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county may maintain an action in chancery in the name of the State of Michigan, upon the relation of such Attorney General, prosecuting attorney or citizen to perpetually enjoin said nuisance, the person or persons conducting or maintaining same, and the owner or agents of the building or place where said nuisance exists, or the vehicles by which any of the liquors mentioned in section one of this act are transported into or about the State. Four days' notice in writing Notice of shall be given the defendant of the hearing of the application,

hearing.

and if then continued at his instance, the writ as prayed Injunction, shall be granted as a matter of course. When an injunction where has been granted, it shall be binding on the defendant binding. throughout the judicial circuit in which it was issued.

SEC. 3. In such action evidence of the general reputation of the place or vehicles shall be admissible for the purpose of proving the existing of said nuisance. The court may substitute the Attorney General or the prosecuting attorney for the complaining party and direct him to prosecute said action to judgment. If the action is brought by a citizen other than the Attorney General or prosecuting attorney and the court finds there was no reasonable ground or cause for said action, the costs may be taxed to such citizen.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 22, 1919.

Evidence of reputation.

Attorney gencuting attor

eral or prose

ney may act.

Costs.

[No. 113.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred fifty of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to prescribe and limit the powers of school districts having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," being section five thousand eight hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred fifty of Section the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to prescribe and limit the powers of school districts having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," being section five thousand eight hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Any school district within the State of Michigan, whose population shall exceed fifteen thousand and be less than one hundred thousand, shall have power and authority Power to bor- to borrow money and issue bonds to an amount not greater in

row money

on bonds.

Amount of loan.

any one year than five per cent of the total assessed valuation
of said district, nor to a total amount, including all out-
standing bonded indebtedness of said district, exceeding eight
per cent of the assessed valuation of said district, subject,
however, to all provisions of law now or hereafter in force
relative to the submission to the electors of such districts of
any or all questions relative to such borrowing of money and
issuing of bonds therefor.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 23, 1919.

Section amended.

Rat bounty.

[No. 114.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number fifty of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of bounties for killing of common rats," approved April fourteen, nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number fifty of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of bounties for killing of common rats," approved April fourteen, nineteen hundred fifteen, being compilers' section seven thousand two hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Every person being an inhabitant of this State who shall kill any black, brown, grey, or Norway rats commonly known as the house rat, barn rat or wharf rat in any organized township, village or city in this State, shall be entitled to receive a bounty of ten cents for each rat thus killed, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided.

Approved April 25, 1919.

[No. 115.]

AN ACT to amend the title and sections one and two of act number one hundred eighty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to make it unlawful to conceal or misrepresent the identity of motor vehicles by removing or defacing the manufacturer's serial number and providing penalties for violation," approved May two, nineteen hundred seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The title and sections one and two of act number one hundred eighty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to make it unlawful to conceal or misrepresent the identity of motor vehicles by removing or defacing the manufacturer's serial number and providing penalties for violation," are hereby amended to read as follows:

Title and

sections

amended.

TITLE.

An Act to make it unlawful to conceal or misrepresent the identity of motor vehicles by removing or defacing the manufacturer's serial number or the engine number and providing penalties for violation.

defacing

unlawful.

SEC. 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or Removing or persons to conceal or misrepresent the identity of a motor numbers vehicle as defined in section one of act number three hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen or any amendment thereto by removing or defacing the manufacturer's serial number or the engine number on such motor vehicle or by replacing any part of such motor bearing the serial number or engine number with a new part upon which the proper serial number or engine number has not been stamped.

prima facie

SEC. 2. In all prosecutions under this act possession by Possession any person, firm or corporation of any motor vehicle as evidence. defined in section one of act number three hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen with the manufacturer's serial number or the engine number removed, defaced, destroyed or altered or with the part bearing such number or numbers replaced by one on which the proper number does not appear shall be prima facie evidence of violation of the provisions of this act.

Approved April 25, 1919.

Sections amended.

[No. 116.]

AN ACT to amend section twelve of chapter one, sections nine, eighteen and nineteen of chapter four and sections twelve, sixteen and seventeen of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twelve of chapter one, sections nine, eighteen and nineteen of chapter four and sections twelve, sixteen and seventeen of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, approved June second, nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," are hereby amended to read as follows:

Line roads, opening, improvement and maintenance of.

Damages, apportionment of.

CHAPTER I.

SEC. 12. Whenever a line road shall have been laid out and established pursuant to the two last preceding sections, the officers or authority having jurisdiction in the premises shall forthwith jointly determine as to the time when the same shall be opened and improved, and shall at the same time determine and allot what portion shall be opened, improved and maintained by either of such townships or municipalities; and such township or municipality shall have all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities, in relation to the part of such road so allotted, as if the same was located wholly in such township or municipality, and the damages which may be assessed in any case together with the cost and

etc.

expense of the proceedings shall be apportioned by the joint action of such authority to and paid by the township or municipal corporations on the line between which said line road may be located, in proportion to the benefit to be derived therefrom by such townships or municipal corporations: Provided, That should any part of such line road Proviso, either now established or hereafter to be established, become abandonment, at any time abandoned, or should the division of such line road between such townships or municipalities, for opening, improvement and maintenance become at any time unjust and inequitable for any cause, then on the written application of seven or more freeholders of either township, municipality, or upon application of the State Highway Commissioner addressed to the commissioner of either township or municipality, the commissioner to whom such application is made, shall within five days after receipt thereof, notify the commissioner of the adjoining interested township or municipality, and the two shall forthwith jointly appoint a time and place of hearing which shall not be less than ten nor Hearing, more than twenty days after the receipt of the application. notice, etc. Notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be posted in three public places in each township or municipality affected, or published at least one time in a newspaper printed and circulated in the township or municipality affected, at least five days before the date of such hearing, and no other notice of same shall be required. Such hearing may be adjourned from time to time, but no longer than twenty days. At such hearing said commissioners shall jointly Determinadetermine whether the former division of such line road is just and equitable, and if not shall determine and allot what portion of same shall thereafter be improved and maintained by either of such townships or municipalities, which allotment shall take effect immediately thereafter. Should such commissioners be unable to agree, then they shall adjourn such hearing, and on the adjourned day associate with themselves a commissioner of some other township of the county or counties traversed by such road, and the three shall sit together and determine such questions by majority vote: Provided further, That whenever a line road or bridge shall have been laid out and established pursuant to the previous sections, and the officers refuse or neglect to construct or maintain their designated portion thereof in a manner reason ably safe and fit for public travel, then the State Highway Commissioner shall upon petition of seven freeholders of either township, inspect the merits of the petition, and if said State Highway Commissioner decides with the petitioners, he shall direct the officers of said township to which the road or bridge belongs to so construct and maintain such road or bridge, and in default thereof he shall be authorized to cause said road to be placed in condition safe and fit for public travel and pay for same out of the highway fund, and render bill for same to the proper officers of such township or

tion.

In case of Further proviso, when way Commis

disagreement.

State High

sioner may construct, etc.

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