1901 6r Penalty for officer of said township, city or village, and then only under the supervision of the health officer of said township, city or village. SEC. 2. Whoever shall violate the provisions of section one of this act, or the order of the health officer made in pursuance thereof, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by both said fine and imprisonment. Approved March 29, 1895. Sections Governor to [ No. 46. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, three, nine, ten and fourteen of act number two hundred and thirteen of the session laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide a board of jury commissioners for the county of St. Clair and the manner of selecting jurors to serve in the circuit court for said county and to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, and to punish violations of the act," approved June first, eighteen hundred ninety-three. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, three, nine, ten and fourteen of act number two hundred thirteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide a board of jury commissioners for the county of St. Clair and the manner of selecting jurors to serve in the circuit court for said county and to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, and to punish violations of the act, approved June first, eighteen hundred ninety-three, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. The Governor of the State shall appoint a board of jury commissioners for the county of St. Clair, consisting of six persons, each of whom shall be a resident elector and freeholder of the said county. Three of the said persons shall be appointed for two years and three for four years. The said Governor shall from time to time appoint persons of like qualifications as successors to the said commissioners, and shall also fill all vacancies Term of office. occurring in the said board from any cause. The official term of said commissioners shall begin on the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred ninety-three, and all subsequent appointments, except for the filling of vacancies, shall be for the term of four years; the said commissioners shall respectively serve until their successors are Oath of omce. appointed and have qualified. Said commissioners shall, before entering upon their duties, take the constitu tional oath of office and file the same with the county clerk. Said commissioners shall receive as compensation Compensation, for their services three dollars for each day actually engaged in the performance of duty, and such actual expense as shall be incurred in traveling to ascertain the qualifications of jurors and in attendance upon the meetings of the board, to be audited by and proved before the circuit court of the county of St. Clair, and paid by the county treasurer on the certificate of the county clerk, under the seal of the court. selecting petit SEC. 3. Such list shall consist of four names from each List of names, township and ward containing four hundred inhabitants or less, according to the last preceding census, and six names from each township and ward containing more than four hundred inhabitants, according to said census. Said list To be used for when so prepared shall be used in selecting petit jurors jurors. of the said circuit court for the succeeding year, ending on the second Monday of April, and until a new list shall be chosen in accordance with this act, in the place of the lists now required by general law to be returned by the supervisors and assessors of the said county. jury. SEC. 9. At least fourteen days before the first day of selection of any term of the circuit court for the said county, at which a jury is to be in attendance, the said county clerk shall, in the presence of the circuit judge and the sheriff of the said county, to whom he shall give due notice of the time and place at least two days in advance, proceed to select a jury for the next term of the said court in the manner following: The packages containing the names of Manner of. the jurors shall be arranged in alphabetical order and shall in such order, beginning at "A, be separately opened and the slips therein placed in a box to be known as the jury box, the box shall then be well shaken and in such manner as to thoroughly commingle the slips, and one of the persons in attendance shall draw therefrom one of the slips of paper, and the name appearing thereon shall be a juror for the said term of court; the remainder of the packages shall then be successively treated in the same manner in alphabetical order until such number of persons have been chosen as the said circuit judge shall have directed to be drawn for the said term, and such persons so chosen shall be jurors for the said term, and each drawing after the first shall begin in at the package next succeeding in alphabetical order the one last used in the preceding drawing. It shall be the duty of the said circuit circuit judge judge and sheriff to attend at the time and place fixed by the county clerk on receiving the notice herein provided. In case the said judge or sheriff shall not be present at the time and place fixed for the said drawing, the clerk shall make a minute of the fact in the record book and at once secure the attendance of the judge of probate or one of the circuit court commissioners of the county, who, being in attendance, shall have the same powers as the circuit judge and sheriff to attend. 