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[No. 96.]

AN ACT to provide for official county cream testers, the purchase of testing equipment, and prescribing their duties.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

County agent

to be "Official

Cream

Tester."

who to

SECTION 1. In every county of this State having a county agricultural agent, such agent shall also be known and designated as "Official Cream Tester" of that county and shall be invested with powers and duties as provided for in this act. SEC. 2. Upon the petition of no less than twenty-five resi- Equipment, dent dairymen of a county, presented to the board of super- furnish. visors of such county at any regular or special meeting of such board, said board of supervisors may as soon as may be thereafter, cause to be purchased and delivered to said official cream tester of that county the necessary apparatus and equipment for the proper and efficient testing (for butter fat) of all cream and milk samples as shall be submitted to him by residents of the county in accordance with the provisions of this act: Provided, That the total expense of such testing apparatus and equipment shall not exceed the sum of one hundred fifty dollars.

Proviso,
limit of cost.

made.

SEC. 3. Such official cream tester, or his legally authorized Test, when deputy, shall, on Friday of each week throughout each year hereafter, receive and properly test all samples of cream and milk which shall be submitted to him under the provisions of this act, and shall immediately after such test, report to Report. each person submitting samples, the results of the same as relates to the quantity of butter fat contained therein. All Receptacles receptacles of sample milk and cream shall be returned to to owner. each owner thereof when transportation charges for such return are advanced by such owners.

to be returned

compensation.

SEC. 4. Such official cream tester, or his deputies or assist- No extra ants shall receive no extra compensation or fees for services rendered under this act.

Approved April 19, 1919.

Permit,

issuance of.

Revocation of license.

Pool rooms,

[No. 97.]

AN ACT to provide for the issuing of permits by the township board for the conducting of public billiard and pool rooms, dance halls, bowling alleys and soft drink emporiums outside of incorporated cities and villages.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. No public billiard or pool room, public dance hall, bowling alley or soft drink emporium shall be operated in any place in this State outside of an incorporated city or village, without first obtaining an annual permit therefor from the township board of the township wherein such billiard or pool room, dance hall, bowling alley or soft drink emporium is situated.

SEC. 2. The township board shall have the right to revoke any license once granted, or any annual renewal thereof, when it appears to their satisfaction that any billiard or pool room, dance hall, bowling alley, or soft drink emporium is being conducted in such manner as to be inimicable to public morals.

SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act, billiard and pool etc., defined. rooms, dance halls, bowling alleys and soft drink emporiums shall be defined as those establishments whose principal business is the sale of the commodities indicated or use of the facilities furnished for the aforesaid purposes.

Penalty for operating without

license.

Clubs,

excepted.

SEC. 4. Any person or persons operating or attempting to operate any such billiard or pool room, public dance hall or bowling alley without the permit herein provided for shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed three months or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any societies, etc., fraternal, religious, or other organization which maintains billiard or pool tables, a dance hall, bowling alley or soft drink emporium for the use of its members as merely incidental to its principal activities.

SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved April 19, 1919.

[No. 98.]

AN ACT to establish a budget system for the several activities of the State government; to create a State Budget Commission, prescribing its powers and duties; to provide that said commission shall be furnished with information by the several State departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices relating to their financial condition and needs, receipts and expenditures, and general affairs; to prescribe the manner of financing all activities of the several departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices of the State government; to provide punishment for refusal or neglect to comply with the requirements of this act; to provide for meeting the expense authorized by this act; to repeal sections six and seven of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eightyone, being sections one thousand nine hundred forty-one and one thousand nine hundred forty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, in so far as said sections relate to the powers and duties of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, and to the making of reports thereto by certain State institutions; and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, including the provisions of all acts making specified periodical (continuing) appropriations, excepting act number one hundred seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, and act number two hundred four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, as amended by act number one hundred sixty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, said acts relating, respectively, to appropriations for the Western State Normal School and the Michigan State Normal College for buildings and special purposes, and act number thirty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, as amended by act number three hundred three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, and act number two hundred thirty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred one, as amended by act number one hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, said acts relating, respectively, to the mill tax for the support of the University of Michigan and the Michigan Agricultural College, and act number ninetyseven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, authorizing a war loan, and act number two hundred fortyone of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, authorizing the erection, construction and equipment of a State office building in the City of Lansing.

