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SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Districts may That any school district may, by a two-thirds vote of the qual- and issue ified electors of said district present at any annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, borrow money, and may issue bonds of the district therefor, to pay for a school house site or sites, and to erect and furnish school buildings as follows: Districts having less than thirty children between five and twenty years of age may have an indebtedness not to exceed three hundred dollars; districts having thirty chil- Amount dren of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed five hundred dollars; districts having forty children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars; districts having fifty children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed one thousand dollars; districts having seventy-five children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed two thousand dollars; districts having one hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed three thousand dollars; districts having one hundred twenty-five children of like age, and with an assessed valuation of not less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars, may have an indebtedness not to exceed five thousand dollars; districts having two hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed eight thousand dollars; districts having three hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; districts having four hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed twenty thousand dollars; districts having five hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars; and districts having eight hundred children or more of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the indebtedness of a district shall in no case Proviso. extend beyond ten years for money borrowed: Provided Further further, That in all proceedings under this section the director, assessor, and one person appointed by the district board shall constitute a board of inspection, who shall cause a poll list to be kept and a suitable ballot-box to be used, which shall be kept open two hours. The vote shall be by ballot, Votes how either printed or written, or partly printed and partly writ ten, and the canvass of the same shall be conducted in the same manner as to township elections or as the laws governing the same are applicable; and when they are not, the board of inspectors shall prescribe the manner in which canvass shall be conducted.

Approved May 10, 1899.

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State veterinary board,

qualifications

of.

[No. 191.]

AN ACT to protect the professional title and degrees of veterinary surgeon, doctor of veterinary medicine and surgery, and veterinarian, and their abbreviations, and to restrict the use of such titles and their abbreviations to regular graduates of recognized colleges or schools of veterinary medicine and surgery and those having passed a satisfactory examination before a State Veterinary Board; to create a State Veterinary Board for registration of veterinary surgeons, doctors of veterinary medicine and surgery, and veterinarians.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That the Governor of the State of Michigan shall appoint a State Veterinary Board, consisting of three members, who shall be residents of this State, citizens of the United States and graduates of a regular college of veterinary medicine and surgery, no two of whom shall be graduates of the same college, who have been in the practice of their profession at least three years previous to their appointment. The memTerm of office. bers of such board shall hold office for a term of three years from the date of their appointment and until their successors are appointed and qualified, except that the first appointment shall be for one, two and three years respectively.

Meetings when

SEC. 2. The members of such board shall meet at Lansing, and where held in this State, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of February and August of each year; they shall organize by To elect officers. the election of a chairman, secretary and treasurer; the secretary may be elected treasurer; the treasurer shall give such bonds as the board shall determine; and said board shall from time to time during the year provide and furnish to said secretary a list of all regular colleges and schools of veterinary medicine and surgery having a course of not less than two years, with sessions of at least six months in each year.

Persons desir ing to use the

term "vet

tain certificate.

SEC. 3. Any person not an alien desiring to use the term "Veterinary surgeon," "Doctor of veterinary medicine and erinary" to ob surgery" or "Veterinarian," or their abbreviations, or degrees conferred in connection therewith, in connection with his name, profession, occupation, business or practice, shall, before doing so, apply to and receive from the State Veterinary Board a certificate properly made by the secretary thereof to the effeet that the applicant has furnished satisfactory proofs of his identity and qualification and that he is the lawful and regular possessor of a diploma from a regular veterinary college or school, within the meaning of this act, and that such diploma was issued by such college or school directly to him; that he has paid the secretary his fee for making such certificate, and has in all other respects fully complied with the requirements of this act: Provided, That any person not a graduate from a college or school, within the meaning of this

Proviso as to examination.

act, may appear before said board and submit to an examination as to his fitness to practice veterinary medicine and surgery, and upon passing an examination upon the subjects of anatomy, physiology, veterinary meteria [materia] medica and pathology, with an average of not less than seventy-five per cent upon all questions proposed by said board, shall receive from the secretary of said board a certificate setting forth the fact that he has passed the examination and is entitled to register as a veterinary surgeon, doctor of veterinary medicine and surgery, or veterinarian, under the provisions of this act.

register and

SEC. 4. At any time within six months from the date of County clerk to the issuance of the certificate of the secretary of said board, issue certifithe person to whom it was issued shall present the same to cate. the clerk of the county in which he resides for registration and, upon the recording of said certificate and payment of fees provided for in this act, the county clerk shall deliver to him a certificate to the effect that he is regularly registered in this State under this act.

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use title, etc.

