in any one year, and said acts shall stand the same as if this Current expenses. Special purposes. School lockers. Transfer of funds. [No. 162.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Western State Normal School for current expenses and for building and special purposes, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current expenses for the Western State Normal School for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of eighty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of eighteen thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, for purposes and by amounts as follows: Equipment for training school building, ten thousand dollars; Equipment for manual training and domestic science and art, one thousand five hundred dollars; Special reference work for library, one thousand five hundred dollars; Ground for athletic field, five thousand dollars; SEC. 3. The further sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the said institution for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, for installing school lockers in main building. SEC. 4. If the amounts designated in sections two and three of this act for any one of the purposes stated be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchase specified in said section may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent being to make the entire nineteen thousand five hundred dollars avail able for the purposes stated in sections two and three. SEC. 5. The several sums appropriated by the provisions Payment. of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the State Board of Education, at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 6. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year ending nineteen hundred nine, the sum of ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred ten the sum of eighty-one thousand dollars, which amounts 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. 163.] AN ACT concerning the sale within this State of certain substances used in spraying or fumigating fruit trees, as insecticides or fungicides or for other purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: substances," SECTION 1. As used in this act the teria "spraying sub- “Spraying stances" shall be deemed to include he following: Arsenate what to of lead, sulphur, lime sulphides, miscible combinations of min- include. eral or vegetable oils, sulphate of copper, Bordeaux mixture, or any insecticide or fungicide or essential ingredient thereof, used for the control of insects or fungus diseases or any other like purpose. manufacturer, SEC. 2. From and after the taking effect of this act it shall Duty of be the duty of each and every manufacturer of spraying sub- etc. stances, as defined in section one, manufactured within this State, and of each and every dealer selling such spraying substances in original packages manufactured without this State, before such spraying substance is offered or exposed for sale or sold, to submit to the director of the Michigan Agricultural Station of East Lansing, a written or printed statement setting forth: First, the brand of such spraying Statement, substan es to be sold, the number of pounds contained in each forth. package in which it is put upon the market for sale, the name or names of the manufacturers and the place of manufacturing the same; second, the statement shall set forth so near as may be the percentages and chemical combinations of all essentia substances or ingredients of such spraying substances contained in said commodities; third, f such prepar ation shall contain arsenic, free or in combination, such state what to set To be guaranty. Label. Analysis, who to make. Purchaser, statement, what to authorize. ment shall give the percentage of arsenious oxide or its equiv alent, soluble or insoluble in distilled water. The statement so furnished shall be considered as constituting a guaranty to the purchaser of the contents of every package of such spraying substances. SEC. 3. Each and every package of spraying substances, sold or offered for sale within this State, shall bear a label upon which shall be a statement showing all the facts as set forth in the statement filed with the director of the Michigan Agricultural Station as provided herein, who shall designate the size and character of the printing thereon. SEC. 4. The State inspector of orchards and nurseries shall cause to have taken samples of the different brands of spraying substances, and submit the same to the director of the experimental station, Michigan Agricultural College, who shall analyze or cause to be analyzed such samples so delivered to him, and shall report the result of the analysis forthwith to the secretary of the State Board of Horticulture. SEC. 5. Every purchaser of spraying substances in origetc.. to receive inal packages, which are manufactured without this State, who intends to sell the same or expose the same for sale, and every manufacturer of spraying substances within this State, shall, after filing the statement above provided for, receive from the said director of the Michigan Agricultural Station, a certificate stating that such dealer or manufacturer has complied with the foregoing statement, which certificate shall be furnished without any charge therefor; such certificate when furnished shall authorize the party receiving the same to deal within this State in spraying substances. Any person file statement. who fails to file the statement aforesaid shall not be entitled to such certificate and shall not be entitled to deal in such articles or commodities within this State: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to retail dealers who are selling the goods manufactured by any person or persons holding the certificate herein provided for, from the said director of the Michigan Agricultural Station. Failure to Proviso. Penalty for violation. SEC. 6. Any person or persons, firm, association, company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, and any person who shall sell any package of spraying substances or any part thereof, which has not been labeled as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, together with the cost of the suit, in an action caused to be brought by the State Board of Horticulture through the Attorney General, in the name of the people of the State of Michigan. Approved June 1, 1909. [No. 164.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan State Horticultural Society for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, for the purposes of promoting the horticultural interests of the State and the editing and compiling of reports, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the Appropriation. Michigan State Horticultural Society for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, the sum of one thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The moneys appropriated by this act shall be paid How paid. by the State treasurer upon the warrant of the Auditor General. The accounts of the society shall be made upon forms Accounts, of vouchers furnished by the Auditor General, shall be fully how made. itemized, and shall show that the disbursements were for the purposes prescribed in this act. Said accounts shall be certified as correct by the president and secretary of the Michigan State Horticultural Society. how used. SEC. 3. The moneys hereby appropriated may be used by Moneys, the officers of the Michigan State Horticultural Society for procuring lectures, employing scientists or experts to investigate the diseases and insect enemies of trees, vines, plants or fruit, to determine and promulgate the best method of preventing or destroying said diseases and insects, or in such other manner as in the judgment of the said board will best promote the horticultural interests of the State; also in the work of collecting material, securing cuts for illustrations and in preparation of the copy of the reports of said society for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred nine, the sum of one thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred ten, the sum of one thousand dollars, which when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. Approved June 1, 1909. Teacher's certificate, granting of, duration. Recording validates. Record of, by whom kept, etc. [No. 165.] AN ACT to authorize the State Board of Agriculture to grant teachers' certificates in certain cases. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Board of Agriculture, on recommendation of the president and heads of departments of the Michigan Agricultural College, is hereby authorized to grant to persons who have completed the regular four year course in agriculture, together with a course in pedagogics covering at least a half year's special instruction in such subject, a teacher's certificate, which shall serve as a legal qualification to teach agriculture and the related sciences in any of the public schools of this State for the period of three years. SEC. 2. Before the certificate herein mentioned shall be valid in any county or city, the holder thereof shall record the same in the office of the legal examining officer of the county or city where such person expects to teach. Such certificate shall not be liable to be annulled, except by the said State board for any cause which would have justified the board in withholding such certificate. SEC. 3. The secretary of the Michigan Agricultural College shall keep a record of all teachers' certificates so granted by said State Board of Agriculture and shall furnish the Superintendent of Public Instruction annually with a copy of such list. Approved June 1, 1909. Current expenses. [No. 166.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan School for the Deaf for the fiscal years ending. June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the current expenses of the Michigan School for the Deaf, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, the sum of eighty thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of eighty thousand dollars. |