Cab curtains, Proviso, exceptions. When effective. Misdemeanor, penalty. Who to enforce. [No. 139.] AN ACT requiring railroad companies to equip locomotive engines with either cab curtains or vestibule cabs, providing a penalty for the violation of this act, and making it the duty of the Michigan Public Utilities Commission to enforce its provisions. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use within the state of Michigan on its line or lines December first to April first of each year, any locomotive engine not equipped with either approved and suitable cab curtains or with a vestibule cab. Such curtains or vestibule cab shall be so constructed and applied as deemed best and most efficient by the Michigan Public Utilities Commission and shall enclose the openings between the engine cab and water tank or coal tender attached to such engine: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the passage of a locomotive engine not so equipped with either such side curtains or such vestibule cab moving on its own steam, either with or without a train when such movement is from a point without this state, through and to a point beyond its borders, or from a point without this state to a point within it, or from a point within this state to a point without it, if such passage is for the purpose of moving it to or from a repair shop or shops for the purpose of repairing such locomotive engine, or when it is not intended for service within this state. SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall take effect December first, nineteen hundred twenty-one. SEC. 3. Any person or corporation or its officers or agents who violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars for each day that such engine is used. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Michigan Public Utilities Commission to enforce the provisions of sections one and two of this act. Approved May 10, 1921. [No. 140.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter twenty-four of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," being section three thousand one hundred six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Section amended. Certain improvements, SECTION 1. Section one of chapter twenty-four of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," being section three thousand one hundred six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The cost and expense of the following improve- how paid for. ments including the necessary lands therefor, viz.: For city hall and other public buildings and offices for the use of the city officials, engine houses and structures for the fire department, for water works, lighting purposes, hospitals, quarantine grounds or pest houses, market houses and spaces, cemeteries and parks, watch houses, city prisons and work houses, and public wharves and landings upon navigable waters, levees and embankments, shall be paid from the general Proviso, funds of the city: Provided, however, That if the majority lights. of the property owners along a street owning a major portion of the frontage thereon, shall so petition the council in writing, the cost and expense of installing a boulevard lighting system on such street may be met by special assessment upon Assessment, the lands abutting thereon. When by the provisions of this how made. act the cost and expenses of any local or public improvement may be defrayed in whole or in part by special assessment upon lands abutting upon and adjacent to or otherwise benefited by the improvement, such assessment may be made as in this chapter provided. Approved May 10, 1921. boulevard Sections amended. Printed on separate ballot. Certification, form, etc. [No. 141.] AN ACT to amend section sixteen of chapter nine and section six of chapter twenty-four 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," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section sixteen of chapter nine and section six of chapter twenty-four 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," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby amended to read as follows: CHAPTER IX. SEC. 16. Whenever any proposed constitutional amendment or other question is to be submitted to the electors, the board of election commissioners of each county shall cause such proposed constitutional amendment or other special question to be printed in full on a single ballot separate and distinct from the ballot containing the names of candidates or nominees for public office, the substance of each amendment or other question to be clearly indicated upon said ballot by a suitable designation in distinct and easily legible type with the words "Yes [ ]" and "No [ ]" printed below it in separate lines in accordance with such forms as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State under the provisions of section six of chapter twenty-four of this act. CHAPTER XXIV. SEC. 6. Whenever a proposed constitutional amendment or other special question is to be submitted to the electors of the state for popular vote, the Secretary of State shall duly and not less than thirty days before election certify the same to the clerk of each county in the state and shall at the same time prescribe the form in which such amendment or other special question shall be submitted. Approved May 10, 1921. [No. 142.] AN ACT to amend section four of chapter fifty-eight of act number three hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand nine hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter fifty-eight of act num- Section ber three hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen amended. hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand nine hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: CHAPTER LVIII. to appoint guardian. SEC. 4. If the guardian nominated by such minor shall When judge not be approved by the judge, or if the minor shall reside out of this state, or if after being cited by the judge, he shall neglect for ten days to nominate a suitable person, the judge may nominate and appoint the guardian in the same manner as if the minor were under the age of fourteen years: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the mother, if otherwise a suitable person, shall have an equal right with the father to be the natural or the appointed guardian of the person and of the estate of her minor children. Approved May 10, 1921. Sections amended. Chief probation officer, etc. Compensation. Proviso, number. Further proviso. [No. 113.] AN ACT to amend sections seven, ten, eleven and fifteen of act number one hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide a uniform system of probation throughout the state of Michigan; the appointment of probation officers and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such officers; to provide a penalty for the violation of his duties; and to repeal act number ninety-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, as amended," being sections two thousand thirtyfive, two thousand thirty-eight, two thousand thirty-nine and two thousand forty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections seven, ten, eleven and fifteen of act number one hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide a uniform system of probation throughout the State of Michigan; the appointment of probation officers and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such officers; to provide a penalty for the violation of his duties; and to repeal act number ninetyone of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, as amended," being sections two thousand thirty-five, two thousand thirtyeight, two thousand thirty-nine and two thousand forty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 7. The circuit court of each of the several judicial circuits throughout the state of Michigan may recommend a chief probation officer, may also recommend assistant probation officers who shall be appointed by the Governor, each of whom shall act as such probation officer in the judicial circuit in which he shall have been appointed, and who shall receive such compensation as the boards of supervisors of the several counties shall provide. In cities having a municipal court, superior court, recorder's court or police court, the judge or judges of said courts may recommend a chief probation officer and may also recommend assistant probation officers each of whom shall be appointed by the Governor and shall act as such probation officer within the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of such courts, and who shall receive such compensation as the boards of supervisors of the several counties or the common councils of the several cities may provide: Provided, That the number of probation officers appointed for any city or county shall in no event exceed one for every fifty thousand inhabitants or less of said city or county: Provided further, That in cities where there are two or more courts each having different jurisdictions the judge of each such court shall recommend the probation officer or officers for |