commission, and the employes thereof, shall be entitled to their actual expenses incurred while engaged in the performance of the duties pertaining to their respective offices or employment. The said commission shall continue in existence to and including the thirtieth day of June, A. D. nineteen hundred twenty-three.

made, etc.

SEC. 3. On or before the thirty-first day of December, nine- Report, when teen hundred twenty-two, the said commission shall make a report to the Governor covering the results of its investigation and study with reference to the establishment of said deepwaterway connection, together with such recommendations as to possible action by the state of Michigan as may be deemed expedient. Immediately on the convening of the legislature at the regular session in the year nineteen hundred twenty-three, the Governor shall cause a copy of said report to be transmitted to each house. The cost of compiling and printing such report shall be paid out of the moneys hereinafter appropriated.

SEC. 4. In the first instance the said commission shall First meeting. convene on the call of the Governor at such time and place as may be specified in such call. Thereupon the commission shall organize by the election of a chairman and such other officers as may be deemed desirable, and shall adopt rules for the governing of its procedure. Subsequent meetings shall be held on the call of the chairman and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the commission.

tion.

SEC. 5. There is hereby appropriated for each of the fiscal Appropriayears ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-two, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-three, for the use of the said commission, to cover the expenses hereby contemplated, the sum of ten thousand dollars. The Auditor General shall include in the state taxes for each of said years a sufficient amount to cover the sums hereby appropriated.

approval.

SEC. 6. All claims for expenses incurred hereunder shall Claims, be approved by the secretary of the said commission and shall be audited and allowed by the Board of State Auditors in accordance with the general accounting laws of the state. Approved May 10, 1921.

Cab curtains,

etc., engines equipped with.

Proviso, exceptions.

When effective.

Misdemeanor, penalty.

Who to enforce.

[No. 139.]

AN ACT requiring railroad companies to equip locomotive engines with either cab curtains or vestibule cabs, providing a penalty for the violation of this act, and making it the duty of the Michigan Public Utilities Commission 10 enforce its provisions.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use within the state of Michigan on its line or lines December first to April first of each year, any locomotive engine not equipped with either approved and suitable cab curtains or with a vestibule cab. Such curtains or vestibule cab shall be so constructed and applied as deemed best and most efficient by the Michigan Public Utilities Commission and shall enclose the openings between the engine cab and water tank or coal tender attached to such engine: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the passage of a locomotive engine not so equipped with either such side curtains or such vestibule cab moving on its own steam, either with or without a train when such movement is from a point without this state, through and to a point beyond its borders, or from a point without this state to a point within it, or from a point within this state 10 a point without it, if such passage is for the purpose of moving it to or from a repair shop or shops for the purpose of repairing such locomotive engine, or when it is not intended for service within this state.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall take effect December first, nineteen hundred twenty-one.

SEC. 3. Any person or corporation or its officers or agents who violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars for each day that such engine is used.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Michigan Public Utilities Commission to enforce the provisions of sections one and two of this act.

Approved May 10, 1921.

[No. 140.]

AN ACT to amend section one of chapter twenty-four of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," being section three thousand one hundred six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Section amended.

Certain im

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter twenty-four of act number two hundred fifteen of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class," being section three thousand one hundred six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The cost and expense of the following improve how paid for. ments including the necessary lands therefor, viz.: For city hall and other public buildings and offices for the use of the city officials, engine houses and structures for the fire department, for water works, lighting purposes, hospitals, quarantine grounds or pest houses, market houses and spaces, cemeteries and parks, watch houses, city prisons and work houses, and public wharves and landings upon navigable waters, levees and embankments, shall be paid from the general Proviso, funds of the city: Provided, however, That if the majority lights. of the property owners along a street owning a major portion of the frontage thereon, shall so petition the council in writ ing, the cost and expense of installing a boulevard lighting system on such street may be met by special assessment upon Assessment, the lands abutting thereon. When by the provisions of this act the cost and expenses of any local or public improvement may be defrayed in whole or in part by special assessment upon lands abutting upon and adjacent to or otherwise bene fited by the improvement, such assessment may be made as in this chapter provided.

Approved May 10, 1921.

boulevard

how made.

Sections amended.

Printed on separate ballot.

Certification, form, etc.

[No. 141.]

AN ACT to amend section sixteen of chapter nine and section six of chapter twenty-four of act number two hundred three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the holding of elections, to prescribe the manner of conducting and to regulate elections, to prevent fraud and deception in the conducting of elections, and to guard against abuses of the elective franchise," approved May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section sixteen of chapter nine and section six of chapter twenty-four of act number two hundred three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitle.l "An act to provide for the holding of elections, to prescribe the manner of conducting and to regulate elections, to prevent fraud and deception in the conducting of elections, and to guard against abuses of the elective franchise," approve.! May ten, nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER IX.

SEC. 16. Whenever any proposed constitutional amendment or other question is to be submitted to the electors, the board of election commissioners of each county shall cause such proposed constitutional amendment or other special question to be printed in full on a single ballot separate and distinct from the ballot containing the names of candidates or nominees for public office, the substance of each amendment or other question to be clearly indicated upon said ballot by a suitable designation in distinct and easily legible type with the words "Yes [ ]" and "No [ ]" printed below it in separate lines in accordance with such forms as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State under the provisions of section six of chapter twenty-four of this act.

CHAPTER XXIV.

SEC. 6. Whenever a proposed constitutional amendment or other special question is to be submitted to the electors of the state for popular vote, the Secretary of State shall duly and not less than thirty days before election certify the same to the clerk of each county in the state and shall at the same time prescribe the form in which such amendment or other special question shall be submitted.

Approved May 10, 1921.

[No. 142.]

AN ACT to amend section four of chapter fifty-eight of act number three hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions. and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand nine hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section four of chapter fifty-eight of act num- Section ber three hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousan nine hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER LVIII.

to appoint

SEC. 4. If the guardian nominated by such minor shall When judge not be approved by the judge, or if the minor shall reside out guardian. of this state, or if after being cited by the judge, he shall neglect for ten days to nominate a suitable person, the judge may nominate and appoint the guardian in the same manner as if the minor were under the age of fourteen years: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the mother, if otherwise a suitable person, shall have an equal right with the father to be the natural or the appointed guardian of the person and of the estate of her minor children.

Approved May 10, 1921.