penalty. SEC. 23. Any person or persons who shall wilfully violate Misdemeanor, any of the provisions of this act for which a penalty is not expressly provided herein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense not more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 24. Should the courts of this State declare any sec- When act not impaired. tion or provision of this act unconstitutional or unauthorized, or in conflict with any other section or provision of this act, then such decision shall affect only the section or provision so declared to be unconstitutional or unauthorized and shall not affect any other section or part of this act. SEC. 25. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved May 2, 1913. [No. 144.] AN ACT to amend sections two and six of act number three hundred six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide for a legislative reference and information department in connection with the State Library, to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide a tax to meet the same," approved June twenty-eight, nineteen hundred seven; relative to the compensation of the assistant in charge thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections two and six of act number three hun- Sections amended. dred six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled “An act to provide for a legislative reference and information department in connection with the State Library, to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide a tax to meet the same," approved June twenty-eight, nineteen hundred seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: librarian. SEC. 2. The State Librarian, within ten days after this Assistant act shall take effect, shall appoint an assistant, who shall be a person familiar with and otherwise fitted to perform the duties of this office as herein defined, who shall have charge of said department under the supervision of the State Librarian and perform the duties hereinafter prescribed. He shall Salary. receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, payable in the same manner as other assistants in the State Library. Tax clause. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate into the State tax the sum of eighteen hundred dollars annually, and such amount is hereby appropriated from the gen eral fund of the State, which sum shall be included in the State taxes apportioned by the Auditor General on all taxable property of the State, to be levied, assessed and collected as other State taxes, and when so assessed and collected to be paid into the general fund to reimburse said fund for the appropriation made by this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Special pur [No. 145.] AN ACT to provide for the participation of the State of Michigan in the erection of a memorial commemoration of the battle of Lake Erie, and in a Perry's victory centennial celebration; and making an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the pose, amount. commission to represent the State of Michigan at the centennial anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, as created by act number two hundred thirty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, which amount the commission shall disburse as follows: Disbursement. Twenty-five thousand dollars to aid in the erection of a permanent memorial monument in commemoration of the battle of Lake Erie to be located on Put-in-Bay Island, in the state of Ohio; five thousand dollars for use in aiding and promoting the success of the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie: Provided, That of the sum of five thousand dollars hereby appropriated for the aiding and promoting of the success of said celebration, no part thereof shall be taken or used as compensation of the members of said commission: Provided further, That any part of said sum not used for the purposes herein indicated shall be returned to the State treasury and credited to the general Proviso. Further proviso. disbursement of. fund. Appropriation, SEC. 2. In the disbursement of the appropriation herein provided for, the said commission shall act in conjunction with such similar commissions as have been appointed by other participating states and the national government and have organized and are known as the "Inter-state Board of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commissioners." SEC. 3. The said sum hereby appropriated shall be paid How paid out. out of the general fund of the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General who, before issuing such warrant shall be furnished with certified and proper vouchers, signed by the treasurer general of the said Interstate Board of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission and by the members of the Michigan commission. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate Tax clause. in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen the sum of thirty thousand dollars, which amount 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. 146.] AN ACT to amend section seventeen of chapter two of act number one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," being compiler's section four thousand six hundred sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section seventeen of chapter two of act num- Section ber one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," being compiler's section four thousand six hundred sixty-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: CHAPTER II. voter, who SEC. 17. In all school elections including school elections Qualified held in districts organized and governed in whole or in part deemed. by a local act or acts, any provisions in such local act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding, every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, male or female, Proviso. who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in the This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. Board of examiners. [No. 147.] AN ACT to amend sections one, three, five, six and eight of act number seventy-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the examination, regulation, licensing and registration of optometrists practicing optometry, and for the punishment of offenders against this act," approved May six, nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, three, five, six and eight of act number seventy-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the examination, regulation, licensing and registration of optometrists practicing optometry, and for the punishment of offenders against this act," are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The Governor shall appoint, on or before November first, nineteen hundred nine, five electors of the State who shall constitute a board of examiners in optometry. All persons so appointed shall have been actively engaged in the practice of optometry in harmony with sections seven and eight of this act for at least five years preceding the time of To furnish list such appointment. The secretary and treasurer of said of optome trists. board shall furnish to the Governor annually and whenever requested to do so, a complete and correct list of the registered optometrists under the provisions of this act, and the appointments of the members of said board shall at all times be made from the list of registered optometrists so furnished to the Governor. The persons so appointed shall hold office respectively, two for six years, two for four years and one for two years, beginning with the first day of November, nineteen hundred nine, and thereafter the Governor shall appoint, before the first day of November of each biennial period, such number of persons as there are terms expiring qualified as aforesaid to hold the office, for six years from the first day of November next ensuing. The Governor shall also fill vacancies occasioned by death or otherwise, and may remove any member for the continued neglect of the duties required by this act. Vacancies in said board shall be filled in ac- Vacancies, cordance with the provisions of this act for the appointment of the original board, and any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the unexpired term of the member whose place he fills. No member of any optical school or college or an instructor in optometry or connected in any way therewith, nor any person connected with any manufacturing, wholesale or jobbing house of optical supplies or instruments used by optometrists shall be eligible to an appointment upon said board. The business of said board shall be transacted by and receive the concurrent vote of at least three members. how filled. for registra SEC. 3. After January first, nineteen hundred ten, all men Application and women engaged in the practice of optometry or who wish tion. to begin the practice of the same in this State, shall make application to said board to be registered and for a certificate of said registration. Such registration and certificate shall be granted to such applicants, but only upon compliance with at least one of the following conditions contained in sub- Conditions. divisions one and two of this section: (1) The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration if he shall present a certified copy or certificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant by any other state, where the requirement for registration shall be deemed by said board to be equivalent to those of this act: Provided, That such state shall accord a like privilege to holders of certificates of said board. The fee for registering such applicants shall be five dollars; (2) From and after the first day of May, nineteen hundred ten, any applicant for registration under this act shall be required to pass an examination as hereinafter provided. Such applicant shall be twenty-one years of age, of good moral character and shall be possessed of an education equal to a four years' high school course, Michigan standard: Provided, That should the applicant be unable to prove four Proviso. years' actual attendance at a high school, then the board may determine the applicant's qualifications by proper examination, the expense of which shall not exceed five dollars, the same to be paid by the applicant. The applicant shall have been employed in the office of an optometrist registered under this act, as an assistant, for a period of not less than two years or shall be a graduate of an optical school or col |