Notice to board of education. intendent may Proviso, any part thereof, is not in a safe and sanitary condition, notice thereof shall be given to the district board or board of education of the district in which such building is located, said notice to be given at least six months preceding the first day of August. On the first day of August following such notice given, if said building has not been placed in a safe and sanitary condition by the district board or board of eduWhen super-cation, said Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have close building. authority to close such building, or a part thereof, and such building, or part thereof, shall not again be opened for public use until such building, or part thereof, shall have been placed in a safe and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the said Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, placing in safe condition. That after such building, or part thereof, has been closed for public use said Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be authorized and he is hereby required to have such building, or part thereof, placed in a safe and sanitary condition at the expense of the district: Provided, That any district order to close. board or board of education, being dissatisfied with the order of the Superintendent of Public Instruction determining such school-house to be in an unsafe or insanitary condition, may within thirty days of the issuance of such order and notice thereof, commence an action in the circuit court in chancery for the county in which such schoolhouse is located, against the Superintendent of Public Instruction as defendant, to vacate and set aside such order on the ground that said order is unlawful or unreasonable; in which suit the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be served with subpoena and a copy of the complaint. Proviso, vacation of Tax not to be expended without certification of plans. SEC. 3. No tax voted by a district meeting, or other competent authority in any such school district, exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars for building purposes, shall be expended by the district board or board of education of such district until the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall certify that the plans and specifications for the same comply with the provisions of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 18.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred eighty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled “An act to regulate the business of selling farm products on commission, providing all commission merchants dealing in farm products shall be licensed, to provide against and punish fraud and deception in the sale of farm products on commission, and defining the duties of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner relative thereto," by adding thereto a new section to be known as section eleven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That act number one hundred eighty-four of Act amended. the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to regulate the business of selling farm products on commission, providing all commission merchants dealing in farm products shall be licensed, to provide against and punish fraud and deception in the sale of farm products on commission, and defining the duties of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner relative thereto," be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as Section added. section eleven, and to read as follows: failure to take SEC. 11. Any commission merchant of farm produce, as Penalty for defined in sections one and two of this act, who shall fail to out license. take out a license as required by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense of selling farm produce on commission without such license, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or both in the discretion of the court, and the fact that any person adver- Prima facie tises and holds himself out as a commission merchant of evidence. farm produce, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that he is a commission merchant of farm products as defined by this act. Approved March 17, 1915. Section amended. Outbreak of hog cholera. of live stock sanitary agent. Proviso, nomination [No. 19.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-eight of act number one hundred eighty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a State Live Stock Sanitary Commission and a State Veterinarian, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and to prevent and suppress contagious and infectious diseases among the live stock of the State," as last amended by act number one hundred ninety-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, and to add four new sections thereto to stand as sections twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one and thirty-two; relative to the suppression of hog cholera. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty-eight of act number one hundred eighty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a State Live Stock Sanitary Commission and State Veterinarian, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and to prevent and suppress contagious and infectious diseases among the live stock of the State," as last amended by act number one hundred ninety-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 28. In case of an outbreak of hog cholera in any county in this State, the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission shall be immediately notified of the same by the Appointment county agent hereinafter provided for. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county to appoint some competent person to be known as the "Live Stock Sanitary Agent" for such county: Provided, Such appointment shall be upon the nomination of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, and to this end the commission shall submit to such board a list of at least three names from which list Term of office. said appointment shall be made. Said county agent shall hold office until the appointment of his successor and shall be vested with all necessary power to carry out the provisions of this act, under the direction of the State Live Stock San for appointment. Powers. Compensation. itary Commission. Such county agent shall receive such Expenses. compensation as the board of supervisors may determine, which compensation shall in no case be less than three dollars nor more than five dollars per diem for time actually spent in the performance of his official duties, together with all actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection therewith, such compensation and expenses to be paid from the contingent fund of such county upon approval thereof by the board of supervisors or board of county auditProviso, who ors: Provided, That in counties having a county agricultural agent or farm commissioner as provided by act number sixty may act as agent. of agent. seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, or any similar act heretofore or hereafter passed by the Legislature, such agent or commissioner shall assume the duties of the live stock sanitary agent as enumerated in this act and no such appointment shall be made by the board of supervisors. The live stock sanitary agent herein provided for Annual report shall each year make a report in duplicate, one copy of which shall be filed with the board of supervisors and one copy with the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, giving in detail all matters connected with his work as such agent for the preceding year. In counties in which the agricultural When per agent or farm commissioner shall assume the duties of the visions not to county live stock sanitary agent, the provisions of this section relative to the per diem compensation of such agent shall not apply. diem pro apply. SEC. 2. There is hereby added to said act number one Sections hundred eighty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred added. eighty-five, four new sections, to stand as sections twentynine, thirty, thirty-one and thirty-two and to read as follows: serum pro may be used. SEC. 29. From and after the taking effect of this act it Use of certain shall not be lawful to use any hog cholera serum in this hibited. State, except that made by the State experiment station, agricultural college, or some serum manufacturing plant licensed by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. Such serum may be used or administered by any competent How serum person, and the use of hog cholera virus is prohibited in this State, except when used under the direction of the State Veterinarian or a regular qualified veterinarian authorized by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission or State Veterinarian. All expense connected with the purchase of such Expense, serum or virus shall be borne by the owner or owners of such infected hogs. how borne. to be SEC. 30. In case of an outbreak of hog cholera in any When herds county in this State, and it is deemed best by the State slaughtered. Live Stock Sanitary Commission, or the county agent, to remove any infected or exposed herd or herds from any portion of such county, such herd or herds may be loaded in a tight bottom rack and conveyed to the nearest railroad station and shipped to some abattoir where federal, State or municipal inspection is maintained, there to be slaughtered and disposed of, either as a food product or for other purposes as determined by the inspecting authorities, and all Disposal of sums realized from such disposal of infected or exposed hogs, less the expense of killing, disposal and such inspection, shall revert to the owner or owners of such herd or herds: Provided, That all freight charges upon the shipment of Proviso, such infected or exposed hogs to such abattoirs shall be charges. borne by the State and allowed by the Board of State Audi- Further tors as other claims are allowed and paid: Provided further, proviso, care That such infected or exposed herd or herds shall not be al- herds. sums realized. freight of infected Further proviso, law lowed, during conveyance or shipment, to mingle with other hogs or cattle, nor be permitted to enter any loading yards maintained for the shipment of live stock at the place of embarkation and destination: Provided further, That in cases not to apply. of the shipment of infected or exposed hogs under the provisions of this act, section four of act number seventy of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-seven shall not apply. When hogs subject to live stock sanitary commission. Premises to be cleaned. Live stock sanitary commission to disinfect premises. Expense. SEC. 31. In case it shall not be deemed expedient by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, or the county agent, to permit the shipment of such infected or exposed hogs, as provided in the foregoing section, then all such hogs shall be subject to the provisions of this act relative to the powers and duties of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission in connection with other contagious or infectious diseases of live stock. SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the owner or owners of any premises from which such infected or exposed hogs may have been shipped or otherwise disposed of, to thoroughly clean all yards, pens or other enclosures in. which such hogs may have been kept, and to place the same in proper condition for disinfection by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, or the county agent, as hereinafter provided. Immediately upon notification by the owner or owners of such premises that said premises have been cleaned and put in such condition, it shall be the duty of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, or the county agent, to proceed to such premises and thoroughly disinfect the same, using therefor such equipment as the commission or the agent shall deem best. All expense of such disinfection shall be borne by the State and payable as are other expenses of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Amount appropriated. [No. 20.] AN ACT to provide a tax to meet the amounts disbursed by the State for the several State hospitals, the Michigan Home and Training School and the Eloise Hospital, for the support of patients under the several laws relating thereto. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred fifteen, the sum of one million two hundred fifteen thousand nine |