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county treasurer for the amount so audited and allowed, and the county treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same.

Approved May 26, 1909.

Publication.

[No. 137.]

AN ACT to provide for publication of the State Constitution with the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The Secretary of State shall publish with the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine the Constitution of nineteen hundred eight, with annotations relative to changes from the old Constitution as now prepared for publication in the legislative manual.

Approved May 26, 1909.

Governor to

mission.

Duty of.

[No. 138.]

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission of five citizens of the State of Michigan to make an investigation into the subject of vagrancy, habitual drunkenness, disorderly persons and similar subjects, and to report their findings to the next session of the legislature with recommendations for a revision of the statutes relating to said subjects.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The Governor is hereby directed to appoint a appoint com- commission consisting of five citizens of the State of Michigan, on or before the first day of December, nineteen hundred nine. Said commission shall meet and proceed to investigate, in such manner as they may deem advisable, the subject of vagrancy, habitual drunkenness, offenses desig nated as disorderly conduct, and similar offenses, covering in their investigation not only methods in force in this State, but in any other states and foreign countries.

Compensation.

SEC. 2. Said commission shall serve without compensation and without expense to the State.

SEC. 3. Said commission shall prepare a report of its in- Report. vestigation and present the same in written or printed form to the next regular session of the legislature, embodying in said report such recommendations as they may deem advisable to make regarding an amendment or revision of the statutes relating to the subjects enumerated above. Approved May 26, 1909.

[No. 139.]

AN ACT relative to the maintenance and construction of hospitals and sanatoria within the counties of this State and to provide a tax to raise moneys therefor.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

supervisors may raise by taxation.

SECTION 1. The several boards of county supervisors of Board of this State may raise by a tax to be levied on the property of said county, subject to taxation for county purposes, a sum of money to be used for constructing or maintaining or assisting to construct or maintain any hospital or sanitarium within said county. The said board of supervisors shall des- Where used. ignate the hospital or sanitarium for which the moneys so raised are to be used: Provided, That any county not having Proviso. within its boundary a hospital or sanitarium or any county though having a hospital or sanitarium within its boundary wishing to act in conjunction with any other county or counties for the purposes herein provided, may, in the judgment of the board of supervisors, use said moneys so raised in such combined undertaking of said several counties.

SEC. 2. The tax provided for herein shall be apportioned Tax, apporand collected as other taxes for county purposes. Said tax tionment, etc.

shall not exceed one-tenth of one mill on each dollar of assessed valuation of said county, and in no case shall the amount exceed one thousand dollars for any one year, unless same shall have been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of such county.

SEC. 3. When the tax herein provided for shall be col- How paid. lected it shall be paid to the institution for which the same is raised, upon the warrant of the president and secretary thereof from time to time as vouchers are presented, and shall be expended by said board for the use of said institution within the limits prescribed by this act.

duty of.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the trustees or other offi- Trustees, etc., cers of any hospital or sanitarium receiving any such assistance, to report once a year to the board of supervisors of

Annual report, the county granting such assistance. Such report shall set

what to contain.

forth in detail the number of the patients cared for during the year, the average cost per person, the amount of money received from all sources, the amount of money expended and to whom paid, and a tabulated statement of the number of persons admitted, the disease, or other cause of their admission, and the disposition made of each case, which said report shall be included and made a part of the record of said board of supervisors.

Approved May 26, 1909.

Board of prison in

constituted.

[No. 140.]

AN ACT to create a State board to be known as the board of prison industries of Michigan, and to define the duties, powers and authority of said board, and to prohibit the making of any new contract or extending the provisions or time of any existing contract.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The members of the boards of control of the dustries, how Michigan State Prison at Jackson, the State House of Correction and Branch of the State Prison in the Upper Peninsula at Marquette and the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia shall, within sixty days after this act takes effect, meet at the call of the Governor, and the Governor shall select from the State boards three of their number, one from each board, who, with the Governor, shall constitute a board to be known Term of office. as the board of prison industries of Michigan. The term of office of each shall be the length of time their terms run as members of the State boards of control and any vacancy shall be filled at a joint meeting of boards of control called by the Governor, who shall fill the vacancy. One of its members shall be elected chairman and one secretary.

