in this State, in addition to the other causes of challenge allowed by law, that such person has served as a juror in any justice or police court in any such city, township or village in this State two times within one year previous to such challenge.

Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 317.]

AN ACT to amend sections one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight and seventeen of act number two hundred forty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the preservation of the forests of this State and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie fires."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight Sections and seventeen of act number two hundred forty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to provide for the preservation of the forests of this State and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie fires," are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden shall Forest fires, prevention, have charge of the prevention and suppression of forest fires, etc., of. as hereinafter provided. The supervisors of townships are Fire Warhereby constituted fire wardens of their respective townships. dens. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden shall appoint a fire warden for each surveyed township of this State in which a supervisor does not reside. The fire warden so appointed shall be, where possible, a resident of the surveyed township for which he is appointed.

SEC. 2. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden shall Fire districts. divide the counties affected by this law into districts of suitable and convenient size, as he may deem advisable, and appoint for each of such districts a deputy game, fish and forest warden: Provided, however, That not more than ten such Proviso as to deputy wardens shall be so appointed, who shall have all the number of deputies. powers heretofore possessed by deputy game and fish wardens. Each of said deputy game, fish and forest wardens shall re- Salaries. ceive from the State a salary of not exceeding one thousand dollars per year, to be fixed by the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden, and his necessary expenses, payable monthly, and shall be subject to the orders and direction of the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden in the performance of the duties hereinafter prescribed. Such deputy game, fish and Term of forest wardens shall hold their offices during the pleasure of

office.

the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden, and shall be subDuties of. ject to removal by him at any time. It shall be the duty of such deputy game, fish and forest wardens to familiarize themselves by personal investigation with the locality and the condition of the cut-over lands, prairie lands and other districts in their respective counties where fires are most likely to start and spread, and to take such precautions as they shall deem reasonable and proper to prevent the starting or spreading of fires in such districts, and in doing so, may enter upon lands and remove or destroy brush, rubbish and other dangerous combustible material, wherever necessary. It shall be the duty of such deputy game, fish and forest wardens to caution all sportsmen, settlers and others of the danger from fires in the woods, to extinguish all fires left buruNotice as to ing by any one, if within their power; and to give notice to fires. any and all parties interested, when possible, of fires raging and beyond their control, to the end that the same may be controlled and extinguished. In case of fire, such deputy game, fish and forest wardens shall have the power to employ assistance in emergencies to extinguish or control fires, to the same extent and in the same manner as fire wardens of townships in which fires are raging, and shall also have the power to call upon the fire wardens hereinbefore provided for in each of the townships affected by such fire for all such assistance as such township fire wardens shall be entitled to employ under the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of said deputy game, fish and forest wardens, whenever possible, to go to the place of fire, take personal charge of and direct all efforts to extinguish and control the same. Said deputy game, fish and forest wardens shall have general eral charge of charge of township fire wardens in his district, and shall have authority to mass such fire warden force as may be available, at any special point in his district, to suppress fires.

Employ assistance in case of fire.

To have gen

fire wardens.

Warden, to have general charge of

deputies, etc. make annual

Deputies to

reports.

SEC. 3. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden shall have general charge of all the deputy game, fish and forest wardens and fire wardens herein before provided for. Said deputy game, fish and forest wardens shall make annual reports to the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden, and such other written and verbal reports as he may require, which annual reports shall show in detail each fire occurring in such district, stating the cause of the same, the method used to control or extinguish such fire, amount of property destroyed and the number of lives lost, and such other facts as the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden may require. In case the fire warden force of any locality is deemed by the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden inadequate to prevent or suppress forest fires, he shall appoint temporarily needed fire wardens whose duties and authority shall be the same as is herein given to supervisors acting as fire wardens. He shall have authority to mass such fire warden force as may To co-operate be available at any special point to suppress fires. He shall with police

Temporary," fire wardens

when may be appointed.

force, etc.

cooperate with any police or military force of the United

gate dam

missioner,

States government which may be detailed to guard the national domain from fire. He shall investigate, or cause to be To investiinvestigated by said deputy game, fish and forest wardens, ages, etc. the damages done from time to time by forest fires, and the causes of such fires, and include the same in the annual report to be made by him to the Governor. The Commis- Forest comsioner of the State Land Office is hereby made Forest Com- who to be, missioner of the State. Said Forest Commissioner shall in- duties. vestigate the extent of the forests of the State, together with the amounts and varieties of the wood and the timber growing therein, the method used, if any, to promote the regrowth of timber, and any other facts relating to forest interests which he may regard as important. The State Game, Fish To co-operate and Forest Warden shall cooperate with the Forest Commis- with state sioner in securing such information, and shall render such assistance as may be possible through his department in securing the same.

warden.

abstract of,

to whom

SEC. 4. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden shall Penal laws, provide and officially sign an abstract of the penal laws of when, by and this act, with such rules and regulations in accord therewith made. as he may deem necessary, and on or before the first day of March of each year he shall forward as many copies as he considers needful to the several fire wardens in the State and to all railroad companies, and it shall be the duty of Copy of, to said fire wardens to post up such abstract as warning be posted. placards in twelve conspicuous places in their respective districts.

