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Bonds validated.

[No. 32.]

AN ACT to validate bonds for waterworks purposes heretofore voted in the several cities.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Whenever bonds for waterworks purposes have heretofore been approved by the requisite majority of the qualified voters of any city, as fixed by the several enabling acts under which the election was held, the said bonds to the amount and for the purposes submitted to said voters are hereby confirmed and validated.

SEC. 2. It is hereby declared that this act is immediately
necessary for the protection of the public health and safety.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 31, 1911.

Sections amended.

[No. 33.]

AN ACT to amend section one of article one and section fortytwo of article two of act number one hundred ninety-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of the railroad, bridge and tunnel companies, and to regu late the running and management and to fix the duties and liabilities of all railroad, bridge, tunnel and other corporations owning or operating any railroad, bridge or tunnel within this State," being compiler's sections six thousand two hundred twenty-three and six thousand two hundred sixty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of article one and section fortytwo of article two of act number one hundred ninety-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of the railroad, bridge and tunnel companies, and to regulate the running and management and to fix the duties and liabilities of all railroad, bridge, tunnel and other corporations owning or operating any railroad, bridge or tunnel within this State," being compiler's sections six thousand two hundred twentythree and six thousand two hundred sixty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. It shall be lawful for any number of persons, not Number may less than seven, to organize themselves into a corporation for incorporate. the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining a railroad, railroad bridge or railroad tunnel; and for such purpose such persons shall subscribe articles of association,

in which shall be set forth the name of the corporation, the Articles, what number of years the same is to be continued, the amount of to set forth. capital stock of said company, which shall not be less than four thousand dollars per mile of road constructed or proposed to be constructed with flat-bar rail, or with a gauge not exceeding three feet six inches in width, and not less than eight thousand dollars per mile of road constructed or proposed to be constructed of "T" rails with gauge exceeding three and one-half feet in width, and not less than one-half the estimated cost of any such bridge or tunnel; the number of shares of which the stock shall consist, which shall be of the amount of one hundred dollars each; the number of directors, which shall not be less than five nor more than fifteen, and their names; the places from and to which and the name of each county into or through which it is or is intended to be constructed, and its length as near as may be. Each subscriber to such articles of association shall set opposite his name his place of residence, and the number of shares of stock by him subscribed. Whenever five hundred dollars per mile of such rail- When filed. road, or one-half the estimated cost of such bridge or tunnel, shall have been subscribed upon such articles of association, and five per cent of the amount thereof shall have been paid in to the directors named in such articles, in good faith, in cash, and an affidavit shall have been made and attached thereto by any two of said directors, that said amount has been subscribed, and said amount of five per cent paid in, in good faith, in cash, as before provided, such articles of association shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and thereupon the persons who have subscribed such articles, and all other persons who shall from time to time thereafter subscribe to or become the holders of the capital stock of said corporation, in the manner to be provided in its by-laws, shall be a body corporate, by the name specified in such articles, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, and may have a common seal, and may make and alter the same at pleasure, and be capable in law of purchasing, holding, and conveying any real and personal property whatever necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of said railroad, railroad bridge or railroad tunnel; and for the erection of all necessary buildings, yards, and appurtenances for the use of the same: Provided, That any such company existing Proviso, in whole or in part under the laws of this State, at any general or special meeting of the stockholders called and held pursuant to the provisions of this State in that behalf, may increase or decrease the number of its directors provided for in its articles of association, by a resolution to that effect: Provided, That two-thirds of the entire stock of the company Proviso.

directors.

Further proviso.

Resolutions,

filing of.

Land, may] condemn, etc.

shall be voted therefor: Provided further, That in no case shall the number of the directors be less than five nor more than fifteen. A copy of any resolution so passed shall be certified by the secretary of the company and shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State in like manner as provided by law for the filing and recording of arti cles of incorporation of railroad companies.

SEC. 42. Any railroad company, any railroad bridge company or any railroad tunnel company organized under this act shall possess the power to acquire, either by purchase or condemnation, and to own the same, an amount of land at any and all places on the line of its railroad or in the vicinity of its bridge or tunnel sufficient to afford the necessary yards, terminals and freight and passenger depot accommodations for its own business and the, business of any companies operating a railroad, bridge or tunnel at the same place, with which it may make an agreement to furnish such accommodations, and also for the necessary rights of way to afford such companies access thereto.

Approved April 4, 1911.

Section amended.

Nets, unlawful, in certain waters.

Connecting waters defined.

[No. 34.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number two hundred thirteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to regulate the taking of fish in the waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie, the bays thereof, and the connecting waters between said lakes within the jurisdiction of this State, and to regulate the transportation, sale and possession of fish taken from said waters."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of act number two hundred thirteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to regulate the taking of fish in the waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie, the bays thereof, and the connecting waters between said lakes within the jurisdiction of this State, and to regulate the transportation, sale and possession of fish taken from said waters," is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful to place or set any kind of a net or to take or attempt to take any kind of fish with a net in any of the connecting waters between Lake Superior and Lake Huron and the connecting waters between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. For the purpose of this act, the connecting waters between Lake Superior and Lake Huron shall

be defined as all that part of the Straits of St. Mary in this State, extending from a line drawn straight from the most northerly point of Round Island to Point Aux Pins, to a line drawn due east and west from the most southerly point of Lime Island; and the connecting waters of Lake Erie and Lake Huron shall be defined as all of the St. Clair River, all of Lake St. Clair and all of the Detroit River extending from Fort Gratiot Light in Lake Huron to a line drawn east and west at the northerly end of Grosse Isle. It shall be unlaw ful to set any net in any direction from the mouth of any river or the mouth of the outlet of any inland lake: Provided, Proviso, hook That it shall be lawful at all times to catch any kind of fish in these connecting waters with a hook and line. Approved March 31, 1911.

and line.

[No. 35.]

AN ACT to authorize clerks of justices' courts to sign summonses, garnishee summonses and subpoenas.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. In all justices' courts in this State authorized Justice clerk by law to appoint or elect a clerk, the name of the justice summonses, may sign etc. of the peace presiding over such court may be written upon all summonses, garnishee summonses and subpoenas in the following form:

Form.

John Doe, Justice of the Peace,

By

Clerk or Deputy Clerk.

The clerks or the deputy clerks of said courts are hereby Authority. authorized to sign the name of the justice of the peace upon all such summonses, garnishee summonses and subpoenas, and all such summonses, garnishee summonses and subpoenas when so signed shall have full force and effect as if signed by the justice of the peace of such court.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 31, 1911.

Section amended.

Intestate

estate,

[No. 36.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter seventy of title seventeen of the Revised Statutes of Michigan for eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Estates of intestates," being compiler's section nine thousand three hundred forty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter seventy of title seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Estates of intestates," being compiler's section nine thousand three hundred forty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundered ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 20. When application shall be made to the judge of application for probate for the appointment of an administrator on an inadministrator. testate estate, or for letters of administration with the will annexed, or administration de bonis non, he shall cause notice of the same, and of the time and place of hearing thereof, to be given by personal service on all persons interested, or to be published for three successive weeks in such newspaper as he may direct.

Notice.

Approved March 31, 1911.

Section repealed.

[No. 37.]

AN ACT to repeal section nine of chapter seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the sale of lands of minors and other persons under guardianship and securing the proceeds for their use," the same being section nine thousand one hundred forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the sale of lands of minors and other persons under guardianship and securing the proceeds for their use," the same being section nine thousand one hundred forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby repealed. Approved March 31, 1911.

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