lien. appeals. proved by the justice. The plaintiff in such original action Judgment, against the defendant shall cause to be filed with the treas- filing of. urer of such municipal corporation, at the time of service of the notice aforesaid, a certified copy of the judgment, whereupon such municipal corporation shall be liable to the judg ment creditor for the amount of such judgment. The filing of To constitute such judgment shall constitute a lien upon any money, property or effects that such municipal corporation may have in its hands belonging to the defendant in such action, and such municipal corporation shall be required to make disclosure the same as in garnishee proceedings, and such further action shall be had under the law now provided for in garnishee proceedings, after the service of a summons, and any reference hereafter made relative to garnishees shall include and be construed to mean municipal corporations, after a filing of a certified copy of the judgment as hereinbefore provided: Provided, That when such corporation shall wish to appeal Proviso, in cases where it has not answered as garnishees it shall, in addition to the other requirements of law, file with the justice a full and complete answer in writing as such garnishees, verified by the oath of one of the officers having knowledge of the facts, which said officer shall also answer under oath all questions put to him by such justice relating to the matter of such suit, and whereupon the said justice shall, within the time required for making such return of such appeal, at the option of the plaintiff, either make such return or set aside the judgment rendered against such corporation, by entry thereon upon his docket and across the face of such judgment, in which event said corporation, if it have not already paid all costs in such suit, shall be liable for the same: Provided further, That in the Upper Peninsula gar- Further pronishee process under this act may be served on the clerks viso, upper peninsula. of all companies organized under this act, may be served on the clerks of all companies organized under the general mining laws of the State of Michigan, as well as on other officers thereof mentioned in this section. Approved April 7, 1911. Certain corporations may renew corporate term. ing. How called, etc. [No. 55.] AN ACT to provide for the reorganization of corporations for owning, maintaining and improving lands and other property kept for the purposes of summer resorts or for ornament, recreation or amusement, the term of existence of which has heretofore expired or may hereafter expire by limitation, and for the renewal of the corporate term and to fix the rights, duties and liabilities of such renewed corporation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any corporation heretofore or hereafter organized or existing under the laws of this State for the purpose of owning, maintaining and improving lands and other property kept for the purposes of summer resorts or for ornament, recreation or amusement, whose corporate term has expired, or shall expire by limitation, at a Special meet special meeting of its stockholders called for that purpose, by vote of at least four-fifths of its capital stock, to direct the reorganization of such corporation and the renewal, continuance and extension of its corporate term for such further period not exceeding thirty years from the expiration of its former term as may be expressed in a resolution for that purpose. Such meeting may be called by order of the directors de facto of such corporation, in accordance with the bylaws of such corporation and the laws of this State applicable to such class of corporations whose term has not expired. It shall be lawful to embrace in the call for such meeting a notice for the election of directors of such reorganized and renewed corporation. Upon the adoption of such resolution by a vote in person or by proxy duly filed, of a majority of at least four-fifths of the capital stock it shall be the duty of the president and secretary of such stockholders' meeting to certify under oath duplicate copies of such resolution and its adoption by at least four-fifths of the capital stock of such corporation, which copies shall be filed and recorded at the expense of said corporation in the same public offices wherein articles of association of the same class of corporations are required to be filed and recorded by the laws of this State, and the copies so filed or a certified copy of either of such records shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein reFranchise fee. cited. The franchise fee provided by law shall apply to and be paid by such corporations so reorganized and renewed. Resolution, where filed, etc. When deemed reorganized. SEC. 2. Upon the filing of such duplicate certificates in said public offices, such corporation shall be deemed reorganized and its term renewed, continued and extended as of the time of the expiration of the former term thereof, and such reorganized and renewed corporation and as well the stockholders thereof shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises and be seized and possessed of all of the property and of the same estate and interest therein, which said corporation and its stockholders or their assigns had or were seized or possessed of before the expiration of said corporate term, and as well all property acquired by or in the name of such corporation since the expiraton of said corporate term in all respects without change, diminution or prejudice by reason of the expiration of said corporate term or lapse of time thereafter, as fully and absolutely as if said corporate Liabilities. term had not expired; and said reorganized and renewed corporation shall be subject to and liable for all of the debts, obligations and liabilities of such corporation in all respects as if said corporate term had not expired. reorganiza SEC. 3. Any such