husband, or if her husband has been declared insane or is feeble-minded, epileptic or blind and is confined in a state hospital or other state institution, or is the wife of an inmate of some state penal institution serving sentence therein for crime, or of an inmate of a hospital for the treatment of insane who is confined therein for the purpose of being treated for insanity or other diseased mental condition and such mother is poor and unable to properly care and provide for said child, but is otherwise a proper guardian, and it is for the welfare of such child to remain in the custody of its mother, the court after investigation and report by the probation officer of the county shall enter an order finding such facts and fixing the amount of money necessary to enable the mother to properly care for such child, such amount not to exceed ten dollars per week and not less than two dollars per week in case said mother has but one child, with an additional sum of two dollars per week for each such additional child. Thereupon it shall be the duty of the county treasurer of the county of which such child is a resident to pay from the general fund of such county, to such mother at such time as such order may designate, the amount so specified for the care of such dependent or neglected child until the further order of the court. Such order shall not require the approval of the board of supervisors or county auditor or auditors. The court shall, when the health or condition of the child shall require, cause the child to be placed in a public hospital or in an institution for treatment or special care, or in a private hospital or institution for special care or [No. 93.] AN ACT to provide for the licensing of persons to take deer, regulating the possession and transportation of same and providing a penalty for violation of any of its provisions. The People of the State of Michigan enact: hunt deer. SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to hunt License to for or kill deer in this state without first obtaining a license permitting him to do so. procure. SEC. 2. Any person who is a citizen of the United States Who may and has been a bona fide resident of this state for six months then last past may procure a deer hunter's license and seal for himself, by filing his affidavit with the county clerk of the county where he resides or intends to hunt or with the Director of Conservation or any of his deputies stating his name, age, place of residence, postoffice address, the color of his hair and eyes and the fact of whether he can or cannot write his own name, and paying to said person to whom he may apply for such license and seal the sum of two dollars and fifty cents. to file SEC. 3. Any non-resident of this state who is a citizen of Non resident the United States may procure a deer hunter's license and affidavit. seal by filing his affidavit with the county clerk of the county or any of the counties in which he proposes to hunt or with the Director of Conservation or one of his deputies, in which What to affidavit the applicant shall state his name, age, place of residence, postoffice address, the color of his hair and eyes and the fact of whether he can or cannot write his own name and paying to said person to whom he shall apply for such license and seal the sum of fifty dollars. state. ful to kill, etc. SEC. 4. Such licenses shall be dated when issued and shall What license to authorize, authorize the person named therein to use firearms in hunting etc. for or killing one male deer with antlers extending not less than three inches above the skull, from the tenth day of November to the thirtieth day of the same month, inclusive. It When unlawshall be unlawful for any person at any time to shoot or kill or attempt to shoot or kill or have in possession a female deer or any fawn found in a wild state nor shall any person pursue, bunt, kill or capture or attempt to pursue, hunt, kill or capture any deer while it is in the water or make use of an artificial light in pursuing, hunting, killing, or capturing deer or attempting to pursue, hunt, kill or capture deer, or make use Dogs not to be used. Who to issue. Proviso. Fee of clerk, etc. of a dog in pursuing, hunting, or killing deer. Any dog pursuing, killing or following upon the track of a deer is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may be killed at any time by any person without criminal or civil liability. The presence of a dog in the woods, hunting camp or club house during the deer hunting season shall be prima facie evidence of its unlawful use. SEC. 5. County clerks and the Director of Conservation and his deputies shall issue licenses under the seal of their office. to all persons herein mentioned, complying with the provisions of this act and shall sign the same and each coupon attached thereto and shall require the person to whom the license is issued to sign his name in the margin thereof, and if such applicant shall not be able to write he shall certify such fact in the margin and have him sign by his mark and shall fill out correctly and preserve the blank stubs attached thereto: Provided, however, That no license provided for in this act shall be issued to any person earlier than twenty days immediately preceding the date fixed by law for the opening of the deer hunting season. SEC. 6. Such county clerk shall retain out of the moneys received for each license issued the sum of twenty-five cents, which shall cover the swearing of the applicant to the affidavit herein referred to, and all other services under this act, and shall remit the balance