license. lected, where may retain and known as a general license. The fee for a license to fish Special for all kinds of fish except grayling, land-locked salmon and all kinds of trout shall be one dollar and such license shall be designated and known as a "special license." All license Fees colfees so collected shall be paid to the State Board of Fish paid. Commissioners and by them into the State treasury quarterly: Provided, That all public officials hereby authorized to is- Proviso, who sue licenses and collect license fees, and who do not receive ten per cent. a regular salary from the State, may retain ten per cent of all moneys received by them for licenses issued, in full payment for their services in issuing and collecting. The Angler's liState Treasurer shall place all moneys received from such li- cense fund. cense fees to the credit of a fund to be known as the angler's license fund, which shall be used by the State Board of Fish Commissioners for the purposes necessary in the propagation and distribution of fish, including the acquiring of lands, construction of ponds, buildings and equipment, and such other purposes as are authorized by act number sixty-three, Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five. SEC. 9. This act is ordered to take effect January first, nineteen hundred eighteen. Approved May 2, 1917. [No. 176.] AN ACT authorizing and requiring the purchase of certain primary school lands for general State public purposes, and making an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: authorized. SECTION 1. The Board of State Auditors are hereby au- Land transfer thorized and required to purchase and hold, and the Public Domain Commission to sell and convey to said Board of State Auditors, all that certain parcel of land, situate in the city of Lansing, described as block one hundred twenty-five of said city, according to the plat thereof, the same being primary school lands granted under the act of Congress dated June twenty-third, eighteen hundred thirty-six. The consideration for such sale and transfer shall be the sum of one dollar. Public pur SEC. 2. The lands and premises to be so sold and conveyed shall be occupied and used, or the proceeds from the pose only. sale thereof, by the State and only for public purposes, and if used to the contrary, the title thereto, herein authorized to be transferred, shall thereupon revert to the Public Domain Commission to be held as primary school lands. The deed to said lands shall be deposited with the Auditor General. Appropriation. SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one dollar, which sum shall, upon the completion of the conveyance herein authorized, be accredited by the State Treasurer to the primary school fund of the State, and such crediting shall constitute and be the payment of the consideration for such conveyance. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. [No. 177.] AN ACT to amend section two of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," being section four thousand three hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, and to add two new sections to be known as section eighteen and section nineteen of chapter five, for the purpose of making an appropriation to be used for salaries and running expenses of the State Highway Department for the two 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: SECTION 1. Section two of chapter five of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials," being section four thousand three hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended, and two new sections added to said act to stand Sections as sections eighteen and nineteen of chapter five thereof, said added. amended section and added sections to read as follows: He shall way com missioner. In office office. SEC. 2. The chief officer of said department shall be de- State highnominated as the State Highway Commissioner. be a competent highway engineer experienced in the administration of highway affairs and shall be a citizen of this State. He shall have his office at the seat of government and shall personally superintend the duties thereof. the year nineteen hundred thirteen and every four years elective. thereafter, a State Highway Commissioner shall be nominated and elected by the people of the State of Michigan at the same time and in the same manner as the justices of the Supreme Court are nominated and elected. The commis- Oath. sioner so elected shall on the first day of July following his election take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and shall file the same in the office of the Secretary of State, and the said commissioner shall give the people of the State of Michigan a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the Auditor General, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. His term of office shall Term of be four years from that date and until his successor is duly elected and qualified. He shall receive an annual salary of Salary. three thousand five hundred dollars. The State Highway Deputy. Commissioner may appoint a deputy who shall be a competent highway engineer experienced in road building. Such deputy shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and whenever the commissioner shall be disabled from executing the duties of this office, his deputy, duly appointed, shall execute the duties of said commissioner until such disability be removed. The salary of such deputy Salary. shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum and be fixed by the State Highway Commissioner. The commissioner may employ such other clerks and en- Clerks and gineers as may be necessary to perform the duties incumbent engineers. upon the department. The salaries of the commissioner, How salaries deputy commissioner and others employed by authority of paid. this act shall be paid upon the warrant of the Auditor General in the same manner as other State officers and employes are paid; and all other expenses shall be approved by the Board of State Auditors and paid upon the warrant of the Auditor General. Whenever a vacancy shall occur vacancy, in said office of commissioner by reason of death, resignation how filled. or otherwise, the Governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, but such appointee shall hold office only until the next general State election when a new commissioner shall be elected for the unexpired term. The commissioner Biennial shall make a biennial report to the Governor, which report report. shall contain the name and compensation of each and every person that may be or has been employed by the depart When made, etc. Appropriation, salaries and expense, 1918, 1919. Idem, 1917, 1918. ment, and the whole amount of the expenses of the department in the interim not previously reported. Such report shall be made on or before the first day of February, nineteen hundred nine, and every two years thereafter, and the commissioner shall have printed a sufficient number of these reports to provide every township highway commissioner and county road commissioner in the State with a copy, and such further number as may be necessary to satisfy the demand that the public weal may warrant. SEC. 18. There is hereby appropriated for the State Highway Department for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen, the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nineteen, the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, which amounts shall constitute a sum to be used for salaries and running expenses of the State Highway Department. Any moneys remaining in either or both of these funds at the close of any fiscal year shall be carried over by the Auditor General and added to the funds which become available for the following year. SEC. 19. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seventeen the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred eighteen the sum of thirty-five 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. 178.] AN ACT to amend sections two, six, eight, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, eighteen and twenty-one of act number three hundred eighty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to regulate the occupation of barbering, to create a Board of Examiners of Barbers for the examination and licensing of persons to carry on such practice, to insure the better education of such practitioners, to authorize rules regulating the proper sanitation of barber shops, barber schools and colleges, to prevent the spreading of communicable diseases, to provide and fix penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," approved May fourteen, nineteen hundred thirteen, being sections six thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, six thousand eight hundred thirty-three, six thousand eight hundred thirty-five, six thousand eight hundred thirty seven, six thousand eight hundred thirty-eight, six thousand eight hundred thirty-nine, six thousand eight hundred forty, six thousand eight hundred forty-five and six thousand eight hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, six, eight, ten, eleven, twelve, Sections thirteen, eighteen and twenty-one of act number three hundred eighty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to regulate the occupation of barbering, to create a Board of Examiners of Barbers for the examination and licensing of persons to carry on such practice, to insure the better education of such practitioners, to authorize rules regulating the proper sanitation of barber shops, barber schools and colleges, to prevent the spreading of communicable diseases, to provide and fix penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," approved May fourteen, nineteen hundred thirteen, being sections six thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, six thousand eight hundred thirty-three, six thousand eight hundred thirty-five, six thousand eight hundred thirty-seven, six thousand eight hundred thirty-eight, six thousand eight hundred thirty-nine, six thousand eight hundred forty, six thousand eight hundred forty-five and six thousand eight hundred forty-eight of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. A Board of Examiners of Barbers, to consist of Board, number, appointthree persons, is hereby created to carry out the purposes and ment, etc. enforce the provisions of this act. Said board shall be ap |