Notice to arbitrators.

said board or transmitted to the office of said board, there to be placed on file. When such agreement of arbitration has been filed with the said board, or one of its members, and when the said board or a member thereof, has been furnished the names of the arbitrators chosen by the respective parties to the controversy, the board, or a member thereof, shall cause a notice in writing to be served upon the said arbitrators, notifying them of their appointment, requesting them to meet promptly to name the remaining arbitrators necessary to complete the board, and advising them of the period within which they are empowered to name such arbiProceedings of trators. When the arbitrators selected by the respective arbitrators. parties have agreed upon the remaining arbitrators they shall notify the Board of Mediation and Conciliation; and in the event of their failure to agree upon both or either of the necessary arbitrators within the fifteen days, as hereinbefore provided, they shall at the expiration of such period, notify the Board of Mediation and Conciliation of the arbitrators selected, if any, or of their failure to make or to complete such selection. If the parties to an arbitration desire the reconvening of a board to pass upon any dispute arising over the meaning or application of any provisions of an award, they shall jointly so notify the Board of Mediation and Conciliation and shall state in such written notice, the question or questions to be submitted for decision to such reconvened board. The Board of Mediation and Conciliation shall thereupon promptly communicate with the members of the board of arbitration and arrange for the reconvening of the board and shall notify the respective parties to the controversy of the time and place at which the board shall meet for hear ings upon the matter in controversy to be submitted to it.

Notice to parties.

Organization of board of arbitration. Proceedings.

Assistants.

Copy of awards.

Original

award and testimony.

Receivers in possession.

SEC. 8. The board of arbitration shall organize and select its own chairman and make all necessary rules for conducting its hearing; and in its award or awards the said board shall confine itself to findings, or recommendations, directly bearing upon the questions submitted to it for decision. All testimony before said board shall be given under oath or affirmation. The board may employ such assistants as may be necessary in carrying on its work. It shall furnish a certified copy of its awards to the respective parties to the controversy, and shall transmit the original award, together with the papers and proceedings and a transcript of the testimony taken at the hearings, certified under the hands of the arbitrators, to the office of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation.

SEC. 9. Whenever receivers appointed by the courts of the State of Michigan, or subject thereto, are in possession and control of the business of employers covered by this act, the employes of such employers shall have the right to be heard through their representatives in such court upon all questions affecting the terms and conditions of their employment; and no reduction of wages shall be made by such receivers

without the authority of the court therefor, after notice to such employes, said notice to be given not less than twenty days before the hearing upon the receivers' petition or application.

SEC. 10. Each member of the board of arbitration created Compensation of arbitrators. under the provisions of this act shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, together with his traveling and other necessary Expenses. expenses.

sioner of

SEC. 11. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, Commisthere shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the mediation and advice and consent of the senate, a Commissioner of Media- conciliation. tion and Conciliation, whose salary shall be two thousand Salary. five hundred per annum, and necessary expenses, and who Expenses. shall be provided with an office by the Board of State Auditors. Said commissioner shall hold office for a term of Term of office. two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and shall be removed by the Governor only for misconduct in office. The Commissioner of Mediation and Conciliation shall place his entire time at the disposal of his official duties. The Governor shall also appoint by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one other person who shall, together with the Commissioner of Mediation and Conciliation, constitute the Board of Mediation and Conciliation referred to in various places in this act. The person so appointed shall be required to give only such time to the work of said board as may be necessary to carry on its work satisfactorily, and he shall re- Compensation. ceive ten dollars per diem, together with traveling and other necessary expenses, while actually engaged in his duties in connection with the work of the board.

SEC. 12. The Commissioner of Mediation and Conciliation Assistance. shall have power to employ such assistance for his office or for the work of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation as may be provided for in the appropriation acts of the Legislature.

accounts.

proviso,

SEC. 13. All compensation and also the expense provided Audit of for in sections eleven and twelve of this act shall be audited and paid in the same manner as the salaries and expenses of other State officers: Provided, That the amount thereof, ex- Proviso, clusive of the compensation allowed to said Commissioner of compensation. Mediation and Conciliation, shall not in any one year exceed the sum of six thousand dollars: Provided, further, That in Further addition to the above allowance for expenses, the said com- copies of missioner shall be authorized to have printed not to exceed annual report. five thousand copies of an annual report for the use of his department and for general distribution, and all printing, binding, blanks, etc., and all supplies shall be done or fur Printing, nished under any contract which the State now has or shall have for similar work with any party or parties, and the expenses thereof shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other State printing.

binding, etc.

Tax clause.

SEC. 14. The Auditor General shall add to, and incorporate in, the State tax for the year nineteen hundred fifteen the sum of six thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred sixteen the sum of six thousand dollars, which sums, when collected, shall be added to the general fund in the State treasury to reimburse the same for the amounts appropriated by this act.

Approved May 14, 1915.

State central committee. how elected.

Proviso,

nominations.

Vacancy.

[No. 231.]

AN ACT to provide for the election of State central committees of the several political parties in Michigan, 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. At the first State convention held by any political party within this State in the year nineteen hundred sixteen, at the first State convention of such political party in the year nineteen hundred seventeen and at the first State convention of such political party in every second year after nineteen hundred seventeen, a State central committee for such political party shall be selected, which committee shall consist of a chairman and two members from each congressional district: Provided, That the two members from each congressional district shall be nominated by the delegates to said State convention from said congressional district. At the first meeting of the committee so chosen the committee shall proceed to elect a secretary and a treasurer.

SEC. 2. In the event of any vacancy occurring in the membership of such State central committee, such committee shall have power to fill such vacancy.

SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts in any wise contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 14, 1915.

[No. 232.]

AN ACT to provide for the completion, printing, binding, distribution and sale of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen; to make an appropriation for the compensation and expense of the commissioners and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

binding and

SECTION 1. The compilation of the general laws of the Printing, State, prepared by the three commissioners appointed by the distribution. Governor in accordance with act number two hundred fortyseven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, shall be printed, bound and distributed as hereinafter provided.

present

of state.

annotations.

SEC. 2. The said commissioners shall, in the proper places Incorporation and manner, incorporate with the text of said compilation of laws of the general laws and amendments thereof enacted by the legislature. present Legislature as soon as practicable after the close of the present session. And it is made the duty of the Secretary Duty of of State to furnish to each of said commissioners a correct secretary copy of all general laws and amendments thereof enacted by the present Legislature as fast as the approved copies thereof are filed in his office, and it is also hereby made the duty of the Secretary of State to furnish to each of said commissioners three copies of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen as soon as the same are bound and ready for distribution. The said commissioners shall also add to the annota- Addition to tions of said compilation notes and digests of the later decisions of the supreme court interpreting the said general laws so that the said annotations and digest of decisions may be substantially complete down to the time of printing. SEC. 3. After the said general laws and amendments Certification. thereof enacted by the present Legislature shall have been incorporated with the compilation, together with a digest of the decisions aforesaid, as provided in the preceding section, the said commissioners shall certify to its correctness and shall place the same in the hands of the State printer. SEC. 4. The printing of said compilation shall be done by How printing the State printer as other State printing is done, and paid from the general fund of the State treasury. It shall be begun as soon as the compiling and digesting of the first volume is completed in accordance with the provisions of this act, and shall be carried on as rapidly as is consistent with a proper execution of the work. The printing shall be under Supervision. the immediate supervision of the said commissioners who shall personally read the final proofs, comparing them with the original texts of the statutes and verifying the references and citations in the annotations.

done.

SEC. 5. During the printing of said compilation the com- Index. missioners shall make a full and complete index of the gen

How printed.

Style.

Paper.

eral statutes contained therein, by the consecutive section numbers, which index shall be printed and bound with the compilation.

SEC. 6. The compilation shall be printed by the State printer under the terms of the contract now existing between such printers and the State in pages of substantially the size and measurement of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The annotations to each section shall immediately follow such section and shall be set in one-half the measure of the text and arranged in two columns on the page. The style of the rest of the work shall be determined by the commissioners after consultation with the State printer. The paper shall be furnished by the State Board of Auditors and be selected by said commissioners and, if deemed advisable, shall be of quality, grade, weight and finish of the paper used in the book known as "Corpus Juris,” with a view to securing the printing and publication of said general laws on permanent, durable paper in three volumes. When printed, the publication shall be firmly and substantially bound by the State binders in buckram binding, in accordance with the terms of the existing contract between such State binders and the State of Michigan, and paid from the general fund of the State treasury. The size and number of pages in each volume shall be in the discretion of the commissioners. The index may be bound in a separate volume or may be bound with the last volume of the compilation in How labeled. the discretion of such commissioners. The volumes so bound shall be labeled on the back "Compiled Laws-Michigan-1915.” Every copy of each volume shall be distinctly stamped on the back with a large heavy faced figure indicating the number of such volume, and the numbers of the first and last sections included therein and the index shall in addition thereto be stamped "Index."

How bound.

Size of pages.

Index.

Number of copies.

How distributed.

Deposit in state library.

SEC. 7. An edition of twenty thousand sets of said compilation shall be printed and bound by the State printer and binder and shall be delivered to the Secretary of State for distribution. One set each shall be delivered to the following persons, officers and libraries, viz., libraries of State officers, libraries of State institutions, libraries of State boards, members of the Legislature, including members of the nineteen hundred fifteen session, the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives, the United States senate library and the library of congress; judges of the circuit courts, judges and clerks of the recorder's, superior and police courts; county clerks, prosecuting attorneys, circuit court commissioners, sheriffs, judges of probate, registers of deeds, county treasurers; justices of the peace of townships; clerks and justices of the peace of incorporated villages and cities; public and bar association libraries, and one set to each of the three commissioners compiling said work. In addition to the foregoing, there shall be deposited