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Proviso.

Tax for

tuition and transportation.

Further proviso.

Tax to be reported.

Act repealed.

of the eight grades, not exceeding in amount twenty dollars per pupil, unless the voters appropriate a larger sum at the annual meeting, and may vote a tax to pay the transportation during school days of such children, such tuition to be paid by the treasurer of the district in which the pupil resides to the treasurer of the district where the high school attended is located: Provided, That the parents of such children shall give written notice to the board of education on or before the fourth Monday of June that they are the parents or legal guardians of such children and that such children desire to attend some certain one of the three nearest high schools during the ensuing year. Upon receiving written notice of children eligible to attend high schools the board of education shall vote a tax sufficient to cover the necessary expense for tuition as herein provided, and may vote a tax sufficient to cover the necessary expense for daily transportation of such children: Provided further, That any surplus moneys in the treasury of said district belonging to the primary fund may be used in paying necessary tuition in lieu of a tax therefor.

SEC. 2. The tax provided for in section one of this act shall be reported to the clerk of the township in which such district is located and shall be spread upon the tax roll of such township in the same manner and at the same time as other school taxes.

SEC. 3. Act number one hundred ninety of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved May 6, 1909.

Section amended.

[No. 66.]

AN ACT to amend section eight of chapter sixteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "On the powers and duties of townships, and election and duties. of township officers," said section being compiler's section two thousand two hundred seventy-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section eight of chapter sixteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "On the powers and duties of townships, and election and duties of township officers," said section being compiler's section two thousand two hundred seventy-five of the Compiled Laws of eight

een hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 8. The annual meeting of each township shall be held Annual on the first Monday in April, in each year, and at such meet- meeting. ing there shall be an election for the following officers: One Officers to be supervisor, one township clerk, one treasurer, one commis- elected. sioner of highways, as many overseers of highways as shall be provided for by law, so many justices of the peace as there are by law to be elected in the township, and so many constables as are to be elected, not exceeding four in number. Approved May 6, 1909.

[No. 67.]

AN ACT to amend section ten of act number one hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the limits, jurisdiction and powers of circuit courts," being compiler's section three hundred nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number three hundred nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, and act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred

seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section ten of act number one hundred fifty- Section seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled amended. "An act to define the limits, jurisdiction and powers of cir cuit courts," being compiler's section three hundred nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number three hundred nine of the public. acts of nineteen hundred five, and act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 10. Each of the said courts, upon good cause shown, Change of may change the venue in any cause pending therein, and venue. direct the issue to be tried in the circuit court of another county, and make all necessary rules and orders for the certifying and removing such cause, and all matters relating thereto, to the court in which such issue shall be ordered to be tried, and the court to which such cause shall be so removed shall proceed to hear, try and determine the same, and execution may thereupon be had in the same manner as if the same had been originally prosecuted in their county, except that in all criminal causes when the defendant shall be convicted and be sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail or to pay a fine, or to both such imprisonment and fine,

Where imprisoned; fine where paid.

Expense of criminal cases.

Civil cases.

the court awarding such sentence shall have authority to direct and shall direct, that the defendant be imprisoned in the county jail of the county in which such prosecution commenced; and that such fine, when paid, shall be paid over to the county treasurer of the county in which such prosecution commenced, in the same manner as is now provided by law for paying over fines to county treasurers; and in every criminal case where a change of venue is ordered, all expenses of such trial shall be a charge upon the county in which the prosecution originated; and in every civil case where a change of venue is so ordered, all expenses of such trial which would be chargeable to the county in which the suit originated had the cause been tried therein, as determined by the cir cuit judge of the county to which said cause has been transferred, shall be a charge upon the county in which the suit Disagreement. was commenced; and when there shall be a disagreement of the jury on the trial of any criminal cause, in the circuit court to which such cause was ordered for trial, the circuit judge before whom the same was tried, if he shall deem that the public good requires the same, may, upon cause shown by either party, order and direct the issue to be tried in the circuit court of another county in the State; and the court to which such cause shall be removed shall proceed to hear, try and determine the same in the same manner and with like effect as was pursued by the circuit court making such order: Provided, That in any and all suits, proceedings, causes or actions now pending in any of the circuit courts of this State, whether the court has general or special jurisdiction, a change of venue may be had in the manner provided and in accordance with said section ten of act number one hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, as amended by said act number three hundred nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, and the provisions of said act shall be continued in full force and effect for such purpose: Provided further, That in all suits, proceedings, causes or actions in which a change of venue has been granted, the court to which such suit, proceeding, cause or action has been transferred, shall retain jurisdiction.

