May sue and be sued. Corporation to dissolved. When board of managers may file petition to dissolve a corporation. Scriptures, publishing a religious newspaper or periodical, aiding state, home and foreign missions, promoting Christian and ministerial education, Sabbath school instruction, and the circulation of religious tracts, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and may have a common seal which they may alter or renew at pleasure. That whenever any corporation heretofore organized or hereafter to be organized under the provitions, who become sions of chapter one hundred seventy-five of Howell's Annotated Statutes, or under or by virtue of act number fiftyfour of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninetynine, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of Baptist churches," shall be dissolved either by the death of all its members, or by the loss of so many of them, that it is thereby rendered unable to do any corporate act, or restore itself by proceeding to elect trustees as provided in said act, this corporation shall be held and deemed to be the legal successor of such corporation, and shall succeed to and be vested with all the property rights which were in such corporation at the time it was dissolved. And that whenever the board of managers of this corporation shall have reason to believe that any corporation organized under the provisions of said chapter one hundred seventy-five, or said act number fifty-four of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred ninety-nine shall have become dissolved in the manner above specified, such executive board shall be authorized to file a petition, as near as may be, according to the provisions of sections one to eight of chapter three hundred of the revised statutes of one thousand eight hundred ninetyseven, for a decree determining the dissolution of such corpoCertain sections ration; that thereupon proceedings shall be had under such petition, as near as may be in accordance with sections one to eight of the last said chapter. And upon the coming in of the report of the matter if it shall appear that such corporaWhat to declare. tion has been so dissolved, a decree shall be entered declaring and adjudging such corporation to have been dissolved, and decreeing the said Baptist Convention of the State of Michigan to be the legal successor of such corporation, and to have succeeded to and be vested with all the property rights which were in such corporation at the time it was dissolved, Effect of decree. Which decree when made may be recorded and have the same force and effect as is provided in section four hundred sixty-five of the Compiled Laws of one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven. to govern. When decree entered. How members may be entitled SEC. 7. The members of the corporation shall have power at any meeting held, as aforesaid, to provide by their by-laws that any number of persons associated together for any of the purposes mentioned in this act of incorporation may, as auxiliary societies, be represented by their delegates at all meetings of the members of this corporation, and that such delegates may be entitled to vote at such meetings and for that purpose be considered as members of the corporation, may appoint and that any such society or any individual who shall pay When any society This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 61.] AN ACT to amend section one, of act number one hundred twelve, of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to secure the minority of stockholders in corporations organized under general laws, the power of electing a representative membership in boards of directors," the same being section eight thousand five hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number two hundred twentythree, of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, approved June eighteen, nineteen hundred three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred twelve, Section amended. of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to secure the minority of stockholders in corporations organized under general laws, the power of electing a representative membership in boards of directors," the same being section eight thousand five hundred fifty-three, of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number two hundred twenty-three, of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, approved June eighteen, nineteen hundred three, is hereby amended to read as follows: holders in selec SEC. 1. In all elections for directors of any corporation Rights of stockorganized under any general law of this State, other than tion of directors. municipal, insurance and banking corporations, every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him for as many persons as there may be directors to be elected, or to cumulate said shares, and give one candidate as many votes as will equal the number of directors multiplied by the number of Directors, Proviso as to certain associations. shares of his stock; or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit.ˆ All such corporations shall elect their directors annually, and the selected annually. entire number of directors shall be balloted for at one and the same time and not separately: Provided, That associations formed for social, yachting, hunting, boating, fishing and rowing purposes, under act number twenty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, approved April ten, eighteen hundred eighty-three, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of clubs for social purposes," the same being sections seven thousand seven hundred thirty-three to seven thousand seven hundred thirty-nine, both inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, or under section seven thousand six hundred sixty-seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, may elect a portion of their directors for a longer term than one year, as may be provided in their by-laws. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sunday hunting unlawful. Prima facie evidence, what deemed. Misdemeanor, what deemed Penalty. [No. 62.] AN ACT to prevent hunting for game on Sunday in Oakland county, to authorize the arrest of persons so offending, and to prescribe a penalty therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt for game with firearms, dogs, or otherwise on Sunday on any lands or premises of another in Oakland county of this State, without consent of the owner or lessee of such lands or premises. SEC. 2. If any person is found upon the lands or premises of another, without the consent of the owner or lessee of such lands or premises, with firearms in his possession on Sunday, it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of this act. SEC. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars and costs of prosecution, or to imprisonment in the county jail of not to exceed thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, however, That no complaint shall be made or entertained against any person for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, unless the same shall be made by the owner or lessee of the lands or Further proviso. premises so trespassed upon: Provided further, That any offi Proviso. cer duly authorized to make an arrest, including the State Game and Fish Warden and his deputies, may arrest without warrant any person caught by him in the act of violating any of the provisions of this act, when requested so to do by the owner or lessee of the lands or premises trespassed upon. Such arrest may be made on Sunday, in which case the person Arrest may be arrested may be taken before a justice of the peace having jurisdiction, and proceeded against as soon as may be on a week day following the arrest. made on Sunday. arrests. SEC. 4. The State Game and Fish Warden and his deputies Fees for making shall receive the same fees for making arrests under this act that other officers now do for like services. Nothing herein shall prevent said warden or his deputies from receiving such further compensation as may be made by the board of supervisors of said county. construed. SEC. 5. The word "Sunday" as used in this act shall be con- Sunday, how. strued to mean the first day of the week. Approved April 19, 1905. [No. 63.] AN ACT to amend section thirteen of act number one hundred ninety-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventyseven, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of partnership associations, in which the capital subscribed shall alone be responsible for the debts of the association, except under certain circumstances," being chapter one hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number two hundred forty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirteen of act number one hundred Section amended. ninety-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventyseven, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of partnership associations, in which the capital subscribed shall alone. be responsible for the debts of the association, except under certain circumstances," being chapter one hundred sixty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number two hundred forty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred three, be amended and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: to make. SEC. 13. Every partnership association heretofore or here- Annual report, after organized under this act shall annually, in the month of January or February, make duplicate reports for the fiscal year last ending, of such association, on suitable blanks to be furnished by the Secretary of State, as hereinafter provided. What to state. Secretary of State to mail blanks. Reports by whom signed. Duty of Secretary of State. Such report shall state the amount of capital subscribed, and the amount thereof actually paid in, in cash, and the amount thereof paid in property, if any; the amount of capital invested in real and personal estate, and the present actual value of the same as near as may be estimated; the amount of debts of the association, and the amount of credits, and the present estimated value of the credits; the name and postoffice address of each member and the amount of capital held by each at the date of such report; the name and postoffice address of each officer and manager of the association and such other information as the Secretary of State may require. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State in the month of December, in each year, to mail to each such association suitable blanks on which shall be printed a copy of this section. Such reports shall be signed by a majority of the managers and verified by the oath of the secretary of the association, and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State within the said month of January or February. The Secretary of State shall carefully examine such reports, and if upon such examination they shall be found to comply with all the requirements of this section, he shall file one of them in his office and shall forward the other by mail or express to the county clerk of the county in which the principal office, in this State, for the transaction Duty of county of the business of said association is situated. And it shall be clerk. the duty of such county clerk, upon receipt of such report to immediately cause the same to be filed in his office. If any of the managers of any such association shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make and deposit the report required by this section, within the time herein specified, they shall each be liable for all the debts of such association contracted during the period of such neglect or refusal, and subject to a penalty of twentyfive dollars, and in addition thereto the sum of five dollars for each and every secular day after the first of March in each year during the pendency of such neglect or refusal, which penalty shall be for the use and benefit of the general fund of this State. The Secretary of State shall, during the last week Attorney General. Of June of each year, report to the Attorney General in writing, the name and postoffice address of each and every association which has failed to comply with the provisions of this Duty of Attorney section. And upon the receipt of such report, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction, to collect said penalties, and all necessary expenses incurred by the Attorney General in such proceedings shall be audited by the Board of State Auditors, and paid from the general fund of the State. And in case notice of dissolu- an association organized or doing business under the provisions of this act shall be dissolved by process of law, or whose term of existence shall terminate by limitation, or whose property and franchises shall be sold at mortgage sale or at private sale, it shall be the duty of the last board of managers of such association, within thirty days thereafter, to Penalty for neglect or refusal to make report. Associations to be reported to General. Board of Managers to give tion, etc. |