fowl, etc. device, etc. facie evidence of its unlawful use. Any dog pursuing, killing or following upon the track of a deer is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may be killed at such time by any person without criminal or civil liability. No person shall Wild water hunt, pursue, worry or kill any wild water fowl, or partridge or other bird or animals by any means whatever during such time as said person is upon any floating device, Floating automobile or other contrivance propelled by, or using as motive power, steam, gas, naphtha, oil, gasoline or electricity. or when upon any sail boat, and no person shall make use of a swivel or punt gun, or any gun of a greater size than ten Swivel gun, gauge for the killing of any wild water fowl or make use of any battery, sink boat or any similar device, nor shall any person hunt, pursue, worry or kill any wild water fowl, save only from sunrise until one-half hour after sunset of each Time to hunt. day of the open season for hunting and killing such wild water fowl. etc. game birds may be killed. possession. killed in year. of deer. SEC. 17. No person shall take, kill or capture in one day Number of more than the following number of any of the game birds mentioned in this act: Quail, six; partridge (ruffed grouse) and spruce hens, six; plover, six; woodcock, six, snipe and other shore birds, ten; geese, brant and ducks, twenty-five, and no person shall kill more than fifty geese, brant and ducks in one calendar week. No person shall at any time have in Number in possession more than the following number of any of the game birds mentioned in this act: Quail, fifteen; partridge (ruffed grouse) and spruce hens, fifteen in all; plover, twenty; woodcock, twenty; snipe and other shore birds, twenty in all; geese, brant and ducks, twenty-five in all. No person shall Number to be kill in any calendar year more than twenty-five of any one kind of the following named game birds, to-wit: Quail, partridge (ruffed grouse), spruce hen, plover, woodcock, snipe and other shore birds. No person shall during the open season of Number any calendar year take, kill or capture more than one deer. SEC. 18. The following named game animals and game Open season. birds may be hunted and killed as herein provided during the periods named, which shall be the open season: Deer, November ten to November thirty, both inclusive; fox, gray and black squirrels, October fifteen to November thirty, both inclusive; rabbits or hares, October first to March first, both inclusive; quail, October first to November thirty, both inclusive; woodcock, partridge, (ruffed grouse), October first to November thirty, both inclusive; spruce hens, October first to November thirty, both inclusive; ducks, geese, brant, Wilson or jack snipe, black breasted and golden plover and yellow legs, September first to December fifteen, both inclusive; rails, coots, and gallinules, September first to November thirty, both inclusive: Provided, however, That fox, black and gray Proviso, squirrels. squirrels shall not be hunted or killed until the year nineteen hundred twenty: Provided further, That Mongolian or English Further pheasants, quail, black fowl, capercailzie, hazel grouse, spruce certain fowl. hens or Canada grouse, prairie chickens and wild turkey, proviso, Sections amended. Pitfalls, snares, drugs, etc., prohibited. Proviso, fur-bearing animals. Deer, fawn, etc. Artificial light. Dogs. [No. 184.] AN ACT to amend sections fifteen, seventeen and eighteen of act two hundred seventy-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, as amended by act one hundred sixtyseven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of game and birds, to regulate the taking, possession, use and transportation of the same, to prohibit the sale thereof, to regulate the manner of hunting, pursuing and killing game or birds, to provide a penalty for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and to repeal inconsistent acts and parts of acts." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections fifteen, seventeen and eighteen of act two hundred seventy-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, as amended by act one hundred sixty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of game and birds, to regulate the taking, possession, use and transportation of the same, to prohibit the sale thereof, to regulate the manner of hunting, pursuing and killing game or birds, to provide a penalty for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and to repeal inconsistent acts and parts of acts," are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 15. No person or persons shall at any time make use of any pit, pitfall, deadfall, scaffold, cage, snare, trap, net, baited hook, or any similar device, or any drug, poison, chemical or explosive for the purpose of injuring, capturing or killing any birds or animals protected by the laws of this State, nor shall any person at any time or in any manner whatever, injure, destroy or rob the eggs of any bird protected by the laws of this State, or molest, harass or annoy such birds upon their nests, except as herein provided: Provided, however, That said provision shall not prohibit the trapping of fur bearing animals. No person shall hunt, pursue, kill, capture or attempt to hunt, pursue, kill or capture at any time or in any manner, any deer when it is in the red coat, or fawn in the spotted coat, or have in possession the skin of such deer or fawn in the red or spotted coat, nor shall any person hunt, pursue, kill or capture, or attempt to hunt, pursue, kill or capture any deer while it is in the water. No person shall make use of any artificial light in hunting, pursuing, capturing or killing deer, or in attempting to hunt, pursue, capture or kill any deer, and the wearing or having such light on the head or in possession shall be deemed a violation of this section. No person or persons shall make use of a dog in hunting, pursuing or killing deer; the presence of such a dog in the woods, hunting camp, logging camp, or a club house during the deer hunting season, shall be prima. fowl, etc. device, etc. facie evidence of its unlawful use. Any dog pursuing, killing or following upon the track of a deer is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may be killed at such time by any person without criminal or civil liability. No person shall Wild water hunt, pursue, worry or kill any wild water fowl, or partridge or other bird or animals by any means whatever during such time as said person is upon any floating device, Floating automobile or other contrivance propelled by, or using as motive power, steam, gas, naphtha, oil, gasoline or electricity, or when upon any sail boat, and no person shall make use of a swivel or punt gun, or any gun of a greater size than ten Swivel gun, gauge for the killing of any wild water fowl or make use of any battery, sink boat or any similar device, nor shall any person hunt, pursue, worry or kill any wild water