shall be sworn to before a person competent to administer oaths as a full, complete and truthful statement of each of the items therein contained, and if made for and on behalf of a co-partnership or company, such report may be signed and sworn to by any person composing such co-partnership or company and if made for and on behalf of a corporation, such report shall be signed and sworn to by the president of such corporation, but in each of the two last instances such signing and swearing to such reports shall appear to be for and on behalf of such co-partnership, company or corporation as the case may be. After the making, signing and swearing to such report as herein provided, the same shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of banking of the state of Michigan and it shall be the duty of such commissioner to indorse or cause to be indorsed thereon the time at which such report was received and filed, which indorsement shall be signed by such commissioner or some person legally competent to sign the same, and thereafter such report shall be and remain a part of the official records of the office of commissioner of banking. If any false statement in such report is signed and wilfully sworn to, it shall be deemed perjury on the part of the person signing and swearing to the same and such person shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as in other cases of perjury.

ministered.

SEC. 15. Whenever any such estate has been fully and com- when estate pletely administered by the probate court having jurisdiction fully adthereof, the attorney general shall see that all the property of whatever name or nature remaining in such estate after due administration thereon is turned over to the care and custody of the state board of escheats and to their successors in office, who shall take the same as trustee thereof and who, as soon thereafter as possible, shall cover such property, or the avails thereof, into the state treasury for the use of the primary school fund. If any such property consists of real estate, the state board of escheats shall send by registered mail a notice containing a description of the real estate so coming into the possession of the state to the assessing officer of the district in which such real estate is situate, and the same shall be sold and conveyed by said trustees in the manner as hereinafter set forth.

SEC. 16. Whenever such real estate shall come into the sale. care and custody of said trustees as provided for in the preceding section, the same shall be sold and conveyed by said trustees either by public or private sale as the said trustees shall deem to be to the best interests of the state therein: Provided, That the same shall not be sold until a notice of the Proviso, sale of same shall have been published at least three successive weeks prior to said sale in some newspaper printed and circulated in the county in which the real estate is situate. If there be no newspaper printed and circulated in the county where said real estate is situate, then and in that case, said notice shall be published in a newspaper printed and cir

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culated nearest to where said real estate is situate. A notice of sale may also be published in such other manner as said trustees may deem to be for the best interests of the state in said real estate. Upon the sale of any such real estate, the board of escheats shall notify by registered mail the assessing officer of the district in which such real estate is situate, of such sale, which notice shall contain a description of the real estate sold, the date of the sale, and the name and address of the purchaser thereof.

SEC. 17. Such sale when the same shall be sold at a public sale shall be at a time designated by the state board of escheats between the hour of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day to the highest responsible bidder therefor: Provided, That no person employed by the state of Michigan shall by himself or by his agent or representative, either directly or indirectly, purchase any property so sold by the state board of escheats. sale so made shall be declared void and the purchaser shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or imprisoned for a period not to exceed six months.

Any

SEC. 22. If at any time within ten years after real estate or personal property is assigned to the people of this state as an escheated estate, any person or persons shall file with the state board of escheats satisfactory proof, to be determined by said board of escheats, of the right of such person or persons, as husband, wife, heir-at-law, next of kin, devisee or legatee under a will, or assigns, to the estate of such deceased person, then in that case the state board of escheats shall cause such real estate or personal property, or the avails thereof whenever the same has been sold by the board of escheats, upon the payment to the said board of escheats by the person or persons so claiming the estate, of all expense to the state which may have been incurred by the state in relation to such estate, to be turned over to such person or persons, such part thereof as such person or persons may be lawfully entitled to out of such decedent's estate: Provided, That the person supposed to be deceased and whose said estate has been administered and assigned to the people of the state as an escheated estate may at any time upon presenting to the board of escheats, satisfactory proof of his identity, receive the property so assigned to the state, or the avails thereof, less any expense incurred by the state with relation to such estate. Such payment shall be made out of the fund to which such avails shall have been credited.

Approved May 10, 1923.

[No. 184.]

AN ACT to amend sections nine and ten of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," being sections four thousand three hundred eighty-six and four thousand three hundred eighty-seven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fif teen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

reward.

