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[No. 34.]

AN ACT to amend sections two and four of act number thirteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentyone, entitled "An act to promote the agricultural interests of the state of Michigan; to create a state department of agriculture; to define the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said department of powers and duties now vested by law in certain other state boards, commissions and officers, and to abolish certain boards, commissions and officers, the powers and duties of which are hereby transferred."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections two and four of act number thirteen sections of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled amended. "An act to promote the agricultural interests of the state of Michigan; to create a state department of agriculture; to define the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said department of powers and duties now vested by law in certain other state boards, commissions and officers, and to abolish certain boards, commissions, and officers the powers and duties of which are hereby transferred," are hereby amended to read as follows:

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SEC. 2. The state department of agriculture shall exercise Powers and the powers and perform the duties now vested by law in the ferred. department of animal industry, the state food and drug commissioner, the state veterinary board, the immigration commission, the commissioner of immigration, the market director, and shall also possess the powers and duties formerly vested by law in the Michigan agricultural fair commission. The departments, boards, commissions and officers Boards, etc., whose powers and duties are hereby transferred to the state abolished. department of agriculture shall be abolished as of the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred twenty-one. All records, files and papers of any nature whatsoever pertaining to the functions thereof shall be turned over to the department hereby created. Any hearing or other proceeding pending before any board or officer whose tenure is so terminated shall not be abated, but shall be deemed to be transferred to the state department of agriculture and shall be carried on and determined by the commissioner of agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the law governing such hearing or proceeding.

SEC. 4. The control of all lands and other property that state lands, now is, or hereafter may be, vested in the state of Michigan, control of. or in the people of said state, for the purpose of holding and conducting agricultural and industrial fairs, and for other agricultural purposes, is hereby placed in the state de- Grants, etc., partment of agriculture. The state department of agriculture may accept.

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is authorized to accept, on behalf of the state, grants and conveyances of property for such purposes or for any other purpose within the scope of this act, and to consent to such conditions affecting the use thereof as may be agreed upon. All grants and conveyances shall be taken in the name of the people of the state of Michigan. An annual state fair, at the city of Detroit which shall have for its main purpose the exploiting and encouragement of improved methods in agricultural pursuits, is hereby authorized. The arrangements for such fairs and the actual conducting thereof shall be under the immediate charge of a board of managers of state fairs which board shall consist of twenty members to be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. Five members of said board shall be appointed for one year, five members for two years, five members for three years, five members for four years, and there shall be appointed each year thereafter five members of this board, each to serve for four years. The commissioner of agriculture shall act as chairman of said board. Said board of managers may adopt rules and regulations governing its organization and procedure. The board of managers of state fairs shall have and succeed to all of the rights, powers and duties granted to agricultural and horticultural societies, with respect to the property or properties acquired by virtue of this section, by the provisions of act number eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred sixty-two, as a condition of any conveyance heretofore or hereafter made to the state under the provisions of this section, the exercise of which rights, powers and duties being subject, however, to the approval of the state administrative board. The proceeds of the state fair, and all other moneys which come into the possession of the state department of agriculture under the provisions of this section, shall be and remain a perpetual revolving fund out of which necessary and proper expenses for the conducting of said fair shall be paid. Each member of the board of managers, other than the commissioner of agriculture, shall be entitled to ten dollars per day for each day actually expended by him in attending meetings of the board of managers or for work actually performed in connection with said fair; and the members of the board shall also be entitled to their actual and necessary expenses while incurred in carrying out the provisions hereof, such compensation and expenses to be paid from the revolving fund Surplus funds, hereby created. Whenever in the opinion of the state administrative board the moneys in such fund exceed the amount reasonably required for the purposes hereof, the surplus shall, on order of said board, be transferred to the general fund of the state. Said board shall before the first of December of each year make full and detailed report to the governor of all its activities, receipts and disbursements.

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Approved April 10, 1923.

[No. 35.]

