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Supreme court

to name commissioners.

County

ages redeposited with, duty of.

Commission

SEC. 5. Upon issuing permanent restraining order as herein provided, the supreme court shall name three commissioners who shall proceed to the offices of the several county clerks as soon as may be, open said ballot boxes, remove the ballots therefrom, place them in packages securely wrapped and sealed and so marked as to show in what voting districts such ballots were cast.

SEC. 6. Such packages shall be sealed by said commisClerk- sioners and redeposited with said county clerks and it shall be the duty of said county clerks to again place said packages of ballots in some secure place pending the further order of the court. It shall also be the duty of said commissioners ers, duty of. to make a statement, duly signed by them, to be included within each such package, as to the character and condition of the ballot boxes when opened by them as herein provided, and of the condition of the ballots within such boxes. Each County clerk County clerk shall thereupon notify the several officers of election within the county that such ballot boxes have been released and direct such officers of election to appear and secure said boxes.

to notify election

officials.

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SEC. 7. The commissioners, as herein provided for, shall give public notice of the time when they will appear at each county seat for the purpose of removing the ballots from the ballot boxes, as herein provided, and such removal shall be publicly made in the presence of the county clerk and judge of probate in the office of the county clerk during office hours. SEC. 8. It shall be the right of each candidate to the office of United States senator at such election to be present in person at such removal, or to be represented thereat.

SEC. 9. The compensation of the commissioners herein provided for shall be fixed by the supreme court and such court shall allow such traveling and personal expenses of such commissioners as it may deem proper. All allowances to commissioners shall be taxed by the court as costs in the proceeding.

SEC. 10. Any officer who shall violate the terms of any such restraining order shall be in contempt of court and shall, in addition to such penalty as may be imposed thereby, be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

SEC. 11. Instead of filing the petition for relief provided for in this act with the supreme court of the State of Michigan application may be made in like manner to the circuit court for the county of Ingham, and when application is so made such court shall have full jurisdiction to make all orders, name the commissioners and otherwise exercise all necessary authority to carry out the purposes of this act. SEC. 12. It is the intention of this act to furnish a speedy and effective means for the preservation of evidence of the intention of voters in the case of elections to the office of

United States senator. It is remedial in character and shall
be construed in such manner as fully to carry out the inten-.
tion herein expressed.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved February 4, 1919.

[No. 4.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same," being section five thousand nine hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number one hundred seventy-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred of the Section Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same," being section five thousand nine hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number one hundred seventy-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Children between certain tend public

years to at

schools.

SEC. 1. Every parent, guardian or other person in the State of Michigan, having control and charge of any child between the ages of seven and sixteen years, shall be required to send such child to the public schools during the entire school year, and such attendance shall be continuous and consecutive for the school year fixed by the district in which such parent, guardian or other person in parental relation may reside: Provided, That in the following cases children Proviso, shall not be required to attend the public schools:

(a) Any child who is attending regularly and is being taught in a private or parochial school such branches as are usually taught in the public schools to children of corresponding age, or who, upon the completion of the work in such schools, shall present satisfactory evidence to the county commissioner of schools, and in appropriate cases, to the

exceptions.

Children in prive

private, etc.,

Those entitled to 8th grade diploma.

superintendent of schools, that he has completed sufficient work to entitle him to an eighth grade diploma;

(b) Any child who has received an eighth grade diploma from the public schools, or who is regularly employed as a page or messenger of either branch of the legislature, during diplomas, etc. the period of such employment;

Possessors of 8th grade

Physical inability.

Where essen

port of

parents

(c) Any child who is physically unable to attend school. If the truant officer is notified of the non-attendance of any child at school, and he shall find the one in parental control claiming that such child is physically unable to attend school, the truant officer may secure a written statement of a competent physician, certifying that such child is physically unable to attend school;

(d) Children over fourteen years of age who have comtial to sup- pleted the work of the sixth grade whose services are essential to the support of their parents may be excused by the county commissioner of schools or city superintendent of schools from attendance at school, on the recommendation of the board of education of the district in which such children reside, and said board shall certify to the officers herein mentioned the facts in all such cases: Provided, Nothing in this act or any other act shall prevent children fourteen years of age or over from procuring a permit to work outside of school hours, during the school year;

Proviso, permit.

Distance from school.

Proviso.

Confirmation classes.

Proviso, permit.

Evidence reported.

(e) Children under nine years of age, whose parents do not reside within two and one-half miles, by the nearest traveled road, of some public school: Provided, That if transportation is furnished for pupils in said district, this exemption shall not apply;

(f) Any child twelve to fourteen years of age while in attendance at confirmation classes conducted for a period of not to exceed five months in either of said years: Provided, however, That any child, claiming exemption from attending school under subdivisions (a) or (b) hereof, shall secure such permit as may be required under the statutes of Michigan covering the employment of minors, and shall be regularly employed at some lawful work if physically able so to do, or any child who has completed the work of the eighth grade who wishes to assist with the housework or farm work at home may be granted an excuse for such work. Such child must present to the officer who issued the excuse satisfactory evidence each month that he or she is actually assisting with said housework or farm work.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved February 14, 1919.

[No. 5.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number three hundred twenty-two of the Public Acts of the State of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred seventeen, approved the tenth day of May, A. D. nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to permit religious societies and churches incorporated under any law of this State to receive, hold and use in trust and otherwise, gifts and bequests for certain purposes."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number three hundred Section twenty-two of the Public Acts of the State of Michigan for amended. the year nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to permit religious societies and churches incorporated under any law of this State to receive, hold and use in trust or otherwise, gifts and bequests for certain purposes," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC 1. Any religious society or church incorporated under Corporate any law of this State may receive, hold and use gifts or powers. bequests of money or other property for any religious, benevolent, charitable, educational, social or other purpose connected with such church or society, or may receive such gifts or bequests to be by such society or church invested in whole or in part in the name of such society or church, the net income therefrom to be by such society or church used for any of said purposes, according to the terms of such gifts or bequests. All real estate so received and not used by such Real estate. society or church for any of such purposes shall by such society or church be sold within ten years, and the proceeds therefrom shall be used or invested according to the terms of such gift or bequest. All such investments made by such Investments. society or church shall be in such real estate mortgages, bonds or other investments as incorporated banks may at the time be authorized by the laws of this State or by the laws of the United States of America to invest savings deposits. Approved February 14, 1919.

Section amended.

Women, not

to constitute

a body corporate.

[No. 6.]

AN ACT to amend section one, and to renumber the second section six, of act number sixty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of women's clubs," being sections ten thousand one hundred eighty-four and ten thousand one hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number sixty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of women's clubs," being section ten thousand one hundred eighty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Any number of women, not less than five, of less than five, twenty-one years of age and over, who may by articles of association executed under the provisions of this act, associate themselves for educational, political, literary, aesthetic, social, scientific, philanthropic, and sociological culture and inquiry, or any or all such purposes, shall constitute a body corporate, under the name assumed by them in such articles. SEC. 2. The second section six of said act number sixtyfour of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, being section ten thousand one hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby renumbered to stand as section seven thereof.

Section

renumbered.

Approved February 19, 1919.

Section amended.

[No. 7.]

AN ACT to amend section seven of chapter three of act number one hundred twenty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of electors," approved April twenty-five, nineteen hundred seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section seven of chapter three of act number one hundred twenty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of electors," approved April twenty-five, nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

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