sary to authorize a purchase of real estate designed for pub lic park purposes. ment, etc. SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for, and the several boards of Appropriation supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to make for improveappropriations by way of contributing toward the improvement and maintenance of any public park owned or held in trust by any township, city or village within their respective counties or any adjacent or adjoining county, or for any public park owned or held in trust by any adjacent or adjoining county, or for any public park owned or held in trust by two or more adjacent or adjoining counties. For the purpose of purchasing property designed Assessment. for park purposes, or improving and maintaining properties so purchased or accepted by way of gift, devise or otherwise, and contributing toward the maintenance of parks owned or held in trust by townships, cities or villages, the board of supervisors may raise by tax on the property within the county subject to taxation for county purposes such sum as said board of supervisors may deem needful, said sum or sums to be raised by tax in the manner provided by law for other county taxes, but said tax shall never exceed in any one year one-fourth of one mill on the assessed valuation of a county: Provided, That in counties having an assessed Proviso, limit. valuation of less than eight million dollars the sum raised by tax as herein provided may equal but not exceed two thousand dollars. etc. SEC. 5. The powers and authority granted in this act, Boulevards, shall be deemed to include power and authority to purchase and accept gifts of lands for boulevards and highways to be laid out as boulevards by county authority and power and authority to improve the same, and the words "parks owned or held in trust by townships, cities and villages," shall be deemed to include boulevards or highways or streets laid out as boulevards and owned or held in trust by the municipalities aforesaid. trustees. SEC. 6. Whenever the boards of supervisors of any county County park shall have adopted a resolution to purchase or to accept certain lands for park purposes, and making an appropriation therefor under the provisions of sections one and two of this act, they shall at the same session name and appoint from their number, or from among the citizens of the county or partly from their number and partly from among the citizens of the county, as said board of supervisors shall deem advisable, a board of not to exceed three members to be known and designated as "county park trustees" who shall have the management, control and expenditure of such funds when collected, and who shall hold in trust for the county, the title to any real estate so purchased or accepted by way of gift or devise for park purposes, and who shall supervise the improvement of any such property so purchased or accepted, as authorized by the board of supervisors. trustees shall also have the care and control of such park property. Such To have care, etc., of park Vacancy. Chairman, etc. property and may make reasonable rules and regulations and enforce the same when made, respecting the use by the public of such park property. The prosecuting attorney shall adTerm of office. Vise said trustees. The members of such board of county park trustees shall continue to act, until their successors have been named and appointed by the board of supervisors at a subsequent session. In case of vacancy on such board of county park trustees occurring while the board of supervisors are not in session, the county clerk shall act as a trustee, ex officio, and until the next meeting of the board of supervisors. Such trustees shall elect a chairman and secretary from among their number. All expenditures of funds so appropriated shall be paid only by the county treasurer, on the warrant of the secretary of the board of trustees, countersigned by the chairman of said board. The trustees so appointed shall make a full report to the board of supervisors at each October session as to the condition of the park properties and the expenditure of funds: Provided, That in counties having a board of auditors all expenditures under the provisions of this act shall be under the direction and control and by warrant of said board of auditors. Approved April 7, 1921. Annual report. Proviso. Resolution repealed. [No. 37.] AN ACT to repeal joint resolution number six of the session of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "Joint Resolution to provide for restoring Fort Mackinac to the United States," approved April twenty-eight, eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Joint Resolution number six of the session of -eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "Joint Resolution to provide for restoring Fort Mackinac to the United States," approved April twenty-eight, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby repealed. Approved April 7, 1921. [No. 38.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number three hundred one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for the licensing, bonding and regulation of private employment agencies, the limiting of the amount of the fee charged by such agencies, the refunding of such fees in certain cases, the imposing of obligations on persons, firms or corporations, which have induced workmen to travel in the hope of securing employment, charging the Commissioner of Labor with the enforcement of this act, and empowering him to make rules and regulations and fixing penalties for the violation hereof," being section five thousand four hundred nineteen of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number three hundred one Section of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An amended. act to provide for the licensing, -bonding and regulation of private employment agencies, the limiting of the amount of the fee charged by such agencies, the refunding of such fees in certain cases, the imposing of obligations on persons, firms or corporations, which have induced workmen to travel in the hope of securing employment, charging the Commissioner of Labor with the enforcement of this act, and empowering him to make rules and regulations and fixing penalties for the violation hereof," being section five thousand four hundred nineteen