The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-01-30
LEGISLATURE. IL r..
Lansing, Ta,sday, Jan. %, 1851.

Lansing, Taesdoy, Jan. %, 1861.
sFNATE.
The committee on judiciary to whom was re-
ferred bill 10 amend an act entitled an act TO
| amend an act TO provide for assessing property
at its true value, for levying and collecting taxes
thereon, approved Feb. IA, 1858, and an act
amendetOry thereto, approved Feb. IL, 1885,
approved Feb, 4, 1858, reported substitute.
Mr.. Coulter, introduced bill compelling min
ing companies in the Upper Peninsula of Mich
igan, to file with the county treasurer OF the
county in which they are doing business, list
of their stock holders, and the amount of the
company's Indebtedness.
Referred.
THIRD READING.
House bill entitled,
A bill to compel the service Of process by
certain ministerial officers was passed.
Yeas 23-Nays0.
A bill 10 provide for the restoration of lost
records, papers, or other proceedings in courts
Of record was passed.
Yeas 23-Nays @.
Senate bill No. Is, entitled
A bill to amend sections seven, thirteen, end
twenty one, Of chapter twelve. OF the revised
statutes, the same being sections one hundred
and fifty four, one hundred and sixty, and one
hundred and seventy three, of compiled laws
was passed
Senate bin No. IL, entitled
A bill to amend sections 4S39, 4340, 434l and
1872 OF the compiled laws was passed.
On mntion of Mr.. Withey, the title was amen
ded, by adding thereto the following: "in rela-
ton To the competency of witnesses and exami-
nation of parties in certain cases :" and, as thus
amended, agreed 10.
HOUSE.
BY Mr. Lockwood, petition of the mayor and
aldermen Of Detroit, for the passage of a la. for
the registration "i births, deaths and marriages.
By Nr. CuchcOn: petition of Charles Tripp,
+. j. Beaks, Emanuel Mann, and SO others, for
district libraries and for an annua, appropriation
for the two mill tax for the purchase of books.
Referred
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
BY the majority of the committee on judicry
The majority committee Oh the judiciary, TO
whom was referred back House bill No. SO, reia-
tive TO commitments to the reform school.
spectuy repor; that they have duly considered
the same and have the views of the Superinten-
dent OF said school thereon, and have come to
the conclusion tina, it is the true office and mis-
sion of the ReCrm School, to receive boys who
have so far evinced disposition to crime, as to
get committed to vagrancy and petty offences
not usually brought before the courts OF records,
rather than To wait for them to become hardened
to the commiital of higher crimes. Whilst at
the same time the Board of Control should be
vested with power to return the utterly incOrrig-
BILE ones, to be dealt with in q more severe and
appropriate manner. We therefore submit
substitute for the bill recommitted, and recon-.
mend that the same do pass, and ask to be dis
charged from the further consideration thereof
THOS w. LOCKWOOD, Chairman.
A counter report was received from the mi.
nOrity OF the committee on judiciary.
The substitute, reported 10y the majority OF
the committee on judiciary, was adopted
The judiciary committee reported a bill to re-
peal chapter l22, of the revised statutes of lS46
and the amendments thereto, and to provide for
the collection of demands against water crafts
Referred.
A general order bill to extend time for the COL
lection of take was then read third time and
passed, majority of all the member elect voting
therefor. by yeas and nays follows
Yeas 5l-Nays 10.
Title agreed to.
THIRD READING OF BILLS.
A bill to transfer the general supervision and
government of the State Agricultural College
from the State Board of Education, to a State
Board of Agriculture was passed.
House bill entitled bill to amend section s.,
of chapter So, of the revised statutes of 1916
as amended by an act entitled an act to amend
chapter 40 OF the compiled laws, relative to the
support of poor persons by the public, approved!
Feb. l 1859 was passed.
House bill entitled bill to authorize the Fort
Street Presbyterian Church, of Detroit to held
certain properly was passed.
House bill entitled bill to amend sectods 9
and 81, of chapter l03, of the revised statutes
of ls46, compiled laws, vol. 2, sections 435l and
1875 was passed.
House bill entitled a bill to confirm deeds aud
instruments intended for the the conveyance OF
of real estate in certain cases was passed.