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MILITARY AFFAIRS /
1–$5,000,000 War Loan Act.
2–Amending Act of 1909, providing for the military estab-
lishment.
3–Pay of Enlisted Men.
4–Amending Naval Militia Act.
5—Military Training in High Schools.
6–Payment of Claims of Veterans of Spanish-American
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PASSED BY
LEGISLATURE OF 1917
PRINTED BY AUTHORITY
. DENNIS E. ALWARD, Secretary of the Senate
CHARLES S, PIERCE, Clerk of the House of Representatives

sENATE BILL NO. 328 (ENROLLED NO. 57).
(Foster-Petermann Bill.)
Act No. 97, Public Acts of 1917.
AN ACT authorizing a war loan and providing for the disbursements
of the proceeds therefrom and for a war loan sinking fund for the
purpose of liquidating the loan.
Whereas, The United States has reached a crisis making it likely that
the President shall call on the state of Michigan for troops and for a
naval contingent; and
Whereas, It has become necessary for the several states to be pre-
pared for all calls of a military nature made by the general govern-
ment; therefore: f
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Section 1. That the governor and state treasurer be and they are
hereby authorized and directed, in the name and on behalf of the people,
and upon the faith and credit of this state, for the purpose of repelling
invasion and defending the state and nation in time of war against all
enemies and opposers whatever, to purchase and contract for a loan or
loans for such sum or sums of money as may from time to time be neces-
sary for the purposes of this act specified, not exceeding five million dol-
lars in all, on the most favorable terms that, in their judgment, can be ob-
tained, redeemable at the pleasure of the state at any time not more
than twenty years from the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred
seventeen, at a rate of interest not to exceed four per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually on the first days of May and November in each
year. Such loans shall be known as “the Michigan War Loan of Nine-
teen Hundred Seventeen.” The proceeds of such loans shall be credited
to the war fund and shall be paid out in no other manner and for no
other purpose than in this act specified. The principal, as well as the
interest, accruing upon the notes or bonds issued under this act shall
be payable from the war loan sinking fund hereinafter provided for.
Sec. 2. For the purpose of effecting the loan or loans herein author-
ized, the governor and state treasurer are hereby empowered and di-
rected to cause to be issued notes or bonds of the state of Michigan
from time to time, as may be deemed necessary and advisable, in sums
not less than one hundred dollars each, to be signed by the governor and
countersigned by the secretary of state and state treasurer, with the seal
of state affixed thereto, and with or without the coupons for interest
thereto attached. The notes or bonds shall be drawn in favor of the
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auditor general, and when endorsed by him become negotiable in such
manner and payable at such places as the governor and state treasurer
may deem expedient. *
Sec. 3. The moneys arising from the sale of the notes or bonds by
this act authorized to be issued, shall be paid into the treasury of the
state to the credit of the war fund, and shall be drawn therefrom upon
the warrants of the auditor general, which warrants shall be issued up-
on proper requisitions of the war preparedness board referred to in
section nine hereof, after the governor shall have certified that the
amount stated in the requisition is needed for the purposes specified
in this act: Provided, That warrants may be issued by the auditor
general upon proper vouchers certified by the governor for advances
made or authorized by the said board for expenditures incurred for
the purposes in this act specified before such fund shall have been
available. f
Sec. 4. The moneys provided by this act may be used for the follow-
ing purposes:
(1) For the purpose of carrying on recruitment service to obtain
the quota of men and organizations required by the federal government;
(2) To provide a fund for the care of dependents of the enlisted force
raised by this state under such rules and regulations as may be pre-
scribed ;
(3) For the preparation, maintenance and equipment of mobilization
camps and stations within this state;
(4) To provide suitable equipment for enlisted men and officers;
(5) To provide an insurance or beneficiary fund for soldiers or their
dependents in case of death or disability growing out of their military
service; *
(6) For an organization of home defense units and the proper equip-
ment of the same;
(7) To provide for training schools for officers and the maintenance
thereof; *
(8) For the organization of auxiliary relief work within the state;
(9) For such other purposes not herein specifically enumerated as
may be deemed necessary in the discretion of the governor for the pur-
pose of state and national defense.
Sec. 5. All claims and accounts accruing against this state for ex-
penses and disbursements authorized by this act, shall be audited by a
special auditing committee of said board to be designated by the gover-
nor in the same manner that other accounts are now audited and allow-
ed by the board of state auditors.
Sec. 6. The notes and bonds issued under this act shall be numbered
consecutively and registered in a book provided for this purpose, which
shall be kept in the auditor general’s office. This register shall contain
the date of the note or bond, the number, to whom issued, and the
amount of each note or bond; also the date of redemption, number of
each note or bond, of whom received and amount of each note or bond.
There shall also be kept in the auditor general's office a register show-
ing the date of the note or bond, the number, amount, date each coupon
is due and the cancellation of such coupons as are paid, with reference
to the number of the voucher paying the same. Whenever any such
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notes or bonds shall be paid, the same shall be immediately canceled by
the treasurer and the auditor general shall also keep a full record of
all the notes or bonds taken up and paid, as provided above. And imme-
diately after the record shall have been made as aforesaid, the notes or
bonds so paid shall also be cancelled by writing across the face of each
note or bond, which cancellation shall be signed by the auditor general
and state treasurer, and such notes or bonds thus cancelled shall be
filed with the voucher as the basis of the auditor general’s warrant for
their payment.
Sec. 7. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the notes
or bonds issued under this act, and the interest thereon, it shall be the
duty of the auditor general to add to and incorporate in the state tax
for the year nineteen hundred seventeen the sum of two hundred fifty
thousand dollars, and for each year thereafter a like sum until the
several amounts levied under this act shall become sufficient to extin-
guish the debt authorized herein, and which sums when so levied and
collected shall be credited each year to the war loan sinking fund as
herein directed: Provided, That the last levy necessary under this act
shall be for such sum only as may be necessary to extinguish the re-
mainder of the debt.
Sec. 8. The faith of the state is hereby pledged for the payment of
principal and interest of the notes or bonds which may be made or is-
sued under the provisions of this act.
