tribution SEC. 2. Any person publishing, distributing or causing to Advertising be distributed or circulated any of the advertising matter matter, disherein before described, either in newspaper or other printed unlawful. or written forms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor as noted Penalty. in section one and punished as therein described: Provided, Proviso. That this act shall not be construed as creating a penalty in addition to that specified in act number two hundred thirtyseven of the public acts of eighteen hundred niney-seven, as amended by act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, for the acts made unlawful therein. SEC. 3. It is further enacted that any advertisement found Prima facie in any newspaper, pamphlet or circular containing the words evidence. "Lost manhood," "Lost vitality or vigor," or other expressions synonymous therewith, shall be prima facie evidence of the guilt of the party or parties subscribing to the said advertisements, their agents or representatives, and the same penalties shall apply to the publishers of papers containing the same as prescribed in section one. Approved April 12, 1911. [No. 63.] AN ACT relating to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, to provide for the punishment thereof, and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Any person who shall procure a female in- Pandering, mate for a house of prostitution; or who shall induce, per- etc., unlawful. suade, encourage, inveigle or entice a female person to become a prostitute; or who by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade, encourage, take, place, harbor, inveigle or entice a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed; or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain therein as such inmate; or any person who by promises, threats, violence, by any device or scheme, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, shall take, place, harbor, inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any female person to enter any place within this State in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of prostitution, Penalty. Procuring by fraud, etc. Money, etc.. tion of. or to inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any female person to come into this State or to leave this State for the purpose of prostitution; or who takes or detains a female with the intent to compel her by force, threats, menace or duress to marry him or to marry any other person or to be defiled; or upon the pretense of marriage takes or detains a female person for the purpose of sexual intercourse; or who shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become a prostitute or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of pandering, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than thirty years. SEC. 2. Any person who by force, fraud, intimidation or threat places or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place or leave his wife in a house of prostitution or to lead a life of prostitution shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years. SEC 3. Any person who shall knowingly accept, receive, misappropria- levy or appropriate any money or other valuable thing without consideration from the proceeds of the earnings of any woman engaged in prostitution, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years. Any such acceptance, receipt, levy or appropriation of such money or valuable thing shall, upon any proceeding or trial for violation of this section, be presumptive evidence of lack of consideration. Debts, detaining inmate for, unlawful. Penalty. Transporting female for prostitution. Penalty. Acts com State. SEC. 4. Any person or persons who attempt to detain any female person in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of any debt or debts she has contracted, or is said to have contracted while living in said house, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not less than two nor more than twenty years. SEC. 5. Any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, by any means of conveyance, into, through or across this State, any female person for the purpose of prostitution or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice or compel such female person to become a prostitute shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment for a term not more than twenty years; any person who may commit the crime in this section mentioned may be prosecuted, indicted, tried and convicted in any county or city in or through which he shall so transport or attempt to transport any female person as aforesaid. SEC. 6. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any mitted outside of the acts prohibited in the foregoing sections that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this State, and the offense shall in such case be deemed and alleged to have been committed and the offender tried and punished in any county in which the prostitution was intended to be practiced or in which the offense was consummated, or any overt act in furtherance of the offense shall have been committed. witness. SEC. 7. Any such female person referred to in the fore- May be going sections shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution. Approved April 12, 1911. [No. 64.] AN ACT to amend section two of chapter nine of act number two hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteent 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 officials." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section two of chapter nine of act number two Section hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred amended. 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 officials," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. At the time and place designated the commissioner Jury, how shall direct some disinterested person to write down the formed. names of twelve disinterested freeholders, from which list the owner or occupant of the land to be crossed by such road and the applicant for the road shall strike out three names Necessity of road, determination of. Proviso. each, and the balance remaining on the list shall form the jury. In case the owner or occupant. or the applicant shall not be present, or being present shall neglect or refuse to strike, the commissioner shall strike for the party so absent or neglecting or refusing. The commissioner shall issue a citation to such freeholders to appear before him at a time certain within forty-eight hours to determine as to the necessity of such road and the damages resulting therefrom in case such road shall be deemed necessary, and the hearing of the application shall then stand continued until the time when the citation is returnable: Provided, however, That when from any cause a sufficient number of jurors to form a panel shall not appear at the given time, the commissioner may direct some disinterested freeholder to write down the names of disinterested freeholders enough to equal twice the number of vacancies to be filled. The commissioner shall strike off one-half of the names from such list, and shall issue a citation to such freeholders to appear before him forthwith. Approved April 12, 1911. Outside show case, breaking, etc., unlawful. Penalty. [No. 65.] AN ACT to make the breaking and entering, or entering without breaking at any time, any outside show case or other place used for the display of goods, wares or merchandise, with the intent to commit the crime of larceny, a felony, and providing a penalty therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Every person who shall break and enter, or enter without breaking, at any time, any outside show case or other place used for the display of goods, wares or merchandise, with intent to commit the crime of larceny, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days or by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved April 12, 1911. [No. 66.] AN ACT to fix the salary of the Commissioner of Insurance; to provide for the disposition of all moneys received by said commissioner in the performance of duties connected with his office, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Insurance, SECTION 1. From and after the date this act shall take Commiseffect, the Commissioner of Insurance shall receive an annual sioner of salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, payable monthly salary. or quarterly. He shall also receive his necessary and actual Expenses. traveling expenses while engaged in the performance of his official duties, which expenses, after audit and allowance by the Board of State Auditors, shall be paid by the State Treasurer on warrant of the Auditor General: Provided, That said Proviso. Commissioner of Insurance shall not retain as perquisites any fees or other moneys received by him, directly or indirectly, for the performance of duties connected with his office. SEC. 2. All fees and charges for official services performed Fees, etc., where placed. by said commissioner, his deputy or employes, shall, when collected, be forthwith turned over to the State Treasurer and his receipt taken therefor. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts contravening the pro- Conflicting visions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act being immediately necessary for the protection of the public peace, health and safety, it is hereby ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 12, 1911. acts. [No. 67.] AN ACT to amend sections seven, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-seven, forty-four, forty-five, fifty-one, sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-four and seventyfive of act number eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to increase the efficiency of the military establishment of the State of Michigan, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal all former acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act," and to add a new section to said act to stand as section number eighty-five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections Sections seven, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four- amended. |