shall absent himself therefrom or from any school class, task or duty prescribed for him without leave or permission from said superintendent. Whenever any boy absents himself without leave beyond the limits of said school he may be retaken thereto by any police or other public officer or agent without warrant, and it shall be the duty of every person having knowledge of the whereabouts of such boy to immediately notify the superintendent of said school of such fact, and also the nearest public official and to hold said boy in detention until he can be delivered up for return to said school. who to SEC. 6. The state corrections commission shall prescribe Rules, etc., rules and regulations for the discipline of said school to carry prescribe. out the purposes thereof, which shall be subject to the advice and approval of the governor. Said commission shall also prescribe a complete and graduated course of study for the boys within such school, equal and as near as may be similar to the grades up to the twelfth grade in the public schools of this state. Said commission shall also provide the means and equipment, and competent instructors for the teaching of useful trades and occupations, including any technical training that may be useful and suitable to the pupils therein. Certificates of proficiency in each year's work and of promotion from grade to grade shall be given each pupil, and upon full graduation from said school each pupil shall be entitled to and given an eligibility certificate showing his scholastic and technical standing, which certificate shall be signed and authorized by the superintendent of public instruction of the state and shall bear no other signature. SEC. 7. The boys attending said boys' vocational school Cadet shall be formed into a cadet corps for such gymnastic, corps. athletic and military training as may be prescribed for said school, and in such capacity shall be furnished suitable uniforms, athletic equipment, musical instruments and instructions in such subjects. Each boy in said cadet corps shall be known as a "cadet", and the corps shall be publicly known as "The Boys' Vocational Cadet Corps". It shall be the duty of the officers connected with said school to stimulate esprit in said corps, and to encourage the members thereof in all proper manly sports and attainments; and to all times inculcate the principles of good citizenship in the minds of said cadets. SEC. 8. Under rules and regulations to be prescribed by Leaves of the state corrections commission and approved by the gover- absence. nor, any cadet in said school may be granted temporary leaves of absence for vacation periods or may be temporarily placed in the care of any resident of this state who is the head of a family and of good moral character, and who will undertake to receive such cadet in his home, provide for him temporarily and return him to such school upon demand of the superintendent thereof. Any such cadet may be given over for legal Adoption. adoption to any such resident of the state upon the same terms and conditions and by the same legal process as are Period detained. Medical, etc., inspections. Individual Report to governor. PUBLIC ACTS, 1925-No. 185. prescribed by law in other cases, the state acting in such proceedings in loco parentis. In all such cases the probate court of Ingham county, or of the county from which such cadet came to said school, shall have jurisdiction to order and confirm such adoption. SEC. 9. Every such cadet shall remain in said school until his graduation therefrom or for the period expressed in the order of the juvenile division of the probate court which sent him there; but no such cadet shall be held in said school beyond the age of eighteen years. Upon his graduation or discharge he shall be returned to the county from which he came to his natural parents, if living and able to take charge of him, or placed temporarily in the care of the county agent of the juvenile court, or, where such arrangements have been made, shall be placed in the care of any resident of this state of good moral character who is willing to furnish him a home or employment as provided in section eight hereof. SEC. 10. The rules and regulations of said school shall provide for initial, periodical and final medical and physical inspections of each cadet, for his treatment for any disease or physical ailment, for decent and appropriate burial in case of death; for his classification as adaptability as to occupation, conduct and deportment, and to age, mental condition, as to such other grounds as may be prescribed therein. The discipline prescribed shall be fairly and humanely carried on, and shall not ordinarily include any form of punishment not permitted to parents in their usual relationships. Any such cadet who proves to be wholly incorrigible may be returned to the public authorities of the county from which he came. SEC. 11. Records shall be kept pertaining to each individual records kept. cadet during his residence or connection with said school, containing such information and notations as may be prescribed by the state corrections commission in regulations. Report shall be furnished the governor upon such matters pertaining to said school as he may require. Upon graduation from said school, all records pertaining to any cadet shall be filed as confidential and shall not be made public thereafter excepting upon the order of the probate court of the county having original jurisdiction of such cadet. Transportation, etc., when furnished. Misde meanor, what deemed. SEC. 12. Every cadet upon graduation or honorable discharge from said school, shall be given suitable civilian clothing, transportation to his destination, and such sum of money, not exceeding fifty dollars, as may be deemed necessary for his sustenance for a period of thirty days thereafter, which clothing and money shall be provided out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the requisition of the superintendent of said school and the warrant of the auditor general. SEC. 13. Any person, not being a pupil therein, who aids. or induces any pupil in said school to disobey its rules or regulations, or to escape therefrom, or who fails to notify the public authorities as required in section five, or who other wise violates any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be Penalty. punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 14. Act number nine of the public acts of eighteen Act hundred ninety-three and so much of act number seventy-eight repealed. of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-five as is inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Approved May 5, 1925. [No. 186.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the department of conservation for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-six, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, for maintenance and operation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: purposes. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts and fund for the department of conservation, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-six, the sum of eight hundred nineteen thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, the sum of eight hundred four thousand dollars, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows: Additional appropriations. Proviso. Grand totals $819,000.00 $804,000.00 SEC. 2. There is also appropriated for each of said years for the use of said department, all of the fees or other moneys received by said department under the laws relating to fish and angler's license, and there is further appropriated for the use of said department all income derived from game licenses and fees for its use in the manner and for the purposes provided by the law for the years nineteen hundred twenty-six and nineteen hundred twenty-seven: Provided further, That all amounts appropriated under this act shall be expended subject to general supervisory control of the state administrative board. out. SEC. 3. The amounts hereby appropriated shall be paid out How paid of the state treasury at such times and in such manner as is or may be provided by law. credited. SEC. 4. All fees or other moneys received by said depart- Where This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 187.] AN ACT to amend sections four, seventeen and twenty-seven of act number fifty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways; for the levying, spreading and collecting of taxes and of special assessments therefor, to authorize the borrowing of money and the issuance of bonds under certain restrictions, regulations and limitations; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers with reference thereto; and to validate certain proceedings heretofore taken," same being sections four thousand six hundred seventy-four, four thousand six hundred eighty-seven and four thousand six hundred ninety-seven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections four, seventeen and twenty-seven of Sections act number fifty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred amended. fifteen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways; for the levying, spreading and collecting of taxes and of special assessments therefor, to authorize the borrowing of money and the issuance of bonds under certain restrictions, regulations and limitations; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers with reference thereto; and to validate certain proceedings heretofore taken," same being sections four thousand six hundred seventy-four, four thousand six hundred eighty-seven and four thousand six hundred ninetyseven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: ment. SEC. 4. Whenever the owners of more than sixty-six per Application cent of the lineal frontage of lands fronting or touching upon for improveany highway or portion thereof, desire to improve such highway or portion thereof, they may file application for such improvement with the county road commissioners of the county |