to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner on or before the fifteenth day of December of each year, specifying separately the amount thereof received for licenses issued to residents and non-residents. Deputy game and fish wardens who do not receive a salary from the state shall retain for their services in taking affidavit and issuing licenses, twenty-five cents, and shall remit the balance of each license sold to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner and all such moneys received from the sale of licenses as herein provided, shall be remitted to the Auditor General by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner on the first day of each month. The Auditor General shall credit all moneys received by him from the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner to the game and fish protection fund, which fund shall be paid' out by the State Treasurer upon warrants by the Auditor General for services rendered by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, his assistants and deputies, together with the expenses incurred in the enforcement of the game and fish laws of this state, when audited and duly certified by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner. Destruction of The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner may use not to exceed fifteen dollars of each non-resident license fee, and one dollar of each resident license fee, provided for by this act, in paying for the destruction of wolves, coyotes and other predaceous animals. Moneys, where credited. wolves, etc., sum payable for. Licenses and seals, who to pravide, etc. SEC. 7. The licenses and seals herein provided for shall be provided by and furnished to the different county clerks and licenses. metal seal. deputy game and fish wardens, by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, and the license and coupon shall be printed on good quality tag board with coupon properly eyeletted. Licenses for resident citizens shall be white, and Color, etc., of licenses for non-resident citizens shall be in color. Upon the back of one of the non-resident license coupons or stubs, shall be printed a permit to ship one male deer out of the state, which shall be authority for transportation companies to receive such deer for shipment outside of the state, when number of such license stub corresponds with the number on metal seal attached to said deer as hereinafter provided for; each class of licenses shall be separately bound in book form in such quantity as shall be decided upon by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner and shall be numbered consecutively. The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Com- Affidavits. missioner shall also prepare and print blank affidavits for such licenses and shall bind the same in book form in such quantity as he shall decide upon, which affidavits shall be numbered consecutively and correspond in number and color with the licenses. The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Self-sealing Commissioner shall also provide a self sealing metal tag or seal which shall be numbered consecutively and correspond in number with the license and affidavits and which shall be furnished to all persons authorized to issue licenses under the provisions of this act, which seal shall bear a corresponding number with that of license and coupon and shall be delivered to each applicant who secures a license to hunt deer under the provisions of this act. The State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner shall deliver to the clerk of each county at least twenty days before the opening of the deer hunting season in each year, as many affidavits, licenses and self sealing metal tags as may be requisite and shall charge such clerk with the number so issued to him. On the Unused lififteenth day of December of each year and within ten days return of thereafter each county clerk and each deputy game and fish warden shall return to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner all unused licenses and affidavits and used stubs and unused metal seals, with a repòrt of the number of each kind of license issued, amount of money received, amount retained as fees and amount turned over to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, for each kind of license issued by them. censes, etc., Form of license, etc. SEC. 8. Said licenses, coupons and stubs shall be in the following form: in the margin of this license in his own handwriting, or who has made oath before me that he cannot write, has filed with me the affidavit required by law for a hunter's license, stating therein that he is a non-resident citizen, resident citizen, as the case may be, of the state of ..... county and his postoffice address is..... years, the color of his hair and the color of his eyes is................ dol That he has paid me the sum of........... lars for his license and is authorized to hunt for, and kill with firearms, one male deer, but only at the times and places and in the manner provided by law. Dated... (seal) Coupon No..... 192.. Clerk. Hunter's License No....... county, Michigan, Issued by the clerk of.... . . This coupon authorizes any person named in said license to ship one male deer, or part thereof, to any point in Michigan, but this coupon must accompany it. Transporting deer. SEC. 9. It shall not be lawful for any railroad company, express company, boat or other transportation company to transport any deer or part of a deer from one place to another in this state unless the shipper shall produce his license as provided in this act and sign and detach one coupon |