To make correct tracings, etc. Duplicate captions to be distinguished. How treated thereafter. Proviso, vested rights. Assistants. of record in any county of this State that are not of record in the office of the Auditor General, he shall have a correct tracing made of all such plats, of which blue prints shall be made and filed in the office of the Auditor General. SEC. 2. If upon such examination it shall be found that there are plats on record bearing duplicate captions in any city, village or township, the city or village council or the township board shall, by resolution, to be approved by the Auditor General, add such word or words to the caption of the recorded plat or plats as shall distinguish it or them from other plats bearing the same caption for assessment purposes and thereafter they shall be treated in respect to the assessment, collection and return of taxes and the sale of such lands for delinquent taxes as if the same had been so dedicated by the proprietors: Provided, That such proceedings shall not interfere with vested rights. SEC. 3. For the purpose of making such examination, tracings and blue prints, the Auditor General is hereby empowered to appoint such assistants as may be necessary. Compensation. Said assistants shall receive as compensation for such services such an amount as shall be fixed by the Auditor General not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars per annum for each of said assistants, and in addition to such compensation, they shall receive their necessary traveling expenses. The salaries and traveling expenses of such assistants shall be audited by the Auditor General and paid by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of the Auditor General. Expenses, how paid. Duty to furnish information. Appropriation. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of county officers to furnish the Auditor General or said assistants such information as may be required relative to plats, and the county clerk is required to furnish certified copies of orders of the circuit court vacating or altering any plat of record. SEC. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the State treasury from any moneys therein not otherwise appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars: Proviso, sum Provided, That any sum remaining in this appropriation at the time of the completion of said records shall be credited to the general fund of the State. remaining. Tax clause. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred fifteen the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, which sum, 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. 15.] AN ACT to amend section two of act number two hundred forty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, as amended by act number one hundred nineteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act in relation to the manufacture and sale of renovated butter." The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That section two of act number two hundred Section forty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, as amended by act number one hundred nineteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act in relation to the manufacture and sale of renovated butter," be and the same is hereby amended so as to be and read as follows: renovated to be stamped. SEC. 2. Whoever, himself or by his agent or as the ser- Tub, etc., of vant or agent of another person, shall sell, expose for sale butter, how or have in his custody or possession with the intent to sell labeled, etc. any renovated butter as defined in section one of this act, shall have the words "renovated butter" conspicuously stamped, labeled or marked in one or two lines and in plain Gothic letters, at least three-eighths of an inch square, so that the words cannot easily be defaced, upon two sides of each and every tub, firkin, box or package containing said renovated butter; or if such butter is exposed for sale uncovered, or not in a case or package, a placard containing When said words in the same form as above described in this sec- be attached. placard to tion shall be attached to the mass in such a manner as to be easily seen and read by the purchaser. When renovated How wrappers butter is sold from such packages or otherwise at retail in print, roll or other form, before being delivered to the purchaser, it shall be wrapped in wrappers plainly stamped on the outside thereof with the words "renovated butter" printed or stamped thereon in one or two lines, and in plain Gothic letters at least three-eighths of an inch square, and such wrappers shall contain no other words or printing thereon, and said words "renovated butter" so stamped or printed on the said wrapper shall not be in any manner concealed, but shall be in plain view of the purchaser at the time of the purchase. The proprietor or keeper of any hotel, Placard on restaurant, eating saloon, boarding house, or other place restaurant, where renovated butter is furnished to persons paying for etc. the same, shall have placed on the walls of every store or room where renovated butter is furnished, a white placard on which is printed in black ink, in plain Roman letters of not less than three inches in length, and not less than two inches in width, the words "renovated butter used here," and shall at all times keep the same exposed in such conspicu walls of hotel, ous place as to be readily seen by any and all persons entering such store, hotel, restaurant or other room or rooms. Approved March 16, 1915. Sections amended. Bridges, culverts, etc. [No. 16.] AN ACT to amend sections four and six of act number three hundred thirty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment, survey, improvement and maintenance of State reward trunk line highways, to provide for the payment of double State reward thereon, to define the duties of State, county, good roads district and township officers in regard thereto, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions thereof," approved May thirteen, nineteen hundred thirteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections four and six of act number three hundred thirty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment, survey, improvement and maintenance of State reward trunk line highways, to provide for the payment of double State reward thereon, to define the duties of State, county, good roads district and township officers