Appointment of medical director. appointment of a Superintendent of Vital Statistics, and to assign certain duties to local boards of health," as amended by act number eighteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, being section four thousand four hundred of the Complied Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. At the meeting of the Legislature in the year nineteen hundred five and every six years thereafter, the Governor upon the recommendation of the State Board of Health and with the consent of the Senate shall appoint a suitable and competent person who shall be a medical doctor of ten years' practice, duly licensed as a medical practitioner in this State to be the seventh member of the board, which member shall be the secretary of the said board and its executive officer. Approved April 21, 1915. Organizations to file statements. What to set forth. to issue. [No. 68.] AN ACT to require the registration of charitable organizations, institutions or associations soliciting public aid, and providing a penalty for the violations thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, all organizations, institutions or associations formed for charitable purposes, who, through agents or representatives, publicly solicit and receive public donations in this State, shall be required to file with the State Board of Corrections and Charities, a statement setting forth the name and location of such organization, institution or association, the purposes for which such organization, institution or association, exists, the name of its principal officers and soliciting agents. the purposes for which money solicited is to be expended and When license the terms under which solicitors are employed. If, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, such statement shall be deemed sufficient evidence that the moneys thus collected are to be used in the interest of the purposes represented, the State Board of Corrections and Charities shall be authorized to issue to said organization, institution or association, its agents and representatives, a State license without expense, authorizing said organization, institution or association, to publicly solicit and receive public donations in any county, city or township in this State. Nothing in this act, however, shall be construed to prohibit any local organization, institution or association from publicly soliciting funds or donations within the county in Limitation of act. which such institution, organization or association is located. solicitation SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any agent or representa- Unlawful tive of any organization, institution or association formed for of donations. charitable purposes, which is licensed under the provisions of this act, to publicly solicit and receive donations in this State, unless such agent or representative is provided with a copy of the license of the organization, institution or association which he represents, or by whom he is employed. At- Certificate of tached to such copy of said license there shall be a certificate signed by the president, secretary or treasurer of said organization, institution or association, by whom such agent or representative is employed, or which he represents, certifying that such agent or representative is authorized by such organization, institution or association, to publicly solicit and receive donations for the same. authority. SEC. 3. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Penalty. act, or who shall solicit funds under any such license and thereafter divert the same to purposes other than that for which they were contributed shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county. jail not to exceed six months. Approved April 21, 1915. [No. 69.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixteen, to meet a deficiency in the amount appropriated under act number fiftyseven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act making an appropriation to pay the actual railroad fare or transportation to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg to be held at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July one, two and three, nineteen hundred thirteen, of all Union or confederate soldiers of the civil war who were present and participated in said battle and who are at present or have been residents of the State of Michigan for six months prior to January one, nineteen hundred thirteen," and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand dollars is hereby ap- Amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen propriated. hundred sixteen, from any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated to meet a deficiency in the amount Proviso, statement of fare paid. How money obtained. Tax clause. appropriated by act number fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act making an appropriation to pay the actual railroad fare or transportation to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, to be held at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July one, two and three, nineteen hundred thirteen, of all Union or confederate soldiers of the civil war who were present and participated in said battle and who are at present or have been residents of the State of Michigan for six months prior to January one, nineteen hundred thirteen," the same to be paid out by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of the Auditor General and to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the State of Michigan and the commission heretofore appointed by the Governor under the provisions of section two of said act number fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, for the purpose of paying certain claims remaining unpaid now on file that have been approved by said commission: Provided, That any veteran who shall claim to have paid his own fare from the nearest railroad station to his residence to the nearest point from which he could obtain the transportation to be furnished by any railroad company under the orders of the Gettysburg commission, shall be required to present to said commission a true statement of such fare, certified to by the railroad station agent of the station at which such ticket was purchased, and the same shall be paid to said veteran in the same manner as the claims now on file that have been approved by said commission. SEC. 2. The commission heretofore appointed by the Governor under the provisions of section two of said act number fifty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, may obtain money under this act before July one, nineteen hundred fifteen, in such amounts as it may certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred fifteen the sum of two 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. [No. 70.