apply to barrels used in packing or shipping commodities sold exclusively by weight or numerical count.

SEC. 4. This act shall be in force and effect from and after Date of the first day of September, nineteen hundred seventeen.

effect.

clause.

SEC. 5. An act entitled "An act to regulate the size of Repealing dry or packing barrels for fruits, roots and vegetables," being section six thousand two hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved April 17, 1917.

[No. 89.]

AN ACT to amend section ninety-five of chapter sixteen of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, en titled "Of the powers and duties of townships and the election and duties of township officers," as amended last by act number two hundred forty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, being section two thousand one hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

amended.

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section ninety-five of chapter sixteen of the Section Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the powers and duties of townships and the election and duties of township officers", as last amended by act number two hundred forty-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, being section two thousand one hundred fiftyfour of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

of township

SEC. 95. The following township officers shall be entitled Compensation to compensation at the following rates for each day actually officers. and necessarily devoted by them to the service of the township in the duties of their respective offices to be verified by affidavit, whenever required by the township boards:

First, The officers composing the township boards, board of registration, board of health, board of review, inspectors of election, clerks of the poll and commissioners of highways, three dollars per day, and at the same rate for parts of days;

Second, The supervisor for taking the assessment and for all services not connected with above boards, three dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days;

Third, The township clerk, as clerk of the board of commissioners of highways and of the township board, three dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days, but no town

ship officer shall be entitled to pay for acting in more than one capacity at the same time.

Approved April 17, 1917.

Shall be kept clean, etc.

Proviso.

Penalty.

Enforcement.

[No. 90.]

AN ACT to provide sanitary regulations for the shipment of dressed beef, calves, sheep and hogs, and to provide penalties for violations.

The People of the State of Michigan enact :

SECTION 1. Hereafter all dressed calves, sheep, hogs and beeves, or any portion of the same, when being shipped or transported by freight or express, shall be kept in a clean and sanitary manner. Any carcass or any portion thereof, which shall be transported in any car, shall when practicable be hung in such car, during such transportation. Such carcass, when tendered for shipment, shall be covered with clean covers of cloth of such texture as to exclude all dirt and dust: Provided, This shall not apply to carcasses shipped with the hides left on.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act. Approved April 17, 1917.

[No. 91.]

AN ACT to provide for the inspection and analysis of commercial feeding stuffs and to regulate the sale thereof in the State of Michigan; to define the term commercial feeding stuffs; to provide for guarantees of the ingredients of commercial feeding stuffs and affixing the labels to the packages thereof; to provide for the collection of li cense fees from manufacturers of or dealers in commercial feeding stuffs; to prohibit the sale of fraudulent or adulterated commercial feeding stuffs; to fix the penalties for the violation of the provisions of the act; to authorize the expenditure of the funds derived from the license fees, and to repeal act one hundred thirty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

The People of the State of Michigan enact :

SECTION 1. The term "commercial feeding stuffs" shall be Commercial held to include all feeding stuffs, together with all condi- feeding stuffs. mental and patented proprietary feeds used for feeding live stock and poultry, except unmixed whole seeds or grains; the unmixed meals made directly from the entire grains of corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, flaxseed, kaffir and milo; corn and oats feed made by grinding together

pure grains of corn and oats; wheat, rye and buckwheat brans or middlings when unmixed with other materials; whole hays, straws, ensilage and corn stover when unmixed with other materials, and all other materials containing sixty per cent or more of water.

what to contain.

SEC. 2. Every lot or parcel of commercial feeding stuffs Tag or label, sold, offered or exposed for sale, or distributed within this State shall have affixed thereto a tag or label, in a conspicuous place on the outside, containing a legible and plainly written statement in the English language, clearly and truly certifying:

(a) The net weight of the contents of the package, lot or parcel;

(b) The name, brand or trademark;

(c) The name and principal address of the manufacturer or person responsible for placing the commodity on the market;

(d) The minimum percentage of crude protein allowing one per cent of nitrogen to equal six and one-quarter per cent of protein;

(e) The minimum percentage of crude fat;

(f) The maximum percentage of crude fibre;

(g) The specific name of each ingredient used in its manufacture.

Statement before sale,

etc.

License fee for each brand.

