Corporate powers. Proviso, olution an etc. SEC. 3. Such trustees may have a common seal and may alter the same at pleasure and by their corporate name may take into their possession, hold and enjoy all the property, real and personal, purchased for, devised, granted or conveyed to them for the use and benefit of such religious organization; they may also in such corporate name sue and be sued in all courts, recover and hold all debts, demands, rights and privileges, and they may sell and convey, mortgage or lease any real estate belonging to such organization or held by them as such trustees: Provided, however, That no sale or encumbrance of any real estate or personal property belonging to such organization shall be made unless such board of trustees shall first be authorized to make such sale or encumbrance by a resolution approved by a majority of the members present and voting at any regular meeting of said church or organization electing such board of trustees, or Corporate res at a special meeting called for that purpose. In every case nexed to deed, of the conveyance or encumbrance of real estate, said trustees shall annex to their deed or mortgage a certified copy of the corporate resolution authorizing such conveyance or encumbrance, and such certified resolution shall be recorded with such deed or mortgage in the office of the register of deeds of the county where said real estate is situated, and when so recorded such record or a certified copy thereof made by the register of deeds shall be received as prima facie evidence of the authority conferred by such resolution in all courts in this State. The proceeds of the sale of any personal property, real estate, mortgage or lease shall be, when received by said trustees, turned over to the treasurer of such organization electing such trustees, or treasurer elected by such board of trustees, to be disposed of as provided by the rules and by-laws of such church or organization. Such trustees may also, upon the death or resignation of any of their number, fill the vacancy so caused by electing any member belonging to such church or organization, and the person elected to fill such vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term, or until the organization or association electing the said trustees shall make a new election. Approved April 14, 1909. Proceeds of sale, how disposed of. Vacancies, how filled. [No. 35.] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of Order of the The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Associations of the Order of the Eastern Star Authorization. may be incorporated under the provisions of this act. execute, contain. SEC. 2. Any ten or more residents of this State, who are Articles, members of any chartered body or of different chartered who may bodies of the Order of the Eastern Star, may make and ex- what to ecute articles of association under their hands and seals, which said articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer of this State having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall set forth: location. First, The names of the persons associating in the first in- Name, stance, their places of residence and the name and location of the Order of the Eastern Star body or bodies to which they severally belong; Second, The corporate name by which such association Corporate shall be known in the law; name. incorporated. Third, The purpose of the association, which shall be to Purpose and provide a building or buildings to be used for Order of the period Eastern Star purposes, and the period for which such association is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years. where filed. SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association shall be filed copy of with the county clerk of the county within which such cor- articles, poration shall be formed, and shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, and thereupon the persons who shall have signed said articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association. A copy of such articles of association, under the seal of the Evidence of county clerk in whose office said record is kept, and incorporation. certified by him, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such association. SEC. 4. Every corporation organized under the provisions Corporate of this act may take, receive, purchase and hold in its cor- powers. porate capacity and for its corporate purposes real and personal property, and the same or any part thereof demise, sell, convey, use and dispose of at pleasure; and may erect and own suitable building or buildings to be used in whole or in part for meetings of Order of the Eastern Star bodies, and may borrow money, and for that purpose may issue its bonds and mortgage its property to secure the payment of said bonds. SEC. 5. Every such corporation shall have full power and Issue of authority to provide by its by-laws for the issuing of certifi- stock. cates or shares of stock and for the manner in which the same shall be held and represented. Election of officers. Proviso, membership. Management and control. SEC. 6. Every such corporation shall elect annually a president, vice president and secretary and shall have power to provide by its by-laws for succession to its original membership and for new membership; and shall provide by its bylaws for election from its members of a board of trustees, and shall fix the number and term of office of such trustees: Provided, Such board shall consist of not less than five in number and such term of office shall not exceed three years. SEC. 7. The management and control of the business, affairs and property of such corporation shall be vested in said board of trustees, and said board shall have power to borrow any money and cause to be made and issued any bonds and mortgages authorized by section four of this act. Said trustees shall appoint from their number a chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer, who shall perform the duties of their respective offices in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the board of trustees. Approved April 14, 1909. Section amended. Board of supervisors, power of, to to vacate, alter or [No. 36.] AN ACT to amend section fourteen of act one hundred fiftysix of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, as amended by act number forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, same being section two thousand four hundred eighty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and relating to the organization, vacation, division or alteration of townships. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section fourteen of act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-one, as amended by act number forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, same being section two thousand four hundred eighty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and relating to the organization, vacation, division or alteration of townships, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 14. The board of supervisors in each of the several counties of this State shall have power, within their respective counties and all territory attached thereto, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to said board, to vacate, divide or alter in its bounds any township, or erect a new Application township, or organize or consolidate townships, upon apof freeholders. plication to the board, as hereinafter provided, of at least twelve freeholders of each of the townships to be affected by divide townships. townships statement of where filed. the division, except that in any township where there were not to exceed thirty electors at the last general election, then such petition may be made by five freeholders in such township, and upon being furnished with a map of all the Map of townships to be affected by the division, showing the pro- affected. posed alterations; and if the application shall be granted, a copy of said map, with a certified statement of the action of said board thereunto annexed, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such county; and a certified statement of the Certified action of said board shall also be filed in the office of the action taken, Secretary of State; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause the same to be published with the laws of the next legislature, after the filing thereof, in the same manner as other laws are published. Whenever it shall ap- In case pear that any county is indebted to the State of Michigan, indebted to judicially or otherwise, and the amount of such indebtedness state. is determined and established and duly and properly certified to the proper officers of such county, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, within twenty days thereafter, to meet and consider such indebtedness or judgment, and said board may at such meeting submit to a vote of the electors May submit proposition of the county a proposition to issue bonds or to levy a tax to bond. to pay such indebtedness or judgment, as in this act provided. Approved April 14, 1909. County [No. 37.] AN ACT to provide for the regulation of the sale by dealers and the keeping on hand by consumers of gasoline, benzine or naphtha, and to repeal act one hundred eighty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and act one hundred seventy-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Every person dealing at wholesale or retail in Delivery of gasoline, benzine or naphtha shall deliver the same from tank gasoline, benzine, etc. wagons, tanks, casks, barrels or other receptacles to the purchaser only in barrels, casks, jugs, packages or cans painted vermilion bright red and having the word "gasoline," Color of "benzine" or "naphtha" plainly lettered in English thereon, barrels, and all tank wagons and wholesale receptacles shall likewise be labeled with the word "gasoline," "benzine" or "naphtha," as the use of such tank wagon or receptacle would indicate. cans, etc. Kerosene, dealers of. Purchasers of gasoline, etc. Kerosene, users of. No such dealer shall deliver kerosene in a barrel, cask, jug, package or can painted and lettered as hereinbefore provided. Every person purchasing gasoline, benzine or naphtha for use or sale at retail shall procure and keep the same only in barrels, casks, jugs, packages or cans painted and lettered as herein before provided. No person keeping for use or using kerosene shall put or keep the same in any tank wagon, barrel, cask, jug, package or can painted and lettered as hereinbefore provided: Provided, however, That in case of gasoline, etc., gasoline, benzine and naphtha being sold in bottles of not more than one quart for cleaning and similar purposes, it shall be deemed sufficient if the contents of such bottles are so designated by a label securely pasted or attached thereto with the words "gasoline," "benzine" or "naphtha," printed in bright red ink in letters not less than one-fourth inch in size. Proviso, in bottles. Penalty for violation. State oil inspector, duty, compensation, etc. Proviso, deputy inspectors Acts repealed. SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of section one of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court before whom such conviction is had. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Oil Inspector and his deputies to enforce the provisions of this act; and their compensation at three dollars per day and expenses while so engaged shall be paid from the fund derived from inspection of illuminating oil: Provided, however, That the compensation for deputy inspectors under this act, together with salary provided for in the act governing the inspection of illuminating oil, shall not exceed eighty-seven dollars in any one month. SEC. 4. Act number one hundred eighty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and act number one hundred seventy-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven are hereby repealed. Approved April 14, 1909. |