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Judge may investigate.

SEC. 2. Upon receiving and filing such petition, the judge of probate may make such investigation of the circumstances of the case and the facts set up in such petition, as he deems proper and necessary, and if from such petition and such investigation it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that said deceased left surviving him a widow or children under the age of sixteen years, or both; that said deceased died seized of no real estate, and that the personal estate of such deceased, appraised at its true cash value, amounts to Letters of ad- less than the sum of five hundred dollars, the court may thereupon grant administration of said estate to such petitioner or some other suitable person forthwith without further notice, and may issue letters of administration to such administrator without requiring further bonds.

ministration.

Discharge.

SEC. 3. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the judge of probate that an administrator appointed under the provisions of section two of this act has paid or caused to be paid the funeral expenses of said deceased, and has paid over to the widow of said deceased, or in case there shall be no widow, to the guardian of the minor children of said deceased, all the balance and residue of said estate, the court may forthwith discharge such administrator without further accounting and without notice.

SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 8, 1913.

Section amended.

[No. 283.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number one hundred sixteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to change the termination of the fiscal year of the State from September thirty to June thirty." being compiler's section number one thousand one hundred seventy-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of act number one hundred sixteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to change the termination of the fiscal year of the State from September thirtieth to June thirtieth," being Compiler's section number one thousand one hundred seventy-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

reports, fiscal

year.

intendents of

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of all officers, boards or in- Institutional stitutions, from whom annual or biennial reports are required, to make their several reports for the fiscal period or periods defined in section one of this act: Provided, That Proviso, superprovisions of this act shall not apply to the reports required the poor. of the superintendents of the poor as provided in section twenty-eight of act number one hundred forty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine. Approved May 8, 1913.

[No. 284.]

AN ACT to amend section three of act number sixty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act relative 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:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section three of act number sixty-three of Section the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act relative 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," is hereby amended to read as follows:

money, etc.,

SEC. 3. Any person who shall knowingly accept, receive, Acceptance of levy or appropriate any money or other valuable thing with- without conout consideration from the proceeds of the earnings of any sideration. woman engaged in prostitution, or any person, knowing a female to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of said prostitute, or from moneys loaned or advanced to or charged against her by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, shall be deemed guilty of Felony. a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than twenty years.

sideration.

Any such acceptance, receipt, levy or appropriation of such Evidence of money or valuable thing shall, upon any proceeding or trial lack of confor violation of this section, be presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.

Approved May 8, 1913.

Fee in addition to premium

ful.

[No. 285.]

AN ACT to prohibit agents or agencies of authorized fire insurance corporations in this State from collecting from the insured any fees or charges in addition to the premium charge made by such insurance company for assuming any risk insured under any insurance policy.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any aucharge, unlaw- thorized agent or agency of any fire insurance corporation, except mutual companies transacting business in this State, to collect from the insured any fee or charge whatsoever in addition to the premium charge made by such insurance company for assuming the risk insured under policy of fire in

Revocation of certificate.

surance.

SEC. 2. Upon satisfactory evidence of the violation of section one of this act by any authorized agent or agency of a fire insurance company being presented to the Commissioner of Insurance, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner of Insurance to revoke the certificate of authority of such agent to transact business for any fire insurance company for which he may be the authorized agent in this State, for a period not exceeding six months. Approved May 8, 1913.

Appointment

of commission, duty of.

[No. 286.]

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission to prepare and report bills for the revision and consolidation of the general laws of this State relating to civil practice and procedure, domestic relations, and transactions and other general laws, and to prescribe their duties and provide their compensation.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint a commission consisting of three persons, not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party, whose duty it shall be to prepare separate bills for the consolidation and revision of the general statutes of this State upon the following subjects:

The law relating to civil practice and procedure; (b) The law relating to domestic relations;

(c) The law relating to general taxation;

and to report the same to the Governor on the completion thereof.

SEC. 2. The plan and scope of said work shall follow that Plan and scope adopted in the negotiable instruments law, the general sales of work. law, and the general law for the government of municipal corporations, so far as practicable. Said commissioners shall suggest such omissions, contradictions and other imperfections as may appear to them in the existing statutes so proposed to be revised and consolidated, with recommendations for the amendment thereof, and they shall provide for the repeal of the statutes which would be superseded or covered by the several general statutes so reported by said commissioners. Said commissioners may also prepare and report to the Governor, separate bills for the consolidation and revision, in like manner, of such other general statutes of this State, as such commissioners may consider most in need of consolidation and revision.

SEC. 3. In case of the death, refusal or inability to act, of Vacancies. any member of said commission before its labors are completed, the Governor shall appoint some suitable person to fill the vacancy.

SEC. 4. Upon said bills being so reported, it shall be the Printing of duty of the Governor to cause the same to be printed by the bills. State printer, and forward to any person within the State applying therefor, a copy thereof, and submit the same to the Legislature, if then in session, and if not, then at the next general or extra session thereof.

committee.

SEC. 5. After the submission of said several bills to the Hearing of Legislature, the members of said commission shall be entitled to a hearing before the committee or committees of the Legislature to whom said bills may be respectively referred, for the purpose of explaining the provisions of said several bills.

SEC. 6. The members of said commission shall receive Compensation. reasonable compensation for services and expenses, to be fixed and allowed by the Board of State Auditors. Such commissioners may employ a stenographer at a compensation to be approved and allowed by the Board of State Auditors.

Approved May 8, 1913.

Land, authority to sell.

Description.

Truman Cobb fund.

[No. 287.]

AN ACT to authorize the board of control of the State Public School to sell certain lands belonging to said school and invest the proceeds derived therefrom and use the income thereof for the wards of such school.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The board of control of the State Public School is hereby authorized to sell a certain tract of land now owned by the said school, devised to it by one Truman Cobb, and described as follows:

That part of the west half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-three in town five south of range seven west, Branch county, Michigan, lying north of the Coldwater river, containing fifty acres more or less, subject, however, to rights of flowage; said board of control being authorized to sell said lands either as a whole or subdivided into smaller tracts, whichever, in the judgment of said board, may be most advantageous, and to give a warranty deed or deeds for said tract or tracts.

SEC. 2. The said board of control is hereby authorized to hold the net proceeds derived from such sale or sales in a fund, apart from the other moneys belonging to said school, to be known as the Truman Cobb fund, to be kept invested in first class securities, to be approved by said board of control, and the income to be used by said board of control for the benefit of the wards of said school.

Approved May 8, 1913.

Act repealed.

[No. 288.]

AN ACT to repeal act number thirteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to regulate the taking and catching of fish in all lakes, rivers and streams in Benzie county."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act number thirteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to regulate the taking and catching of fish in all lakes, rivers and streams in Benzie county," is hereby repealed.

Approved May 8, 1913.

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