Act amended. Sick benefit. etc., exempt ment. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of lodges of the Ancient Order of United Workmen," being act number eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, approved April twenty-two, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, and being chapter number one hundred sixty-three e of Howell's Annotated Statutes, the same being sections eight thousand and forty-seven to eight thousand and fifty seven inclusive of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and is hereby amended by adding a section thereto to stand as section twelve, as follows: SEC. 12. The money or other benefit, relief, aid or sick from garnish benefit fund to be paid, provided or rendered by any corporation formed in pursuance of this act, shall not be liable to attachment, garnishment or other process and shall not be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or by operation of law, to pay any debt or liability of the deceased member, or of any certificate holder, or of any beneficiary named in any certificate, or of any person who may have any rights thereunder. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Board may contract for pris oners. Proviso. Further proviso. Proviso. Further proviso. [No. 131.] AN ACT relative to the confinement in this State of prisoners committed or sentenced by the courts of the United States or territories thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the board of inspectors or othe officers having charge of the Detroit House of Correction to contract with the government of the United States, or its duly authorized agents, for the confinement in said prison or penal institution of persons committed or sentenced to confinement or imprisonment by the circuit or district courts of the United States or territories thereof: Provided, That the United States shall, at its own expense, deliver to said House of Correction all persons sentenced thereto, and return such prisoners when their terms of imprisonment have expired, to the state or territory from which they came: And provided, That this act shall be in force and effect not to exceed two years from the date of its approval: Provided also, That in no event shall such prisoners be received if sentenced after the expiration of the two years as aforesaid: Provided further, That on completion of the Federal Prison, now under construc tion at Atlanta, Georgia, that the United States will remove all United States convicts then confined in said Detroit House of Correction. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby Acts repealed. repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 15, 1899. [No. 132.] AN ACT to amend section fourteen of act number one hundred forty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred fifty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the construction of Train Railways," being section three thousand five hundred eight of Howell's Annotated Statutes and section six thousand four hundred seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That section fourteen of act number one hun- Section dred forty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred fiftyfive, entitled "An act to provide for the construction of train railways," being section three thousand five hundred eight of Howell's annotated statutes and section six thousand four hundred seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: may use road SEC. 14. Any railway constructed under this act shall be Any person open to all persons for use, upon the payment of tolls as afore- on paying toll, said, for the passage and repassage of cars and vehicles; constructed to carry minerals, lumber or other freight upon such railway, at such times and under such rules and regulations in regard to the passage of cars or vehicles each way upon such railway as the authorized agent or agents or the engineer thereof may prescribe: Provided however, That the provisions Proviso. of this section and section thirteen of this act shall not apply to any railway company organized under this act, the major portion of whose tracks are within the corporate limits of any incorporated city or village, and such railway may fix its own rates of toll or charges, except for passenger fares, and may also make joint traffic arrangements with any other railway or unite with it in the ownership or use of any railway franchise or property and may acquire or lease from any other railway its corporate franchise and property or any interest therein or sell or lease its own. And such railway company may acquire any real estate, property or franchise required for the purpose of its incorporation, in the manner, on the terms and condi tions, and by the proceedings, provided and set forth in sec- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Act amended. What deemed a misdemeanor. Penalty. Superintendent may appoint police. [No. 133.] AN ACT to amend act number two hundred twenty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An Act to Provide for the Appointment of a Board of Commissioners who shall have the Management and Control of the Mackinac Island State Park, and Defining its Powers and Duties," approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred ninetyfive, by adding thereto two new sections, to stand as sections five and six. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That act number two hundred twenty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners who shall have the management and control of the Mackinac Island State Park, and defining its powers and duties," approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred ninety-five, be amended by adding thereto two new sections to stand as sections five and six to read as follows: SEC. 5. Any person who shall wilfully cut, peel or otherwise injure or destroy any tree standing in Mackinac Island State Park, or who shall carry, draw, leave or deposit, anywhere within said Park, any filth, rubbish or garbage, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars for more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of Mackinac county, for a period of not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 6. The superintendent of the Mackinac Island Park may appoint, by and with the consent of the board of commissioners thereof, such number of special police as the board may by resolution direct, which special police shall be underthe supervision and direction of the superintendent, who shall be charged with the execution of such rules and regulations. for the care and preservation of the park, and the property in and about the fort, as may be prescribed in rules duly for police. mulated by the said board. Such special police shall be Authority of vested with the authority of sheriffs of said Island, and may apprehend and arrest, without warrant, any person whom they may find violating the rules which shall have been published relative to good order, the preservation of property, the mutilation of lankmarks, or the destruction or injury to growing trees and shrubs. Said special police are authorized to make complaint against offenders against the rules of the government of said Mackinac Island Park, before any justice of the peace of the township of Holmes, and said justice or justices Authority of of the peace are hereby authorized to take cognizance, hear, peace. try and determine such complaints and pass sentence upon such offenders, in accordance with said rules and the proper enforcement thereof, and in accordance with justice. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 21, 1899. justices of the [No. 134.] AN ACT for the relief of Sick, Disabled and Needy Ex-soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the late Spanish-American War. The People of the State of Michigan enact: for soldiers' aid SECTION 1. An amount not exceeding the sum of one-sixth Appropriation of a mill on each dollar of the equalized valuation of taxable fund. property of the State, as fixed by the State Board of Equalization for the year one thousand eight hundred ninety-six, is hereby appropriated from the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, to be set apart and denominated "The Soldiers' Aid Fund," for the relief, maintenance, care and support of sick, disabled and needy Michigan ex-soldiers, sailors and marines of the late Spanish-American war, and Michigan men who enlisted from this State in any other state volunteer forces, or the United States regular service in said war, and who were employed in the United States volunteer or regular service in the said war, and were residents of this State at the time of said enlistment and service, and who reside within this State, and have been honorably discharged from such service, or who may be hereafter honorably discharged prior to the thirty-first day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred ninety-nine, and to pay the funeral expenses of such ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case. SEC. 2. The prosecuting attorney, judge of probate, county Relief boards, clerk and county treasurer of every organized county within who to constithis State, are hereby constituted a county relief board for the tute. When to extend relief. Relief for sick not confined to maintenance, support, etc. powers, etc. purpose of ascertaining the necessity of extending relief to any sick, disabled or needy ex-soldier, sailor or marine of said war, within their respective counties; and whenever a majority of said board shall determine that it is just and proper to extend relief to any such sick, disabled or needy ex-soldier, sailor or marine within their respective counties, or to pay the funeral expenses of any such ex-soldier, sailor or marine, they are hereby authorized to make such arrangement as they shall deem necessary and advisable for the proper relief, care, maintenance and support, or the payment of the funeral expenses of such ex-soldiers, sailors or marines as are specified in section one of this act. That the relief hereby provided for, and which may be extended to any such sick, disabled or needy exsoldier, sailor or marine, or the payment of the funeral expenses of the same, shall not be confined to their care, maintenance and support from and after the passage of this act; Relief boards, but the said county relief boards, in their several counties, shall be authorized and empowered to ascertain and determine the sum or sums which any such needy ex-soldier, sailor or marine may have been compelled to expend for his support, medical aid, care and maintenance, or for which he may have contracted to pay therefor prior thereto, or the funeral expenses which may have been paid for or on account of the death of any such ex-soldier, sailor or marine. And whenever a majority of said board shall deem it just and proper, they may audit and allow the same, or any part thereof, and may refund to any such sick, disabled or needy ex-soldier, sailor or marine, or to any person or persons for said funeral expenses, the sum or sums of money so expended by him for his support, medical aid, care and maintenance, or by any person or persons for his funeral expenses prior to the passage of this act, or any part thereof: Provided, That the said board, in auditing and allowing claims existing prior to the passage of this act, shall only be authorized and empowered to allow claims paid or contracted for by any such sick, disabled or needy ex-soldier, sailor or marine, after his return to the State of Michigan, or who has been or hereafter may be discharged from such service prior to December thirty-first, A. D. one thousand eight hundred ninety-nine, or for such funeral expenses, and shall not authorize the allowing or auditing of any claim or claims for moneys expended in the care, maintenance and support or funeral expenses of any such exsoldiers, sailors or marines, on the part of any township, village, city or county, or charitable institution or association: And provided further, That the members of said board shall perform the services required of them under this act without compensation, and without expense to the State or any county thereof, of any nature whatsoever: And provided further, Wayne county. That in the county of Wayne the powers and duties herein conferred upon the county boards herein provided for shall be performed and executed by the soldiers' relief commission May refund money. Proviso. Further proviso. Further proviso as to |