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The term "budget system," established by this act, shall be construed to be a systematic plan of ascertaining

"Budget

defined.

Commission createl.

Budget

Director, how and when appointed.

Term of office.

Salary.

commission.

and meeting the financial needs of the several departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices of the State government, and of the controlling State funds.

SEC. 2. There is hereby created in this State a budget commission who shall exercise such powers and discharge such duties as are herein prescribed.

SEC. 3. Within thirty days after this act takes effect, and second year every thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint a qualified elector of this State, who shall be well versed in State governmental affairs, a member of said budget commission, who shall be officially known as Budget Director. Said Budget Director shall hold his office for a period of two years from and after the date of his appointment, shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office and shall be the active working member of the commission. He shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars together with his necessary traveling expenses which, when approved by the Governor, shall be paid by the State Personnel of Treasurer upon warrant of the Auditor General. Said Budget Director, together with the Governor and Auditor General as ex-officio members, shall constitute the said budget commission, of which the Governor shall be chairman. Subject to the approval of the commission, the Budget Director may perform each and all of the duties and exercise the power and authority hereby vested in the commission. The ex-officio members of said budget commission shall each receive his actual expenses incurred while engaged in the discharge of his duties which, when approved by the Budget Director, shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrant of the Auditor General. Said commission may engage the services of such assistants and expert assistants and such clerical help as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and shall fix their compensation, which compensation, when approved by the Budget Director, shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrant of the Auditor General.

Duties and powers of director.

Expenses of members.

Expert

clerical help.

Information,

SEC. 4. Said budget commission shall have the power, and obtaining of it is hereby directed, to obtain from the several State departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices, on appropriate forms prescribed by the commission, on or before the fifteenth day of September in each even numbered year, such information relating to their past expenditures and income, present financial conditions, and to their financial needs for the ensuing biennial fiscal period, together with anticipated income, as said commission shall determine is necessary and essential to the preparation of a complete budget for presentation to the legislature. It shall be the duty of the several State institutions, departments, boards, commissions and offices to promptly comply with any and all requests for information which said budget commission may make, and to render all possible assistance to the commission in carrying out the requirements of this act.

data.

of estimates.

elect to sit

with

estimates.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said budget commission to Compiling of assemble, on or before the first day of December, nineteen hundred twenty, and every two years thereafter, the information gathered, including an estimate of the financial needs of the several State departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices for the biennial fiscal period beginning on the first day of July thereafter. Said commission shall then Examination proceed to examine and revise the estimated financial needs submitted and before final revision shall hold public hearings in relation thereto, at which hearings any executive officer of the State government, including members of boards and commissions, shall have the right to be heard on the estimates Hearings. of the department, institution, board, commission or office he represents. It shall be the duty of all such officers of the State government, or their subordinates, to attend such hearings upon request of the budget commission. The Governor- Governorelect shall be invited, and he is hereby authorized, to sit with said commission at such hearings, and he may examine the commission. estimates and other information in possession of said commission and may make such suggestions and recommendations in relation thereto as he may deem advisable. Upon Statement of revision of said estimates the commission shall prepare a statement showing the estimated amounts required for the conduct of the State government in all its departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices for each year of the biennial fiscal period next ensuing, together with the per cent of increases and decreases from expenditures for the next preceding biennium and for the first year of the current biennium, and the reasons therefor; an estimate of the revenues of the State, and the sources thereof, for each year of the ensuing biennial fiscal period; the expenditures, including bills due and unpaid, and revenues during the first year of the current biennial fiscal period and also for each year of the next preceding biennial fiscal period; an estimate of the amount needed for emergency purposes, the amount needed to pay and discharge such principal and interest of the State debt as may become due, together with such other data relating to fiscal conditions as said commission shall deem wise and of material value to the legislature in its consideration of the financial needs of the State government. When so prepared, said statement shall constitute and be known as the State budget. The commission shall also incorporate in such State budget a statement of the material facts relating to any expenditure of money, made or proposed to be made, by any of the several State institutions, departments, boards, commissions and offices, and which expenditure, in the opinion. of the commission, was or is unwise, inexpedient or unnecessary, and the commission may make such recommendations relative thereto as they may deem necessary and advisable. SEC. 6. Within ten days after the legislature convenes in Submission to regular session, it shall be the duty of the Governor, as

Known as
"State

Budget."
What to

include.

legislature.

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