corporation whose term has already ex- Time limit for pired may take advantage of this act at any time within five tion. years of the date of such expiration, and any such corporation whose term shall hereafter expire may be so reorganized and renewed within three years of such expired term. Approved April 7, 1911. [No. 56.] AN ACT to prohibit the sale of certain pistols and explosives, and the making of regulations relative to fireworks and firecrackers. The People of the State of Michigan enact: etc., unlawful SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or Fireworks, keep for sale any blank cartridge, toy pistol, toy gun or toy to sell. cannon that can be used to fire a blank cartridge; or to sell or keep for sale, or to fire, explode or cause to explode any blank cartridge or bomb; or to sell or keep for sale, or to set off, explode or cause to explode any fireworks containing any picric acid or picrates, or substance of a like nature, or any firecracker exceeding two inches in length and threeeighths of an inch in diameter or of a greater explosive power than a firecracker of such size containing black powder only: Provided, That this section shall not apply to illuminating Proviso. fireworks set off between the hours of seven o'clock in the afternoon and twelve o'clock midnight, excepting those containing picric acid or picrates, or substances of a like nature, or to the sale of any article herein named to be shipped directly out of the State, or to the sale or use of explosives in the firing of salutes by official authorities, or to the sale or use of blank cartridges for a show or theatre, or for signal purposes in athletic sports or by railroads, or to experiments at any factory for the manufacture of explosives, or the firing Penalty for violation. of salutes with cannon on shore or on boats, or to the sale for use or the use by the militia or by any organization of war veterans, or in teaching the use of firearms by experts on days other than holidays. SEC. 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved April 7, 1911. Sections amended. Annual meet- Chairman. AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter two, sections four, nine and eleven of chapter three of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred sixty-five, four thousand six hundred sixty-nine, four thousand six hundred seventy-four and four thousand six hundred seventy-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter two and sections four, nine and eleven of chapter three of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred sixty-five, four thousand six hundred sixty-nine, four thousand six hundred seventy-four and four thousand six hundred seventy-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amenued to read as follows: SEC. 20. The qualified voters of any school district when lawfully assembled at the first and at each annual meeting or at an adjournment thereof or at any special meeting lawfully called, except as hereinafter provided, shall have power: First, At the first meeting and at any meeting after the organization of the district, in the absence of the moderator, to appoint a chairman for the time being and, in the absence of the director, to appoint some person to act in his stead, who shall keep a minute of the proceedings of such meeting and certify same to the director, to be by him entered in the records of the district; Second, To adjourn from time to time as occasion may Adjournment. require; tion of. Third, To elect district officers as herein provided, and to Officers, elecdetermine at what hour the annual meeting shall be held; Fourth, To designate as hereinafter provided a site or such sites. number of sites as may be desired for school houses, and to change same when necessary; Fifth, To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or Purchase, etc. sites lawfully determined upon; the building, hiring or purchasing of a school house or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously established; Sixth, To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient Tax, limit of. to purchase or lease a site or sites, or to build, hire or purchase a school house or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building or altering a school house or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age it shall not exceed one thousand dollars; the foregoing tax when levied “Building and collected, together with all funds derived from bonding for the same purposes, when received by the treasurer, shall be accounted for under the title of "Building fund:" vided, That the money belonging to the building fund shall be used for no other purpose than that for which it was raised without consenting vote of two-thirds of the taxpaying voters of the district present and voting at said election; fund." Pro- Proviso. Seventh, To determine the amount of money to be raised Other by tax for all school purposes, except as otherwise provided purposes. by law; the tax herein provided for, together with the onemill tax, when collected and received by the treasurer shall be accounted for under the title of "General fund;" Eighth, To authorize and direct the sale of any school School house, house, site, building or other property belonging to the dis- etc., sale of. trict, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of the district; Ninth, To give such directions and make such provisions suits. as they shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested; mittee. Tenth, To appoint as in their discretion it may be neces- Building comsary a building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work of building a school house as they may by vote direct; terms. Eleventh, At the first and annual meeting only to deter- School mine the length of time a school shall be taught in their district during the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in all districts having four hundred or more |
