PUBLIC ACTS: [No. 1.] AN ACT to fix the compensation and mileage of members and of certain officers and employes of the legislature, to provide the manner of paying said compensation and mileage, and to make appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: repre tion. BRARY SECTION 1. The compensation of the president and mem- Compensabers of the senate, and of the members of the house of sentatives, shall be eight hundred dollars each for the regular session. When convened in extra session their compensation shall be five dollars per day each for the first twenty days and nothing thereafter. They shall each be entitled to and shall Mileage. receive ten cents per mile and no more for one round trip to each regular and special session of the legislature by the usually traveled route. SEC. 2. The compensation of members of the legislature How paid. shall be paid in installments of fifty dollars each, at intervals of ten days, during the time in which the legislature is in regular session, until the total amount of such installments shall equal the sum of eight hundred dollars: Provided, That Proviso, if the legislature shall fix the date of final adjournment for a balance. time at which the total amount of such installments then paid will not equal such sum, the difference between the amount of the installments already paid and the sum of eight hundred dollars, such difference being hereinafter called a balance, shall be paid upon the day on which the two houses of the legislature cease to transact business. Such installments shall be payable upon vouchers duly certified and countersigned as required by law. Vacancies session. Pro rata pay SEC. 3. If for any reason the office of a member of the legislature shall, during a regular session, become vacant, during and a successor to such members shall be elected and shall qualify for the office, the installments specified in section two of this act shall be paid to such successor in office from the date of his qualification. Should a balance be payable in such case at the end of the session, such balance shall be paid prorata to the member then in office and to the former member or his legal representatives. In case a vacancy exists on When vacancy account of the death of a member and a successor is not ment of bal ance. not filled. Assistants, per diem of. elected or does not qualify for the office, the compensation to which the former member would have been entitled had he not died shall be paid to the legal representatives of such former member in the manner prescribed by section two of this act. SEC. 4. The per diem compensation of the first assistant etc.. of senate, secretary of the senate shall be seven dollars; of the second compensation assistant secretary, the proof-readers, the financial clerk, and the sergeant-at-arms of the senate, six dollars each; of the law clerk of the senate, six dollars; of the clerks or stenographers employed by the senate or by a superior officer or any stand'ing or special committee with the consent of the senate, five dollars each; of the assistants to the sergeant-at-arms, the mailing clerks, the president's messenger, the secretary's messenger, the keeper of the document room and the keeper of the cloak room and their authorized assistants, and the janitors of the senate, four dollars each; of the pages, three dollars each; of all other employes of the senate, not in this act or in any other act specifically provided for, four dollars each; which compensation shall be in full for all services performed during any regular or special session of the legisla ture for which they are elected or appointed by the senate or appointed by a superior officer. Clerks, etc., of house, per diem of. SEC. 5. The per diem compensation of the journal clerk of the house of representatives shall be seven dollars; of the compensation bill clerk, six dollars; of the reading clerk, six dollars; of the financial clerk, six dollars; of the proof-readers, six dollars each; of the law clerk, six dollars; of the assistant journal clerk, five dollars; of the assistant bill clerk, five dollars; of the sergeant-at-arms, six dollars; of the clerks or stenographers employed by the house of representatives, or by a superior officer or any standing or special committee with the consent of the house of representatives, five dollars each; of the assistants to the sergeant-at-arms, four dollars each; of the janitors, four dollars each; of the speaker's messenger, four dollars; of the clerk's messenger, four dollars; of the press messenger, four dollars; of the proof room messenger, three dollars; of the keeper of the cloak room and the keeper of the document room and their authorized assistants, four dollars each; of the mailing clerk and the assistant mailing clerk, four dollars each; of the pages, three dollars each; of all other employes of the house of representatives, not in this act or in any other act specifically provided for, four dollars each; which compensation shall be in full for all services performed during any regular or special session of the legislature for which they are elected or appointed by the house of representatives or appointed by a superior officer. Postmaster, etc., sation of. SEC. 6. The per diem compensation of the postmaster of compen the legislature and of the assistant postmaster of the legislature shall be four dollars each, which compensation shall be in full for all services performed during any regular or spe cial session of the legislature for which they are elected or appointed by the concurrent action of the senate and house of representatives. SEC. 7. In computing the compensation herein provided Days for, each day of the week shall be counted. computed. whom to certify. SEC. 8. Each officer and employe of either house or of Mileage. both houses shall also be entitled to and shall receive, as mileage, ten cents per mile and no more for one round trip to each session of the legislature by the usually traveled route. SEC. 9. Such sums as may be due under the provisions of Sums due, this act to the president of the senate shall be certified by the secretary of the senate and countersigned by the Auditor General; and such sums as may be due the members and officers and employes of the senate shall be certified by the president and secretary of the senate, and countersigned by the Auditor General. Such sums as may be due the speaker of the house of representatives shall be certified by the clerk of the house of representatives and countersigned by the Auditor General; and such sums as may be due the members and officers and employes of the house of representatives shall be certified by the speaker and clerk of the house of representatives