Proviso, actions now pending.

Proviso, jurisdiction retained.

Approved May 6, 1909.

[No. 68.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred fifty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetythree, entitled "An act to provide for the extension of the term of existence of corporations or associations organized under act number eighty-seven of acts of the legislature of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred fifty-five, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred fifty-five, entitled 'An act relating to burying grounds,' or under said act as amended, the corporate term of existence of which has heretofore expired or may hereafter expire by limitation, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such renewed corporations or associations," being section eight thousand three hundred ninety-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and to add another section to said act one hundred fifty-four.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended and

SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred fifty-four Section of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled section added. "An act to provide for the extension of the term of existence of corporations or associations organized under act number eighty-seven of acts of the legislature of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred fifty-five, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred fifty-five, entitled 'An act relating to burying grounds,' or under said act as amended, the corporate term of existence of which has heretofore expired or may hereafter expire by limitation, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such renewed corporations or associations," being section eight thousand three hundred ninety-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended, and another section is hereby added to said act one hundred fifty-four; said section one as amended and said additional section to read as follows:

existence of

corporations,

SEC. 1. It shall be lawful for any corporation or association Corporate organized under act number eighty-seven of the legislature certain of the State of Michigan, entitled "An act relating to burying how may be grounds," approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred fifty- extended. five, or under said act as amended, whose corporate term of existence has expired or may hereafter expire by limitation, at a special meeting of the trustees de jure or de facto of said corporation or association, called for that purpose, to direct by resolution the continuance of its corporate existence for such further term as they may determine, which resolution or direction shall express the date of the commencement and the termination of said extended term. Such spec- Special ial meeting may be called by the president or clerk of the meeting. corporation or association whose term of existence has not

Notice to trustees.

Reorganization.

expired, or by either of the persons acting as president or clerk of the corporation or association, whose term of corporate existence has expired by limitation, and notice of such meeting shall be given to all the de jure or de facto trustees of said corporation or association at least ten days prior to the date of such meeting by delivering to each of said trustees, personally, a written or printed notice of such meeting, or by leaving such notice at the residence of such trustee. The trustees de jure or de facto of any corporation or association, the same being either a de jure or a de facto corporation, organized under act number eighty-seven of the legislature of the State of Michigan, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred fifty-five, or under said act as amended, and which corporation or association has heretofore acquired and held and still holds, or which may hereafter acquire and hold land conveyed or leased to it in its corporate name, may at such special meeting determine by resolution to reorganize such corporation or association, and thereby such reorganization shall take, assume and keep the name of such corporation or association as the same has before been known, and such reorganization of such corporation or association so directed and made shall be and remain a corporation with all the powers, duties and obligations of a corporation or association newly made or incorporated under said act and its amendments. Upon the adoption of such resolution, which said resolution shall have the concurrence of two-thirds of such trustees in cases where the term of existence of such corporation shall not have expired, and of four-fifths of such trustees in case the term of existence thereof shall have expired, it shall be the duty of the de jure or de facto president and clerk of such corporation or association, together with a sufficient number of the other trustees to constitute the number of trustees above required for the adoption of such resolution, to make, sign and acknowledge duplicate articles of reorganization or incorporation, in which tion, what to shall be set forth the name, the object and the number and

Concurrence

of trustees.

Articles of reorganiza

set forth.

Articles, where filed.

names of the trustees of the new organization, and which shall be the same as in the corporation or association to be reorganized, and which shall further set forth that the purpose is to hold, keep and retain the corporate name and continue the corporate existence of the corporation for a specified term when its pending term shall have expired, or in case the term of existence of such corporation or association has already expired, that the purpose is to organize anew and to take up, renew and continue the corporate existence of such corporation or association for a specified term to commence from the time of such expiration. One of such articles of reorganization shall be filed and recorded in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the county clerk of the county where such corporation or association is located, and the

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