Powers of the kinds herein before mentioned in any one day, or to take with him therefrom or to have in his possession at any point away therefrom, more than fifty fish of said kinds at any one time. SEC. 3. The game and fish warden of this State and his game warden. deputies shall have authority within their several jurisdictions to open and examine any crate or live well and any box, basket, creel or other package which shall to their knowledge, information or belief, contain any of said kinds of fish taken from said waters. Penalty for violation. SEC. 4. Any person who shall be found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions contained in the foregoing act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment thereof, shall be confined in the county jail until such fine and costs shall be paid, but such confinement shall not exceed thirty days. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unnecessary for state to give bonds. [No. 153.] AN ACT to render it unnecessary for the State to file bonds in suits or proceedings in which it is, or may become, a party or interested. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That whenever, in any suit or proceeding instituted in the name of the people of the State of Michigan by any public officer duly authorized for that purpose or in which the State may be, or become, a party or interested and in which the State may become liable for the payment of costs or the satisfaction of any judgment or decree, it has heretofore been necessary for the State to file or give bond or security for the purpose of perfecting an appeal or any other purpose conditioned for the performance or satisfaction of the decree or judg ment or the payment of costs, it shall not hereafter be neces sary, upon the part of the State, to file or give such bond. Approved May 26, 1903. [No. 154.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. eleven, twelve, fifteen and sixteen of act number one hundred seventy-six of the public acts of eighteen hun dred ninety-one, entitled "An act for the organization of township school districts in the Upper Peninsula," being compiler's sections four thousand eight hundred twenty-three, four thousand eight hundred twenty-four, four thousand eight hundred twenty-five, four thousand eight hundred twentysix, four thousand eight hundred twenty-seven. four thou- ́ sand eight hundred twenty-eight, four thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, four thousand eight hundred thirty, four thousand eight hundred thirty-one, four thousand eight hundred thirty-three, four thousand eight hundred thirty-four, four thousand eight hundred thirty-seven and four thousand eight hundred thirty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, sections eight, nine, eleven, twelve, fifteen and sixteen of act number amended. one hundred seventy-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act for the organization of township school districts in the Upper Peninsula," being compiler's sections four thousand eight hundred twenty-three, four thousand eight hundred twenty-four, four thousand eight hundred twenty-five, four thousand eight hundred twenty-six, four thou sand eight hundred twenty-seven, four thousand eight hundred twenty-eight, four thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, four thousand eight hundred thirty, four thousand eight hundred thirty-one, four thousand eight hundred thirty-three, four thousand eight hundred thirty-four, four thousand eight hundred thirty-seven and four thousand eight hundred thirty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: when single SECTION 1. Whenever the qualified electors of any organized How and township in the Upper Peninsula desire to become organized school district into a single school district, they may petition the township may be organboard to proceed as hereinafter provided for organizing a township school district. Such petition shall be signed by a majority of the electors of the township qualified to vote at school meetings and shall be filed in the office of the township clerk at least fifteen days prior to the first day of July. Upon the receipt and filing of said petition, the township clerk shall notify the members of the township board and the school inspectors of the township to attend a special meeting to be held not more than five days thereafter, at which meeting it shall be the duty of such township board to compare the names signed to the petition with the names appearing on the list of registered voters qualified to vote at school meetings, and if it be found that a majority of the voters so quali fied to vote have signed the petition that the organized township of which they are residents be organized as a single school district, the township board shall give notice by posting notices thereof in five public places in said township, that on the second Monday of July the following officers will be elected for such school district; and they shall make and file, both with the county clerk and with the county commissioner of schools of the county in which such township is located, a certified copy of the above mentioned petition, together with their finding and doings thereon; and when the district officers shall have been duly elected and shall have filed their acceptance with the township clerk, such township shall become a single school district which shall be subject to all the general laws of the State, so far as the same may be applicable, and said district shall have all the powers and privileges conferred upon graded school districts by the laws of this State, all the general provisions of which relating to common or primary schools shall apply and be enforced in said district, except such as shall be Proviso as to inconsistent with the provisions of this act: Provided, That, immediately after the organization of the township district, the board of education may divide the township into such number of sub-districts as they may deem necessary for the accommodation of all children of school age therein, designating the same as follows: Sub-district number one, sub-district number two, etc. sub-districts. Officers, term of office, etc. Election board, canvassers, etc. Trustees. Annual meeting. SEC. 2. The officers of said district shall consist of five trusfees, who shall constitute the board of education of said district, and the term of office shall be three years. On the second Monday of July following the action of 'the township board, as stated in section one of this act, the qualified voters of the township shall proceed to elect from their number, by ballot. one trustee for the term of one year, two for the term of two years and two for the term of three years, and annually thereafter a successor or successors to the trustee or trustees whose term of office shall expire. The term for which the person voted for is intended shall be designated on the ballot. The qualifications of voters and the conditions of eligibility for office holding shall be the same as provided in the general school laws. At the first election held in said district, the township board shall act as a board of election, and they shall canvass the votes in the same manner as votes