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Qualifications of

by board of jury
commissioners
to serve as jurors
for Wayne
county.

No person to be

returned who

has previously

Judge to enter

orders on journal

approved June first, one thousand eight hundred ninetythree, entitled "An act to create a board of jury commissioners consisting of seven persons for courts of record in the county of Wayne, and to repeal act number ninety-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by act number forty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one and all other acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 5. The persons whose names shall be returned by electors chosen said board of jury commissioners shall be suitable to serve as jurors. They shall have the qualifications of electors in the town or ward in which they reside and for which they are returned by said board; they shall be persons of good character, of approved integrity, of sound judgment and well informed, conversant with the English language, in possession of their natural faculties, not infirm or decrepit, and otherwise free from all legal exceptions. No person shall be returned or shall be qualified to be or become one of a panel of petit or grand jurors in any court of record served as a juror, in Wayne county who within three years prior thereto has been or acted as a member of a panel of petit or grand jurors, whether summoned on the original panel or added thereto as talesmen, in a court of record, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-one, and it shall be the duty of each of said courts on the return day of the venire to inquire of the jurors summoned if any of them have served as jurors during the preceding three years and to excuse from service any jurors who have so served. It shall also be the duty of the judges of each of said courts by special orders to be entered upon the court journal to cause examination and investigation to be made into the qualifications of each and every juror, who shall be summoned as provided by this act, and to direct the manner in which such examination and investigation shall be made; and neither of said courts shall allow any person to be or become one of a panel of petit or grand jurors therein until it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of such court, after such examination and investigation, that such person has all the qualifications specified in this section. When court may It shall also be the duty of each of said courts forthwith to excuse from service as jurors any and all persons who shall not so be shown to possess all of such qualifications. The particular manner in which such examination and investigation has been made shall be set forth in the journal of said court; and it shall be a just cause of challenge to any juror in any cause, over and above all other challenges allowed by the law, that it does not so appear in and by said journal that such juror has all of said qualifications. And it shall also be the duty of each of the judges of said courts, whenever he shall have reason to doubt whether any person in attendance upon said court

as to examina

tion of jurors.

excuse electors from serving as jurors.

as a juror is possessed of all of said qualifications, forth-
with to excuse such juror from further attendance and ser-
vice as such juror.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved February 19, 1895.

[ No. 6. ]

AN ACT making an appropriation for the current and running expenses of the Michigan Mining School until the general appropriation for that purpose shall be

available.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation, That there be and is hereby appropriated for the Michigan Mining School, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the purpose mentioned in section two of this act.

and for what

SEC. 2. Said money hereby appropriated shall be imme- Where available
diately available, and shall be used for the purpose of pay- purpose.
ing the current and running expenses of said school from
January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, until the
regular and ordinary appropriation for that purpose shall
be made available, and the sum hereby appropriated shall sums to be de-
be deducted from the gross amount of such regular and regular appro-
ordinary appropriation as an advance upon the same when priation.
such regular and ordinary appropriation for the current
expenses at said school for the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-five shall have become available.

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

[No. 7. ]

AN ACT to fix the per diem compensation of members of the State legislature from the upper peninsula for and during the session of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

ducted from

made $2.00 per

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, compensation of That in addition to the compensation, mileage and allow- U. P. members ance for stationery, as fixed by law, for members repre- diem extra, senting the several senatorial and representative districts in the upper peninsula, there shall be allowed and paid two dollars per diem extra compensation, during the legislative session of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 26, 1895.

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Appropriation

for erecting

certain battle

fields.

[ No. 8. ]

AN ACT to make an appropriation for marking by monuments the places occupied by the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Regiments of Infantry; the Second and Fourth Regiments of Cavalry, Batteries A and D, First Michigan Artillery, and the First Regiment Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, who participated in the campaigns and battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, within the National Military Park of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and providing for the erection of the same.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, monuments on That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting monuments to mark the places occupied on the battle-fields of Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge by the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Twenty-first, Twentysecond Regiments of Michigan Infantry; the Second and Fourth Michigan Cavalry, the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, and Batteries A and D, First Michigan Artillery. Said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park Commission, created by act number fifty-five, public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, who shall receive no pay for their services, except for necessary and actual expense and clerk hire, while engaged in their duties.

Commission

shall proceed at once.

Expenses to be paid from appropriation.

