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Compliance required.

Rights of action not

whether operated by steam, electricity or other motive power, organized or doing business in this State, shall be and the same are hereby vested in the Railroad Commission, and it is hereby made the duty of said Railroad Commission to exercise the same in accordance with the requirements of the law.

SEC. 45. A substantial compliance with the requirement of this act shall be sufficient to give effect to all rules, act and regulation of the commission, and they shall not be declared inoperative, illegal or void for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto.

SEC. 46. This act shall not have the effect to release or released, etc. waive any right of action by the State or by any person for any right, damage, penalty or forfeiture which may have arisen or which may hereafter arise under any law of this Penalties etc. State, and all penalties and forfeitures accruing under this

to be cumulative.

Additional

remedies in mandamus, injunction,

etc.

Record of

cisions, etc.

Annual report to Governor.

act shall be cumulative, and a suit for and recovery of one shall not be a bar to the recovery of any other penalty or damage.

SEC. 47. In addition to all the other remedies provided by this act for the prevention and punishment of any and all violations of the provisions hereof and of all orders of the commission, the commission may compel compliance with the provisions of this act and with the orders of the commission by proceedings in mandamus, injunction or by other appropriate civil remedies.

SEC. 48. The commission shall keep a record of all its findings, de- findings, decisions, determinations and investigations under this act or under any other act prescribing its duties and powers, and shall on January first of each year render to the Governor a full and complete report of all such findings, decisions, determinations and investigations, together with a statement of all moneys expended by it or on its order, and of all salaries paid by or to it. It shall include in such report such recommendations as it shall desire to make on the conduct of railroad business in the State of Michigan, and such portion or abridgment of the reports of the various railroad corporations made to it as it shall deem to be of interest to the general public. This report shall be printed and distributed as provided by law.

Powers, duties, etc., transferred to commission.

SEC. 49. All powers, duties and privileges imposed and conferred under existing laws upon the Commissioner of Railroads, the railroad and street crossing board, the crossing board as defined by section six thousand two hundred thirty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, and the board of railway consolidations as defined by section six thousand two hundred fifty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, under existing laws are hereby imposed and conferred upon the commission. created under the provisions of this act, and wherever in the said act or either of them the Commissioner of Railroads, the railroad and street crossing board, the crossing board,

to conform.

and the board of railway consolidations, or either of said officials or boards, are named, the same shall be construed to mean and apply to and name the Michigan Railroad Com- Acts modified mission; and in so far as any act which authorized the appointment and fixes the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Railroads, the railroad and street crossing board, the crossing board as defined in section six thousand two hundred thirty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and the board of railway consolidations as defined by section six thousand two hundred fifty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are inconsistent with or in conflict with any of the provisions of this act, the same will be deemed to be modified by this act so as to bring the provisions of the said several acts in conformity to the provisions of this act: Provided, That the Proviso, before powers and duties conferred upon the Railroad Commis- organized sioner and the said several boards by laws in force at the passage of this act shall continue to be exercised by them until the commission provided for in section one of this act has been organized and qualified.

commission

act, declared

sections.

SEC. 50. Each section of this act and every part of each Sections of section is hereby declared to be an independent section and independent part of a section, and the holding of any section or part thereof to be void and ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other section or any part thereof. Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 313.]

AN ACT to amend sections two and four of act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, entitled "An act creating a Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics and defining the powers and duties of the same," being sections four thousand five hundred ninety-eight and four thousand six hundred of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections two and four of act number one hun- Sections dred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty- amended. three, entitled "An act creating a Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics and defining the powers and duties of the same," being sections four thousand five hundred ninety-eight and four thousand six hundred of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows:

Statistics of labor, by whom made,

etc.

SEC. 2. The duties of such bureau shall be to collect in the manner herein provided, assort, systematize, print and present to the Governor, on or before the first day of February, eighteen hundred eighty-four, and annually thereafter, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in this State, including the penal institutions thereof, particularly concerning the hours of labor, the number of laborers and mechanics employed, with the nativity, age and sex of such laborers and mechanics, whether married or single, the daily wages earned and savings therefrom, the number and character of accidents, the sanitary conditions of establishments or institutions where labor is employed, the subjects of strikes, cooperation, labor difficulties, organized labor, their effects on labor and capital, with such other matter relating to the industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes and to the productive industries of the State, including the names of firms, companies or corporations where located, capital invested in grounds, buildings and machinery, the kinds of goods produced, or manufactured, the time operated each year, the amount paid annually for materials, rent, taxes and insurance, the number of employes, male and female, the number engaged in clerical work and manual labor, with a classification of the number of each sex engaged in each occupation and the average daily Special agents wages paid each. The Commissioner of Labor is authorized to appointed, appoint special agents to represent the bureau, with authority to visit firms and establishments and to collect such statistics, and perform such other duties as may be required, with like power as if conferred on said Commissioner: Provided, That the Commissioner of Labor nor any one connected with his ate establish- office, shall not publish, make public, nor give to any individual or to the public the separate individual statistics obtained from any manufacturing establishment, but all such statistics must be published in connection with other similar statistics and given to the public in aggregates and averages.

