Annual report. Appointment of members, term of office. Who may secure permits. Proviso, scope of permit. ord of per mits. appointed annually, one by the president of the University of Michigan, one by the president of the Michigan Agricultural College, and one by the president of the State Normal College. Such board shall report annually on the first day of December, in writing to the Governor, giving a detail of permits issued, amount of moneys received and how disbursed and any surplus over actual necessary expenses shall be turned over to the State Treasurer and credited to the general fund. fund. Such appointments shall be made on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year and the term of office of such appointee shall commence on the first day of January of the year following such appointment and shall continue for one year from and after said date, last mentioned. To any person above the age of fifteen years, who shall present written testimonials from two reputable ornithologists, certifying to the good character and fitness of said applicant to be entrusted with such privilege, such permit may be issued: Provided, That but one permit be issued to any one person and then only authorizing the person holding such permit to take one pair each of the birds and one nest and one nest of eggs of the kind of birds specified in such certificate: Proviso, rec- Provided further, That the board, upon issuing such permits, shall keep a record of the same and immediately notify the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner of the issuing of each permit, which notices shall state the name and age of the holder of the certificate and the kinds of birds,' nests and eggs authorized to be taken and the place or places where they propose to hunt the same. A fee of one dollar shall accompany such application for certificate. Such fee of one dollar shall go to the said board to cover its necessary expenses. On proof that the holder of said certificates violated the provisions of this act and has collected for other than scientific purposes, he shall be punished upon conviction of such offense as provided in section twenty of this act. Expiration of The certificates authorized by this act shall expire on the last day of December of the year of issuance and shall not be transferable, and shall not authorize the holder to take any blue bird or its nest, egg or (eggs), any kirtland warbler, its nest or eggs, any scarlet tanager, its nest or eggs, or any Proviso, sale rose-breasted grosbeak, its nest or eggs: Provided, That no person shall by himself, his clerk, servant or agent, expose or keep for sale, or directly or indirectly, upon any pretense or any devise, sell or barter, or in consideration of the purchase of any other property give to any person any of the birds, or any part of the birds, taken under the provisions of this section. Certificate fee. Penalty. certificates, etc. of birds illegal. Maximum number that may be killed, etc. SEC. 17. No person shall take, kill or capture in one day more than the following number of any of the game birds mentioned in this act: Quail, five; partridge, ruffed grouse and spruce hens, five: black bellied and golden plover and greater and lesser yellow legs, fifteen in the aggregate of all number in kinds; woodcock, six; snipe and other shore birds, fifteen; geese and brant, combined, six; and ducks, twenty-five. No Maximum person shall at any time have in possession more than the possession. following number of any of the game birds mentioned in this act Quail, ten; partridge, ruffed grouse and spruce hens, ten in all; black bellied and golden plover and greater and lesser yellow legs, twenty-five in the aggregate of all kinds; woodcock, twenty; snipe and other shore birds, twenty-five in all; geese and brant combined, six; and ducks, twenty-five in all. No person shall kill in any calendar year Maximum more than twenty-five of any one kind of the following named number. game birds, to-wit: Quail, partridge, ruffed grouse, spruce hen, plover, woodcock, snipe and other shore birds, geese and brant combined, twenty-five; ducks, not more than fifty yearly ber of deer. in all during one calendar week. No person shall during the Lawful numopen season of any calendar year, take, kill or capture more than one deer, excepting such deer for camp purposes as may be allowed by law. Open season for game ani mals and birds. SEC. 18. The following named game animals and game birds may be hunted and killed as herein provided during the periods named, which shall be the open season: Deer, November ten to November thirty, both inclusive; fox, gray and black squirrels, October fifteen to October thirty-first, both inclusive; rabbits or hares, November first to March first, both inclusive, except that in the territory lying north of township twenty north, rabbits or hares may be hunted and killed from the first day of October to the first day of March, both inclusive; quail, partridge, ruffed grouse, October first to October thirty-first, both inclusive, in the upper peninsula, and November first to November thirtieth, both inclusive, in the lower peninsula; spruce hens, October first to November ninth, both inclusive; ducks, geese, brant, wilson or jack snipe, coots and gallinules, September sixteenth to December thirty-first, both inclusive; black-breasted and golden plover and yellow legs, September sixteenth to December fifteenth, both inclusive; rails, September sixteenth to December fifteenth, both inclusive; woodcock, October first to November twenty-fifth, both inclusive: Provided, however, That black Proviso, and gray squirrels shall not be hunted or killed until the year nineteen hundred twenty-one: Provided further, That Mongolian, English, or any other kind of pheasants, quail, black fowl, capercailzie, hazel grouse, spruce hens or Canadian grouse, prairie chickens and wild turkey, killdeer and wading, shore and meadow birds shall not be hunted or killed until the year nineteen hundred twenty-one and then only at the time, and in the manner and for the purpose authorized by law: Provided further, That wood-duck cannot be taken until nineteen hundred twenty-four: Provided further, That blue heron, shell-drake, kittiwakes or terns and mergansers may be killed at any time when it can be shown black and gray squirrels. Proviso, quail, etc. pheasants, Proviso, wood-duck. Proviso, blue heron, etc. that they are destroying brook trout or other fish in any of the waters of this State, by securing a permit to do so from the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner. Approved May 13, 1919. School meeting to vote taxes in certain cities. Notice. City clerk to of taxes voted. [No. 337.] AN ACT relative to voting, assessing and collecting school taxes in city school districts, and to provide for the collections of school taxes with the city taxes therein. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. In any school district composed entirely of territory situated in any city or cities in this State, having a population not exceeding sixty thousand inhabitants according to the last regular government census, a meeting of the qualified electors of said district shall be held upon the fourth Monday of April of each year, for the purpose of voting and determining such school taxes for the ensuing school year as are required by law to be voted and determined by the electors of the school district. Notice of the day, hour, place and purpose of said meeting of electors shall be given by the secretary of the board of education, by posting notice thereof in at least twelve public places in said district, at least ten days before said meeting, and by publication in one or more of the city papers, if any, in said district, at least six times within ten days next preceding said meeting. If no daily paper is published in the district, the notice shall be published at least once in a weekly newspaper published therein. SEC. 2. The board of education of said school district receive report shall, between the fourth Monday in April and the second Monday in May in each year, make out and deliver to the city clerk of each city in which any part of the district is situated, a report in writing under their hands of all taxes voted by the district during the preceding year, and of all taxes which said board is authorized to impose, to be levied on the taxable property of the district. Clerk to fur- SEC. 3. On or before the fourth Monday in May in each year, the clerk of each city in which any part of said school district is situated shall deliver to the assessing officer or officers of his city, a certified copy of all statements on file in his office of moneys authorized to be raised by taxation in said school district for school purposes. Said school taxes shall be assessed upon the taxable property of said school district upon the next succeeding assessment roll of said city taxes already assessed. or cities, and the same proceedings shall be taken for the clerks, etc. SEC. 4. In all proceedings in relation to the assessment, Powers of spreading and collection of taxes for school purposes in said district, and in relation to the receipt and disbursement of all moneys belonging to said school district, the city assessing officer or officers, city clerk and city treasurer of the city or cities in which said district is situated, shall have like powers and duties as are prescribed by the laws of this State for township supervisors, township clerks and township treasurers, respectively, except as in this act otherwise provided. SEC. 5. Except as provided otherwise in this act, the provisions of the general school laws of this State and any local act in force in such district relative to voting, assessing and collecting school taxes, shall continue and be in full force and effect. General school laws to govern. SEC. 6. This act shall not be in force and take effect in Referendum. any school district until a majority of the voters voting on such proposition shall vote in favor of the same. Such proposition may be submitted to the voters of any school district at such time or times as the board of education of such district shall determine, and when submitted, the ballot for voting thereon shall be in substantially the following form: Shall this school district adopt act number ... of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, being "An act relative to voting, assessing and collecting school taxes in city school districts, and to provide for the collection of school taxes with city taxes therein?" Yes (). No (). Form of ballot. Certificates of determina Whenever, upon a canvass of the vote upon the said proposition, it shall be determined that a majority of the voters tion. voting upon such proposition have voted in favor of the same, the secretary of the board of education shall make certificates of such determination under the corporate seal of the district, one of which he shall file in the office of the county clerk of the county, one in the office of the clerk of the city or cities in which such district is situated, and another shall be filed in his own office. This act shall be in effect in said district on and after the filing of said certificates as aforesaid. SEC. 7. If any school district has elected to come under Resubmission the provisions of this act, such district may at any time after two years, upon a petition signed by a number of qualified electors, not less than fifteen per cent of the number of electors voting at the last preceding election in said district, When to take effect. of question. resubmit the question of the continuance or discontinuance of this act within such district. The form of the proposition for the resubmission of the question shall be drafted by the board of education when submitted at any succeeding special or general election. Approved May 13, 1919. Section amended. Salary of commissioner. Expenses. [No. 338.] AN ACT to amend 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," as amended, being section four thousand nine hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. 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," as amended, being section four thousand nine hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. Each county drain commissioner shall receive an annual salary to be paid as other county officers are paid, the amount thereof to be fixed by the board of supervisors at its regular October session in the year nineteen hundred twenty, 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 his actual necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties of his said office by the board of supervisors, or board of county auditors 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, and verified by his oath taken before a proper officer. Approved May 13, 1919. |