Eligibility of signers. Proviso. Apportion ment of cost. in which such highway is situated, unless the road to be improved is a part of a trunk line road. When such road or portion thereof or the assessment district hereinafter provided for to be created because of such improvement shall lie in more than one county, or if the road to be improved is a part of a trunk line road, the application aforesaid shall be presented to the state highway commissioner. The eligibility of signers to any application hereby authorized shall be determined by their interest of record in the office of the register of deeds or in the probate court of the county in which such lands are situated, at the time the petition is presented to the county road commissioners or to the state highway commissioner, as the case may be. In determining the sufficiency of any petition presented hereunder, land owned by the state fronting on the highway to be improved shall not be considered, if the board of control of the institution in cases where said property is owned by the state institution, or the conservation department in all other cases, shall file with the board of county road commissioners, or the state highway. commissioner, as the case may be, written consent to the making of said improvement. If the road desired to be improved is of such character or description that a portion of the expense of such improvement may properly be borne by the state or by the United States under the provisions of any state or federal law, the application, if presented to the board of county road commissioners, may, with the consent of the state highway commissioner, be transmitted to him for action thereon. Any petition for the improvement of such a road so received by the state highway commissioner or presented to him in the first instance under the provisions of this act shall be deemed to confer full authority to cause the improvement to be made in the manner required by such state or federal law, in order that the proper proportion of the expense thereof may be met accordingly. In any such case notwithstanding any of the provisions of this act, the state highway commissioner shall cause to be assessed, raised and collected under the provisions of this act such proportion only of the total cost of the improvement as may be required to be borne by the assessment district and by the municipalities that may be liable in accordance herewith, it being the intent of this proviso that roads improved hereunder may receive assistance from the state or from the United States in accordance with the terms of the acts above referred to: Provided, That no petition shall be received by any board of county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner under the provisions of this act unless it be for the improvement of a county road, a trunk line highway or a federal aided road, or for the improvement of a road that is directly connected with a county road, a trunk line highway or federal aided road. SEC. 17. The county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall apportion the per cent of the total cost of construction of such improvement, which the county at large shall be liable to pay by reason of the benefit to the public convenience and welfare, and as a means of improving the highway, and shall apportion the per cent of the cost of construction of such improvement for the same reasons that any township traversed or benefited thereby shall be liable to pay and shall likewise apportion the per cent of the cost of the construction of such improvement, for the same reasons, that any city traversed thereby shall be liable to pay. They shall also apportion the per cent of benefits to accrue Benefits. to any piece or parcel of land by reason of the construction of such improvement over and above the per cent assessed against the county at large, townships at large and cities at large, aforesaid which per cent of benefit shall be apportioned upon and assessed against the lands benefited, according to benefits received and which apportionments shall be announced at the time and place of hearing objections to and equalizing the apportionment of benefits. Such assessments Review of of per cent of benefits shall thereupon be subject to review assessments. and correction and may be reviewed in the manner herein provided. All appeals in this act provided for shall be from the apportionment of the per cent of benefits. Any state lands, except state tax homestead or state swamp lands under the control of the conservation department, benefited by any such improvement, shall be liable to assessment in the same manner as are privately owned lands. The amount of any assessment on state land shall be certified by the board of county road commissioners, or by the state highway commissioner, as the case may be, to the auditor general who shall thereupon draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the amount due. Payment thereof shall be made out of any funds in the state treasury appropriated therefor. The auditor gen- Tax clause. eral shall incorporate in the state tax for the year nineteen hundred twenty-five and for each year thereafter a sufficient sum as estimated by him to reimburse the general fund for all sums paid by the state on account of such assessments. In any case where such assessment is imposed by the board of county road commissioners the state shall have the same right of appeal as is herein given to owners of other lands. The county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall designate each assessment district by number, by which number it shall thereafter be known. Whenever any Hearing of state land shall be assessed for benefits, the board of county notice. road commissioners or the state highway commissioner, as the case may be, shall give ten days' notice to the auditor general of the time and place of the hearing of objections on account of such assessments. objections, debtedness. SEC. 27. The total indebtedness of the county, including Limit of inindebtedness under this act, shall not exceed three per cent of the assessed valuation of such county: Provided, That in Proviso. any county having an assessed valuation of five million dollars or less, the total indebtedness may equal, but not exceed five per cent of the assessed valuation of such county: And Further proviso. provided further, That no indebtedness shall be created by the board of county road commissioners under the provisions of this act without the approval of the board of supervisors given at a regular meeting thereof. Approved May 5, 1925. Section amended. Domestic animals, protection, etc., of. [No. 188.] AN ACT to amend section four of act number one hundred