to establish. of board. Departments this act; and to this end shall establish, open and regulate an industrial or polytechnic school and factory, a working home, and an employment and information bureau and circulating li brary, for the benefit of adult blind persons of good moral character, together with such other departments as in their judg ment may seem wise and judicious and best calculated to proCertain duties mote the objects and the efficiency of said institution. It shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to prescribe the articles to be manufactured and the services to be rendered by the students, apprentices, wards, wage-workers, and other inmates of said institution, the various kinds of machinery and tools to be used therein, the hours of labor to be required of workers in the several departments thereof, with the rates of compensation to be allowed for the labor or services of proficient workers, and the charges to be required of such workers or the inmates for board, lodging. washing, and other care or services rendered them at the expense of the institution. Said board shall establish a system of government and make all necessary bylaws, rules and regulations for said institution, for the reception. supervision and control of the lawful beneficiaries, or employes, for enforcing discipline, for imparting instruction, for preserving health, and generally for the proper physical, intellectual, moral, social and industrial training and welfare of the inmates and beneficiaries of said institution and for the proper equipment, care, and efficient management of the institution and its several departments. Board to furnish certain training. paid. SEC. 11. Said board of trustees shall afford adult blind residents of this State, of good moral character, who are in suitable physical and mental condition for receiving instruc tion, and are in need thereof, thorough instruction and training in such arts, trades, callings and branches of learning as will, in the opinion of said board, best serve to fit such persons to earn, in whole or in part, their own support. Expenses, how All the expenses of affording the industrial or business education and the physical, mental, and moral training herein provided for, including the cost of tuition, raw materials, and maintenance for a limited term of instruction, not to exceed three years for any individual learner, or so much thereof as the said board of trustees may deem to be just and expedient, shall be defrayed out of the moneys appropriated for the use of said board or otherwise granted, collected, or received for the support of said institution or for the general welfare of the lawful beneficiaries thereof. But said board of make charges. trustees shall have power when deemed necessary or expedient, to charge a reasonable compensation for the instruction, care, and maintenance of all such proper beneficiaries of said institution applying for necessary instruction, employment, care. treatment or assistance under the supervision thereof as are or may be willing to pay for the advantages so afforded them by said board: Provided, That the compensation so charged shall not exceed the amount paid out by said board on account of said beneficiaries, plus a reasonable charge for the use of the When may Proviso. apparatus, furniture, books and general equipment and super vision of said institution. officers, etc. SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the members of said board Board to meet of trustees to hold regular stated meetings at said institution monthly. once in each month on their own adjournment, and oftener if they shall deem it advisable, at such times as they may appoint, and on such day biennially as they shall determine and estab- To elect lish they shall elect from their own number a president, a secretary, and a treasurer of said board, to hold their offices for two years and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. The said board shall also appoint some suitable person, not a member of the said board, who shall be the superintendent and chief executive officer of said institution. A majority of said trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. duties of super SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the said Secretary board of trustees to prepare and preserve in a book to be kept keep minu'es. for that purpose, accurate minutes of all the proceedings thereof. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said Powers and institution to keep a correct list of all blind persons receiving intendent. the assistance or instruction afforded by said institution; to collect, compile, and publish such statistical and general information concerning the industries, occupations, conditions and needs of the blind as said board shall authorize and direct; to inquire into the fitness and capabilities of all applicants for receiving the instruction, employment or assistance which the said institution is authorized and prepared to afford; to arrange for the admission, instruction, employment, treatment or assistance of eligible applicants on such terms and conditions and in such manner as may be prescribed and approved by said board; to visit any charitable, educational or other public institutions, State institutions excepted, in which any blind persons over fourteen years of age may be in attendance and inquire into the condition and needs of such persons whenever, in the opinion or under the rules of the said board of trustees, it may seem necessary or desirable so to do; and he shall have power, with the advice and consent of the board of trustees, to appoint an assistant superintendent, a matron, and all such other officers, agents, servants, and assistants as may be necessary for the successful discharge of the mission of said board and the efficient management of said institution; also to prescribe their duties and fix the compensation for their services, and to remove and discharge them whenever, in the judgment of the board, the welfare of the service shall demand such action: Provided, That, so far as may be practicable, the work Proviso as to to be done in and about said institution shall be assigned to, or blind. and performed by blind persons. Said superintendent shall also supervise and conduct an information and employment bureau and a circulating library and reading circle for the benefit of blind persons; and arrange for the employment of suitable readers, instructors, servants, or other assistants wheu employment Board to make report. What to set forth. Blind persons to be received. ed. directed so to do by the said board; and discharge such other duties as the board may prescribe. SEC. 14. The board of trustees shall make and submit a biennial report to the Governor and the legislature on or before the tenth day of November preceding each regular session of the legislature, which report shall set forth, among other things, a statement of the progress, condition, and needs of the several departments of the institution, the industries, occupations, and branches of knowledge taught or pursued and the progress made therein, the number, names and residences of all the blind persons of each description received and discharged during the two fiscal years closing on the thirtieth day of the preceding June, and of those remaining in charge or in the employ of said board, also of all the officers, instructors, and employes and assistants connected with said institution, together with their respective rates of compensation, and a detailed account of the receipts and disbursements of said board during such biennial period, with estimates of the amount needed for the support of