AN ACT to provide for the annexation to city school districts of school districts or parts of school districts in territory annexed to cities comprising one school district and having a population of ten thousand or over.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

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SECTION 1. Where territory has been or is annexed to a When tercity comprising a single school district, having a population nexed to city of ten thousand, or over, as shown by the last federal cen- school district. sus, organized school districts or parts of organized school districts within such annexed territory shall be annexed to and become a part of the city school district whenever the governing body of the city school district shall by resolution so determine: Provided, however, If any part of the district Proviso, school or districts so annexed to and made a part of the city school district shall be without school facilities by reason thereof, the city school district shall annually furnish school facilities to such part or parts on being paid therefor a sum of money equal to the amount such part or parts would raise in taxes for school purposes, if such part or parts were in the city school district. The union herein provided for shall effect thirty days after the passage of such resolution. SEC. 2. The secretary of the city school district within five days after the passage of the resolution serve whom served. a copy of the resolution, certified by him, upon the secretary of the governing body of the school district, which, or part of which, is to be annexed to and made a part of the city school district, and shall record a copy of the resolution, certified by him, in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which such city school district is located.

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SEC. 3. When the union herein provided for has been Title to vest in city school accomplished, the title to all the real and personal public district. school property situated in the territory so annexed to and made a part of the city school district shall vest in and pass to the city school district. The officers of the district Funds, etc., accounting annexed to the city school district, if the whole district is ac to be annexed, shall within ten days after such annexation has taken place account to the city school district for the funds and property in their hands as such officers and shall turn over the same to the city school district. Upon the receipt by the latter of such funds and property, such officers shall be released of liability therefor, their official bonds shall be deemed cancelled and their offices terminate. Where only a part of a district is annexed to the city school district such accounting shall be pro rata in the proportion of the assessed valuation of the part of the district so annexed to the assessed valuation of the whole district; such officers shall be discharged of liability for the property accounted for, but shall continue as officers of the balance of the district.

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SEC. 4. The city school district shall assume the outstanding indebtedness of the district so annexed to it, or to the proper pro rata share thereof, if but part of the district be so annexed, and shall assume and perform all legally binding contracts of such district or if but part of a district be so annexed, then such legally binding contracts as shall apply to the part so annexed: Provided, That if the portion so annexed shall include school lands or school buildings for which bonds of the district have been issued in the purchase or construction thereof or other indebtedness created thereby, then in such case the city school district shall be liable for and shall assume payment of all such bonded or other indebtedness. The city school district shall take and have the right to collect all unpaid school taxes of the portion of the district taken. It shall take, based on the last school census, such part of the primary school money unexpended and in the treasury of the district, thus divided, as the number of children of school age in the portion taken bears to the number of children of school age in the whole district thus divided. It shall take and receive such portion of the unexpended school taxes collected and in the treasury of the district thus divided, as the assessed value of the portion taken bears to the whole district thus divided.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 11, 1923.

Section amended.

[No. 36.]

AN ACT to amend section thirty-eight 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," as amended by act number one hundred seventy-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, being section fourteen thousand five hundred five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section thirty-eight 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," as amended by act number one hundred seventy-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, being section fourteen thousand five hundred five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 38. In the twenty-fifth circuit the stenographer shall Salary. be paid an annual salary of thirty-five hundred dollars. Approved April 11, 1923.

[No. 37.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-seven of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appoint. ment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the state of Michigan," as amended by act number two hundred thirty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, being section fourteen thousand four hundred ninety-three of the compiled laws of the state of Michigan of the year nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-seven of act number one hun- Section dred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred amended, 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," as amended by act number two hundred thirty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, being section fourteen thousand four hundred ninety-three of the compiled laws of the state of Michigan of the year nineteen hundred fifteen is hereby amended, said amended section to read as follows: SEC. 27. In the fourteenth circuit, the stenographer shall Salary. be paid an annual salary of three thousand dollars and the circuit judge shall forthwith apportion same in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of this act. Approved April 11, 1923.

[No. 38.]

AN ACT to amend section forty-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," the same being section fourteen thousand five hundred ten of the compiled laws for the year nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section forty-three of act number one hundred Section eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety

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