Meetings.

No compensation.

Actual expenses.

Proviso, limit of expenses.

Disposition of fees.

How moneys expended.

How moneys kept.

Who may be examined.

Courses.

Examination.

Diploma of graduation.

Meetings of Board.

SEC. 9. The board shall hold its first meeting within thirty days after its members are appointed and thereafter shall hold regular meetings on the first Mondays of April and October of each year, and shall hold special meetings between said regular meetings at their discretion.

Expenses of Officers and Members of Board.

SEC. 10. The board of examiners shall be entitled to no compensation for their services, they shall however be reimbursed for traveling, clerical and other actual expenses incurred in the performance of their specific duties, under this act: Provided, That all expenses of the board shall at no time exceed the amount of moneys received and on deposit and to the credit of this board under the workings of this act.

SEC. 11. All moneys and fees collected or received by the treasurer under this act are to be properly recorded and receipted for and deposited with the State Treasurer.

SEC. 12. All moneys paid out by the board shall be through the State Treasurer on properly drawn vouchers, signed by the president and secretary of said board.

SEC. 13. All moneys received by the State Treasurer under the provisions of this act shall be kept in a separate fund, to be drawn against only for the expenses of this board.

Qualifications, Examinations, Etc.

SEC. 14. Any person of legal age and of good moral character, upon the payment of a fee of ten dollars, may apply for examination for registration under this act.

SEC. 15. The applicant shall satisfactorily pass an examination in such technical and professional courses as established by the board of examiners.

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SEC. 16. The examination shall have special reference to the planning, design, and construction of buildings; the examination shall be in two parts, A and B, as follows:

A. This shall be a test of the knowledge of the candidate of the strength of materials, construction and architectural design;

B. This shall be a test of the ability of the candidate to make practical application of the above knowledge in the professional work of an architect, and in the duties of a supervisor of the construction of buildings.

SEC. 17. In lieu of the first part of the examination, “A," the Board of Examiners may accept a diploma of graduation from a recognized college or school of architecture whose requirements conform to the standard minima of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

SEC. 18. The second part of the examination, "B," must Second part be taken by all candidates.

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required. SEC. 19. In lieu of all examinations the Board of Examin- Registration ers shall accept registration or certification as an architect in other in another state or country where the standard qualifications for the same are not lower than those required by the Board of Examiners under this act.

SEC. 20. The Board of Examiners in lieu of all examin- Prior practice ation shall accept satisfactory evidence as to the applicant's as architect. character, competency and qualifications, and satisfactory evidence that the applicant has been actually engaged in the practice of architecture under the title of architect on his own account or as a member of a reputable firm or association prior to February five, nineteen hundred fifteen, providing the application for such certification shall be made within six months of such date.

Certificates.

SEC. 21. The result of every examination or other evidence Certificate of of qualification, as provided by this act, shall be recorded by qualification. the secretary of the Board of Examiners and said board shall issue a certificate of registration to every person having passed such examination or as being otherwise qualified to be entitled to receive same.

SEC. 22. Every person upon registration under this act Fee. shall pay a fee of twenty dollars to the Board of Examiners and shall thereupon receive a certificate of registration.

certificate.

SEC. 23. Every registered architect shall, within thirty Record of days, record his or her certificate of registration with the Secretary of State of Michigan.

for fraud,

SEC. 24. The Board of Examiners may revoke any certifi- Revocation cate, after thirty days' written notice to the holder thereof, and after a hearing before the Board of Examiners, upon proof that such certificate has been obtained by fraud or misrepresentation, or upon proof that the holder of such certificate has been guilty of malfeasance or gross incom · petency in connection with his practice of architecture.

Violation.

SEC. 25. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall Penalty. be a misdemeanor, punishable for the first offense by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offense by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both in the discretion of the court.

Approved May 6, 1915.

Who may incorporate.

Trustees.
Articles.

What articles to contain.

Executed in triplicate.

Where filed.

Body politic.

Powers of trustees.

[No. 121.]

AN ACT for the incorporation of ecclesiastical seminaries for the higher and doctrinal education of persons intending to enter upon the ministry of the gospel.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any number of persons, not less than five, of full age and affiliated with any religious denomination of Christians, all being affiliated with the same denomination, desiring to organize a corporation for the purpose of the establishment and maintenance of an ecclesiastical seminary for the higher and doctrinal education of persons intending to enter upon the ministry of the gospel in accordance with the doctrines and discipline of the religious denomination with which they are affiliated, may associate themselves for for that purpose, elect not less than three trustees as the governing board of such seminary and execute articles of association.

