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be increased to twenty-five thousand dollars in any one year. Authorization No board, officer or officers shall create any debt or liability against the township, or issue any warrant, certificate or order for the payment of money, except when the creation of such debt or liability or the payment of such money has been authorized by such vote or by the provisions of law.

Supervisor's clerk.

Compensation, how paid, etc.

SEC. 61. He shall, by virtue of his office, be an assessor of his township. In any township where the assessed valuation of the taxable property therein exceeds five million dollars, the township board may provide for the appointment by the supervisor, of a clerk to assist him in his duties. Such clerk shall receive a compensation not to exceed two dollars and fifty cents for each day actually spent in the performance of his duties as such clerk, which compensation shall be paid from the general fund of the township as other township expenses are paid.

Approved April 19, 1919.

Unlawful to combine

offices.

Distinct office

[No. 90.]

AN ACT to prohibit the establishing or maintaining of any county office in connection with the county treasurer's office in any county in this State, and to provide a separate office for the county treasurer.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to establish or maintain any county office in connection with the county treasurer's office in any county in this State.

SEC. 2. The boards of supervisors of each county in this for treasurer. State shall provide a separate and distinct office for the county treasurer of their respective county. Approved April 19, 1919.

[No. 91.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number three hundred forty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to regulate the spearing of cisco, white fish and carp in the inland waters of this State."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section one of act number three hundred Section forty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to regulate the spearing of cisco, white fish and carp in the inland waters of this State," is hereby amended to read as follows:

license required.

SEC. 1. It shall not be unlawful to spear cisco, white fish Open season. and carp in the inland waters of this State by means of artificial lights from the first day of October until December thirtieth, both inclusive, in each year: Provided, That every Proviso, person desirous of spearing such fish in the inland waters of this State shall first make application to the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, or one of his deputies, for a license so to do, for which license said person shall pay the sum of one dollar per year, this fee to be forwarded to Fee. the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner, and shall be used to pay for the services of a deputy Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner for his constant attendance during the season before specified on waters for which such permit is given. The said licenses shall be prepared by the State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commissioner in such form as he may deem advisable: Provided, That white fish and cisco taken by authority of such permit shall not be bought or sold.

Approved April 19, 1919.

Further proviso, purchase and

sale.

[No. 92.]

AN ACT to amend section ten-a of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties

Section amended.

Additional reward for class "B" roads.

Class "C."

Proviso, limit of reward.

and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," as added by act number eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, approved April seventeen, nineteen hundred seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section ten-a of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," as added by act number eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER V.

SEC. 10a. Any class "B" road shall be entitled to twentyfive per centum reward added to the above specified reward for each five per centum increase in percentage of gravel over sixty per centum up to and including eighty per centum retained on a one-eighth inch square mesh screen. Any gravel surface class "C" road shall be entitled to ten per centum reward added to the above specified reward for each five per centum increase in the percentage of gravel surface over sixty per centum up to and including eighty per centum retained on a one-eighth inch mesh screen: Provided, however, That in no case shall the reward paid be greater than the reward paid on a class "E" road; and that these increases do not apply to roads improved under the provisions of act number three hundred thirty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen as amended.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 19, 1919.

[No. 93.]

AN ACT to supplement the laws providing for the publication and distribution of Public Acts and official reports, to regulate the manner of printing the Public Acts, Local Acts and resolutions enacted at the legislative session of nineteen hundred nineteen, and to provide for the distribution of the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Classification

Manner.

SECTION 1. Within twenty days after the close of the legislative session in the year nineteen hundred nineteen, the of acts. Secretary of State is directed and required to examine and classify the acts and resolutions passed and to prepare the same for publication in bound volumes as follows: All acts of a general character which affect the people of the whole State, other than appropriation acts, all joint and concurrent resolutions, all amendments to the constitution of the State adopted after the publication of the laws of the previous session of the legislature, and so much of the annual report of the State Treasurer of the current year as shall give an accurate account of the receipts and expenditures of the public moneys, shall be published in one volume with a suitable index thereto, which said volume shall be lettered on the Labels. back "Public Acts, Michigan, Appropriation Acts Omitted, Session of 1919." All appropriation acts shall be bound in a separate volume with a proper index and shall be lettered on the back "Appropriation Acts, Michigan, Session of 1919." All acts of a local or municipal character which do not affect the people of the whole State shall be published in the same manner now required by law.

Number to

SEC. 2. Such number of volumes of the said Public Acts other than appropriation acts, and of the Local Acts, shall be be published. published, and the same shall be distributed as is now required by law. Such number of volumes of the appropriation acts shall be published as will supply members of the legislature, State officers, public libraries within the State, libraries of State institutions and all State boards, the secretary and assistant secretaries of the senate, the clerk and assistant clerks of the house of representatives, judges and justices of State and federal courts within the State, county clerks and prosecuting attorneys. The Secretary of State shall estimate the number of volumes of appropriation acts that may be required hereunder and shall cause to be printed in addition thereto three hundred volumes which shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for sale or distribution in the same manner as local acts may be sold and distributed.

Approved April 19, 1919.

Investment.

[No. 94.]

AN ACT to authorize the investment of funds held in trust by trustees and others, in farm loan bonds issued by federal land banks, under authority of the act of congress, approved July seventeen, nineteen hundred sixteen, or amendments thereto.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be lawful for trustees or others having in charge the investment of funds held in trust, to invest the same in farm loan bonds issued by federal land banks, under authority of the act of congress, approved July seventeen, nineteen hundred sixteen, or amendments thereto. Approved April 19, 1919.

Section amended.

Fees.

[No. 95.]

AN ACT to amend section four of chapter forty-nine of the judicature act of nineteen hundred fifteen, being compilers' section thirteen thousand seven hundred twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section four of chapter forty-nine of the judicature act of nineteen hundred fifteen, being compilers' section thirteen thousand seven hundred twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4. For publishing any legal notice or any order, citation, summons or any other proceedings or advertisement required by law to be published in any newspaper, the cost of publishing such advertisement shall not exceed the rate of one dollar and twenty cents per folio for the first insertion, and sixty cents per folio for each subsequent insertion. Approved April 19, 1919.

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