Duty of officers.

Appeal.

Transfer of certain patients.

Proviso.

June each year at a time and place to be designated by the chairman of the Board of State Auditors, said charge not to exceed the actual cost thereof, including all salaries, repairs, improvements and machinery, exclusive of new buildings, boilers, engines and dynamos, but this provision shall not be construed to prevent the furnishing of extra care and attention to private patients by special contract. Within ten days after the joint meeting of said boards it shall be their duty to inform the Governor in writing of the charge per week as fixed by them. If, in the opinion and discretion of the Governor, the rate so fixed at such meeting is adequate, he shall approve it in writing. If not, he shall within ten days, call another joint meeting of said boards for the purpose of determining a suitable and adequate rate. When the resolution fixing the rate of maintenance shall be finally approved by the Governor, it shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Lansing, and a certified copy thereof shall be evidence in all courts of this State.

SEC. 34. All officers before sending patients to the colony shall see that they are in a state of bodily cleanliness and are comfortably clothed, and female patients shall be accompanied to the colony by a female attendant of reputable character. Any person or officer violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly.

SEC. 35. Any person aggrieved by any order, sentence or decree of the probate court under the provisions of this act may appeal therefrom to the circuit court of the same county; such appeal shall be taken in the same time and in the same manner as is provided in other cases of appeal from the orders or decrees of the probate court. Proceedings under an order of admission shall not be stayed pending an appeal therefrom except upon the special order of the probate court and the court may revoke or modify such special order at any time.

SEC. 36. Whenever the Michigan farm colony herein provided for shall be opened and ready for the admission of patients, all epileptic persons who have been heretofore committed to the Michigan Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic at Lapeer, and who are proper subjects to be admitted as patients to the Michigan farm colony for epileptics, shall at once be transferred from the said Michigan Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic to the Michigan farm colony for epileptics by resolution of the joint board of control of said institution by and with the approval of the State Board of Corrections and Charities: Provided, That upon the completion of any of the buildings and before the completion of the Michigan farm colony for epileptics, the commission hereby appointed or the board of control, if the board of control shall then be in charge, if they deem it wise and expedient so to do, may arrange for the imme

diate transfer to such completed building or buildings of as many epileptic patients, inmates of the Michigan Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic at Lapeer, as can be properly accommodated. It being the intent of this section to provide for the relief of the Michigan home at Lapeer at the earliest possible time.

insane.

SEC. 37. Whenever any patient shall become insane while When patient confined at said colony and the medical superintendent shall certify in writing that such patient is insane and is not a fit subject for care and maintenance at said colony, such patient shall forthwith be transferred to the asylum of the district of which such patient was a resident and the expense of such transfer shall be audited and paid by the Board of State Auditors upon properly attested and itemized vouchers, approved by the medical superintendent. Such transfers shall not effect the liability on any bond for private support or any order for reimbursement for public support, but all such bonds and orders for reimbursement shall remain in full force for the cost of maintenance at the asylum to which such person is transferred.

SEC. 38. The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is Appropriation. hereby appropriated for the establishment of a Michigan farm colony for epileptics and for the purchase of a suitable site and erection of necessary buildings thereon and to carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 39. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid out. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury upon the order of the board of commissioners to the treasurer of such board or on the order of the board of control when such board shall have been appointed, and the Auditor General is hereby authorized and required to issue his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the payment thereof.

SEC. 40. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. SEC. 41. All acts or parts of acts in any way contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 2, 1913.

Section amended.

" 'Commercial fertilizer", what to include.

Exemptions.

Proviso.

[No. 174.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number twenty-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of commercial fertilizers and to regulate the sale thereof," being section four thousand nine hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number twenty-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled “An act to provide for the inspection of commercial fertilizers and to regulate the sale thereof," being section four thous and nine hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. The term "commercial fertilizer" shall be held to include any and every substance, limestone or lime rock, imported, manufactured, prepared or sold for fertilizing or manurial purposes, the retail price of which is ten dollars. or more per ton. Every lot or parcel of commercial fertilizer sold, offered or exposed for sale, or distributed within this State shall have on each bag or sack, in a conspicuous place on the outside, a legible and plainly printed statement in the English language clearly and truly certifying:

(a) The net weight of the contents of the package, lot or parcel;

(b) The name, brand or trademark;

(c) The name and principal address of the manufacturer or person responsible for placing the commodity on the market;

(d) The minimum percentage of nitrogen in available form;

(e) The minimum percentage of potash K2O, soluble in distilled water;

(f) The minimum percentage of available phosphoric acid PO, and also of total phosphoric acid;

(g)

And no other statements of chemical compounds except as above.

