Pro- Further year and in counties having more than one hundred and Seventh, To counsel with the teachers and school boards as to the course of study to be adopted and pursued, and as to any improvement in the discipline, instruction and management of the school, and he may examine and audit the books and the records of any school district at any time when directed to do so by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or by application of any school board; proviso. Eighth, To promote by such means as he or she may devise, Institutes, the improvement of the schools in the county, and the eleva- etc. tion of the character and qualifications of the teachers and officers thereof, and act as assistant conductor of institutes appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and perform such other duties pertaining thereto as said superintendent shall require; 227 Ninth, To receive the duplicate annual reports of the sev- To examine eral township clerks, examine into the correctness of the reports. same, requiring them to be amended when necessary, endorse his or her approval upon them, and immediately thereafter, and before the fifteenth day of September in each year, transmit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction one copy of each of said reports and file the other in the office of the county clerk; Tenth, To be subject to such instruction and rules as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may prescribe, to receive all blanks and communications that may be sent to him or her by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to dispose of the same as directed by the said superintendent, and to make annual reports at the close of the school year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of his or her official labors, and of the schools of the county together with such other information as may be required; Eleventh, To perform such other duties as may be required of him or her by law, and at the close of the term of office to deliver all records, books, and papers belonging to the office to his or her successor. SEC. 10. The compensation of each county commissioner compensation. of schools shall be determined by the board of supervisors of each county, respectively, but the compensation shall not be fixed at a sum less than five hundred dollars per annum in any county where there are fifty schoolrooms; at not less than seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum where there are more than seventy schoolrooms; at not less than one thousand dollars per annum where there are one hundred schoolrooms and not less than twelve hundred dollars where there are one hundred and twenty-five schoolrooms; not less 228 ex Boa, comnion, per paid. Proviso. Further proviso. Expense. than thirteer five r aundred and fifty dollars where there are one hundred fifty schoolrooms; not less than fifteen hundred dollarser annum where there are one hundred and seventychoolrooms; not less than two thousand dollars per ann where there are over three hundred schoolrooms; in estinating the number of schoolrooms in any county graded schools operating under a general charter shall be included. Each member of the board of school examiners, other than the county commissioner, shall receive four dollars for each day actually employed in the duties of his office. The compensation of any clerk when appointed as provided in this act shall be determined by the county commissioner. The compensation of members of the county board of school examiners and of any clerk appointed by the county commissioner shall be paid monthly from the county treasury upon such examiner or clerk filing with the county clerk a certified statement of his or her account, which shall give in separate items the nature and amount of the service for which compensation is claimed. The compensation of the county commissioner shall be paid monthly from the county treasury: Provided, That in no case shall the county commissioner receive any order for compensation from the county clerk until he has filed a certified statement from the Superintendent of Public Instruction that all reports required of the county commissioner have been properly made and filed with said superintendent: Provided further, That no county commissioner shall receive an order for compensation until he shall have filed with the county clerk a detailed statement under oath showing what schools have been visited by him during the preceding month and what amount of time was employed in each school, naming the township and school district. The necessary and all contingent expenses for printing,. postage, stationery, record books, grading registers, telephone rental, rent of rooms for public examination, teachers' or school officers' meeting, shall be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors, or the board of county auditors. Approved April 26, 1911. [No. 145.] AN ACT to amend section forty-two of act number one hundred thirty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, as amended, entitled "An act relative to the organization and powers of fire and marine insurance companies transacting business within this State," said section being section seven thousand two hundred sixty-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section forty-two of act number one hundred Section thirty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, as amended, entitled "An act relative to the organization and powers of fire and marine insurance companies transacting business within this State," said section being section seven thousand two hundred sixty-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: surance SEC. 42. Any mutual insurance company organized under Mutual inthe laws of any other state in the United States, possessed of companies. not less than two hundred thousand dollars in premium notes (face value) of solvent parties, and not less than ten thousand dollars, either of cash on deposit, or securities immediately convertible into cash for that amount, which would or shall