way secured.

pany to furnish

How paid.

When company does not furnish superintendent.

the provisions of section twenty-four of this chapter, then and in such case such right of way shall be deemed to be fully When right of acquired and secured for the public. After the right of way has been acquired, the Commissioner of Railroads of this State shall, on application of the highway commissioner, furnish plans and specifications of approaches, cattle-guards, fences and other safeguards as may be necessary to make such crossing reasonably safe for the use of the public and all business of such railroad, and thereupon, upon receipt of such plans and specifications, the highway commissioner shall advertise for proposals for opening such highway across the right of way and tracks of such railroad company, according to such plans and specifications, as provided in other cases for letting all contracts by highway commissioners, for conRailroad com structing and improving highways and bridges. Such railroad superintendent. company is hereby required to furnish a competent superintendent or trackman to superintend the construction of such crossing, and such township shall pay to such railroad comCompensation. pany a per diem compensation for such superintendent, not exceeding two dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily spent in superintending such construction, and such highway commissioner is authorized to issue orders in payment of such contract and for the payment of such superintendent, as provided by law. In case such railroad company refuses or neglects to furnish a superintendent for the construction of such crossing as aforesaid, then and in such case it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Railroads to appoint some suitable person, who shall receive the compensation aforesaid from the said township, to oversee and superintend the construction of such crossing: Provided, That in cases where the expense of constructing such crossing shall be less than fifty dollars, the same may be performed by the said highway commissioner, under the supervision of a superintendent, as aforesaid, without the letting of any contract, and such commissioner of highways is authorized to draw orders for the payment of the same as in other cases. If any railroad company shall attempt to obstruct the opening of any such highway after such right of way has been secured and payment of damages herein provided for has been made and tendered as herein provided, by any agent, officer or employé or any other person, the said railroad company shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each day the opening or construction of such highway is delayed or impeded, for the benefit of the township; and the highway commissioner may sue for and recover such penalty in any of the courts of this State; and in addition thereto, if any officer, agent or employé, or person acting for and in the interest of any railroad company, shall annoy, hinder or obstruct any highway commissioner, contractor or person employed by him or them in opening such highway or constructing any grades, approaches, cattle-guards, crossings or fences required to complete, or for

Proviso.

Penalty for obstructing highway, when.

the use of such highway and the public, such officer, agent, employé or person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Approved May 29, 1893.

[No. 146. ]

AN ACT for the incorporation of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, division of Michigan, and of subordinate camps thereof.

of Veterans may

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Camps of Sons That the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, be incorporated. division of Michigan, and subordinate camps of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, division of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act.

may form.

SEC. 2. The commander, senior vice commander, junior Certain officers vice commander, and adjutant of the division of Michigan, Sons of Veterans, United States of America, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before Articles of insome officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall set forth:

First, The names of the officers above mentioned and their places of residence;

Second, The corporate name by which the association or corporation shall be known in law;

Third, The object and purpose of such association or corporation which shall be to promote the general welfare of the order known as the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, and the period for which it is incorporated, which shall not exceed thirty years.

corporation, contents of.

with Secretary

SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together Articles filed with a copy of the rules and regulations of the Sons of Vete- of State. rans of the United States of America, shall be filed with the Secretary of State, and thereupon the persons who shall sign such articles of association or corporation, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate by the Body politic. name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have successions and shall be persons in law capable to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, estates, real and personal, of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal which may be altered or changed at pleasure, but

Powers.

said corporation shall have no power to divert any gift, grant, or bequest from the specific purpose or purposes designated by the donor or donors. It shall also have the power to act as trustee under any gift or bequest for any specified purpose within those named by its rules and regulations, or the spirit thereof, and may administer such trust by such officers and in such manner as is in accordance with such rules and regulations of the order and with the specified instructions of the donor or donors, and such trust when so created shall not be invalid for want of the names of specific beneficiaries to be benefited thereby, and in case the charter of any such camp or division should be taken away or surrendered, or whenever such camp or division should become defunct as a corporation and incapable of carrying out the provisions of any such trust as trustee thereof, the same shall be turned over to and received by a commission, or board of trustees, of not more than three persons in number, which said board of trustees shall be appointed by the circuit court of the county in which said camp was organized, or if said property be real estate, in which real estate is situated, which said board of trustees shall continue to administer said trust fund in accordance with the provisions and the spirit of the rules and regulations of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, and the conditions expressed in said trust, and they shall account to and be governed in the management thereof by said court, and may be required to give the same bonds as receiver appointed under the general powers of the court: Provided, That the value of the real estate and perproperty owned. sonal estate owned in fee by said camp or division, shall not exceed the value of twenty-five thousand dollars; and that they and their successors shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of such real and personal estate or any part thereof to be disposed of, together with the proceeds, rent and income, as directed by such corporation under its rules and regulations. Said corporation shall have full power to make and establish rules and by-laws for regulating and governing all of its affairs and business not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State or of the United States, and to designate, elect, or appoint from its members such officers under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America.

