Proviso, referendum. those instances in which the school districts lie in more than This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Instruction. etc., of certain inmates. Approval. [No. 137.] AN ACT to provide for the direction and supervision of the instruction and training of the inmates in all institutions in this State where juvenile delinquents are confined or detained by order of any court, parent or guardian, and to authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to direct and supervise the instruction and training of the inmates in said institutions. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to supervise and direct the instruction and training of the inmates in all public institutions in the State where juvenile delinquents are confined or detained by order of any court, parent or guardian. No course of study shall be pursued in any of such institutions which shall not have been approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and he shall prescribe for each institution the course of study it shall follow. Approved April 25, 1917. Supervisors may establish, etc., public library. [No. 138.] AN ACT to authorize the creation of county libraries or the contracting by the board of supervisors of any county, libraries for their free use within the county. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county shall have the power to establish a public library free for the use of inhabitants of such county or they may contract for the use for such purposes of a public library already established within the county or with the body having control of such library to furnish library privileges to the people of the county under such terms and conditions as may be stated in such contract. The amount agreed to be paid for such privileges under such contract or the amount which the board may appropriate for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a public library shall be a charge upon the county and the board may annually levy a tax of not more than one-half mill on the dollar of the taxable property of the county, to be levied and collected in like manner as other taxes in said county and paid to the county treasurer of said county and to be known as the library fund. compose. SEC. 2. For the purpose of administering the county Library board, library fund in case a county library is established, there who to shall be a library board consisting of five members,-the county commissioner of schools and four other members to be appointed by the board of supervisors, the commissioner to hold ex officio during his term of office, the other members to be appointed for terms of four years each, except that the first members shall be appointed for one, two, three and four years, respectively. SEC. 3. In case a contract shall be made with an existing Existing library, the county library fund shall be administered by the library." board or body having charge and control of said existing library and there shall be an advisory board, consisting of three members,-the county superintendent of schools ex officio and two additional members to be appointed by the board of supervisors whose terms of office shall be two years and until their successors are appointed. The duty of this board shall be to advise and consult with the board controlling said library with regard to selection of books, location of branch libraries and other subjects relating to the proper management of the county library and its fund. paid. SEC. 4. Said fund shall be paid by the county treasurer Fund, how upon the order or warrants of said library board in case of the establishing of a county library; in event of contracting with an existing library, it shall be paid upon orders issued by the board or body controlling such library through its president or chairman and secretary. Approved April 25, 1917. 33 Section amended. Reserve, etc., fund. Extra assessment, when levied. [No. 139.] AN ACT to amend section nine of act number two hundred ninety-eight of the Session Laws of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of burial benefit associations and for the regulation of their business and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," approved June twenty-seven, nineteen hundred seven, being compilers' section nine thousand nine hundred thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of act number two hundred ninety-eight of the Session Laws of nineteen hundred seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of burial benefit associations and for the regulation of their business and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," approved June twenty-seven, nineteen hundred seven, being compilers' section nine thousand nine hundred thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 9. Any association incorporated under this act may create, maintain, disburse and apply a reserve, emergency or surplus fund in accordance with its constitution and laws, and must at all times have on hand in cash, or invested in securities permitted by the insurance laws of this State, an amount shown to be necessary to redeem all outstanding contracts on a basis of the fraternal congress table of mortality with four per cent interest. The membership added to such association for the year immediately preceding the fixing of such valuation shall not be included therein, where the certificates issued provide for one year preliminary term benefits. If a valuation on the above basis shows the association's benefits fund to be impaired, the Commissioner of Insurance shall order such association to levy an extra assessment to make good such impairment, and such assessment shall be collected within ninety days from the date of such notice. Approved April 25, 1917. [No. 140.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Agricultural Fair Commission for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen and June thirty, nineteen hundred nineteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: purposes. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the use of General the Agricultural Fair Commission, to carry out the purposes of said commission as defined by act number two hundred ninety-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nineteen, the sum of fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The several amounts appropriated by the provi. How paid sions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund of the out. State treasury to the treasurer of the Agricultural Fair Commission 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 incorporate in the State Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred seventeen, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred eighteen, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which amounts 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. 141.] AN ACT to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board. The People of the State of Michigan enact: to constitute SECTION 1. Each city having a population of more than one Certain cities hundred thousand and less then [than] two hundred fifty single school thousand inhabitants, shall constitute and be one school dis- district. trict and be known as the "School District of the City of.” Property of city district. When school district divided. When city annexes territory. When effective. First board of education, election, etc. If, at the time this act takes effect in any city, there shall be in existence within the limits of the city more than one school district or parts of more than one school district, then, from the taking effect of this act in that city, the school districts, or parts of districts, within the limits of the city shall constitute and be the "School District of the City of and shall be under the jurisdiction of the board of education herein provided for. SEC. 2. If no division of a school district is caused by the taking effect of this act in any city, all school property shall vest in and be the property of the city district, and such district shall be liable for and shall pay all indebtedness of the district or districts formerly existing within its limits. SEC. 3. If by reason of the taking effect of this act in any city, a school district, or districts, shall be divided, the school property within the city (except cash and taxes levied but uncollected) shall vest in and be the property of the city district. The cash, taxes levied and uncollected, and district indebtedness shall be divided between the former school districts and the city district in proportion as the relative values of the taxable property left without and brought within the city district by this act bear to the aggregated value of the taxable property in the entire districts affected, before the division, as determined by the last preceding assessment roll. Each district affected hereby shall be liable for and shall pay its proportion of such indebtedness. SEC. 4. If, after the taking effect of this act in any city, territory shall be annexed to the city pursuant to law, such territory, by such annexation, shall become and be part of the school district of that city. If by such annexation no school district is divided, the property of any school district so annexed shall vest in and be the property of the city district, and the city district shall be liable for and shall pay all indebtedness of any school district so annexed. If by such annexation any school district is divided, the property, cash, taxes levied and uncollected, and indebtedness of the divided district shall vest and be divided as is herein in similar case provided in section three. SEC. 5. This act shall be in force in all cities having the requisite population according to the United States census of nineteen hundred ten at the date of the taking effect of this act, and shall be in force in all cities thereafter attaining the requisite population, as soon as the Governor (having first ascertained by United States census or by official estimate of the United States census bureau that the city has the requisite population) shall so proclaim. The first election of members of the board of education hereunder shall occur at the first city charter election held after the taking effect of this act in any city. The first board shall meet and organize on the first Monday in May following such election. Until such first Monday in May the laws theretofore governing the |