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[No. 147.]

AN ACT to create a community council commission, county community boards and community councils, and to define the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the appointment, election and removal of members thereof; and to make an appropriation for the purposes of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. A commission is hereby created to be known as the Michigan Community Council Commission, hereinafter referred to as the commission. Said commission shall consist of twenty-six members, one-half of whom shall be women, and at least one member shall be appointed from each congressional district.

SEC. 2. The members of said commission shall be appointed by the Governor within thirty days after this act shall take effect, and he shall appoint the twenty-six persons heretofore nominated for such position, in anticipation of the enactment of this law, by the State Reconstruction Conference of the County War Preparedness Boards and women's county committees, Council of National Defense, held by direction of the Governor at the city of Lansing on March eleven and twelve, nineteen hundred nineteen: Provided, That if any such persons so nominated are unable or unwilling to accept such appointment, the Governor shall fill such vacancies by the appointment of such other persons as he may select.

SEC. 3. Such members, so appointed, shall hold office until their successors shall be elected and qualified as hereinafter provided. In case vacancies should occur in said commission between the time of its appointment and the first election of its members, as hereinafter provided, the Governor shall have power to fill such vacancies by appointment of such persons as he may select.

SEC. 4. Said commission shall have the power and authority to consider and investigate all problems of reconstruction and matters involving the general public welfare; to advise and consult, aid and co-operate with all public officers and official bodies in the State with regard to such matters; to recommend executive and legislative action; to aid in securing employment for returned soldiers and sailors and to initiate and assist movements designed for their welfare; to initiate plans and policies for voluntary efforts designed to promote the public interest and welfare in the entire State or any part thereof; to promote such plans and policies through organization, publicity, advice and supervision, and to co-operate with similar efforts and projects initiated or carried on by voluntary agencies or by official agencies of

the State, by other states and by the federal government; to supervise all State-wide campaigns for funds for national patriotic or humanitarian purposes, to fix equitable county quotas for such campaigns, and to serve as trustees for the Michigan patriotic fund, and to have general supervision of the organization and administrative methods of the county community boards hereinafter provided for.

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SEC. 5. Said commission shall have the power to elect its Officers, rules, own officers, to prescribe their duties and terms of office; to adopt its own rules and procedure; to determine the times and places of its meetings; and to designate individuals or appoint committees outside of its own membership for purposes consistent with its powers and duties as defined by this act.

SEC. 6. County community boards are hereby established County community in and for all the counties of the State severally. Said boards boards. in the first instance shall be appointed by the Governor, and shall consist of such persons as shall be nominated for such appointment by the existing county war preparedness boards and county units to the women's committee of the Council

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of National Defense, in joint session. It is hereby made the Duty of duty of the said county war preparedness boards and said preparedness county units of the women's committee to hold such sessions and to recommend such persons for appointment within thirty days after this act shall take effect, and if in any counties they fail to do so, the commission shall have the power to nominate suitable persons for such appointment and the Governor shall appoint the same.

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SEC. 7. Said county boards shall consist of six, eight or Membership ten members, at the discretion of said commission. One-half the total number in each case shall be women, and all members of each board shall be residents of the county for which such board is appointed. They shall hold office until their Tenure. successors are elected as hereinafter provided. In case vacan- Vacancies, cies shall occur in any of said boards, after their appointment and before the election the Governor shall, at the request of the commission, fill such vacancies by appointing such persons as the commission may nominate therefor.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of said county boards to assist and co-operate with the commission in all its authorized activities, in such manner and to such extent as said commission may require; to consider and investigate all matters of local character which in their judgment involve or affect the welfare of their respective counties or the people thereof, in whole or in part; to advise, consult, aid and co-operate with county, township, city, village and school officers with regard to such matters; to recommend actions and policies to the commission; to initiate plans and policies for voluntary efforts designated to promote public interest and welfare in their respective counties or parts thereof, to promote such plans and policies through organization, publicity, advice

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and supervision; to co-operate in such behalf with similar efforts and projects initiated or carried on by or through other agencies, voluntary or official within such counties: to promote the erection of community houses or other memorials for soldiers and sailors; and to organize community councils as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 9. Said county boards shall have the power to elect their own officers, prescribe their duties and terms of service, to adopt their own rules and procedure, to determine the times and places of their meetings, and to designate individnals or appoint committees outside their own membership, for purposes consistent with their powers and duties as defined by this act, in as far as all such actions shall be consistent with the rules and instructions of the commission. The board of supervisors in each county is hereby empowered to appropriate such sums as may be required to defray clerical and other necessary expense of the said county community boards.

