where it becomes necessary to assist in the increase or better protection of any particular kind or species of game, fish or fur-bearing animals or birds which may be threatened from any cause with depletion or extermination, in accordance with this act.

petition.

date.

SEC. 2. Whenever he shall receive from any district, com- Hearing upon prising either the whole state or any part thereof constituting a unit of one or more counties, a petition or petitions collectively bearing the signatures and addresses of twenty-five or more of the citizens of each county in said district, requesting him to give to any one or more species of game, fish or furbearing animals or game birds, existing in a wild state in the district in which said petitioners reside, additional protection to that afforded under the laws of this state, because of the threatened depletion or extermination of such species from any cause, the said State Director of Conservation shall To designate thereupon designate a date or dates and one or more places in the district described by such petitioners, upon and at which he will hold a public hearing or hearings on the allegations of said petitioners; and he shall cause to be published Notice. three successive times in a newspaper, if any there be, printed and of general circulation in each of the counties of said district, a public notice setting forth the time and place of holding the said hearing, or each of said hearings, together with a brief statement of the grounds on which such petition or petitions were made, the last publication in each county to be at least ten days before the first of said hearings, and shall mail a copy of said notice to each of said petitioners, at the address given in said petition or petitions, at least ten days before the first of said hearings. Proof by affidavit of such newspaper publication shall be filed in the office of said commissioner.

order sus

when issued.

SEC. 3. If after such hearing the said State Director of Open season, Conservation shall determine that such game, fish or fur- pending, etc., bearing animals or game birds, or any species of them, are in danger of extermination or depletion and require additional protection in the district designated in said petition or in any part thereof, he shall make and sign an order suspending or abridging the open season or regulating the tak ing, in such district or any part thereof, comprising one or more counties, as in his judgment may be required, of any or all of the species of game, fish or fur-bearing animals or game birds described in said petitions and shall specify clearly the conditions relative to the taking, the limits of the districts, the portion of the said open season, and the number of years, not to exceed five, covered by said order. Such order Publication shall be published at least thirty days before it shall take effect and at least once annually thereafter while in force, in at least one newspaper, if any there be, published in each county affected thereby and a copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of each county in said district and a

of order.

Proviso.

When may rescind order.

Proviso.

copy of such order in placard form shall be furnished to the township clerk of each township in the district to be affected, and by said township clerk posted in a conspicuous place in his township. Proof by affidavit of the newspaper publication so made shall be filed in the office of said commissioner. Such order shall also be included, so long as it shall remain in force, in the authorized biennial compilation of the Michigan game and fish laws, and a placard containing said order printed in good legible type shall be displayed on the bulletin board or in some other prominent place in the court house of each county in the state: Provided, That the State Conservation Commission shall approve of such order before publication thereof.

SEC. 4. Whenever, in any district in which the open season during which any species of game, fish or fur-bearing animals or game birds may be taken shall have been suspended or abridged by order of the State Director of Conservation, as hereinbefore provided, it shall appear, while said order is still in force, that the conditions existing in said district no longer demand such additional protection for such species, the said commissioner shall cause a thorough investigation to be made of such district and the conditions therein prevailing; and if from such investigation he shall be satisfied that by reason of the increase of the species of game, fish or fur-bearing animals or game birds protected by said order in said district or the removal of the cause threatening said species with depletion or extermination, the additional protection afforded by such order is no longer needed, he may, in his discretion, rescind or modify said original order; and notice of the rescinding or modifying order shall be published and placarded in the same manner as notice of the original order and filed in like manner in the offices of the clerk of each county in such district: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to suspend, abridge or regulate the open seasons established by federal or state laws for the killing or taking of wild water fowl, or for the taking of fish for commercial purposes from the waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie and the bays thereof.

Approved May 11, 1921.

[No. 157.]

AN ACT to amend section three of chapter one of part three of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan, relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one of part three of act Section number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations. and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state," is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. The capital of any stock company organized under Capital stock. this chapter shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, which capital stock may be increased by a vote of two-thirds of the stockholders present or represented at any regular meeting called for that purpose to not more than five million dollars; and no such stock company and no company organized to do business on the mutual plan, except as otherwise provided by law, shall be authorized to issue policies or assume any risk whatever until they have deposited with the State Treasurer, as security for any liability to insured parties, securities of the kind and character in which domestic insurance companies are permitted to invest their funds as prescribed in chapter one, part two hereof, to the amount in par value, exclusive of interest, of not less than one hundred thousand dollars, which stocks or bonds shall be retained by the State Treasurer, and disposed of as hereinafter directed: Provided, however, That such deposits Proviso. shall be made within one year from the date of the articles of association: Provided further, That the capital of any stock Further company organized to do a general indemnity and surety bond- proviso. ing business shall be, for the separate purpose of such surety bonding business and additional to the capital required in any other business in which it may be lawfully engaged, not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars nor more than ten million dollars, and its deposit of securities with the State Treasurer as herein provided for shall not be less than two hundred thousand dollars, and such capital and such deposits

of securities.

shall be used solely in, and shall be liable only for the debts and liabilities of such surety bonding business; and no mutual insurance company shall commence business, by issuing policies, until it shall have received at least five hundred applications for insurance, on which the premiums shall amount to at least five thousand dollars, nor until the examination by the Attorney General and Commissioner of Insurance as herein Depreciation provided; and in case any of said securities shall depreciate below par, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to cause the corporation which has deposited them to make such depreciation good by additional deposit of such securities as are allowed by law, and to prohibit any corporation from transacting any insurance business within this state until the same shall have been deposited: Provided, That companies organized to insure on the monthly premium payment plan any person or persons against bodily injury or death by accident, or against disability on account of sickness, and any company organized to provide a funeral benefit payable at death not exceeding five hundred dollars may organize under this act with a capital stock of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars with shares of fifty dollars each, but no such company shall issue policies or assume any risk until it shall have deposited with the State Treasurer twentyfive thousand dollars in cash or other security, and under the same conditions as is applied to other stock companies referred to in this section.

Proviso.

Approved May 11, 1921.

Section amended.

[No. 158.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred thirty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to authorize courts of record to place parties found guilty of contempt of court for failure to pay alimony, temporary or permanent, on probation in divorce and separate maintenance cases," being section eleven thousand four hundred forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number four hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred thirtynine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to authorize courts of record to place parties found guilty of contempt of court for failure to pay alimony, temporary or permanent, on probation in divorce and separate maintenance cases," being section eleven thousand four hundred

forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number four hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

on probation,

SEC. 1. In all divorce and separate maintenance cases where When placed by order or decree of the court a party has been required to etc. pay money to the opposite party as either temporary or permanent alimony, and, being of sufficient ability, has failed or refused to obey such order, and upon proceedings duly had for that purpose, has been found guilty of contempt of court for such failure or refusal, the court, on the making of such order holding such party in contempt, in addition to the other remedies provided by law, may make an order placing such delinquent on probation or may order him confined in either one of the state prisons or in the Detroit House of Correction, or other penal institution within this state, where his earnings, or at least one-half of such earnings, shall be applied to the support of his wife or children or both, as in other cases provided by law, until the order or decree of such court has been complied with, or until the further order of the court, but for a period not exceeding one year.

Approved May 11, 1921.

[No. 159.]

AN ACT to amend sections twenty-four and thirty-nine-a of chapter two 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 sections twelve thousand one hundred six and twelve thousand one hundred twenty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Sections twenty-four and thirty-nine-a of chap- Sections ter two 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