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the governor, by and with the advice
and recommendations of a war preparedness board consisting of the
governor, who shall be the chairman of said board, the attorney gen-
eral, the auditor general, the state treasurer, the secretary of state and
the superintendent of public instruction of the state, to expend such
part of the above fund as may be necessary to carry out the purposes
specified in section four in this act.
Sec. 10. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as pre-
venting the governor and the state treasurer from borrowing any part
or portion of the loans authorized by means of promissory notes or
other evidences of indebtedness, upon the faith and credit of the state,
when such loans may be made advantageously in any other manner
than by the issuance of bonds, and all such sums borrowed on promis-
sory notes shall be redeemable and paid according to the tenor thereof,
in the same manner as if such loans were made by means of the bonds
referred to in this act. Bonds and other evidences of indebtedness is-
sued under authority of this act shall be exempt from taxation in this
State.
Sec. 11. The provisions of this act are hereby declared to be within
the purview of section ten, article ten of the constitution of this state,
and immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace and
safety.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 418 (ENROLLED NO. 27).
(Culver Bill.) * .
Act No. 53, Public Acts of 1917.
AN ACT to amend sections three, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, twelve,
thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-
four, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-
one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-
seven, forty-one, forty-four, fifty, fifty-six, sixty, seventy, seventy-one
and seventy-four, and to repeal sections forty-nine and fifty-five of act
number eighty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as
amended by act number sixty-seven and act number one hundred
seventy-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, and act
number three hundred eleven and act number four hundred five of the
Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, and acts numbered seventy-
two, seventy-three and one hundred fifty-seven of the Public Acts of
nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled “An act to increase the efficiency
of the military establishment of the state of Michigan, to make an
appropriation therefor, and to repeal all former acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act,” approved May twelve,
nineteen hundred nine, and to add two new sections to said act to
stand as sections seven-a and seven-b.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Section 1. Sections forty-nine and fifty-five of act number eighty-
four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, being sections nine
hundred twenty-four and nine hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of
nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby repealed, and sections three, six,
seven, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-
eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-
four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, forty-one, forty-four, fifty, fifty-
six, sixty, seventy, seventy-one and seventy-four of act number eighty-
four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, being sections eight
hundred seventy-eight, eight hundred eighty-one, eight hundred eighty-
two, eight hundred eighty-three, eight hundred eighty-four, eight hun-
dred eighty-six, eight hundred eighty-seven, eight hundred eighty-eight,
eight hundred eighty-nine, eight hundred ninety, eight hundred ninety-
one, eight hundred ninety-six, eight hundred ninety-seven, eight hun-
dred ninety-nine, nine hundred one, nine hundred two, nine hundred
three, nine hundred four, nine hundred five, nine hundred six, nine
hundred seven, nine hundred eight, nine hundred nine, nine hundred
ten, nine hundred eleven, nine hundred twelve, nine hundred sixteen,
nine hundred nineteen, nine hundred twenty-five, nine hundred thirty-
one, nine hundred thirty-five, nine hundred forty-five, nine hundred
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forty-six and nine hundred forty-nine of the Compiled Laws of nine-
teen hundred fifteen, entitled “An act to increase the efficiency of the
military establishment of the State of Michigan, to make an appropria-
tion therefor, and to repeal all former acts or parts of acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act,” approved May twelve, nineteen hundred
nine, are hereby amended and two new sections are added to said act
to stand as sections seven-a and seven-b, said amended and added sec-
tions to read as follows: -
Sec. 3. In case of actual or threatened war against, insurrection in,
or invasion of the state, or in case of actual rebellion in or war against
the United States, or in case the President of the United States shall
make requisition on the Governor of this State, or in any case where
there shall not be enough voluntary enlistments to keep up the pre-
scribed strength of the reserve battalions provided for in the act of
Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred sixteen, the governor
may order out by draft, voluntary enlistment, or otherwise, the whole
or so much of the militia of the state as the public necessity demands,
and he may also in like manner order out any portion of the militia
for the service of the state to suppress riots and to aid civil officers
in the execution of the laws of this state or of the United States; he
may appoint the number by draft according to the population of the
several counties of the State, or otherwise, as he shall direct, and shall
notify the sheriff of each county from which any draft is so required
of the number of persons his county is to furnish. Upon the requisition
of the governor being received by the sheriff, he shall immediately per-
sonally notify the county clerk, or, in case of the absence of such clerk
or his inability to act, then his legally authorized deputy or deputies,
who shall repair to the office of the county clerk and in public shall
copy by name or number from the supervisor’s roll of each township,
city or ward of such county, all persons who are so returned as liable
to perform military duty; such names or their corresponding numbers
shall be placed on slips of paper of the same size and appearance, as
near as practicable, which slips so named or numbered shall be placed
in a box suitable for that purpose and the number required to fill such
draft or requisition shall be drawn therefrom in the same manner as
jurors are by law now drawn. All persons so drawn and liable to per-
form military duty shall be determined to be legally held to serve in
the manner and for the purpose and time specified in the requisition,
and the sheriff shall notify the persons so drafted, orally or in writing,
at what time and place they shall appear. -
Sec. 6. When troops of the state of Michigan are called into the
field for the purpose of recruiting them originally or keeping organiza-
tions up to the maximum strength, the Governor may detail officers of
the National Guard, National Guard Reserve or naval forces, to act
as recruiting officers or in any other requisite capacity, and assign them
to duty at such points in the state as he may designate. Such officers
may be of any rank and shall be paid the pay proper and allowances.
of officers of like grade in the United States army or navy.