SEC. 5. No person who has failed or neglected to obtain a Persons not to certificate from the county clerk, as provided in this act, shall be entitled to use or append to his name the term "Veterinary surgeon," "Doctor of veterinary medicine and surgery," or "Veterinarian," or any title, name, abbreviation, degree or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he is a regular registered practitioner under this act.

misdemeanor.

SEC. 6. Any person who wilfully or falsely pretends to be Violation a a regularly registered practitioner under this act, or who wil fully or falsely states or uses any name, title, abbreviation, degree or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he is a regularly registered practitioner herein under, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten Penalty. dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

receive com

SEC. 7. The members of the State Veterinary Board shall Board not to not be entitled to receive any salary, fee or compensation from pensation. the State or any county for their services as such members. The secretary of said board shall charge and receive from each applicant a fee of three dollars for making and issuing the cer- Fee for tificate mentioned in section three of this act, to be paid into a general fund for the expense of the board and services of the secretary.

certificate.

fee.

SEC. 8. The county clerk of any county, when registering, County clerk's recording and making the certificates, as contemplated in section four of this act, shall be entitled to demand and receive a fee of fifty cents therefor.

apply for

SEC. 9. All persons who are graduates of regular colleges Graduates to or schools of veterinary medicine and surgery, within the mean registration. ing of this act, or who are employing or using any name, term,

Board when appointed, first meeting, etc.

Address of secretary where filed. Application

of act.

degree, abbreviation or description as contemplated in this act, shall, within three months of the date of the appointment of the State Veterinary board, make application for registration or examination before the State Veterinary Board as herein provided, and after such time, no person, unless regularly registered, shall employ any such name, term, degree, abbreviation or description in connection with the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery and its branches.

SEC. 10. The first State Veterinary Board under this act shall be appointed by the Governor immediately after this act takes effect, and the first meeting of such board shall be held not less than three months after such appointment, and notice of such meeting shall be advertised in a Lansing newspaper, a Detroit newspaper and a Grand Rapids newspaper.

SEC. 11. The permanent address of the secretary of said board shall be kept on file in the office of the Secretary of State. SEC. 12. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from treating any domestic animal, and only applies to the use of the professional title and degrees, or their abbreviations, as herein before provided.

Approved May 10, 1899.

Unlawful to

sion adulter

[No. 192.]

AN ACT to prohibit the adulteration of any Ground Grain or
Feed, by the use of Oat Hulls.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. That no person shall within this State manuhave in posses- facture for sale, have in his possession with intent to sell, offer or expose for sale, or sell any ground grain or feed adulterated with oat hulls.

ated feed.

Violation a misdemeanor.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty nor more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Approved May 10, 1899.

[No. 193.]

AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number one hundred eighty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred sixty-seven, entitled "An act to authorize dissection in certain cases, for the advancement of science," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, amended by the several acts amendatory thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

as

amended.

SECTION 1. That sections one and two of act number one Sections hundred eighty-six of the public acts of eighteen sixtyseven, entitled "An act to authorize dissection in certain cases, for the advancement of science," approved March twentyseventh, eighteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended by the sev eral acts amendatory thereof, being compiler's sections five thousand eight hundred ninety-seven and five thousand eight hundred ninety-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

furnishing

certain subjects

SECTION 1. Any member of either of the following boards, Provision for and any of the following named officers or persons, to-wit: university with The board of health of any city, village or township, the com- for dissection. mon council of any city, board of trustees of any village, any board or officer having the direction, management, charge or control, in whole or in part, of any prison, house of correction, workhouse, jail or lockup, founded or supported in whole or in part at public expense, having in his or their possession or control, the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative or legal representative; or the county superintendent of the poor, keepers of poorhouses and almhouses, any physician or other person in charge of any poorhouse or almhouse, or charitable institution, sheriff or coroners, having in his or their possession or control the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative, personal friend or legal representative, as hereinafter provided, and which may be required to be buried at public expense, or the expense of any one of such public in- Bodies of constitutions or the dead body of any convict who died in prison how disposed of. under sentence of murder or attempt to murder, shall deliver such dead body or bodies within thirty-six hours after death, or after he or they shall become possessed thereof, to the express or railway company at the nearest railway station, placed in a plain coffin, and enclosed in a strong box, securely fastened and plainly directed to the "Demonstrator of Anatomy of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan," excepting only the dead bodies of such persons as shall have died with smallpox [diphtheria], diphtheria or scarlet fever: And provided, Proviso as to That in the county of Wayne the dead bodies hereinbefore de- wayne and scribed, shall be sent, in the same manner and under the same Saginaw. restrictions as those sent to the demonstrator of anatomy of

victs, certain,

counties of

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