shall be annually transferred to the appropriation for the following fiscal year: Provided further, That the said Public Further Domain Commission may obtain money under this section how money proviso, before July first, nineteen hundred fifteen in such amounts obtained. as they may by requisition certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use, which amounts thus advanced shall be deducted from the total amount when the appropriation becomes available. SEC. 16. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause State tax for the year nineteen hundred fifteen the sum of one hundred twenty thousand dollars and for the year nineteen hundred sixteen 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. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 6, 1915. [No. 129.] AN ACT to amend the title and section one of act number three hundred fifty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act relative to the use, sale or disposition of horses and mules permanently unfit for work, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof," approved May thirteen, nineteen hundred thirteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. The title and section one of act number three Title and hundred fifty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred section thirteen, entitled "An act relative to the use, sale or disposition of horses and mules permanently unfit for work, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof," are hereby amended to read as follows: TITLE. title. sale or trade. An Act relative to the use, sale, trading and disposition of Amended horses and mules permanently unfit for work, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. SEC. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to offer for Unlawful sale or sell or trade any horse or mule which by reason of debility, disease, lameness, injury, or for any other cause is permanently unfit for work, except to a person or corpor ation operating a horse hospital, animal retreat farm, or other institution or place designed or maintained for the humane. keeping, treatment or killing of horses, mules or other live. stock. Approved May 6, 1915. [No. 130.] AN ACT relative to the cost of bonds to be provided by township officers. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whenever a bond is required by the laws of this State to be given by any township officer, the township board may authorize such officer to procure the required bond from any surety company authorized by the laws of this State to execute the same; the cost thereof, not to exceed one per cent per annum of the amount of said bond, may, by resolution of the township board, be paid by the township out of the contingent fund of said township. Approved May 6, 1915. Section amended. [No. 131]. AN ACT to amend section twenty-five of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninetythree, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section three thousand eight hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section three thousand eight hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 25. The description of real property may be as fol- Description lows, viz: 1. If the land to be assessed be an entire section, it may be described by the number of the section, township and range; 2. If the tract be the subdivision of a section authorized by the United States for the sale of public lands, it may be described by the designation of such subdivision, with the number of the section, township and range; 3. If the tract be less than such subdivision, it may be described as a distinct part of such subdivision, or in such manner as will definitely describe the same; 4. In case of land platted or laid out as a town, city or village, or as an addition to a town, city or village, the same shall be described by reference to such plat and by the num. ber of the lots and blocks thereof; 5. When two or more parcels of land adjoin and are used and occupied together they may be assessed by one valuation; 6. It shall be sufficient to describe the real property assessed upon any roll and in all other proceedings under this act in the manner heretofore in use by initials, letters, abbreviations and figures. Approved May 6, 1915. of real property. [No. 132.] AN ACT to amend sections ten and eleven of chapter one hundred seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of county jails and the regulation thereof," being sections two thousand six hundred fifty-nine and two thousand six hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number ten of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections ten and eleven of chapter one hundred Sections seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred fortysix, entitled "Of county jails and the regulation thereof," being sections two thousand six hundred fifty-nine and two thousand six hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as last amended by act number ten Prisoners highways, etc. of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 10. The board of supervisors of any county in this State may, by resolution passed at any regular or special session, order that any or all male prisoners over the age of eighteen years under a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail, capable of performing manual labor, shall be required to work upon the public highways, streets, alleys and public roads, or in any quarry, pit or yard in the preparation or construction of materials for such public highway, streets, alleys or roads in any township, city or village in such county, or to perform any other lawful labor for the benefit of the county. Whenever any such resolution shall be passed, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to cause such prisoners to be put at work in such manner as may be provided in the resolution of the board of supervisors. The commissioner of highways of any township and the village or city authorities of any village or city in the county or the authorities in charge of any county institution may make application to have such prisoners work in any township, city, village or institution in such manner as shall be prescribed by the board of supervisors, Place of work. and the said board shall have the right to determine in what township, city or village such prisoners shall work. Duty of sheriff. Application for work. Under whose Tools and materials. measures. Escape. Proviso, guards. SEC. 11. All work performed by any such prisoners shall be performed under the direction of the highway commissioner of the township or the authorities of the city, village or institution where the work is done. All such prisoners while engaged in such work shall be under the control and custody of the sheriff. All tools necessary for use by such prisoners and all materials upon which work is to be performed shall be furnished by the township, city, village or institution in Precautionary which the work is done. The sheriff shall take such precautionary measures as may be deemed necessary to prevent the escape of prisoners employed under the provisions of this act, and in case any prisoner employed shall escape, it shall be deemed to be an escape from the jail: Provided, That no additional deputy sheriff shall be appointed to guard such prisoners while so at work without the previous authorization of the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors is hereby vested with authority to reimburse the sheriff for any expenses incurred in conveying such prisoners to and from any such road, street, alley, highway, quarry, pit, yard, or institution or in properly guarding them while beyond the confines of the county jail: Provided, That all meals and food shall be furnished by the sheriff to such prisoners in the same manner as though they were confined in the county jail, except in cases where such prisoners are employed in or for a county institution providing board for inmates, in which case all meals and food shall be furnished by said institution: Provided further, That the board of supervisors shall have authority to provide for keeping such prisoners at Reimbursement of sheriff. Proviso, meals and food. Further proviso, place of keeping. places other than the county jail while they are performing such work as is authorized under the provisions of this act. Approved May 6, 1915. [No. 133.] AN ACT to require examiners and appraisers of property employed by the Board of State Tax Commissioners, to take and file the constitutional oath of office. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Every person now or hereafter employed by Appraisers to the Board of State Tax Commissioners, whose duties in whole take oath. or in part consist in the examination or appraisal of property subject to taxation in this State, shall, before entering upon such duties, take the constitutional oath of office, the same where filed. to be filed in the office of said board. Approved May 6, 1915. [No. 134.] AN ACT to provide for the employment of interpreters in criminal cases and to regulate the compensation thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That whenever any person shall attend any Compensation court as an interpreter, for the purpose of interpreting the of interpreters. testimony of any witness given in behalf of the people of this State, or for the purpose of translating or interpreting any writing or document introduced or used in any court in behalf of the people of this State, either upon request of the prosecuting attorney, or by and with the consent of the presiding judge or justice of the peace, he shall receive such compensation as shall be ordered by said presiding judge or justice of the peace: Provided, That the compensation for Proviso, such interpreter in the justice court shall not exceed the sum compensation. of five dollars for each day, and the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each one-half day actually employed. The How paid. certificate of the clerk of a court of record or of a justice of the peace stating the amount ordered to be paid as hereinbefore provided, shall authorize the county treasurer to pay the amount therein stated. Approved May 6, 1915. limit of |