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SEC. 4. Immediately upon the adoption of the resolution Selection of aforesaid, the township board of each township, common bers. council or board of trustees of each village embraced within the health district, shall select by ballot a member of the district board of health, who shall reside within said health district: Provided, however, That members of said township ineligible. boards, common councils or boards of trustees shall be ineligible to such selection. The person so appointed shall be notified of such fact by the township or the village clerk. The persons so appointed shall constitute said district board, To constitute and the first meeting thereof may be called at a suitable time and place within the district by any two of such members on the serving of written notice upon the other members of the board. Each member of such board shall hold his Tenure. office for two years and until his successor is appointed and qualifies. At such first meeting the board shall proceed to organize by the election of a president, who shall be the presiding officer of the board, and a secretary and treasurer. Said board shall adopt rules governing procedure, its time Rules and and place of meeting and other matters necessary to the carrying on of the said work of said board. It shall have general care and oversight of the public health of said district and may exercise all powers granted by the general law of the State to boards of health of townships and villages. Authority is also hereby granted to such board to make such regulations and by-laws respecting nuisances, causes of sickness and other matters pertaining to the public health within such health district as may be deemed necessary for the public health and safety, not repugnant to the general laws of the State. Any person violating such regulation or any by-law Penalty. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the jail not exceeding ninety days, or to both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

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SEC. 6. Prior to the first day of October of each year, Preparation said district board of health shall prepare estimates of the estimates. amount that will be necessary for the ensuing year for the carrying on of the purposes of this act in said district and shall cause the same to be filed with the township clerk. It shall Duty of clerk. be the duty of said clerk to place said estimates before the township board thereof. Said township board shall consider the estimate thus presented and, upon the approval by the common council or board of trustees of the village or villages Raising of within said township, shall direct the raising of such amount in the various townships and villages composing such health district as may be required. The aggregate of such amount shall be proportioned among the various townships and villages comprising said health district in accordance with the assessed valuations thereof and shall be certified, spread and

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and collected. Funding.

collected in the same manner as provided in the general tax
laws of the State for the certifying, spreading and collecting
of the State and county tax. When collected, such sum shall
be paid into the township treasury and shall be by the town-
ship treasurer placed in a special fund to be known and
designated as "The general fund of health district number
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Approved May 12, 1919.

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Section amended.

Petition for removal of cause.

Bond.

How conditioned.

[No. 222.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-one of act number fortynine of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-five, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids, to be called "The Superior Court of Grand Rapids,'" being section fourteen thousand seven hundred two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of act number forty-nine of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-five, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids, to be called "The Superior Court of Grand Rapids,'" being section fourteen thousand seven hundred two of the Compiled Law of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 21. If either party to any cause now pending in the circuit court for the county of Kent, either at law or in chancery, and within the jurisdiction of said superior court, shall, after the taking effect of this act, or if the defendant in the case of a suit within such jurisdiction hereafter commenced, at the time of entering his appearance in said circuit court, shall file with the clerk or register of said court a petition for the removal of the cause into the said superior court for the city of Grand Rapids, and shall at the same time file with the clerk or register of said circuit court a bond to the opposite party, with sufficient surety, to be approved by a judge of said circuit court or the circuit court commissioner of said county of Kent, and in such sum as such judge or commissioner shall direct, conditioned for the enter ing in said superior court, within ten days of the date of filing such petition, copies of all papers filed and proceedings had in said cause in the said circuit court, and also for his there appearing and entering special bail in the cause if special bail was originally requisite therein; and upon filing

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of said petition and bond, it shall thereupon be the duty of said circuit court for the county of Kent to proceed no further in the cause, and no order of said circuit court for the removal of said cause shall be requisite; and the filing of said petition and bond shall operate as a stay of all proceedings in said Stay of procircuit court in said cause for said ten days; and thereafter provided such cause is removed, otherwise not; but such stay shall not affect the running of any period of time pro- What not to vided by statute or rule for the filing of any pleading or the taking of any other proceedings by the defendant; and any bail that shall originally have been taken shall not be discharged; and the copies of said papers and proceedings being so entered and filed as aforesaid in such superior court, the cause shall then proceed in the same manner as if it had been originally brought in said court, and any attachment of the goods or estate of the defendants by the original process shall hold the goods or estate so attached to answer the final judgment, in the same manner as they would have been held to answer the final judgment had it been rendered by the court in which the suit was commenced. It shall be the duty of the clerk in said circuit court, within the time prescribed for filing said copies, to deliver to the person so seeking to remove said cause, upon being paid therefor five cents per folio for making and certifying such copy, and in case the clerk of said circuit court shall, upon demand and the payment or tender of his fees, refuse or neglect to deliver to such party certified copies of such record and proceedings, the superior court, on proof by affidavit that the said clerk has refused or neglected to deliver such copies thereof, on demand as aforesaid, shall direct and allow such record to be supplied by affidavit or otherwise as the circumstances of the case may require or allow, at any time within fifteen days of the filing of such petition in the circuit court; and thereupon such proceedings, trial, and judgment may be had in said superior court as if certified copies of such records and proceedings had been regularly before the said court. Said cause shall be be placed on the calendar of the superior court for trial by the clerk thereof, as soon as it is at issue. Approved May 12, 1919.