eighty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the prevention and suppres sion of contagious, infectious and communicable diseases of live stock; to provide for the creation of a department of animal industry of the state of Michigan; to authorize and require the appointment of a state commissioner of animal industry, of two advisory commissioners and of a state veterinarian; to prescribe the powers and duties of said officers, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," approved May second, nineteen hundred nineteen, as amended by act number two hundred eighty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and further amended by act number nine of the public acts, first special session of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and further amended by act number eighty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of act number one hundred eightyone of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to provide for the prevention and suppression of contagious, infectious and communicable diseases of live stock; to provide for the creation of a department of animal industry of the state of Michigan; to authorize and require the appointment of a state commissioner of animal industry, of two advisory commissioners and of a state veterinarian; to prescribe the powers and duties of said officers, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," approved May second, nineteen hundred nineteen, as amended by act number two hundred eighty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and by act number nine of the public acts, first special session of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and by act number eighty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of animal industry to have general charge and oversight of the protection of the health of the domestic animals of the state and the veterinarian. guarding of the same from all contagious or infectious dis eases. To such end said commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and enforce in accordance with this act such quarantine, sanitary and other regulations as may be deemed necessary. It shall be the duty of Duty of the state veterinarian to carry out the directions of the commissioner of animal industry, and to devote his entire time to the performance of his official duties. It shall be the duty of office facilithe board of auditors of the state to furnish proper office ties. facilities at the city of Lansing for the state commissioner of animal industry and for the state veterinarian, including a laboratory for the investigation of infectious diseases of all live stock. The terms "live stock" or "domestic animals" or "Live stock," "animal," when same appear in this act, shall be held to etc., what to include poultry. Approved May 5, 1925. include. [No. 189.] AN ACT to amend sections three and four of act number three hundred seventy of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to protect the public health, to provide for the furnishing and distribution by the state commissioner of health of antitoxin and other biological products for the prevention and treatment of diphtheria; to authorize the purchase and manufacture thereof and to make appropriations therefor," as amended by act number one hundred twenty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections three and four of act number three Sections hundred seventy of the public acts of nineteen hundred twen- amended. ty-one, entitled "An act to protect the public health, to provide for the furnishing and distribution by the state commissioner of health of antitoxin and other biological products for the prevention and treatment of diphtheria; to authorize the purchase and manufacture thereof and to make appropriations therefor." as amended by act number one hundred twenty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentythree, are hereby amended to read as follows: chase of. SEC. 3. Such quantities of antitoxin and other biological Antitoxin, products for the treatment of diphtheria as may be required etc., purunder the provisions of section one shall be purchased by the state commissioner of health. Bids for the furnishing of such products shall be advertised for in at least three newspapers of the state, of general circulation, such advertisement to be published not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for Proviso. Appropriations for plant, etc. receiving bids. Upon the receipt of such bids, contracts for the furnishing of antitoxin and other products may be let, but in no case shall any such contract cover a period of more than one year in length or extend beyond the thirtieth day of June of each year. The right to reject any and all bids shall be reserved. Contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidders furnishing adequate security for the performance thereof: Provided, however, If deemed expedient by the state commissioner of health, contracts for a portion only of the products required may be made with any bidder. SEC. 4. For the purpose of acquiring, constructing and operating the said plant there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-six, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twentyseven, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. There is also appropriated for the purchase of antitoxin and other biological products for the treatment and prevention of diphtheria for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-six, the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twentyseven, the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars and thirtyeight thousand dollars for each fiscal year thereafter. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 5, 1925. State normal school. Location, who to designate. To procure site. [No. 190.] AN ACT to provide for the establishment, location, conduct and maintenance of a normal school in the northern part of the southern peninsula, and to make an appropriation for the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. A state normal school shall be established in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan for the purpose of instructing persons in the several branches pertaining to a public school education and in the science and the art of teaching. SEC. 2. Such normal school shall be located, established and maintained at such place in the northern part of the lower peninsula as shall be designated by the state board of education and approved by the governor. SEC. 3. The state board of education is hereby authorized to procure a suitable site for the grounds and buildings for said normal school located at the place designated by the state board of education. Said state board of education shall |