mander in officer or chaplain), who has not previously served two years or more in the National Guard or in the regular or volunteer service of the United States army as a commissioned officer, or enlisted man, or both. Commissioned officers shall take rank according to the dates of their commissions. The day of the appointment or election of any officer shall be expressed in his commission and be considered as the date thereof. The Staff of comstaff of the Commander-in-Chief shall consist of the adjutant chief, how general, the inspector general, the quartermaster general, the constituted. assistant adjutant general, the assistant inspector general, the assistant quartermaster general, four aides-de-camp, the judge advocate, and the military secretary. The adjutant general, the inspector general, and the quartermaster general shall have the rank of brigadier general, and their respective assistants and four aides-de-camp shall have the rank of colonel; the judge advocate and the military secretary shall have the rank of major. The Commander-in-Chief may, upon the recommendation of the State Military Board, appoint an additional assistant quartermaster general, assistant adjutant general and assistant inspector general, who shall have the rank of major, and who shall be members of the Commander-in-Chief's staff. of officers. give bonds. SEC. 16. The pay and allowance to officers in time of actual Compensation service shall be the same as the pay and allowances of officers of the same grade in like service in the army of the United States. Company commanders, adjutants, quartermasters and Certain to commissary officers shall give bonds in such sum and with such surety or sureties as shall be required by the Military Board, for the care, accounting and safe keeping of all arms, equipments and property of the State which may at any time be under their charge and control, and to account for the same, which bonds shall be approved by the State Military Board. Upon the giving of such bonds, and their approval as afore- Compensation said, commanding officers of companies of the Michigan commanders. ! National Guard shall be entitled to pay at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, payable yearly by the quartermaster general. The adjutant of each brigade shall be entitled Adjutants. to pay at the rate of one hundred fifty dollars per annum, the adjutants of regiments and independent battalion one hundred dollars per annum, the quartermaster of brigade and regiments and independent battalion one hundred dollars per annum, payable yearly by the quartermaster general. of company mander-in SEC. 20. The Commander-in-Chief, by and with the advice Duty of comof the State Military Board, is hereby authorized and em- chief relative powered to make application to the Secretary of War for all to camps, etc. or such portions of the troops as he may deem advisable to take part in army maneuvers, or for regular troops to take part in encampment within the State, as provided for by Congress. The Commander-in-Chief, by and with the advice of the State Military Board, is hereby authorized and empowered to establish annually one or more camps in suitable places Compensation for duty at encampment. Privates, noncommissioned officers, etc. for the instruction of the Michigan National Guard, and shall procure suitable tents, camp equipage, utensils and ammunition for the accommodation and use of troops in said camps, and may order into said camp or camps, to be kept therein for such period of time as he may deem expedient, not exceeding ten days, any company or regiment, and may designate the officer to command such camp or camps. SEC. 25. All officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, members of bands and privates, shall receive for each day actually spent by them on duty in the annual encampment authorized by this act, or on any duty under orders of the Commander-in-Chief, and for the time necessarily spent by them in traveling from their homes to the place of rendezvous, and in returning to their homes, the following compensation, together with the necessary transportation, to-wit: To each private, non-commissioned officer and musician not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per day and subsistence, the cost of same not to exceed seventy-five cents per day and the difference between the cost of the rations and seventy-five cents to be paid the said non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians in money at the time of payment for camp Commissioned services. To all commissioned officers of the line to the field, staff and other commissioned officers the pay as fixed by the United States army regulations of officers of the army of the same rank in the service of the United States: Provided, That in case of all officers who under this act or the regulations of the State Military Board are paid an annual salary of more than one hundred dollars, this pay shall be in lieu of such annual salary during the time for which it is paid: And provided further, That any officer, musician or soldier guilty of intoxication or drunkenness at any annual encampment, or on the way to and from such encampment, shall forfeit all pay for that entire tour of camp duty, and it shall be the duty of the officer charged with making the pay rolls to note the fact of intoxication or drunkenness against the name of the person guilty thereof. officers. Proviso. Further proviso. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Unlawful to take except [No. 252.] AN ACT to provide for the protection of fish in Brevoort The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to take, catch, kill or dewith hook and stroy fish with seines or any species of continuous net, or with any form of spear or trap or in any manner whatsoever, ex line. cept with hook and line in the waters of said Brevoort Lake, Mackinac County, Michigan, and it shall be unlawful to employ the use of fishing shanties or tents of any kind whatsoever for fishing through the ice on said lake. violation. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of sec- Penalty for tion one of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 253.] AN ACT to provide a tax to meet the several appropriations for which a tax is not otherwise provided for the general expenses of the State government, salaries of the State officers, judicial and other, expenses of the State departments and expenses of the legislature for the years nineteen hundred three and nineteen hundred four. The People of the State of Michigan enact: be raised. SECTION 1. There shall be levied upon the aggregate of tax- Amount of to able real and personal property of the State in the year nineteen hundred three the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars; and for the year nineteen hundred four the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be raised by tax to meet the several appropriations made by law wherein no tax is otherwise provided. tions, how SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of Appropriaany act to meet which this act provides a tax shall so far as paid. moneys are required to be paid to the board or officers of any institution or commission, be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the proper board or officer at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer of such board or commission shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. apportioned. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall apportion each year the Tax, how amounts herein directed to be raised among the several counties in this State as provided by law for the apportionment of State taxes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Public holdays designated. [No. 254.] AN ACT to amend section one of an act, entitled "An act to designate the holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes, in the holding of courts and relative to the continuance of suits," approved March eighth, eighteen hundred sixty-five, as amended by act number two hundred eight of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one; as amended by act number seventy-seven of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three; as amended by act number one hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninetythree, being Section four thousand eight hundred eighty of Miller's Compiled Laws of one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred twentyfour of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred sixty-five, entitled "An act to designate the holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes, in the holding of courts and relative to the continuance of suits," approved March eighth, eighteen hundred sixty-five, as amended by act number two hundred eight of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one, and as amended by act number seventy-seven of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, as amended by act number one hundred eighty-five, of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being section four thousand eight hundred eighty of Miller's Compiled Laws of one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 1. The following days, viz.: The first day of January, commonly called New Year's Day; the twenty-second day of February, commonly called Washington's Birthday; the thirtieth day of May, commonly called Decoration Day; the fourth day of July; the first Monday of September, commonly called Labor Day; the twenty-fifth day of December, commonly called Christmas Day; every Saturday from twelve o'clock noon until twelve o'clock at night, which is hereby designated a half holiday; election days, embracing national, state, county and city elections; and any day appointed or recommended by the Governor of this State, or the President of the United States as a day of fasting and prayer or thanksgiving, shall, for all purposes whatever as regards the presenting for payment or acceptance, and of the protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes, made after this act shall take effect, also for the holding of courts, except as hereinafter provided, be treated and considered as the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and as public holidays or half holidays; and all such bills, checks and notes otherwise presentable for acceptance or payment on any of the said days shall be deemed to be pay Saturdays. suits. etc. able and presentable for acceptance or payment on the secular or business day next succeeding such holiday or half holiday: Provided, That in construing this section, every Saturday, Proviso as to unless a whole holiday, as aforesaid, shall for the holding of court and the transaction of any business authorized by the laws of this State be deemed a secular or business day: Pro- Proviso as to vided also, That in case the return or adjourn day in any suit, matter or hearing before any court, officer, referee or arbitrators shall come on any of the days first above named, except Sunday, such suit, matter or proceeding, commenced or adjourned as aforesaid, shall not, by reason of coming on any of such days except Sunday, abate, but the same shall stand continued on the next succeeding day, at the same time and place unless the next day be the first day of the week, or a holiday, in which case the same shall stand continued to the next day succeeding said first day of the week or holiday, at the same time and place: Provided further, That whenever Proviso as to the first day of the general term of any circuit court, as fixed by the order of a circuit judge shall fall upon either of the days first above named or whenever any circuit court shall be adjourned to any of the days first above named, such court may be adjourned to the next succeeding secular day: And Proviso as to provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent or invalidate the entry, issuance, service or execution of any writ, summons or confession of judgment or other legal process whatever, holding courts or the transaction of any lawful business except banking on any of the Saturday afternoons herein designated as half holidays, nor to prevent any bank from keeping its doors open or transacting its business on any of the said Saturday afternoons, if by a vote of its directors it elects to do so. Approved June 18, 1903. circuit courts egal process. [No. 255.] AN ACT to amend section thirty of act number one hundred fifty-six of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local administrative and legislative powers;" the same being section two thousand five hundred three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirty of act number one hundred fifty- Section six of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled amended. "An act to define the powers and duties of boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local, administrative and legislative powers," the same being |