duties.

Proviso as to non-publication of separ

ments.

Compensation of commissioner, etc., how paid.

SEC. 4. The compensation of such Commissioner shall be two thousand dollars per annum, and that of his deputy fif teen hundred dollars per annum, which compensation, together with all necessary expenses, including the employment and the paying of the expenses, of such assistants as are provided for in section one of this act, also the expenses provided in section three of this act shall be audited and paid in the same manner as the salaries and expenses of other Proviso as to State officers: Provided, The amount thereof, exclusive of the compensation allowed to said Commissioner and his deputy, shall not, in any one year, exceed the sum of ten thouProviso as to sand dollars: And Provided further, That in addition to the above allowance for expenses said bureau shall be authorized to have printed not to exceed four thousand copies of its annual reports for the use of the bureau, for general distribution, and all printing, binding, blanks or map work, and all supplies shall be done or furnished under any contract which

certain com

pensation.

supplies, etc.

the State now has or shall have for similar work with any
party or parties, and the expense thereof shall be audited and
paid in the same manner as other State printing.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 314.]

AN ACT to provide for the punishment of persons responsible for or contributing to the delinquency of children.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

of, penalty.

SECTION 1. In all cases where any child shall be a delin- Parents, etc., of delinquent quent child, or a juvenile delinquent person, as defined by children, re the statutes of this State, the parent or parents, legal guar- sponsibility dian or person having the custody of such child, or any other person, responsible for or by any act encouraging, causing or contributing to the delinquency of such child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment: Provided, That the court may, in its discretion, Proviso as to suspend sentence upon any person found guilty under this suspension of act upon conditions which may be imposed by the court at the time of the suspension of such sentence. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 28, 1907.

sentence.

[No. 315.]

AN ACT to amend section forty-five of chapter eighty-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of divorce," being section eight thousand six hundred fifty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section forty-five of chapter eighty-four of Section the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled amended. "Of divorce," being section eight thousand six hundred fiftyseven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Service of subpoena on prosecutor.

Duty of prosecutor.

When prose

oppose decree.

SEC. 45.

Every bill of complaint filed shall set forth the names and ages of all children of the marriage, and when there are children under fourteen years of age a copy of subpoena issued in the cause shall be served upon the prosecuting attorney of the county where suit is commenced, and it shall be the duty of said prosecuting attorney to enter his appearance in said cause, and when, in his judgment, the interest of said children or the public good so require, he shall introduce evidence, and appear at the hearing and oppose the granting of a decree of divorce. And in any case cutor to wherein there are no children, the issue of such marriage under the age of fourteen years, when it shall appear to the court that the public good so requires, an order may be entered requiring the prosecuting attorney to appear and oppose the granting of a decree of divorce. For every case which the prosecuting attorney contests by and with the consent of the court, he shall receive the sum of five dollars, to be paid by the county treasurer upon the certificate of the circuit judge that such services have been performed: Proviso, when Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed as preventing prosecuting attorneys or their partners from acting as solicitors or counsel for either party to the suit. And in case a prosecuting attorney shall be in any way interested as solicitor or counsel for either of said parties it shall be the duty of the court to appoint some reputable attorney to perform the services of prosecuting attorney, as provided in this act, who shall receive the conpensation provided for such service. Approved June 28, 1907.

Fee of prosecutor.

prosecutor interested as as counsel.

Section amended.

Cause of challenge.

[No. 316.]

AN ACT to amend section four of act number one hundred twenty-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixtyseven, entitled "An act rendering persons disqualified for sitting as jurors in certain cases," being section three hundred forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of act number one hundred twenty-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred sixtyseven, entitled "An act rendering persons disqualified for sitting as jurors in certain cases," being section three hundred forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4. It shall be a good cause of challenge to any juror in any justice or police court in any city, township or village

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