121 5 When drawing or sheriff would have if present, and in case the attendance of neither of said officers can be secured, the clerk to be adjourned, shall adjourn the drawing until some other time, and from time to time until two of said officers are present. A record of the said drawing shall be kept by the clerk, and in case of his absence by some member of the board selected therefor, in the same book in which the record of the doings of the jury commissioners is kept; when a name is drawn from the said box and duly recorded, the slip containing it shall be destroyed and the remaining slips containing the names from the said township or ward shall again be returned to a package and sealed and endorsed as before, to await the next drawing. If the name of any person be drawn who, to the knowledge of either of the persons, shall have deceased or become insane, or have removed beyond the jurisdiction, a record of the fact shall be made, the slip containing the name destroyed, and another name be at once drawn from the same town or ward to supply the place. Proceedings Issue of venire SEC. 10. At the conclusion of such drawing, the officers acting shall respectively sign the record thereof, and the clerk shall thereupon issue a venire facias to the sheriff of said county commanding him or any of his deputies to summon the said persons so selected to be and appear in said court at the time and place therein named to serve as petit jurors for the said term of the said court. SEC. 14. Whenever there shall not be a sufficient numwhen not enough ber of jurors present to form a panel for any cause to be jurors present. tried, the court may direct talesmen to be drawn and sum Proceedings moned, from the jury lists provided by the board of jury This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 47. ] AN ACT to amend act number two hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, being section number nineteen hundred eighty-four n of the third volume of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act relative to the admission of insane members of the Michigan Soldiers' Home to the insane aslyums of this State, and to their support at such asylums.' amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That act number two hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-nine, being section number nineteen hundred eighty-four n of the third volume of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act relating to the admission of insane members of the Michigan Soldiers' Home to the insane asylums of this State, and to their support at such asylums," be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto another section, to stand as section two thereof and to read as follows: sane commit in SEC. 2. Whenever any such inmate of the Michigan Probate judge Soldiers' Home shall be adjudged insane according to may comber of law, the probate judge having jurisdiction thereof may com- Soldiers' Home mit such insane person to any insane aslyum of this State in State. to be there maintained and supported at the expense of the State. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. to any asylum [ No. 48. ] AN ACT to incorporate the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons incor SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Grand Chapter That the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Mich- Royal Arch igan, by that name and style, is hereby incorporated and porated. declared a body politic and corporate in deed and law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever, and shall have a common seal which it may change at pleasure. corporation. SEC. 2. The officers of said corporation shall be, the omcers of grand high priest, deputy grand high priest, grand king, grand scribe, grand treasurer and grand secretary, for the time being, and they shall constitute the board of directors of said corporation for the transaction of all business authorized by this act. How may make and establish by-laws. May hold and personal property. SEC. 3. Said corporation, under direction of the grand chapter when assembled, may make and establish all necessary by-laws and rules for its governance and the governance of all subordinate chapters under the jurisdiction of the grand chapter, relating to the business and property authorized to be done, held and conveyed by this act; and said corporation may take, hold and convey, as may convey real and be required from time to time, any real or personal estate for the purpose of its or their organizations, not at any time exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, but such property, both real and personal, shall be subject to assessment and taxation for all purposes, and all real and personal estate so held may be conveyed by deed or bill of sale in the name of the said corporation, executed by the grand high priest for the time being, or by such other person as the board of directors appoint for that purpose, and in case of real estate acknowledged by him to be the act and deed of said corporation, with the seal of the grand chapter attached, and such conveyance so executed shall be valid and binding for all intents and purposes whatsoever. Grand high priest may exeeute deed or bill of sale. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. shall Proceedings to vacate ceme teries. Petition to be made to board of health. [ No. 49. ] AN ACT to provide for vacating cemeteries in townships. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That whenever complaint is made in writing to the board of health of any organized township in this State, by ten or more residents of such township, setting forth the fact that any private cemetery, within the bounds of said township, should be removed, for the reason that such cemetery has become commons, or has become neglected or abandoned by its owner or owners, or has become a public nuisance, or shall impede the growth of any city or village in said township, or whenever such cemetery shall endanger the health of the people living in the immediate vicinity thereof, it shall become the duty of the said township board of health to forth with institute proceedings to vacate said cemetery in the manner hereinafter provided. The circuit court in chancery, of the county in which such cemetery is located is hereby authorized to vacate the same, or any part thereof, on petition made to such court as herein. provided. SEC. 2. Said petition shall be made by the said board of health by an agent or attorney appointed by them for that purpose, who shall file a petition signed and sworn to by him, in the office of the register of said court for the |