Proviso, transfer of trial. School for Boys at Lansing or the Industrial Home for Girls at Adrian, or to any State institution authorized by law to receive such boy or girl, subject to such conditions of sex, age and character of offense for which committed, and duration of commitment, as is or may be provided by law for the reception of children in said school, home or institution, or to any duly incorporated asylum, hospital or home in this State. In such case a duly exemplified copy of the petition, order or disposition in the case, and report of the county agent shall accompany said child to the said institution, and the child shall be placed in the care of the county agent, juvenile matron or some reliable person designated by the court, other than the sheriff, to be conveyed to the institution, for which services the same compensation shall be allowed as is paid sheriffs in like cases: Provided, That the court may in its discretion transfer the trial of any boy over the age of sixteen years and under the age of seventeen years to the regular circuit, justice or municipal court, and cause a new complaint to be made to conform to the practice of said court. Approved May 13, 1913. Current expenses. Special purposes, 1914. [No. 364.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan School for the Deaf for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current expenses of the Michigan School for the Deaf for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, the sum of eightyfive thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of one hundred thirteen thousand three hundred fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, for purposes and in amounts as follows: For new building to replace the one burned, one hundred thousand dollars; for additional fire protection, one thousand six hundred dollars; for cabinet shop extension and equipping, three thousand dollars; for roofs and gutters, two hundred fifty dollars; for painting and calcimining, one thousand five hundred dollars; for additional fire protection, six thousand dol poses, 1915. lars; for pupils' library and reading rooms, five hundred dollars; for fences, walks and grounds, five hundred dollars. SEC. 3. The further sum of eighty-three thousand dollars Special puris hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, for purposes and in amounts as follows: Seventy-five thousand dollars for new building to replace the one burned; eight thousand dollars for furnishing new building. funds. SEC. 4. It is hereby provided that if the several amounts Transfer of designated in sections two and three of this act, for any of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in said sections, may, by obtaining in writing the consent 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 provision being to make the entire one hundred ninety-six thousand three hundred fifty dollars available for the purposes stated in said sections. SEC. 5. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan School for the Deaf, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of one hundred ninety-eight thousand three hundred fifty dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of one hundred sixty-eight thousand dollars, which when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 365.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, three, four, five and seven of act number one hundred fifty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to regulate and license fishing with tugs, launches or boats in the waters of this State." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three, four, five and seven Sections of act number one hundred fifty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven are hereby amended to read as follows: Fish tugs, etc., to be licensed. Application, what to state, etc. Warden to issue license. Resident license. Proviso, $50. SEC. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation to make use of any kind of a boat, tug or launch, except rowboats, net or nets for commercial fishing or for the purpose of taking or catching fish to be sold or offered for sale in any of the waters bordering on this State, without first having been registered in the office of the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden, and a license issued therefor in accordance with the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation desiring a license under the provisions of this act shall make application therefor on oath to the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden on a blank provided for that purpose by the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden, accompanied by the fee hereinafter provided. Such application shall state the name and residence of the applicant, the manner in which he proposes to fish, name of the tug, launch or boat and the gross tonnage thereof, and the kind of net or nets for which he desires a license. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden when application is made by any person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation in accordance with section two of this act, to issue the license provided for in this act upon payment by the applicant, if a resident of this State, of the following fees: For each sail boat propelled by means of a sail, five dollars per year; for each boat propelled by steam, gasoline, naphtha, electricity or other motive power of less than five tons, gross tonnage, ten dollars per year; for each boat propelled by steam, gasoline, naphtha, electricity, or other motive power of over five tons, gross tonnage, two dollars per each gross ton per year: Provided, however, That no resident person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation shall be required to pay more than fifty dollars on any one boat in one year. If he desires to make use of one or more nets of any kind for the purpose of fishing without a boat or under the ice during the winter months, he shall pay a fee of one dollar per year. If a nonresident of this State, he shall pay the following fees: For each sail boat propelled by means of a sail, twenty-five dollars per year; for each boat propelled by steam, gasoline, naphtha, electricity or other motive power, the said boat being less than ten tons, gross tonnage, fifty dollars per year; for each boat propelled by steam, gasoline, naphtha, electricity or other motive power of more than ten tons, gross tonnage, Proviso, $200. five dollars for each gross ton per year: Provided, however, That no nonresident person, firm, company, copartnership, partnership association or corporation shall be required to pay more than two hundred dollars on any one boat in one year; if he desires to fish with one or more nets without the use of a boat or under the ice during the winter months, he Non-resident license. Pro- Further shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year: vided further, That for the purpose of this act computation proviso. of the amount each person shall pay for the use of boats shall be made upon the gross tonnage of boats as computed and registered by the United States government inspectors: Provided further, That for the purpose of this act any firm, Further company, copartnership, partnership association or corpora- proviso, tion in which less than seventy-five per cent of their stock is and has actually been owned by bona fide residents of this State for more than six months prior to the time of making application for license, shall be considered nonresidents. form of. SEC. 4. Upon the payment of the fee provided for in this License, act, the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden shall have prepared and shall issue to persons, firms or corporations entitled to the same, a printed or written license signed by him, setting forth the date of issuing the same, to whom issued, the date on which it will expire, and the kind of boat, tug, launch, net or nets for which said license was issued. license. SEC. 5. All boat licenses shall expire on the first day of Expiration of April following their issue. The State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden shall keep a record of all applications and licenses. On the first day of each month, the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden shall pay over to the State Treasurer all moneys received by him under the provisions of this act, and said moneys shall be credited to the commercial fish protection fund, and shall be disbursed by the Auditor General for services of the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden and his deputies and their expenses in enforcing the commercial fishing laws for the protection of fish, and for the purchase of patrol boats and other apparatus to be used for that purpose by the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden, on bills sworn to by the person presenting same, when certified to by the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden. SEC. 7. Any person, persons, firm, company, copartnership, Penalty. partnership association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof for the first offense before any justice having jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, how- Proviso. ever, That each violation shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense. Approved May 13, 1913. Natural bait. Acts repealed. [No. 366.] AN ACT to legalize the use of natural bait, animal offal or articles of food as bait in fishing in the inland waters of the State of Michigan, and to repeal act number two hundred ten of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, and all other acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be lawful for any person to use any natural bait, animal offal or article of food as bait in fishing in any of the inland waters of this State. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts, including act number two hundred ten of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 13, 1913. Sections added. [No. 367.] AN ACT to amend chapter seven of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges, setting and protecting of shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," by adding thereto two new sections to stand as sections thirteen and fourteen relative to the removal of fences along highways. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Chapter seven of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing, and preservation of bridges, setting and protecting of shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining |