Brook trout, open season. Brook trout, defined. nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take by any means whatever from any of the inland waters of this State, any brook trout from the first day of September to the first day of May following thereafter. For the purpose of this act any trout or salmon of any kind found in any of the inland waters of this State, except lake or Mackinaw trout, shall be regarded to be brook trout without regard to the technical description or scientific naming of the species. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 31, 1919. Township traffic officers. Compensation. Proviso, joint action by townships. Power of officer. [No. 50.] AN ACT to provide for the appointment of traffic officers in townships and defining their powers and duties, and providing for their compensation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The township board of any township may, by a majority vote of the township board at any regular meeting or any special meeting called for that purpose, provide for the employment of a traffic officer or officers in such township, the compensation of such officer or officers to be paid from the general fund of such township: Provided, That two or more townships may, by a majority vote of all the township boards, appoint such officer at a joint meeting of such township boards held for that purpose, and the proportion of the compensation of such traffic officer or officers to be paid by each of such townships shall be determined at such joint meeting. SEC. 2. Whenever any traffic officer shall be appointed under the provisions of this act, such traffic officer shall be vested with all powers of arrest, and other powers, now vested by law in deputy sheriffs. The compensation and service of such officers shall be determined by the township board or boards. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 51.] AN ACT to provide for the observance of "Carleton Day" in the schools of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Day. SECTION 1. The twenty-first day of October in each year Carleton shall be observed with appropriate exercises in the schools of Michigan as "Carleton Day" in memory of Will Carleton, Michigan's pioneer poet. Whenever said twenty-first day of October shall fall on other than a school day, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall designate the day nearest such twenty-first day of October as "Carleton Day." On such day it shall be the duty of each teacher of any grade above the How fifth grade to read, or cause to be read, to his or her pupils at least one of the poems of Will Carleton and may, in addition, provide such other proper and fitting observance of such Carleton Day as they may desire. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. observed. [No. 52.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Agricultural Fair Commission for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the Amount Agricultural Fair Commission, to carry out the purposes of appropriated. said commission as defined by act number two hundred ninety-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The several amounts appropriated by the provi- How sions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund of the paid out. State treasury to the treasurer of the Agricultural Fair Commission at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of this State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. Tax clause. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nineteen, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred twenty the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, which amounts when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 31, 1919. Title and sections amended. [No. 53.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections two, three, seven, nine, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twentyfive, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirtytwo, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, fifty-one, fifty-seven and fifty-eight of act three hundred thirty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale and possession thereof for such excepted purposes; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections two, three, seven, nine, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, fifty-one, fifty-seven and fifty-eight of act three hundred thirty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale and possession thereof for such excepted purposes; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith," are hereby amended, to read as follows: TITLE. An Act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering, furnishing, possessing, importing, or transporting of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spiritu ous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale, possession, importation and transportation thereof for such excepted purposes; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic, to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith. bition, when SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or state prohiindirectly, himself or by his clerk, agent or employe, to manu- effective. facture, sell or keep for sale, give away, barter, furnish or otherwise dispose of, or to import, transport, or have in possession any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors; or any mixed liquor or beverages, any part of which is intoxicating; or to keep a saloon or any other place where such liquors are manufactured, sold, stored, possessed, given away or furnished in this State, on and after the first day of May, nineteen hundred eighteen, except as herein otherwise provided. liquors SEC. 3. The phrase "intoxicating liquors," wheresoever Intoxicating used in this act, shall be held and construed to include any defined. vinous, malt, brewed, fermented or spirituous liquors, and every other liquor or liquid containing intoxicating properties which is capable of being used as a beverage, or will produce intoxication, whether medicated or not, and all liquids, whether proprietary, patented or not, which contain any alcohol and are capable of being used as a beverage; and all mixtures, compounds or preparations, whether liquid or not, which when mixed with water or otherwise, produce, by fermentation or otherwise, an intoxicating liquor. SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any club, fraternity, lodge Clubs, lodges, or benevolent society, or other combination of individuals, or hotels, etc. any officer, employe, member, patron or attendant thereof, or for any proprietor, manager or employe of any hotel, restaurant, rooming house, boarding house or any place of public entertainment, to keep, or to aid and abet in keeping, any Witnesses, testimony. In intoxicating liquors about any such place in any manner or for any purpose whatever except as in this act provided. all cases arising under this section any person above specified shall be a competent witness to prove a violation of any of the provisions hereof, and any such person shall not be excused from testifying by reason of such testimony tending to incriminate himself, but the testimony so given shall in no Forfeiture of case be used against him. The maintaining or keeping of any such place as hereinbefore described, or the violation of any of the provisions of this act by any chartered club or associa tion of persons incorporated under the laws of the State, shall be sufficient grounds for forfeiture of its charter. charter. Provisions as to cider, etc. Wine for sacramental purposes. Druggists. Religious bodies. cines, etc. SEC. 9. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to prevent the manufacture of cider from fruit, for the purpose of making vinegar, and non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice for use and sale; or to prevent the manufacture and Ethyl alcohol. Sale of ethyl alcohol in quantities of not less than ten gallons as herein provided, to druggists, manufacturers, hospitals, infirmaries, medical or educational institutions using the same for medicinal, mechanical, chemical or scientific purposes; or the manufacture or sale of wine for sacramental purposes for use by religious bodies; or to prevent the sale and keeping and storing for sale by druggists, licensed as in this act provided, of intoxicating liquors for medicinal, mechanical, chemical or scientific purposes, or of wine for sacramental purposes by religious bodies; or to prevent the sale or gift, or keeping and storing for sale by druggists and general merchants and others of any of the medicinal preparations manufactured in accordance with the formulas prescribed by the United States pharmacopoeia and national Patent medi- formulary, patent or proprietary preparations, and other bona fide medicinal and technical preparations, which contain no more alcohol than is necessary to extract the medicinal properties of the drugs contained in such preparations; and no more alcohol than is necessary to hold the medicinal agents in solution and to preserve the same, and which are manufactured and sold as medicine and not as beverages, and the sale of which does not require the payment of a United States liquor dealer's tax; or to prevent the manufacture and toilet articles, sale of tinctures or of toilet, medicinal and antiseptic preparations and solutions not intended for internal human use nor to be sold as beverages, and upon the outside of each Label, volume bottle, box or package of which is printed in the English language, conspicuously and legibly, the quantity by volume of alcohol in such preparations; or to prevent the manufac ture and keeping for sale of the food product known as flavoring extracts which shall be so manufactured and sold for Wood alcohol. cooking and culinary purposes; or to prevent the sale of wood alcohol or the sale of ethyl alcohol for external use when combined with such other liquids, or substances as make it unfit for internal use: Provided, That it shall not be lawful to manufacture or sell any toilet, medicinal or antiseptic Tinctures, etc. of alcohol. Flavoring extracts. Proviso, |