SEC. 3. Before any manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person shall sell, offer or expose for sale or distribute in this State any commercial feeding stuffs, he shall file with the State Board of Agriculture a certified copy of the statement specified in section two for each brand of commercial feeding stuffs; said certified copy to be accompanied, when the State Board of Agriculture shall so request, by a sealed package containing at least one pound of the commercial feeding stuffs, to be sold, offered or exposed for sale or distributed in this State, and the company or persons furnishing said sample shall thereupon make an affidavit that the said sample is representative of the commercial feeding stuffs, offered for registration. SEC. 4. Each and every manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person manufacturing or selling any commercial feeding stuffs as defined in section one of this act, shall pay to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture on or before the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighteen, a license fee of fifteen dollars for each brand of commercial feeding stuffs sold, offered or exposed for sale in this State for the period ending December thirty-one, nineteen hundred eighteen. Thereafter the license fee shall be twenty dollars for each brand of commercial feeding stuffs sold, offered or exposed for sale in this State, and the same shall be payable to the secretary of said board on or before the first day of January of each year. Fees so collected shall be used to defray the expenses incurred in collecting and analyzing samples of commercial feeding stuffs, publishing the results of analysis and all other expenses incidental to carrying out the provisions of this act. Any surplus from license fees remaining on hand at the end of the fiscal year shall be placed to the credit of the experiment station fund of said board. Whenever the manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any commercial feeding stuffs shall have complied with the requirements of this section, the State Board of Agriculture shall issue or cause to be issued a license permitting the sale of said feeding stuffs, which license shall terminate on December thirty-first following the date of Sales in bulk. issue. Whenever any commercial feeding stuffs as defined in section one is offered or exposed for sale in bulk or otherwise stored, the manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person keeping the same for sale shall keep on hand cards upon which shall be printed the statement required by the provisions of section two, and when such feeding stuffs is sold at retail, in bulk or in packages belonging to the purchaser, the manuufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person shall furnish the purchaser, upon request, with a card or cards upon which appears a statement required by the provisions of section two.

License issued.

or cancel

SEC. 5. The State Board of Agriculture shall have the May refuse power to refuse to license any commercial feeding stuffs license. under a name, brand or trademark which would be misleading or deceptive, or which would tend to mislead or deceive as to the materials of which it is composed or when the specific name of each and all ingredients used in its manufacture is not stated. It shall also have the power to refuse to license more than one commercial feeding stuff under the same name or brand when offered by the same manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person. Should any commercial feeding stuffs be licensed in this State and it is afterwards discovered that such license is in violation of any of the provisions of this act, the said board shall have the power to cancel such license. The State Board of Agriculture shall have the power to refuse to allow any manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation, or person to lower the guaranteed analysis or change the ingredients of any brand of his or their commercial feeding stuffs during the term for which licensed, unless reasons satisfactory to said board are presented for making such change or changes.

licensed.

SEC. 6. Whenever a manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm, When brand association, corporation, or person manufacturing or selling a brand of commercial feeding stuffs, shall have filed the statement required by section three and paid the license fee, as required by section four of this act, no other agent, importer, jobber, firm, association, corporation or person shall be required to file such statement or pay such fee upon such brand.

SEC. 7. Any authorized agent or agents of the State Board Access to of Agriculture shall have free access, during reasonable busi- mills, etc. ness hours, to all places of business, mills, buildings, carriages, cars, vessels and parcels of whatsoever kind used in the manufacture, transportation, sale or storage of any commercial feeding stuffs and shall have the power and authority to open any parcel containing or supposed to contain any commercial feeding stuffs, and upon tender and full payment of the selling price of said sample, for the purpose of procuring a sample of suitable size for analysis, from each and every lot or parcel of commercial feeding stuffs being sold, offered or exposed for sale: Provided, That said Proviso, sample shall be taken in the presence of the person or agent having the feeding stuffs in charge and said sample shall be taken from not less than five separate original packages in the lot, in which case a portion shall be taken from each original package; if the commercial feeding stuffs is in bulk, portions shall be taken from not less than five different places in the lot unless the manner in which the commercial feeding stuffs is stored prohibits, in which case, portions shall be taken from as many places as practicable. If the sample thus secured is larger than is required, it shall

sample.