Proviso.

authorized manner, or that it has refused to submit its books, papers and concerns to inspection as aforesaid, or its officer or officers have refused to be examined under oath touching its concerns, or that it is in an unsafe or unsound condition to transact the banking business, so that it would be unsafe and Who to be. inexpedient for it to continue same, the said court shall immediately appoint the banking commissioner, his deputy or one of the banking examiners in the banking department, or some other competent and disinterested person who shall have the recommendation of the banking commissioner, as receiver and shall determine his bond and prescribe his duties, and may make such further order as shall seem proper: Provided, That if one of the above mentioned members of the state banking department shall be appointed receiver, he shall serve without further compensation than is provided for him by this act but any sums that the court shall award as fees and expenses of said receivership shall be paid into the general fund of the state. The commissioner, pending such action, if it shall be necessary, may forthwith take possession of the books, records and assets of every description of such bank, and hold same, and said books, records and assets shall not May possess be subject to any levies and attachments. The receiver, if any be appointed, shall, under the direction of the court, take possession of the books, records and assets of every description, of such bank, collect all debts, dues and claims belonging to it, and sell or compound all bad or doubtful assets and sell all the real and personal property of such bank, on such terms as the court shall direct and may, if necessary, to pay the debts of such bank, enforce all individual liabilities of the stockholders. Such receiver shall forthwith pay over the money so collected or received to the state treasurer, and also make report to the commissioner of all his acts and proceedings. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 12, 1927.

books, etc.

When committed to Wayne

county hospital.

[No. 148.]

AN ACT to provide regulations for the commitment of certain persons to the Wayne county hospital and to provide for their release and discharge therefrom and to provide a method for payment for their care, support, maintenance and supervision thereat.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Whenever any person shall have been convicted in this state for a violation of act number ninety-two of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, as amended by

act number nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentyfive, or of any offense cognizable by a justice of the peace and it shall appear to the trial court from evidence or from the statement of the defendant that such person is habitually addicted to the use of habit forming drugs, such court, instead of imposing judgment in said cause for such offense as otherwise provided by law, may commit such defendant to the Wayne county hospital, Wayne county, Michigan, for care and treatment for the use of such habit forming drugs, for a period not to exceed two years or for as long a period as shall in the opinion of the court, based upon the report of the medical superintendent of said hospital, be necessary and proper for the benefit of said defendant: Provided, That in Proviso. no event shall such person be kept in the Wayne county hos pital under such commitment for more than two years from the date of such commitment.

who may

SEC. 2. The board of supervisors of any county in the Agreements, state shall have full power and authority to enter into an enter into. agreement with the board of supervisors of Wayne county to send any person who may be committed to such place from such county to the Wayne county hospital and have such person received and kept in said hospital. Whenever any person shall be committed to the Wayne county hospital, under the provisions of this act, from any county of the state of Michigan other than Wayne county, such county from which such person is committed shall be liable to the county of Wayne for the care, support, maintenance, and supervision of such person while in the Wayne county hospital in an amount to be determined by contract between the board of supervisors of the county of Wayne and the respective boards of supervisors of such other county of the state from which such person may be committed. Such amount shall be computed and based upon the approximate cost necessary for the care, support, maintenance and supervision of such persons committed. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of any county Sheriff to from which any person is committed to the Wayne county hospital, as in this act provided, to safely convey and deliver such person forthwith upon commitment to the Wayne county hospital, for which such sheriff shall be paid the same fees and compensation as for conveying persons to a state hospital. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the Duty of Wayne county hospital to receive all persons duly committed ent superintendto such hospital and keep such persons safely thereat until their lawful release or discharge thereform and it shall be his further duty to promulgate proper rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the hospital and the persons so committed thereto: Provided, That in cases where Proviso. no contract exists between the county of Wayne and a county from which any person may be committed to the Wayne county hospital, the superintendent of such hospital shall not be obliged to receive any such person so committed for care and treatment.

