Sections amended. Meetings. When held, notice of. Proviso. Further proviso regular meeting. Compensation. [No. 161.] AN ACT to amend sections one and thirty of act number one hundred fifty-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local administrative and legislative powers," as amended, said sections being sections two thousand four hundred seventy-five and two thou sand five hundred three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one and thirty of act number one hundred fifty-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred fiftyone, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local administrative and legislative powers,' as amended, said sections being sections two thousand four hundred seventy-five and two thousand five hundred three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The supervisors of the several townships and cities in each of the counties in this State shall meet annually in their respective counties for the transaction of business as a board of supervisors; they may also hold special meetings when necessary at such times and places as they may find convenient, and shall have power to adjourn from time to time as they may deem necessary. The annual meetings of the boards of supervisors shall be held on the second Monday of October in each year at the court house in their respective counties, if there be one, and if there be none then at some place at the county seat, if there be one, and if no county seat be established, then at such place in the county as the clerk of said county may appoint, of which said clerk shall give three weeks' public notice by publishing the same in some one or more newspapers printed and circulating in said county, if there be any such, and if none, then in some one or more newspapers nearest thereto having a general circulation in said county: Provided, That but one legal newspaper rate for printing the same shall be allowed: Provided further, That a regular meeting of the board of supervisors in and for each of the counties of the State may be held on the Tuesday following the second Monday of April in each year at the usual place of meeting of said board of supervisors. SEC. 30. Every member of such board of supervisors shall be allowed a compensation of three dollars per day for his services in attending the meetings of said board and six cents a mile for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and re proviso. turning from the place of such meeting: Provided, That no Proviso. supervisor shall be allowed pay for more than one day for each twenty-four hours that the board of supervisors shall be in session: Provided further, That where a member of the board Further of supervisors in any county has to leave home the day before the meeting of the board in order to arrive at the place of meeting of said board at time of commencement of session, and where members cannot get home the day the meeting adjourns, said members shall be allowed compensation at the rate of three dollars per day for time actually employed in going to and returning home from place of meeting of said board by the most direct and usually traveled route, to be audited by the board and paid by the county, which compensation of three dollars per day shall extend to and be allowed for the first fifteen days only of any continuous regular October session, and three days only for any regular April session and one or more adjourned sessions, until the total number of days shall equal twenty-five, and for the first three days only of any special session of said board, of which special sessions there shall be no more than two in any one official year, which said amount shall be in full for all services rendered and expenses in attending the meetings of said board of supervisors: Provided, That in counties of less than forty Proviso. thousand population the total number of days in any one year for which supervisors shall draw compensation for serving upon the board of supervisors shall not exceed twenty-four days: Provided further, That the board of supervisors is Further hereby authorized to fix the compensation of members of com- when board mittees for services necessarily performed when the board of authorized to supervisors is not in session at not to exceed the sum of three pensation. dollars per day and actual traveling expenses for the time actually and necessarily employed and traveled by such members of committees while discharging the duties of any such committee: Provided further, That nothing herein contained Further shall be considered to authorize payment to members of committees of such board of compensation for the service as members of any such committees while said board of supervisors shall be in session; nor shall any member of any committee be entitled to payment under the provisions of this section for services performed as a member of any committee where the services performed were not ordered by the said board, nor for more than twenty days in any one year as member of such committee. Any supervisor receiving further Misdemeanor, or other compensation than herein provided for such services constitutes. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof Fine. shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars: Provided, That Proviso, nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to in any not repealed. way repeal other acts providing for compensation to members of boards engaged in committee work or change the num ber of days allowed therein for regular or special sessions proviso, fix com proviso. what other acts in any one year, and said acts shall stand the same as if this act had not been passed. Approved June 1, 1909. Current expenses. Special purposes. School lockers. Transfer of funds. [No. 162.