[No. 117.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred ten of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the re-organization of corporations or associations for religious, charitable, benevolent or educational purposes, the corporate term of existence of which has heretofore expired, or may hereafter expire by limitation, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such renewed corporations or associations," as amended by act number eighty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, being compiler's sections eight thousand three hundred seven and eight thousand three hundred eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, by adding one new section thereto to stand as section three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: added. SECTION 1. Act number one hundred ten of the public Section acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the re-organization of corporations or associations for religious, charitable, benevolent or educational purposes, the corporate term of existence of which has heretofore expired, or may hereafter expire by limitation, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such renewed corporations or associations," as amended by act number eighty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's sections eight thousand three hundred seven and eight thousand three hundred eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended by adding one new section thereto to stand as section three, and to read as follows: religious, etc., SEC. 3. When prior to the expiration of the corporate Reorganizaterm of existence of any such corporation or association to by limitation, the original act under which the same was societies. organized has been repealed, such corporation or association may in like manner make and record articles of association and re-organize in like manner and with like effect under the provisions of act number one hundred seventy-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act for the incorporation of associations not for pecuniary profit," and the several acts amendatory thereof. Approved April 25, 1911. 23 Section amended. Expenditures over $50. When over $500. Sealed proposals. Proviso, private contract. [No. 118.] AN ACT to amend section three of chapter twelve of act number two hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter twelve of act number two hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. In all cases involving an expenditure of an amount over fifty dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, in the repairing or construction of roads or bridges in any township of this State, the commissioner shall submit the proposed expenditure to the township board, and, upon the approval of the said board, the commissioner may make such repairs or cause them to be made; may do the construction work or cause it to be done; may buy the necessary materials and hire the necessary help, but if the proposed expenditure is of an amount greater than five hundred dollars, the commissioner shall first submit the same to the township board, and upon approval of the said board the commissioners shall advertise for sealed proposals for the doing of such work and the making of such repairs, and together with the township clerk, subject to approval of the township board, shall contract, with the lowest bidder giving good and sufficient security for the performance of the work: Provided, That in case it shall appear to the commissioner and board acting together, in such manner that it seems to them clearly shown, that there has been collusion among the bidders, they may contract privately with any one of the bidders or with some one who was not a bidder, but at a price not to exceed that of the lowest bidder. The contract Approval and so made shall be approved in writing by the supervisor in notice. order to be valid as against the township. Not less than ten days notice shall be given by the commissioner of the time and place of letting such contract by putting up notices in at least five of the most public places in his township. Upon performance of the work by the contractor, if approved and accepted by the commissioner and supervisor, there shall be drawn and signed by such commissioner, and countersigned by the township clerk, orders upon the township treasurer for the amount of said contract. It shall be unlawful for any township officer to be in any way interested directly or indirectly in any such contract. Any contract in which any such township officer is so interested shall be absolutely void: Provided, however, That in case the township Proviso, day board shall decide to do the work by day labor, the plans and specifications together with all bids received thereon, and the reason, in writing, for not letting the job by contract, shall be filed in the office of the township clerk. Approved April 25, 1911. labor. [No. 119.] AN ACT to provide for the reporting of occupational diseases by physicians. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Every physician attending or called upon to Physicians, duty of. treat a patient whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic or mercury, or their compounds, or from anthrax, or from compressed air illness, contracted as a result of the nature of the patient's employment, shall send to the State Board of Health, who shall transmit to the Commissioner of Labor a notice stating the name, postoffice address and place of employment of the patient, the length of time of such employment, and the disease from which in the opinion of the physician, the patient is suffering. report. SEC. 2. Any physician who shall fail to make any report Failure to required by the preceding section, or who shall wilfully make any false statement in such report, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor Prosecutions. and of the prosecuting attorney of the county where any one violating the provisions of this act may reside, to prosecute all violations of the provisions of this act which shall come to the knowledge of them or either of them. Approved April 25, 1911. Section amended. Money, how used. [No. 120.] AN ACT to amend section three of act number one hundred ninety-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to authorize the trustees of the Michigan School for the Deaf to sell certain lands belonging to said school and buy other lands, and to hold the money received from the sale, until it can be advantageously used for said purchases." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of act number one hundred ninety-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to authorize the trustees of the Michigan School for the Deaf to sell certain lands belonging to said school and buy other lands, and to hold the money received from the sale until it can be advantageously used for said purchases," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. The money received from the sale of said land cannot be used for any other purpose than the purchase of other land, or for making permanent improvements to or on any land belonging to said school. Approved April 25, 1911. Section amended. [No. 121.] AN ACT to amend section two of act number seventy-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the adoption of minors, and for a change of name of such minors when change of name is desired, and for making them heirs at law of the person or persons adopting them, and to repeal act number one hundred forty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, relative to the adoption and change of name of minors and making them heirs at law of the person or persons adopting them," the same being compiler's section eight thousand seven hundred seventy-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of act number seventy-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the adoption of minors, and for a change of name of such minors. when a change of name is desired, and for making them heirs at law of the person or persons adopting them, and to repeal act number one hundred forty four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, relative to the adoption and change of name of minors and making them heirs at law of the person or persons adopting them," the same being compiler's section eight thousand seven hundred seventy-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Such adoption, and in case a change of name is Adoption, etc., desired, such change of name, shall be with the consent of consent for. the persons hereinafter described, viz.: (a) In case the parents of such child, or either of them, are living, then with the consent of such parent or the survivor of them; (b) In case such child is abandoned by one of its parents, then with the consent of the other parent; (c) In case such child be illegitimate, then with the consent of its mother; (d) In case such child is an orphan or is abandoned by its Orphans, etc. parents or surviving parent, or by its mother, if it be illegitimate, then with the consent of the nearest of kin or guardian of such child, or of the principal officer of any incorporated asylum, hospital or home, of which such child may be an inmate, or of two superintendents of the poor, of the county, or the director of the poor of any city or township of which such child is a resident, or of the principal officer of any institution, public or private in this State or elsewhere in whose care such orphan or abandoned child may be; children. (e) In case the parents, or surviving parent of such child, Illegitimate or the mother, if said child be illegitimate, or the parent who has not abandoned it, if such child has been abandoned by one of its parents, has or have surrendered and released, in a writing duly executed and acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments, all his, her or their parental rights in and to such child and the custody and control thereof to an incorporated asylum, hospital or home, of which such child may be an inmate, for the purpose of enabling such incorporated asylum, hospital or home to have said child adopted by some suitable person, its name changed, when a change is desired, and the child made an heir at law under the provisions of this act, then with the consent of the principal officer of any such incorporated asylum, hospital or home, and the aforementioned release executed by parent or parents as aforesaid to said asylum, hospital or home, shall be filed with the instrument of adoption in the probate court; school. (f) In case said child is legally an inmate of the State Inmate of Public School, then with the consent of the superintendent State public of such school, and the county agent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities for the county wherein the person adopting such child resides; (g) In case said child shall have been committed by an Incorporated order of a court of competent jurisdiction, to the care of associations. |