Purposes. How paid out. Tax clause. thousand eight hundred dollars, for purposes and in amounts as follows: Wood farm, forty acres, eight hundred dollars; Williams farm with house and barn, fifty acres, three thousand dollars; and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of three thousand one hundred dollars for current expenses as follows: For general repairs, two thousand two hundred fifty dollars; for stationery and printing, two hundred fifty dollars; for farm, garden and lawn, three hundred dollars; and for furnishing kitchen and administration building, three hundred dollars. SEC. 2. The sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Reformatory at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred eleven the sum of three thousand eight hundred dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred twelve the sum of three thousand one hundred dollars, which sums when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Appropriation. How paid out. [No. 76.] AN ACT making appropriations for the deficiency in the cur rent expense fund of the Michigan School for the Deaf for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the State treasury for the deficiency in the current expense fund of the Michigan School for the Deaf for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ten, the sum of one thousand two hundred thirty-eight dollars and forty cents, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eleven, the like sum of one thousand two hundred thirty-eight dollars and forty cents. SEC. 2. The several sums appropriated by this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan School for the Deaf at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate Tax clause. in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of two thousand four hundred seventy-six dollars and eighty cents, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 77.] AN ACT to create a commission to aid in securing perma nent encampment and maneuvering grounds for the Michigan national guard, and to make an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: etc. SECTION 1. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint Commission, a commission consisting of five members to investigate and appointment, report on the best available site or sites for permanent encampment and maneuvering grounds for the Michigan national guard. Three of the members so appointed shall be selected How selected. from the members of the Michigan national guard, one of whom shall be skilled in the selection of rifle ranges, one skilled in the handling of the brigade of troops in camp and one skilled in medical work and sanitary conditions. Two of the members so appointed shall be civilians, one of whom shall be skilled in the business of real estate and one a business man. The Governor shall be ex officio a member of said commission. The said commission shall be known as the what known "Commission on Permanent Encampment and Maneuvering as. Grounds for the Michigan National Guard." It shall be the Duty. duty of the said commission to investigate in such manner as shall be deemed advisable and determine upon the best available site or sites for the permanent encampment and maneuvering grounds for the Michigan national guard. The said commission is hereby authorized if it is deemed necessary or proper to secure and obtain an option or options upon the most available site or sites offered. There shall not, however, be paid to exceed the sum of fifty dollars for any option or options. It shall be the duty of the said commission to report to the next legislature the result of its investigation and to recommend the best site or sites available and report the amount necessary to be appropriated for the purchase of same. Compensation. Proviso. Further proviso, limit. Expenses. Clerical work, etc. Tax clause. SEC. 2. The members of the said commission shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of three dollars per day while actually engaged as a member of the said commission in the above work: Provided, however, That no member of such commission shall draw pay from any other fund or for any other purpose while performing duties in connection with the work of the commission: Provided, further, That there shall not be expended to exceed five hundred dollars as compensation to the members of said commission. The members of said commission shall also be entitled to their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duties. All bills shall be paid when properly audited by the Board of State Auditors upon proper vouchers rendered therefor. It shall be the duty of the members of said commission on a day to be appointed by the Governor to meet at the office of the Governor and organize by electing a president and secretary of the said commission. All clerical work for the meetings and all paper and stationery shall be provided for by the military board, the expense of such clerical work and of paper, stationery, etc., to be paid from the military fund. SEC. 3. The sum of five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State treasury for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred eleven, the sum of five hundred dollars to be assessed, levied and collected as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sum shall be used to reimburse the general fund in the State treasury for the amount appropriated by this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. [No. 78.