This act shall not apply to any stocks that may be in the hands of dealers in the State of Michigan at the time this act goes into effect: Provided, That no such stocks shall be exempt from the provisions of this act, shipped by manufacturers on and after January one, nineteen hundred fourteen.

Approved May 2, 1913.

[No. 175.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number one hundred forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to prevent the desertion and abandonment of wife or children by persons charged by law with the maintenance thereof; to make such abandonment and desertion a felony and to prescribe the punishment therefor; to provide for the care of the dependent wife and children; and to repeal act number thirty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section two of act number one hundred forty- Section four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to prevent the desertion and abandonment of wife or children by persons charged by law with the maintenance thereof; to make such abandonment and desertion a felony and to prescribe the punishment therefor; to provide for the care of the dependent wife and children; and to repeal act number thirty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three," is hereby amended to read as follows:

for benefit of

SEC. 2. When any person is convicted under this act and Weekly sums sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment either in one of wife, etc. the State prisons or in the Detroit house of correction or other penal institution, the warden of the prison or superintendent of said house of correction in which said person shall be confined shall, in case funds are available for such purpose, at the end of each and every week during the period of said term of imprisonment, pay over to any of the superintendents of the poor of the city or county in which the wife or children of such person resides, the sum of two dollars fifty cents per week, if there be only a wife, and seventy-five cents per week additional for each minor child under the age of fifteen years; if there be no wife and there are children under the age of fifteen years, the sum of two dollars fifty cents per week for the oldest child, and an additional sum of one dollar per week for each of the other children under said age in lieu of any earnings of such person while an inmate therein, said sums to be expended by said superintendent of the poor for the care and support of the wife or children of said person, as the case may be; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the poor Duty of superof the city or county from which such person shall be com- poor. mitted, to furnish the warden of the prison or superintendent of said house of correction in which said person is confined, with a sworn statement, showing the names of the wife and children who are left dependent upon the city or county for support, their ages and the relation they bear to such convicted person.

Approved May 2, 1913.

intendents of

Labeling of certain containers.

Formula.

Penalty for violation.

When effective.

[No. 176.]

AN ACT to regulate the sale of condensed milk, and to provide for the labeling thereof so as to prevent fraud and deception.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Every container of evaporated, concentrated or condensed whole milk, and every container of evaporated, concentrated or condensed skimmed milk, sold or offered for sale or had in possession or custody with intent to sell by any person, firm or corpóration within this State, shall have plainly printed thereon in the English language, or attached thereto on some firmly affixed tag or label, a formula for extending the said evaporated, concentrated or condensed milk and said evaporated, concentrated or condensed skimmed milk, respectively, with water. The formula for the extension of said evaporated, concentrated or condensed whole milk shall be such that the resulting milk product shall not be below the Michigan standard of milk solids or fat for whole milk, and shall be in the following form: By adding.. ..parts of water to one part of the contents of this can a resulting milk product will be obtained which will not be below the legal standard for whole milk. The formula for the extension of said evaporated, concentrated or condensed skimmed milk shall be such that the resulting milk product shall not be below the Michigan standard of milk solids for skimmed milk, and shall be in the following form: By adding.... .parts of water to one part of the contents of this can a resulting milk product will be obtained which will not be below the legal standard for skimmed milk. SEC. 2. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any person, firm or corporation, sells, exchanges or delivers, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver any container of evaporated, concentrated or condensed milk, within this State, not marked or labeled in compliance with the provisions of this act shall, for the offense, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than three nor more than six months.

SEC. 3. The provisions of this act with reference to the labeling of containers of condensed, concentrated and evaporated skimmed milk shall take effect upon the first day of October, in the year nineteen hundred thirteen; the remaining provisions of this act shall take effect upon the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred fourteen. Approved May 2, 1913.