of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: Such How deter SEC. 5. The entire fee or fees for the procuring of one sit- Fee, limit of. uation or job and for all expenses, incidental thereto, to be received by any employment agency, except teachers' employment agencies, from any applicant for employment at any time, whether for registration or other purposes, shall not exceed ten per cent of the first month's wages. ten per cent shall be determined by the monthly rate offered mined. by the applicant for help, regardless of the time during which the applicant for employment remains at the employment procured him. Where a registration fee is charged, if the ap- Repayment. plicant, through no fault of his own, does not secure through the employment agency to which the fee has been paid, within one month, the employment applied for, said agency shall repay to said applicant, upon demand, one-half the full amount of the registration fee paid. No registration fee shall exceed the sum of one dollar. Approved April 7, 1921. Section amended. Black bass, etc., number may take. length, etc. [No. 39.] AN ACT to amend section six of act number two hundred thirty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to protect fish in the inland waters of this state and to regulate the manner of taking, possession, transportation, size and sale of fish when taken from said waters; to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts conflicting therewith," being section seven thousand six hundred fifty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred forty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section six of act number two hundred thirtysix of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to protect fish in the inland waters of this state and to regulate the manner of taking, possession, transportation, size and sale of fish when taken from said waters; to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts conflicting therewith," being section seven thousand six hundred fifty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred forty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch or kill in any of the inland waters of this state, any large or small mouth black bass, of a less length than ten inches, or to take, catch or kill in any one day more than ten large and small mouth black bass and ten wall-eyed pike of a legal size or to have in possession at any one time more than ten large and small mouth black bass and ten wall-eyed pike and no person shall take, catch or kill, or have in possession at any time more than twenty-five of each of Blue gills, etc., the following kinds of fish: Blue gills, sun fish, rock bass, white bass, calico bass and crappies, and no person shall take, catch or kill, or have in possession any blue gills or sun fish of a less length than six inches, or any rock bass, white bass, or calico bass of a less length than seven inches, or any crappies or perch of a less length than seven inches, or any Perch, number Wall-eyed pike of a less length than ten inches; and no person shall take, catch or kill more than thirty perch in any one day or have in possession more than fifty perch at any one time: Provided, That any person may take and have in possession an unlimited number of wall-eyed pike when taken in the waters of Detroit river, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair river and St. Mary's river: Provided further, That any person may take and have in his possession an unlimited number of perch when taken in the waters of the great lakes or in their connecting waters tributary thereto. may take. Proviso. Further proviso. Approved April 7, 1921. [No. 40.] AN ACT to amend section twelve of act number two hundred five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eightyseven, entitled "An act to revise the laws authorizing the business of banking and to establish a banking department for the supervision of such business," as amended, being compilers' section seven thousand nine hundred seventynine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twelve of act number two hundred Section five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to revise the laws authorizing the business of banking and to establish a banking department for the supervision of such business," as amended, being compilers' section seven thousand nine hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: directors, how SEC. 12. The affairs of each bank shall be managed by a Board of board of not less than five directors, who shall be elected by elected, etc. the stockholders and hold office for one year, and until their successors are elected and have qualified. A majority of Quorum. the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business: Provided, That when the number Proviso. of directors shall exceed nine, they shall once in three months designate by resolution nine members, any five of whom shall constitute a quorum. In the first instance the directors shall be elected at a meeting held before the bank is authorized to commence business by the commissioner, and afterwards at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held on the second Tuesday in January of each year; and if for any cause an election is not had at that meeting it may be held at a subsequent meeting called for that purpose, of which due notice shall be given as provided in the by-laws adopted by such bank. At a meeting of stockholders for election of Who may directors each share shall entitle the owner to one vote for each director, but no stockholder shall be entitled to vote who is indebted to the bank upon any obligation past due. A stockholder may vote at any meeting of the corporation Proxy. by proxy in writing signed by him. Every director must own and hold in his own name not less than ten shares of the vote. capital stock of such bank. He shall take and subscribe Oath of office. an oath that he will diligently and honestly perform his duties in such office, and will not knowingly violate, or permit to be violated, any provisions of this act; that he is the owner in good faith of stock in the bank, as required to qualify him for such office, standing in his name on the books of the bank, and that such stock is not pledged as security for any debt; such oath shall be transmitted to the commissioner |