Sections amended. Age of children employed in manufacturing establishments. Sworn statement to be made as to age. Hoisting shafts or well holes to be inclosed. ings to have automatic gates, etc. [ No. 92. ] AN ACT to amend sections numbered two, five, ten and fourteen of act number one hundred and eighty-four, session laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of all manufacturing establishments and workshops in this State, and to provide for the enforcement, regulation and inspection of such establishments, and the employment of women and children therein," approved May twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections numbered two, five, ten and fourteen of act number one hundred and eighty-four, session laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of all manufacturing establishments and workshops in this State, and to provide for the enforcement, regulation and inspection of such establishments, and the employment of women and children therein," approved May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment within this State. It shall be the duty of every person employing children to keep a register, in which shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed by him under the age of sixteen years; and it shall be unlawful for any manufacturing establishment to hire or employ any child under the age of sixteen years without there is first provided and placed on file a (sworn) statement in writing made by the parent or guardian, stating the age, date and place of birth of said child. If said child have no parent or guardian. then such statement shall be made by the child, which statement shall be kept on file by the employer, and which said register and statement shall be produced for inspection on demand made by any factory inspector appointed under this act. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or lessee of any manufacturing establishment where hoisting shafts or well holes are used to cause the same to be properly inclosed Elevator open and secured. It shall also be the duty of the agent, owner er lessee to provide or cause to be provided at all elevator openings such proper trap or automatic doors or automatic gates so constructed as to open and close by the action of the eleDuties of fac vator either ascending or descending. The factory inspector, assistant factory inspector and deputy factory inspectors shall inspect the cables, gearing or other apparatus of elevators in manufacturing establishments at least once each year, and more frequently if necessary, and require that the same be kept in a safe condition. tory inspector. tories to be dressing SEC. 10. Every factory in which five or more persons are What fac employed and every factory or workshop in which two or more supplied with children, young persons or women are employed shall be suprem plied with proper wash and dressing rooms, and kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance, and shall be provided within reasonable access with a sufficient number of proper water closets, earth closets or privies, for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein; and whenever two or more male persons females are and one or more female persons are employed as aforesaid, employed a sufficient number of [separate] seperate and distinct water to be kept closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of separate. each sex, and plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex. SEC. 14. Sections one, two and three of this act shall not apply to canning factories or evaporating works, but shall apply to any other place where goods, wares or products are manufactured, repaired, cleaned or sorted in whole or in part; but no other person, persons or [corporation] corporations employing less than five persons or children, excepting in any of the cities of this State, shall be deemed a manufacturing establishment within the meaning of this act. Approved April 24, 1897. Where water closets Certain sec tions not to apply to can ning factories. [ No. 93. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, four and five of an act entitled "An act to regulate the admission to practice of attorneys, solicitors and counsellors, to provide for a board of examiners, and to repeal conflicting acts," being act number two hundred and five of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That Sections sections one, four and five of an act, entitled "An act to regu- amended. late the admission to practice of attorneys, solicitors and counsellors, to provide for a board of examiners, and to repeal conflicting acts," being act number two hundred and five of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be amended so as to read as follows: Graduates of and Detroit to be admitted SECTION 1. That any person graduated from the law depart ment of the University of Michigan or the Detroit College of Law after the passage of this act, having taken the full prescribed three years' course in said department or said college to practice. shall be admitted to practice at the bar of all the courts of this State upon the production of his diploma duly issued by May be admitted by supreme or circuit court. Governor to appoint board Meetings. the board of regents of said University or the trustees of said college. Such graduate may be admitted to practice by the supreme court or any circuit court of the State on motion and upon taking the constitutional oath, the clerk will issue under the seal of the court a certificate of admission to the bar. SEC. 4. The Governor shall, on the recommendations of the of examiners. Supreme court, and on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, appoint a board of examiners, composed of five competent lawyers of this State, for the examination of applicants for admission to the bar, whose term of Term of board. Office shall be as follows: One for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, and thereafter each year the Governor on like recommendation shall appoint one member of the board of examiners for the term of five years. Such board shall meet at the capitol, in the city of Lansing, at least twice in each year during the session of the supreme court, and also at other times and places in the State, if the supreme court shall so direct, for the purpose of examining all applicants for admission to the bar as to their legal learning and general qualifications to practice in the several courts of this State as attorneys and counsellors at law and solicitors and counsellors in chancery, and upon such examination being had, the board shall issue to such applicants as shall pass the required examination the certificate of qualification stating the standing of the applicants and recommending their admission to the bar. Such board shall elect from their number a secretary and a treasurer, and shall make such rules and regulations, relative to said examination as to them may seem proper. The president of said board shall be the member whose term of office soonest expires. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Affidavit of applicant, SEC. 5. The residences and names of the applicants shall be what to show. made to appear to said board by affidavit; and satisfactory evidence shall also be produced by such applicants of their good moral character and that they have studied law three years; and a fee to be fixed by said board of not more than ten dollars shall accompany the application. The applicant shall be required to submit to a written examination, which shall be prepared by such board, also an oral examination by the board, and shall be required to answer a minimum of seventy per cent of the questions given him to entitle him to the certifi Icate of the board. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 94. ] 'AN ACT to incorporate Christian, Christian unity, Christian union, and independent or undenominational churches. incorporate. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Number may it shall be lawful for any number of persons above the age of eighteen, not less than five, who are members in good and regular standing in the church proposing to incorporate, to form themselves into a corporate body by signing articles of association containing the following items: First, The name of the said church; Name. Second, The township, village or city, and the county in Location. which said church shall be located; Third, An agreement to worship and labor together as a Character. church of Jesus Christ, accepting his teachings, character and spirit as the divinely authorized rule and guide of Christian conduct, and pledging themselves to strive after that character and spirit; Fourth, The number of trustees and the names of those com- Trustees. posing the first board and the date when the term of each shall expire; of corpora Fifth, That all other matters pertaining to such corporate Government church shall be governed by the by-laws adopted from time to tion. time by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting, due notice of such meetings having been given for two weeks next preceding such regular meeting. association to office of county clerk. SEC. 2. The articles of association shall be signed and Articles of acknowledged before any person authorized to take acknowl- be filed in edgment of deeds, and recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where such church is to be located; when such church, organized as above, shall be a body corporate, possessing all the powers and privileges and subject to all the liabilities of other like corporations organized under the laws of the State of Michigan. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 95. ] AN ACT to prevent male and female persons over fifteen years of age from debauching the persons and depraving the morals of boys under fifteen years of age. females to SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Unlawful for any female person over the age of fifteen years, who shall debauch 'knowingly and wilfully debauch the person and deprave the males under morals of any boy under the age of fifteen years, either by of age. fifteen years Penalty. Unlawful for males to debauch boys years of age. lewdly inducing or enticing any such boy to carnally know any such female person, or by indecent bodily contact with the person of any such boy communicating to him any venereal or other loathsome disease, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for not more than five years, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 2. Any male person over the age of fifteen years who shall debauch and deprave the morals of any boy under fifteen under fifteen years of age, by enticing or soliciting such boy to commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with any man or beast, or who shall himself commit or attempt to commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature with or upon any such boy, whether with or without the consent of such boy, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for not more than five years, in the discretion of the court. Penalty. Approved April 28, 1897. Section amended. Upon complaint of parent, guardlan, etc., of children for truancy, war rant to be issued. [ No. 96. ] AN ACT to amend section two of act number two hundred and twenty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, being compiler's sections number nine thousand three hundred and fifteen d of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act to prevent crime and to punish truancy." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section two of act number two hundred and twenty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, being compiler's section number nine thousand three hundred and fifteen d of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act to prevent crime and to punish truancy," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. Upon complaint upon oath and in writing made before any justice of the peace or other court or magistrate having like criminal jurisdiction, by the parent or guardian of any girl between the ages of ten and seventeen years, or any boy between the ages of ten and sixteen years, or by the supervisor of any township, or the mayor of any city, or president of any village, and in cities of over eight thousand population by the chief of police, truant officer or any member of the city police, that any such minor has been guilty of any of the acts specified in section one of this act, such justice of the peace, or other court or magistrate, shall issue his warrant for the |