and countersigned by the Auditor General. SEC. 10. Such sums as may be due under the provisions of this act to persons employed pursuant to concurrent action of the two houses shall be certified, one-half, as near as may be, by the president and secretary of the senate, and one-half, as near as may be, by the speaker and clerk of the house of representatives, and countersigned by the Auditor General. SEC. 11. The State Treasurer, upon the presentation of By whom any such certificate, countersigned as provided in this act, is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. Sums due under action houses, how of both certified. paid. Appropriated from general fund. SEC. 12. Such sums of money as may from time to time be necessary to meet the requirements of this act are hereby appropriated from any moneys in the general fund in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Auditor Auditor GenGeneral shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nineteen, and annually thereafter, an amount state tax. sufficient to reimburse the general fund for the money hereby appropriated. eral to incorporate in SEC. 13. Act number one, Public Acts of nineteen hundred Acts repealed. nine, as amended by act number two hundred seven, Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine; act number three, laws of eighteen hundred seventy-three, as last amended by act number eighty-five, Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven; and act number two hundred fifty-five, Public Acts of nineteen hundred five; being compilers' sections numbered eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. County commissioner of schools, when elected. Proviso, acts saved. [No. 2.] AN ACT to amend section eleven of chapter two of act number two hundred three, Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the holding of elections, to prescribe the manner of conducting and to regulate elections, to prevent fraud and deception in the conducting of elections and to guard against abuses of the elective franchise," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section eleven of chapter two of act number two hundred three, Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the holding of elections, to prescribe the manner of conducting and to regulate elections, to prevent fraud and deception in the conducting of elections and to guard against abuses of the elective franchise," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 11. At the biennial spring election in the year nineteen hundred nineteen and at the biennial spring election in every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected in each county a county commissioner of schools for the term of four years, beginning on the first day of July next following his election: Provided, That this act shall not be deemed to repeal or modify any other act existing at the time this act takes effect, which designates a time, other than that designated herein, for the election in any county or for the beginning of the term of office in such county, of a county commissioner of schools. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. When election [No. 3.] AN ACT to provide for the preservation of ballots cast for the office of United States senator in cases of contested elections, or in cases where notices of contested elections may be given, or in cases where any judicial proceedings may have been instituted preliminary to contesting elec tions to the office of United States senator. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whenever the election of a United States of U. S. sen- senator is contested before the United States senate, or notice of a contested election for United States senator may be ator con tested. given, or whenever any judicial proceeding may be instituted preliminary to a contested election involving the right to a seat in said United States senate from the State of Michigan, and it shall be made to appear to the supreme court of the State of Michigan that there is danger that the ballot boxes used in the election of said United States senator within said State will not be properly preserved, the seals upon said boxes interfered with, said ballot boxes opened or the ballots therein interfered with or destroyed, such supreme court shall Supreme court grant a restraining order directed to the officers having to grant custody of said ballot boxes within said State restraining order. them and all other persons from interfering with said boxes, seals, or locks thereon, or the ballots therein except as therein provided. restraining may make application. SEC. 2. Application for such restraining order may be Candidate made by any candidate for such office and shall be made by petition duly verified under oath setting up the material facts relative to the election and the election contest involved. Such petition shall be heard in open court, and the court shall Hearing open. give such notice of the hearing on such application as it shall deem sufficient to the candidates for the office of United States senator in the election concerning which the application was filed and to such persons as shall be named in such application. Pending such hearing any justice of the Temporary supreme court may, in his discretion, grant a temporary order order. restraining any interference with said ballot boxes or the ballots therein. SEC. 3. Service of any restraining order may be made per- Service, sonally, as in the case of the service of other process of said how had. court, or such service may be made by registered mail. In cases of emergency, notice of the issuance of a restraining Emergency. order may be given to the officers to whom the same is directed by telegraph or by telephone in advance of the actual service of said order, and after such notice, whether by telegraph or telephone, said officers shall be charged with the same duty with regard to the preservation of said ballot boxes and the ballots therein as after the service of said order. Duty of offi with order. SEC. 4. On being served with a copy of a permanent restraining order issued by said court, it shall be the duty of cers served all officers having the custody of ballot boxes containing ballots cast at said election for said office forthwith to deliver the same to the county clerks of the counties in which such officers reside. It shall be the duty of said county clerks to receive such ballot boxes containing such ballots and to duty of. receipt therefor to the officers so delivering them. Said county clerks shall thereupon deposit said ballot boxes containing said ballots in some secure place to await the action of the commissioners herein provided for. County clerk, |