the institution for the ensuing two years, and such other information relating to the said institution and the objects thereof as they may deem proper. SEC. 15. There shall be received in said institution as apprentices or learners, as assisted wards, or as wage-workers all those blind persons, residents of this State, or, if minors, whose parents or guardians are residents of this State, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, who are of good moral character and in suitable condition of body and mind to receive the instruction therein afforded or, by their labor or servProviso as to ices, to earn the cost of their own support: Provided, That partially blind. partially blind persons, whose defective sight is such as to prevent them from successfully engaging in those common pursuits wherein the possession of vision is deemed requisite to success, may be admitted to the privileges and benefits of said institution upon such just and reasonable terms as How instruct the said board of trustees may prescribe. Such persons as may be duly admitted to said institution as dependent wards, apprentices, or polytechnic students shall be so instructed, trained, and maintained at said institution or by said board for a limited time, not to exceed three years in any case while acquiring any useful art, trade, or calling, without charge for tuition. board, lodging, washing, medicine, or medical attendance: Provided, That the board of trustees may, in their discretion, admit persons between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years with the approval of the Board of Control of the Michigan School for the Blind at Lansing, and may in their discretion admit persons over sixty years of age: And provided, further, That in case of the unavoidable suspension of the industrial or manufacturing department of the institution, or of any trade or calling pursued in said institution, no charge shall be made for the maintenance of those wage-workers or blind employes whose opportunity for earning their own support shall be thereby interrupted, unless such suspension shall Proviso. Further proviso. discharge of continue for a longer time than fourteen weeks in any one year: And provided, further, That said board of trustees shall Proviso as to have power to dismiss and discharge any inmate or beneficiary inmates. of said institution whenever they shall deem it advisable so to do on account of persistent disobedience, immoral conduct, or other sufficient cause, or in consequence of such person having completed the course of training or otherwise accomplished the purpose for which he or she may have been admitted to said institution. ents of poor to institution. SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the superintendents of the Superintendpoor of the several counties of this State to send or cause to be send certain sent to the said employment institution for the blind all such persons to persons as are entitled to admission therein, who are a charge upon their respective counties or any township or city therein. To provide Such superintendents of the poor shall, before sending any them with cer blind persons to said institution under the provisions of this tain articles. section, cause them to be decently and comfortably clothed, and shall provide them with comfortable clothing while they remain at said institution, and shall defray their traveling expenses in going to and returning from said institution, and provide them with such articles of necessity and convenience as may be required by the rules and regulations of said institution to be furnished by the inmates thereof, and shall also pay for the board of such persons during any vacation or other necessary suspension of the work of such persons, not exceeding fourteen weeks for any individual during any one year, if they are permitted to remain at said institution during such vacation or other necessary suspension of their work. All persons entitled to admission to said institution who are not a charge upon any county of this State, but who, on account of their poverty, are unable to furnish themselves with proper clothing and other articles required by the rules and regulations of said institution, shall receive the same aid from the superintendents of the poor of their respective counties. while attending said institution as is provided in this section. for those who are a county charge. All expenses incurred by the superintendents of the poor under this section shall be a proper charge against their respective counties, and shall be defrayed out of the poor fund of such county. tion. SEC. 17. The sum of one dollar, or so much thereof as shall Appropriabe necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purchase or acquirement of said site or sites; the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, for the payment on contracts provided for in section six of this act, and for the purpose of purchasing furniture, bedding, cooking utensils, and such other necessary furniture and equipments as may be required for said institution, is hereby appropriated; the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for power, tools, implements, and such working material as may be deemed necessary in the different departments; the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the current expenses of said institution for the fiscal year To be incorporated in Siate tax. Proviso as to transfer of funds. Repealing clause. i ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred four and the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred five. The Auditor General is hereby authorized and required to add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred three the sum of eighty-five thousand one dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred four the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, from which amount the general fund shall be reimbursed for any and all amounts appropriated under this section: Provided, That if in any case the sum or sums hereby appropriated for any particular purpose shall not be necessary for the purpose indicated, then said board shall have the authority to expend any surplus funds for any purpose or purposes deemed necessary in the said institution. SEC. 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. [No. 170.] AN ACT to amend section fifteen of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, being an act to amend act number two hundred seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing of vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beverage any part of which is intoxicating, and to prohibit the keeping of any saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of such liquors or beverages, and to suspend the general laws of the State relative to the taxation and regulation of the manufacture and sale of such liquors in the several counties of this State under certain circumstances; to authorize the qualified electors of the several counties of this State to express their will in regard to such prohibition by an election, and to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the several counties, after such election, if they shall determine the result to be in favor of such prohibition, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing, of any such liquors, or the keeping of a saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of the same in their respective counties, and to provide for penalties and rights of action in case of its violation." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That section fifteen of act number one hundred eighty three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, |