petition, order or disposition in the case, and report of the county agent or probation officer shall accompany said child to the said institution, and the child shall be placed in the care of the county agent, juvenile matron or some reliable person designated by the court, other than the sheriff, to be conveyed to the institution, for which services the same compensation shall be allowed as is paid sheriffs in like cases. Approved June 15, 1921. Section amended. County agent, etc. Per diem compensation. [No. 25.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number twenty-two of the Public Acts of the extra session of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of county agents of the State Board of Corrections and Charities; to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation thereof; and to provide for the repeal of all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof," approved June twenty-five, nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number twenty-two of the Public Acts of the extra session of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of county agents of the State Board of Corrections and Charities; to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation thereof; and to provide for the repeal of all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof," approved June twentyfive, nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Immediately on the taking effect of this act it appointment, shall be the duty of the State Welfare Commission to appoint in each county of this state some suitable person to act as the county agent of said commission. Each such person shall hold his office during the pleasure of the commission and shall perform the various duties now required by law of the county agent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities. Each such agent shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each half day or the sum of five dollars per day for each full day for time actually spent by him in performing his official duties, said compensation to be paid in the manner provided for by the act under which the services are rendered: Provided, That in counties having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand or more, the county agent herein provided for shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and in counties having a Proviso, certain counties. population of more than five hundred thousand, said agent shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars. Such salary shall be paid monthly by the State Treasurer in accordance with the accounting laws of the state. In such counties said agent shall receive no other fees or compensation for any services as county agent, and they shall be required to devote their entire time to the performance of the duties of their office. All county agents shall be entitled to receive their necessary and actual expenses incurred by them in the performance of their official duties. In counties Assistant having a population of more than five hundred thousand, the county agent, salary. State Welfare Commission may appoint an assistant county agent who shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 15, 1921. [No. 26.] AN ACT relative to library commissions in cities having a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The territory over which the library commis- Jurisdiction. sion in any city having a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand shall conduct the activities to it by law confided, and to which shall apply charges and obligations heretofore or hereafter imposed for the purposes of any said commission, shall be co-extensive with the boundaries of any said city and shall automatically change by and with any change in said boundaries. SEC. 2. The annual budget of any said commission shall Budget, how be prepared in manner and time provided by the charter of prepared, etc. any said city concerning the budget thereof and shall be sub mitted to and passed upon by the officers and boards of any said city as are the items in the budget thereof. SEC. 3. The fiscal year of any said commission shall be Fiscal year. identical with that of any said city. tions con SEC. 4. The relation of officers or agencies of any said city official relato the affairs of any said commission growing out of any tinued. special or local act of the state legislature shall continue in officers or agencies of any said city on revision or amendment of said special or local act by the electors of any said city. Approved June 15, 1921. 101 Biennial appropriations. How paid out. Tax clause. [No. 27.] AN ACT to make an additional appropriation for the Michigan School for the Blind for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-two, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-three, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund for the Michigan School for the Blind for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-two, the sum of two thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-three, the sum of two thousand dollars, for the purposes and in the following amounts: Personal service, other than superin- For fiscal For fiscal year 1921-1922 year 1922-1923 $2,000.00 $2,000.00 Said sums shall be in addition to any other appropriations for said institution for the same period and shall be used solely for the purpose herein stated. SEC. 2. The amounts hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the state treasury, and the disbursing officer of the Michigan School for the Blind shall render his accounts therefor, at such times and in such manner as is or may be provided by law. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the state tax for the years nineteen hundred twenty-one and nineteen hundred twenty-two, sufficient amounts to reimburse the general fund for the appropriations hereby made. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unexpended balances. [No. 28.] AN ACT prescribing general rules governing appropriations. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any unexpended balance of any appropriation remaining to the credit of any department, board, commission, institution or office of the state government at the out. close of the first year of the biennial period for which appropriations are made by the legislature, shall be carried forward and added to the second fiscal year's appropriation for the same purpose. At the close of the second fiscal year of When charged such biennial period all unexpended balances shall be charged out and revert to the general fund: Provided, That this Proviso, section shall not apply to any unexpended balance derived certain fees. from fees collected under the fish and game laws: Provided, Proviso. however, That any balance remaining to the credit of any of the funds of the State Highway Department at the close of the second year of such biennial period may be retained in such fund for the purposes thereof, to the extent shown necessary by the certificate of the State Highway Commissioner, filed with the State Administrative Board, to pay for construction work uncompleted, in accordance with outstanding contracts, and for the payment of rewards on roads under construction. Approved June 15, 1921. [No. 29.] AN ACT to authorize the payment out of the state treasury of emergency claims, to define the same for the purposes hereof, to prescribe the manner of allowance and payment, and to make appropriations therefor for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-two, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: ment of. SECTION 1. The State Administrative Board shall have Emergency authority during the fiscal years ending June thirty, nine- claims, payteen hundred twenty-two, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-three, to pay emergency claims as hereinafter provided out of any fees and special taxes in the state treas ury. sidered as. SEC. 2. The term "emergency claim" shall be construed to What conbe and refer to such claims only as may be presented as a result of damage or disaster to works, buildings or other property owned by the state, or as a result of epidemic of disease menacing the life and health of the people, costs of legal proceedings of the Attorney General's department, or as a result of the lack of sufficient appropriations for the state institutions with which to supply the necessary fuel, food and clothing, and which results were caused by unforeseen circumstances after the adjournment of the legislature. Claims, where SEC. 3. All claims against the state under the provisions presented, etc. hereof shall be presented to the State Administrative Board for investigation and consideration, and if allowed shall be certified to the Auditor General who shall thereupon draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the payment thereof. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 15, 1921. Sections amended. Attorney general to co-operate. May institute proceedings, etc. [No. 30.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three, four and five of act number fifteen of the Public Acts of the extra session of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to create a commission to act in co-operation with the Attorney General of this state, and with any like commission or officials of the state of Wisconsin, to investigate the disputed boundary line between the states of Wisconsin and Michigan; to authorize said commission and Attorney General to take such action as may be necessary and proper to establish such boundary line; and making an appropriation therefor," approved June twenty-five, nineteen hundred nineteen, as amended by act number two hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections two, three, four and five of act number fifteen of the Public Acts of the extra session of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to create a commission to act in co-operation with the Attorney General of this state, and with any like commission or officials of the state of Wisconsin, to investigate the disputed boundary line between the states of Wisconsin and Michigan; to authorize said commission and Attorney General to take such action as may be necessary and proper to establish such boundary line; and making an appropriation therefor," approved June twenty-five, nineteen hundred nineteen, as amended by act number two hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Said commission together with the Attorney General are authorized to act with any other like commission or the proper officials of the state of Wisconsin in carrying out the purposes of this act. SEC. 3. Upon the completion of said investigation, the Attorney General is hereby authorized, if he deems it advisable, to take all legal steps necessary to fully establish the per |