Stenographer, duty of. Salary. Apportionment of salary. Treasurer to pay salary and take receipt. Proviso. Stenographer to furnish transcript of testimony. Fees. Proviso. SEC. 3. Said stenographer shall be deemed an officer of the court, and it shall be his duty to attend said courts at each term and to take full stenographic minutes of the testimony and proceedings upon the trial of each issue of fact tried before the court or jury, at law or in chancery, and as a compensation for such services, he shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which sum shall be paid in monthly installments out of the county treasuries of the counties composing said circuit. The amount to be paid by each of said counties shall be determined upon the basis of the number of suits entered and commenced in the circuit courts of the said counties respectively the preceding year; and on the first day of May of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, it shall be the duty of the judge of said courts to apportion the amount of such salary to be paid by each county respectively, upon the basis aforesaid, and to notify the treasurer of each county thereof, and when so notified, the treasurer of each of said counties shall thereafter, until a new apportionment of salary is made, pay, in monthly installments, the annual salary of said stenographer in accordance with said apportionment and said notification of the circuit judge, and the receipt of said stenographer shall be a sufficient voucher for each of the county treasurers aforesaid: Provided, That the stenographer of said circuit while holding said office shall not be eligible to the office of official stenographer of any other circuit. SEC. 5. In case counsel for either party shall desire a transcript of the testimony or proceedings contained in said stenographer's notes, it shall be the stenographer's duty to furnish the same, and he shall be entitled to demand and receive for making such transcript the sum of eight cents a folio for the first copy, and two cents a folio for each additional copy furnished at the same time; and in case it shall be necessary to procure a transcript of said stenographer's notes of the testimony and proceedings in any case, in order to remove said case to the Supreme Court, and the circuit judge shall so certify, then the amount of the stenographer's fees may be taxed, and if the appellant prevail in the Supreme Court, as a proper disbursement: Provided, That in case a criminal case is taken to the Supreme Court, and the prosecuting attorney desires a transcript of the stenographic notes of said case, the stenographer shall furnish the same free of cost. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 29. ] AN ACT making an appropriation for the purchase of books for the State Library for the years eighteen hundred ninety-three and eighteen hundred ninety-four. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation, That the sum of four thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and the sum of four thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury of the State to the credit of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of books for the State Library. SEC. 2. The money so appropriated shall be drawn from How money the State treasury upon warrant of the Auditor General, and drawn, etc. shall be expended by the State Librarian with the advice and consent of the Governor, for the purpose aforesaid. employ assist SEC. 3. The State Librarian is hereby authorized to employ, Librarian may with the approval of the Governor, such assistance as may ance. be necessary for the care and management of the library, at a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum for each person so employed, payable monthly out of the State treasury, upon the presentation of a voucher certified to by the State Librarian, drawn upon warrant of the Auditor General, from any funds not otherwise appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 30. ] AN ACT to repeal act number two of the public acts of Michigan, approved January twenty, eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to amend section one of act number four hundred and fifty of the laws of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled 'An act to provide for the protection and preservation of fish in certain lakes of Cass and Berrien counties, approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Act repealed. That act number two of the public acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, approved January twenty, eighteen hundred ninety-one, be and the same hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 7, 1893. Unlawful to catch fish in certain manner and tributaries. [ No. 31. ] AN ACT to protect the fish in Saginaw river and its tributaries. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That hereafter it shall not be lawful to use any pound, trap, in Saginaw river stake, gill or set nets or seines or like device of any kind for taking fish in the waters of the Saginaw river and its tributaries or in any of the booms, creeks or bayous adjacent thereto or connected therewith, nor in Saginaw bay nor within one mile from Dummy Range light, so-called, nor within one mile of the mouth of Saginaw river where it empties into Saginaw bay within the limits of Saginaw and Bay counties, from the first day of April to the first day of November in each year; and it shall also be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to purchase or sell or offer for sale or make use of any perch of a less weight than four ounces, or any suckers or mullets of a less weight than twelve ounces, and it shall be the duty of any person who shall take any perch, suckers, or mullets of a less weight than herein prescribed to replace the same alive and witbout injury into the waters from which the same were taken. SEC. 2. Any person who shall be found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default thereof shall be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs shall have been paid, but such confinement shall not exceed thirty days. Penalty for violating this act. Repealing clause. Unlawful to take certain fish. Violation of act SEC. 3. All acts or parts, of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved April 14, 1893. [ No. 32. ] AN ACT to prohibit catching or taking small mouth black bass in Walloon lake, situate in the counties of Charlevoix and Emmet. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That it shall not be lawful to take or catch, by any means whatsoever, small mouth black bass in Walloon lake, or Bear lake, so-called, from the fifteenth day of April in each year, to the twelfth day of July next succeeding. SEC. 2. Any person violating section one of this act shall a misdemeanor. be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not to exceed fifty dollars and costs of suit, or to imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, in the discretion of the court. Penalty. This act is ordered to take effect thirty days after approval by the Governor. Approved April 14, 1893. [ No. 33. ] AN ACT to amend sections four and five of act number one hundred forty-five of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of masonic lodges," as amended by act number one hundred eighty of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, the same being compiler's sections four thousand four hundred seventy-five and four thousand four hundred seventy-six of Howell's Annotated Statutes. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Sections That sections four and five of act number one hundred fortyfive of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of masonic lodges," as amended by act number one hundred eighty of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, the same being compiler's sections four thousand four hundred seventyfive and four thousand four hundred seventy-six of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: erect and own Jimit of. [4475.] SEC. 4. Every corporation formed in pursuance Corporation may with this act may erect and own such suitable edifice, build- building. ing or hall as to such corporation shall seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meetings of the masonic bodies, and for this purpose may create a capital stock of not more than Capital stock, five hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than fifty dollars each, and may take, receive, purchase and hold in its corporate capacity real and personal estate, and the same or any part thereof, demise, convey, mortgage, use and dispose of at pleasure; and any such corporation may take, purchase, hold and own such suitable lot or parcel of ground as may be convenient for the purpose of May own ground a cemetery; and make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposal of lots and the burial of the dead therein as to such corporation may seem proper. for cemetery. elect trustees. Quorum. [4476.] SEC. 5. The stockholders, each of whom shall be Stockholders to entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him, may elect from their number a board of trustees of not less than six nor more than fifteen members, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, and the trustees shall appoint from their own number a president, secretary and treasurer, Officers. who shall perform the duties of their respective offices in accordance with the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the board of trustees. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. Election of county school commissioner. Board of examiners. Term of office. Eligibility. Bond. [ No. 34. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, four, five and six of act number one hundred forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, approved June nineteen, eighteen hundred ninety-one, being an act entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, and to define the duties and fix the compensation for the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, four, five and six of act number one hundred forty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, and to define the duties and fix the compensation for the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act," be amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That at the meetings of the several boards of supervisors of the different counties of the State, to be held on the fourth Monday in June, eighteen hundred ninety-one, the said several boards of supervisors shall elect a county commissioner of schools for their respective counties, whose term of office shall commence on the fourth Tuesday of August next following, who shall hold his or her office until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, or until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified. Said boards of supervisors shall also on said fourth Monday of June appoint two persons as school examiners, who, together with said commissioner of schools, shall constitute a board of school examiners. One of said school examiners shall be appointed for a period of one year and the other for a period of two years from and after the second Monday of October next after their appointment, or until their successors have been appointed and have qualified; and thereafter such boards of supervisors shall, at each annual session, appoint one examiner who shall hold his office for a period of two years, or until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified. Any person shall be eligible to the office of examiner who shall hold at least a third grade certificate, and has taught in the public schools at least nine months, or who has the qualifications required of a commissioner as in section three of this act. Within ten days after such commissioner or examiners shall have received legal notice of his or her election, he or she shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office, and the same shall be filed with the county clerk. The said county commissioner, so appointed, shall execute a bond with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by and filed with the county clerk in the penal sum |