prima facie evidence of the fact that he is a commission merchant of farm products as defined by this act. [Added by Act No. 18, P. A. 1915.] UNWHOLESOME VEAL. (Act No. 340, Public Acts, 1913.) AN ACT to prevent and punish the sale of immature and unwholesome calves and veal. 184. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, No person shall for the purpose of selling, kill a calf less than four weeks old, and no person shall sell the meat of any such calf or have the same in his possession with intent to sell the same either by himself, his agents, or servants. 185. Sec. 2. Whoever shall do any of the acts or things prohibited by this act, or in any way violate any of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the costs of the prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 186. Sec. 3. This act is immediately necessary for the public health. UNWHOLESOME FOOD FOR ANIMALS. (Act No. 179, Public Acts, 1913.) AN ACT to regulate, prevent and punish the feeding of the flesh of old, decrepit, infirm, sick or diseased animals and unwholesome offal to animals or fowls, and provide a penalty for the violation thereof. 187. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, No person shall feed to animals or fowls the flesh of an animal which has become old, decrepit, infirm or sick, or which has died from such cause, or offal or flesh that is putrid or unwholesome. 188. Sec. 2. Whoever shall do any of the acts or things prohibited by this act, or in any way violates any of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 189. Sec. 3. This act is immediately necessary for the preservation of the public health. CERTIFIED MILK. (Act No. 248, Public Acts, 1911.) AN ACT providing for the incorporation of medical milk commissions, and certification of milk produced under their supervision. 190. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Authority is hereby given the board of health of any city, village or township in this State, so constituted as to have in its membership two or more physicians duly authorized to practice medicine under the laws of this State, to appoint five physicians duly authorized to practice medicine under the laws of this State a medical milk commission for the purpose of supervising the production, transportation and delivery of milk, which it is intended to use for infant feeding, sick-room clinical purposes in said city, village or township. In cities, villages or townships not having a board of health so constituted as above stated, the State Board of Health may make such appointment. All members of such milk commission shall have and possess all the powers and immunities provided by this act or any other act relating to the appointees of such board of health, while performing their duties as such appointees. One member of such comission shall be appointed and hold office from the time of such appointment until the end of the thirtyfirst of December, nineteen hundred eleven, one shall be appointed and hold office until the end of the thirty-first of December nineteen hundred twelve, one shall be appointed and hold office until the end of the thirty-first of December, nineteen hunderd thirteen, and one shall be appointed and hold office until the end of the thirty-first of December, nineteen hundred fourteen, one shall be appointed and hold office until the end of the thirty-first of December, nineteen hundred fifteen, and until their several successors are appointed and qualified. The term of office of each member of the commission, after the termination of the aforesaid terms shall be five years, and on the expiration of any term a new appointment shall be made in the same manner above prescribed. No more than one milk commission shall be appointed for any one city, village, or township. Any and all members of such commission may be removed at any time by the board which appointed them. Such medical milk commission shall make and file a certificate in writing in the manner hereinafter mentioned. 191. Sec. 2. Such certificates shall set forth: The name of such association, which shall be as hereinafter designated; The purpose for which the association shall be formed; The names and residences of the medical directors who shall manage the affairs of the association for the first year of its existence; The city, village or township in this State where such association shall operate. [Am. by Act No. 196, P. A., 1913.] 192. Sec. 3. Such certificate shall be executed in triplicate and acknowledged before some person within this State authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and one copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county where the purposes of such association are to be carried out and one copy shall be filed in the office of the Secetary of State; said certificate or copy thereof duly certified by the said clerk or Secretary of State shall be evidence in all courts or places. 193. Sec. 4. The name of such association shall be "The Medical Milk Commission of the... (stating whether city, village or township) of.. township) (designating the name of city, village or (designating the name County of Michigan." [Am. by Act No. 196, P. A., 1913.] 194. Sec. 5. Such medical directors shall have the power from time to time to make, alter and amend bylaws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, and to appoint such agents and officers as shall in their judgment tend to promote or advance any purpose or purposes of such commission, and to prescribe their respective duties; and for the regulating of the conditions under which milk shall be produced by any dairyman or dairymen under contract with such commission. 195. Sec. 6. No medical director of any association organized under this act shall receive, directly or indirectly, from such association or dairyman, or dairymen producing milk under agreement with such commission, any salary or emolument or any compensation of any kind or character for any services rendered under the provisions of this act, and any medical director who shall receive any salary, emolument or any compensation of any kind or character for such services, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars to be recovered in an action of debt by the association of which he is a member, and in addition thereto shall be removed from his office as a member of said association, and thereafter disqualified from becoming a member of any association incorporated under the provisions of this act. 196. Sec. 7. Every such association shall have the power to enter into agreement in writing with any dairyman or dairymen for the production of milk under the supervision of such association for the purposes enumerated in section one hereof, and to prescribe in such agreement the conditions under which such milk shall be produced, which conditions however, shall not be below the standards of purity and quality for certified milk as fixed by the American association of medical milk commissions, and the standards for milk now fixed or that may hereafter be fixed by the Board of Health of the state of Michigan. In any contract entered into by any such commission with any dairyman or dairymen, it may be provided that such medical milk commission may designate any analyst, chemist, bacteriologist, veterinarians, medical inspectors or other persons who in its judgment may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the purposes of such commission for employment of such dairyman or dairymen, and to prescribe and define their powers and duties, and that such persons so employed by such dairyman or dairymen may be discharged from employment whenever such medical milk commission may request such discharge or removal in writing. 13 |