Application and affidavit. Fees for non aliens. Proviso, declared intention. Fee for resi entitled "An act to license and regulate the hunting, pursuing and killing of wild animals and wild birds protected by the laws of this State, except deer and beaver," being sections seven thousand five hundred twenty-seven and seven thousand five hundred twenty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number two hundred sixtyseven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Any person seventeen years of age or over may procure a license by filing his affidavit with the county clerk or any of his deputies or any township clerk or the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner of Michigan or any other person appointed by him to sell licenses within this State, stating his name, age, height, weight, postoffice address, color of his hair and eyes, and paying to the person to whom such application is made, if he be a non-resident of residents and the State of Michigan, ten dollars; if he be an alien without full citizenship papers and a resident of the State of Michigan, the sum of ten dollars: Provided, That if such alien has declared his intention to become a citizen but is not at the time of applying for said license eligible for full citizenship, owing to the required time between such declaration and the issuance of full citizenship papers not having elapsed, the sum of one dollar; if he be a resident citizen of the State of Michdent citizen. igan and is regularly domiciled therein, the sum of one dollar; such application in case of non-residents may be made by mail if the party so desires to any person authorized to issue licenses who shall forward the license so issued to the party so applying to any address the applicant shall direct. The applicant for the license under this act shall make oath that he is familiar with the game laws and will obey the same under penalty of the revocation of license in addition to other penalties prescribed by this act. In case a person lose his license he may procure a duplicate or new license by filing an affidavit of loss and paying an additional fee of one dollar for same: Provided, That a license may be issued to a minor child under seventeen and over twelve years of age, on application and oath of a parent or legal guardian, by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, or any person authorized by him to issue licenses when deemed advisable, on condition that the said minor shall be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian or some person authorized by them, when hunting or trapping on lands upon which their parents are not regularly domiciled. Application by mail. Oath. Duplicate licenses. Proviso, minors. Conditional. Furnishing of blank affidavits and licenses. Receipts. SEC. 4. The State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden shall on or before the first day of September furnish each county clerk and township clerk in this State with a sufficient number of blank affidavits and licenses to supply his needs for the hunting season of each year. The State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden shall take a receipt of each county clerk licenses. and township clerk for, blank affidavits and licenses so furnished by him. At the end of each fiscal year, which for the Unused purpose of this act shall be the first day of April, each county clerk and township clerk shall return to the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden all unused licenses and affidavits and used and unused stubs with a report of the number of resident and non-resident licenses issued by him, amount of money received, amount retained by him for his fees and amount paid over to the county treasurer of the county. Approved May 2, 1919. [No. 162.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter six, section eight of chapter seven, and section five of chapter nine of act number two hundred fifty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains, and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and to repeal all other laws relative thereto," being sections four thousand nine hundred fifteen, four thousand nine hundred thirtynine and four thousand nine hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred sixteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter six, section eight of Sections chapter seven, and section five of chapter nine of act number two hundred fifty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains, and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and to repeal all other laws relative thereto," being sections four thousand nine hundred fifteen, four thousand nine hundred thirty-nine and four thousand nine hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred sixteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby amended to read as follows: CHAPTER VI. of cost. SEC. 1. Within ten days after the letting of contracts Computation or in case of an appeal, then forthwith after such appeal shall have been decided, the county drain commissioner shall make a computation of the entire cost of such drain, which shall Contingent expenses. Apportionment. include all the expense of locating, establishing and constructing the same, including cost of survey, fees and expenses of special commissioners or jury, the cost of construction of bridges and culverts, and amount of contracts for construction, also the cost of appeal in case the assessment of benefits made by the county drain commissioner shall not be sustained, and all other expenses, except clerk hire and attorney fees, and he shall add the whole into a gross sum, and add thereto five per cent of said gross sum to cover contingent expenses, and the entire sum so ascertained shall be deemed to be the cost of construction of such drain. In case the drain and the assessment therefor shall affect more than one township or one or more townships and an incorporated city or village, the county drain commissioner shall apportion such sum between the several townships, or townships, city, village or county