more newspapers of the county at least ten days before each special examination. certificates. SEC. 5. The board of school examiners shall meet on Meeting of the Saturday of the week following such public exami- borto grant nation held by the county commissioner, and shall grant certificates to teachers in such form as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prescribe, licensing as teachers all persons who shall have attained the age of seventeen years, who have attended such public examinations and who shall be found qualified in respect to good moral character, learning and ability to instruct and govern a school, but no certificate shall be granted to any person who, having arrived at the age of twenty-one years, is not a citizen of the United States, and who shall not have passed a satisfactory examination in orthography, reading, writing, grammar, geography, arithmetic, theory and art of teaching, United States history, civil government and physiology and hygiene, with the reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. The board of examiners shall have the right, how- When board may ever, to renew without examination the certificates of per- cates without sons who shall have previously obtained an average stand- examination, ing of at least eighty-five per cent in all studies covered in two or more previous examinations and who shall have been since such last named examinations continuously and successfully teaching in the same county. All certificates signing of shall be signed by the county commissioner and by at certificates. least one other member of the board of examiners. No person shall be considered a qualified teacher within the meaning of this act, nor shall any school officer employ or contract with any person to teach in any of the public schools, under the provisions of this act, who has not a certificate in force granted by the board of school examiners or other lawful authority. All examination questions Superintendent shall be prepared and furnished by the Superintendent of struction to Public Instruction to the county commissioner under seal, prepare examlto be opened in the presence of the applicants for certificates on the day of examination. renew certifi nation questions. SEC. 11. No Superintendent of Public Instruction, in- Who shall not structor at institute, county commissioner or examiner, shall act as agent, act as agent for the sale of any school furniture, text books, maps, charts or other school apparatus. SEC. 13. The officers of every school district which is Licensing and or shall hereafter be organized in whole or in part in any teachers. incorporated city in this State where special enactments shall exist in regard to the licensing of teachers, shall employ only such teachers as are legally qualified under the provisions of this act: Provided, That in cities employ- Proviso as to ing a superintendent, the examination of teachers shall be ciles employing conducted by such superintendent or by a committee of the board of education of such school district, and certificate issued at such time and in such a manner as the Superintendent of Public Instruction and board of educa superintendent. Provision as to tion in such city shall prescribe. Cities having a special normal training and thoroughly equipped normal training department, under department. school interest fund shall be forfeited. control of a special training teacher, such school having a course of not less than one year, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section as to the examination of When primary teachers. Any board of education that shall violate the provisions of this act by employing a teacher who is not legally qualified, shall forfeit such a proportion of the primary school interest fund as the number of unqualified teachers employed bear to the whole number of teachers employed in the district. All school districts organized by special enactments, shall, through their proper officers, make such reports as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may require. Repealing clause. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take effect July 4, 1895. Independent Order of Rechabites may incorporate. Number required to incorporate. May make arti tion, contents of cles of associa Articles of assoclation to be [ No. 67. ] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of tents of the SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That grand tents, district tents and primary tents of the Independent Order of Rechabites in North America in the State of Michigan may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any ten or more persons residents of this State being members of a grand or district tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites in North America, that has been duly chartered by the high tent of the said order and including in the number, if a grand tent, the grand chief ruler, the grand secretary and the grand treasurer, and if a district tent the district chief ruler, the district secretary, and the district treasurer, desiring to become incorporated, may make and sign articles of association, setting forth their names, official titles, and place of residence, the corporate name by which the association shall be known in law, the place of its business office, the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years, and the purposes of the association which shall be the promotion of temperance in the use of, and total abstinence from the use of all intoxicants, of mutual and moral improvement among the membership, and of mutual aid and relief among the members. SEC. 3. Such articles of association shall be acknowlfiled with secre- edged before a notary public, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the Secretary of State, and thereupon the per tary of State. politic. sons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and To be a body 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 May hold real successors, estates, real and personal, of suing and being estate. sued, and to have a common seal, which may be altered tion. or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of Proviso as to such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum amount, of ten thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of said real and personal estate, or any part thereof, at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents and incomes shall be devoted exclusively to the objects as above set forth of such association. And all of the prop- Property to be erty of said association shall be subject to taxation for all subject to taxapurposes as other property is assessed and taxed. Said corporation to have full power to make and establish rules, regulations and by-laws for regulating and governing all the affairs and business of said corporation not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States, and to designate, elect or appoint, from its members, such officers under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the constitution or the laws of the high tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites of America. SEC. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of asso- Copy of records ciation under the seal of the State, duly certified, accord- to be evidence. ing to law, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation. may institute female tents. SEC. 5. Such corporation, when duly formed, shall have Corporation power to institute and charter primary, junior and female when formed tents of said order within this State, and from time to junior and time to make, ordain, constitute and establish such general laws and by-laws, ordinances and regulations for the government of such primary, junior, or female tents not repugnant to the law or to the constitution or regulations of the high tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites of America as to them shall seem proper and necessary; and in case of violation or non-compliance with such ordinances, by-laws and regulations to revoke and amend the charter granted to such primary, junior or female tents: Provided, Proviso as to That the existing primary, junior or female tents hereto- primary tents, fore duly chartered by the high tent or the district tent, shall be subject to the control of the said high tent, or district tent as the case may be, under this act as heretofore, and in the same manner and to the same effect as those that may be hereafter instituted and chartered under this act. SEC. 6. Any nine or more persons, residents of this Number reState, being members of any primary, junior or female tent, porate primary, having been duly chartered by the grand or district tent female tent. quired to incorjunior and clation to be filled with county clerk. To be a body politic. May hold real estate, etc. of this State, desirous to become incorporated, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seal, specifying as provided in sections two and three of Articles of asso- this act, and file a copy of such articles with the clerk of the county in which such corporation shall be formed, which shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for such purposes, and thereupon the persons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of corporation and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in the law capable to purchase, hold and enjoy, grant, sell, give, lease and demise real and personal estate, of suing and being sued, and may have a common seal and change and alter the same at pleasure, and a certified copy of the record of such articles of association, under seal of the Copy of records County where the record is kept, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts in this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation: Provided, That the value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have authority and power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of said real and personal estate or part thereof at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents and incomes shall be devoted exclusively to the objects as above set forth of such corporation. to be evidence. Proviso as to amount of property. May erect build ing and create capital stock, Limit of amount. SEC. 7. Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act may erect and own such suitable edifice, building or hall, as to such corporation shall seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meetings of the primary, junior or female tents of the Independent Order of Rechabites of America, which they could sublet to other societies, and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than twenty thousand dollars to be divided into shares of not more than twenty-five dollars each. Approved April 8, 1895. Section amended. [ No. 68. ] AN ACT to amend section twenty-eight of chapter one hundred fifty-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, relative to offenses against property, being section ninety-one hundred fifty of Howell's annotated statutes. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section twenty-eight of chapter number one hundred fifty-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty six, relative to offenses against property, being section nine thousand one hundred fifty of Howell's annotated statutes, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: or of State refusing [9150.] SEC. 28. If any officer or agent of this State Officer or agent or of any county, city, village, township or school dis- to deliver money trict within the State, into whose hands money, books, to successor. papers, evidence of debt, or other property shall come by virtue of his office or agency, shall willfully refuse neglect, on demand, to deliver the same to his successor in office or to the person authorized by law to receive or have charge of the same, he shall be punished by Penalty. imprisonment in the State prison not more than five years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year. Approved April 8, 1895. [ No. 69. ] AN ACT to amend section sixteen of chapter one hundred sixty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, being compiler's section six thousand forty of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to notice of sale of real estate by executors, administrators and guardians for the payment of debts. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section sixteen of chapter one hundred sixty-three of amended. the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, being compiler's section six thousand forty of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to notice of sale of real estate by executors, administrators and guardians for the payment of debts, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: posted. SEC. 16. When a sale is ordered, notice of the time Notice of sale and place of holding the same shall be posted up in three to be printed and of the most public places in the township or ward in which the land is situated at least six weeks before the sale, and shall be published once in each week for six weeks successively next before such sale in a newspaper printed and circulated in the same county, if there be one, and if there be none, then in such newspaper as the court may direct, in which notice the lands and tenements to be sold shall be described with common certainty. Approved April 8, 1895. 22 |