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Western State Normal School for current expenses and for building and special purposes, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current expenses for the Western State Normal School for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of eighty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of eighteen thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, for purposes and by amounts as follows: Equipment for training school building, ten thousand dollars; Equipment for manual training and domestic science and art, one thousand five hundred dollars; Special reference work for library, one thousand five hundred dollars; Ground for athletic field, five thousand dollars; SEC. 3. The further sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, for installing school lockers in main building. SEC. 4. If the amounts designated in sections two and three of this act for any one of the purposes stated be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in said section may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent being to make the entire nineteen thousand five hundred dollars available for the purposes stated in sections two and three. SEC. 5. The several sums appropriated by the provisions Payment. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Board of Education, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year ending nineteen hundred nine, the sum of ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred ten the sum of eighty-one thousand dollars, which amounts when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 163.] AN ACT concerning the sale within this State of certain substances used in spraying or fumigating fruit trees, as insecticides or fungicides or for other purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: substances," SECTION 1. As used in this act the teria "spraying sub- "Spraying stances" shall be deemed to include he following: Arsenate what to of lead, sulphur, lime sulphides, miscible combinations of min- include. eral or vegetable oils, sulphate of copper, Bordeaux mixture, or any insecticide or fungicide or essential ingredient thereof, used for the control of insects or fungus diseases or any other like purpose. manufacturer, SEC. 2. From and after the taking effect of this act it shall Duty of be the duty of each and every manufacturer of spraying sub- etc. stances, as defined in section one, manufactured within this State, and of each and every dealer selling such spraying substances in original packages manufactured without this State, before such spraying substance is offered or exposed for sale or sold, to submit to the director of the Michigan Agricultural Station of East Lansing, a written or printed statement setting forth: First, the brand of such spraying Statement, substan es to be sold, the number of pounds contained in each forth. package in which it is put upon the market for sale, the name or names of the manufacturers and the place of manufacturing the same; second, the statement shall set forth so near as may be the percentages and chemical combinations of all essentia substances or ingredients of such spraying substances contained in said commodities; third, f such prepar ation shall contain arsenic, free or in combination, such state what to set To be guaranty. Label. Analysis, who to make. Purchaser, statement, what to authorize. ment shall give the percentage of arsenious oxide or its equiv alent, soluble or insoluble in distilled water. The statement so furnished shall be considered as constituting a guaranty to the purchaser of the contents of every package of such spraying substances. SEC. 3. Each and every package of spraying substances, sold or offered for sale within this State, shall bear a label upon which shall be a statement showing all the facts as set forth in the statement filed with the director of the Michigan Agricultural Station as provided herein, who shall designate the size and character of the printing thereon. SEC. 4. The State inspector of orchards and nurseries shall cause to have taken samples of the different brands of spraying substances, and submit the same to the director of the experimental station, Michigan Agricultural College, who shall analyze or cause to be analyzed such samples so delivered to him, and shall report the result of the analysis forthwith to the secretary of the State Board of Horticulture. SEC. 5. Every purchaser of spraying substances in origetc., to receive inal packages, which are manufactured without this State, who intends to sell the same or expose the same for sale, and every manufacturer of spraying substances within this State, shall, after filing the statement above provided for, receive from the said director of the Michigan Agricultural Station, a certificate stating that such dealer or manufacturer has complied with the foregoing statement, which certificate shall be furnished without any charge therefor; such certificate when furnished shall authorize the party receiving the same to deal within this State in spraying substances. Any person file statement. who fails to file the statement aforesaid shall not be entitled to such certificate and shall not be entitled to deal in such articles or commodities within this State: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to retail dealers who are selling the goods manufactured by any person or persons holding the certificate herein provided for, from the said director of the Michigan Agricultural Station. Failure to Proviso. Penalty for violation. SEC. 6. Any person or persons, firm, association, company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, and any person who shall sell any package of spraying substances or any part thereof, which has not been labeled as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, together with the cost of the suit, in an action caused to be brought by the State Board of Horticulture through the Attorney General, in the name of the people of the State of Michigan. Approved June 1, 1909. |