SEC. 18. In the fifth circuit, the stenographer shall be paid Fifth an annual salary of three thousand dollars. circuit. SEC. 24. In the eleventh circuit, the stenographer shall be Eleventh paid an annual salary of four thousand dollars. circuit. SEC. 30. In the seventeenth circuit the stenographer of Seventeenth each division of said court shall be paid an annual salary of circuit. three thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 31. In the eighteenth circuit the stenographer shall Eighteenth be paid an annual salary of thirty-six hundred dollars. circuit. SEC. 32. In the nineteenth circuit, the stenographer shall Nineteenth be paid an annual salary of three thousand nine hundred circuit. dollars. Such stenographer shall, from time to time, under the provisions of section five of this act, furnish at his own expense an assistant when necessary. circuit. SEC. 34. In the twenty-first circuit, the stenographer Twenty-first shall be paid an annual salary of twenty-eight hundred dollars and the circuit judge shall forthwith apportion same in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of this act. SEC. 40. In the twenty-seventh circuit the stenographer Twentyshall be paid an annual salary of two thousand dollars. circuit. SEC. 42. In the twenty-ninth circuit, the stenographer Twentyshall be paid an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dol- circuit. lars. seventh ninth circuit. SEC. 43. In the thirtieth circuit, the stenographer shall Thirtieth be paid an annual salary of thirty-six hundred dollars. If an additional stenographer be appointed for the said circuit, such stenographer shall receive the same salary. second SEC. 45. In the thirty-second circuit, the stenographer Thirtyshall be paid an annual salary of thirty-eight hundred dollars. circuit. SEC. 48c. In the thirty-eighth circuit, the stenographer Thirtyshall be paid an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars. eighth SEC. 48d. In the thirty-ninth circuit, the stenographer Thirtyshall be paid an annual salary of twenty-eight hundred ninth dollars. Approved May 27, 1925. circuit. circuit. Act amended. Section added. Permit not required. [No. 347.] AN ACT to amend act number fifty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to regulate the establishment, maintenance and conducting of public billiard and pool rooms, dance halls, bowling alleys and soft-drink emporiums outside of incorporated cities and villages; to provide for the issuance of permits for such places; to prescribe the powers and duties of township boards with relation thereto; and to prescribe the penalty for violation of the provisions hereof," by adding a new section to be known as section seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number fifty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to regulate the establishment, maintenance and conducting of public billiard and pool rooms, dance halls, bowling alleys and softdrink emporiums outside of incorporated cities and villages; to provide for the issuance of permits for such places; to prescribe the powers and duties of township boards with relation thereto; and to prescribe the penalty for violation of the provisions hereof," is amended by adding one new section thereto to be known as section seven, and to read as follows: SEC. 7. Nothing in this act shall be construed to require any person, lodge, church or other organization to secure a permit or pay a license fee to sell soft-drinks temporarily, at benefits, socials, or agricultural fairs. Approved May 27, 1925. Stop-payment, etc., renewal. [No. 348.] AN ACT to fix limitations on revocations, countermands of payments and stop-payment orders relating to the payment of checks or drafts against bank accounts. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No revocation, countermand or stop-payment order relating to the payment of any check or draft against an account of a depositor in any bank or trust company doing business in this state shall remain in effect for more than six months after the service thereof on the bank, unless the same be renewed, which renewals shall be in writing and which renewals shall be in effect for not more than six months from date of service thereof on the bank or trust company, but such renewals may be made from time to time. period of SEC. 2. No notice affecting a check upon which revocation, Notice, countermand or stop-payment order has been made at the continuance time of the taking effect of this act shall be deemed to con- of. tinue for a period of more than six months thereafter. Approved May 27, 1925. [No. 349.] AN ACT relative to notice of adverse claim to a bank deposit and to prescribe the procedure necessary to make such claim effective to cause recognition of the adverse claimant. