Corporation to

be managed by executive committee.

Officers, how chosen.

Members to

be residents of State.

Corporation may hold property,

Proviso as to

kinds of securi

regulations, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to alter and amend the same.

SEC. 5. The affairs of said corporation shall be managed by the executive committee and officers of said association, to be chosen for such period and in such manner as the by-laws of such association shall provide, and who shall hold their offices until their successors are chosen and qualified. The officers shall be chosen in conformity to the by-laws of such association, adopted and changed by the members as the articles or by-laws may prescribe, not inconsistent with said articles of association. All officers and members, except honorary members of such association, shall be residents of the State of Michigan.

SEC. 6. Said corporation may sue or be sued, take by sue and be sued, gift, purchase or devise, property, exclusive of that actually used and necessary for the transaction of its business, to an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars, and it shall be lawful to invest the same upon mortgage, or in or by loan on bonds, of any city, county, State, or in government securities, or deposited at some bank, or with any broker in this State, upon such bank or broker giving sufficient security for the repayment thereof: Provided, That ties funds to be any such proposition may in its articles of agreement specify the kind of securities in which its funds shall be invested, and that no part of its funds shall be invested in any securities other than those named in its articles, or when the securities shall not be specified in the articles of agreement, then such funds shall only be invested in such securities as shall be specified in this act: And provided further, That said articles of association shall specify the use to which said moneys and income thereof shall be appropriated, and the same shall be applied exclusively to such purpose and to no other.

invested in.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 26, 1895.

Duty of State

of Public

Instruction,

[ No. 101. ]

AN ACT to provide for the examination of candidates for admission to the Agricultural College by county commissioners of schools.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Superintendent That it shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to secure, at least twice each year, from the president of the Michigan Agricultural College, a set of examination questions in all the studies required for admission to said college. It shall also be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to send a

printed list of said examination questions to each county commissioner of schools.

sioner of schools

how conducted.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of each county commis- County commissioner of schools to give public notice of this examina- shall give notice tion at the time of all regular teachers' examinations, and of examination. to submit the questions aforesaid to any candidate who may desire to enter the Agricultural College. The exam- Examination, ination shall be conducted in the same manner as are the regular teachers' examinations of the county. The work of each and every candidate, together with the name and address, shall be forwarded by the commissioner, within five days from the date of the examination, to the president of the college, who shall examine and grade the answers and report to the candidate within five days of the receipt of the paper the result of the examination. A standing of seventy per cent in each branch will admit to freshmen class of the college without further examination. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 26, 1895.

[ No. 102. ]

AN ACT to amend section ten, of act number one hundred thirty-three, of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-nine, entitled "An act to establish an institution under the name and style of the Michigan Reform School for Girls," approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred seventy-nine, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof.

amended,

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section ten, of act number one hundred thirty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-nine, entitled "An act to establish an institution under the name and style of the Michigan Reform School for Girls," approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred seventynine, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof, be amended so as to read as follows:

school.

SEC. 10. From and after the time said institution shall who may be be prepared for the reception of inmates, every girl over received into the age of ten years and under the age of seventeen years, who shall be convicted before any court or magistrate of of competent jurisdiction, of being a disorderly person, or of any offense not punishable by imprisonment for life, shall, except in cases deemed incorrigible, be sentenced to said Industrial Home until she shall reach. the age of twenty-one years, if such court or magistrate shall deem the girl so convicted a fit subject to be committed to said Industrial Home. The board of control Board of control shall have authority to make rules reducing the term for of sentence.

physicians of girls, relative to mental and physical condition.

What physi

to state.

which such girls shall have been sentenced, as a reward for good conduct. It shall be the duty of all courts and magistrates sentencing girls to said Home, to certify to the keeper of said Home, the age of the person so committed, as nearly as can be ascertained by testimony taken under oath before such court or magistrate, or in such manner as Examination by the court or magistrate shall direct: Provided, That girls who are under this act sentenced to the State Industrial Home for Girls at Adrian, Michigan, shall be subjected to a careful examination by a regularly authorized and competent physician, who shall under oath certify as to her mental and physical condition, and if on such examination it shall be found that said girl is afflicted with any venereal, contagious, or infectious disease, chronic epilepsy, imbecility, or is pregnant, or any other cause or defect which would make her a menace to those already in the State Industrial Home for Girls, or if said certificate should show that according clan's certificate to the judgment and belief of said certifying physician, said girl has been exposed to smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or typhoid fever, within the fourteen days next preceding the date of said examination, then, in that case, said girl shall be delivered by the court pronouncing sentence, to the superintendents of the county in which said trial is held. And it shall be the duty of said superintendents of the poor, to provide for the care and medical treatment of said girl in the county house, or elsewhere, as in their judgment seems best, until the examining physician, or another acting in his stead, certifies that the obstacles to her entering the said Industrial Home for Girls are removed. The sentence of said court shall then be executed as though no delay, or cause of delay, had intervened. The fee for such examination shall be not to exceed five dollars in the case of each girl examined, and a bill for that amount shall be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors of the county in which said trial is held. Approved April 26, 1895.

