SEC. 2. All provisions in this part inconsistent with this amendment are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Certain bridge part of highway system. Obligations assumed by [No. 181.] AN ACT to supplement the laws relating to the improvement and maintenance of trunk line highways and bridges; to provide for the improvement, repair and maintenance of the bridge across Portage lake between the village of Houghton and city of Hancock in the county of Houghton, state of Michigan, as a part of the trunk line highway system; to define the duties of the State Highway Commissioner with respect thereto; and to provide for the payment of the costs thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The bridge across Portage lake extending from Dakotah street in the village of Houghton to Front street in the city of Hancock, Houghton county, is declared a part of the state trunk line highway system, and the improvement, repair and maintenance thereof shall be under the supervision and control of the State Highway Commissioner. The county of Houghton is hereby relieved of all duties, powers and obligations with respect to the future repair, maintenance and improvement of said bridge. SEC. 2. The State Highway Commissioner is authorized to state highway carry out or assume the obligations of any contracts now commissioner. existing with railroad companies or other corporations or persons with respect to rentals, damages, use, improvement, repair and maintenance of said bridge. Said State Highway Commissioner is authorized to make contracts for the enjoyment of the use of said bridge, jointly with railroad companies or other corporations or persons, and for the future maintenance, repair and improvement thereof, and to execute any leases, or other agreements necessary and proper in the premises. Cost how paid. Trunk line bridge. SEC. 3. The cost of all work herein provided with respect to said bridge shall be payable out of any funds available for the construction, repair and maintenance of trunk line bridges. SEC. 4. All work involved in or incidental to the maintenance, repair and improvement of said bridge shall be performed in such manner as is or may be provided by law for the maintenance, repair and improvement of trunk line. bridges, except when the manner of performing such work is prescribed by any existing contract and in such cases the work shall be performed in accordance with such contract, it being the intent hereof that said bridge in so far as the public interest therein is concerned, shall be regarded as a trunk line bridge. state. SEC. 5. Any rentals, damages or other moneys becoming Rentals, etc., due and payable under any such contracts with respect to payable to said bridge shall be paid to the state and placed to the credit of the general highway fund. SEC. 6. The State Highway Commissioner and other proper officers are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to do all acts or things necessary to carry out the purpose of this act. not relieved SEC. 7. Nothing in this act contained shall operate to re- Obligations, lieve any person, firm or corporation from the obligations of from. any existing contract, or the county of Houghton from any municipal obligation under its police powers. Approved May 17, 1921. [No. 182.] AN ACT to amend section two of act number fifty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways; for the levying, spreading and collecting of taxes and of special assessments therefor; to authorize the borrowing of money and the issuance of bonds under certain restrictions, regulations and limitations; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers with reference thereto; and to validate certain proceedings heretofore taken," the same being section four thousand six hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section two of act number fifty-nine of the Section Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways; for the levying, spreading and collecting of taxes and of special assessments therefor; to authorize the borrowing of money and the issuance of bonds under certain restrictions, regulations and limitations; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers with reference thereto; and to validate certain proceedings heretofore taken," the same being section four thousand six hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: Certain streets, how constructed, etc. Proviso. Plans, etc., approval of. SEC. 2. Any highway not included within the corporate limits of any city in this state (including streets in villages), may be constructed or improved under the provisions of this act: Provided, however, That any street or highway in a city having a population of less than two thousand five hundred, according to the last official census, and any highway that is a line road between any city and township or townships and is subject in part to the jurisdiction of such city and in part to the jurisdiction of such township or townships, and any street or highway in a city, abutting on the line between said city and any township or townships, may be improved hereunder. In no case however shall state reward be paid on any street or highway improved hereunder by any board of county road commissioners unless such project and the plans and specifications for the work shall be approved by the State Highway Commissioner prior to the letting of the contract for the doing of such work, or prior to the starting of the work if no contract therefor is let. Approved May 17, 1921. Sections amended. [No. 183.] AN ACT to amend sections twelve-a and twelve-b of act number six of the Public Acts of the extra session of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to define and to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children; to prescribe the jurisdiction of the probate court and the powers, duties and compensation of the probate judge and probate register with regard thereto; to provide for the appointment of county agents, register of the juvenile division and