SEC. 5. During a dry and dangerous season, when forest Expenses for suppressing fires are prevailing or are liable to break out, the State Game, fires, amount Fish and Forest Warden shall use such means under his of, how paid. command as he may deem necessary to prevent or suppress fires, and the expenses thus incurred shall be paid by the State, which expenditures in any fiscal year shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the general fund upon the order of the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden.

arrests.

SEC. 7. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden, the Fire wardens deputy game, fish and forest wardens and the several fire war- may make dens created by this act shall have authority to enforce the provisions of this act, and it shall be the duty of said deputies and said fire wardens to cooperate with the fire warden of any adjoining district, and in the absence of such fire warden to direct the work of control and extinguishment of forest fires in such district, and to arrest, without warrant, every person found violating any provision of this act, and to forthwith take the offender before a magistrate and make complaint against such person. It shall further be the duty To investiof each of said deputy game, fish and forest wardens to look causes of fires up the evidence relative to all fires the cause of which is to secure unknown, and actively endeavor to secure the conviction of all persons violating the provisions of this act. The town- To inquire ship fire wardens provided for in this act shall inquire into fires, make the cause of each forest fire within their respective districts,

gate unknown

conviction.

into causes of

reports.

and report the same verbally or in writing to the district warden, as he may request, and shall also inform him of conditions existing in their several districts believed by them to be dangerous, and also report such other facts as the district warden may require. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden may transfer to any other district than the one for which he is appointed for a specified time, any deputy game, fish and forest warden, to aid in the enforcement of the laws for the protection of game and fish and in the prevention and suppression of forest fires.

SEC. 8. Each fire warden shall receive for his actual services rendered under this act two dollars per day, twothirds of which shall be paid by the municipality where such service is performed, and one-third by the State; and any employee engaged in like service shall receive at the rate of two dollars per day, and said expense shall also be paid, twothirds by the municipality where such service is rendered, and one-third by the State, as hereinafter provided, but no payment shall be made to any claimant under this act until he shall have presented an itemized account and made oath or affirmation that said account is just and correct, which account shall be approved by the township board. The clerk of the board shall thereupon issue to each claimant his warrant upon the township treasurer for the entire sum to which such claimant is entitled, and such treasurer shall pay the same. Such clerk shall transmit the original oath and copy of the warrant to the Auditor General, who shall audit such claim, and one-third thereof shall be paid out of the State treasury from the general revenue fund by warrant issued by the Auditor General upon the State Treasurer, in favor of the county in which the same was paid and forward the same to the treasurer of said county, who shall pay it over to the treasurer of the proper township: Provided, That no fire warden shall be paid in any one year for more than ten days' service in extinguishment and preventing forest fires, nor for more than five days' service in each year in posting notices and making the reports required by this act, nor, in the aggregate, for more than fifteen days' services of whatever character, in any one year; nor shall any one person employed by fire wardens to assist in extinguishing or preventing forest fires be paid for more than five days of such service in any one year, except upon special instruction from the State Game, Fish and Forest Warden.

SEC. 17. The Forest Commissioner shall, annually on or before the first day of December, make a written report to the Governor, together with an itemized account of the expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act, which report shall include such statistics and facts as he has obtained from the chief fire warden and from the several fire wardens of the State, and from other sources, together with his suggestions relative to the preservation of the forests of

the State and the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved June 28, 1907.

[No. 318.]

AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of mutual benefit societies, membership in which is confined to members of a particular religious denomination.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

porate.

may

manner of

SECTION 1. Any society heretofore or hereafter organized, Society m the membership of which is confined to members of a particu- body corlar religious denomination, and having for its object the payment of a sum or sums of money to designated beneficiaries on the death of a member or wife of a member, or the payment of sick, or funeral benefits, or all, or any one of such objects, may become a body corporate in the following manner: At any regular meeting of such society, due notice hav- Time and ing been given at the preceding meeting, a vote shall be incorporation. taken on the question, "Shall this society become a body corporate," and when said question shall have been adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon, said society shall file in the office of the Secretary of State and also in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the headquarters of the society is situated, a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said society, and also a copy of the above vote, certified to by the president and secretary of said society; and said society shall thereupon become a body corporate, and may sue and be sued.

or funeral

SEC. 2. No corporation organized under the provisions of Limit of sick section one of this act, shall pay a death or funeral benefit benefit. in excess of five hundred dollars upon the death of any member or his wife, nor shall such corporation pay a sick benefit to any member in excess of six dollars per week.

stock, borrow

SEC. 3. No corporation organized under the provisions of Not to issue this act, shall issue stock, borrow money, hold invested funds money, etc. or acquire or hold any real estate except such as may be necessary for the transaction of its business.

SEC. 4. Funds of such corporation shall be derived from Funds. assessments upon members and membership dues, and shall be collected and applied only as prescribed in its constitution and by-laws.

SEC. 5. The constitution and by-laws of such corpora- Amendment tion may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members of by-laws. present voting thereon at any regular meeting: Provided, notice.

Proviso,