the execution by or under the contractor of the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the principal, the principal shall be liable to pay to any workman employed in the execution of the work any compensation under this act which he would have been liable to pay if that workman had been immediately employed by him; and where compensation is claimed from or proceedings are taken against the principal, then, in the application of this act, reference to the principal shall be substituted for reference to the employer, except that the amount of compensation shall be calculated with reference to the earnings of the workman under the employer by whom he is immediately employed: Provided, That the Proviso. term "contractor" shall be deemed to include subcontractors in all cases where the principal gives permission that the work or any part thereof be performed under subcontract; (b) Where the principal is liable to pay compensation Principal Inunder this section, he shall be entitled to be indemnified by the contractor or subcontractor as the case may be, but the employe shall not be entitled to recover at common law against the contractor or any other person for any damages arising from such injury if he takes compensation from such principal. The principal, in case he pays compensation to the employe of such contractor, may recover the amount so paid in an action against such contractor. demnified by contractor. SEC. 8. If death results from the injury the employer Burial, etc., shall pay, or cause to be paid as hereinafter provided, in ad- expenses. dition to the indemnity paid to dependents, the reasonable expense of his last sickness and burying, which shall not exceed two hundred dollars, in addition to any sum the enployer may be required to pay under the provisions of section four of part two of this act. SEC. 9. While the incapacity for work resulting from the Total incapacity, injury is total, the employer shall pay, or cause to be paid as weekly comhereinafter provided, to the injured employe, a weekly compensation. pensation equal to sixty per centum of his average weekly wages, but not more than fourteen dollars nor less than seven dollars a week; and in no case shall the period covered by such compensation be greater than five hundred weeks from the date of the injury, nor shall the total amount of all compensation exceed seven thousand dollars. not con SEC. 13. No savings or insurance of the injured employe, Savings, etc., nor any contribution made by him to any benefit fund or pro- sidered. tective association independent of this act, shall be taken into consideration in determining the compensation to be paid hereunder, nor shall benefits derived from any other source than those paid or caused to be paid by the employer as herein provided, be considered in fixing the compensation under this act except as provided in sub-section one of section seven, part one. SEC. 20. No agreement by an employe to waive his rights Certain to compensation under this act shall be valid except that em- v agreements Jurisdiction of board. ployes or their dependents as defined in sub-section one of section seven, part one, may, after injury only, elect as provided in sub-section one of section seven, part one. PART III. SEC, 19. The Industrial Accident Board shall have jurisdiction over all controversies, arising out of injuries suffered without the territorial limits of this state, in those cases where the injured employe is a resident of this state at the time of the injury, and the contract of hire was made in this state, and any such employe or his dependents shall be entitled to the compensation or death benefits provided by this act. Approved May 17, 1921. Channels, etc., declared public highways. Entitled to benefits. How improved. [No. 174.] AN ACT declaring the waterways upon over-flowed lands owned by the state to be public highways and within the benefits of the general highway laws of this state. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All channels, water-ways, and navigable ditches constructed for the purpose of giving ingress or egress from or to any portion of the over-flowed or swamp lands owned by the state of Michigan bordering upon or enclosed within any of the Great Lakes or rivers, or connecting with the public wagon roads constructed or to be constructed on such state swamp or over-flowed lands, are hereby declared to be public highways, if dedicated to the public use as such, by the owners or lessees of such lands, and entitled to the benefits of the general highway laws of this state. SEC. 2. Such public highways, when surveyed, shall be deemed to be a part of the highway system of the township, and county in which located, and entitled to the benefits of the district, township and county highway taxes, for the improvement and construction of highways therein, to the same extent as are the other highways within such districts. SEC. 3. All moneys spent upon such water-ways shall be for the widening, deepening, straightening and cleaning out of the same, and for improving the approaches thereto. Approved May 17, 1921. [No. 175.] AN ACT to amend section six of act number nine of the Public Acts of Michigan, of the extra session of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the consolidation of school districts which are within the limits of any incorporated city." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section six of act number nine of the Public Section Acts of Michigan of the extra session of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the consolidation of school districts which are within the limits of any incorporated city," is hereby amended to read as follows: tion, when SEC. 6. That upon the determination of the result of said Consolidaelection, if it should appear that the majority of the electors effective. of each school district voting on said question shall have voted in favor of consolidating the school districts, the consolidation shall thereupon be considered as immediately ef fective. The new consolidated district shall thereafter be considered as created, and shall operate under the general school law, the same being act number one hundred sixtysix of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended. Approved May 17, 1921. [No. 176.] AN ACT to amend section seventeen of act number one hundred forty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That section seventeen of act number one hun- Section dred forty-one of the Public Acts of Michigan of nineteen amended. hundred seventeen, being an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of May borrow money. Sites, etc., education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended by act number four hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 17. The board may from time to time, on such terms as it may deem proper, borrow for temporary school purposes, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars total outstanding unpaid at any one time, and may give the note or bond of the board therefor, which shall be paid from the first school moneys collected thereafter. For the purpose of purchasing may bond for. sites, erecting buildings or both, and for equipping buildings, the board may borrow such sums of money as it may deem necessary and may issue and sell its bonds therefor upon such rates of interest and for such time and in such amount as it may think proper and in such form and with bonds and coupons signed and countersigned in such manner as it may by resolution direct, but the action of the board authorizing such loan shall first be submitted to the common council, city commission or other legislative body of the city for approval, and no such issue of bonds shall be valid unless the proposal to issue the same shall have been approved by a majority vote of the members-elect of the common council, city commission or other legislative body: Provided, however, That such bonds shall be valid without the approval of the common council, city commission or other legislative body, if approved by a majority vote of the school electors of said city voting thereon at any election at which the question of approving such an issue of school bonds shall be submitted to them by the said board or by the said common council, city commission or other legislative body. No bonds shall be sold for less than par, nor bear more than six per cent interest, nor run for more than twenty years. Proviso. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 177.] AN ACT to amend section ten of act number twelve of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, entitled "An act to authorize and encourage the formation of corporations to establish rural cemeteries, and provide for the care and maintenance thereof," being section eleven thousand one hundred sixty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section ten of act number twelve of the Public Section Acts of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, entitled "An act to authorize and encourage the formation of corporations to establish rural cemeteries, and provide for the care and maintenance thereof," being section eleven thousand one hundred sixty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: etc. SEC. 10. No streets, highways, railways, sewers or canals Streets, etc., shall be opened or constructed through the grounds of such when opened, corporation, without the assent of the board of directors, granted at a meeting of such board, called for the purpose of considering the propriety of granting such assent: Pro- Proviso. vided, That such assent shall not be required when lands owned, used or controlled by said corporation are taken under condemnation proceedings by any city or village for the purpose of widening an established street or highway: Provided further, That any such corporation whose prop- Further erty has been so condemned, shall have the right to purchase additional property for cemetery purposes within the corporate limits of any such village or city. Approved May 17, 1921. proviso. [No. 178.] AN ACT fixing the procedure for the proof of statutes of other jurisdictions and to make uniform the law with reference thereto. The People of the State of Michigan enact: statutes, what SECTION 1. Printed books or pamphlets purporting on Proof of their face to be the session or other statutes of any of the prima facie. United States, or the territories thereof, or of any foreign jurisdiction, and to have been printed and published by the authority of any such state, territory or foreign jurisdiction |