Refusal to make report; for

feiture.

Proviso.

Poor, support of, in certain counties.

Who deemed settled.

amount paid to supervisors for services; the amount paid to superintendents of the poor; the number of persons who have received temporary relief outside of the infirmary during the year; and the amount paid for such relief; the value of county farms, including buildings; the value of all personal property belonging or attached to such infirmary and farm, and the income received from the county farm. Such report shall also contain a statement of the general condition of the farmhouse and other buildings, the manner in which poor persons are treated, how they are fed, clothed, and in what manner such persons are cared for; how the insane and idiots are kept, and what are their accommodations, and treatment; how the poor children are educated; what the facilities are for bathing, heating and ventilation, and to include all other information. necessary to give a complete account of the condition of such infirmary. The secretary of state shall annually lay before the legislature, during the first month of its session, an abstract of said report.

SEC. 25. Any superintendent who shall neglect or refuse to make such report as aforesaid, or who shall wilfully make any false report, shall forfeit one hundred dollars; and the secretary of state shall give notice to the prosecuting attorney of the county of every such neglect or refusal, or misconduct. The forms for the records and accounts provided for shall be prepared by the secretary of state, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause a sufficient number of copies of the same to be printed and bound, to supply each of the officers entitled to the same, and any of such officers as shall thereafter neglect to keep the records and accounts in the manner so prescribed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, which fine shall be paid into the treasury of the county wherein such neglect or failure occurred; and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of any county, upon being notified of any such neglect or failure, to immediately commence suit against the parties offending, and prosecute the same to a final termination. Such records and system of accounts shall be furnished by the secretary of state at cost, and the accounts for the same shall be allowed by the boards of supervisors, and paid by the county treasurers: Provided, That if any board of supervisors neglects or refuses to allow such accounts, then in that case the amounts of such accounts shall be charged to such county by the auditor general, and included in the tax the next succeeding year.

SEC. 26. In those counties in which the distinction between township, city and county poor shall not be abolished by the board of supervisors, the poor having a settlement in any township or city in such counties shall be supported at the expense of such township or city, and the poor not having such settlement shall be supported by the county in which they have a settlement, as herein before provided.

SEC. 27. Every person of full age, who shall have been a resident and inhabitant of any township, city or county for

one year, and the members of his family, who shall not have gained a separate settlement, shall be deemed settled in such township, city or county. A minor may be emancipated from Minor, when his or her father, and may gain a settlement:

First, If a female, by being married, in which case the husband's settlement shall determine that of the wife;

Second, If a male, by being married and residing separately from the the family of his father;

Third, By being bound as an apprentice, and serving one year by virtue of such indentures;

Fourth, By being hired, and actually serving for one year for wages to be paid such minor.

A woman of full age, by marrying, shall acquire the settlement of her husband, if he have any; and until a person shall have gained a settlement in his own right, his settlement shall be deemed that of his father or mother; but no child born in any place used and occupied as a residence for the poor of the township, city or county, shall gain any settlement merely by reason of the place of such birth; nor shall any child, born while the mother is a county poor person, gain any settlement by reason of the place of its birth; and no residence of any person as a poor person, in the county infirmary, or place provided for the support of the poor in any township infirmary while relieved and supported at the expense of any township, city or county, shall operate to give such poor person a settlement in the township, city or county where such actual residence may be had.

may gain settlement.

removed.

SEC. 28. No person shall be removed as a poor person from when any city or township to any other city or township of the same, or any other county, nor from any county to any other county, except as authorized by law, but every poor person shall be supported by the township, city or county where he has a settlement. If such poor person shall be in a county where the respective townships and cities are liable to support their poor, and has gained a settlement in some other township or city of the same county than that in which he may then be, he shall be supported by the township or city where he may be, at the expense of the township or city where he has a settlement, and the supervisor or director shall give notice in Notice, to writing to the supervisor of the township or the director of provide. the poor of the city, to which such poor person shall belong, or to one of them, requiring them to provide for the relief and support of such poor person.

when not contested.

SEC. 29. If within ten days after the service of such notice, Settlement, the supervisor or director of the poor to whom the same was directed, shall not proceed to contest the allegation of the settlement of such poor person, by giving the notice hereinafter directed, such supervisors or director of the poor, their successors, and the township or city which they represent, shall be forever precluded from contesting or denying such settlement. Such supervisor or director of the poor, may, Appear

ance.

Witnesses,

may compel attendance

of.

Decision final.

Duty of supervisor,

etc., upon receiving notice.

PUBLIC ACTS, 1925-No. 146.

within the time aforesaid, give notice in writing to the supervisor of the township, or the director of the poor of the city where such poor person may be, that he will appear before the superintendents of the poor of that county, at a place and on a day therein specified, which day shall be at least ten days, and not more than thirty days from the time of the service of such notice, to contest the said alleged settlement. superintendents of the poor are hereby authorized, for such The county purposes, to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to administer oaths in the manner, and with the same power to enforce such process, as is given justices of the peace in any matter cognizable by them. shall be filed in the office of the county clerk within thirty Their decisions days after they are made, and shall be conclusive and final upon all parties interested. The county superintendents of the poor shall convene whenever required by any supervisor or director of the poor, pursuant to such notice, and shall proceed to hear and determine the controversy, and may award costs, not exceeding ten dollars, to the prevailing party, which may be recovered in any action before a court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 30. The supervisor of the township or director of the poor of the city in which it may be alleged any poor person has gained a settlement, may at any time after receiving such notice requiring him to provide for such poor person, take and receive such poor person to his township or city, and there support him. If he omit to do so, or shall fail to obtain the decision of the county superintendents, so as to exonerate him from the maintenance of such poor person, the charge of giving such notice, and the expenses of maintaining such poor person, after being allowed by the county superintendents, shall be laid before the board of supervisors at their annual meetings, from year to year, as long as such expenses shall be incurred; and the supervisor shall annually add the amount of the said charges to the tax to be laid upon the township or city to which the poor person belongs, together with such sum in addition thereto as will pay the township or city incur ring such expenses the lawful interest thereon, from the time of expenditure to the time of payment, which sums shall be assessed, levied, and collected in the same manner as the other contingent expenses of such township or city. The said moneys when collected, shall be paid to the county treasurer, and be by him credited to the account of the township or city which incurred the said expense.