SEC. 2. Such articles of association shall contain:

1. The name by which such corporation shall be known in law;

2. The object for which it is formed including the name of the religious denomination for whose benefit it is organized; 3. The township, village or city and the county in which such seminary is, or is to be, located;

4. The period of time for which the corporation is created;

5. The number of trustees who shall form the governing board;

6. The names and residences of the trustees elected by the associates in the first instance, the term of office of each and the manner in which their successors shall be elected.

SEC. 3. Such articles of association shall be executed and acknowledged in triplicate before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds. One of such triplicates shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and one in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein such seminary shall be located, and one shall be retained by the trustees.

SEC. 4. On the filing of such articles of association as above provided the said trustees and their successors shall become and be a body politic and corporate, capable of suing and being sued in all the courts of this State and having all the powers and duties of corporations applicable and incident to the purposes for which they are incorporated.

SEC. 5. The trustees, besides the general powers and priv ileges of a corporation shall also have power:

First, To elect their own presiding officer and clerk; Second, Upon the death, resignation or other vacancy in the office of any trustee to elect another in his place;

Third, To declare vacant the seat and office of any trustee who shall, without reasonable excuse, absent himself from five successive meetings of the board of trustees;

Fourth, To take and hold by gift, grant, devise, bequest, lease or otherwise any real or personal property;

Fifth, To sell, mortgage, let or otherwise dispose of or use such property as they shall deem most conducive to the interest of such corporation;

Sixth, To erect and maintain such buildings as they may deem from time to time suitable or expedient for such seminary and for the boarding and lodging of the students as well as of the professors and other instructors and other employes;

Seventh, To direct and prescribe the course of study and discipline to be observed in such seminary;

Eighth, To employ a principal, professors and other instructors, a treasurer and such other officers, agents and employes as they shall deem necessary, who shall hold their respective offices and situations during the pleasure of the trustees;

Ninth, To determine and fix the compensation of the principal, and of the professors, instructors, officers, agents and other employes;

Tenth, To determine and fix the terms and conditions on which students shall be admitted to such seminary;

Eleventh, And to make all ordinances, by-laws, rules and Rules and regulations necessary and proper to carry into effect the regulations. foregoing powers and the regulation and management of such seminary.

SEC. 6. The trustees of any seminary incorporated under Application this act shall apply all funds and property belonging thereto of funds. to the promotion of its objects and interests according to their best judgment: Provided, That any gift, grant, be- Proviso, quest, devise or donation to such corporation for any specific gifts, etc. object shall be faithfully applied to the object specified by

the donor.

officers.

SEC. 7. The trustees may require the treasurer and any Bonds of other officer or agent, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, to give bonds with sufficient surety or sureties in such sums as they may deem sufficient, for the faithful performance of their duties.

SEC. 8. Service of legal process on any such corporation service may be made on any one of the trustees thereof, if such of process, trustee be found in the county in which the seminary is located; but if no trustee be found in such county, then upon any officer or agent of such corporation at its principal place of business.

Approved May 6, 1915.

Orders at six per cent.

[No. 122.]

AN ACT to authorize and empower township boards to issue orders bearing interest at the rate of six per cent or less per annum in certain cases.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. When a portion of the taxes authorized by the electors of a township at any annual meeting thereof, either for general township purposes or specific purposes, shall be delinquent, the township board is hereby authorized and empowered to issue orders bearing interest at six per cent or less per annum, which orders shall not exceed in the aggregate the amounts in the respective funds so authorized. Approved May 6, 1915.

Record of affidavits.

Duty of register.

Fees.

Evidence in civil causes.

[No. 123.]

AN ACT to provide for the recording of affidavits as to the birth, marriage, death, name, identity or relationship of parties to instruments affecting real estate and the use of the same in evidence.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Affidavits as to the birth, marriage, death. name, residence, identity and relationship of parties named in deeds, wills, mortgages and other instruments affecting real estate may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county where said real estate is situate.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the register of deeds for the county where such affidavit is offered for record to receive the same and cause the same to be recorded in the same manner that deeds are recorded. The register of deeds shall collect the same fees for recording such affidavit as are provided by law for recording deeds.

SEC. 3. Such affidavits, whether recorded before or after the passage of this act, may be received in evidence in any civil cause, in all courts of this State and by all boards or officers of the State in all suits or proceedings affecting such real estate and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts and circumstances therein contained.

Approved May 6, 1915.