amount of eight hundred dollars for each teacher employed estimated. Third, In any district establishing a county normal training Cost class, the board of education shall, previous to the first day of October in each year, estimate the cost of instruction for the current year in the county normal training class, and, deducting therefrom the amount appropriated by the foregoing provisions of this act, report the balance to the county clerk on or before the first day of October; Fourth, At its October session, the board of supervisors shall appropriate out of the general fund of the county onehalf of the balance due for instruction, as shown by the aforesaid report to the county clerk, which amount shall be assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the other county taxes. Approved May 10, 1923. [No. 170.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-seven of act two hundred seventy-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and for revising and amending their charters," same being section three thousand three hundred thirty of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty-seven of act two hundred sev- Section enty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled amended. "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and for revising and amending their charters," same being section three thousand three hundred thirty of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number eightyfour of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 27. Any city now organized or which may hereafter Representation on board be organized, may, by its charter, to be adopted or amended of supervisors. in accordance with the provisions of this act, provide for the selection by appointment or election of representatives on the board of supervisors of the county; the number of such representatives on said board of supervisors shall be determined by the population of such cities as shown by the last census, regular or special, taken by the United States, or by the state Proviso, when fixed by law. Further proviso. Further proviso. as herein provided, as follows: Cities having less than three thousand population shall have two representatives on the board of supervisors of the county; cities having over three thousand and not more than four thousand population shall have three such representatives; cities having over four thou sand and not more than fifteen thousand population shall have four such representatives; cities having over fifteen thousand and not more than twenty-five thousand population shall have five such representatives; cities having over twenty-five thousand and not more than thirty-five thousand population shall have six such representatives; cities having over thirtyfive thousand and not more than fifty thousand population shall have seven such representatives; cities having over fifty thousand and not more than sixty-five thousand population shall have eight such representatives; cities having over sixtyfive thousand and not more than eighty thousand population shall have ten such representatives; cities having over eighty thousand and not more than one hundred thousand population shall have twelve such representatives; and cities having over one hundred thousand and not more than five hundred thousand population shall be entitled to one additional representative for each additional ten thousand population or fraction thereof and cities having five hundred thousand or more population shall be entitled to one additional representative for each additional forty thousand population or fraction thereof which such city may have: Provided, That wherever the representation of cities upon the board of supervisors of the county has been fixed by law it shall remain as now fixed until changed by charter provision, and no city shall have power to increase its representation on such board of supervisors beyond the number provided for in this section, nor shall the representation of any city on the board of supervisors be decreased by revision of its charter unless so expressly provided for in such revised charter: Provided further, That in counties containing only one city, where at the present time the representation of the city on such board is exactly equal to the representation of the balance of the county, such city shall not have power, under this section, to increase its representation so that it will exceed the representation of the balance of the county: Provided further, That any incorporated city may, for the purpose of showing its population for the purposes of this section, have conducted an enumeration under the supervision of the secretary of state as provided for in section six hereof whenever the legislative body of such city shall by resolution order such enumeration. A resolution ordering such enumeration may be submitted by initiatory petition in the same manner and with like effect as is or may be provided by law for the proposal and submission of amendments to the charter of any such city. Approved May 10, 1923. [No. 171.] AN ACT to amend section four of chapter two, part one, of act number two hundred fifty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section four of chapter two, part one, of act Section number two hundred fifty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state," is hereby amended to read as follows: ment, when SEC. 4. The annual statement required by this act to be Annual statefiled in the office of the commissioner of insurance by any filed." insurance company doing business in this state, shall, unless otherwise provided for, be hereafter filed on or before the fifteenth day of February of the year following that covered by the statement; and a filing fee of twenty-five dollars shall Fee. be paid by all such insurance companies which are organized outside this state, subject to the retaliatory provisions of section twelve of this chapter, for any greater charge for filing such statements. Approved May 10, 1923. Act amended. Section added. Charter, when void. [No. 172.] AN ACT to amend chapter two of part five of act number eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentyone, entitled "An act to provide for the organization and classification of domestic corporations; to prescribe their rights, powers, privileges, and immunities; to prescribe the conditions upon which corporations may exercise their franchises; to provide for the inclusion of certain existing cor porations within the provisions of this act; to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which foreign corporations may be admitted to carry on business within this state; to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts relating to corporations," approved April twenty-six, nineteen hundred twenty-one, by adding thereto one new section to stand as section seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Chapter two of part five of act number eightyfour of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the organization, regulation and classification of domestic corporations; to prescribe their rights, powers, privileges and immunities; to prescribe the conditions upon which corporations may exercise their franchises; to provide for the inclusion of certain existing corporations within the provisions of this act; to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which foreign corporations may be admitted to carry on business within this state; to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts relating to corporations," approved April twenty-six, nineteen hundred twenty-one, is hereby amended by adding one new section to stand as section seven, said section to read as follows: SEC. 7. Any corporation which has heretofore under any existing law been required to file an annual report with and pay a franchise fee or tax to the secretary of state, and shall have neglected or refused to file such report or to pay such fee or tax for two consecutive years next preceding the first day of September, nineteen hundred twenty-three, the charter of such corporation shall after such date be void, unless the secretary of state shall for good cause shown extend the time for the filing of such report or the payment of such fee or tax; and if any corporation which is now or may hereafter be required to file its annual report with and pay a franchise fee or tax to the secretary of state, shall for two consecutive years neglect or refuse to file such report or to pay such fee or tax, the charter of such corporation shall be void unless the secretary of state shall for good cause shown extend the time for the filing of such report or the payment of such fee or tax as the case may be. In case of an extension of time as provided in this section, the secretary of state shall file in his office a certificate showing the length of time granted by such extension: Provided, That in no case shall the total Proviso. extension of time granted be more than one year. Approved May 10, 1923. [No. 173.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the department of public instruction for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-four, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-five, for maintenance, operation and other purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: purposes. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts and fund for the department of public instruction for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-four, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand nine hundred twenty dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-five, the sum of one hundred twenty-six thousand nine hundred twenty dollars, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows: Each of said amounts shall be used solely for the specific purposes herein stated. |