[No. 203.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the state department of health 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: purposes. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts and fund for the state department of health for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-four, the sum of three hundred ten thousand nine hundred fifty dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-five, the sum of three hundred thousand eight hundred thirty-six dollars, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows: Each of said amounts shall be used solely for the specific purposes herein stated, subject to the general supervisory control of the state administrative board. How paid out. Fees, where deposited. SEC. 2. The amounts hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the state treasury, at such times and in such manner as is or may be provided by law. SEC. 3. All fees or other moneys received by said state department of health shall be forwarded to the state treasurer each month and shall be by said treasurer deposited in the state treasury to be disbursed in such manner and for such purposes as may be provided by law. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Committee to file certificate. [No. 204.] AN ACT to require committees, clubs and other organizations formed for the purpose of initiating legislation or any constitutional amendment by petition, to file certain reports and to regulate the conduct of such committees, clubs or organizations. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any committee, club or other organization to circulate or cause to be circulated, any petition to initiate legislation or for any constitutional amendment without first having filed with the secretary of state a certificate subscribed and sworn to by the secretary and president of such committee, club or other organization, What to set setting forth the purpose of such committee, club or organization and the name and address of each of the officers thereof, and of each of the separate units or branches thereof. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any such committee, club or organization to disburse for any purpose any money received from any anonymous source. forth. Anonymous contributions. City, etc., names. SEC. 3. Before any petition for any constitutional amendclerk to cer- ment shall be filed with the secretary of state it shall be tify as to legality of presented to the proper city, village or township clerk or clerks whose duty it shall be to compare the names appearing thereon as being the names of qualified legal voters residing in such clerk's city, village or township with the registration book in his office and to attach to said petition his certificate to the effect that he has made such comparison and that the persons whose names appear thereon are qualified legal voters of his city, village or township, as the case may be, or if the said clerk finds that some of the names appearing thereon are not the names of qualified legal voters of his city, village or township, he shall certify to such fact naming such persons. Expense, etc., SEC. 4. Within twenty days after the filing of any petition statement, filling of. to initiate legislation or for a constitutional amendment, the committee, club or organization having charge of the circulation thereof, shall file with the secretary of state, a full, true and detailed account and statement, subscribed and sworn to by the treasurer thereof, setting forth each and every sum of money received or disbursed by the said committee, club or organization or by any unit or branch thereof, for such purpose, the date of each receipt, the name of the person from whom received or to whom paid, and the object or purpose for which disbursed. Such statement shall also set forth the unpaid debts and obligations, if any, of such committee, club or organization, and of each unit or branch thereof, circulating such petition with the nature and amount of each and to whom owing in detail, and if there are no such unpaid debts or obligations of such committee, club or organization, or of any unit or branch thereof, such statement shall state the fact. SEC. 5. Upon the failure of the treasurer of any such com- Failure to mittee, club or organization to file such statement within said file, etc. twenty days, or if any statement filed discloses any violations of this act, the secretary of state shall immediately notify the prosecuting attorney of the county where such violation occurred, and shall furnish him with copies of all papers relating thereto, and said prosecuting attorney shall, on said complaint, or the complaint of any other person, investigate every such offense occurring within his county, and if the evidence seems to him to be sufficient, he shall forthwith institute such proceedings as may be appropriate to the facts. SEC. 6. The secretary of state shall furnish to such com- Blanks, who mittees, clubs and other organizations, blanks, in form ap- to furnish. proved by the attorney general, suitable for the statements hereinbefore required. SEC. 7. Every officer or agent of any committee, club or Penalty for organization which shall incur any illegal expense, or shall violations. make false statements concerning the purpose, scope or effect of any proposed legislation or constitutional amendment, as inducement to secure signatures to any petition to initiate legislation or for a constitutional amendment, or violate any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or either or both at the discretion of the court. clause. SEC. 8. The provisions of this act are declared to be sever- Saving able. If any section or part of a section be held unconstitutional for any reason, it is hereby declared, as a legislative intent, that the remaining provisions of this act would have been enacted without such section or part of section held to be unconstitutional, having been included therein. Approved May 16, 1923. Sale of authorized. [No. 205.] AN ACT to authorize the sale of certain lands owned by the state of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The state hospital commission is hereby authorcertain lands ized to sell all those lots and parts of lots located in the city of Traverse City, state of Michigan, and lying east of the easterly line of Division street and adjoining the right of way of the state hospital side track as now constructed, said parcels of land being described as follows: All of lots six and seven and that part of lot five lying south of a line twenty feet southerly from the center line of the Traverse City state hospital side track and parallel thereto, all in block number five, Hannah Lay and Company's fourteenth addition to the city of Traverse City, Michigan, containing approximately twenty-five one-hundredths acres; also lots fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, excepting the north twenty-five feet thereof, in block number twelve Hannah's fifth addition to the city of Traverse City, Michigan, containing approximately twenty-eight one-hundredths acres. Conveyance, execution of. SEC. 2. In the event of such sale, the governor of the state of Michigan is hereby authorized to execute the conveyances for such transfer and the proceeds of such sale shall be deposited with the state treasurer and credited to the general fund of the state. Approved May 17, 1923. [No. 206.] AN ACT to amend sections two, nine, ten, eleven, fifteen and thirty-five of act number two hundred eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being sections five thousand three hundred twenty-three, five thousand three hundred thirty, five thousand three hundred thirty-one, five thousand three hundred thirty-two, five thousand three hundred thirty-six and five thousand three hundred fifty-six of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen as last amended by act number three hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, act number two hundred eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, act number two hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen and act number two hundred sixteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections two, nine, ten, eleven, fifteen and Sections thirty-five of act number two hundred eighty-five of the public amended. acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being sections five thousand three hundred twenty-three, five thousand three hundred thirty, five thousand three hundred thirtyone, five thousand three hundred thirty-two, five thousand three hundred thirty-six and five thousand three hundred fifty-six of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number three hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, act number two hundred eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, act number two hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen and act number two hundred sixteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: commission. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the commission to collect Duty of in the manner herein provided, assort, systematize and present to the governor, on or before the first day of January of each year in which a regular session of the legislature is held, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in this state, including the penal institutions thereof, particularly concerning the hours of labor, the number of employes and sex thereof, and the daily wages earned, the condition of all manu |