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 any 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 any 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 place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of the same, in the respective counties, and to provide for penalties and rights of action in case of its violation," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: provisions to .SEC. 15. The prohibitory provisions of this act shall take When certain effect and have full force within such county of this State on take effect. and after the first day of May, immediately following the adop tion by the board of supervisors of such county of the resolution ordering such prohibition and upon publication of the notice of the adoption of such resolution: Provided, however, Proviso. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the sale of wine for sacramental purposes, nor shall anything herein contained prohibit druggists or registered pharmacists from selling or furnishing pure alcohol for medicinal, art, scientific and mechanical purposes, nor prohibit the sale of wine or cider from home-grown fruit in quantities of not less than five gallons, nor shall the provisions of this act be construed to prohibit the manufacture of wine or cider, nor shall the provisions of this act be construed to prohibit the sale at wholesale of wine or cider manufactured in said county to parties who reside outside of said county. Approved June 2, 1903. Number may incorporate. Certificate, what to set forth. Further provisions. When to become body corporate, powers, etc. Term of office of directors. May reincorporate under this act. [No. 171.] AN ACT for the incorporation of associations not for pecuniary profit. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any five or more persons who shall desire to associate themselves for any lawful purposes other than pecuniary profit may make, sign and acknowledge before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds in this State and record in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the clerk of the county in which the headquarters or principal business of the corporation is to be conducted, a certificate in writing in which shall be stated: First, The name or title by which said corporation is to be known in law; Second. The purpose or purposes for which it is formed; Fourth, The number of trustees or directors, which shall not be less than five; Fifth, And the names of the trustees or directors selected for the first year of its existence. SEC. 2. The certificate may also contain any desired provisions prescribing the qualifications of officers and members whereby they may be required to be members in good standing of any fraternal, religious or beneficiary order or society, which provisions shall be binding upon the members and officers. The certificate may also contain any other provision for the regulation of the business and conduct of the affairs of the association, and any limitation or regulation of the powers of the corporation, and of its officers and members, not inconsistent with law or with this act, which the incorporators may choose to adopt. SEC. 3. Upon delivery for record of such articles the persons who have signed and acknowledged such certificate, their associates and successors, shall thereupon become a body politic and corporate and shall have power: First, To sue and be sued; Second, To appoint such officers, managers and agents as the affairs of the corporation may require; Third. To make by-laws for the regulation of its affairs; Fourth, To acquire and convey all real, personal and mixed property suitable or necessary for the object of the corporation, and to do all things and be liable for all acts in relation thereto in the same manner and to the same extent as a natural person. SEC. 4. The trustees or directors shall hold their office for one year or for such term as the by-laws shall provide and until their successors are elected. SEC. 5. Any corporation not for pecuniary profit, heretofore incorporated under the provisions of any act of the legislature of Michigan, may re-incorporate under the provisions of this act, and shall take all the property and become subject to the debts and liabilities of the former association. SEC. 6. Any corporation organized under this act, the pur- Powers, etc. pose of which is not primarily or principally for net pecuniary profit, but the objects of which require the transaction of business and the receipt and payment of moneys in the conduct of its affairs, shall have the right and power to transact such business and receive, collect and disburse such moneys, and acquire, hold and convey such properties as are naturally or properly within the scope of its articles of association. rations, how SEC. 7. Hereafter all new corporations not organized for New corpoprofit and having no capital stock, except religious organiza- organized. tions, shall be organized under this act. applied. SEC. 8. Nothing in this act contained shall permit any com- Act, how pany, association or society to transact any insurance business other than the payment of a funeral benefit of not to exceed one hundred dollars. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 172.] AN ACT to provide for the renewing of bonds of guardians, executors and administrators. The People of the State of Michigan enact: new bonds, SECTION 1. Every guardian, executor and administrator shall When to give file a new bond whenever required by the probate court to do how signed, so; the said new bond shall be signed by the guardian, executor etc. or administrator with two sufficient sureties residing in the same county where the probate court is held, which sureties shall justify their pecuniary responsibility under oath, before any officer authorized to administer oaths. notice to SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the probate court to give when probate written notice to each guardian, executor or administrator who court to give has been acting as such for five years, and in every case where renew. a new bond is required, to come into court on a certain day, and give a new bond in such sum as the probate judge shall provide. If, after receiving the notice aforesaid, the said In cases of guardian, executor or administrator shall neglect or refuse to neglect, etc. file the bond as required, the probate court shall serve a notice on said guardian, executor or administrator to appear before him at a time and place, to show cause why he should not be removed from said office of trust, and the said probate court shall remove said guardian, executor or administrator and appoint a new one, unless the said bond, complying with all the conditions aforesaid, shall be filed within thirty days. Record of, to be kept. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the probate court to keep a book wherein shall be entered the dates when each guardian, executor or administrator gives a bond, and every five years thereafter the notices shall be served, according to the provisions of this act, and a new bond required. Approved June 2, 1903. Act amended. [No. 173.] AN ACT to amend act number twenty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to amend act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled 'An act to require county treasurers to furnish transcripts and abstracts of records, and fixing the fees to be paid therefor," " approved March tenth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being compiler's section twenty-five hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number twenty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to amend act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled 'An act to require county treasurers to furnish transcripts and abstracts of records and fixing the fees to be paid therefor," " approved March tenth, eighteen -hundred ninety-seven, the same being compiler's section twentyfive hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The county treasurers of the several counties shall make or cause to be made, on application therefor, transcripts of any papers or records on file in their offices, upon payment by applicants therefor of the following fees. For abstracts of taxes on any description of land, three cents for each year covered by such abstract; for abstracts with statement of name and residence of taxpayers twelve cents per year for each description of land therein; for list of State tax lands or State bids, two cents for each description of land therein; for one copy of any paper or document at the rate of ten cents per one hundred words; for each certificate, fifteen cents: Provided, That for statements in respect to the payment of taxes required by section one hundred and thirty-five of act two hundred six of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, the county treasurer shall receive five cents for each description of land contained therein: Provided further, That in no case shall any abstract, list, copy or statement made as required by this act, be furnished for a less sum than fifteen cents. All moneys collected under the provi sions of this act shall be retained by the county treasurers collecting the same, except in the counties of Wayne, Kent, Saginaw and Bay, in which counties such money shall be placed, by the treasurers, collecting the same, to the credit of the general fund of the county. Approved June 2, 1903. [No. 174.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Industrial School for Boys for special purposes and for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four, and June thirty, nineteen hundred five, and to provide a tax therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: expense. SECTION 1. The sum of seventy thousand dollars for the Appropriation fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred four and the for current further sum of seventy thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, or so much of said sums as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated to defray the current expenses of the Industrial School for Boys. SEC. 2. The further sum of seven thousand three hundred Further apfifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending propriation. June thirty, nineteen hundred four, for the purposes and amounts, as follows: For the maintenance of the department How used. of technology, two thousand dollars; for sidewalks and fences. five hundred dollars; for painting and papering, five hundred dollars; for team, carriage and harness, eight hundred dollars; for steam and water plant repairs, fifteen hundred dollars; for introducing and maintaining sloyd department, fifteen hundred dollars; for ensilage cutter and motor, three hundred dollars; for library books and periodicals, two hundred fifty dollars. The further sum of six thousand two hundred fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred five, for the purposes and amounts as follows: For the maintenance of the department of technology, two thousand dollars; for sidewalks and fences, five hundred dollars; for painting and papering, five hundred dollars; for steam and water plant repairs, fifteen hundred dollars; for maintaining sloyd department, fifteen hundred dollars; for li brary books and periodicals, two hundred fifty dollars: Pro- Proviso as to vided, That if the amount designated in this section for any of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchases, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in this section may, by obtaining the consent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities transfer of funds. |