Removing or defacing unlawful. Prima facie evidence. Penalty. [No. 182.] AN ACT to make it unlawful to conceal or misrepresent the identity of motor vehicles by removing or defacing the manufacturer's serial number and providing penalties for violation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to conceal or misrepresent the identity of a motor vehicle as defined in section one of act number three hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, by removing or defacing the manufacturer's serial number on such motor vehicle. SEC. 2. In all prosecutions under this act, the possession by any person, firm, or corporation of any motor vehicle as defined in section one of act number three hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, with the manufacturer's serial number removed, defaced, destroyed or altered shall be prima facie evidence of violating the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved May 2, 1917. Section amended. [No. 183.] AN ACT to amend section four of act number three hundred thirty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment, survey, improvement and maintenance of State reward trunk line highways, to provide for the payment of double State reward thereon, to define the duties of State, county, good roads district and township officers in regard thereto, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions thereof," being section four thousand eight hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section four of act three hundred thirty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment, survey, improvement and maintenance of State reward trunk line highways, to provide for the payment of double State reward thereon, to define the duties of State, county, good roads district and township officers in regard thereto, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions thereof," being section four thousand eight hundred fifty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. The State Highway Department shall design all Designing of bridges and culverts and construct, repair and maintain bridges. all bridges greater than thirty foot clear span on State trunk line highways: Provided, That no bridges shall be con- Proviso. structed until the county, good roads district or township has funds available for, and agrees to construct at least three miles of road including the bridge site: Provided further, Further That no bridge shall be constructed hereunder by the State proviso. within the corporate limits of any city or village having a population in excess of six thousand according to the last official federal census: Provided further, That the State High- Further way Commissioner is authorized to enter into such arrange- proviso. ments as may be just and equitable whereby the State shall be obligated to pay not more than one-half of the cost of construction of a bridge situated on the boundary of such municipality or on the boundary line between this State and another state of the Union, and may make such agreements and contracts with the proper officials of such municipality or the officials of such other state or of any county thereof, as may be necessary and expedient for the purposes hereof. Approved May 2, 1917. [No. 184.] AN ACT to prohibit the scattering or depositing of noxious weeds, wild grass, or foul seeds along or on any public highway or in any of the streams, lakes or other inland waters within this State and providing penalties for violations. The People of the State of Michigan enact: unlawful. SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person Acts or persons to intentionally scatter or deposit any noxious weeds, wild grass, or foul seeds along or on any public highway or in any of the streams, lakes or other inland waters within this State. SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of Penalty. this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than five days nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved May 2, 1917. Duty of boards. Proviso. Further proviso. Penalty. [No. 185.] AN ACT to require the establishment of an optional course of military training in all high schools in this State. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be the duty of all boards of education or boards of trustees of school districts maintaining one or more high schools within their respective districts to establish a course of military training for such high school or schools, such course to be optional with the students of such high schools: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to cities or villages having less than five thousand population: Provided further, That when less than twenty-five male students elect to take such course, the board of education may discontinue said course until such time as twenty-five male students request the re-establishment of said course. SEC. 2. Failure or neglect upon the part of any board of education or board of trustees of any school district to maintain a course of military training, as provided in this act, shall subject said board to removal from office, after a hearing with proper notice, by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Approved May 2, 1917. [No. 186.] AN ACT to amend sections two and three of act one hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to prohibit the taking, killing, trapping or molesting of certain fur-bearing animals at certain times, and to prohibit the destruction or the molesting of the houses of certain fur-bearing animals at all times," being sections seven thousand five hundred eleven and seven thousand five hundred twelve of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That sections two and three of act one hun- Sections amended. dred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to prohibit the taking, killing, trapping or molesting of certain fur-bearing animals at certain times, and to prohibit the destruction or the molesting of the houses of certain fur-bearing animals at all times," being sections seven thousand five hundred eleven and seven thousand five hundred twelve of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, be amended so as to read as follows: for muskrat, SEC. 2. No person shall take, trap, hunt, shoot, kill or Open season molest or attempt to take, trap, hunt, shoot, kill or molest skunk, etc. any muskrat, skunk, otter, fisher, martin, mink, or raccoon from and including the fifteenth day of March to and including the fifteenth day of November of each year. It shall be unlawful to use any firearms in hunting musk- Use of firerats, or to use spears, explosives, chemicals or mechanical arms, etc., prohibited. devices or smokers of any kind to drive muskrats or other protected fur-bearing animals out of their holes or homes, nor shall any person knowingly have in possession the carcass or skin of any one of the fur-bearing animals herein mentioned killed during the time when the killing thereof is by this act prohibited. SEC. 3. No person shall destroy, disturb or molest any Destruction beaver, muskrat or skunk house or hole at any time, nor at of houses, etc. any time set any trap within six feet of a muskrat house or hole; nor shall any person stake, put out or set traps at any time preceding the day on which the open season for the taking of fur-bearing animals begins. Approved May 2, 1917. 47 Sections amended. Investigation and notice. Order to uproot, etc. Proviso, spraying. [No. 187.] AN ACT to amend sections twelve and twenty of act ninetyone of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to prevent the importation from other states and the spread within this State, of dangerous insects and dangerously contagious diseases affecting trees, shrubs, vines, plants and fruits, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts that contravene the provisions of this act," approved May fourth, nineteen hundred five, being sections seven thousand four hundred twenty-two and seven thousand four hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twelve and section twenty of act number ninety of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to prevent the importation from other states and the spread within this State, of dangerous insects and dangerously contagious diseases affecting trees, shrubs, vines, plants and fruits, and to repeal all acts or part of acts that contravene the provisions of this act," approved May fourth, nineteen hundred five, being sections seven thousand four hundred twenty-two and seven thousand four hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the State Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries, whenever it shall come to his knowledge that San Jose scale, canker worm, peach yellows, rosette, little peach, black knot, or pear blight, or any other noxious insects or dangerously infectious diseases exist, or are supposed to exist, in any orchard, or upon any trees, shrubs, vines, plants or fruits in this State, to investigate the case and if such dangerous insects are found, he shall notify the owner, or his agent, in writing. The notice shall consist of a simple statement of the facts as found to exist, with an order to uproot and destroy in such manner as may be indicated, all trees infected with yellows, little peach, or rosette, or to cut off and burn the portions infected with black knot and pear blight, or if attacked by San Jose scale or canker worm, to effectually spray the trees, or to use such remedies as may be prescribed for other dangerous insects and diseases within five days, or such time from the date of the service of the notice as may be designated: Provided also, That no such spraying shall be done while said fruit trees or vines are in blossom, except in case of canker worm. In the case of fruit infected with yellows, the notice shall require its immediate destruction. Failure to comply with the requirements of said notice shall render the owner or agent liable to the |