SEC. 31. The support of any poor person shall not be charged to the county without the sanction of the superintendents. If a poor person be sent to the county infirmary, or a place provided for the poor, as a county charge, the superintendents in those counties where the respective townships and cities are required to support their own poor, shall immediately inquire into the fact, and if they are of opinion that such poor person has a legal settlement in any township or

city of the said county, they shall, within thirty days after such poor person shall have been received, give notice to the supervisor of the township or director of the poor of the city to which said poor person belongs, that the expenses of his support will be charged to such township or city, unless the said supervisor or director of the poor of the city within such time as the said superintendents shall appoint, not less than twenty days thereafter, show that such township or city ought not to be so charged. And on the application of the said supervisor or director, the superintendents shall re-examine the matter, and take testimony in relation thereto, and shall decide the question, which decision shall be final. The decisions of the board of county superintendents, in relation to the settlement of any poor person, or to their being a charge upon the county, shall be entered in books to be provided for that purpose, and certified by the signatures of such of the said superintendents as make such decisions; and a duplicate thereof, certified in the same manner, shall be filed in the county clerk's office within thirty days after the making of any such decision. Such original, or a copy thereof, duly certified, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein contained.

city, etc.

SEC. 32. In those counties where the respective townships Account or cities are required to support their poor, the county treas opened with urers thereof shall respectively open and keep an account with each township and city in which the township and city shall be credited with all the moneys received from the same, or from its officers, and shall be charged with the expense actually incurred by the superintendents of the poor of the county for the support of such of the township's or city's poor as may be supported at the county infirmary and chargeable to such township or city, if there be a county infirmary or other place provided in such county for the support of the poor; and the superintendents of the poor of the county shall, in each year, before the annual meeting of the board of supervisors of such county, furnish to the county treasurer a statement of the sums charged by them, as hereinafter directed, to the several townships or cities for the support of their poor at the county infirmaries as aforesaid, which shall be charged to each township respectively by the county treas urer in his accounts: Provided, That in determining the Proviso. amount of such expense, no estimate shall be made of the original expense incurred in the purchase or building of such infirmary, and the real estate belonging therewith, and the permanent and valuable improvements made thereon.

apportion

SEC. 33. In those counties in which shall be established, Deficiency, or a place provided by the superintendents for the reception ment of." of the poor, and in which the several townships or cities shall be liable for the support of their poor therein respectively, it shall be the duty of the superintendents annually, and during the week preceding the annual meeting of the board of supervisors, to make out a statement of all the expenses incurred by them the preceding year, and of the

When balance against city, etc.

Accounts laid before township board, etc.

Estimate of

when made.

moneys received, and exhibiting the deficiency, if any, in the funds provided for the defraying of such expenses; and they shall apportion the said deficiency among the said several townships and cities in proportion to the number and expenses of the poor persons belonging to the said townships respectively, in the manner provided for in the preceding section, who shall have been supported at the county in firmary, and shall charge said deficiencies to the townships and cities liable therefor; which statement shall be by them delivered to the county treasurer, as before directed.

SEC. 34. At the annual meeting of the board of supervisors, the county treasurer shall lay before them the account so kept by him; and if it shall appear that there is a balance against any township or city, the said board shall add the same to the amount of taxes to be levied and collected upon such township or city with the other contingent expenses thereof, together with such a sum for interest, at the rate of seven per centum per annum, as will reimburse and satisfy any advances that may be made, or that may have been made from the county treasurer for such township or city which moneys, when collected, shall be paid to the county treasurer.

SEC. 35. On the Tuesday next preceding the annual township meeting of every township and at such time and place as the supervisors of their respective towns and the directors of the poor of their respective cities shall lay the said original books before the township board, or legislative body of the city as the case may be, together with a just and true account of all moneys by them received and expended for the use of the poor, and in what manner, together with an account of the earnings of the poor persons by them employed, which account shall be verified by the oath of the supervisor or director, and shall be filed with the township or city clerk. The township board or legislative body of the city as the case may be, shall compare the said account with the entries in the poor books, aforesaid, and examine the vouchers in support thereof, and shall audit and settle the same, and state the balance due from such supervisor or director, or to them, as the case may be. No credit shall be allowed to any supervisor or director for moneys paid, unless it shall appear that such payment was made pursuant to a legal order. Every such supervisor or director who shall refuse or neglect to present such original books, or to exhibit such accounts to the township board, or legislative body of the city, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be recovered by and in the name of the treasurer of such township or city.

SEC. 36. In those counties where the respective townships sum needed, and cities are made liable for the support of their poor, it shall be the duty of the township clerk to examine, at the annual township meetings, the accounts for the support of the poor therein the preceding year, as the same shall have been allowed and passed by the township board, which accounts shall be openly and distinctly read by the clerk of the