for elective township officers are canvassed. At succeeding elections the qualified voters present shall designate three qualified voters to act as a board of election and board of convassers, who shall respectively take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, which oath any member of the board of trustees may administer. In the election of trustees the person or persons receiving a majority of all the votes cast shall be declared elected, and he or they shall hold office until his or their successor or successors shall have been duly elected and filed his or their acceptance. The annual meeting of said district shall occur on the second Monday of July in each year, at the usual place of in certain holding the annual township meeting, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to give notice of all annual meetings and of any special meeting of said district by posting a written or printed notice thereof in at least five conspicuous places in said township at least five days prior to said meeting. At the first school Polls, when meeting and all succeeding annual meetings the polls shall open. open at three o'clock p. m. and be kept open four hours, during the last hour of which time the voters shall transact such business as may lawfully come before them, according to the provisions of section nine of this act. In all townships organized First election prior to April first, nineteen hundred three, under the provi- townships. sions of act number one hundred seventy-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, the first election of trustees under this act shall be held on the second Monday of July, nineteen hundred three, in the manner provided in this section for the election in a township newly organized as a single school district; and immediately thereafter the records, property and documents belonging to said district shall be turned over to the newly elected board of education: Provided, That Proviso. the district officers elected at the annual election in April, nineteen hundred three, under the provisions of act number one hundred seventy-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, shall act as the board of education until the trustees elected on the said second Monday in July, nineteen hundred three, shall have filed their acceptances and become duly qualified. trustees SEC. 3. Within five days after the first election under this Who to notify act, the township clerk shall notify, in writing, the persons elected. elected trustees of their election, and within five days thereafter said trustees so elected shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this State, before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and file the same with the township clerk: Provided, That after the district Proviso. shall have been organized under the provisions of this act, the members of the board of education shall file their acceptances with the secretary of the board. education to president. SEC. 4. The members of the board of education shall meet Board of on the fourth Monday of July following the first election under elect officers. this act and elect from their number a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, who shall severally serve in such capacity during his term of office and until his successor shall have been duly elected and duly qualified. The president shall pre- Duties of side at all meetings of the district, and of the board, and perform such other duties as are required of the moderator in a primary school district. The secretary shall faithfully record Secretary. all proceedings of annual and special meetings of the district and of all meetings of the board, receive and file all records, papers, and other documents belonging to the district, and perform such other duties as are required of the director in primary school districts. It shall be the duty of the treasurer Treasurer. in each district to execute and file with the secretary, within ten days after his election or appointment, a bond in the full Vacancies, how filled. Regular meet Special meetings. amount of money to come into his hands as such treasurer during his term of office, as near as the same can be ascertained, with two sufficient sureties who shall be residents of the same county, or shall furnish a similar bond of some surety company authorized to do business in this State, to be approved by the president and secretary of the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties under this act, and honestly accounting for all moneys coming into his hands belonging to said district. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said board to apply for and receive from the township treasurer, or other officer holding the same, on the presentation of a warrant signed by the president and secretary of the school board, all moneys appropriated or apportioned for primary schools and for district library of said district. The said treasurer shall have the keeping of all school and library moneys, and shall not pay out the same without the authority of the board, upon warrants or orders drawn upon him and signed by the secretary and countersigned by the president; and he shall perform such other duties as are required of the treasurer in primary school districts. SEC. 5. Said board of education shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in the office of trustee until the next annual election, and such trustee shall file with the secretary of said board his oath of office within five days after such appointment by the board. SEC. 6. A majority of the members of said board shall conings of board. stitute a quorum, and the regular meetings of said board shall be held on the fourth Monday of March, June, September, and December in each year, and no notice of such meeting shall be required, and any two members of said board shall be sufficient to adjourn any meeting from time to time until a quorum is present. Special meetings of said board may be called at any time on the request of the president, or any two members thereof, in writing, delivered to the secretary; and the secretary, upon receiving such request, shall at once notify each member of said board of the time of holding such meeting, which shall be at least two days subsequent to the time of receiving such request by said secretary: Provided, That in case all the members shall sign a waiver of notice on the minute book of the secretary no notice shall be necessary. All records and papers of said district shall be kept in the custody of said secretary and shall be open to the inspection of any qualified voter of said district. Proviso. Who to be school in spector, etc. SEC. 7. The said board shall be the board of school inspectors for said district and shall, as such, report to the clerk of the county in which such township is located and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties now enjoyed and performed by boards of school inspectors; and the secretary of said board shall perform all the duties required by law of the chairman of the board of school inspectors; and the board of school inspectors for such township is hereby abolished, except as its powers are vested in said board of education. |