Duty of superintendents of the poor.

Fees for examination.

AN ACT to amend section five of chapter five of an act entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State, approved June eighth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, being act two hundred fortythree of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred eighty-one, the same being compiler's section one thousand three hundred sixty-nine of Howell's annotated statutes.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section five of chapter five of an act entitled "An amended. act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement and maintenance of highways and private roads, and the building, repairing and preservation of bridges within this State, approved June eighth, one thousand eight hundred eighty-one, being act two hundred forty-three of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred eighty-one, the same being compiler's section one thousand three hundred sixty-nine of Howell's annotated statutes, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

see that toll

[§ 1369.] SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the commis- Commissioner to sioner of highways of each township to see that all plank roads are kept or gravel road companies, or companies owning or con- in repair, trolling any kind of toll road, maintain their roads in a good and safe condition at all times. When any such plank, gravel or toll road shall become defective, he shall serve a written notice upon any officer or agent of the company owning or controlling the same, describing the locality where such defect exists, and requiring such company to repair such defect within five days from the receipt of such notice; and every such company failing to comply Penalty for with the requirements of such notice shall for every such neglect. offense be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 26, 1895.

[ No. 104. ]

AN ACT to amend sections one, two, seven and eight of act number one hundred and nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of gas light companies," as amended by subsequent acts, the same being compiler's sections four thousand one hundred and sixty-eight, four thousand one hundred and sixty-nine, four thousand one hundred and seventy-four and four thousand one hundred and seventy-five of Howell's annotated statutes, so as to enlarge the powers of gas light companies and allow them to furnish electricity and electrical light.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Sections That sections one, two, seven and eight of an act entitled amended. "An act to authorize the formation of gas companies, approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, as heretofore amended, the same being chapter one hundred and twenty-six of Howell's annotated statutes, as amended, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Corporate powers, seal,

etc.

Election of officers, etc,

Board of direct

ors may elect

officers, and fix

compensation,

SECTION 1. That all corporations organized and established under the provisions of this act shall be capable of suing and being sued in any court in this State, and may have a common seal and may alter and amend the same at pleasure. The stockholders of such corporation shall, at their regular annual meeting in each year, elect a board of not less than three directors, and may elect a president and such other officers as the by-laws of said association shall provide for: Provided, however, It shall be legal for said corporation by its by-laws to delegate to its board of directors the election of the president and such other officers as may be designated by its by-laws, and to prescribe the duties of such officers, and fix their compensation, and the stockholders at such annual meeting or at any special meeting called for that purpose in the notice of which meeting mention is made of the action sought to be taken, may adopt by-laws for the government and regulation of the corporation, or amend the same by a When first meet vote of a majority of the stockholders. The first meeting of such stockholders may be called by five days' written notice given by any stockholder to the remaining stockholders, and subsequent meetings thereof may be given by a like notice under the direction of the board of directors, or of the president and secretary of said association, or in such other manner as the by-laws of such association, duly adopted, may provide, and meetings of the board of directors of such associations may be called and held on such notice as the by-laws of said association may provide, or on like notice as is above provided for calling of meetings of stockholders.

ing may be

called,

Five or more may form corporation.

To be a body politic.

Election of officers.

SEC. 2. Any number of persons, not less than five, who shall by articles of agreement in writing, associate according to the provisions of this act, under any name assumed by them for the purpose of engaging in the man. ufacture, production and supplying gas and electricity for lighting, fuel or other purposes to any town, city or village and the inhabitants thereof, or to other persons, firms or corporations to whom gas may be conducted from any such city or village, and who shall comply with the provisions of this act, shall, with their successors and assigns, constitute a body politic and corporate in fact and in name under the name assumed by them in their articles of association; and such company so formed shall be entitled to all the privileges conferred, and subject to the requirements of the fifty-fifth chapter of the revised statutes of one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, unless otherwise provided in this act.

SEC. 7. The officers of said corporation shall be elected by the stockholders thereof in the first instance when fifty per cent of the stock shall be subscribed, and ten per cent of the amount subscribed paid in, unless under the provisions of section one of this act the said corporation shall, by its by-laws, decide that its officers shall be