Annual statement. when filed. Certificates of authority. Proviso, corporations organized under specific acts. Certificates, certain expiring by limitation. Proviso. [No. 133.] AN ACT to regulate the filing of annual statements by insurance companies doing business in this State, and the issuance of certificates of authority thereto by the Commissioner of Insurance. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The annual statement required by law to be filed in the office of the Commissioner of Insurance by any insurance company, including fraternal beneficiary societies, doing business under the provisions of any insurance law of this State, shall hereafter be filed on or before the fifteenth day of February of the year following that covered by the statement. SEC. 2. The Commissioner of Insurance shall, on or before March first of each year, issue certificates of authority to such companies as have filed their annual statements as required by section one of this act and have otherwise complied with the statutes under which they desire to be authorized to do business, which certificates shall bear date as of March first and shall expire on the last day of February following unless sooner revoked: Provided, That certificates of authority issued to corporations organized or doing business under the provisions of act number one hundred eighty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven and act number one hundred nineteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, and amendments thereto, shall be issued on or before April first following the filing of the annual statement, shall bear date as of April first and shall expire by limitation on the last day of March following their issuance unless sooner revoked. SEC. 3. All certificates of authority issued by the Commissioner of Insurance to insurance companies doing business in this State and expiring by limitation before March one, nineteen hundred ten, are hereby extended to that date and all certificates of authority issued by the Commissioner of Insurance prior to the taking effect of this act and expiring by limitation after March one, nineteen hundred ten, shall be deemed to expire February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred ten: Provided, That the certificates of authority of corporations doing business under the provisions of act number one hundred eighty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, and act number one hundred nineteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, and amendments thereto, issued prior to the taking effect of this act, shall expire by limitation on March thirty-one, nineteen hundred ten. clause. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts contravening the pro- Repealing visions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 26, 1909. [No. 134.] AN ACT to amend section six of act number one hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the indeterminate sentence as a punishment for crime, upon the conviction thereof, and for the detention and release of persons in prison or detained on such sentence, and for the expense attending the same," approved June seven, nineteen hundred five, and to add three new sections to said act to stand as sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended, SECTION 1. Section six of act number one hundred eighty- Section four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An sections act to provide for the indeterminate sentence as a punish- added. ment for crime, upon the conviction thereof, and for the detention and release of persons in prison or detained on such sentence, and for the expense attending the same," is hereby amended and three new sections are hereby added to said act to be known as sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty, said amended and added sections to read as follows: where made. warden. SEC. 6. Application shall be made to the Governor or to Applications, the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons upon uniform blanks prescribed by the Governor and the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons acting jointly and supplied by the secretary of the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons to the wardens or superintendents of the penal institutions named in section one of this act. It shall be the duty of Duty of the warden or superintendent, when requested by a prisoner whose minimum term of imprisonment has expired and is eligible to a parole, to furnish such prisoner with a blank application for parole. The application shall be filled out Application, and delivered to the warden or superintendent who shall im- o delivered. mediately forward the same to the Governor or to the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, with his recommendation endorsed thereon. Upon receipt of such application Investigation. and recommendation, the Governor or the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons shall make such investigation in the matter as they may deem advisable and necessary and may; in their discretion, grant such application and issue a parole or permit to such applicant to go at large without the en Convict entitled to good time. Proviso, residence of paroled convict. Clothing and transportation. Duty of warden. Issuance of clerk of board. closure of the prison. The convict so paroled, while at large SEC. 19. Whenever the parole of any prisoner shall be parole, duty of ordered by the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons or the Governor, the clerk of the said board shall at once notify the sheriff of the county or the chief of police of the city to which he is paroled, of the issuance of such parole, naming the county where convicted, the crime for which convicted, the name and address of first friend and the length of time which said prisoner shall be required to report before receiving final discharge. First friend, compensation, etc. SEC. 20. Any sheriff, chief of police or truant officer shall, upon request of the Governor or the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons act as first friend and advisor for paroled prisoners while on parole from any prison or reformatory in the State, and shall, upon the approval of the secretary of the Advisory Board in the Matter of Pardons, be paid from the general fund of the State not otherwise appropriated, one dollar per month for each paroled prisoner for such services. Whenever the term of office of any such officer acting as first friend shall expire while any such parole is in force, the duties of such first friend shall be assumed by the successor in office of such officer. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 135.] AN ACT authorizing the appointment of certain officers for the supreme court. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The supreme court may appoint a crier for Crier, how said court, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of salary, duty. appointed, the court. The said crier so appointed shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum. He shall have sole charge of the supreme court room and of the rooms assigned to the justices of the supreme court in the capitol, and shall perform such other duties as shall from time to time be required by the said court. The said crier may with the con- Assistant crier, salary, sent of the court appoint an assistant crier, who shall re- etc. ceive a salary of ten hundred dollars per annum, and shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the court. SEC. 2. The person so appointed crier shall, upon filing When crier with the clerk of said court such bond as is required by law may serve orders, to be given by sheriffs, to be approved by the chief justice of writs, etc. said court, have power to serve all orders, processes or writs issued from said court, and shall collect for such service the fees allowed by law to sheriffs. Any and all fees collected Fees, where by the crier shall be paid into the State treasury to be accredited to the general fund. paid. SEC. 3. The salary of the crier and of the assistant crier Salaries, shall be paid by the State Treasurer monthly out of any how paid. money in the general fund in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated in the manner now provided for the payment of salaries of other State officers. The Auditor General Tax levy. shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred nine and every year thereafter a sufficient amount to reimburse the general fund in the State treasury for the amounts appropriated by this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Additional judge. When deemed vacant. Term. Laws, etc., applicable. Powers and duties. Apportionment of business. [No. 136.] AN ACT to provide one additional judge in the judicial cir cuit in which the county of Ingham is, or may be situated, being now the thirtieth judicial circuit. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There shall be one additional judge in the judicial circuit in which the county of Ingham is, or may be situated, the same now being the thirtieth judicial circuit. SEC. 2. The additional office of circuit judge, created by this act, shall be deemed vacant from and after the day when this act shall take effect, and such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the Governor. The judge so appointed shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of his duties within ten days after his appointment, and continue until his successor shall be elected and qualified. SEC. 3. All laws and rules of court relative to circuit courts, and the terms thereof, and the powers and duties of circuit judges shall apply to such judge and to the court held by him. SEC. 4. The two judges of such circuit shall have equal and co-ordinate powers and duties, except as otherwise herein provided, and one of them shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The judge holding office at the time when the judge appointed to fill the vacancy declared by this act enters upon the duties of his office, shall assign and apportion from time to time, by order entered on the journal of the court, the business of said court between the said judges for the balance of the year. The other judge shall assign and apportion the business of the court between them for the next year, and thereafter the two judges and their successors, shall alternate in assigning and apportioning the business of the court. They may sit separately or together, in the hearing or trial of causes, or on all questions coming before them, and either may reserve for the consideration of both any question of law arising upon the trial or hearing, or that may Findings, etc., otherwise be submitted. When sitting together, the findings, orders, rulings, decisions, judgments or decrees shall be made. by the judge to whom the cause was assigned, and the other shall be advisory only. Sittings. by whom made. Hearing, etc. SEC. 5. Each judge shall proceed to hear, try and dispose of the business so assigned to him, with the same force and effect as if he was the only judge of said court, subject to and with the power and authority conferred by all the rules of practice, and of law applicable to circuit courts having only one judge; and thereupon said judge may proceed with the trial or hearing or other business so assigned to him, in the principal court-room, or in a separate court-room, at |