The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-05-08

epileptic and mentally deficient per
sons maintained wholly or In part by
public expense In state institutions.
The Martz bill which is passed and
signed by the governor, prohibits the
practice of professionals in palmestry,
clairvoyancy, astrology or fortune tell
ing by cards or other devices For
years attempts have been made TO
place such law on the statute books,
but all previous attempts have proved
unsuccessful.
Among the other bills relating TO
penal and reformatory institutions are
bills to allow undersheriffs and sher-
ins' court officers as well as sheriffs,
police chiefs, and truant officers, to
act as first friend for paroled convicts:
TO strengthen the law for the sup
preston of pandering and the prose-
cution of offenders; giving boards OF
corrections and charities powers rela-
tive to the matter of requiring jails
and infirmaries to be decent places for
detention; to give judges who cite a
husband for contempt of court for re-
fusing or neglecting to pay alimony
the option of putting the delinquent on
probation instead of sending him to
jail; providing that when convict
is paroled and for some breach is
taken back to prison the board of par
dons and not the warden shall decide
whether to give him another chance to
reform.
Banking Commissioner Doyle is well
satisfied with the so-called blue sky
law which passed the legislature this
year and says that it will do a great
deal towards driving out the conf
dence men and takers who ply their
trade in Michigan.
Five bills touching upon public
school legislation have become laws
by virtue Of the governors signature.
Probably the most important of these
is an amendment TO the compulsory at
tendance law. Heretofore any person
who successfully passed the eighth
grade has been exempt from compul-
sorry attendance even though he or she
might be under Is years Of age. This
exemption will no longer apply unless
the child shall secure PERM. as re-
CURED under the law governing the
employment Of minors and shall be
regularly employed at some lawful
work II physically able TO do so.
District boards may pay tuition of
those who have not completed the
eighth grade il they are nearer some
other school house than their own.
The only limit placed upon bonding a
school district is that the amount
shall not exceed ten per cent of the
total valuation.
Any county IN the state may now
establish school of agriculture and
domestic economy, the state paying
up to $4,000 year toward it's sup
port. School districts whether or
ganized under general or special acts
may be consolidated if desired.
Other important bills are now await
inging the governors signature. One
makes the qualifications for school
the state, provisions in local or spe-
vial acts Notwithstanding. Eligible
voters will be men or women who are
citizens Of the United States, residents
of the districts at least three months,
at least twenty-one years of age, and
who are either assessed for school
taxes or are the parents or legal guar
dams of children on the census list.
This will affect Detroit, Lansing, Crys-
tai Falls and various other city and
township unit districts where special
acts formerly governed this point
Provision has been made TO divide
cities into election precincts for school
elections.
Agriculture is now included in the
list of subjects on which applicants
for teachers certificates must write.
Boards of supervisors must pay the
actual and necessary travelling eJ
penses of the county commissioners of
schools and the school examiners. The
library apportionment will hereafter be
made previous to the fifteenth day of
July and this money can only be used
by the township and district boards
to purchase books for their respective
Libraries from lists prepared by the
superintendent OF public instruction
and state librarian.
Districts, not maintaining high
schools, are now required to pay tut
ton to any high school in the state
for eighth grade graduates If proper
application is made. Formerly this
was limited to the three nearest high
schools. The tuition is TO be paid be-
fore March IA, otherwise interest will
be charged.
Township boards must attach to
school districts all contiguous terri
tory in the township which is not in
any organized district. This means
that all territory in the state must be
part of some school district The
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