business in state. provisions of this act, shall maintain any action in this State upon any contract made by it in this State after the taking effect of this act, until it shall have fully complied with the requirements of this act, and procured a certificate to that efWhen may do fect from the Secretary of State. Upon the compliance with the provisions of this act, such corporation shall be permitted to carry on business in this State for the time set forth in its original charter or articles of association, unless this shall be for a greater length of time than is contemplated by the laws of this State, in which event the time and duration shall be the limit of time set out in the laws of this State. Approved April 16, 1903. Section amended. With whom to file list of shares. To make annual report. Proviso. [No. 35.] An act to amend section three of act number one hundred twenty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred fiftyfive, entitled "An act to prevent the issue and sale of fraudulent stock by incorporated companies," the same being compiler's section eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of act one hundred and twentyeight of the public acts of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An act to prevent the issue and sale of fraudulent stock by incorporated companies," the same being compiler's section eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. Every banking, insurance, mining, plank road, or other incorporated company, which issues script or shares, shall within ninety days after the passage of this act, file with the Secretary of State a list of the number of shares issued by said corporation, and the names of the owners thereof and their postoffice addresses, with the number of shares owned by each; and annually thereafter shall file with said Secretary of State during the months of January or February, in each and every year, a statement similar to that above required, showing the ownership of the shares of said corporation at the day of the date of said statement; all of which statements, including the first, shall be made by one of the officers of said company, under oath: Provided, That corporations which file an annual report with the Secretary of State containing a list of stockholders with the postoffice addresses and the number of shares held by each, shall not be required to file a separate list under this act. Approved April 16, 1903. [No. 36.] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of Michigan Commanderies of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. The People of the State of Michigan enact: eries may in SECTION 1. Commanderies of the State of Michigan, Mil- Commandtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, may be- corporate. come incorporated by complying with the following provisions: cute articles. The officers of any Commandery of the State of Michigan, Officers to exeMilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals as such officers, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by the laws of What to set Michigan to take acknowledgment of deeds, and set forth: First, The names of the officers above mentioned and their Omeers, places of residence; forth. names, etc. Second, The corporate name by which the association shall Corporate be known in the law; name. Third, The object and purpose of such corporation, which Objects, etc. shall be to promote the general welfare of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Fourth, The period for which the association is incorpo- Period of inrated, which shall not exceed thirty years. corporation. where filed. corporate. SEC. 2. A copy of such articles of association, together Articles with a copy of the constitution and by-laws of any such Commandery of the State of Michigan, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, shall be filed with the Secretary of State, and thereupon the persons who shall sign such articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed Body in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession and shall be persons in law capable to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy to them and their successors estates, real and personal, of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal, but said corporation shall have no power to divert any gift, grant or bequest from the specific purpose or purposes designated by the donor or donors. It shall have the power to act as trustee under any May act as gift or bequest for any specified purpose within those named by its rules and regulations or the spirit thereof and may administer such trust by such officers, and in such manner as is in accordance with such rules and regulations of the order and with the specified instructions of the donor or donors and such trust when so created shall not be invalid for want of the names of specific beneficiaries to be benefited thereby. And in case the charter of any Commandery of the State of In case of deMichigan, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United tion. States, shall be taken away or surrendered, or whenever any such commandery shall become defunct as a corporation and trustee. funet corpora value of property. incapable of carrying out the provisions of any such trust as trustee thereof, the same shall be turned over to and received by a board of trustees of not more than three persons in number, which said board shall be appointed by the circuit court of the county in which said commandery is located, which said board of trustees shall continue to administer such trust fund in accordance with the provisions and the spirit of the constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and the conditions expressed in said trust and that they shall account to and be governed in the management thereof by said court, and may be required to give the same bonds as receivers appointed under Proviso as to the general powers of such court: Provided, That the value of the real estate and personal estate owned by said association shall not exceed the value of one hundred thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, and dispose of such real and personal estate or any part thereof to be disposed of, together with the proceeds, rent and income as directed by such corporation under its constitution, rules and