Petition for, where filed, etc. the common council or other representative body of the city or village for the care, maintenance and operation of said apparatus and equipment by the fire department of such village or city, upon such terms as may be agreed upon. SEC. 3. No township shall appropriate money for the purchase and housing of such fire extinguishing apparatus and equipment except upon the petition of at least one-third of the resident taxpayers thereof, which petition shall be filed. with the township board at least thirty days before the time fixed for the annual township election and it shall be the duty of the township clerk to include the proposition to be voted upon in the notice of annual election, and to prepare the ballots therefor. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Brook trout, number may take, etc. [No. 29.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number two hundred thirty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to protect fish in the inland waters of this state and to regulate the manner of taking, possession, transportation, size and sale of fish when taken from said waters, to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts conflicting therewith," being section seven thousand six hundred fifty-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number two hundred thirtysix of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to protect fish in the inland waters of this state and to regulate the manner of taking, possession, transportation, size and sale of fish when taken from said waters, to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts conflicting therewith," being section seven thousand six hundred fifty-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take, catch or kill in any of the inland waters of this state, more than twenty-five brook trout in any one day, or to have in excess of twenty-five brook trout in possession at any one time on the inland waters from which they are taken, or to take with him or have in his possession at any point away from such waters from which they are taken, more than forty brook trout at any one time, or to take, catch, or kill or have in his possession any brook trout of a less length than seven inches. Approved April 6, 1923. [No. 30.] AN ACT to define cheese and to regulate the manufacture and sale of same within the limits of the state of Michigan; to provide for labelling; prescribe a penalty; and to repeal sections five, seven and eight of act number one hundred ninety-three, public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended by act number seventy-three, public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen; also to repeal section six of act number one hundred ninety-three, public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended by act number one hundred eighteen, public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and act number seventy-three, public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Cheese defined. SECTION 1. Cheese is the sound, solid, and ripened product made from milk or cream by coagulating the casein thereof with rennet, pepsin or lactic acid, with or without the addition of ripening ferments and seasoning or added coloring matter, and shall contain in the water-free substance not less than fifty per cent of milk fat, and cheese known as American or Cheddar cheese shall contain not more than forty per cent of water, and cheese known as Brick cheese not more than fortytwo per cent of water. Cheese containing less than fifty per Skimmed cent of milk fat in the water-free substance, shall be known etc. and branded as skimmed milk cheese; except that what is known as "Emmenthaler" or "domestic Swiss Cheese," "Camembert cheese," and "Edam cheese," or "fancy cheese," shall contain in the water-free substance not less than fortythree per cent of milk fat: Provided, That the provisions of Proviso, Dutch this act shall not be construed to apply to such cheese as is cheese, etc. known as "Dutch cheese" or "Cottage cheese." milk cheese, fats, etc. SEC. 2. No person shall manufacture, deal in, sell, offer Cheese conor expose for sale or exchange, any article or substance in the taining animal semblance of, or in imitation of, cheese made exclusively of unadulterated milk or cream, or both, into which any animal, intestinal or offal fats or oils, or vegetable fats or oils, or melted butter in any condition or state, or modification of the same, or oleaginous substances of any kind not produced from unadulterated milk or cream shall have been introduced. SEC. 3. Every manufacturer of full cream cheese may put "Full cream a brand upon each cheese, indicating "Full Cream Cheese,' and no person shall use such a brand upon any cheese containing less than fifty per cent of milk fat in the waterfree substance. Every manufacturer of American or Ched- "Skimmed dar skimmed milk cheese, as defined by this act, shall put a branding of. brand upon each cheese so manufactured, indicating "Skimmed Milk Cheese." which brand shall be in plain Roman letters and made by indelible ink, and placed on the rind at " cheese." milk cheese," 2 Containers, intervals of not more than one inch, and so made, placed or attached that it can easily be seen and read and cannot be easily defaced, and the same shall be placed upon the surface of the cheese, before the cheese is paraffined, as well as upon the container thereof. All skimmed milk cheese, except how marked. American and Cheddar skimmed milk cheese, shall be packed in containers on which the following shall appear, "MADE FROM PARTLY SKIMMED MILK," and the same shall be placed on the package or container so that it can easily be seen and read and cannot be easily defaced. Placards in hotel, etc., etc. SEC. 4. The proprietor or keeper of any hotel, restaurant, where certain eating saloon, boarding house or other place where American cheese served, or Cheddar skimmed milk cheese is sold or furnished to persons paying for the same, shall have placed on the walls of every store or room where American or Cheddar skimmed milk cheese is sold or furnished, a white placard on which is printed in black ink, in plain Roman letters of not less than three inches in length, and not less than two inches in width, the words "SKIMMED MILK CHEDDAR CHEESE SOLD or USED HERE," and shall at all times keep the same exposed in such conspicuous place as to be readily seen by any and all persons entering such store, room or rooms. No person shall offer, sell or expose for sale or exchange any cheese or package of cheese which is falsely branded or labeled. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars and the cost of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail or the Michigan reformatory at Ionia for not less than ninety days nor more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court for each and every offense. Penalty for violation. Sections repealed. SEC. 5. Sections five, seven and eight of act number one hundred ninety-three, public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyfive, as amended by act number seventy-three, public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, being sections six thousand four hundred seventy-eight, six thousand four hundred eighty and six thousand four hundred eighty-one of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen; also section six of act number one hundred ninety-three, public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyfive, as amended by act number one hundred eighteen, public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven and act number seventythree, public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, being section six thousand four hundred seventy-nine of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby repealed. Approved April 6, 1923. [No. 31.] AN ACT to amend chapter two of act number three hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions, the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleadings, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," by adding thereto a new section after section one hundred nineteen to stand as section one hundred nineteen-a. The People of the State of Michigan enact: added. SECTION 1. Chapter two of act number three hundred Section fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleadings, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section after section one hundred nineteen thereof to stand as section one hundred nineteen-a, which new section shall read as follows: SEC. 119-a. In all counties where the circuit court com- Summonses, missioner or circuit court commissioners have a clerk or etc., who may sign. clerks, such clerks or regularly appointed deputy clerks, may sign all summonses, subpoenas, citations, dockets and process for the collection of costs, and are hereby authorized to sign the name of the circuit court commissioner upon all such summonses, subpoenas, citations, dockets and process for the collection of costs, and the same when so signed, shall have the same force and effect as if signed by the circuit court commissioner of such court; such documents and papers to be signed by said clerk, clerks or deputies in the following man Section amended. Salary. [No. 32.] AN ACT to amend section thirty-three of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the state of Michigan," being section fourteen thousand five hundred of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred fifty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirty-three of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the state of Michigan," being section fourteen thousand five hundred of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred fifty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 33. In the twentieth circuit, the stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars. Approved April 6, 1923. Section repealed. [No. 33.] AN ACT to repeal section eighteen of act number two hundred forty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the preservation of the forests of this state and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie fires," being section seven hundred eighty-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eighteen of act number two hundred forty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the preservation of the forests of this state and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie fires," being section seven hundred eighty-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby repealed. Approved April 6, 1923. |