sixty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred thirty-seven. PAGE. 607 10. Concurrent resolution asking our Senators and Representatives in the fifty-fourth Congress of the United States to use their influence with the federal government to secure the deepening and widening of the mouth of the middle channel of the St. Clair river at its entrance into lake St. Clair in this State. Approved May 31, 1895......... 608 11. Concurrent resolution authorizing the Board of State Auditors and the State Librarian to procure and ship certain volumes of the Michigan supreme court reports and Howell's annotated statutes to the clerk of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Michigan, northern division, at Bay City. Approved June 1, 1895. 609 12. Concurrent resolution relative to the compilation, indexing and preparation for publication of the journals and documents of the Legislature. Approved June 1, 1895....... 609 13. Concurrent resolution authorizing the Secretary of State to give to the superintendent of the capitol building and such of the regular employed janitors and watchmen of the building, one copy of the Manual of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Approved June 1, 1895.. 610 14. Concurrent resolution relative to the dedication of the soldiers' monuments erected on the battlefield of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, etc. Approved June 4, 1895... 610 15. Concurrent resolution authorizing the Secretary of State to publish the law as it now stands relative to peddlers and hawkers, and to distribute the same to the various townships. Approved June 4, 1895.... 16. Concurrent resolution authorizing the Governor to make the best terms of settlement possible with the contractors on the Bois Blanc Island State road for their failure to complete said road in accordance with the law and terms of their contract. Approved May 28, 1895.. 610 610 AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of Masonic associa tions. Masonic asso SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Masonic associations may be incorporated under the pro- torporate, visions of this act. clations may Incorporate. rate. SEC. 2. Any ten or more residents of this State, who are Number who members of any chartered body, or of different chartered may incorpobodies of the order of Free and Accepted Masons, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which said articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer of this State having authority to take acknowledgment of deeds, and shall set forth: First, The names of the persons associating in the first Names of perinstance, their places of residence and the name and location sons, etc. of the Masonic body or bodies to which they severally belong; Second, The corporate name by which such association Corporate name shall be known in the law; of association. period of exist Third, The purpose of the association, which shall be to Purpose and provide a building or buildings to be used for Masonic pur- oc poses, and the period for which such association is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years. to be filled with evidence of ex SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association shall be filed Copy of articles with the county clerk of the county within which such corpo- county clerk. ration shall be formed, and shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, and thereupon the persons who shall have signed said articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association. A copy of Copy of articles such articles of association, under the seal of the county clerk prima facie in whose office said record is kept, and certified by him, shall istence of corbe received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such association. SEC. 4. Every corporation organized under the provisions Powers and of this act may take, receive, purchase and hold in its corporate duties of ascapacity, and for its corporate purposes, real and personal property, and the same or any part thereof demise, sell, convey, use and dispose of at pleasure; and may erect and own suitable poration. sociation. ings for masonic purposes. To erect build- building or buildings to be used in whole or in part for meetings of Masonic bodies, and may borrow money, and for that purpose may issue its bonds and mortgage its property to secure the payment of said bonds. Power to issue SEC. 5. Every such corporation shall have full power and shares of stock, authority to provide by its laws for the issuing of certificates or shares of stock and for the manner in which the same shall be held and represented. Provision for tees and num ber of. SEC. 6. Every such corporation shall have power to provide election of trus by its by-laws for succession to its original membership and for new membership; and shall also have power to provide by its by-laws for election from its members of a board of trustees, and to fix the number and term of office of such trustees. But such board shall not be less than five in number, and such term of office shall not exceed three years. Management by board of trustees; board may borrow money. Section amended. Proceedings when elector is challenged. Forms of oath when elector is challenged. SEC. 7. The management and control of the business, affairs and property of such corporation shall be vested in said board of trustees, and said board shall have power to borrow any money, and cause to be made and issued any bonds and mortgages authorized by section four of this act. Said trustees shall appoint from their own number a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall perform the duties of their respective offices in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the board of trustees. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 2. ] AN ACT to amend section twenty-four of act number one hundred and ninety, public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting, and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State," approved July three, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section twenty-four of the act described in the title to this act, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 24. If any person offering to vote shall be challenged as unqualified by any inspector, challenger, or any elector qualified to vote at that poll, the chairman of the board of inspectors shall declare to the person challenged the constitutional qualifications of an elector, and if such person shall state that he is a qualified elector, and the challenge shall not be withdrawn, one of the inspectors shall tender to him such of the following oaths as he may claim to contain the grounds of his qualifications to vote: 1. You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are twentyone years of age, that you are a citizen of the United States, |