examiner. SEC. 8. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Appointment, this act, the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to appoint etc., of special a special examiner. Said examiner shall be paid at the rate of seven dollars per day; he shall also receive necessary traveling expenses, which when audited by the Board of State Auditors, shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the Auditor General. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 167.] AN ACT to fix the compensation of the clerks in the State library. The People of the State of Michigan enact: tion. SECTION 1. The clerks employed in the State library shall Compensaeach receive, as compensation, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum for the time employed. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provi- Repealing sions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved June 2, 1903. clause. [No. 168.] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of companies for constructing, furnishing and operating electric and other fire, burglary and emergency alarms, and for conducting notification and emergency business, and to repeal act number eighty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That any three or more persons may organize a Number may corporation under this act for the purpose of constructing, incorporate. furnishing and operating electric and other fire, burglar and emergency alarms, and for conducting notification and emergency business, and kindred lines of business. SEC. 2. Such persons shall, under their hands and seals, Articles, what sign articles of association in which shall be specified, first, the to set forth. name of the association; second, the capital stock which shall not exceed one million dollars, and the number of shares into which the same shall be divided; third, the purpose for which such association is incorporated; fourth. the place where the Where filed. Corporation, how managed. Stock, how divided. Service of process. Subject to local regulations. Proviso. principal office of business of said association shall be located; fifth, the term of existence of such association which shall not exceed thirty years. The said articles of association shall be filed with the Secretary of State and a copy thereof recorded in the office of the county clerk wherein the principal office of the said association is established, and thereupon the said association shall be and the same is hereby declared to be a body corporate, under the name adopted in such articles of association. SEC. 3. The stock, property and affairs of every corporation organized hereunder shall be managed by a board of directors; the directors shall be chosen annually by the stockholders at such time and place as shall be provided by the by-laws of said corporation, and shall continue in office for one year and until others shall be chosen in their stead. No person except a stockholder shall be a director. SEC. 4. The stock of every such corporation shall be divided into shares of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars each and shall be deemed personal property. SEC. 5. Service of legal process against any such corporation may be made upon any officer of such corporation found within the county in which the action shall have been commenced. SEC. 6. Every such corporation shall be subject to the control and regulation of the local authorities in the municipality where it may be located, as to the methods and manner of constructing and maintaining the lines of wire or the material for use in the transmission of alarms, notifications or messages and shall have power, subject to such local regulations to construct and maintain such lines aforesaid for such purposes, over, across or under any public places, streets and highways. with all necessary poles, erections and fixtures therefor: Provided. That the same shall not injuriously interfere with other public uses of the public places, streets and highways; to construct, provide and furnish instruments, devices, vehicles and facilities in the transmission and furnishing of alarms and notifications; for the purpose of its business it shall be lawful for any such corporation to lease lines of wire, poles, fixtures or other materials from any public or private corporations posMay hold real sessing or controlling the same. It shall also be lawful for any corporation organized under this act to purchase and hold all necessary real and personal property to carry out the purposes of its organization. estate. Penalty for injury of property. Stockholders liable for labor liens. SEC. 7. Any person who shall unlawfully injure or molest any line of wire or property appurtenant thereto of any such corporation, or any of the instruments and apparatus of such corporation shall on conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both in the discretion of the court in which such conviction shall be had. SEC. 8. The stockholders of all corporations organized under this act shall be individually liable for all labor performed for said corporation, which said liability may be enforced against certain laws. SEC. 9. Every corporation organized under this act shall, in Subject to all respects not herein otherwise expressly provided be subject to the general provisions relating to corporations, being section eight thousand five hundred twenty-seven to eight thousand five hundred fifty-two of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, so far as the same be applicable. SEC. 10. Act number eighty-five of the public acts of eighteen Act repealed. hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of companies furnishing automatic electric fire alarms," is hereby repealed: Provided, however, That such Proviso. repeal shall not affect in any manner the rights or liabilities of any company heretofore organized and now existing under said act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 169.] AN ACT to establish the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind and provide for its management, to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide for a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There shall be maintained in some city of this Name, etc., of. State having a population of not less than ten thousand inhabitants, to be selected by the board of trustees of said institution, an institution for the training, care and employment of adult blind persons of good moral character, under the name and style of the "Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind." SEC. 2. The general supervision and government of said Trustees, institution shall be vested in a board of three trustees, who appointment, term of office, shall be appointed, in the first instance, by the Governor, to etc. hold their offices for the term of two, four and six years respectively, from the first day of January, nineteen hundred three and until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified, their respective terms of office to be designated in Proviso. Vacancy, how filled. their several appointments; and thereafter their respective successors shall each be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to serve for a term of six years, beginning the first day of January, or until their respective successors have been appointed and qualified: Provided, That one of said trustees shall be a blind person. The Governor shall have power to remove any of said trustees for misconduct, incompetency, or other sufficient cause, and to fill by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term any vacancy occurring in said board from death, removal or otherwise, by and with the advice and consent of the senate if in session when such vacancy occurs, or, in other cases, subject to the approval of the senate at its next regular session. The said trustees shall each take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file the same with the Secretary Treasurer to of State. The treasurer of said board shall give a bond to the people of this State in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Governor, conditoned for the faithful performance of his official duties. The members of said board shall each be entitled to receive the traveling and other necessary expenses of each of them while engaged in the performance of the duties of said office which shall be audited and allowed by the State Board of Auditors and paid out of the funds of the said board of trustees: Provided, That the Governor shall be ex-officio a member of the board. give bonds. Expenses. Proviso. Board to select site, etc. Deeds, how executed. Who to prepare plans. To advertise for building bids. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said board of trustees to proceed immediately after appointment to select and acquire a suitable site or sites, and cause to be erected thereon such buildings and fixtures as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, and should there be any buildings or other fixtures located on such property when acquired. such structures shall be utilized so for [far] as in the judgment of the board of trustees is practicable. SEC. 4. The deeds for such site or sites shall be executed to the people of the State of Michigan, and shall be deposited with the Auditor General. SEC. 5. The board of trustees shall prepare and adopt plans for the grounds, buildings and fixtures for such institution of such form, style and dimensions as will, when completed, come within the sum which is by this act appropriated for that purpose. Such plans shall be subject to the provisions of section seven of act eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-nine. SEC. 6. Said board of trustees shall, as soon as it has secured such site or sites and adopted plans, and such plans have been approved in accordance with section five of this act, proceed to advertise six successive weeks in six different newspapers printed in this State, for proposals for the erection and furnishing of such buildings in accordance with the plans. Upon receipt of such proposals it may make contracts, with such builders and contractors as shall make proposals most con bonds. ducive to the interest of the State, taking into consideration the price, time of performance and the responsibility of the contractors: Provided, That every builder or contractor per- Proviso as to forming service or work, or furnishing materials under this act shall enter into such bonds, with sureties, for the proper performance of this contract, as shall be required by the said board of trustees. SEC. 7. Said board of trustees shall have the power to ap- Appointment point an architect and all such other agents, assistants and of employes. employes as may be necessary in the erection of buildings provided for in this act, and to fix a reasonable compensation for their services, subject to and with the approval of the Governor. Such appointment shall not, however, be made from among the members of said board. body corpo SEC. 8. The members of the said board of trustees, when Board to be appointed and qualified as provided in section two of this act, rate. shall constitute a body corporate and politic under the name Name. and style of the "Board of Trustees of the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind," with perpetual succession and Powers of. with power to take, hold, enjoy and convey lands, tenements, hereditaments and personal property; to receive all donations and appropriations of money or property made for the purpose of promoting the industrial, intellectual, physical or general welfare of the blind or of any class of blind persons, and to discharge the trust thereby imposed; to make contracts; to sue and be sued; to plead and be impleaded, and to have and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. No real or personal property shall be held by the said corporation, except such as may be necessary to the discharge of the purposes of its creation. Said corporation shall establish and maintain its principal office in the city where the institution provided for in this act shall be located, which office shall be open to the public at all times. Sundays and legal holidays excepted. SEC. 9. All appropriations made to or for the said Employ- Appropriament Institution for the Blind and all moneys and the proceeds controlled. of all real and personal property received by the said board of trustees by gift, bequest, devise, or otherwise, the purpose whereof shall not have been otherwise specifically designated and prescribed by the donors, grantors, or other contributors. thereof, shall be set apart as an "adult blind worker's aid fund," which shall be controlled, drawn and expended by the said board of trustees for the creation, equipment, improvement. care, and support of said Employment Institution for the Blind and the promotion of the objects thereof or for the lawful maintenance, treatment, instruction, or assistance of the proper beneficiaries of said institution, and for no other purpose: Provided, The board of trustees shall always be subject Proviso. to the general accounting laws of the State. tions, etc., how institution. SEC. 10. Said board of trustees shall have the power, and it Board to equip shall be their duty, so to provide, equip and control the said institution as to carry into effect all the intents and purposes of |