Proviso as to

Establish bylaws, etc.

Prima facie evidence.

Power to charter camps.

SEC. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of [association] associations under the seal of the State, duly certified by the Secretary of State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of the state of existence and due organization of such corporation.

SEC. 5. Such corporation when duly formed shall have power to institute and charter camps of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, within this State, and from time to time issue such orders for the government of camps

as are not repugnant to the rules and regulations of the commander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America.

make articles of

File copy with

SEC. 6. At any time when a subordinate camp of the subordinate Sons of Veterans of the United States of America shall by camps may a two-thirds vote of the members present, at any regular association. meeting of said camp, resolve to become incorporated, the captain, 1st lieutenant, 2d lieutenant and 1st sergeant of such camp, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, specifying as provided in section two of this act, and file a copy of the resolutions passed at regular meeting of the camp, with the clerk of the county county clerk. in which such corporation shall be formed, which shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, and thereupon such camp of the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, the officers thereof, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and Body politic. corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in law with the same [powers] power, duties, and liabilities as the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, division of Michigan, have under section three of this act: Provided, That a certified copy of Proviso. the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the circuit court of the county where such records is recorded shall be received as prima facie evidence in all the courts Prima facie in this State of the existence and due organization of such corporation.

evidence.

ings.

SEC. 7. Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act May own buildmay erect and own such suitable memorial edifice, building, or hall, as to such corporation may seem proper for its purpose, and it may, if so desired, create for that purpose a capital stock of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars, Capital stock. to be divided into shares of not more than ten dollars each, which said shares may be subscribed for and held by any person, but in case such person or any persons holding shares who are not members of said camp, or of the division encampment of said division, or agents of the same, they shall have no voice in the control of said building during the life of said corporation: And provided further, In case Further proviso.. any such corporation so desires it may, for the purpose of building any such memorial buildings, unite in the erection thereof with any township, village, city or county, to be used jointly for the purposes of the Sons of Veterans, and the public purposes of any such corporation, in such manner and form as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto respectively: Provided, That in case of the joint erection of such Proviso. memorial building, that when any such camp or division becomes defunct as a corporation the said building shall belong in perpetuity to the public corporation and its successors, subject to the provisions of law. And any such May own land.

Proviso.

Further proviso.

Corporations

to law.

corporation organized under this act may take, purchase, hold and own suitable lots or parcels of ground as may be convenient for the purposes of a cemetery, and make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of lots therein and the burial of the dead: Provided, This act shall not be construed to [affect] effect any municipal regulation in regard to cemeteries: And provided further, That any such corporation may join with any public corporation in the creation of any such cemetery, or division of any existing cemetery, but in case of such joint agreement, such cemetery, after the dissolution of the said corporation, shall revert to and become the property of, or subject to the control of, any such public corporation, to be maintained by it in perpetuity as a distinct Sons of Veterans division of such cemetery.

SEC. 8. All corporations formed under this act shall be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirty of the compiled laws of this State so far as the same may be applicable to corporations formed under this act.. Approved May 29, 1893.

Ladies' Aid

incorporated,

[ No. 147. ]

AN ACT for the incorporation of the Ladies' Aid Society, auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, division of Michigan, and of subordinate societies thereof.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Society may be That the Ladies' Aid Society, auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans, United States of America, division of Michigan, and subordinate societies of the Ladies' Aid Society, auxiliary to camps of the Sons of Veterans, United States of America, division of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance of this act.

Certain officers may incorporate.

Contents of articles.

SEC. 2. The president, vice president, secretary and treasurer of the division of Michigan, Ladies' Aid Society, auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans, United States of America, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of association or incorporation shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds and shall set forth:

First, The names of officers above mentioned and their places of residence;

Second, The corporate name by which the association or corporation shall be known in law;

Third, The object and purposes of such association or corporation which shall be to promote the general welfare of the order known as the Ladies' Aid Society and the period