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or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceed

ing sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 6. All acts or parts of acts in anywise inconsistent Acts repealed. with or contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved May 5, 1909.

[No. 60.]

AN ACT fixing the salaries of circuit judges.

salary.

The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. On and after January first, nineteen hundred Annual ten, each circuit judge shall receive an annual salary of thirtyfive hundred dollars, payable out of any moneys in the State treasury belonging to the general fund, not otherwise appropriated. The amount herein provided shall, after January first, nineteen hundred ten, be compensation in full for all services performed by each circuit judge in this State, until the board of supervisors shall, at any regular session here- Supervisors after, vote to pay the circuit judge regularly holding court in additional such county an amount in addition to the salary herein amount. designated.

Approved May 5, 1909.

may vote

[No. 61.]

AN ACT to amend sections nineteen and twenty-one of chapter eighteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of fences and fence viewers; of pounds and the impounding of cattle," being compiler's sections two thousand four hundred thirty-three and two thousand four hundred thirty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections nineteen and twenty-one of chapter Sections eighteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty- amended. six, entitled "Of fences and fence viewers; of pounds and the impounding of cattle," being compiler's sections two thousand four hundred thirty-three and two thousand four hundred

Fence

viewers, who shall be. Proviso, justices of peace.

Compensation.

Recovery of.

thirty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 19. The overseers of highways and the highway commissioner of the several townships in this State shall be fence viewers in their respective townships: Provided, That if in any case there shall not be at least two disinterested fence viewers, either of the two justices of the peace not members of the township board, or both if necessary, shall act as fence viewers whenever required.

SEC. 21. Each fence viewer shall be paid by the person employing him, at the rate of two dollars a day for the time he shall be so employed; and if such person shall neglect to pay the same within thirty days after the service shall have been performed, each fence viewer having performed any such service may recover in an action of assumpsit double the amount of such fees.

Approved May 5, 1909.

Section amended.

Contingent expenses, amount township may vote.

Specific purposes.

[No. 62.]

AN ACT to amend section three of chapter sixteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the powers and duties of townships and election and duties of township officers," the same being section two thousand two hundred sixty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter sixteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the powers and duties of townships and election and duties of township officers," the same being section two thousand two hundred sixty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. The inhabitants of any township shall have the power at any legal meeting, by a vote of the qualified electors thereof, to grant and vote sums of money, not exceeding such amounts as are or may be limited by law as they shall deem necessary for defraying all proper charges and expenses arising in such township, but they shall not vote or raise by tax in any one year for contingent or ordinary expenses of the township to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars. No money shall be raised by tax on the property of the township in excess of two thousand dollars in any one year for township purposes, except such as shall be voted for specific purposes, to be set forth and entered upon the records of

authorized.

the township, and all moneys so raised shall constitute a fund for the purpose or purposes so expressed, and shall not be applied to any other purposes. No board, officer or offi- Debt, uncers shall create any debt or liability against the township, or issue any warrant, certificate or order for the payment of money, except when the creation of such debt or liability or the payment of such money has been authorized by such vote or by the provisions of law. Approved May 5, 1909.

[No. 63.]

AN ACT to amend section four of act number two hundred of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section four of act number two hundred of Section the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same," is hereby amended to read as follows:

of schools,

SEC. 4. (a) It shall be the duty of the county commis- Commissioner sioner of schools to furnish the truant officer of the county, duty of. at the opening of the schools, with a list of the teachers and superintendents employed in his county in school districts other than in such city graded and township districts as are described in section two of this act;

parent.

(b) In case any parent or other person in parental rela- Notice to tion shall fail to send the child or children under his or her control to the public school, the truant officer, upon having notice from proper authority of such fact, shall immediately and within twenty-four hours thereafter give formal written notice in person or by registered mail, to the parent or other person in parental relation, that the child or children under his or her control shall present himself or themselves at the public school, except as herein before provided, on the day following the receipt of such notice, with the necessary textbooks for instruction in the proper school or schools of the district or city. Said notice shall inform the parent or other Notice, what person in parental relation of the date that attendance must

to state.

Notice to teacher or superintendent.

Truant officers, duty of.

Complaint.

Warrant.

Conviction.

Proviso, recorder's court.

Assistance rendered officer.

begin and that such attendance at school must be continuous and consecutive during the remainder of the school year as taught in the district. The truant officer shall, at the same time the said formal notice is given to the parent or person in parental relation, notify the teacher or superintendent or commissioner of the fact of notice, and it shall be the duty of the teacher or superintendent or commissioner to notify the truant officer of failure on the part of the parent or other person in parental relation to comply with said notice;

(c) It shall be the duty of all truant officers, after having given the formal notice hereinbefore described, to determine whether the parent or other person in parental relation has complied with the notice, and in case of failure to so comply he shall immediately and within three days after having knowledge or being notified thereof, make a complaint against said parent or other person in parental relation having the legal charge and control of such child or children, before any justice of the peace in the city, village or township where such party resides, or in an adjoining township or city in such county, for such refusal or neglect to send such child or children to school; and said justice of the peace shall issue a warrant upon said complaint and shall proceed to hear and determine the same in the same manner as is provided by statute for other cases under his jurisdiction, and in case of conviction of any parent or other person in parental relation for violation of this act, said parent or other person in parental relation shall be punished according to the provisions of section three of this act: Provided, That in cities having a recorder's court and justices of the peace, the truant officer shall make the aforesaid complaint before the magistrate of said recorder's court or before a justice of the peace, and said magistrate or justice shall issue a warrant and proceed to hear and determine the case in the same manner as is provided in the statute for other cases under his jurisdiction;

(d) It shall be the duty of all school officers, superintendents, teachers or other persons to render such assistance and furnish such information as they may have at their command to aid such truant officer in the performance of his official duty.

Approved May 5, 1909.

[No. 64.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-nine of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, auties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninetyseven, the same being compiler's section three hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred five.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-nine of act number one hundred Section eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety- amended. seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being compiler's section three hundred ninety-one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 29. In the sixteenth circuit the stenographer shall Salary. be paid an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. Approved May 5, 1909.

[No. 65.]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of tuition in and transportation to another district, of children who have completed the eighth grade in any school district; and to repeal act umber one hundred ninety of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening the provisions of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

payment of

SECTION 1. The board of education of any school district Tax for which does not maintain a high school shall have authority tuition. and is hereby required to vote a tax sufficient to pay the tuition to one of the three nearest high schools of any children residents of said district who have completed the studies

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