Sec. 7. The militia organized as a land force, comprising the Michi-
gan National Guard, and the militia organized as a naval force, in cases
of war, rebellion, invasion, the suppression of riots, or aid of civil offi-
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cers in the execution of the laws of this State, shall be the first to be
ordered into service. Whenever the President of the United States
shall require the mobilization of all or any part of the Michigan Na-
tional Guard or Michigan naval force for Federal service, it shall be the
duty of the governor to organize and bring into the service of the state
of Michigan such number of similar organizations as may be deemed
necessary to its adequate protection, in addition to the National Guard
Reserve provided for in the act of Congress approved June third, nine-
teen hundred sixteen, and upon the relief from Federal duty of any such
organizations so mobilized, the governor may disband such number of
similar organizations herein provided for as may be deemed desirable:
Provided, however. That such additional troops and organizations
called into the service of the State shall be designated as Michigan State
Troops, and shall be subject only to the orders of the governor of this
state. Each person enlisted in such Michigan State Troops shall be
required to take an enlistment oath and sign an enlistment contract in
writing, in such form as shall be prescribed by the governor, and each
officer appointed and commissioner shall take the oath prescribed by
the constitution of this state. The term of enlistment shall be the
period of three years, unless sooner discharged, and all commissions
shall be in force only during the pleasure of the governor. When acting
under orders of the governor, the officers of such organizations, and the
enlisted men thereof, shall receive the same pay and allowances as pre-
scribed for the Michigan National Guard under this act. All expenses
of organizing, equipping, maintaining, training, and When necessary,
of employing and transporting the said Michigan State Troops provided
for herein, shall be paid out of the war loan fund of nineteen hundred
seventeen, under such rules as may be prescribed: Provided further,
That the governor shall prescribe the form of organization and the
units of the Michigan State Troops, the uniforms to be worn and the
rules of discipline to govern same, which rules shall include as far as
practicable the laws, rules and regulations governing the Michigan
National Guard, while in service of the State. The governor in time
of war may appoint and commission a personal staff not to exceed five
officers of the rank of colonel, who shall serve without pay, but who
shall be entitled to actual expenses and transportation, when on duty,
under the orders of the governor. During the absence from the state
of the State Military Board or a quorum of same under orders from
the Federal authority, the War Preparedness Board, which shall consist
of the governor, as chairman, the attorney general, the secretary of
state, the state treasurer, the auditor general, superintendent of public
instruction, shall constitute and take the place of the State Military
Board, and shall have charge of and jurisdiction over all matters dur-
ing such time as would otherwise devolve upon and come under the
jurisdiction of the State Military Board, created under section eighteen
of this act. The governor shall issue his orders relieving the regular
Military Board from duty, when necessary, under this section. The
duties of the adjutant general and the quartermaster general with re-
spect to said board shall be and continue as prescribed in this act.
Sec. 7-a. The state, by and through the said War Preparedness Board,
shall furnish aid for the dependents of any soldier enlisting in the state
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or in the federal service of the United States and accredited to the
state of Michigan, or being subject to call of the President and
answering such call, to the extent and under the rules herein pre-
scribed or authorized. The dependents to whom such aid may be ex-
tended shall consist of the wife, widow, child or children under sixteen
years of age, or being above that age crippled or deformed and physical-
ly unable to earn a livelihood and dependent upon the support of
such soldier, parent or parents, brothers or sisters, actually dependent
upon such soldier, and residing in this state, and any member of such
soldier's immediate family resident in this state dependent in whole or
in part upon the support of such soldier. The aid so furnished by the
state shall not exceed the following limits: For a wife without chil-
dren, twenty dollars a month; for a wife and children, twenty dollars,
and seven dollars and fifty cents a month for each child, respectively;
for other dependents, not to exceed twenty dollars a month for the de-
pendent family as a whole. Upon satisfactory evidence of actual or
presumptive need, it shall be the duty of the said board to order the
payment of such a sum as may be necessary, within the limits prescrib-
ed herein, and it shall be the duty of the auditor general each month to
draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the several amounts al-
lotted, after a determination shall have been made and until the said
board shall determine that further aid is unnecessary. The board shall
classify its accounts, orders, vouchers and other transactions to produce
a uniform system of accounting. Any order for relief may be modified
from time to time either as to individuals or as to classes in the dis-
cretion of the board, as the facts may appear. The said War Prepared-
ness Board shall make such rules and regulations as may be necessary
and reasonable respecting the manner in which such aid shall be ex-
tended, and may prescribe the blanks for application, and such further
rules as may be necessary to facilitate its work and to prevent fraudu-
lent or unworthy application of the state funds herein authorized to
be used for the purposes of this section.
Sec. 7-b. The board shall investigate and determine upon a method of
insuring and shall insure the soldiers of this state in or awaiting ac-
ceptance in the federal service, either by means of general insurance, or
by the creating of a beneficiary fund, to provide for the payment of a
mortuary or casualty benefit to such soldiers as may be killed or die,
or be disabled in the service, or to their dependents as defined in section
seven-a of this act. Such insurance shall in no individual case exceed a
mortuary benefit of one thousand dollars, or a casualty benefit of five
hundred dollars, except that total disability shall entitle the insured to
a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars. Total disability shall be as
defined in act number ten, Public Acts of nineteen hundred twelve,
First Extra Session. The said board is hereby authorized to pay all
premiums out of the state funds at their disposal in case the method of
insurance adopted shall be general insurance in authorized insurance
companies, and shall pay all mortuary or casualty benefits out of such
funds, in case such board determines that the state shall carry its
own insurance under this act. The board shall adopt such rules and
regulations to carry out the provisions of this section as they may
deem advisable. The said board is hereby authorized to accept con-
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tributions of money from private contributors, or from the several
counties, cities or villages of the state, and to disburse such contribu-
tions according to the terms or conditions upon which received, or in
case of unconditional gifts, to add the same to the general funds at
their disposal. All moneys’ paid out by the said board or authorized
by them to be paid out under the provisions of this act shall be by war-
rant upon the Michigan war loan fund or upon such separate appor-
tionment thereof as may be made by such board.
Sec. 8. Before any person shall be enlisted into the service of the
State under the provisions of this act, he shall take the prescribed oath
or affirmation, which shall be administered to him by the enlisting
officer or by some person authorized to administer oaths. The enlist-
ing officer or the officer administering such oath or affirmation shall
certify on the enlistment paper that the person whose name appears
thereon did take the said oath or affirmation, which certificate signed
by him shall be sufficient evidence that the person named therein did
take the said oath or affirmation before him. All officers of the military
or naval forces of this State shall be empowered to administer oaths of
enlistment, and the same shall have as full force and effect as if made
before a civil magistrate or other person competent to administer
Oaths. All commissioned officers, before entering upon their duties,
shall take and subscribe the prescribed oath of office, which oath shall
be filed with the Adjutant General of the State, except as otherwise
provided.