fowl, save only from sunrise until one-half hour after sunset of each Time to hunt. day of the open season for hunting and killing such wild water fowl. etc. game birds possession. killed in year. of deer. SEC. 17. No person shall take, kill or capture in one day Number of more than the following number of any of the game birds may be killed. mentioned in this act: Quail, six; partridge (ruffed grouse) and spruce hens, six; plover, six; woodcock, six, snipe and other shore birds, ten; geese, brant and ducks, twenty-five, and no person shall kill more than fifty geese, brant and ducks in one calendar week. No person shall at any time have in Number in possession more than the following number of any of the game birds mentioned in this act: Quail, fifteen; partridge (ruffed grouse) and spruce hens, fifteen in all; plover, twenty; woodcock, twenty; snipe and other shore birds, twenty in all; geese, brant and ducks, twenty-five in all. No person shall Number to be kill in any calendar year more than twenty-five of any one kind of the following named game birds, to-wit: Quail, partridge (ruffed grouse), spruce hen, plover, woodcock, snipe and other shore birds. No person shall during the open season of Number any calendar year take, kill or capture more than one deer. SEC. 18. The following named game animals and game Open season. birds may be hunted and killed as herein provided during the periods named, which shall be the open season: Deer, November ten to November thirty, both inclusive; fox, gray and black squirrels, October fifteen to November thirty, both inclusive; rabbits or hares, October first to March first, both inclusive; quail, October first to November thirty, both inclusive; woodcock, partridge, (ruffed grouse), October first to November thirty, both inclusive; spruce hens, October first to November thirty, both inclusive; ducks, geese, brant, Wilson or jack snipe, black breasted and golden plover and yellow legs, September first to December fifteen, both inclusive; rails, coots, and gallinules, September first to November thirty, both inclusive: Provided, however, That fox, black and gray Proviso, squirrels. squirrels shall not be hunted or killed until the year nineteen hundred twenty: Provided further, That Mongolian or English Further pheasants, quail, black fowl, capercailzie, hazel grouse, spruce certain fowl. hens or Canada grouse, prairie chickens and wild turkey, proviso. Further proviso, wood-duck. Further proviso, permit as to killdeer and wading, shore and meadow birds shall not be hunted or killed until the year nineteen hundred twenty, and then only at the time, and in the manner and for the purpose authorized by law: Provided further, That wood-duck cannot be taken until nineteen hundred eighteen: Provided further, That blue heron, shelldrake, kittiwakes or terns and mergansers may be killed at any time when it can be shown that certain birds. they are destroying brook trout or other fish in any of the waters of this State, by securing a permit to do so from the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden. Approved May 11, 1915. Amount appropriated. How paid out. [No. 185.] AN ACT to provide for an additional appropriation from the general fund in the State treasury for the purpose of carrying into effect the terms of act number one hundred sixtyfive of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to provide for the compilation and publication of a general alphabetical index of the publication 'A record of Michigan soldiers and sailors in the War of the Rebellion, eighteen hundred sixty-one to eighteen hundred sixty-five,' and for the distribution of such index and the distribution of the remaining volumes of said publication now on hand, in library sets, to public libraries for the convenient reference of the public, to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide a tax to meet the same," to provide the manner of payment thereof and to provide a tax to meet said appropriation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the State treasury for the purpose of compiling, publishing and distributing a general alphabetical index of all the names mentioned in the different volumes constituting the published record of the "Record of Michigan soldiers and sailors in the War of the Rebellion, eighteen hundred sixty-one to eighteen hundred sixty-five," as provided for in act number one hundred forty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three; said sum of two thousand five hundred dollars to be in addition to the amount appropriated, and to be expended for the purposes set forth in act one hundred sixty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen. SEC. 2. The sum appropriated by this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury, upon warrants issued by the Auditor General on presentation of vouchers ap proved by the Secretary of State and audited by the Board of State Auditors. SEC. 3. The Auditor General is hereby authorized and Tax clause. directed to incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred fifteen the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, which sum, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund of the State treasury to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 186.] AN ACT making appropriations for the State Board of Fish Commissioners for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixteen and June thirty, nineteen hundred seventeen, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: for current SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the State Appropriation Board of Fish Commissioners on account of current expenses, expenses. for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixteen, the sum of forty-six thousand three hundred sixteen dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seventeen, the sum of forty-four thousand six hundred forty-one dollars, of which amounts the State Board of Fish Commissioners is authorized and directed to expend the sum of not to exceed five thousand dollars in each fiscal year for the operation and maintenance of the fish hatchery owned by the Grayling fish hatchery club and located at Grayling, Michigan: Provided, That not more than five hundred Proviso, dollars may be expended by said board for traveling and inci- traveling dental expenses outside of the State in each year, on official business. expenses. SEC. 2. The further sum of ten thousand seven hundred Further appropriation. forty dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixteen, by stations and for purposes and amounts as follows: Paris station, Materials and labor for six hundred rods of Purposes. fence, two hundred forty dollars; subway under railroad embankment, nine hundred dollars; additional ponds and extension of flood-race, fifteen hundred dollars; Mill Creek station, Construction of new ponds, twelve hundred dollars; purchase of additional land, eight hundred dollars; Drayton Plains station, New ponds and connections, eight |