PUBLIC ACTS. [No. 1.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Central Michigan Normal School for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, and June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and for building and special purposes for said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: expenses. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current Current expenses of the Central Michigan Normal School for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, the sum of seventy-two thousand five hundred ninety dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, the sum of seventy-two thousand five hundred ninety dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of fifty-seven thousand three Specific hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution purposes. for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine by purposes and amounts as follows: For physical training building, forty-five thousand dollars; for conduit leading from central heating and lighting plant to the physical training building, five thousand dollars; for women's lavatory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for converting present gymnasium into class rooms, two thousand dollars; to complete heating of training school building, including motor and fan, two thousand dollars; for new boiler for heating plant, one thousand five hundred dollars. funds. SEC. 3. It is hereby provided that if the several amounts Transfer of designated in section two of this act, for any one of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of other work or purchase specified in said section, may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this proviso being to make the entire fifty-seven thousand How paid out. Tax levy. In case regular appropriation insufficient. three hundred dollars available for the purposes stated in said section, if, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, it is deemed advisable to make the transfers for which provision is hereby made. SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Board of Education, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred eight, for the Central Michigan Normal School, the sum of two hundred two thousand four hundred eighty dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. SEC. 6. The treasurer of [the] State Board of Education is hereby authorized to pay from the current expense appropriation any indebtedness and interest thereon incurred during the year ending July one, nineteen hundred eight, for money borrowed or expenses incurred because of failure of regular appropriation to meet said expenses. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Who entitled to admission to home. [No. 2.] AN ACT to amend section eleven of act number one hundred fifty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to authorize the establishment of a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and marines in the State of Michigan," said section being compiler's section two thousand sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven and having been last amended by act number twentyfive of the public acts of nineteen hundred one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eleven of act number one hundred · fifty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to authorize the establishment of a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and marines in the State of Michigan," said section being compiler's section two thousand sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, and having been last amended by act number twentyfive of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 11. All honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who have served in the army or navy of the United States, in the late war of the rebellion, in the Mexican war, the Spanish-American war or the war in the Philippines, and who This act is ordered to take immediate effect. service or [No. 3.] AN ACT to amend act two hundred six of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, entitled "An act to prescribe the terms and conditions on which foreign corporations may be admitted to do business in Michigan," as amended by act three hundred ten of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, by amending section five and adding one new section to be known as section ten. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Act two hundred six of the public acts of nine- Act teen hundred one, entitled "An act to prescribe the terms and conditions on which foreign corporations may be admitted to do business in Michigan," as amended by act three hundred ten of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, is hereby amended by amending section five and adding one new section to be known as section ten, so that sections five and ten shall read as follows: capital stock. SEC. 5. Every corporation which has paid a franchise fee Certificate of and been admitted to do business in this State, which shall increase of thereafter increase its authorized capital, or shall increase the proportion of its capital stock, represented by property used and business done in Michigan, shall within thirty days after such increase file an additional statement with the Secretary of State and pay an additional franchise fee of one-half of one mill on each dollar of the amount of increase of its capital stock represented by property owned and business done in Michigan. And any such corporation shall at any time when Statement to requested by the Secretary of State, file an additional state- Sec'y of State. ment under oath of at least two of its officers, showing the proportion of its property used and business transacted in Michigan. Every corporation subject to the provisions of this act, which shall neglect or fail to comply with its requirements, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for every month that it continues to transact business in Michigan, without complying with the requirements of this act, to be recovered by action in the name of the people of the State of Michigan in any court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 10. No such corporation having appointed an agent to accept service of process shall have power to revoke or annul such appointment until it shall have filled [filed] notice of appointment of some other person in this State as such agent. Service of process may also be made upon any officer or agent of such corporation in this State, or service may be made upon the Secretary of State, who shall immediately notify the corporation thus served, by mailing notice thereof and a copy of such process to its address. There shall be paid to the Secretary of State at the time of such service a fee of five dollars, which sum may be taxed as costs to the plaintiff in case he prevails in the proceeding. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. When candi nominated by direct vote. [No. 4.] AN ACT relative to the nomination of party candidates for public office, and delegates to political conventions; to regulate primary elections and to prescribe penalties for violation of its provisions. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whenever an election shall be held in any dates shall be city, county, legislative or congressional district in this State, pursuant to the provisions of this act, at which a majority of the enrolled voters of any political party shall vote in favor of the direct nomination of its party candidates in such city, county or district, thereafter the nomination of all candidates of such political party, to be voted for at a November or city election, except ward offices, shall be made by direct vote of the enrolled voters of such political party in such city, county or district, in the manner hereinafter provided; and When method such method of nominating the candidates of such political party for said offices shall continue until a majority of the enrolled voters of such political party in any such city, county or district, voting thereon, shall vote against such method when re-submitted to them under the terms of this Proviso as to act: Provided, That any political party which has adopted parties operat- and is operating under the direct nominating system provided for in act number one hundred eighty-one of the public may be discontinued. ing under act 181, 1905. |