Sec. 9. The Michigan National Guard shall consist of such organ-
izations, individual officials, staff corps and staff departments as may
be prescribed from time to time by proper authority, and not less than
three regiments of infantry, one troop of cavalry, one battery of field
artillery, a corps of engineers, a signal corps, one brigadier general for
each brigade, the adjutant general of the state, an adjutant general’s
department, an inspector general’s department, a quartermaster corps,
an ordance department, a judge advocate general’s department and
a medical department. - --
Sec. 11. The staff corps and staff departments consist of such per-
sonnel as may be prescribed from time to time by the war department,
except as otherwise provided for herein, or if not prescribed by the
war department, then the various staff corps and staff departments
shall consist of such number of officers and enlisted men as may be
fixed from time to time by the State Military Board, subject to such
limitations as may be prescribed in this act: Provided, That no officer
shall be appointed in any such staff corps or staff departments with
rank higher than colonel. The chief of staff, hereinafter prescribed,
when not in the service of the United States, shall have supervision of
all staff corps and staff departments. The adjutant general’s depart-
ment shall include the adjutant general of the state with rank of
colonel, who shall also be inspector general of the state. The quarter-
master corps shall include the quartermaster general of the state. The
adjutant general and the quartermaster general shall be at the head of
their various departments. The quartermaster general shall have charge
of and be responsible for all property purchased for the use of the
national guard or drawn for its use from the United States govern-
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ment, regardless of whether the property is quartermaster, ordnance,
signal, or engineer property, or medical supplies, so that the responsi-
bility for property and money expenditures shall be centered in one
office; he shall also be the property and disbursing officer for the United
States. Whenever in this law reference is made to the quartermaster's
department, it shall be understood to mean the same as if it read
quartermaster corps. Nothing in this amendment shall be held or so
construed as to discharge any officer from any of the various staff
corps or staff departments, or to deprive any officer of the commission
which he now holds.
Sec. 12. Staff officers, including officers of the pay, inspection, subsist-
ence and medical departments, hereafter appointed, shall have had previ-
ous military experience and shall hold their positions until they shall
have reached the age of sixty-four years, unless retired prior to that time
by reason of resignation, disability, or for cause to be determined by
a court-martial legally convened for that purpose, and vacancies among
said officers shall be filled by appointment from the officers of the
militia of Michigan. Upon occurrence of a vacancy in any office in the
adjutant general’s department, inspector general’s department, judge
advocate general’s department, quartermaster corps and ordnance de-
partment, said offices shall be filled by the governor from among a list
of officers of the Michigan National Guard, recommended upon their
merits and under proper regulations, for these respective offices by the
State Military Board. No person shall be appointed the adjutant gen-
eral or quartermaster general, unless he shall have served at least ten
years as an officer in the military establishment, regular or volunteer,
of the United States, or of this state, or of one of the states or terri-
tories of the United States.
Sec. 13. The adjutant general and quartermaster general shall each
devote his entire time to the duties of his office, and shall each receive
from the state military fund as salary, the amount fixed by law or
regulations for officers of the army of the same rank in the service of
the United States, and there shall also be allowed and paid to each of
said officers such sums as may be necessary to pay his actual expenses
while engaged in the performance of his duties while away from his
office under orders. -
SEC. 14. The office of the adjutant general and the office of the Quarter-
master general shall each be maintained at Lansing. During the ab-
sence from the State or disability of either the adjutant general or the
Quartermaster general, his duties shall be performed by such officer as
may be designated.
Sec. 15. The adjutant general’s department is the department of
records, orders and correspondence of the militia. The adjutant gen-
eral shall be entitled to use the coat of arms of Michigan with the
words added thereto “State of Michigan, Adjutant General’s Office”
as his seal of office. He shall subscribe to and file his constitutional
oath of office with the secretary of state within twenty days of his ap-
pointment and before entering upon the duties of his office. He shall
make such returns as are required by the war department and the gov-
ernor. He shall in each year prepare a return of the organized militia
of this State, exhibiting its full numerical strength, which return he
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shall deliver to the chief of staff and through him to the Governor on
or before the thirty-first day of December. He shall perform all other
duties relating to the National Guard, Naval Militia, and unorgan-
ized militia, arms and military stores of this State as are required of
him by law or regulations. He shall make and submit to the chief of
staff, and through him to the Governor, and through him to the legis-
lature, biennially, a detailed report of the work of his department and
of the other departments of the military service, with such recommenda-
tions as he may deem necessary to promote the good of the service and
the military interests of the state. The adjutant general shall deliver
to every person entitled thereto on demand a certificate showing that
such person has served according to law and regulations in the Michi-
gan National Guard or Michigan Naval Militia six consecutive years,
and such certificate shall thereafter entitle said person to an exemption
from all poll taxes, jury duty at his option, and from all state military
duty, except in case of invasion, insurrection or rebellion. Every per-
son issuing, obtaining or using such certificate improperly or unlaw-
fully shall be liable to the penalty provided by law for misdemeanors.
He shall maintain a record of the efficiency of the active officers of the
Michigan National Guard, to be compiled as prescribed in orders or
regulations.
Sec. 16. Regulations to carry out the various provisions of this act
may be from time to time prescribed, changed, altered, amended, re-
pealed or revoked, as deemed requisite, desirable or necessary, and such
regulations and changes therein, when approved by the governor and
filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall have the force and
effect of law.
