district, and in relation to the receipt and disbursement of
all moneys belonging to said school district, the city assessing
officer or officers, city clerk and city treasurer of the city or
cities in which said district is situated, shall have like powers
and duties as are prescribed by the laws of this state for
township supervisors, township clerks, and township treas-
urers, respectively, except as in this act otherwise provided.
When a school district embraces the whole territory of a city
and a portion or portions of a township or townships adjacent
to said city, the school taxes may be voted, assessed and col-
lected upon all the property within the territorial limits of
such city at the same time that city taxes in such city are
assessed and collected and become due and payable. The
taxes upon that part or parts of said school district lying
without the territorial limits of such city within said town-
ship or townships shall be assessed and collected at the same.
time and in the same manner as the school taxes of other
school districts in said township or townships are assessed
and collected.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 13, 1926.

[No. 11.]

AN ACT to amend the title and section two of act number three hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five, entitled "An act making an appropriation to purchase a site and erect buildings for a state tuberculosis sanatorium on a site to be selected by a committee as herein provided."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. The title and section two of act number three Title and hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred section twenty-five, entitled "An act making an appropriation to purchase a site and erect buildings for a state tuberculosis sanatorium on a site to be selected by a committee as herein provided," are hereby amended to read as follows:

TITLE

An Act making an appropriation to locate and purchase a site and erect buildings for a state tuberculosis sanatorium

on a site to be selected by a committee as herein provided.

SEC. 2. The institution herein mentioned shall be erected site, who to on a site to be selected by a committee consisting of the select. president of the senate and two members of the senate to be

appointed by the president, and the speaker of the house of
representatives and two members from the house to be ap-
pointed by the speaker. The members of the committee shall
receive no compensation for services rendered under the pro-
visions of this act but shall be paid the actual and neces-
sary traveling and other expenses incurred by each of them
in the performance of such duties, such expenses to be audited
and paid out of the general fund of the state in the same
manner as other expenses of state employes and officials are
audited and paid.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 13, 1926.

Section amended.

Indebted

ness assumed.

Proviso.

Unpaid taxes.

[No. 12.]

AN ACT to amend section four of act number thirty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, entitled "An act to provide for the annexation to city school districts of school districts or parts of school districts in territory annexed to cities comprising one school district and having a population of ten thousand or over."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section four of act number thirty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, entitled "An act to provide for the annexation to city school districts of school districts or parts of school districts in territory annexed to cities comprising one school district and having a population of ten thousand or over," is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4. The city school district shall assume the outstanding indebtedness of the district so annexed to it, or to the proper pro rata share thereof, if but part of the district be so annexed, and shall assume and perform all legally binding contracts of such district or if but part of a district be so annexed, then such legally binding contracts as shall apply to the part so annexed: Provided, That if the portion so annexed shall include school lands or school buildings for which bonds of the district have been issued in the purchase or construction thereof or other indebtedness created thereby, then in such case the city school district shall be liable for and shall assume payment of all such bonded or other indebtedness. The city school district shall take and have the right to collect all unpaid school taxes of the portion of the district taken. It shall take, based on the last school census, such part of the primary school money unexpended and in the treasury of the district, thus divided, as the num

ber of children of school age in the portion taken bears to
the number of school children of school age in the whole
district thus divided. It shall take and receive such part of
the primary school and library money not yet apportioned
as the number of children of school age in the portion taken
bears to the number of children of school age in the whole
district thus divided based upon the school census upon which
said apportionment is made. It shall take and receive such
portion of the unexpended school taxes collected and in the
treasury of the district thus divided, as the assessed value
of the portion taken bears to the whole district thus divided.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 13, 1926.

[No. 13.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number three hundred thirty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentyfive, entitled "An act to authorize the sale of certain lands owned by the state and providing for the disposition of the moneys received therefrom."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

authorized.