SEC. 2. The said commission shall at once, after the passage of this act, proceed to carry the same into effect. They shall determine the design and number of monuments to be erected as contemplated in this act with all convenient speed. The actual expenses of said commission shall be paid out of the fund hereby appropriated, and they shall report to the Governor of the State of Michigan immereport tot diately upon the fulfillment of their duties in detail, making an abstract of expenditures with vouchers thereto, with all acts done or made by them, together with information as gathered from their observation and pertinent in its relation thereto, shall be embraced in their report as the [commission] commissioner shall think proper.

Commission shall make full the

.Governor,

Auditor General
shall incorporate
appropriation
in State tax.

SEC. 3. The Auditor General of the State shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year one thousand eight hundred ninety-five, the sum of twenty thousand dollars to be apportioned, levied, assessed and collected, which sum when collected shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse said fund, for the amount appropriated by section one of this act.

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

[ No. 9.]

AN ACT to require street railway companies operating electric cars, cable or other cars propelled by steam, cable or electricity, to protect certain of their employes from the inclemency of the weather during certain months of the year.

operating cars

from November

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Employés That from and after the first day of January in the year to be protected of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, from weather it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corpo- to April. ration, owning or operating a street railway in this State, or for any officer or agent thereof, superintendent or having charge or control of the management of such line of railway, or the cars thereof, operating electric, cable or other cars propelled either by steam, cable or electricity, which require the constant services, care or attention of any person or persons upon the platforms of such car, to require or permit such services, attention or care of any of its employes or any other person or persons between the first day of November and the first day of April thereafter of each year unless such person, partnership or corporation, its said officers or superintending or managing agents, have first provided the platforms of said car or cars with a what enclosure proper and sufficient enclosure, constructed of wood, iron to be made of. and glass, or similar, suitable material, sufficient to protect such employes from exposure to the winds and inclemencies

of the weather: Provided, That such enclosure shall be so Proviso.
constructed as not to obstruct the vision of the person
operating such car, or to endanger or interfere with its
safe management by the operator.

cars not prop

SEC. 2. From and after January first, in the year of our Unlawful to use Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, it erly constructed. shall be unlawful for any such person, partnership or corporation so owning or operating street railways, using steam, electric or cable cars, or any superintending or managing officer or agent thereof, to cause or permit to be used upon such line of railway, between said November first and April first of each and every year thereafter, any car or cars upon which the services of any employe, such as is specified in section one of this act, is required, unless said car or cars shall be provided with the enclosure required by section one of this act.

SEC. 3. Any person, partnership or corporation, owning, Violation of act operating, superintending or managing any such line of a misdemeanor? street railway, or managing or superintending officer or agent thereof, who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of section one or two of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall Penalty. be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of payment

Proviso as to

trailing cars.

Prosecuting

attorney to prosecute.

of the same, by imprisonment in the common jail of the county in which such conviction is had until such fine shall be paid, but for a period not exceeding the term of three months. Each day that any of said person or persons, partnership or corporation, cause or permit any of their said employes to operate such cars in violation of the provisions of sections one and two of this act, or cause or permit cars to be used or operated in violation of said section two of this act, shall be deemed a separate offense: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to cars used and known as trailing cars.

SEC. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorney of any county in which any such street railway is situated and operated, upon any information given him by any credible person, or upon knowledge that he may possess that any person, partnership or corporation has violated any of the provisions of this act, to promptly prosecute such person, members of such partnership or corporation for such violation.

Approved February 26, 1895.

Board to consist of four members.

Oath of office.

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AN ACT to establish a board of health for the city of
Detroit.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the board of health of the city of Detroit, from and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, shall consist of four members who shall be electors and freeholders in the city of Detroit, and who shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. They shall take and file with the Secretary of State, the oath of office prescribed for State officers, and their commission shall be issued by the Secretary of State and be signed by the Governor, the same as in the case of State officers. Two of them and no more, shall be graduates in medicine of at least five years practice in the city of Detroit. On or before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, or as soon thereafter as may be, one member of the said board shall be appointed to hold office one year, one member to hold office for two years, one member to hold office for three years and one member to hold office for four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The term of office of each member of the board, after the termination of the aforesaid terms, shall be four years, and on the expiration of any term a new appointment shall be Vacancies how made in the same manner above prescribed. Any vacancy occurring by reason of the expiration of any term, when

Two to be graduates in medicine. When to be appointed and term of office.

filled.

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