having notified the said insane person and the other persons acquired a It is, therefore, ordered that the said ........ be admitted into said asylum and there supported at the expense of the county of. until restored to soundness of mind, if effected within two years, and until otherwise ordered, and that said proceedings be reported to the board of supervisors of said county at their next annual meeting. this .... In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said probate court at .... day of ........ A. D. 18.... Question of indigence may be decided after thirty days. SEC. 24. When any insane person in indigent circumstances shall have been maintained by his friends in the asylum as a private patient for three months and the superintendent of the asylum shall certify that he is insane and requires further treatment, the judge of probate on application by the friends of such patient shall determine the question of indigence, and also investigate the estate, income, annuity or pension of such insane person and the ability of his relatives legally liable for his support, according to the provisions of the preceding section with or without further evidence of insanity, as in his discretion he may think best, and if the indigence be established, he shall make an order authorizing the admission of such patient into the asylum as a county or State charge according to the provisions of the preceding section, together with such other orders for the application of the estate, income, annuity or pension of such insane person to State to be his support, and for the payment to the county treasurer for his support by relatives legally liable therefor, as is provided in the preceding section, and shall certify the same to the Sec- Secretary of retary of State if he or she is made a State charge, and shall notified of report the same to the board of supervisors, if he or she is State charge. made a county charge as required by the preceding section, and the patient as in other cases of indigence shall be supported at the asylum at the expense of the State or of the county to which he or she may belong, as provided in the preceding section until restored, or if a county charge for a period of not exceeding two years. Approved March 26, 1897. [ No. 45. ] AN ACT to amend section twenty-two of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled, "An act to provide for a county and township system of roads and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers having charge thereof." section. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Amending section twenty-two of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled, "An act to provide for a county and township system of roads and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers having charge thereof," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: two-thirds resolution SEC. 22. Whenever the board of supervisors of the county Supervisors, shall by a two-thirds vote of all the members elect resolve to vote required contract indebtedness or issue bonds to raise money for the to issue bonds. construction and maintenance of county roads the question shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the county at a general or special election to be called for that purpose. Notice of the submission of such resolution to the vote of the Notice of electors and in case a special election is called notice of the election, when calling of such special election shall be given in the same man- carried. ner and for the same length of time as now prescribed by law. If a majority of the electors voting on such resolution shall vote in favor thereof it shall be deemed to have carried: (Provided, That in Delta county such resolution shall not be Proviso in deemed carried unless two-thirds of those voting on such proposition vote in favor of such resolution.) The manner of stat- Manner of ing the question upon the ballots shall be prescribed by the stating ques resolution of the board of supervisors. No bond or evidence of indebtedness shall be negotiated at less than par and the accrued interest. All money raised by the board of supervi Delta county. tion on sors for the construction and maintenance of county roads This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Fees to be ap plied to pri university and educational funds. [ No. 46. ] AN ACT to amend section three of an act entitled "An act to SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section three of act number one hundred and eighty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of a franchise fee by corporations," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 3. The fees collected under the provisions of this act mary school, shall be paid into the State treasury and shall be applied in paying the interest upon the primary school, university and other educational funds, and the interest and principal of the State debt, in the order herein recited, until the extinguishment of the State debt other than the amounts due to educational funds, when such specific taxes shall be added to and constitute a part of the primary school interest fund, as provided in section I. of article XIV. of the constitution of Michigan. Approved March 26, 1897. [ No. 47. ] AN ACT to provide for the commencement of suits in this menced by be in county SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Suits comall suits commenced in this State by order of any probate order of judge court upon any bond required by law to be filed with such of probate to court, shall be commenced in the county where such bond is, where bond or may be filed, and any process issued out of the circuit court for said county in such suit may be served in any part of this State. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. is filled. [ No. 48. ] AN ACT to provide for the encouragement of the manufacture of beet sugar and to provide a compensation therefor and to make an appropriation therefor. paid manu SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Bounty to be there shall be paid out of the State treasury to any person, facturers of firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture in the State of beet sugar. Michigan of sugar from sugar beets grown in the State of Michigan, one cent per pound upon each and every pound of sugar so manufactured under the conditions and restrictions hereinafter provided. grown in this of sugar re SEC. 2. No money shall be paid for sugar so manufactured Beets to be unless such sugar shall have been so manufactured in this State. State and from beets grown in the State of Michigan, and Percentage unless such sugar shall contain at least ninety per cent crystal- quired. lized sugar, and the manufacturer shall produce good and suffi- Price to be cient receipts and vouchers to show that at least four dollars paid for beets. per ton of twenty hundred pounds has actually been paid for all beets purchased containing twelve per cent of sugar, said twelve per cent being the basis for valuation of the purchase price of four dollars per ton. The quantity and quality of sugar Commissioner upon which all of said bounty is claimed shall be determined of State Land by the Commissioner of the State Land Office with whom all mine amount of bounty. claimants shall from time to time file verified statements showing the quantity and quality of sugar so manufactured by them, the price paid the producer for the beets actually produced in this State, upon which said bounty is claimed. Office to deter ers to file sioner of State SEC. 3. The persons, firms or corporations so intending to Manufacturengage in the manufacture of beet sugar in this State shall, statement before commencing the same file a statement with the Com- with Commismissioner of the State Land Office setting forth their proposed Land Office. undertaking, the capacity of their manufactory, the number of tons of beets they intend to manufacture per annum, and request said Commissioner of the State Land Office to appoint a suitable weighman and inspector as hereinafter provided. Commissioner of State Land Office to ap man and inspectors. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the State Land Office to appoint a resident weighman and inspector point weigh and such assistants as may be necessary in each town where it shall appear to him from the application of the persons, firms or corporations so engaged or intending to engage in the manufacture of beet sugar, that such weighman and inspector is needed, and in all cases where the output of persons, firms and corporations engaged in the manufacture of beet sugar in this State shall aggregate or exceed two thousand pounds per day, and such weighman and inspector shall weigh all beets received by such persons, firms or corporations engaged in the manufacture of beet sugar, and keep an accurate account of the same with each and every purchaser of sugar beets and make such examination and test as to the quantity and quality of the sugar so manufactured as he may deem proper in arriving at the standard of sugar in each town, so manufactured by such persons, firms or corporations. The sugar thus manufactured shall under the direction of said weighman and inspector be placed in original packages which shall be examined, weighed and branded by him by a suitable brand showing the quantity and quality contained in each of said packages of which an accurate account shall be by him filed in the office of the Commissioner of the State Land Office. Sugar to be placed in origInal packages and branded. Fees of weighman and inspectors. Weighman SEC. 5. The compensation and fees for such services, above provided for to be performed by said weighman and inspector and assistants shall not exceed one-eighth of one cent per pound for the beet sugar so examined, weighed and branded by him, nor shall they receive to exceed the sum of three dollars per day for any one day's service actually performed as such weighman and inspector or assistant. He shall give a bond with good and sufficient sureties in the sum of not less than two thousand dollars to the State of Michtary of State. igan, contingent upon the faithful performance performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by the Secretary of State; and he shall also take, subscribe and file in the office of the Secretary of State the constitutional oath of office. The said fees of compensation together with the cost of said brand and to be borne by all analyses that the said weighman and inspector shall be and inspectors to file bord and oath in office of Secre Expense of weighman and inspector manufact urer. Weighman and inspector to make monthly report. required to make shall be borne and paid by the persons, firm or corporation claimant of said money; the said weighman and inspector shall perform all duties pertaining to his position in an impartial manner, and shall furnish and file with the Commissioner of the State Land Office, also with the manufacturer of said beet sugar, a monthly statement in duplicate of all sugar so manufactured by said person, firm or corporation. To determine The said weighman and inspector shall, upon receipt of beets at such manufactory, select such samples of beets as he deems fair and equitable, and shall keep an accurate record of the gross weight of said samples, and shall estimate the per cent of said gross weight to be deducted therefrom as a reasonable and fair allowance for dirt and dockage, and he shall also test, or cause to be tested, said samples to ascertain the true per weight and percentage of sugar. |