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Notice of ad verse claim to bank account. SECTION 1. Notice to any bank or trust company doing business in this state of an adverse claim to a deposit standing on its books to the credit of any person shall not be effectual to cause said bank to recognize said adverse claimant unless said adverse claimant shall also either procure a restraining order, injunction or other appropriate process against said bank from a court of competent jurisdiction in a cause therein instituted by him wherein the person to whose credit the deposit stands is made a party and served with summons, or shall execute to said bank, in form and with sureties acceptable to it a bond, indemnifying said bank from any and all liability, loss, damage, costs and expenses for and on account of the payment of such adverse claim or the dishonor of the check or other order of the person to whose credit the deposit stands on the books of said bank: Provided, That this Proviso. law shall not apply in any instance where the person to whose credit the deposit stands is a fiduciary for such adverse claimant, and the facts constituting such relationship, as also the facts showing reasonable cause of belief on the part of the said claimant that the said fiduciary is about to misappropriate said deposit, are made to appear by the affidavit of such claimant. Approved May 27, 1925. [No. 350.] AN ACT to make an additional appropriation for the building of armories. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts and fund for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred purposes. Additional sums. Proviso. How expended. twenty-six, the sum of thirty thousand dollars as an additional appropriation for the building of an armory at Charlotte, and thirty thousand dollars as an additional appropriation for the building of an armory at St. Johns. SEC. 2. The said sums shall be in addition to the amounts already available, but unexpended, for said armories and any sums heretofore appropriated for the building of said armories and remaining unexpended shall continue to be available therefor: Provided, That the total sum to be expended by the state of Michigan in the erection of said armories shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars for each. SEC. 3. The state administrative board shall determine the times when the amounts thereof which the condition of the general fund of the state will warrant making expenditures therefrom against the appropriations herein authorized. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 26, 1925. Words construed. Idem. Idem. Idem. [No. 351.] AN ACT to provide for the registration of electors, the nomi- The People of the State of Michigan enact: CHAPTER I Definitions SECTION 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan Election Law". SEC. 2. The word "election", as used in this act, shall mean, and be held to include, any election, except school elections, at which the electors of the state or of any subdivision thereof choose by ballot public officials or decide any public question lawfully submitted to them. SEC. 3. The words "general November election", as used in this act, shall mean the election provided to be held in the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in every even numbered year. SEC. 4. The words "biennial spring election", as used in this act, shall mean the election provided to be held in the state on the first Monday of April in every odd numbered year. SEC. 5. The words "general election", as used in this act, Idem. shall mean either the general November election or the biennial spring election. SEC. 6. The words "primary", or "primary election", as Primary. used in this act, shall mean a primary election held for the purpose of deciding by ballot who shall be the nominees of political parties for the offices named in part three of this act, or for the election by ballot of delegates to political convention. SEC. 7. The word "village", when used in this act, shall Village. mean an incorporated village. elector. SEC. 8. The words "qualified elector" shall be construed Qualified to mean any person who possesses the qualifications of an elector as prescribed in section one of article three of the constitution of this state. PART TWO REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS CHAPTER I General Provisions SECTION 1. The inspectors of election at any election or Registration. primary election in this state, or in any district, county, township, or city thereof, shall not receive the vote of any person whose name is not registered in the registration book of the precinct in which he offers to vote; but the name of a qualified elector may be registered on the day of any election or primary election pursuant to chapter three of part two of this act. SEC. 2. Every person who has the constitutional qualifica- who tions of an elector, or who will have such qualifications at entitled to. the next ensuing election or primary election, shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the voting precinct in which he resides. CHAPTER II Registration Books SECTION 1. For every election precinct there shall be a Registration book in which to register the names of all qualified electors books. residing in that precinct who may apply for registration. Such book shall be known as the "Registration book". etc. SEC. 2. Every registration book hereafter procured shall Form of, be in index form, substantially bound, and contain spaced and ruled lines for at least twelve hundred names. Each book shall have on the front cover thereof the words "Registration Book" and the name of the township or city and ward |