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by the trustee or trustees in the office of the register of deeds
for the county in which the property is located of a notice
of default in the terms and conditions of the trust mortgage
or deed of trust, and service of a copy of such notice upon
the occupiers of the mortgaged premises.
Approved May 6, 1925.

[No. 229.]

AN ACT to make appropriations for the Michigan school for the blind, for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-six, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, for maintenance and operation.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts and fund for the Michigan school for the blind, for the fiscal year purposes. ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-six, the sum of one hundred forty-three thousand six hundred twentyfive dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, the sum of one hundred thirtyfive thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars, for the purposes and in the specific amounts as follows:

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Each of said amounts shall be used solely for the specific purposes herein stated, subject to the general supervisory control of the state administrative board: Provided, That Proviso. all food raised on the farm is also hereby appropriated to said institution for such purpose: Provided further, That Further the proceeds from the sales of surplus food and supplies shall proviso. be paid into the state treasury and credited to the general fund.

SEC. 2. The amounts hereby appropriated shall be paid How paid out of the state treasury at such times and in such manner out. as is or may be provided by law.

Fees, etc.

Tax clause.

SEC. 3. All fees or other moneys received by said Michigan school for the blind, shall be forwarded to the state treasurer each month and shall be by said treasurer deposited in the state treasury to be disbursed in such manner and for such purposes as may be provided by law.

SEC. 4. The auditor general shall incorporate in the state tax for the years nineteen hundred twenty-five and nineteen hundred twenty-six, sufficient amounts to reimburse the general fund for the appropriations hereby made.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 6, 1925.

May regulate taking. etc., of fish, etc.

[No. 230.]

AN ACT to provide for the better protection and preservation of fish, game and fur-bearing animals and game birds, protected by the laws of this state; to provide a method by which the taking or killing thereof may be regulated and the open season for the taking or killing thereof suspended or abridged in any designated waters or area of this state; to provide a penalty for the violation thereof, and to repeal act number nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended by act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The commission of conservation of the department of conservation of this state shall, in accordance with the provisions of this act, have power to regulate the taking or killing of all fish, game and fur-bearing animals and game birds protected by the laws of this state, and may suspend or abridge the open season provided by law for the taking or killing of any such fish, animals or game birds in any designated waters or area of this state, whenever in the opinion of said commission of conservation it becomes necessary to assist in the increased or better protection of such fish, game or fur-bearing animals or game birds, or of any particular kinds or species of the same, which may in the opinion of said commission be threatened from any cause or causes with depletion or extermination in said waters or area, and for the purpose of such regulation, suspension, or abridgment, said commission of conservation is hereby empowered to make and promulgate any and all orders and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and as in this act provided, on the recommendation of the director of conservation after a thorough investigation has been made by him.

defined.

SEC. 2. The term "waters" as used in this act shall be Terms deemed and construed to mean and include any single or individual inland lake, stream, river, pond or other single or individual inland body of water or any part or portion thereof, and any and all chains, systems or combinations of the same, in any township or townships, county or counties, within this state and in which any species of fish or water fowl are protected by the laws of this state. The term "area" as used in this act shall be deemed and construed to mean and include the whole of the state and the whole or any designated portion of any township or townships, county or counties within the.state.

season.

to set forth.

SEC. 3. Whenever said commission of conservation shall May suspend, determine that any such fish, game or fur-bearing animals etc. open or game birds or any kinds or species of the same, are in danger of depletion or extermination and require additional protection in any designated waters or area within the state, said commission may make and promulgate an order suspending or abridging the open season on said fish, game or fur-bearing animals or game birds, or may regulate the taking or killing thereof in said waters or area as in the judgment of said commission may be necessary or expedient for the further protection of said fish, game or fur-bearing animals or game birds in such waters or area, and shall in said order clearly specify the manner and conditions relative to the taking or killing of the same. All such orders shall Order, what clearly and distinctly describe and set forth the waters or area affected by each said order, and whether the same is applicable to all fish, game or fur-bearing animals or game birds, or only to certain kinds or species designated therein and shall also clearly specify and set forth the length of time, which shall in no case exceed five years, which said order shall remain in force and effect. Such order shall be published at least twenty-one days prior to the taking effect thereof, and at least once annually thereafter while in force, in at least one newspaper, if any there be, published in each county, the whole or any portion of which is affected by said order, said first mentioned publication to appear at least once in each week for three successive weeks within said twenty-one days. A copy of said order as printed in said paper shall be filed with the clerk of each county. Proof by affidavit of the newspaper publication shall be filed with the commission, and a copy of said order, so long as it shall remain in force and effect, shall be included and printed in the authorized biennial compilation of the Michigan fish and game laws: Provided, That all such orders shall be under Proviso. the seal of the department of conservation and shall bear the signatures, or facsimiles thereof, of the chairman and secretary of said commission and shall be countersigned by the director of conservation.

SEC. 4. Whenever in any waters or area in which the open When order rescinded, season, during which any species of fish, game or fur-bearing etc.

Proviso.

Misdemeanor; penalty.

Act repealed.

animals or game birds may be taken or killed, have been suspended or abridged by any order of the commission of conservation as herein provided, and while such order is still in force, it shall appear to the satisfaction of said commission of conservation that the conditions existing in said waters or area no longer demand such additional protection for such species, the said commission shall cause a thorough investigation to be made of such waters and area, and the conditions therein prevailing; and if from such investigation said commission shall be satisfied that by reason of the increase of said fish, game or fur-bearing animals or game birds, protected by said order in said waters or area, or the removal of the cause threatening said species with depletion or extermination, the additional protection afforded by said order is no longer needed, said commission may, in their discretion, rescind or modify said original order, and notices of the rescinding or modifying of the order shall be published in the same manner as notice of the original order and filed in like manner in the office of the clerk of each county: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to suspend, abridge or regulate the open seasons established by federal or state laws for the killing or taking of wild water fowl, or for the taking of fish for commercial purposes from the waters of lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and the bays thereof. SEC. 5. Any person who shall take or kill any fish, game or fur-bearing animal or game bird, contrary to the terms or provisions of any order or regulation of the commission of conservation, made, promulgated and published as in this act provided, and during the time said order or regulation shall remain in force, and effect, or who shall in any manner whatsoever violate any of the provisions of this act or of any order or regulation made, promulgated and published according to the terms hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, for the first offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed sixty days, and for each and every second or subsequent offense by said person, when charged as such, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars and imprisonment in the county jail where said conviction is had or in the Detroit house of correction not less than twenty nor more than ninety days. SEC. 6. Act number nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as amended by act number one hundred fifty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, is hereby repealed.

Approved May 6, 1925.

[No. 231.]

AN ACT to provide for the repression of prostitution in certain cases.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

ful.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to accost, Accosting, solicit or invite another in any public place, or in or from etc., unlawany building or vehicle, by word, gesture or any other means, to commit prostitution or to do any other lewd or immoral act.

etc.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to receive or Unlawful admit or offer to receive or admit any person into any place, admittance, structure, house, building, or vehicle for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or to knowingly permit any person to remain in any such place for any such purpose.

SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to aid, assist Unlawful to or abet another to commit, or offer to commit, any act pro- aid, etc. hibited by sections one or two of this act.

violation.

SEC. 4. Any person adjudged guilty of a violation of this Penalty for act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail or in the Detroit house of correction not exceeding ninety days; any person who shall be adjudged guilty a second time of a violation of this act, the offense being charged as a second offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail or in the Detroit house of correction not more than six months; and any person adjudged guilty of a third or any subsequent violation of this act, the offense being charged as a third or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years.

Approved May 6, 1925.

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