Sale of fish unlawful. Penalty. Repealing clause. [No. 231.] AN ACT to prohibit the catching of fish in the inland waters of Oakland county, for the purposes of sale, and to provide a penalty therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful to catch in any manner any fish in the inland waters of Oakland county, for the purposes of sale, or to offer for sale, or sell fish caught therein. SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of section one of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Earnings of railroads. [No. 232.] AN ACT to amend section thirty-one of act number seventynine of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Railroads, and to define his powers, duties, and fix his compensation," the same being section five thousand two hundred thirty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirty-one of act number seventy-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Railroads, and to define his powers, duties, and fix his compensation," the same being section five thousand two hundred thirty-four of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 31. Every steam or electric railroad company doing business in this State shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day in the months of January, April, July and October, in each year, report to the Commissioner of Railroads its earnings from every source, for the quarter ending on the last day of the preceding month, and the proper blanks for that purpose shall be furnished by the commissioner. Every such For a specified railroad company shall also report to the Commissioner of time, notice. Railroads its earnings from every source covering such period of time as may be required by the commissioner, upon thirty days' notice given by the commissioner to the company, in writing. Blanks for making such report shall violation. be furnished by the commissioner. Any wilful neglect to Penalty for This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 233.] AN ACT to permit the destruction of dog fish and gar fish in Paw Paw lake, Watervliet township, county of Berrien, Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: seined. SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be lawful to catch dog and Gar and dog gar fish with seines in the waters of Paw Paw lake in Water- fish may be vliet township, county of Berrien, for the purpose of destroying said dog and gar fish. Application to SEC. 2. All persons desiring to fish with seines for said fish shall first make application to the State or county game be made. warden for the privilege of so fishing, and all fishing with seines as contemplated in this act shall be done under the direction and authority of said game warden. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 27, 1907. [No. 234.] AN ACT to promote the safety of employes and travelers upon railroads, by compelling common carriers in this State to equip their cars with automatic couplers and to provide a penalty for violations hereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Unlawful to SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any common carrier owning or operating any portion of a railroad use cars withwholly or partly in this State to haul or permit to be hauled couplers. out automatic Proviso as to certain cars. Penalty for violation. Acts repealed. or used on its line within this State any car used in moving SEC. 2. Any such common carrier hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its line any car in violation of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in an action of assumpsit brought in the name of the people of this State, and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the proper county to bring any such action at the request of the Commissioner of Railroads. SEC. 3. Act number one hundred forty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five and all other acts or parts of acts contravening any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Carcass, etc., possession of in closed season. [No. 235.] AN ACT to amend section twenty of act number two hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty of act number two hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 20. No person shall have in his possession the dead body or carcass or skin, or any portion thereof, of any animal or bird mentioned or referred to in this act during the time when the killing of such animal or bird is unlawful, except as authorized by law, and excepting specimens, heads or pelts, prepared or mounted for scientific or educational purposes: Proviso, after Provided, however, That any person may have in his possession, for thirty days after the closing of the season, deer lawfully killed during the open season, and may have in his closing of season. possession for five days after the closing of the season, game birds and other animals lawfully killed during the open sea sons rearing son: Provided further, That no person, corporation or trans- Proviso as to portation company shall receive for transportation, or have in transportation. possession at the initial billing station, the carcass or dead body of any animal or bird mentioned or referred to in this act, after forty-eight hours immediately following the closing of the time when the killing of said animal or bird is authorized by law: Provided further, That any person engaged Proviso, perin rearing any of the animals mentioned in this act, within animals. an enclosure, may kill for his own use and consumption at any time any of the said animals, and may sell and transport alive any of the said animals, when accompanied by a permit from the State Game and Fish Warden; and it shall be the duty of the said Game and Fish Warden to issue such permits upon application, when satisfied that such animals were so reared within an enclosure. Approved June 27, 1907. [No. 236.] AN ACT to amend section eighteen of chapter one hundred fifty of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relative to the fees of grand and petit jurors, being section eleven thousand two hundred twenty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eighteen of chapter one hundred fifty of Section the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relative to amended. the fees of grand and petit jurors, being section eleven thousand two hundred twenty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 18. Each grand and petit juror and each talesman Fees of shall be entitled to receive three dollars for each day's attend- jurors. ance, and one dollar and fifty cents for each half day, upon any term of the circuit court, or before any court of record, and ten cents for each mile traveled in going and returning Mileage. by the nearest traveled route, to be paid out of the county treasury of the county, on the certificate or order of the clerk or judge of such court. Approved June 27, 1907. 39 Section amended. Memorandum of contract deemed. [No. 237.] AN ACT to amend section four of chapter two hundred fiftyeight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "Fraudulent conveyances and contracts relating to personal property," said section being compiler's section number nine thousand five hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter two hundred fifty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "Fraudulent conveyances and contracts relating to personal property," said section being compiler's section number nine thousand five hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. Whenever any goods shall be sold at auction and of sale, what the auctioneer or the clerk of the auction at the time of sale enters in a sale book a memorandum specifying the nature and price of the property sold and the name of the purchaser, such memorandum, together with the auction bills, catalogue, or written or printed notice of sale containing the name of the person on whose account the sale is made and the terms of sale, shall be deemed a memorandum of the contract of sale within the meaning of the last section. Approved June 27, 1907. Protected until 1918. Penalty. [No. 238.] AN ACT to preserve deer and elk on the Island of Bois Blanc, in the county of Mackinac, in the State of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person or persons shall pursue or hunt or kill, by any means whatsoever, any deer or elk on the Island of Bois Blanc, in the county of Mackinac, State of Michigan, until the first day of January, A. D., nineteen hundred eighteen. SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the |