probation officers, and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation, and to provide for the granting of re-hearings and modifications of orders, sentences and decrees of said court," being section two thousand twenty-three of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred sixty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections twelve-a and twelve-b of act number six of the Public Acts of the extra session of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to define and to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children; to prescribe the jurisdiction of the probate court and the powers, duties and compensation of the probate judge and probate register with regard thereto; to provide for the appointment of county agents, register of the juvenile division and probation officers, and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation, and to provide for the granting of re-hearings and modifications of orders, sentences and decrees of said court," being compilers' section two thousand twentythree of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number three hundred sixty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: when granted. SEC. 12-a. The judge of probate shall, upon the filing in Re-hearing, said court of a petition in writing and under oath, within ninety days of the making, entering and filing of the original order, sentence or decree, grant re-hearing upon all matters coming under the provisions of this act and the judge pre-. siding at said re-hearing may affirm, modify and set aside orders, sentences, commitments and decrees rendered in said court. to preside. SEC. 12-b. Upon said re-hearing as provided in the pre-. Circuit judge ceding section, the judge of probate who heard the case shall be deemed incapacitated to preside at the re-hearing and a circuit judge of the same judicial circuit shall upon notice of said re-hearing sit in said juvenile division and hear zaid case upon the re-hearing, and the person aggrieved shall have the same right to demand a jury trial as upon the original hearing. Approved May 17, 1921. [No. 184.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three, four and five of chapter four of act number one hundred twenty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of electors," approved April twenty-five, nineteen hundred seventeen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, three, four and five of chapter Sections four of act number one hundred twenty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of electors," approved April twenty-five, nineteen hundred seventeen, are amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. In any township or city having a population of less Re-registrathan ten thousand, as shown by the last preceding federal provided for. census, the township board or legislative body may, in its discretion, by resolution passed not later than the fifteenth day of February of any year in which presidential electors are to be chosen, by a majority vote of the members-elect of tion, how When held. New registration books. Notice. What to state. Posting of. such township board or legislative body, that it is desirable to have a re-registration of the qualified electors of such township or city, then in such case there shall be in said year a re-registration of the qualified electors of such township or city. SEC. 3. A re-registration of qualified electors, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, shall be had in the months of June, July and August, and shall be completed on the third Saturday before the next general primary election. All the provisions of this act relative to the registration of qualified electors shall apply with like force and effect to any such re-registration. SEC. 4. Whenever a re-registration is to be had in ану township or city, the clerk thereof shall provide, at the expense of the township or city, as the case may be, a new registration book for each election precinct in such township or city. Such registration book shall be opened for re-registration on the first secular day of June and such re-registration shall be completed on the third Saturday before the next general primary election. When such re-registration shall be completed, the former registration books in such township or city shall thenceforth be deemed invalid and shall not be used in any subsequent election; and no person shall vote at any election or official primary election in any such township or city, after such re-registration, whose name shall not have been registered anew under the provisions of this act relative to re-registration, or be afterwards entered in accordance with this act, on such new registration book for the election precinct in which he resides. SEC. 5. In every township or city in which a re-registration of the qualified electors is to be had, the township or city clerk, as the case may be, shall give public notice that there will be a re-registration of the qualified electors of such township or city in the months of June, July and August, that all qualified electors must re-register in order to be entitled to vote at subsequent elections, and that the third Saturday preceding the following general primary election will be the last day on which applications for re-registration will be received. Such notice shall also name the place or places where, and the hours during which, applications for registration may be made. Such public notice shall be given, in the month of May of the year in which such re-registration is to be had, by posting written or printed notices in at least five of the most conspicuous places in each voting precinct, and by publishing such notice in some newspaper or newspapers published in such township or city, if any newspaper be published therein, if in the discretion of the township board or legislative body of said city, publication shall be considered advisable or necessary in addition to the written or printed notices posted as aforesaid, at least once in each |