in regard thereto, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions thereof," approved May thirteen, nineteen hundred thirteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. The State highway department shall design all bridges and culverts and construct repair and maintain all bridges greater than thirty foot clear span on State reProviso, funds. Ward trunk line highways: Provided, That no bridges shall be constructed until the county, good roads district or township has funds available for, and agrees to construct at least three miles of road including the bridge site. When commissioner to SEC. 6. The State Highway Commissioner is hereby given refuse reward. authority to refuse to grant any further trunk line road reward to any township, good roads district or county that has been rewarded by the State, which does not keep its trunk line rewarded roads in repair; and upon his refusal of an allotment of trunk line reward to any township, good roads district or county, it shall be the commissioner's duty to inform the proper officials of the repairs necessary to place it in a position to again be eligible to receive trunk line reward, and if these repairs are made satisfactorily to the ⚫commissioner, he shall reinstate it to the eligible trunk line reward list. Should the township, good roads district or To notify proper officials. Reinstatement. reward. reward. county fail to make the repairs ordered by the State Highway Commissioner within a reasonable time after being so ordered, then the State Highway Commissioner shall cause To repair and such repairs to be made and pay for them out of the reward pay out of money earned by and due to such township, good roads district or county, and it shall then become eligible to receive further State reward. Any balance remaining due to such Balance of township, good roads district or county after payment for such repairs shall be paid to such township, good roads district or county. If no reward is due said county, good When to roads district or township, then the State Highway Commis- present bill. sioner shall have authority to make the necessary repairs and pay for same out of the trunk line highway fund and render a bill for same to the proper officers of such county, good roads district or township, which bill shall be paid upon the warrant of such officers, and the amount thereof returned to the State treasury to be credited to the trunk line highway fund and the supervisors shall include the amount in the next regular tax roll. Approved March 17, 1915. repair and [No. 17.] AN ACT to require plans for all school buildings and for additions to school buildings, the cost of which shall exceed three hundred dollars, to be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to authorize the condemnation of school houses under certain conditions. submitted to instruction. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No school house shall hereafter be erected in Plans to be any school district in this State, and no addition to a school superintendbuilding in any such district shall hereafter be erected, the ent of public cost of either of which shall exceed three hundred dollars, until the plans and specifications for the same shall have been submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and his approval indorsed thereon. Such plans and specifi- Approval. cations shall be submitted in duplicate and shall show in de during tail the ventilation, heating and lighting: Provided, That the Proviso, insaid Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have author-spection ity to inspect such building or buildings during the process construction. of construction in order to determine that the provisions of this act are being complied with. of schoolhouse. SEC. 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall Condemnation have authority to inspect and condemn school houses. After an inspection of a school house, if in the judgment of the said Superintendent of Public Instruction such building, or Notice to board of education. intendent may Proviso, any part thereof, is not in a safe and sanitary condition, notice thereof shall be given to the district board or board of education of the district in which such building is located, said notice to be given at least six months preceding the first day of August. On the first day of August following such notice given, if said building has not been placed in a safe and sanitary condition by the district board or board of eduWhen super-cation, said Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have close building. authority to close such building, or a part thereof, and such building, or part thereof, shall not again be opened for public use until such building, or part thereof, shall have been placed in a safe and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the said Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, placing in safe condition. That after such building, or part thereof, has been closed for public use said Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be authorized and he is hereby required to have such building, or part thereof, placed in a safe and sanitary condition at the expense of the district: Provided, That any district order to close. board or board of education, being dissatisfied with the order of the Superintendent of Public Instruction determining such school-house to be in an unsafe or insanitary condition, may within thirty days of the issuance of such order and notice thereof, commence an action in the circuit court in chancery for the county in which such schoolhouse is located, against the Superintendent of Public Instruction as defendant, to vacate and set aside such order on the ground that said order is unlawful or unreasonable; in which suit the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be served with subpoena and a copy of the complaint. Proviso, vacation of Tax not to be expended without certification of plans. SEC. 3. No tax voted by a district meeting, or other competent authority in any such school district, exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars for building purposes, shall be expended by the district board or board of education of such district until the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall certify that the plans and specifications for the same comply with the provisions of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |