filled. Vacancy, how and filed in his office. Any vacancy in the board of directors shall be filled by the board, and the directors so appointed shall hold office until the next election. Approved April 7, 1921. [No. 41.] AN ACT to amend section eleven of act number two hundred 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," being section seven thousand nine hundred seventy-eight of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eleven of act number two hundred 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," being section seven thousand nine hundred seventy-eight of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 11. A bank may purchase, hold and convey real estate for the following purposes, but no other: First, Such as shall be necessary for the convenient transaction of its business, including with its banking office, other apartments to rent as a source of income, but which shall not exceed fifty per cent of its paid in capital and its surplus; Second, Such as shall have been conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its business; Third, Such as it shall purchase at sale under judgments, decrees or mortgage foreclosures under securities held by it; but a bank shall not bid at any such sale a larger amount than to satisfy its debt and costs. Real estate shall be conveyed under the corporate seal of the bank and the hand of its president, or vice-president, and cashier or treasurer. No real estate acquired in the cases contemplated in the second and third sub-sections above shall be held for a longer time than five years. If not sold before the expiration of said five years it must be sold at private or public sale within thirty days thereafter. Approved April 7, 1921. [No. 42.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number two hundred seventy-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to protect the public health; to prevent the spreading of venereal diseases, to prescribe the duties and powers of the State Department of Health and of local health officers and health boards with reference thereto, and to make an appropriation to carry out the provisions hereof." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section five of act number two hundred sev- Section enty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to protect the public health; to prevent the spreading of venereal diseases, to prescribe the duties and powers of the State Department of Health and of local health officers and health boards with reference thereto, and to make an appropriation to carry out the provisions hereof," is hereby amended to read as follows: restricted. SEC. 5. After October first, nineteen hundred nineteen, it Prescriptions shall be unlawful for any druggist, pharmacist, or other person to sell, barter, or give away any drug, medicine, or other remedy whatsoever for the treatment of any of the diseases specified in section one hereof, except upon the prescription of a duly registered and practicing physician. Such prescription shall be marked "C. V. D.," and shall set forth the name and address of the patient and the date when given: Pro- Proviso, designation. vided, That in any such prescription the physician giving the same may designate the patient by number instead of by name and address, but in each such case, the name and address of the patient and the number assigned thereto shall be immediately reported by the physician to the State Commissioner of Health on the regular report blank. All pre- Numbering. scriptions filled by any druggist or pharmacist hereunder shall be numbered consecutively, and shall be kept on file for a period of not less than two years. Each prescription Date. shall have stamped or written thereon the date of filling. All such prescriptions so kept on file shall be subject to inspection by the prosecuting attorney of the county, or by any duly authorized police officer or by any representative or inspector of the State Department of Health. On the first Monthly reday of each month each said druggist and pharmacist shall pr make a detailed report to the State Health Department in such form as may be prescribed thereby, covering such prescriptions. No physician, druggist or pharmacist shall administer any treatment or remedy whatsoever for any of said diseases; nor shall any physician sell or give to a patient so affected any drug, remedy or medicine therefor: Provided, Proviso, That a duly registered and practicing physician may give druggists, etc. Further proviso. office treatments: Provided further, That any physician in any town within this state may fill a prescription, given to a patient affected with any disease specified in section one if there is no drug store or pharmacy conducted within a distance of five miles therefrom or he is the authorized physician of any corporation who dispenses drugs Report of pre- or medicines to the employes of said corporation. All such prescriptions so filled by any physician shall be immediately reported to the State Health Department, and shall be kept on file by the physician, subject to inspection in the same manner as is above provided for the inspection of similar Misdemeanor, prescriptions filled by druggists and pharmacists. Any scriptions. penalty. May revoke license. physician, druggist, pharmacist, or other persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to the penalty hereinbefore provided in section four. Any such violation. by physician, druggist or pharmacist shall also be deemed sufficient reason for revoking the license granted thereto. Approved April 12, 1921. Department of labor and industry created. Commission, membership. [No. 43.] AN ACT to protect and promote industrial and labor interests of the people of the state of Michigan; to create a Department of Labor and Industry and prescribe the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the transfer to said department of powers and duties affecting labor and industrial matters now vested in certain other state boards, commissions, departments and officers and to abolish the boards, commissions, departments and offices the powers and duties of which are hereby transferred. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby created a department to be known and designated as the Department of Labor and Industry of the state of Michigan, which shall possess the powers and perform the duties hereby granted and imposed. The administration of said powers and duties shall be vested in a commission of three members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Each member of the commission shall devote his entire time in the perOath of office. formance of the duties of his office. Each member of said commission shall qualify by taking and filing the constitutional oath of office and shall hold office until the appointment and Vacancy, how qualification of his successor. Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as appointments are made in the first instance, filled. The chairman of such commission shall be appointed by the Chairman. Governor, and shall have general charge of and supervision over the administrative affairs of such department in so far as relates to the division and assignment of the work thereof. It shall be the duty of the Board of State Auditors to provide suitable offices at the city of Lansing for the department hereby created. oath of office, SEC. 2. The commission may adopt rules and regulations Rules and not inconsistent with law for the governing of its own or- regulations. ganization and procedure. It shall also adopt a suitable seal, Seal. of which all the courts shall take judicial notice, and all or ders and official proceedings shall be authenticated thereby. The commission shall have power to appoint such deputies, Assistants, etc. assistants and employes as may be necessary for the performance of the duties hereby imposed, the compensation to be paid thereto and the number of such deputies, assistants and employes to be subject to the approval of the State Adminis trative Board. Each of such deputies shall take and file the Deputies. constitutional oath of office and shall possess all of the power etc. and authority conferred by act number ten of the Public Acts of Michigan, of the first extra session of nineteen hundred twelve, and the amendments thereto, upon the deputy members of the Industrial Accident Board, and by act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of Michigan of nineteen hundred nine, and amendments thereto, upon the Deputy Commissioner of Labor. Each member of the com- Annual salary mission shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dol sioners. lars; and all officers and employes of the department shall be entitled to their necessary expenses incurred while traveling in performance of any of the duties hereby imposed. All Salaries, etc., salaries and expenses hereby authorized shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries and expenses of other state officers and employes are paid. of commis how paid. transferred. abolished. SEC. 3. The powers and duties now vested by law in the Powers, etc., Industrial Accident Board, the Department of Labor, the State Labor Commissioner, the Board of Boiler Rules, created by act number one hundred seventy-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, and the Industrial Relations Commission are hereby transferred to and vested in the Department of Labor and Industry hereby created. Immediate- Boards, etc., ly on the taking effect of this act, the boards, departments, commissions and officers whose powers and duties are hereby transferred shall be abolished and whenever reference thereto is made in any law of the state reference shall be deemed to be intended to be made to the Department of Labor and Industry. Any hearing or other proceeding pending before Hearings any such department, board, commission or officers shall not pending. be abated but shall be deemed to be transferred to the commission provided for in section one of this act, and shall be conducted and determined thereby in accordance with the provisions of the law governing such hearing or proceeding. Annual report, SEC. 4. On or before the first day of January of each year what to show. in which a regular session of the legislature is held, the com mission shall make and file with the Governor a report covering the preceding biennial period, covering the activities of the department and the receipts and disbursements made thereby. Said report shall be accompanied by the recommendations of the commission with reference to such changes in the laws applying to or affecting industrial and labor conWhen printed. ditions as the said commission may deem expedient. Said When effective. transferred. report shall, if so ordered by the Board of State Auditors, be printed by the Board of State Auditors and shall be distributed in such manner and to such persons, organizations, institutions and officials as the Board of State Auditors may direct. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred twenty-one; and all acts or parts of acts in any way contravening the provisions of this act shall be Records, etc., deemed to be superseded and repealed as of said date. All records, files and other papers belonging to any of the departments, boards, commissions and offices the duties of which are hereby transferred to the Department of Labor and Industry shall be turned over to said department and shall be continued as a part of the records and files thereof. SEC. 6. This act is hereby declared to be immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. [No. 44.] AN ACT to amend section nine of act, number one hundred sixty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to classify all school districts now in existence or hereafter created which shall have a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand as districts of the third or fourth class; to provide for the government, control and administration of such school districts and the schools therein through boards of education; to provide for the manner of nomination and election of such boards, their powers and duties; and to repeal all general or special laws that conflict with the provisions of the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of act number one hundred sixtysix of the Public Acts of ninteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to classify all school districts now in existence or |