Sec. 21. The Commander-in-chief, by and with the advice of the
State Military Board, is authorized to organize new units for the Michi-
gan National Guard, or to disband, arrange, alter, divide, annex or con-
solidate any of the units, or to transfer the units of one battalion or
regiment to another battalion or regiment, as requisite, necessary or
as authorized by the National defense acts of Congress. sº -
Sec. 22. Brigadier generals of the line shall be appointed from offi-
cers of the grade of colonel of the line. Promotions of officers of the
line, other than brigadier generals, of the signal corps, of the engineer
corps and of the medical department, of the Michigan National Guard,
when in the service of the United States, shall be by seniority by regi-
ment or branch of service. Promotions of officers of the line other than
brigadier generals, and of the signal corps, of the engineer corps and of
the medical department, of the Michigan National Guard, when not in
the service of the United States, shall be based on seniority and selec-
tion as prescribed from time to time in regulations: Provided, That no
officer shall necessarily be promoted by seniority to a special unit or to
a unit whose home station is other than the place of his residence:
And provided, That such regulations may provide for promotion by
Seniority by company, by battalion, by regiment, or by home station
of each or any of Such units. Appointments as officers of the line, or
signal corps, or engineer corps or medical department, shall be limited
to officers or enlisted men of the National Guard; officers, active or
retired, and former officers of the United States army navy and marine
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corps; graduates of schools, colleges and universities where military
science is taught under the supervision of an officer of the regular army;
and in addition thereto, for the signal corps, engineer corps and medical
department, such civilians as may be especially qualified for such duty.
Whenever a vacancy shall exist for an officer of the line, or the signal
corps, or the engineer corps or the medical department, in the lowest
grade, when not in the service of the United States, a board of officers
may be convened to receive applications for such vacancy and to ar-
range them in the order of probable fitness, as determined by such
board: Provided, That when any organization is in the service of the
United States, appointments in the lowest grade in such organization
may be made as prescribed above, or on the approved recommendation
of the proper commanders. All officers will be commissioned by the
governor. - *
Sec. 24. Upon the organization of any new unit of the Michigan
National Guard, the appointment of officers therefor shall be so made
as to comply with the requirements of the war department, and such
appointments as do so comply shall be lawful under this act.
Sec. 26. Upon the disbandment of any unit of the Michigan National
Guard, commissioned officers rendered surplus thereby shall be dis-
charged or transferred to the National Guard Reserve on recommenda-
tion of the State Military Board.
Sec. 27. Any officer entitled to promotion by seniority may volun-
tarily waive promotion, in which case the officer next in order of senior-
ity shall be entitled to such promotion: Provided, That no officer shall
be permitted to waive promotion to the same office more than two
times. In case all the officers of the next lower grade entitled to pro-
motion by seniority to any office waive such promotion, such vacant
office shall be filled in the manner prescribed for filling a vacancy in
the lowest grade.
Sec. 28. The designation “company,” as used in this act, shall be
understood and construed to mean a company of infantry, artillery.
engineers, signal corps, or medićal department, a battery of field
artillery, a troop of cavalry, or any detachment of the aforesaid organ-
izations, or a permanent detachment of the medical department as-
signed to a line or staff organization, a field hospital, or a band. The
designation “batallion” applies in like manner to squadron of cavalry.
Whenever in this act the term “regiment” is used, such term shall be
construed to mean a battalion, squadron, or company, if such unit be
the largest permanent organization of its arm or branch of the service.
Actual service shall be understood and construed to be service in case
of riot, tumult, breach of the peace, resistance of process, whenever call-
ed upon in aid of civil authorities, at encampments, or upon any other
duty requiring the entire time of the organization or person. Active
service shall be such other services as may be required under law, regu-
lations, or by orders from the governor. The terms “in the service of
the United States” and “not in the service of the United States,” used
herein, shall be understood to mean and be the same as such terms are
used in the National defense act of Congress approved June third, nine-
teen hundred sixteen.
Sec. 29. Staff officers for the various units will be designated from
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among the officers of such units of appropriate grade, by the proper
commanding officer, as prescribed for similar organizations of the
United States army. If no available officer be deemed suitable for staff
duty by the officer having authority to designate him, and if there be
an appropriate vacancy existing, such commanding officer may recom-
mend a person otherwise complying with law as to eligibility for ap-
pointment to the requisite grade in the appropriate arm or branch of
service, and such recommendation shall be sufficient authority for such
appointment.
Sec. 30. Officers of the line or of any of the staff corps or staff depart-
ments, who would be entitled to promotion by length of service were
they in the regular army, shall be entitled to such promotion after the
same length of service in the National Guard in this present or former
plan of organization. -
Sec. 31. In order to permit a steady flow of promotion, the senior
officer of the line and the senior officer in the medical corps should trans-
fer to the National Guard Reserve after serving three years in such
capacity in the National Guard, except when the National Guard is in
the service of the United States.
Sec. 32. All officers shall be retired from active service upon reaching
sixty-four years of age, and their names shall be placed on the state
retired list.
Sec. 33. Any officer not being under charges may on his own ap-
plication be transferred to the National Guard Reserve, or upon accept-
ance of his resignation he may be discharged.
Sec. 34. At any time the moral character, capacity and general fit-
ness for the service of any National Guard officer, not in the service of
the United States, may be determined by an efficiency board detailed
by order of the governor, of three commissioned officers, senior in rank
to the Officer whose fitness for service shall be under investigation, and
if the findings of such board be unfavorable to such officer and be ap-
proved by the governor, he shall be discharged. If any officer shall re-
fuse or neglect to report for examination before such board for a period
Of three months, he shall thereupon be discharged for absence without
leave, and no other duty performed during such three months shall be
considered as being present within the meaning of this act.
Sec. 35. All officers who shall have served in the Michigan National
Guard, may, upon their honorable retirement from active service,
whether on their own application or otherwise, be carried upon a roll
maintained in the office of the adjutant general of the state, designated
the list of retired officers of the Michigan National Guard.
Sec. 36. No officer on the retired list shall be entitled to receive any
pay or emolument whatsoever from the state for military duty during
the time he remains on the retired list.
Sec. 37. The intent of this act and all acts of the state of Michigan
affecting the National Guard, Naval Militia and unorganized militia is
to conform to all acts and regulations of the United States affecting
the same subjects, and all acts of the state of Michigan shall be con-
strued to effect this purpose, and anything to the contrary shall be
held to be null and void as long as the subject matter shall have been
acted on by the United States; and upon any subject not acted upon
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with reference to these matters by United States authority, any act of
the state shall be in full force and effect.
