sioners, the boards of commissioners of the good roads districts, and the township boards of any township, providing for the construction, improvement and maintenance of roads in accordance with the provisions hereof, are hereby expressly authorized. The portion of the cost of any road to be con- Portion of cost, where structed or improved hereunder jointly by the State and by a deposited. county, good roads district or township, which is to be paid by such county, good roads district or township, shall be deposited with the State Treasurer. When so deposited the How credited. money shall be credited to the specific road project and shall be paid out only for the purposes thereof on the order of the State Highway Commissioner as the work of construction or improvement proceeds. The State Treasurer is hereby Accounting. authorized and required to open such accounts with counties, good roads districts and townships as may be necessary for the carrying out of the purposes hereof. Sec. 9. Any county, good roads district or township that How may has raised money for the construction or improvement of any below lowest trunk line highway under the provisions of this act, may, by its board of county road commissioners, board of good roads commissioners, or township board, as the case may be, contract with the State Highway Commissioner at any price below that of the lowest responsible bidder for the contract for the doing of the work and may perform the same under the direction and supervision of the State Highway Commissioner. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. at [No. 3.] AN ACT to amend section fifty-one of act three hundred thirty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering, furnishing, possessing, importing, or transporting of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale, possession, importation and transportation thereof for such excepted purposes; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith,” as amended by act fifty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Section amended. SECTION 1. Section fifty-one of act three hundred thirtyeight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering, furnishing, possessing, importing, or transporting of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale, possession, importation and transportation thereof for such excepted purposes ; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith,” as amended by act fifty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 51. Any person, who, himself or by his clerk, agent or employe, shall violate any of the provisions of this act, for which violation a specific penalty is not herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and the costs of prosecution, or to imprisonment in the State Prison, Michigan Reformatory, or the Detroit House of Correction for a period of not less than six months nor more than Violation deemed felony Venalty. offenses. one year, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 4.] AN ACT to amend chapter four of part one of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the State of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this State," by adding thereto a new section to stand as section fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: added. SECTION 1. Chapter four of part one of act number two Chapter amended, hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the State of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this State,” is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section fifteen, to Section read as follows: SEC. 15. No premium or rate of premium shall hereafter Surcharge be charged, published, or put in force by any insurance com prohibited pany or insurer on policies issued on Michigan risks which premium or rate of premium includes any surcharge or other charge in addition to the normal rate applicable to the particular risk. Any insurance company or insurer violating the Penalty. provisions of this section shall be liable to the penalty prescribed in section thirteen of this chapter. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 5.] AN ACT to appropriate money to meet a deficiency occurring in an appropriation for building and special purposes at the Pontiac State Hospital. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Appropriation for 1920. Deficiency. How paid out. SECTION 1. The sum of six thousand eight hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the Pontiac State Hospital for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred twenty, for the purpose of completing a building for continuous baths and cottage authorized by act number three hundred eightyfour of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, as follows: For completing building for continuous baths, seven hundred dollars ; For completing cottage, six thousand one hundred dollars. Sec. 2. The several amounts appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the Pontiac State Hospital at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. Sec. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nineteen the sum of six thousand eight hundred 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 June 25, 1919. Tax clause. [No. 6.] AN ACT to authorize county boards of supervisors and town ship boards to appropriate money for the extermination of grasshoppers and other similar pests. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Board of su SECTION 1. Whenever there may exist within this State, may purchase any scourge, or threatened scourge, of grasshoppers or other poison. similar pests, the board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized to appropriate money for the purchase of poison and to provide such other means as may to them seem best, for the extermination of such pests. Sec. 2. Whenever any board of supervisors shall have Authority of purchased any such poison, as in this act provided, the town- townships to spread . ship board of any township within such county is hereby authorized to appropriate money for the spreading of such poison as may be allotted to such township, or to use other means to exterminate such pests. Sec. 3. Any expense incurred or money appropriated Expense, how under this act shall be treated as a general county or town. ship expense, as the case may be, and shall be payable as other general county and township expenses are now payable. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. treated. [No. 7.] AN ACT to prohibit the taking of grayling from the waters of this State. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or Grayling attempt to take any grayling by any means whatever from the protected. waters of this State. SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act Penalty. shall upon conviction be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or be committed to the county jail for not more than sixty days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved June 25, 1919. [No. 8.] AN ACT to regulate the hauling of trailers upon the public highways of this State by or with any motor truck or other motor propelled vehicle, and to provide a penalty for the violation hereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: ance unlaw. SECTION 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful to haul Non-compliany trailer or trailers by or with any motor truck, or other ful. motor propelled vehicle, on any of the public highways of this |