affected upon the basis and per cent determined upon by him as provided in section one of chapter five; or in case of an appeal, then as provided in section four of chapter five. Inter-county drains. Certified copy of application. Proviso, disagreements. Appeal. CHAPTER VII. SEC. 8. Whenever a drain heretofore established and which was constructed in and traverses more than one county, needs cleaning out, deepening, widening and extending, a number of freeholders of either county by which such drain is traversed or affected, equal to at least ten per centum of the number of freeholders liable to assessment for benefits by reason of the construction of said drain and who shall be owners of land which at the time of the construction was assessed therefor, may make application to the county drain commissioner of either county in which such drain is situated, setting forth the necessity thereof. If upon examination such drain commissioner shall deem the same to be necessary and for the good of the public health, he shall as soon as practicable thereafter notify the county drain commissioner or commissioners of such other counties and furnish them with a certified copy of such application, and they shall thereupon meet and jointly take such measures as are provided in this chapter relative to drains traversing more than one county, and act in like manner as provided in chapter eight of this act in the manner of establishing drains: Provided, If said county drain commissioners shall be unable to agree on any matter relative to the deepening, widening or extending of such drain, or any commissioner shall refuse or neglect to perform any necessary duty in connection therewith, they or either of them may appeal to the State Highway Commissioner who shall forthwith cause notice of the appeal to be served on all commissioners interested in said notice and shall appoint a time and place of meeting, which place of meeting shall be centrally located on the proposed drain, which shall not be less than five days nor more than fourteen days from date of appeal. At such time and place the drain Hearing. commissioners interested shall meet with the highway commissioner, or such person as he may have deputized to act in his place, who shall preside over such meeting and hear all matters then in dispute, and if required to do so, shall hear evidence and pass over and view the drain and other matters in dispute. Then he shall act in the premises, and he is Decision. hereby vested with the same power and authority to act in the premises as is provided in sections two and four of this act in regard to the establishment of drains in the first instance, and his decision relative thereto shall be final: Provided further, That this act shall not be construed to inter- Proviso, pendfere with any question pertaining to any drain, which may be ing questions. pending in any court at the time of the passage of this act. CHAPTER IX. Salary, amount how and expenses. SEC. 5. Each county drain commissioner shall receive an annual salary to be paid as other county officers are paid, the fixed. amount thereof to be fixed by the board of supervisors at its regular October session in the year nineteen hundred nine, and every two years thereafter, in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers are fixed, and in addition thereto shall be allowed necessary clerk hire and his actual Clerk hire necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties of his said office by the board of supervisors, to be paid by the county, which shall be in full for all services rendered and expenses entailed in the performance of the duties of his office; such expense account shall be an itemized account, Itemized. and verified by his oath taken before a proper officer. Approved May 2, 1919. [No. 163.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred thirteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act prescribing the powers and duties of township boards with relation to the care of rural cemeteries," being section eleven thousand one hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred thir- Section teen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act prescribing the powers and duties of township boards with relation to the care of rural cemeteries," being section eleven thousand one hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of Care required; amount may spend. Proviso, how paid. nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The township board of each township shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to cause all cemeteries within its township, except private cemeteries and cemeteries owned by cities and villages located in such townships, to be properly taken care of, and may spend not to exceed two hundred dollars per year in improving such cemeteries. The same to be paid out of the contingent fund of the township: Provided, That the township board may expend such further sums in improving such cemeteries as may be voted for that purpose by the electors of such township at the annual meeting. Approved May 2, 1919. Appropriation [No. 164.] AN ACT providing appropriations for Michigan Securities Commission for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, for maintenance, operation and other specific purposes, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts making appropriations therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There are hereby appropriated from the general fund for the Michigan Securities Commission for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty, the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred nineteen dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the sum of forty-five thousand one hundred ninetyAmounts and four dollars, for the purposes and in the following amounts: Personal service (salaries and wages): Year 1919-20 Executive officer purposes. For the Fiscal For the Fiscal $4,000.00 $4,000.00 3,500.00 3,500.00 2,500.00 2,500.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 1,400.00 Stenographer 1,200.00 1,200.00 |