Sec. 41. Whenever the Michigan National Guard or any portion
thereof shall be ordered into actual service under the provisions of the
preceding section, the commanding officer shall be subject to the general
direction of the sheriff or other civil officer who shall require his aid;
but in the execution of movements and the means to be employed to
accomplish the purpose for which said military force shall be called into
service, the same shall be under the orders of the Commander-in-chief
and the military officers immediately in command thereof. It shall
be the duty of the commanding officer in all cases when so called into
service to provide each of the men of his command so ordered out with
at least twenty rounds of ball cartridge, and arms in complete order
for actual service. Whenever in such service, troops shall always be
amenable to the civil authorities as represented by the governor, and
shall be privileged from prosecution by the civil authorities, except
by direct order of the governor, for any acts or offenses alleged to have
been committed while on such service.
Sec. 44. In order to provide for the proper care, safekeeping of, and
accounting for any military property, and to provide for the proper
disbursement of and accounting for any money which may at any time
come under the charge and control of any military officer, all officers of
the Michigan National Guard, except the adjutant general and the
Quartermaster general, may be bonded by a schedule bond in such sum
and details and with such sureties as may be approved by the State
Military Board, or in lieu of one such bond, several bonds may be au-
thorized, either arranged according to the number of officers on each,
or according to their various grades or offices. Such bonds shall be
so drawn as not to include officers when in the service of the United
States. Officers having actual charge of property pertaining to their
respective organizations, or having charge of property required for the
use of enlisted men, shall each receive for the care of such property, be-
ginning with the date of their being covered by such bond, such allow-
ance, payable semi-annually by the quartermaster general out of the
state military fund, as may be prescribed for the various different offices
by the State Military Board: Provided, That no such allowance shall
exceed the sum of one hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 50. Inspections of military property for which soldiers are re-
sponsible may be made at any time, and the value of any shortage, dam-
age, or unnecessarily injured property may be deducted from the
amount due such soldier before any sum due him shall be paid.
Sec. 56. All processes and sentences of courts-martial may be ex-
ecuted by a sheriff or his duly appointed deputy, and it shall be the duty
of any such sheriff to execute all processes and sentences and to make
return thereof to the officer issuing or imposing the same, in the same
manner as is required by law in like cases before the civil courts of this
State; and he shall be reimbursed therefor in the same manner as he
is reimbursed in similar cases arising in civil courts.
Sec. 60. All penalties and forfeitures provided by this act or fines
imposed by military courts, except when deducted on a United States
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pay roll or otherwise provided for by United States law, shall revert to
and be paid into the state military fund.
Sec. 70. For each armory there shall be a board of control consisting
of the commanding officer and such other detailed officers as shall be
prescribed by regulations, one of whom shall be disbursing officer.
Boards of control shall have no control over military instruction and
discipline. Control of military instruction and discipline in each
armory is vested in the post commander.
Sec. 71. For the purpose of providing for maintaining, heating, light-
ing and renting of the armories of the permanent organized militia, or
such portion thereof as is used or occupied by an organization of the
permanent organized militia, the boards of control of said armories
shall receive from the quartermaster general of the state, out of the
state military fund, the following armory allowances, which shall con-
stitute an armory maintenance fund in the hands of the disbursing offi-
cers concerned : For each company occupying a state armory or a
portion thereof, five hundred dollars per annum; for each company
Occupying an armory not owned by the state in cities having two hun-
dred fifty thousand inhabitants or more, one thousand dollars per an-
num; and for each other company occupying an armory not owned by
the state, five hundred dollars per annum : Provided, That the State
Military Board may increase any of the amounts so allowed if it deem
it necessary. Said annual allowances shall be paid by the quarter-
master general of the state to the said disbursing officers in equal semi-
annual payments on January first and July first of each year: Pro-
vided, That amounts paid to organizations of the Michigan Naval
Militia and to disbursing officers, for the armories where divisions of
the Naval Militia are quartered, shall be provided out of funds pro-
vided for the Michigan Naval Militia.
Sec. 74. The company or unit commander shall be the post comman-
der in an armory occupied exclusively by one company or unit, and
in other cases the post commander shall be designated by the Com-
manding general. All officers and enlisted men of the National Guard,
wherever practicable, shall be provided with accommodations in some
armory.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 316 (ENROLLED NO. 43).
(Introduced by Mr. Culver.)
Act. No. 70, Public Acts of 1917:
AN ACT to increase the efficiency of the military establishment of the
state of Michigan and to make an appropriation therefor.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Section 1. There shall be paid to each enlisted man who participates
in encampments, maneuvers, or other outdoor exercises of the National
Guard, under the provisions of the National defense act of Congress of
June third, nineteen hundred sixteen, or under the provisions of any
other enactment of Congress having the same or similar objects, two
dollars per day in addition to such amounts as he may be entitled to or
paid by the federal government for such service, the above two dollars
per day is to be the total amount received from the state of Michigan,
and to each officer the increase of pay on account of length of service, as
fixed by law or regulations for the regular army, for officers of the same
rank in the service of the United States. The amounts herein prescribed
shall be paid by the officer prescribed by law or regulations, and on pay
rolls duplicating in form and names those on which federal funds are
disbursed for the same organization and period.
Sec. 2. Such amounts as may be necessary to provide the expense of
carrying out the provisions of this act shall be a charge against the
general fund of the state, and shall be drawn and disbursed by the
quartermaster general of the state upon his estimate showing the
amount of vouchers or pay rolls on hand for payment, and such amounts
appropriated out of the general fund shall be and become a part of the
state military fund.
Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the
state treasury a sufficient amount to carry out the provisions of this act.
The auditor general shall add to and incorporate in the state tax for
the year nineteen hundred eighteen and annually 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.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 492 (ENROLLED NO. S9).
(Introduced by Mr. Culver.)
Act No. 149, Public Acts of 1917.
