Proviso. Officers, eligibility. Proviso, wife. children of school age, and in all districts having over thirty children and less than four hundred children, not less than eight months, and not less than five months in all other districts on the pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund; but in case the people do not determine the length of the school year, then the district board shall determine same, and in case the board or the district fix the length of the school year and later in the year it is found desirable to increase the length of said school year, such action may be taken at a properly called special school meeting, or the board may take such action on petition of a majority of the resident qualified voters: Provided, That each school district may at an annual meeting vote to discontinue school in the district for the ensuing year and determine that the children resident therein shall be sent to another school . or schools, and when such action has been taken the school board shall have authority to use any funds, except library funds, in the hands of the treasurer to pay the tuition and transportation of all such children, and if necessary vote a tax for such purpose. CHAPTER III. SEC. 4. Any qualified voter in a school district whose name appears on the assessment roll and who is the owner in his own right of the property so assessed, shall be eligible to election or appointment to office in such school district: Provided, That where a husband and wife own property jointhusband and ly, regardless of the name which appears on the assessment roll, if otherwise qualified, each shall be eligible to election or appointment to school office. It shall be illegal for any member of the district board to act as agent for any author, publisher or seller of school books or school apparatus, or to receive any gift or reward for his influence in recommending the purchase or use of any school book, or apparatus in the State of Michigan. It shall be illegal for any member of the district board to perform any labor, except as provided in this act, or furnish any material or supplies for the school district in which he is an officer, and he shall not be personally interested in any way whatever directly or indirectly in any contract with the district in which he holds office. Any act herein prohibited, if performed by any such school officer, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and he shall be liable to the punishment provided for such offense in accordance with the statute in such case made and provided. Running expenses, tax. SEC. 9. The district board shall have authority to vote such taxes as may be necessary for the regular running expenses of the school, which shall include school furnishings and all appurtenances, the care of school property, teachers' wages, water supply, premium upon indemnity bond for the treasurer of the district, transportation of pupils, record books and blanks, and all apparatus and material which may be necessary in order that the schools may be properly managed and maintained, and for deficiencies in such funds for the preceding year, if any, and for the services of district officers. All such taxes when collected and `received shall be accounted for under the title of "General fund;" all primary money shall be accounted for under the title of "Primary fund:" Provided, That the tax for the services of district Proviso. officers herein provided for in districts having less than fifty children shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, and in districts having between fifty and one hundred children the tax shall not exceed fifty dollars. When the taxes herein provided for Amount have been estimated and voted by the district board they shall may borrow. be reported for assessment and collection the same as other district taxes. When any tax has been estimated and voted by the district board or by the district under the provisions of law and the money is needed before it can be collected, the district board may borrow on the strength of such tax a sum not exceeding the total of such tax. accounting of. SEC. 11. The district board shall apply and pay over all School money, school moneys belonging to the district in accordance with the provisions of the law regulating same, and no moneys received from the primary, school fund shall be appropriated to any other use then the payment of teachers' wages, tuition and transportation of children as provided by law, and no part thereof shall be paid to any teacher who shall not have received a certificate of qualification from proper legal authority before the commencement of his school. No school district Sectarian shall apply any of the moneys received by it from the primary school interest fund or from any and all other sources for the support and maintenance of any school of a sectarian character, whether the same be under the control of any religious society or made sectarian by the school district board. Approved April 8, 1911. schools [No. 58.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to protect public libraries, scientific, historical, library and literary associations and societies," being sections eleven thousand six hundred forty and eleven thousand six hundred forty-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one and two of act number three of Sections amended the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to protect public libraries, scientific, historical, library and literary associations and societies," are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Any person who shall willfully, maliciously or wantonly tear, deface or mutilate, or write upon, or by other means injure or mar any book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof belonging to or loaned to any public library, or to the library of any literary, scientific, historical or library society or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than sixty days in the discretion of the court; and all justices of the peace in their respective counties shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all prosecutions under this act. SEC. 2. Any person who shall procure, or take in any way from any public library or the library of any literary, scientific, historical or library society or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, any book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof, with intent to convert the same to his own use, or with intent to defraud the owner thereof, or who having procured or taken any such book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof, shall thereafter convert the same to his own use or fraudulently deprive the owner thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than three months in the discretion of the court. Approved April 7, 1911. Appropriation, deficit. How paid out. [No. 59.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic at Lapeer for the purpose of liquidating the present indebtedness thereof, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic the sum of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of satisfying a present deficit in the funds of that institution. SEC. 2. The sum appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 60.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number one hundred ninety of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State," being section three thousand six hundred sixteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number one hundred ninety Section of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled amended. "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State," being section three thousand six hundred sixteen of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. On the day of election the polls thereof shall be Polls, when open at seven o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as open. may be, and shall be continued open until five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day and no longer; but in townships the board may adjourn the polls at twelve o'clock, noon, for one hour, in its discretion. The inspectors shall cause procla- Proclamation. mation to be made upon opening the polls and cause proclamation to be made of the closing of the polls, one hour, thirty minutes and fifteen minutes, respectively, before closing there of: Provided, That in counties where all the voting precincts Proviso, votin the county use voting machines, the polls in such coun- ing machines. ties shall be continued open until seven p. m. of the same day and no longer. Approved April 7, 1911. Boundaries, change of. [No. 61.] AN ACT in relation to the division of or changing of boundaries of primary school districts. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Hereafter the township board of any township may divide or change the boundaries of any primary school district regardless of whether such school district was formed or created under the general school law or under any local or special law, in accordance with the same rules and in such manner as is prescribed for the formation and alteration of school districts. In those instances in which the school district lies in more than one township, such action shall be taken at a joint meeting of the boards of the various townships interested. Approved April 7, 1911. Certain advertisements unlawful. Penalty. [No. 62.] AN ACT to prohibit certain classes of immoral advertising and provide punishment for violators thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person who shall advertise in his own name or the name of another person, firm or pretended firm, association, corporation or pretended corporation, in any newspaper, pamphlet, circular, periodical or other written or printed paper, or the owner, publisher or manager of any newspaper or periodical who shall permit to be published or inserted in any newspaper or periodical owned or controlled by him, an advertisement of the treating or curing of venereal diseases, the restoration of "Lost manhood" or "Lost vitality or vigor," or shall advertise in any manner that he is a specialist in diseases of the sexual organs, or diseases caused by sexual vice, self-abuse, or in any diseases of like cause, or shall advertise in any manner any medicine, drug, compound, appliance or any means whatever whereby sexual diseases of men or women may be cured or relieved, or miscarriage or abortion produced, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or both in the discretion of the court. |