Excerpt from Report of the Commission of Public Welfare: Under Authority of Chapter 163 of the Public Acts of 1917, and House Joint Resolution 104 of the 1917 Session of the General Assembly Section 1. The governor shall, on or before July 1, 1917, appoint five commissioners to investigate the advisability of creating an agricultural and industrial board and the matter of old age pensions; health insurance; pasteurization plants; free employment bureaus; co-operative societies and pools; experiments and dissemination of information to assist farmers and live-stock growers; reforestation; loans to assist purchase of seed and fertilizer; a state bureau for making rural loans; improvement of byways; the extension of telephone and power companies facilities in rural districts, and hours of labor and minimum wage, and to report to the next general assembly. Said Commissioners shall serve without pay, but may incur such expenses as are authorized by the board of control. Section 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 19, 1917. House Joint Resolution 104. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: The Commission of Public Welfare shall investigate the subject of Occupational Diseases and shall report to the next general assembly. Passed by the Senate May 3, 1917. Passed by the House of Representatives May 4, 1917. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.