[No. 74.] AN ACT to amend section twenty of act number one hundred nineteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetythree, entitled "An act to define what shall constitute fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations, to provide for their incorporation and the regulation of their business, and for the punishment for violation of the provisions of the act of their incorporation, and to repeal all existing acts inconsistent therewith," the same being compiler's section seven thousand seven hundred fifty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty of act number one hundred Section nineteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to define what shall constitute fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations, to provide for their incorporation and the regulation of their business, and for the punishment for violation of the provisions of the act of their incorporation, and to repeal all existing acts inconsistent therewith," the same being compiler's section seven thousand seven hundred fifty-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 20. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed Certain to affect any grand or subordinate lodge or branch of any not affected. lodges, etc., such fraternal beneficiary society, order or association, which limits its certificate holders to a particular religious. denomination, or to the employes of a particular town or city designated, firm, business house or corporation, nor the grand or subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as they now exist, nor any grand, subordinate lodge, or other body of Free and Accepted Masons, nor the grand or any subordinate lodge of the Knights of Pythias, exclusive of the endowment rank, nor the Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Association: Provided, That the United States Benevolent Society of Proviso, Saginaw, the Michigan Home and Hospital Association of ties exempted Grand Rapids, the National Protective Society of Bay City, stie work. the American Benevolent Society of Traverse City, heretofore incorporated and doing business, are hereby exempted from the provisions of said act requiring a lodge system with ritualistic form of work, on complying with all other provisions of said act. Approved May 12, 1909. certain socie from ritual Impaneling juries in certain cases. [No. 75.] AN ACT to regulate the practice in circuit courts. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. In any judicial circuit in this State wherein more than one judge is trying jury cases at the same time, it shall be lawful to impanel a jury in one room from jurors drawn in the usual manner by a judge in charge of a case in another room where a jury may at the same time be in the process of being impaneled, and the different courts are authorized to make appropriate rules to properly guide and govern this practice. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 76.] AN ACT to repeal act number sixty-eight of the public acts The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number sixty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, as amended, entitled, "An act to provide for the incorporation of supreme, grand and subordinate lodges of the United Home Protectors' Fraternity, a cooperative fraternal building and loan society or order," is hereby repealed: Provided, That the repeal of said act number sixty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three shall not affect or interfere with any existing right or relieve any person, firm or corporation from liability, or affect any criminal or civil proceeding pending or instituted, or hereafter to be instituted, or be construed to affect any matter in relation to any receivership pending or instituted, or hereafter to be instituted, at the time this act shall take effect. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 77.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-two 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, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's section three hundred seventyseven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number seventy-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of act number one hundred Section eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, 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-nine, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's section three hundred seventy-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number seventy-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 22. In the ninth circuit the stenographer shall be Salary. paid an annual salary of two thousand dollars. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 78.] AN ACT to provide a tax to meet the amounts disbursed by the State for the current expenses of the Michigan State Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula and the Michigan Reformatory. The People of the State of Michigan enact: 1909, prisons, SECTION 1. The Auditor General shall add to and incor- Tax levy for porate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nine, current the sum of one hundred two thousand dollars for the purpose expense. of reimbursing the State treasury for money disbursed under existing laws on account of current expenses for the Michigan State Prison, the State House of Correction and Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula and the Michigan Reformatory, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun Tax levy for 1910. Sums, how paid out. dred seven, by institutions as follows: For the Michigan SEC. 2. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated or disbursed by Transfer authorized. [No. 79.] AN ACT authorizing the transfer of any moneys credited The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized to transfer to the credit of the general fund in the State treasury the sum of two hundred forty-five dollars now remaining on hand to the credit of the so-called "War Fund" authorized and collected under the provisions of act number five of the extra session of the legislature of eighteen hundred sixtyone. The Auditor General and State Treasurer are hereby empowered to make such entries in their books and records às may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. Approved May 12, 1909. [No. 80.] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of lodges of the The People of the State of Michigan enact: may incor SECTION 1. Any lodge of the Kalevan Ritarit organized Lodges that within this State and having a charter from the Grand Lodge porate. of the Kalevan Ritarit, may become incorporated under the provisions of this act. execute. SEC. 2. Any twelve or more persons, residents of this Articles, State, being members in good standing of a lodge of the who may Kalevan Ritarit, having competent authority from the grand lodge of the order, desirous of becoming incorporated, may make and execute articles of association, under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledg- What to set ments of deeds, and shall set forth: First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance, and their places of residence; Second, The corporate name by which such association shall be known in law, and the place of its business office; Third, The object and purpose of such association shall be to promote the general welfare of the Kalevan Ritarit fraternity during the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years. forth. charter, SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together Copy of with a copy of the charter of the Grand Lodge of Kalevan articles and Ritarit, shall be filed with the county clerk of the county where filed. in which the corporation shall be formed, and shall be recorded by such clerk in a book kept in his office for that purpose, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and thereupon the persons Body who have signed such articles of association, their associates corporate. and successors shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in the law, capable to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, estate, real, personal and mixed, of using and being used, and to have a common seal which may be altered or changed at their |