convey.

and other contenements or other bevised or granted,

or persons whate style or title of The diocese of BardsThe Roman Catholic Chio, and his sueor Catholie bishop and his successors, Stop of Sault Ste. Catholile bishop of Mar

the Roman Catholic bishop or

Catholic Me of the diocese of Grand Rapids, and his suc

person in his own name as Roman

Cathelle bieber of the dose of Grand Rapids, his heirs and

assigns er an

persons upon the trust

expressed or implied, to take, hold and receive the same for the use and benefit of any religious congregation of Roman Catholics, or for the support, aid and maintenance of any hospital, almshouse, school, seminary, church, parsonage, or for the burial grounds, or other religious, educational, or charitable purposes, within this state; and all such gifts, grants, deeds, wills and other conveyances which may hereafter be made, shall be sufficient and effectual in law to vest the legal title of, in and to said lands and tenements, in such grantee or devisee, in the present bishops or administrators of the Roman Catholic dioceses within the state of Michigan, in their respective dioceses, and in the persons who after them may become Roman Catholic bishops of said dioceses, and in the successors of said Roman Catholic bishops forever, in trust, for the uses and purposes for which the said property is or may be hereafter acquired, granted or devised, and in no other person or persons whatever: Provided, That it shall Proviso. be necessary in relation to all gifts, grants, deeds, wills and other conveyances heretofore made as aforesaid, that the person or persons to whom the same were made, or to such persons as they may have conveyed to, if living, shall release their estate or interest therein to the said Roman Catholic bishops in the state of Michigan within their respective dioceses: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall Further be taken or construed to give, or grant to the said Roman Catholic bishops or administrators of the said dioceses of the state of Michigan, or their successors, the right to hold real estate in trust for any society except for charitable, religious, educational and literary purposes, or for burial grounds, as provided for by this act.

Approved May 12, 1927.

proviso.

"Gasoline" defined.

"Wholesale distributor."

"Retail dealer."

Tax imposed.

License.

[No. 150.]

AN ACT to prescribe a privilege tax for the use of the public highways by owners and drivers of motor vehicles by imposing a specific tax upon the sale or use within the state of Michigan, of gasoline as defined herein; to prescribe the manner and the time of paying such tax and the duties of officials and others respecting such payment and collection; to provide for the licensing of wholesale distributors and the registration of retail dealers as defined herein; to fix a time when such tax and interest and penalties thereon become a lien upon the property of persons, firms, associations or corporations, subject to the payment of such tax and to provide for the enforcement of said lien; to provide for certain exemptions and refunds and for the disposition of the proceeds of such tax; to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act and to repeal act number two, public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five, as amended.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The term "gasoline" shall include all gasoline, distillate, benzine, naphtha, benzol and all other volatile and inflammable liquids produced, compounded or used for the purpose of operating or propelling motor vehicles, but shall not include the product commonly known as "kerosene oil".

The term "wholesale distributor" shall include any person or persons, firm, association or corporation who receives from any source gasoline in tank cars, boats, tank wagons or other conveyances for the purpose of storing, using or making original sales within this state of all or any part of the gasoline so received.

The term "retail dealer" shall include any person or persons, firm, association or corporation other than a wholesale distributor who engages in the business of selling or distributing gasoline within this state.

SEC. 2. A tax of three cents per gallon is hereby imposed on all gasoline sold or used in producing or generating power for propelling motor vehicles used upon the public roads and highways in this state, which tax shall be paid at the times, in the manner and by the persons hereinafter specified. It is the intent of this act to impose a tax upon the owners and drivers of motor vehicles using a combustible type of engine upon the public roads and highways of this state by requiring them to pay for the privilege thereof, in addition to the motor vehicle license tax, at the rate of three cents per gallon for all motor vehicle fuel so used.

SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, association or corporation to engage in business in this state as a wholesale distributor, as defined herein, unless such person or persons, firm, association or corporation is