AN ACT to amend sections nine, ten, eleven, eighteen, twenty-three,
twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-
seven and thirty-eight, and to repeal sections three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one,
twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-eight and thirty of act
number one hundred eighty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hun-
dred ninety-three entitled “An act to provide for the enrollment, or-
ganization, equipment, maintenance and discipline of the Naval
Militia of the state,” approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred
ninety-three, said amended sections being compilers' sections one thou-
sand eight, one thousand nine, one thousand ten, one thousand six-
teen, one thousand twenty, one thousand twenty-four, one thousand
twenty-eight, one thousand thirty-one, one thousand thirty-two,
One thousand thirty-three, one thousand thirty-four and one thousand
thirty-five and said repealed sections being compilers’ sections one
thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four, one thousand
five, one thousand six, one thousand seven, one thousand eleven, one
thousand twelve, one thousand thirteen, one thousand fourteen, one
thousand seventeen, one thousand eighteen, one thousand nineteen,
One thousand twenty-one, one thousand twenty-two, one thousand
twenty-three, one thousand twenty-five and one thousand twenty-
seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Section 1. Sections three, four, five, six, seven, eight, twelve, four-
teen, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, twen-
ty-five, twenty-six, twenty-eight and thirty of act number one hundred
eighty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, en-
titled “An act to provide for the enrollment, organization, equipment,
maintenance and discipline of the Naval Militia of the State,” approved
May thirty-one, eighteen hundred ninety-three, being compilers' sec-
tions one thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four, one
thousand five, one thousand six, one thousand seven, one thousand
eleven, one thousand twelve, one thousand thirteen, one thousand four-
teen, one thousand seventeen, one thousand eighteen, one thousand
nineteen, one thousand twenty-one, one thousand twenty-two, one thou-
sand twenty-three, one thousand twenty-five and one thousand twenty-
seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby re.
pealed, and sections nine, ten, eleven, eighteen, twenty-three, twenty-
seven, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven and
thirty-eight of said act, being compilers' sections one thousand eight,
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one thousand nine, one thousand ten, one thousand sixteen, One thou-
sand twenty, one thousand twenty-four, one thousand twenty-eight, one
thousand thirty-one, one thousand thirty-two, one thousand thirty-
three, one thousand thirty-four and one thousand thirty-five of the Com-
piled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as
follows: *...
Sec. 9. Such portion of the militia of Michigan as may be organ-
ized as a naval force shall be separate and distinct from that portion
organized as a land force.
Sec. 10. For temporary military purposes in cases of actual service,
the naval forces of Michigan, or any part or subdivision thereof, may be
attached to organizations of the Michigan National Guard.
Sec. 11. The militia organized as a naval force shall be organized as
far as practicable in conformity with plans for naval organizations of
militia prescribed from time to time by the navy department.
Sec. 18. The compensation provided for in section seventeen, to be
paid by the state, may be diminished by such sums as shall actually
be paid by the United States.
Sec. 23. Commissioned officers shall be appointed or selected as pre-
scribed from time to time in regulations. Commissioned officers shall
be commissioned by the governor. *
Sec. 27. Regulations to carry out the various provisions of this act,
or the requirements of any act of Congress, or of the navy department
of the United States, may be from time to time prescribed, changed,
altered, amended, repealed, or revoked, as deemed requisite, desirable,
or necessary, and such regulations and changes therein, when approved
by the governor and filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall
have the force and effect of law. -
Sec. 31. The governor may order into service for instruction and
drill any portion or all of the naval forces of this State, the same to be
performed either within or without the limits of the state of Michigan,
and either on shore or afloat, as may be directed, authorized, or advis-
able.
Sec. 34. There shall be a State Naval Board, consisting of the adju-
tant general of Michigan, the quartermaster general of Michigan, and
the officers commanding respectively each battalion of the naval forces
of Michigan. If the number of such battalions be even, then an addi-
tional officer shall be designated by the governor from among the officers
of such forces, who will thereupon become and be a member of such
board, such detail to be changed from time to time as the governor may
direct. The senior battalion commander shall be the president of the
State Naval Board ex-officio and the Adjutant General shall be the
recorder. -
Sec. 35. The State Naval Board shall be an advisory board to the
governor. No contract on behalf of the state exceeding an expenditure
of three hundred dollars for naval purposes authorized by this act, un-
less otherwise herein provided for, shall be valid against the State, until
the same shall be approved by said board. The State Naval Board shall
receive, examine and audit all claims and accounts for expenditures in-
curred for naval purposes authorized by this act, unless otherwise pro-
vided for, and upon requisition of said board, the auditor general shall
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draw his warrant or Warrants for such sum or sums, not exceeding in
all the appropriation herein made, on the state treasurer, who is hereby
authorized to pay and charge the same to the state naval fund. When-
ever necessary in the performance of their duties, any member of said
board shall have power to administer oaths. The State Naval Board
may prepare regulations from time to time to carry out the various
provisions of this act, and such regulations, when approved by the
governor and filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall have the
force and effect of law. For their services as members of the State
Naval Board, each member of said board, except the adjutant general
and the quartermaster general, shall be paid at the rate of three hun-
dred dollars per annum. The quartermaster general shall have general
custody and charge of all arms, ammunition, uniforms, tents, boats and
all other stores, property and supplies belonging to the state and in-
tended for the use of the naval forces of the state, or belonging to the
United States and loaned to the state for the use of the naval forces of
the state unless otherwise provided by the United States, and shall be
responsible for the same and make returns thereof and account for the
same as required by law in case of other military property or stores
entrusted to his care. He shall also be the disbursing officer of the
naval fund of this state and of the United States apportioned to this
state unless otherwise provided for by the United States. The State
Naval Board is hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper
steps for the employment of clerical assistance, the hiring of offices, the
purchase of fuel, lights, stationery and books for the naval service, the
hiring of storerooms for the safekeeping of such stores, and for the leas-
ing or renting of premises necessary therefor, and to do all other acts
necessary to enable it to carry out its duties as by law prescribed.