limit its business to the class of risks hereinafter named, may be admitted to take risks upon mills, factories, and their accessories, such as elevators, warehouses, lumber Risks, class of. yards, stores, and other property forming a part of such manufacturing property, and transact such business in this State; and any mutual insurance company organized under the laws of any other state in the United States, possessed of not less than one hundred thousand dollars in premium notes (face value) of solvent parties, and not less than ten thousand dollars, either of cash on deposit, or securities immediately convertible into cash for that amount, which would or shall limit its business to the class of risks hereinafter named, may be admitted to take risks upon buildings occupied as retail implement or hardware stores or warehouses, Implement and on the stocks therein contained, which stocks so insured surance on. may include such goods and merchandise as are usually kept for sale by retail hardware or implement dealers, on complying with the provisions of the act of which this act is amendatory, as to fire insurance companies, so far as the same may be applicable to mutual fire insurance companies, and compliance with the provisions of this act within the six months next succeeding its going into effect, by any company, shall be deemed to relieve the companies so complying, from all penalties or disabilities imposed or sought to be imposed, by section six of an act, entitled "An act to prevent the stores, in Proviso. Further proviso. Solvency. Notes, first lien. soliciting or issuing of unauthorized fire or inland marine insurance policies in this State," and approved May twelve, eighteen hundred eighty-one, or under any other statutes of this State, except as herein otherwise provided: Provided, however, That no such company shall be admitted until it has paid into the office of the State Treasurer, a specific tax of three per cent on the gross amount of all cash premiums received by it, for insurance on property situated in this State, prior to the time when this act takes effect: And provided further, That no insurance company which has violated the provisions of said act, shall be admitted until it has paid into the office of the State Treasurer a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars. The term premium as used in this section, for the purpose of taxation, shall be construed to mean all moneys either heretofore or hereafter received by any insurance company, whether as original payments, or by way of subsequent assessments on premium note and no other moneys. Before being admitted to do business under the provisions of this section, each of said mutual insurance companies shall furnish to the Commissioner of Insurance, a schedule of the notes held by it, no one of which shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and each yearly statement shall contain a similar schedule. The solvency of which notes shall be subject to the approval of said commissioner, who may revoke the authority of any company to do business in this State, at any time when a reduction of fifteen per cent has been made in its notes, or assets required by this section. The notes required by this section, shall be liable to assessment by any of said companies for any of its losses, and shall constitute a first lien on the insured property. Mutual companies shall not reinsure any risk, except by consent of the insured, and detailed statements of all reinsurances by such companies shall be included in the annual statements filed in the insurance bureau by them. Approved April 26, 1911. [No. 146.] AN ACT to amend section thirteen of act number one hundred forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyone, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, to define the duties and fix the compensation for the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act," being section four thousand eight hundred twenty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number ninety-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirteen of act number one hundred Section amended. forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, to define the duties and fix the compensation for the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act," being section four thousand eight hundred twenty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number ninety-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, is hereby amended to read as follows: of. SEC. 13. The officers of every school district, except as Teachers, hereinafter provided, which is, or shall hereafter be, organized employment in whole or in part in any city or village in this State, which is incorporated under the general laws or by special enactment, in which enactment special provisions exist in regard to licensing teachers, shall employ only such teachers as are legally qualified under the preceding sections of this act: Provided, That in incorporated cities employing a principal Proviso. of the high school and also a superintendent of schools who gives not less than one-third of his or her time to school supervision, the superintendent of schools and the board of education or a committee thereof shall be empowered to examine their teachers and grant certificates to such as are not already legally qualified, at such times and in such form as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prescribe: Provided further, That no teacher shall be licensed to teach Proviso. in any school or schools of this State by any officer, board or other authority, including every school or school district, regardless of whether existing or created under general or special law, unless the license or certificate is granted at such times and in accordance with such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided further, That cities having a special and Further thoroughly equipped normal training department, under con- proviso. trol of a special training teacher, such school having a course |