Evidence.

to give success in business, enterprise, speculation or games of chance, or to make one person dispose of property, business or valuable thing in favor of another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable as is provided in section one of this act.

SEC. 4. If any person or persons shall publish by card, circular, sign, newspaper or any other means whatsoever, that he or she shall or will predict future events, the said publication may be given in evidence to sustain an indictment under this act. Any person whose fortune may have been told as aforesaid, shall be a competent witness against all persons charged with any violation of this act. Approved April 4, 1913.

Section amended.

Duties of department.

[No. 39.]

AN ACT to amend section two of act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended by acts numbers one hundred ninety-one, two hundred twenty and two hundred fifty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," approved June two, nineteen hundred nine.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of act number two hundred eightyfive of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended by acts numbers one hundred ninety-one, two hundred twenty and two hundred fifty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. The duties of such department shall be to collect in the manner herein provided, assort, systematize, print and present to the Governor, on or before the first day of April, nineteen hundred ten, and annually thereafter, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in this State, including the penal institutions thereof, particularly concerning the hours of labor, the number of employes and sex thereof, the daily wages earned, and savings, the number

and character of accidents, the condition of all manufacturing establishments, hotels, stores and workshops where labor is employed, with such other matter relating to the industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes and the productive industries of the State, including the names of firms, companies or corporations, where located, the kind of goods produced or manufactured, the time operated each year, the number of employes, male or female, the number engaged in clerical work and the number engaged in manual labor, with a classification of the number of each sex engaged in each occupation and the average daily wages paid each. The Commissioner of Labor is Special agents. authorized to appoint special agents to represent the department, with authority to visit firms and establishments, and to collect such statistics and perform such other duties as may be required, with like power as is conferred on said commissioner. The Commissioner of Labor and all ap- Inspections. pointees connected with the department, when so directed by said commissioner, shall have full authority to visit and inspect all manufacturing establishments, workshops, hotels, stores and all places where labor is employed, at any reasonable hour, and shall have authority to gather such statistics as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner: Provided, Proviso, That the Commissioner of Labor or any one connected with averages. his office, shall not publish, make public, nor give to any individual or to the public the individual statistics obtained from any manufacturing establishment, but all such statistics. may be published in connection with other similar statistics. and given to the public in aggregates and averages: Pro- Further vided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed proviso, state to prohibit other State departments from taking transcripts of such individual statistics for statistical and classification purposes only.

Approved April 4, 1913. .

aggregates and

departments.

[No. 40.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number seventy-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of a deputy Attorney General," the same being section one hundred twelve of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number seventy-two of the Section Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An amended. act authorizing the appointment of a deputy Attorney General," is hereby amended to read as follows:

Deputy attorney general.

SEC. 1. The Attorney General may appoint a deputy for whose acts he shall be responsible and may revoke such ap pointment at his pleasure. Such deputy shall take the constitutional oath of office and shall perform such duties in the Attorney General's Department as may be assigned to him. During the sickness, absence or other disability of the Attorney General such deputy may execute all of the duties Compensation. of the office. He shall receive for such services the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum from the same fund and in the same way as all other State deputies are paid. Approved April 4, 1913.

Section added.

Additional trustees.

[No. 41.]

AN ACT to amend act number seventy-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to the Wesleyan seminary at Albion and the Albion female collegiate institute,' approved February nine, eighteen hundred fifty-seven," approved May eight, nineteen hundred seven, by adding thereto a new section to stand as section two-a, relative to number of trustees on governing board of said college.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act number seventy-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act amendatory to the several acts in relation to the Wesleyan seminary at Albion and the Albion female collegiate institute,' approved February nine, eighteen hundred fifty-seven," approved May eight, nineteen hundred seven, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section two-a, and to read as follows:

SEC. 2a. The board of trustees of Albion college as heretofore constituted, is hereby authorized to increase the number of trustees in said board by the election of not more than nine additional trustees, the same to be elected for such terms and by such process as said board of trustees shall determine, said trustees to be known and designated as board trustees, and to possess all the rights, powers and privileges of the other members of said board.

Approved April 4, 1913.

[No. 42.]

