authorized. railroad penalties prescribed for the violation of this act. The Quarantine State Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries is hereby authorized and empowered to prohibit by proclamation the importation into this State of any tree, shrub or plant which has been grown or propagated in any state, province or country, or in any place where it shall be determined by the said State State Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries, after due investigation, that there exists and is prevalent to a dangerous extent any plant disease or destructive insect which is liable to, or capable of spreading to, and infecting the trees, shrubs and plants of this State, and which may be carried and transported to and into this State on or in trees, shrubs or plants there grown. It shall be the Notice to duty of said Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries upon the companies. making and promulgation by him of any such proclamation to forthwith mail a copy thereof to each railroad company doing business in this State, and to publish a copy thereof Publication. in a newspaper published in the city of Detroit, in the city of Grand Rapids, and in the city of Lansing, and any person, firm or corporation, or common carrier which thereafter knowingly or intentionally introduces or transports in this State any tree, shrub or plant grown or propagated in the territory described in such proclamation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In case any trees, shrubs May destroy or plants are brought into this State contrary to the pro- or return. visions of this act, the State Inspector of Nurseries and Orchards is hereby authorized to destroy the same, unless they can be effectually treated, or return the shipment to the consignor. In case the injury inflicted by said danger- Certain ous plant disease or destructive insect is confined to certain species. species of trees, shrubs and plants the quarantine imposed by said proclamation may be limited to the species of trees, shrubs and plants likely to be infested by such destructive insect, or infected by such dangerous plant disease. SEC. 20. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, who Penalty. may fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred in these cases upon any justice of the peace, or other competent court, of the township, village, or city, where such trees, shrubs or plants may be, or where such nursery stock or fruit is grown, sold, shipped, disposed of, or delivered, contrary to the provisions of this act. In all cases where a complaint is made under the provisions of any section of this act, by any State, township, village or city inspector, said complainant shall not be required to furnish security for costs. In construing and enforcing the provisions of this act, the act, omission or failure of any official, agent or other person acting for or employed by an association, part- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Title and sections amended. [No. 188.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections two and four of act number one hundred fifty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act making appropriations for the State Public School at Coldwater for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, for the erection, furnishing and equipment of two cottages and an industrial building for the reception, treatment and education of dependent crippled children of sound mind between five and fourteen years of age, and to provide a tax to meet the same," same being sections one thousand five hundred twenty-four and one thousand five hundred twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections two and four of act number one hundred fifty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act making appropriations for the State Public School at Coldwater for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, for the erection, furnishing and equipment of two cottages and an industrial building for the reception, treatment and education of dependent crippled children of sound mind between five and fourteen years of age, and to provide a tax to meet the same," same being sections one thousand five hundred twenty-four and one thousand five hundred twenty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: TITLE. An Act making appropriations for the State Public School at Coldwater for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen and June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, for the erection, furnishing and equipment of two cottages and an industrial building for the reception, treatment and education of dependent crippled children of sound mind between five and fourteen years of age, and for the temporary care and maintenance of certain blind children under the age of six years, and to provide a tax to meet the same. children SEC. 2. There shall be admitted as provided in section What four of this act to the State Public School at Coldwater, admitted. on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred fourteen, or as soon as the buildings provided for in this act are completed and furnished, those dependent crippled children who have been declared dependent on the public for support as provided by law who are between five and fourteen years of age and of sound mind and have no chronic or contagious disease and are capable of acquiring a common school education and some trade or occupation. While in said institution they shall be taught What taught. the English branches. The boys shall receive manual training, the girls shall be taught domestic science and both classes may be taught any trade or occupation the board of control shall consider adapted to their condition. They may be retained in said institution such time during Time their minority as the board of control may determine and retained, etc. at all times may be placed in families on indenture or by adoption in the discretion of said board, and shall be subject to the same management and disposition as is now provided by law and regulation of the State Public School regarding other wards of said board except wherein provided otherwise in this act: Provided, That blind children who are Proviso, blind under six years of age of sound mind and whose physical condition is normal except as to