Officers.

Duties of.

Products, non-com

petitive.

Investigation.

SEC. 2. The members of said board shall at once commence to make a full investigation into the methods of prisons of other states with a view to establishing in Michigan a system of prison industries best calculated to promote the interests of the State and welfare of the prisoners. The industries recommended to be established in our prisons shall as far as possible be of such nature that their products will not conflict or compete with the products of any of the es tablished industries within the State of Michigan.

SEC. 3. The board shall also make an investigation as to the amount of goods that are used in the several State institutions and the offices of the various political divisions of

the State that could be profitably manufactured in any of our prisons, with a view of manufacturing in the prison such goods as may be used in these several institutions or political divisions.

SEC. 4. The board shall complete its investigations and Report, when have its report ready to be mailed to the members elect of the to have ready. legislature of nineteen hundred eleven by December first, nine

teen hundred ten.

not to make

SEC. 5. The boards of control of any of the three penal Boards, etc., institutions mentioned in this act shall not, nor the wardens contracts, etc. of said institutions, nor shall any other authority whatsoever, make any new contract or extend the time of any existing or pending contract by which the labor or time of any prison convict in any of the penal institutions of this State shall be contracted, let, furnished out or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation beyond December eleventh, nineteen hundred eleven: Provided, That this act shall in Proviso, no way affect any existing contract or contracts, except such existing contract for a longer term than as specified in this section shall have the written approval of the Governor and the warden of the institution endorsed thereon.

contracts.

SEC. 6. No member of said board of prison industries Compensation. shall receive any compensation for the duties herein created and imposed, other than or beyond the actual expenses incurred in the discharge of said duties. Approved May 26, 1909.

[No. 141.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred forty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for teaching in the public schools the modes by which the dangerous communicable diseases are spread and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of such diseases," approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred ninety-five, said section being compiler's section four thousand seven hundred ninety-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act one hundred forty-six of the Section public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act amended. to provide for teaching in the public schools the modes by which the dangerous communicable diseases are spread, and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of such diseases," approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred ninety-five,

Dangerous

diseases,

methods for

said section being compiler's section four thousand seven hundred ninety-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. There shall be taught in every year in every public communicable school in Michigan the principal modes by which each of the dangerous communicable diseases are spread and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of each such public schools. disease. Such instruction shall be given by the aid of text

restriction,

etc., to be

taught in

Text-books, approval of.

books on physiology, supplemented by oral and blackboard
instruction. From and after July first, nineteen hundred
ten, no text-book on physiology shall be adopted for use in the
public schools of this State, unless it shall give at least one-
eighth of its space to the causes and prevention of dangerous
communicable diseases. Text-books used in giving the fore-
going instruction shall, before being adopted for use in the
public schools, have that portion given to the instruction
in communicable diseases approved by the State Board of
Health to the State Board of Education.
Approved May 26, 1909.

Certain boards

or officers to deliver un

to university.

[No. 142.]

AN ACT to provide for securing and transporting unclaimed dead human bodies to be used for dissection in the advancement of science.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any member of either of the following boards and any of the following named officers or persons, to-wit : claimed bodies The board of health of any city, village or township, the common council of any city, board of trustees of any village, any board or officer having the direction, management, charge or control in whole or in part of any prison, house of correction, workhouse, jail or lockup, founded or supported in whole or in part at public expense, having in his or their possession or control, the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative or legal representative; or the county superintendent of the poor, keepers of poorhouses and almshouses, any physician or other person in charge of any poorhouse or almshouse or charitable institution, sheriff or coroner, having in his or their possession or control the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative, personal friend or legal representative as hereinafter provided, and which may be required to be buried at public expense or the expense of any one of such public institutions, or the dead body of any convict who died in prison under sentence of murder or attempt to murder,

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