SECTION 1. Sections nine and ten of chapter five of act Sections number two hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nine- amended. teen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within the state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," being sections four thousand three hundred eighty-six and four thousand three hundred eighty-seven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 9. Whenever any township board or board of county Application road commissioners shall make application for state reward for state on a road lying on the county road system, certifying that they have made arrangements to improve the same under the provisions of section ten, chapter five of this act, and to maintain the same under sections twelve and sixteen of chapter five of this act and shall file plans and profile of the road to be improved made out by a competent engineer, it shall be the duty of the state highway commissioner in case the plans Duty of as filed and the location of such road meets with his approval, commissioner. to enter such application in the order in which it is received and to furnish such information and advice to the applicant as may be required to enable them to construct the road in accordance with one of the classes as outlined in section ten of this chapter. In no case, however, shall state reward be paid on any street or highway improved unless such application and the plans for the work shall be received and approved by the state highway commissioner prior to the letting

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of the contract for doing the work or prior to the starting the work if no contract is let therefor. When such road has been completed and inspected by the state highway commissioner or someone acting under his authority and is found to be up to the required standard, he shall, providing there are funds in the state treasury for the paying of this reward, verify the same to the auditor general of the state, who shall draw a warrant upon the state treasurer, payable to the proper authorities in such township or county for the amount of the reward due them according to the class and width of road built. And providing there are no funds in the state treasury for the paying of such reward when such road is completed and accepted, as soon as sufficient moneys shall become available, the state highway commissioner shall verify the same to the auditor general who shall draw his warrant as above set forth, providing that the road shall have been kept in as good condition as when approved by the commissioner until the payment of the reward thereon: Provided, however, That no application shall be received by the state highway commissioner under the provisions of this act until, on and after the first day of April in the year nineteen hundred twenty-five: Provided further, That all applications for state reward now on file with the state highway commissioner shall be and the same are hereby cancelled unless the township authorities or boards of county road commissioners making such applications have, prior to June one, nineteen hundred twenty-three, entered into a valid contract for the improvement of the road described in the application or have, in good faith, after advertising for letting the contract therefor and rejecting all bids with reasons assigned, performed a portion of said work by day labor, or unless said board of county road commissioners have, prior to said date, made and filed their first order of determination and duly advertised and held their hearing of objections to the improvement of a road being built under and in compliance with the provisions of act number fifty-nine, public acts of nineteen hundred fif teen, as amended. in which cases the application shall remain on file and in full force and effect and shall be entitled to the payment of the same reward and in the same manner as other applications for state reward heretofore filed and accepted and in which the road has been completed and accepted for payment when funds are available therefor.

SEC. 10. The following classes and widths of roads, when built, shall merit the reward or state aid attached to each description:

(a) Every mile of well graded road on which the steepest incline shall not exceed six per centum, except where found impracticable and a steeper grade is recommended after examination by the state highway commissioner, and the width of which shall not be less than twenty feet between and exclusive of side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet

wide, made of a mixture of sand and clay or other material according to specifications furnished by the state highway commissioner, shall merit, if approved by the state highway commissioner, a reward or aid from the state amounting to ten per cent of the cost of such road up to but in no case shall the reward or aid exceed one thousand two hundred dollars a mile;

(b) Every mile of well graded road on which the steepest $2,000. incline shall not exceed six per centum, except where found impracticable and a steeper grade is recommended after examination by the state highway commissioner, and the width of which shall not be less than twenty feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide and which shall consist of not less than eight inches of compacted gravel, or not less than twelve inches of compacted burnt shale, which must be applied in not less than two layers, each layer to be rolled separately: Provided, That both Proviso. shoulders and metaled track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly to the side ditches, shall merit, if approved by the state highway commissioner, a reward or aid from the state amounting to ten per cent of the cost of such road up to but in no case shall the reward or aid exceed two thousand dollars a mile;

(c) Every mile of well graded road on which the steepest $2,000. incline shall not exceed six per centum, except where found impracticable and a steeper grade is recommended after examination by the state highway commissioner, and the width of which shall not be less than twenty feet between side 'ditches and which shall be properly drained, and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide, made in two courses, the bottom course to be crushed stone, slag or other material, if approved by the state highway commissioner, and shall not be less than four and one-half inches thick after thorough rolling, and a top course consisting of a layer of gravel or blast furnace slag which shall not be less than three and one-half inches thick after being thoroughly rolled: Provided, That both shoulders and metaled Proviso. track shall be properly crowned so as to shed water quickly to the side ditches, shall merit, if approved by the state highway commissioner, a reward or aid from the state amounting to ten per cent of the cost of such road up to but in no case shall the reward or aid exceed two thousand dollars a mile; (d) Every mile of well graded road on which the steepest $2,000. incline shall not exceed six per centum, except where found impracticable and a steeper grade is recommended after examination by the state highway commissioner, and the width of which shall be not less than twenty feet between side ditches, and which shall be properly drained and have a wagon way or travel track not less than nine feet wide made in two courses, the bottom course to be of gravel, slag or other materials, if approved by the state highway com