AN ACT to provide for the creation of a county sinking fund commission, to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The county treasurer, the register of deeds, Members the county clerk, the chairman of the board of supervisors and designated. the chairman of the finance committee of the board of supervisors of the several counties of this State, shall constitute and be a board of county sinking fund commissioners.

bonded debt.

SEC. 2. The said board of sinking fund commissioners Outstanding shall from time to time upon the best terms it can make, purchase or pay the outstanding bonded debt of the county, or such part thereof as it may be able to purchase or pay, until the full amount thereof be fully purchased or paid. When- Temporary ever it cannot arrange for the purchasing or paying of said investment. debt, or any part thereof, it shall temporarily and until it can so arrange, invest the moneys belonging to the sinking fund in such interest bearing securities as it may deem advisable; and all matured bonds or evidences of debt so purchased shall be delivered to the county treasurer and shall become and be the property of the county, held and controlled by said board of sinking fund commissioners, and the interest thereon as it thereafter becomes due shall be credited and belong to the sinking fund.

money.

SEC. 3. Said board of sinking fund commissioners shall Control of have exclusive control of the money of the sinking fund, and shall faithfully apply the same whenever possible, or it may appear to the county's interests, to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonded indebtedness of the county, and to no other purpose whatever, excepting as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 4. The annual meeting of said board of sinking fund Annual commissioners shall be held on the first Tuesday in September meeting. of each year. Said board of sinking fund commissioners may meet from time to time for the transaction of business, and may adopt rules of proceeding for its meeting. A majority Majority, etc. of the whole board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but they shall not purchase or pay the outstanding debt of said county or invest any of the money belonging to the sinking fund as above provided, except under a resolution for such purpose passed and approved by a twothirds vote of the whole board by "Ayes" and "Nays" to be entered on record at a regular meeting or a special meeting

Chairman.

Clerk.

Custody of moneys, etc.

Bond.

Reports.

Tax levy.

Premiums.

Interest.

Expenses, how paid.

Per diem of chairmen.

Adoption of rules.

called for such purpose. The chairman of the board of supervisors, or in case of his absence, some member to be designated by those present, shall preside at the meeting of said board. The county clerk shall be the clerk of the board of sinking fund commissioners, and it shall be his duty to keep a true record of all meetings of said board, which record shall be kept on file in and be a part of the records of the office of the county clerk.

SEC. 5. The county treasurer shall have custody of all moneys, securities and evidences of debt belonging to or pertaining to said sinking fund, and he shall pay out the moneys of said fund only by order of the board of sinking fund commissioners by a two-thirds vote of the members thereof as aforesaid, and upon the warrant of the chairman of the board of supervisors, countersigned by the clerk. The official bond of the county treasurer shall cover any and all funds in his hands belonging to the sinking fund.

SEC. 6. Said board of sinking fund commissioners shall from time to time, but at least annually, and whenever requested by the board of supervisors, make report of the condition of the sinking fund, which report shall be made to the board of supervisors and then referred to and filed with the county clerk and be recorded by him. It shall recommend to the board of supervisors the sum of money that in its judgment should be raised by direct taxation for the benefit of the sinking fund.

SEC. 7. The board of supervisors shall in each year levy and collect a tax for the benefit of the sinking fund. Whenever any bonds of the county shall be sold for more than par value all of the premium or amount received on such sale more than the par face value of the bonds sold, not including interest accrued upon said bonds that may be paid by the purchaser, shall be credited and belong to the sinking fund. All of the interest paid to the county on the securities held by the county shall belong to and be placed in the sinking fund.

SEC. 8. The necessary expenses of the board of sinking fund commissioners incurred in the performing of any of their duties imposed upon them by this act shall be a proper charge against said county to be paid from the general fund. The chairman of the board of supervisors and the chairman of the finance committee shall receive as compensation the sum of three dollars per day for each and every day they shall actually attend any regular or special meeting of said board of sinking fund commissioners, and they shall also receive their traveling expenses at the rate of ten cents a mile one way figuring over the usual traveled route from their residence to the place of meetings of said board.

SEC. 9. Said board of sinking fund commissioners is authorized to adopt rules not in conflict herewith for the gov ernment of its actions, and shall be authorized for the purpose of enforcing the collection of any bonds or securities