regulations. Such corporation shall have full power to make and establish rules and by-laws for regulating and governing all of its affairs and business not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State or of the United States and to designate, elect or appoint from their members such officers under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the constitution and bylaws of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. May make by-laws, etc. Evidence of SEC. 3. A copy of the record of such articles of associaincorporation. tion under the seal of the State, duly certified by the Secretary of State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts in this State of the existence and due organization of such corporation. May acquire buildings. May unite with G. A. R. SEC. 4. Any such corporation duly organized under this act, may erect or acquire by purchase, lease or gift, such suitable edifice, building or hall, or any interest therein or use thereof, as to such corporation may seem proper for its purposes; such corporation may if it so desires unite with any municipal corporation in the State of Michigan, and any incorporated post or posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Michigan, or with either of them in the purchase, lease or gift of any such edifice, building or hall, or any portion or portions thereof, to be used jointly for the purpose of any of said posts and for the purposes of such corporation and for the public purposes of any such municipal corporation in such manner and form as may be agreed upon by the Provisions as parties thereto respectively. Any such corporation may, if it so desires, acquire by purchase, lease or gift, all the rights and privileges now owned or possessed by it, as an unincorporated commandery in and to the Memorial Hall Building, in the City of Detroit, under and by virtue of any lease or any agreement heretofore entered into by and between the City of Detroit and certain of said incorporated Grand Army to Detroit. for cemetery. Posts, and by and between said posts and any commandery of the State of Michigan, with the consent of said city and said Grand Army Posts or the directory thereof; and any such corporation may acquire, receive and take over by any agreement, subject to the constitution and by-laws of said order, any property which said commandery may own, hold or possess to carry out the purposes of such corporation. And May hold land any such corporation organized under this act, may take, purchase, hold and own suitable lots or parcels of ground as may be convenient for the purposes of a cemetery, and may make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of such lots and for the burial of the dead: Provided, This act shall Proviso. not be construed to affect any municipal regulation in regard to cemeteries: And provided further, That such corporation Further may join any public corporation, or with any incorporated Grand Army Posts in acquiring any such cemetery, or division of any existing cemetery. proviso. certain pro SEC. 5. Corporations formed in pursuance of this act, shall Subject to be subject to the provisions of chapter two hundred thirty visions. of the Compiled Laws of this State so far as the same may be applicable to such corporation. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 37.] AN ACT to amend chapter nine of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains, and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and to repeal all other laws relating thereto," being act number two hundred fifty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, approved June second, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereto, by adding to said chapter a new section, to stand as section fifteen, and providing for the payment of certain drain orders in Cheboygan County. The People of the State of Michigan enact; amended. SECTION 1. Chapter nine of an act, entitled "An act to Chapter provide for the construction and maintenance of drains, and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and to repeal all other laws relating thereto," being act number two hundred fifty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereto, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section fifteen, and read as follows: Expense of establishing boygan Co., how paid. SEC. 15. In case of the establishment of any drain in Chedrains in Cheboygan County, and after the determination that the same is practicable as provided in section two, chapter three of this act, the services of the commissioner, surveyor and necessary helpers, rendered before and up to the time of such determination in laying out and surveying such drain may, after being audited as provided in this act, be paid out of the general fund of said County of Cheboygan. The orders drawn for said. services shall be approved and countersigned by the judge of probate of said county, and give the name of the drain for which the services were rendered. Out of the first money received by the county treasurer to the credit of any particular drain fund there shall be transferred to the general fund a sufficient sum to reimburse it for any moneys paid from such general fund under the provisions of this section for the benefit of such particular drain fund, and property chargeable thereto. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Use of nets [No. 38.] AN ACT to regulate the taking of fish in Whitney Bay or any waters tributary thereto, in the Township of Drummond, County of Chippewa. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person or persons shall fish with, use or set any seines, gill nets, or any form of pound, trap, sweep or set nets, or any like device for taking fish in Whitney Bay or any waters tributary thereto in the Township of Drummond, County of Chippewa. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Penalty for desertion. [No. 39.] AN ACT to prevent the desertion and abandonment of wife or children by persons charged by law with the maintenance thereof; to make such abandonment and desertion a felony and to prescribe the punishment therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That any person who deserts and abandons his wife or deserts and abandons his minor children under fifteen years of age and without providing necessary and proper |