SEC. 10. Said boards shall have the power to organize or promote the organization of community councils in such form and of such nature as they may determine, wherever in their judgment the existence of such councils would tend to promote public welfare.

SEC. 11. Community councils shall consist of all eligible organizations in a certain designated territory either township, village or city, that desire to become affiliated with the county community boards and commission in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter set forth. Such eligible organizations shall comprise all local organizations within the several counties of the states, and local branches or units of larger organizations, whether now existing or hereafter organized, seeking to perform any common service for the welfare of the public or for any portion or class thereof, whether the nature of such service be moral, physical, social, educational, commercial, industrial or economic, and whether such organizations be incorporated or informally organized: Provided, however, That political party organizations, as organizations. now defined by law, shall not be eligible for the purposes of this act.

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SEC. 12. Any such eligible organization may become affiliated with the community council in the territory in which it is situated upon taking proper action, according to its own rules or practice, to express such desire and notifying said community council thereof; and upon such notification the community council shall record such organization as a member, within the meaning of this act, and thereafter to give it notice of and opportunity to take part in all meetings, elections or other proceedings of the community council. Each organization holding membership in the community council shall be entitled to have one representative on the board of directors of said community council.

SEC. 13. On the first Monday in May of nineteen hundred Annual twenty, and of each year thereafter, a meeting shall be held meeting. in each county of representatives of all the community councils therein for the purpose of electing new members of the county community board to succeed the members serving up to said first named date by appointment as hereinbefore provided. Said board shall give reasonable notice of such meet- Notice. ing and election to all community councils within their respective counties, and at such elections all the community councils represented shall have equal voting power. Such When mem

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councils shall then and there elect the members of said board of whom one-half shall be women and all of whom shall be residents of the county in which such election is held. There- Return of after within five days the secretary of the board shall certify the result of such election to the commission: Provided, That the date of such election, may, for good reason, be postponed election. by said board, or adjourned after such meeting is assembled, to another date not later than the last of the month in which it would regularly be held.

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SEC. 14. In the month of June of nineteen hundred Annual electwenty, and of each year thereafter, on a day to be fixed by members. the commission, a meeting shall be held for the election of members of the commission. The commission shall fix the time and place of such meeting and election, and give reasonable notice thereof to all county community boards. All members of such boards may attend said election and each member shall have one vote. The secretary of the commission shall Certification within five days certify the result of such election to the of State. Secretary of State.

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SEC. 15. The members of the commission shall serve with- Reimburseout compensation but shall receive such reimbursement as expenses. may be determined by the commission for actual expenses properly incurred in the performance of their duties under this act.

SEC. 16. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Appropriathis act, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the tion. State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary

therefor.

SEC. 17. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. State tax for the year nineteen hundred nineteen the sum of ten thousand dollars which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 2, 1919.

Sections amended.

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[No. 148.]

AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number one hundred eighty-eight of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfers of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor or donor or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death," same being sections fourteen thousand five hundred twenty-four and fourteen thousand five hundred twenty-five of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections one and two of act number one hundred eighty-eight of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfers of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor, or donor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death," same being sections fourteen thousand five hundred twenty-four and fourteen thousand five hundred twenty-five of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. That after the passage of this act a tax shall be and is hereby imposed upon the transfer of any property, real or personal, of the value of one hundred dollars or over, or of any interest therein or income therefrom, in trust or otherwise, to persons or corporations not exempt by law from taxation on real or personal property, in the following

cases:

First, When the transfer is by will or by the intestate laws of this State from any person dying seized or possessed of the property while a resident of this State;

Second, When the transfer is by will or intestate law of property within the State, and the decedent was a nonresident of the State at the time of his death;

Third, When the transfer is of property made by a resident or by non-resident, when such non-resident's property is within this State, by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor or donor or intended to take effect, in possession or enjoyment at or after such death. Such tax shall also be imposed when any such person or corporation becomes beneficially entitled in possession or expectancy to any property or the income

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