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred ninety-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the erection and maintenance of fish shutes or fish ladders for the free passage of fish through or over dams now in existence, or which shall hereafter be erected, across rivers, streams or creeks, and to prohibit the obstruction of rivers, streams and creeks in such a manner as to prevent the free passage of fish up and down." SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred ninetyfive of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled “An act to provide for the erection and maintenance of fish shutes or fish ladders for the free passage of fish through or over dams now in existence, or which shall hereafter be erected, across rivers, streams or creeks, and to prohibit the obstruction of rivers, streams and creeks in such a manner as to prevent the free passage of fish up and down," is hereby amended to read as follows: etc. small streams. SEC. 1. Any person, firm or corporation owning or using Fish shutes, any dam now existing or which may hereafter be constructed etc., erection, across any river, stream or creek in this State, shall erect and maintain in good repair, sufficient and permanent fish shutes or fish ladders to admit of the free and uninterrupted passage of fish over or through such dam during the months of March, April, May, June, September, October and November in each and every year: Provided, however, That the State Proviso, Game, Fish and Forestry Warden, may upon the written ap close." permit to plication of any owner or owners of a dam, issue a permit to close said fish shute during any or all of said months for the purpose of conserving the water power: Provided further, Further That as to streams smaller than those designated as rivers proviso and which are not frequented by any considerable quantity of fish for which a closed season or seasons is provided by law, said warden may upon the written application of any owner or owners of a dam issue a permit waiving the building of such shutes, which waiver may be revoked at the pleasure of said warden, who, on revoking the same may require the building of the shutes as provided in this act, on written notice of not less than sixty days to the owner or owners of such dam. Such shutes or ladders shall be erected Maintenance. and maintained by said owner or occupant of such dam, of such kind and placed in such manner as shall be prescribed by the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden. Approved April 13, 1911. [No. 79.] AN ACT for the prevention of fire waste, and the creation of the office and appointment of a State Fire Marshal, for the appointment of his assistants, to prescribe the duties, powers and authority of each, to fix the salaries for the same and to provide for salaries and necessary expenses. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Commissioner of Insurance shall be ex- State fire officio State Fire Marshal, and the deputy Commissioner of appointment Insurance shall be ex-officio deputy State Fire Marshal. marshal, of. SEC. 2. The State Fire Marshal shall appoint one assistant Assistant. fire marshal. Duties. Inspector, powers and duties. Fires, reporting of. Insurance company to report losses. Examination, shal to make. SEC. 3. The duties of said assistant shall be to assist the State Fire Marshal, and such appointee may be removed for cause by said fire marshal. SEC. 4. The State Fire Marshal may in addition to the provision of section two, appoint any person as State inspector who may be known to him to be competent and skilled in the inspection of buildings and their contents. Such person shall have all the power of a deputy fire marshal to enter and inspect buildings, including their contents and occupancies as provided under section eight, and it shall be the duty of such inspectors to report to the fire marshal any faulty or dangerous conditions found; such State inspectors to be duly commissioned and serve without compensation. SEC. 5. The chief of the fire department of every city or village in which a fire department is established, and the president of each incorporated village or town in which no fire department exists, shall report to the State Fire Marshal every fire occurring in such city or village by which property has been destroyed or damaged. Such report shall be made within two days, not including Sunday, of the occurrence of such fire. Every fire insurance company authorized to transact business in the State of Michigan is hereby required to report to the State Fire Marshal through the secretary or other officer of the company designated by the board of directors for that purpose, all fire losses on property insured in any such company, giving the date of fire, the amount of probable loss, the character of property destroyed, and the supposed cause of the fire. Such report shall be mailed to the State Fire Marshal within three days after notice of loss is received by such company. Each company is hereby also required to report the amount of loss as adjusted on each fire after adjustment is made. Such reports shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any report or reports such companies may be required to make by any law of this State to the Commissioner of Insurance or other State officer. SEC. 6. The State Fire Marshal, when in his opinion furwhen fire mar- ther investigation be necessary, shall take or cause to be taken the testimony on oath of all persons supposed to be cognizant of any facts or to have means of knowledge in relation to the matter as to which an examination is herein required to be made, and shall cause the same to be reduced in writing; and if he shall be of the opinion that there is evidence sufficient to charge any person with the crime of arson or of conspiracy to defraud or criminal conduct in connection with such fire, he shall cause such person to be arrested and charged with such offense or either of them, and shall keep a record of and furnish to the proper prosecuting attorney all such evidence, together with the names of witnesses and all of the information obtained by him, including a copy of all pertinent and material testimony taken in the case, and the |