How submitted. submitted to a vote of the qualified electors thereof and ratified by a majority of said electors voting thereon. The legislative body of any city having a municipal court of record may, by a majority vote thereof, submit the question of adopting the provisions of this act at any general or municipal election hereafter held in said city; or said question may be submitted by initiatory petition in the same manner and with like effect as is or may be provided by law for the proposal and submission of amendments of the charter of such city. All proceedings with reference to the submission of the question shall conform as nearly as may be to the requirements of the state law governing the submission of charter amendments; and votes cast on the question shall be counted, canvassed and returned and the result declared in the same manner. Approved April 26, 1923. Section amended. Certain per sons prohibit from state. [No. 84.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred fifty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred sixty-one, entitled "An act to prevent officers and clerks in the state land office and auditor general's office from purchasing lands while in the employ of the state," being section four hundred ninety of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred fiftyeight of the public acts of eighteen hundred sixty-one, entitled "An act to prevent officers and clerks in the state land office and auditor general's office from purchasing lands while in the employ of the state," being section four hundred ninety of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The people of the state of Michigan enact, That it ed from pur- shall be unlawful for any officer or clerk employed in the chasing lands state land office or in the office of the auditor general of this state, during the term of his service or within three months after the discontinuance of such service, to purchase either directly or indirectly from the state, at either of said offices, any lands for sale at said offices or either of them: Provided, That the officers of the department of conservation may purchase any of such lands to be used for state purposes only, the deed for such lands to run to the state of Michigan. Approved April 26, 1923. Proviso. [No. 85.] AN ACT to provide for the licensing and regulation of the sale of drugs, nostrums, face powders, face creams, face bleaches, face lotions, cosmetics, tooth powders, tooth. pastes, dentifrices and other toilet preparations ointments or applications for the treatment of diseases, injuries or deformities, by itinerant and traveling vendors or hawkers. The People of the State of Michigan enact: or preparations, SECTION 1. Any itinerant or traveling vendor or hawker Toilet of any drug, nostrum, face powder, face cream, face bleach. licensing of face lotion, cosmetic, tooth powder, tooth paste, dentifrice or vendors of. other toilet preparation, or any ointment or application of any kind for the treatment of any disease, injury or deformity, before offering for sale or selling any such drug, nostrum, face powder, face cream, face bleach, face lotion, cosmetic, tooth powder, tooth paste, dentifrice or other toilet preparation, or any ointment or application of any kind for the treatment of any disease, injury or deformity, shall pay to the director of the Michigan board of pharmacy an annual fee of twenty-five dollars, upon the receipt of which the said director shall issue a license for one year from the date of said payment. SEC. 2. Itinerant or traveling vendors or hawkers under who deemed the meaning of this act shall include all persons who carry vendors. on the business described in section one hereof, by passing from house to house or haranguing the people on the public streets or in public places or by using any art or device for attracting crowds and therewith recommending their wares and offering them for sale or who travel from place to place and hire, lease or occupy any room, building or structure for the exhibition and sale of their wares. violation. SEC. 3. Any violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor Penalty for and any person upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. tax not SEC. 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent County, etc., the collection of any tax or license that may be imposed by affected. any county, township or municipal authority. SEC. 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or con- Sales not strued to affect sales by traveling representatives of regularly affected. established jobbers or of manufacturers selling to the trade by sample for future delivery from their established place of business; nor any person selling products raised upon lands leased or owned by him; nor individuals handling vegetables. fruits or perishable farm products. In lieu of other license. SEC. 6. Any person licensed under the provisions of this act shall not be required to obtain a state license as such vendor or hawker under any prior act. Approved April 26, 1923. Automatic of engine equipped with. How constructed. [No. 86.] AN ACT to promote the safety of railroad employes and the traveling public, by requiring railroad companies to equip their engines with automatic fire box doors. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That all steam railroad companies operating door, fire box steam locomotives on their railroads in or through the state of Michigan and over one hundred miles in length of main line, shall provide and equip all locomotives so operated of more than one hundred ten thousand pounds weight on drivers, except switch engines, with automatic door to the fire box of such engine. Such automatic door shall be operated by steam, compressed air, or electricity, as may be deemed best and most efficient by the officers of such company. The device for operating such door shall be so constructed that it may be operated by the fireman on such engine by means of push button, pedal, or other appliance, located in, on or near the floor of the engine, deck or floor of the tender, so as to enable the fireman while firing such engine to open such door by pressure with his foot: Provided, That where such automatic fire door shall become inoperative while such engine was being used by such railroad company said engine may complete its trip or tour of duty without such railroad company being liable for the penalties provided by this act. Proviso. Where act not to apply. Penalty for violation. SEC. 2. In order that the carrier and the public may not be unnecessarily deprived of the use of locomotive power, this act shall not apply to locomotives of the above class, which are now in the service of the carrier, until such locomotives are put through the shops for heavy repairs. SEC. 3. Any railroad company violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each day that any locomotive is used in violation of this act. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Michigan public utilities commission to enforce the provisions of this act. Approved April 26, 1923. [No. 87.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number forty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of Protestant Episcopal churches," being section ten thousand nine hundred thirty-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number sixty-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section five of act number forty of the public Section acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of Protestant Episcopal churches," being section ten thousand nine hundred thirty-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number sixty-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: may vote. meeting. SEC. 5. At all subsequent meetings, the right to vote shall Who be confined to such persons as shall be authorized by the laws of the church to vote at parish meetings. The annual Annual meeting shall take place during the first two weeks in January. Public notice shall be given of the time and place of holding Notice. such meetings, on two Sundays immediately preceding such meeting, by the rector, and in his absence, by either of the wardens at the regular service on such days. In case service shall not be held, notice shall be given either by publishing or posting, as the vestry shall direct, written or printed notices thereof, signed by the rector, or in case there is no rector, by the secretary of the vestry at least one week prior to such meeting. Special meetings of the parish may be called Special by the vestry, and a like notice shall be given of any such meetings, who may call. special meeting as is required for an annual meeting, and the object of such special meeting shall be stated. At the Vestrymen, annual meeting, an election of vestrymen shall be held to election of. serve until the next annual meeting, but at such annual meeting it shall be lawful, at the option of said meeting, to classify the vestrymen in three equal classes, as near as may be, one of which classes shall hold their offices for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and at all subsequent meetings vestrymen shall be elected for three years to fill the places made vacant by the class whose term of office shall expire at the time: Provided further, That any Proviso. diocese may by canon provide that in case any parish shall adopt the term of three years, then no vestryman so elected shall be eligible for re-election until the next annual parish meeting following the expiration of his term of office. Any church desiring to discontinue such classification may do so, and thereafter vestrymen shall be elected for one year to Elected by ballot. Rector to preside at meetings. fill the places made vacant by the class whose term of office shall expire at the time of election. The vestrymen shall be elected by ballot and shall serve until their successors shall be chosen. The wardens, when present, shall be the judges of the election, and shall permit no person to vote unless qualified as aforesaid; and they shall canvass and declare the result, and a majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary to elect. In case of the absence of the wardens, or either of them, members of the vestry shall be appointed to act as such judges in the place of the absent warden or wardens. The rector, when present, shall preside at all meetings of the parish. A full and complete record of the proceedings of all such meetings shall be kept by the secretary of the vestry. Approved April 26, 1923. Section amended. Ex-soldiers, etc., prefer lic employ ment. [No. 88.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred five of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to prefer ex-soldiers for public employments," as amended, being section one thousand forty-one of the compiled laws of the state of Michigan for nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred five of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to prefer ex-soldiers for public employments," as amended, being section one thousand forty-one of the compiled laws of the state of Michigan for nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. In every public department and upon the public ence in pub- Works of the state and of every county and municipal corporation thereof honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors and marines of the civil war, and honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the Spanish-American war, of the present war in Europe and of every other war in which the United States of America has been a participant, shall be preferred for appointment and employment; age, loss of limb or other physical impairment which does not, in fact, incapacitate, shall not be deemed to disqualify them: Provided, That whenever it shall become necessary to fill by appointment any vacancy occurring in any elective office, said appointment Further pro shall be deemed to be within the provisions of this act: Provided further, That the applicant shall be of good moral character and shall have been a resident of the state for at least two years and of the county in which the office or Proviso, filling vacancies. viso, character, etc. |