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original amount of the principal of said mortgage at any time and that the failure of the mortgagor to forthwith procure the release of such steamship or steamships from mechanics', laborers', admiralty, statutory, or other liens, claims or charges against said steamship, shall constitute a default in the provisions of such mortgage: And provided Further further, That such bonds shall have been approved by the Pro securities commission hereinafter provided for;

proviso, approval.

negotiable

(i) Said banks may loan the same upon negotiable paper Secured or other evidences of indebtedness, secured by any of the paper. above mentioned classes of securities; or

(j) Upon notes or bonds secured by mortgage lien upon unencumbered real estate worth at least double the amount loaned except on improved farm property the amount loaned upon such notes or bonds secured by first mortgage lien shall not exceed sixty per cent of value of such property; or

Notes secured by mortgage on real estate.

(k) In accepted drafts or bills of exchange having not Bills of exmore than six months to run growing out of transactions change, etc. involving the importation or exportation of goods; or growing out of transactions involving the domestic shipment of goods providing shipping documents conveying or securing title are attached at the time of acceptance; or which are secured at the time of acceptance by official warehouse receipt or other document conveying or securing title covering readily marketable staples. For the purposes of this section the Acceptance acceptance of any one person, company, firm or corporation shall not exceed at any time more than twenty per cent of its paid up capital and unimpaired surplus. The aggregate of Aggregate such accepted drafts or bills of exchange shall not exceed at any one time the amount of capital stock and unimpaired surplus of the bank.

(1) The remainder of such deposit may be invested in notes, bills, or other evidences of debt, the payment of which is secured by the deposit with the bank of collateral security consisting of personal property or securities of known marketable value worth ten per cent more than the amount so loaned and interest for the time of the loan; or may be invested in notes, bills or other evidences of debt, the payment of which is secured by such property or securities deposited in a trust company organized under the laws of this State; or may be deposited in any national bank, trust company, or bank in cities in this or any other State, approved by the Commissioner of the Banking Department as reserve cities, and a portion of said remainder, not exceeding the capital and additional stockholders' liability, may be invested in negotiable paper approved by the board of directors, but the deposits in any one bank shall not exceed ten per cent of the total deposits, capital and surplus of the depositing bank. In case the actual reserve shall fall below the twelve per cent above provided, the bank shall promptly and in good faith take measures to restore and maintain its law

limited.

amount.

Notes, etc.,

with collat

eral security.

Bank to

maintain

reserve.

ful reserve, in default of which the Commissioner of the Banking Department shall require such restoration within thirty days after notice, and a failure to comply with such demands shall warrant proceedings to wind up the bank as provided in section six of this act.

Approved March 18, 1919.

Revision of corporation laws.

[No. 24.]

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Attorney General to prepare a bill or bills for the revision, consolidation and simplification of the laws of this State relating to corporations; and to prescribe his duties in connection therewith.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The Attorney General of this State shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January, nineteen hundred twenty-one, submit to the legislature a bill or bills to revise, consolidate and simplify the laws of this State relating to corporations, including those laws enacted by the legislative session of nineteen hundred nineteen.

Approved March 19, 1919.

Employment of certain persons

prohibited.

Physical examination.

[No. 25.]

AN ACT to prohibit the employment of persons affected with infectious or venereal disease in places where food or drink is manufactured, prepared, served or sold.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. No person who is affected with any infectious disease, or with any venereal disease in a communicable form, shall work or be permitted to work in any place where food or drink is prepared, cooked, mixed, baked, exposed, bottled, packed, handled, stored, manufactured, offered for sale or sold. Whenever required by any local health officer, any person employed in any such place shall submit to a physical examination by such officer, or by some physician designated by such health officer or by a physician regularly in the employ of the person, firm, corporation or institution by

whom the person to be examined is employed. If as a result Employment of such examination, such person shall be found to be affected to cease. with any infectious disease, or with any venereal disease in a communicable form, such employment shall immediately cease and such person shall not be permitted to work in any such place.

SEC. 2. Any person, knowingly affected with any infec- Penalty.
tious disease, or with any venereal disease in a communicable
form, who shall work in any place defined in section one, and
any person knowingly employing or permitting such person to
work in such place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceed-
ing two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment not
exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in
the discretion of the court.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 20, 1919.

[No. 26.]

AN ACT to create the Michigan State Police; to provide for the appointment of the officers and members; to prescribe their powers and duties; to fix their compensation, and to provide an appropriation therefor.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

department.

of force.

SECTION 1. There is hereby created and established the Creation of department of State police, the head of which shall be the commanding officer, to be appointed by the Governor, who shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars a year. Said Command commanding officer shall have command and management of the force and all matters connected therewith, subject to the orders of the Governor only. The commanding officer shall Adjutant, etc. appoint one officer who shall exercise the duties of adjutant and quartermaster. The said adjutant and quartermaster so Bond, salary. appointed shall give a bond to the State of Michigan in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per year. The commanding officer is authorized to Stenographer. employ a competent stenographer at a salary not to exceed twelve hundred dollars. The commanding officer may, in his discretion, require any officer or member to give a bond to the people of the State of Michigan in the amount to be fixed by the commanding officer, conditioned that said officer will reimburse the State for the loss of any property belong.

