Sum equal. Rules, etc. Executive officer of board. Annual report. work done. the balance necessary for the salaries of such instructors shall be appropriated and distributed to such school district or department from the State treasury as hereinafter provided. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated and paid from the State treasury to the several institutions engaged in the training of teachers of vocational subjects a sum equal to the allotment of federal moneys as provided in said act. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Control for vocational education to recommend to each session of the Legislature the amount of money which should be appropriated by the State for such allotments during each succeeding biennial period. SEC. 6. The State Board of Control for vocational education shall formulate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the development and operation of such vocational schools and the training of teachers as are provided for in said act subject to the approval of the federal board of control. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be the executive officer of the State Board of Control and he shall with the approval of said board provide for the administration of the provisions of this act. All disbursements of State and federal money under the provisions of this act shall be made annually on or before the tenth day of July in each year. The board of education of each school where vocational instruction is given under the provisions of this act shall make an annual report to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and at such other times and in Inspection of such form as he may require. The State Board of Control for vocational education shall provide for the proper inspection of the work done in the schools and institutions which operate under the provisions of this act and upon the approval of the work done and the receipt of the satisfactory report from each school or institution, the said State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall certify to the Auditor General the amount of such State and federal moneys due to each school district maintaining a vocational school and to each institution engaged in the training of teachers of vocational subjects the amount of money due according to the How moneys provisions of this act. The Auditor General shall upon such certificate of the Superintendent of Public Instruction draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the amount of said moneys due to each school district or institution and payable to the treasurer of such board of education or the board of control of such institution, and the said amounts shall be forwarded to said treasurers. At the close of each fiscal year ment of funds. the State Board of Control shall examine the records and reports from all schools giving vocational instruction and institutions engaged in the training of vocational teachers and shall apportion the funds from the federal government and from the State treasury in accordance with the provisions of this act and of the said federal act. drawn. Apportion governor. SEC. 7. The State Board of Control for vocational edu- Report to cation shall make an annual report to the Governor and to the Legislature in regard to the administration of this act and of the federal act herein mentioned, and said report shall contain an explicit statement of the expenditures of all moneys, both federal and State, for the provisions mentioned in this act. SEC. 8. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 190.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the State Board of Health, for the use of the branch of the bacteriological laboratory in the upper peninsula, to meet a deficiency in the fund appropriated for said laboratory, under the provisions of act number one hundred sixty-four, Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seventeen, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the State Deficiency. Board of Health for the use of the branch of the bacteriological laboratory in the upper peninsula, the sum of two thousand dollars for the purpose of meeting a deficiency in the fund appropriated for said laboratory, under the provisions of act number one hundred sixty-four, Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seventeen: Provided, That the State Proviso. Board of Health may obtain money under this section before July one, nineteen hundred seventeen, in such amounts as they may, by requisition, certify to the Auditor General are necessary for immediate use. SEC. 2. The amount appropriated by the provisions of this How paid out. act, shall be paid out of the State treasury, to the State Board of Health, 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 two thousand dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Qualifications. Separate ballots, etc. Registration. [No. 191.] AN ACT granting women the right to vote for presidential electors; and to provide for their registration. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. All women citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State six months and in the township or ward twenty days next preceding any presidential election, shall be allowed to vote at such election for presidential electors, subject to the provisions of law regulating the votes of male electors. SEC. 2. Separate ballot boxes and ballots shall be provided for women in each election precinct, which ballots shall contain the names of the candidates for presidential electors who are to be voted for, and the ballots cast by women shall be canvassed with the other ballots cast for presidential electors. SEC. 3. Prior to any presidential election women shall register in the same manner as male voters, separate registration books being provided for this purpose in each voting precinct by those whose duty it is to provide registration books for male voters. Approved May 8, 1917. Sections amended. [No. 192.] AN ACT to amend sections one, four, six, seven, eight and ten of act two hundred seventy-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to create the Michigan Historical Commission; to provide for the appointment of members of such commission; to fix their terms of office, prescribe their powers and duties, make an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act, and repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," as amended by act two hundred twenty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, the