blindness, and who are dependent upon the public for support, and when there is room therefor, may receive temporary care and maintenance in the State Public School in the buildings herein provided, pending such time as arrangements shall have been made at the Michigan School for the Blind for the care of said children, when said children shall be removed thereto or to such other institution as may be provided by law therefor. Said blind children shall be committed to the State Public How committed. School in the same manner as prescribed by law for the commitment of normal and crippled children to said institu tion, and shall be subject to the same management and disposition as is now provided by law and regulation of the State Public School regarding other wards of said board, except wherein provided otherwise in this act: Provided Further further, That said blind children shall be removed from the removal. State Public School as soon as preparations can be made and facilities furnished for their care, maintenance and support at the said Michigan School for the Blind, or at some other institution: Provided further, That no blind Further children shall be committed hereunder to the said State July 1, 1917. children. proviso, proviso, Dependent crippled children. Proviso, room, etc. Further proviso, non-dependents. Public School prior to the first of July, nineteen hundred seventeen, and the obligation to receive, support and maintain them at such school shall cease on the first day of July, nineteen hundred nineteen. SEC. 4. The dependent crippled children described in this act shall be admitted to the cottages authorized to be constructed in section one of this act and to any cottage or cottages that may hereafter be constructed for such purpose, when provision has been made for their support and education and for teaching them some trade or occupation: Provided, That before the judge of probate shall commit a crippled child to said State Public School he shall receive a written notice from the superintendent of said institution that there is room therein for the child and that provision has been made for its support and education and for its instruction in manual training and domestic science: Provided further, That if the facilities of the institution will permit, the board of control thereof may receive for instruction hereunder crippled children of school age who are not dependent; and may enter into such agreements and arrangements with parents or guardians of such children for the payment of compensation for the instruction and incidental maintenance and support thereof as may be deemed expedient and proper. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Act of congress. [No. 189.] AN ACT to accept the requirements and benefits of an act of Congress approved February twenty-three, nineteen hundred seventeen, relating to appropriations to be made by the federal government to the several states for the support and control of instruction in agriculture, the trades, industries and home economics, and for the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; to designate a State Board of Control for vocational education; to provide for the proper custody and administration of funds received by the State from such appropriations; and to provide for appropriations by the State and by local school authorities to meet the conditions of said act of Congress. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The provisions of an act of Congress enacted by the sixty-fourth Congress in the second session thereof, entitled "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," are hereby Provisions accepted by the State of Michigan as follows: (a) Appropriations for the salaries of teachers, supervisors or directors of agricultural and home economic subjects. (b) Appropriations for the salaries of teachers of vocational and industrial subjects. (c) Appropriations for the training of teachers of vocational subjects. accepted. tions met. SEC. 2. The benefits of all funds appropriated by the fed- Appropriaeral government under the provisions of said act are hereby accepted as provided in said act and provision is herein made under which the State of Michigan will meet such appropriaations and provisions: Provided, however, That the pro- Proviso. visions of this act shall apply only until the next regular session of the Legislature. SEC. 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State board president of the State Board of Education, the president of of control. the University of Michigan, and the president of the Michigan Agricultural College are hereby constituted as the State Board of Control for vocational education as provided in the aforesaid act, and said board is charged with the duty and responsibility of cooperating with the federal board for vocational education in the administration of such act and is given all power necessary to such cooperation. The State Expenditures. Board of Control for vocational education is hereby authorized to incur such expenditures for office administration and other incidental expenses as it may deem necessary to the proper administration of the funds allotted to the State of Michigan under the provisions of said act. of funds. SEC. 4. The State Treasurer is hereby appointed as cus- Custody todian of all funds for vocational education as provided in said act and in this act, and is charged with the duty and responsibility of receiving and providing for the proper custody and for the proper disbursements of such moneys on requisition of the said board of control for vocational education. The State Treasurer as custodian of such funds for Annual report. Vocational education shall make an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature concerning the receipts and disbursements of such moneys received by him under the provisions of said act and of this act. equipment. SEC. 5. Any approved public school, department or part Buildings and time class giving instruction in agricultural, industrial or home economic subjects which receives the benefit of federal moneys as herein provided shall provide suitable buildings and equipment in order to give such instruction, and shall also appropriate for the salaries of instructors a sum of money Salaries. equal to one-half of the federal allotment to such school and |