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three and eight of act number seventy-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the examination, regulation, licensing and registration of optometrists practicing optometry, and for the punishment of offenders against this act," approved May six, nineteen hundred nine, as last amended by act number one hundred forty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, three and eight of act number Sections seventy-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the examination, regulation, licensing, and registration of optometrists practicing optometry, and for the punishment of offenders against this act," approved May six, nineteen hundred nine, as last amended by act number one hundred forty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. The members of said board shall meet at least Meetings. twice a year and at such times as shall be deemed necessary and at such place or places as may be selected. At the first Organization. meeting the board shall organize by selecting one of its members as president and one as secretary and treasurer, each of whom shall hold his respective office for two years Term and said board shall have the power and authority to re- office quire sworn statements of affidavits from any and all per- of board. sons, touching and concerning any matter within the jurisdiction of said board, and each member thereof shall have the power to administer oaths in all such matters within its said jurisdiction. The said treasurer shall give his bond Bond of to the people of the State of Michigan, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the other members of said board and the Governor, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, or in such larger sum as said board or the Governor may require, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties required of him by law, and to account for and pay over, as required by law, all moneys received by him as such treas urer. treasurer. SEC. 3. From and after the first day of May, nineteen Examination. hundred ten, any applicant for registration under this act shall be required to pass an examination, as hereinafter provided. Such applicant shall be twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and shall be possessed of an education equal to a four years' high school course, Michigan standard: Provided, That should the applicant be unable to Proviso, prove four years' actual attendance at a high school, then the board may determine the applicant's qualifications by examination fee. Qualifications. Subjects required. When certificate granted. proper examination, the expenses of which shall not exceed five dollars, the same to be paid by the applicant. The applicant shall have been employed in the office of an optometrist, registered under this act, as an assistant, for a period of not less than two years, or shall be a graduate of an optical school or college approved by this board, requiring an attendance of not less than one year's course. The said board shall examine all applicants shown to have the necessary qualifications, as above set forth, in normal and abnormal refractive, accommodative and muscular conditions and co-ordination of the eye, and subjective and objective optometry, including the fitting of glasses, the principles of lens grinding, frame adjusting and such other subjects as may be deemed necessary by said board to determine the applicant's qualifications to practice optometry. The examination shall be deemed satisfactorily passed and the applicant registered and given a certificate of registration, if he shall attain an average standing of not less than seventy-five per cent on all subjects submitted. The fee for applicants of this class shall be fifteen dollars examination fee and five dollars registration fee: Provided, That in addition to the fees hereinbefore provided for every registered optometrist shall, at the time of his registration, and prior to the first day of May in each year thereafter, pay to the said board of examiners the sum of two dollars as a license fee for such year: Provided further, Any applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration if he shall present a of other states. certified copy or certificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant by any other state where the requirement for registration shall be deemed by said board to be equivalent to those of this act: Provided, That such state shall accord a like privilege to holders of certificates of said board. The fee for registering such applicants shall be five dollars. Fee. Proviso, license fee. Further proviso, certificates Proviso, comity. Fee. Lotions, salves, etc. Unlawful to prefix "Dr." Unlawful practice. SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person registered under this act to use, prescribe, give away, sell, offer for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, any eye remedies, lotions, salves, or medicines of any kind or description, practice medicine or surgery within the provisions of act number two hundred thirty-seven of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, or acts amendatory thereto, or use the prefix "Dr." or any title or appellation used in a sense to indicate the practice of medicine. It shall also be unlawful for any person, not registered under the provisions of this act, or who has not paid the annual license fee in this act provided to be paid, to practice optometry, as defined in section seven of said act. It shall also be unlawful for any person, not a registered optometrist under the provisions of this act, to hold himself out by the use of any sign, newspaper advertisement, pamphlet, circular, or the use of any sign "Eyes tested here," or similar words, as qualified to |