Bonds of

officers, etc.

Personnel of force.

Term of troopers. Qualifications.

Oath.

ing to the people of the State of Michigan that is placed in the care, custody or control of said officer or member.

SEC. 2. The commanding officer is also authorized to appoint the State police force, which shall consist of not to exceed the following number in his discretion: Five cap tains at a salary of two thousand dollars per year; six lieu tenants at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per year; the following non-commissioned officers: Sixteen sergeants at salary of one hundred dollars per month; twenty corporals at a salary of ninety dollars per month, and one hundred fiftyfour troopers at a salary of not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month. Each trooper shall be appointed for a term of two years. No applicant shall be appointed as member of the State police until he has passed a satisfactory physical and mental examination, in addition to which each applicant must be a citizen of the United States, of sound constitution, able to write, of good moral character and not less than twenty-one years of age. Each applicant shall take an oath on becoming a member of the force to uphold the laws and constitution of the State of Michigan. All officers provided for in this act, except the commanding officer, shall be allowed an increase of fifty dollars per annum until the total amount of increase shall equal the sum of five hundred dollars, and each enlisted man shall receive an increase of twentyfive dollars per annum until the total amount of increase shall equal the sum of two hundred fifty dollars. Every member so appointed shall be subject to orders at any time and shall be entitled to not to exceed twenty-four days' furlough each year, but no furlough shall be allowed if, in the opinion of the commanding officer, the allowance thereof will Preference to affect the efficiency of the force. Preference in making appointments hereunder shall be given whenever possible to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the United States army and navy, and to former members of the Michigan constabulary.

Regulation of salaries.

Service: furloughs.

discharged soldiers, etc.

Dismissals.

Commissions, how issued.

SEC. 3. Every trooper so appointed may be dismissed by the commanding officer whenever he deems said proposed dismissal necessary for the efficiency of the service. All officers provided for in the preceding section shall be commissioned by the Governor upon the recommendation of the comGovernor to manding officer, but no such officer shall be dismissed from the service by the commanding officer except by and with the approval of the Governor, and this only for inefficiency or misconduct.

approve dismissals.

Equipment.

Rules, etc.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the commanding officer of the State police force to provide for the members of the said force suitable uniforms, subsistence, arms, equipment, clothing, quarters and articles necessary for the force, and also the expense and means of travel and boarding the force, or members thereof, if necessary, and horses and forage if necessary; and to make such rules and regulations subject to the approval of the Governor as are deemed necessary for the

control, regulation and discipline of a State police force. Officers and members of the force when traveling on duty Transportashall be entitled to transportation upon any railroad of the tion of force. State, whether steam or electric, or any passenger steamboat line, upon presentation of a requisition for such transportation signed by the commanding officer of the Michigan State

Police. Said railroad company or steamboat line honoring Compensation said requisition shall be entitled to compensation for such for. transportation so furnished, same to be paid out of the moneys hereinafter appropriated for the Michigan State Police. It shall also be the duty of the commanding officer to Local headestablish local headquarters in various places, and he is quarters, how hereby authorized to do so by agreement, lease or otherwise, be located. so as to best establish the force throughout the sections of the State where they will be most efficient in carrying out the purpose of this act, to preserve peace and prevent crime.

and where

Powers of

officers and

men.

SEC. 5. The several officers and members of the force shall have and exercise all the powers of deputy sheriffs in the execution of the criminal laws of the State and of all laws for the discovery and prevention of crime and shall have author. ity to make arrests without warrants for all violations of the law committed in their presence including laws designed for the protection of the public in the use of the highways of the State, and to serve and execute all criminal process. It shall be the duty of the State police force and all other officers and members thereof to cooperate with other State authorities with other authority. and with local authorities in detecting crime, apprehending criminals, and preserving law and order throughout the State. SEC. 6. No officer or member of the Michigan State Police shall receive any fee or reward for the performance of any duty enjoined upon him by the provisions of this act.

Co-operation

Fees

prohibited.

Audit of

SEC. 7. All salaries herein provided for and all expenses incurred under the provisions of this act shall be allowed and salaries, etc. audited in accordance with the accounting laws of this State, and shall be payable out of the moneys hereinafter appropriated.

appropria

SEC. 8. There is hereby appropriated out of the general Biennial fund for the Michigan State Police for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the following amounts: Pay Rolls:

Commanding officer, salary..

1 Stenographer, salary

6 Captains at $2,000.00
6 Lieutenants at $1,800.00..

16 Sergeants at $1,200.00.. 22 Corporals at $1,080.00.. 156 Troopers at $900.00.

Totals...

For the Fiscal
year 1919-20

$4,000.00

For the Fiscal
year 1920-21

$4,000.00
1,200.00

1,200.00

12,000.00

12,000.00

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