same being compilers' sections ten thousand seven hundred twenty-seven, ten thousand seven hundred thirty, ten thousand seven hundred thirty-two, ten thousand seven hundred thirty-three, ten thousand seven hundred thirty-four and ten thousand seven hundred thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, four, six, seven, eight and ten of act two hundred seventy-one of the Public Acts of nine teen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to create the Michigan Historical Commission; to provide for the appointment of members of such commission; to fix their terms of office, prescribe their powers and duties, make an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act, and repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," as amended by act two hundred twenty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, the same being compilers' sections ten thousand seven hundred twenty-seven, ten thousand seven hundred thirty, ten thousand seven hundred thirty-two, ten thou sand seven hundred thirty-three, ten thousand seven hundred thirty-four and ten thousand seven hundred thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: created. SEC. 1. There is hereby created a commission to be known Commission as the Michigan Historical Commission. Said commission shall consist of six members, with the addition of the Governor, ex-officio; said six members shall be appointed by the Governor. No member of said commission shall receive any compensation for his services, except actual and necessary expenses while attending the meetings or carrying out the purposes of said commission. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said commission to collect, Duty. arrange and preserve historical material, including books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, copies of domestic and foreign records and archives, paintings, statuary, and other objects and material illustrative of and relating to the history of Michigan and the old northwest territory; to procure and preserve narratives of the early pioneers, their exploits, perils, privations and achievements; to collect material of every description relative to the history, language, literature, progress or decay of our Indian tribes; to collect, prepare and display in the museum of said commission objects indicative of the life, customs, dress and resources of the early residents of Michigan, and to publish source materials, and historical studies relative to and illustrative of the history of the State, including such historical materials and studies as may be furnished for that purpose by educational institutions and by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. The commission shall cooperate with and assist the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society and local historical societies in the State, and help to organize new local historical societies of similar nature and purpose. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of said commission to pre- Publication. pare for publication the material referred to in section four of this act. The volumes of said publication shall be issued in editions of not more than two thousand five hundred copies, and contain not exceeding seven hundred fifty pages each. They shall be printed and bound in substantial uniformity with the volumes issued by other historical societies and the several State departments. Said printing, together Custodian, duty of. where sent. Proviso. with such bulletins, including a historical quarterly journal such as is issued by other historical societies, and such reprints of books, maps, and articles as may be determined upon by the commission, shall be paid out of the appropriation hereby made. SEC. 7. The secretary of the commission shall be the custodian of the publications of the commission, and of the museum, and shall distribute and exchange such publications with domestic and foreign states, governments and institutions under such rules and regulations as shall be estabPublications, lished by the commission. One copy of each volume published shall be furnished to each school library and educational institution, public library and grange library in the State of Michigan when authoritatively and officially requested so to do by the officers thereof: Provided, That no library containing less than five hundred volumes shall be entitled of right to receive such publications; he shall also furnish to each member of the Legislature during his term of office one copy of each volume, bulletin and journal published during such term. The remainder of the said copies of said volumes and publications shall be sold by said secretary at a price of not less than one dollar for each volume, and at such price for each bulletin and journal as may be fixed by the commission. The money arising from such sales and from certified copies of documents shall be placed in the State treasury to the credit of the general fund. Editor, salary of. Curator, salary of. SEC. 8. The secretary of said commission shall be the editor of all publications issued by the commission, acting under the direction of the commission, and shall receive a salary not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum. The commission shall have power to appoint a curator of the museum at a salary not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, who shall have such additional duties as may be prescribed by the commission, and to apArchivist, etc. point an archivist and assistant editors of said publications, and such clerical assistants as may be required, but the expenses of such archivist, editors and assistants, including the necessary traveling expenses of secretary or other employes and all other expenses incurred under this act shall not at any time exceed fifteen thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the secretary, archivist, editors, curator and clerical assistants shall be paid monthly from any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, upon a warrant of the Auditor General on the State treasury approved by the president or vice president of said commission. Annual SEC. 10. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate appropriation. in the State tax the sum of fifteen thousand dollars annually, and such amount is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the State to carry out the provisions of this act. Such sums shall be included in the State taxes apportioned by the Auditor General on all taxable property |