Lien for storage charges, etc. Penalty for violation. Right of recovery. When owner, mortgagee, etc., may examine property. Refusal, of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended and one new section is hereby added following section twentysix, to be known as section twenty-seven, said amended title, sections and added section to read as follows: Title: An act relating to warehousemen and warehouse receipts, to establish the lien of warehousemen in certain cases, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof. SEC. 2. Every warehouseman shall have a lien on all goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property deposited and stored with him by the owner thereof or by any person with the owner or owners' knowledge or assent, for his storage charges and for all moneys advanced by him for cartage, labor, insurance, weighing, coopering and other necessary expenses to or on such property; and such lien shall extend to and include all legal demands for storage and expenses paid as above which he may have against the owner of said property, and it shall be lawful for him to detain said property until such money is paid. SEC. 13. Any warehouseman who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this act, except as hereinafter provided for in section twenty-seven, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars in amount or by imprisonment in the State prison or county jail not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and every person or persons aggrieved by the violation of any of the provisions of this act may have and maintain an action at law against the person or persons violating any of said provisions to recover the damages which he or they may have sustained by reason of any such violation as aforesaid before any court of competent jurisdiction, whether such person shall have been convicted of misdemeanor as aforesaid under this act or not. SEC. 26. All persons owning property or who may be interested in the same by way of chattel mortgage, contract of sale, or where property has been sold on lease, when stored in any public warehouse, at all times during ordinary business hours, shall, on production of either the warehouse receipt, chattel mortgage, contract of sale, lease, or any other written instrument showing that said person is interested in said property so stored, be at full liberty to examine such property, and all proper facilities shall be extended to such person by the warehouseman, his agents and employes for such examination. SEC. 27. Any warehouseman who shall refuse any person the right to examine property stored in his warehouse and who shall not extend to such person or persons proper facilities for so doing, either by himself, his agents or employes, when such person or persons have a lawful right by the terms of section twenty-six of this act so to do, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars in amount or by penalty. [No. 25.] AN ACT to punish the making or use of false statements to obtain credit. The People of the State of Michigan enact: false SECTION 1. Any person who, either individually or in a False representative capacity: First, shall knowingly make a false statements. statement in writing to any person, firm or corporation engaged in banking or other business respecting his own financial condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as a member, director, officer, employe or agent, for the purpose of procuring a loan or credit in any form, or an extension of credit from the person, firm or corporation to whom such false statement is made, either for his own use or for the use of the firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, or; Second, hav- Previous ing previously made, or having knowledge that another has statements. previously made, a statement in writing to any person, firm or corporation engaged in banking or other business respecting his own financial condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, shall afterwards procure on faith of such statement from the person, firm or corporation to whom such previous statement has been made, either for his own use or for the use of the firm or corporation with which he is so connected, a loan or credit in any form, or an extension of credit, knowing at the time of such procuring that such previously made statement is in any material particular false with respect to the present financial condition of himself or of the firm or corporation with which he is so connected, or; Third, shall Statements deliver to any note broker or other agent for the sale or negotiation negotiation of commercial paper, any statement in writing, paper. knowing the same to be false, respecting his own financial condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, for the purpose of having such statement used in furtherance of the sale, pledge or negotiation of any note, bill or other instrument for the for sale or of commercial Previous false state. of commercial paper. payment of money made or endorsed or accepted or owned in whole or in part by him individually or by the firm or corporation with which he is so connected, or; Fourth, havment for sale ing previously delivered or having knowledge that another has previously delivered to any note broker or other agent for the sale or negotiation of commercial paper, a statement in writing respecting his own financial condition or the financial condition of any firm or corporation with which he is connected as aforesaid, shall afterwards deliver to such note broker or other agent for the purpose of sale, pledge or negotiation on faith of such statement, any note, bill or other instrument for the payment of money made or endorsed or accepted or owned in whole or in part by himself individually or by the firm or corporation with which he is so connected, knowing at the time that such previously delivered statement is in any material particular false, as to the present financial condition of himself or of such firm or corporation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty for which shall be a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each offense, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved March 31, 1909. Penalty. Authority for transfer. [No. 26.] AN ACT to provide for the transfer of certain military property belonging to the State to the State Board of Agriculture and the board of trustees of the Industrial School for Boys at Lansing. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. When application is made therefor by the State Board of Agriculture or the board of trustees of the Industrial School for Boys at Lansing, the Quartermaster General, with the approval of the State Military Board, is authorized to transfer to said State Board of Agriculture for use at the Agricultural College or the board of trustees of the Industrial School for Boys at Lansing such of the guns, belts, bayonets and bayonet scabbards belonging to the State and now in the possession of the Quartermaster GenControl, where eral, as the applicants desire. Such property so transferre shall remain subject to the control of the State Military Board if any emergency arise which may make it necessary to use any of such property. to remain. Approved March 31, 1909. [No. 27.] AN ACT defining the powers and duties of local health officers and boards of health in the matter of the protection of the people of the State of Michigan from the disease known as tuberculosis. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Reports by physicians and others. Tuberculosis is hereby declared to be an infectious and communicable disease. It shall be the duty of every physician in the State of Michigan to report in writing on a form to be furnished as hereinafter provided, the name, nativity, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, and address, of every person known by said physician to have tuberculosis, to the health officer of the township, city or village in which said person resides, within twenty-four hours after such fact comes to the knowledge of said physician. It shall also be the duty of the chief officer having charge for the time being of any hospital, dispensary, asylum or other similar private or public institution in said State of Michigan, to report in like manner the name, nativity, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, and previous address of every patient having tuberculosis who comes into his care or under his observation, within twenty-four hours thereafter. SEC. 2. This report shall be upon a blank form furnished by the State Board of Health, and such blank, in addition to the name, color, age, sex, nativity, occupation, place where last employed and present address, as stated above, shall give also the evidence upon which the diagnosis of tuberculosis has been made, the part of the body affected and the stage of the disease. All cases in which the sputum, urine, faeces, pus or any other bodily discharge, secretion or excretion shall contain the tubercle bacillus shall be regarded as open cases of tuberculosis, and the rules given below providing for disinfection of premises occupied by cases of tuberculosis shall apply only to such open cases. All other cases shall be reported for statistical purposes and shall be subjected to frequent examinations. In the event of these becoming open cases they shall become subject to the same restrictions as herein provided for all open cases. For each complete report sent in the physician reporting shall be allowed a fee of one dollar after said report has been accepted by the State Board of Health. SEC. 3. Examination of sputum.-It shall be the duty of every health officer of a township, city or village, when so requested by any physician or by authorities of any hospital or dispensary, to make or cause to be made a microscopical examination of the sputum or other bodily secretion or discharge forwarded to him as that of a person having symptoms of tuberculosis, which shall be forwarded to such officer in a package specified by the State Board of Health, accompanied by a blank giving name, nativity, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, and address of the person whose sputum it is. It shall be the duty of said health officer promptly to make a report of the results of such examination free of charge to the physician or person upon whose application the same is made: Provided, That the examinations provided for in this section shall be made, on request of local health officers, by the State Board of Health. SEC. 4. Protection of records.-It shall be the duty of every health officer of a township, city or village to cause all reports made in accordance with the provisions of the first section of this act, and also all results of examinations showing the presence of the bacilli of tuberculosis made in accordance with the provisions of the third section of this act, to be recorded in a register to be furnished by the State Board of Health, of which he shall be the custodian, and a copy of which he shall transmit quarterly to the State Board of Health. Such register shall not be open to inspection by any person other than the health authorities of the State and of the said township, city or village, and said health au thorities shall not permit any such report or record to be divulged so as to disclose the identity of the person to whom it relates, except as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. Disinfection of premises.-In case of the vacating of any apartment or premises by the death or removal therefrom of a person having open tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician, or if there be no such physician or if such physician be absent, of the owner, lessee, occupant or other person having charge of the said apartments or premises, if he knows or has been notified that such deceased person or persons who have been removed therefrom had open tuberculosis, to notify the health officer of said township, city or village of said death or removal within twenty-four hours thereafter, and such apartments or premises so vacated shall not again be occupied until duly disinfected, cleansed or renovated by the local board of health, in accordance with the methods endorsed and recommended by the State Board of Health. SEC. 6. Health officer to direct disinfection, cleansing or renovation. When notified of the vacating of any apartments or premises as provided in section five hereof, the local health officer or one of his assistants or deputies shall within twenty-four hours thereafter visit said apartments or premises and shall order and direct that, except for purposes of cleansing or disinfection, no infected article shall be removed |