Not to be When townships consolidated. of boards. When limits altered. gift or reward for his influence in recommending the purchase or use of any school book or apparatus in the state of Michigan. It shall be illegal for any member of the board of education to perform any labor except as provided in this act, or furnish any material or supplies for the school district in which he is an officer, and he shall not be personally interested in any way whatever, directly or indirectly, in any contract with the district in which he holds office. Any act herein prohibited, if performed by any such school officer, shall be deemed a misdemeanor and he shall be liable to the punishment provided for such offense in accordance with the provisions of the statute in such case made and provided. SEC. 24. When any township district comprising one township shall be divided into two or more townships or when any two townships are consolidated for school purposes, the exist ing board or boards of trustees shall continue to act for all the townships until the same shall have been organized and the township boards of trustees duly elected and qualified Joint session therein. Immediately after such organization the township boards of education of each of the townships shall meet in joint session and direct an appraisal of all the school property of the former township to be made. When such appraisal has been made said township board of education shall make an equitable division of the existing assets and liabilities of the school districts of such former township, basing their apportionment upon the amount of taxable property in the township divided, as shown by the last assessment roll of such former township. When the township district shall be altered in its limits by annexing a portion of its territory to another township or townships, the township boards of education of such townships shall, immediately after such alteration, meet in joint session and make an equitable division of the assets and liabilities of the school districts of the township from which the territory has been detached, basing their division upon the amount of taxable property as the same shall appear upon the last assessment roll of such township: Provided, That any township school district operating under a special act, shall operate under the provisions of this act after the annual meeting in July, nineteen hundred twenty-four, without reorganization. At the annual meeting on the second Monday in July, nineteen hundred twenty-four, there shall be elected in such township districts, five trustees in the manner and for the terms provided in this act for the election of the first board of education. The said board of education immediately after its organization as provided in this act shall settle with the treasurer of the board of education in control of said district operating under the special act, and all records, papers, books, money, and other property of said board shall be turned over immediately thereafter to the proper officers of the board of education elected Proviso, may under the provisions of this act: Provided, That the boundary lines of any township district organized under the provisions Proviso. Trustees, election of. alter boundaries. of this act may be altered by attaching or detaching territory. [No. 189.] AN ACT to amend section sixteen of act forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to protect the title of motor vehicles and trailers within this state; to provide for the issuance of certificates of title and evidence of registration thereof; to regulate the purchase and sale or other transfer of ownership; to facilitate the recovery of motor vehicles and trailers stolen or otherwise unlawfully taken; to provide for the regulation and licensing of certain dealers in used and second hand vehicles as herein defined; to prescribe the powers and duties of the secretary of state hereunder; and to provide penalties for the provisions hereof." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section sixteen of act number forty-six of the Section public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act amended. to protect the title of motor vehicles and trailers within this state; to provide for the issuance of certificates of title and evidence of registration thereof; to regulate purchase and sale or other transfer of ownership; to facilitate the recovery of motor vehicles and trailers stolen or otherwise unlawfully taken; to provide for the regulation and licensing of certain dealers in used and second hand vehicles as herein defined; to prescribe the powers and duties of the secretary of state hereunder; and to provide penalties for violation of the provisions hereof," is hereby amended to read as follows: used. SEC. 16. All moneys received by the secretary of state "Auto theft under the provisions of this act shall be set aside and shall fund", how be known as the "Auto-theft fund" and shall be held and retained in the state treasury as a separate fund and shall be used first to meet the necessary additional expenses of the office of the secretary of state incurred by the performance of duties. If at the end of any fiscal year there is a balance in said fund, said balance shall revert to the state highway fund in the state treasury. All expenses which may be incurred by the secretary of state in printing this act and in the preparation and printing of the prescribed forms, together with the cost of postage and mailing and the necessary clerical assistance, shall be paid in the first instance out of the fund accruing from motor vehicle license fees and as soon as sufficient funds are available from the fees and collections provided for in this act, the license fund shall be reimbursed for the amount so paid. Approved May 15, 1923. Removal, etc., of Custer monument, for. [No. 190.] AN ACT to provide an appropriation for the removal, the erection and repair of Custer monument, at Monroe, Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the state such a sum of money, not exceeding three appropriation thousand dollars, as may be necessary to be used to raise, remove, erect and repair the Custer monument at Monroe, Michigan, constructed by authority of act number two hundred ninety-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven. None of the money hereby appropriated shall be used or become available unless the monument is removed a sufficient distance from the railroad right of way, so that the vibration from passing trains will not injure the foundation or the structure thereof, and erected on a site to be donated by the federal government, county or otherwise. The sums of money hereby appropriated shall be used for the specific purposes herein stated, under the supervision and direction of the state administrative board. Any of such money not used or necessary for the purposes herein mentioned shall be returned to the general fund of the state treasury. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 191.] AN ACT authorizing the construction of a stadium at the Michigan agricultural college; making an appropriation therefor and providing for the refunding thereof to the state. The People of the State of Michigan enact: vanced, purpose. SECTION 1. The state administrative board is hereby Sum adauthorized to advance a sum of money, not to exceed one hundred sixty thousand dollars, out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the state board of agriculture, for the purpose of constructing a suitable, permanent stadium at the Michigan agricultural college, which said sum is hereby appropriated subject to the provisions of section two of this act. SEC. 2. Prior to the advancement or expenditure of any Repayment. of the moneys hereby appropriated, the state administrative board shall require from the state board of agriculture, an agreement to repay the whole of the moneys advanced for such purpose, in not to exceed ten equal annual installments beginning on or before December first, nineteen hundred twenty-four. Such repayments shall be made, so far as practicable, from the proceeds of athletic games held under the jurisdiction of said college: Provided, That if any install- Proviso. ment so advanced is not repaid as provided in this section, it shall be deducted from the funds due said Michigan agricultural college from the state treasury. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 192.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred thirty-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to extend aid to the Michigan agricultural college," being section one thousand two hundred fifty-seven 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 thirty- Section two of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An amended. act to extend aid to the Michigan agricultural college," being section one thousand two hundred fifty-seven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: Mill tax levied. SEC. 1. There shall be assessed in the year nineteen hundred fifteen, and each year thereafter, upon the taxable property of the state, as fixed by the state board of equalization in the year nineteen hundred fourteen and every consecutive second and fifth year thereafter, for the use of Michigan agricultural college, the upper peninsula experiment station and such other experiment stations as have been or may hereafter be established for all college extension work, including the cooperative agricultural extension work provided for by an act of congress approved May eight. nineteen hundred fourteen, and entitled "An act to provide for co-operative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of the act of congress approved July two, eighteen hundred sixty-two, and of act supplementary thereto, and the United States department of agriculture," for demonstration and experimental work, including investigations in farm management and for making soil surveys and gathering crop and other agricultural statistics, the sum of one-fifth of a mill on each dollar of said taxable property; such tax, however, not to exceed the sum of one million dollars in any tax year: Provided, That an amount not exceeding one hundred fifty thousand dollars may be used for building or other extraordinary expenses Annual report before July one, nineteen hundred sixteen. The secretary of governor. the state board of agriculture shall make an annual report to the governor of the state of all the receipts and expenditures of the Michigan agricultural college, the upper peninsula experiment station and such other experiment stations as have been or may hereafter be established, and of all other matters in connection with which the funds of the state have been expended under the direction of the state board of agriculture. Proviso. to This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Amounts and purposes. [No. 193.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the department of labor and industry for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-four, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-five, for maintenance, operation and other purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund for the department of labor and industry for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-four, the |