The State Naval Board shall also have power to determine from time
to time the sums which batallion commanders, executive and engineer
officers and division commanders shall receive as salaries or allowances
to cover expenses, or both, as may seem proper, but the amount of any
such salary or allowance shall not in any case exceed one hundred dol-
lars per year. All provisions of law now existing or hereafter enacted
which shall define the powers and duties of the adjutant general and of
the quartermaster general in regard to the Michigan National Guard,
So far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act,
or of any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, shall define the
powers and duties of such officers regarding the Michigan naval forces.
In like manner, all provisions of law now existing or hereafter enacted
relating to the powers and duties of the State Military Board regard-
ing the Michigan National Guard, shall, unless inconsistent with the
provisions of this act or contrary to regulations, be considered as de-
fining the powers and duties of the State Naval Board in regard to the
naval forces of the state.
Sec. 36. For the purpose of providing the funds necessary for organ-
izing, maintaining and equipping the naval forces of the state, author-
ized and established, it shall be the duty of the auditor general, at the
time of apportioning the state taxes, to apportion among the several
counties of this state, in proportion to the whole amount of real and
personal property therein, as equalized by the State Board of Equal-
ization, a sum equal to two cents for each person, who it shall appear
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by the last preceding census was a resident of this state, which sum so
apportioned shall be collected in the same manner as other state taxes
and shall constitute and be designated as the state naval fund. All
provisions of law not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, rela-
tive to the collecting and disbursing of the state military fund, as by
law established and created, shall apply to and govern the collection and
disbursement of the said state naval fund. From said state naval fund
it shall be and may be lawful for the State Naval Board with the ap-
proval of the governor, to pay and refund all sums paid and disbursed
by any division or divisions of the naval forces, for expenses of the ad-
jutant general’s office or the quartermaster general's office, or for freight
or transportation of arms or other articles of equipment loaned or fur-
nished by the United States government. No moneys except those ex-
pressly apportioned by law for the use, support and maintenance of the
naval forces of the state, shall be employed for any such purpose, and
all moneys raised and appropriated for military purposes shall, unless
otherwise expressly provided by law, be deemed to be raised and appro-
priated for the sole and exclusive use, support and maintenance of the
land forces of the state. º
Sec. 37. This act shall be deemed to be supplemental to the existing
laws governing and affecting the militia and national guard of the
state, and all provisions of law relating to the government, maintenance,
equipment and discipline thereof shall apply equally to and govern the
naval forces as a portion thereof, unless such provisions of law be in-
consistent with the different nature of the service or contrary to the
express provisions of this act. In construing such provisions of law,
words or language strictly applicable to the land or military forces
alone, by reason of their meaning, and having an equivalent in naval
parlance, shall be construed and interpreted as meaning and intending
such equivalent words or language. Whenever the laws of the state
governing or affecting the militia or national guard, the laws of the
United States relating to the government or discipline of the army of
the United States, or the articles of war, or regulations governing the
army, are referred to and made applicable to the national guard, the
same shall be construed to mean, when applied to the naval forces, the
laws of the United States relating to the government or discipline of
the navy of the United States, or the articles of war of the navy, or the
rules and regulations governing the navy, as the case may be.
Sec. 38. The quartermaster general, on written requisition by the
commanding officer of any division or subdivision of the naval forces
of the state, duly approved by the commander of the battalion, shall
furnish to such organization suitable uniforms, arms and equipment,
including all suitable and proper armory equipment, and shall furnish
to such organizations not equipped with an armory furnished by the
state, a sum equal to the actual rental paid by such organization for
armory accommodation, which shall include lighting, heating and
janitor service: Provided, Such sum shall in no case exceed one thou-
sand five hundred dollars per year. and shall furnish to each organ-
ization of the naval forces of the state equipped with or sharing an
armory furnished by the state, the cost of its proportion thereof of
care and maintenance of such armory.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 125 (ENROLLED NO. 120).
(Introduced by Mr. Culver.)
Act No. 185, Public Acts of 1917.
AN ACT to require the establishmnet of an optional course of military
training in all high schools in this state.
The People of the State of Michigan, enact:
Section 1. Hereafter it shall be the duty of all boards of education
or boards of trustees of school districts maintaining one or more high
schools within their respective districts to establish a course of military
training for such high school or schools, such course to be optional
with the students of such high schools: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall apply to cities or villages having less than five thousand
population: Provided further, That when less than twenty-five male
students elect to take such course, the board of education may discon-
tinue said course until such time as twenty-five male students request
the re-establishment of said course.
Sec. 2. Failure or neglect upon the part of any board of education
or board of trustees of any school district to maintain a course of
military training, as provided in this act, shall subject said board to
removal from office, after a hearing with proper notice, by the state
superintendent of public instruction.
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HOUSE BILL No. 21 (ENROLLED NO. 108).
(Introduced by Mr. Green.)
Act No. 163, Public Acts of 1917.
AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain claims allowed to ex-
soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the Spanish-American
War, which have accrued under the provisions of act one hundred
thirty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, en-
titled “An act for the relief of sick, disabled and needy ex-soldiers,
sailors and marines of the late Spanish-American War.”
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Section 1. The sum of forty-five thousand six hundred seventy-four
dollars and twenty-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund in the
state treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventeen, to pay claims that have
been audited and allowed by the respective county relief boards and
filed with the auditor general prior to January first, nineteen hundred
seventeen, under the provisions of act one hundred thirty-four of the
Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled “An act to pro-
vide for the relief of sick, disabled and needy ex-soldiers, sailors and
marines of the late Spanish-American War.” The auditor general is
authorized and directed to pay the unpaid balance of such claims as
have been presented, and allowed or to be allowed under the provisions
of said act one hundred thirty-four of eighteen hundred ninety-nine,
payment to be made to the person or persons in whose favor such claims
were or shall be allowed, their assignees or other persons properly en-
titled to the same upon satisfactory proof being furnished the auditor
general that the persons applying for such payment are entitled thereto.
Sec. 2. The auditor general shall incorporate in the state tax for the
year Lineteen hundred seventeen the sum of forty-five thousand six
hundred seventy-four dollars and twenty-five cents, which amount,
when collected, shall be paid into the general fund in the treasury of the
state to reimburse the same for the moneys hereby appropriated there.
from. - -
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.