SECTION 1. Section one of act number three hundred thirty- Section three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five, en- amended. titled "An act to authorize the sale of certain lands owned by the state and providing for the disposition of the moneys received therefrom," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The state hospital commission is hereby authorized Sale to sell to the highest responsible bidder all or any part of those pieces or parcels of land belonging to the state of Michigan and occupied by the Kalamazoo state hospital in the county of Kalamazoo and described as follows, to-wit: The east half of the southeast quarter of section four, town Description. two south, range eleven west, containing eighty acres, more or less. Also the west half of the southeast quarter of section four, the east half of the southwest quarter of section four excepting from last described land the schoolhouse lot on the north side thereof containing one acre. Also a lot commencing on the east line of the west half of the southwest quarter of said section four, forty-two and one-half rods south of the northeast corner of said west half of said quarter; thence running south twenty and one-fourth rods; thence west parallel with the north line of said quarter section eighty rods to the section line; thence north twenty-nine and one-fourth rods to land formerly owned by Luther H. Trask; thence east about thirty-three and one-half rods; thence south

Transfer, etc.

nine rods; thence east parallel with the quarter line about
forty-six and one-half rods to the place of beginning con-
taining twelve acres more or less excepting a right-of-way
conveyed by Fred K. R. Burrell to L. H. Trask. Also a
piece of land described as commencing on the east line of the
west one-half of the southwest quarter of said section four,
sixty-two and three-fourths rods south of the northeast corner
of the west half of said quarter section running thence west
parallel with the quarter line forty-eight and one-half rods;
thence south nine degrees, west ten and one-half rods; thence
south seventy-two degrees, east fifty-two rods to the half
quarter line; thence north twenty-five rods to point of begin-
ning containing five and one-half acres, more or less, all in
town two south of range eleven west and containing one
hundred and seventy-six and one-half acres of land.
The
sale shall be conducted and transfer made under the super-
vision and control and subject to the approval of the state
administrative board.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 13, 1926.

Sinking fund.

Purpose.

Referendum.

[No. 14.]

AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county to create a sinking fund for the purpose of purchasing real estate for sites for, and constructing or repairing public buildings; to authorize such boards to submit the question of levying a tax to create such sinking fund to the electors of their certain counties and to provide for the manner of submission.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county are hereby authorized to levy a tax of not to exceed two mills on the assessed valuation of said county each year for a period of not to exceed ten years, for the purpose of creating a sinking fund to be used for the purchase of real estate for sites for, and the construction or repair of public buildings; provided the proposition of levying such tax to create such sinking fund shall be submitted to the electors of the county and approved by a majority of those voting thereon in the manner provided in this act.

SEC. 2. Whenever the board of supervisors of any county shall by resolution vote in favor of levying a tax to create a sinking fund as provided in section one of this act, the question of levying such tax shall be submitted to the electors of the county at the general November election, the annual

spring election, or at any special election called for that purpose, subsequent to the passage of such resolution by the board of supervisors. A copy of such resolution shall be served upon the sheriff of the county by the county clerk. It shall be the duty of the sheriff at least twenty days prior Notice by to the date of the election, at which such question shall be sheriff. submitted to the electors, to cause to be delivered to the township clerk in each township, and to the chairman of the board of election inspectors in each ward in any city in his county, a notice in writing that at such election there will be submitted to the electors of such county the question of raising the amount prescribed in the resolution passed by the board of supervisors, and cause the same to be published in one or more newspapers printed and circulating in said county, if one be printed and circulated therein, at least two consecutive weeks before said election.

to give

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the township clerk or chair- Clerk, etc., man of the board of election inspectors, upon receipt of the notice. notice herein required, to give notice in writing under his hand of the time and place when such question will be submitted to the electors. Such township clerk or chairman of the board of election inspectors shall cause such notice to be posted up in at least five of the most public places in the said township or ward, at least ten days before said election. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of election com- To prepare missioners of such county to prepare the necessary ballots for the use of the electors in voting upon the question referred to in this act. The said question shall be printed upon a ballot separate and distinct from all other ballots, which ballot shall be in the following form:

Instruction to Voter.

Mark a cross in the square to the left of the word "Yes" or "No".

"To authorize the board of supervisors to levy a tax of .....each year for a period of

to create a sinking fund to be used for..

years,

ballots.

Form of.

There shall be inserted in the above blanks the amount of the tax to be assessed each year, not exceeding two mills in any case, the number of years for which the tax is to be levied and the purpose for which the sinking fund to be created shall be used. The ballots so prepared shall be distributed by the board of election commissioners within the same time and in the same manner that ballots are distributed prior to a general election. All ballots upon which an elector marks a cross in the square to the left of the word "Yes," shall be counted in favor of levying the tax stated in the resolution of the board of supervisors, and all ballots upon which an elector marks a cross in the square to the left of the word