copies by

clerk of court.

When record supplied by affidavit.

When placed on calendar.

Sections amended.

Who may establish industrial bank.

associations.

[No. 223.]

AN ACT to amend sections two, four, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and twenty-two of act number two hundred ninety-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act concerning industrial banks, defining the same and providing for their incorporation, powers, supervision and control."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections two, four, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and twenty-two of act number two hundred ninety-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act concerning industrial banks, defining the same and providing for their incorporation, powers, supervision and control," be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. Any number of persons, not less than five, or any voluntary association composed of persons engaged in industrial occupations, may establish an industrial bank under the provisions of this act in the manner provided for the incorporation of State banks, so far as applicable and consistent Capital stock. With the provisions of this act. The aggregate amount of the capital stock of any industrial bank shall not be less than twenty-five thousand dollars in any city or village having a population of less than fifty thousand inhabitants, and shall not be less than fifty thousand dollars in any city or village having fifty thousand, or more, inhabitants, and less than one hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, and shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars in any city or village having one hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or more, By voluntary according to the last official census. An industrial bank organized by a voluntary association under the provisions of this act shall at the time of its organization have in addition to the aggregate amount of its capital stock assets equal to fifty per cent of such capital stock. The capital stock of any such corporation shall be divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; when the capital is contributed by individuals the shares of stock shall be issued to the persons contributing such capital, and when the capital is contributed by a voluntary association, the shares of stock shall be held by one or more members of the association in trust for the association. The capital of an industrial bank organized by a voluntary association shall be paid to the bank by the association and the same shall thereafter belong to the bank, and it shall keep the same entirely separate and apart from the funds of the association. No corporation organized under this act shall create more than one class of stock.

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from association funds.

powers.

SEC. 4. Upon making and filing articles of incorporation, Corporate the industrial bank shall become a body corporate and as

such shall have power:

First, To adopt and use a corporate seal;

Second, To have succession for the period of years named in the articles of incorporation;

Third, To make contracts;

Fourth, To sue and be sued in any court of law or equity as fully as natural persons;

Fifth, To elect or appoint directors, who shall choose from their members a president and one or more vice-presidents, and shall have power to appoint and employ a cashier or treasurer, and other officers, define their duties, require bonds from any such officers and clerks, dismiss such officers so elected or appointed, or any of them, at pleasure and elect or appoint others to fill their places, and the board of directors shall require every officer and every clerk concerned in the handling of moneys, accounts and securities of the bank to be bonded, either by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Michigan, or by a personal bond, in such an amount as shall be determined by the board of directors. When the bank is organized by individuals, the first board of directors shall be elected at the first stockholders' meeting held after the filing of articles of incorporation, and directors shall be elected thereafter at the annual stockholders' meetings to be held on the second Tuesday in January of each year. When the bank is organized by a voluntary association, the directors thereof shall in the first instance be named in the articles of association, and thereafter they shall be elected at the annual meeting of the association by a majority vote of those present;

Sixth, To prescribe by its board of directors by-laws not inconsistent with law regulating the manner in which its stock shall be transferred, its directors and officers elected or appointed, its stockholders convened for special meetings, its property transferred, its general business conducted and the privileges granted to it by law exercised and enjoyed;

Seventh, To loan money and to deduct interest therefor in advance at the rate of six per cent per annum or less, and in addition to receive uniform weekly or monthly installments on its certificates of investment purchased by the borrower simultaneously with the said loan transaction, or otherwise, with or without an allowance of interest on such installments;

Eighth, To sell or negotiate notes, certificates of investment and choses in action for the payment of money at any time, either fixed or uncertain, and to receive payments therefor in installments or otherwise with or without an allowance of interest upon such installments;

Ninth, To charge for a loan made pursuant to this section one dollar for each fifty dollars or fraction thereof loaned for

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