, 1873-05-06
The Work Of the Legislature
Of 1878.
Passage Of q Large Number Of
Important General Laws.
A Full Resume Of Legislative Busi-
ness.

Its aosBlon Of nearly four months duration, 1t
has onactod over 400 laws, half Of which are
local. The ronaindor include a fair proportion
OF comparatively unimportant nracndatory nets,
together with aomo striking additions to tho
statutoH involving radical changoH aud improve
monts. With tho exception Of ten or d dozon,
the acta Of 1873 are brief and reasonably OK.
pllcit; there aro, howovor, throo or four Of
great length, tho adoption Of which is expected
to do AWAY with tho necessity Of groat deal OF
formal and ropctityo Legislation hereafter. .
CITIES AND VILLAGES
Tho two bills Of which this is especially true
aro those prepared by tho Hon. Androw Howell,
Of Adriau who waB solocted two years ago for tho
purposo, and arc designed fortho gonoralincorpo-
ration OF citiea and vil'ages. Prospective munich
palitios desiring charters may organize then-
selves under thoHo without further Legislative
intervention; md, II thoy should 10 generally
adopted, it will probnbly result in saving qrar-
tor Of the timo OF each BoHsiou, and in diminish
ting Tho unwieldy bulk Of tho bionnial volumes
Of laws 10 ono~third, Mt most: OF thor present d.
mensionB.
IN tho usual nlaaH Of legislation infect
Ing tho raroad intorestp. now general
bill, revising tho laws for tho incorpo-
ration Of railway companies, WAS passed. also.
Tho eSpcdiont Of establishing Railroad Com
n1lsslonorshp-an Office hitherto untriol in thB
Stats~-waB adopted, md tho supervision Of tho
affairs Of nll tle railroads iii tho State, in their
relation to tho public IN committed to his hands.
10 keeps His otlico III l.ansins, md receives
post is Stephen 8. Cobb. of Kalamazoo. After n
long exemption, tho 1anl-grants mado to aid tho
building Of railroads hnyo boon declared tax
able, anq to tho royonuo won from th1s
41 3I1I SrrH
por cont on tho grosa receipts of
corporations manufacturing anl running
palaco mud sleeping g-cars,--a branch Of indnatry
that has hitherto escaped tnxatinl in Michigan
porationa to convoy their franchises Of property;
but police regulations for tho security Of Tho
people have boon strengthened, two Of tho most
practical requirements made being, that all
lat OF October and that aftor the end OF Iniy,
| watchmen, gatcg and other suitable safeguards
shall he maintained at such points as tho Rail-
road COMMISSIONER shnll aosl5natc, where the
truck croGsoH tho strcctB Of q town.
| CouNTg.
/ Two now judicial circuits, to be known as tho
Nineteenth and Twentieth, hayc boon conBtitut-
cd; a1,a tho Ninth, rhirtoontn md Fourteenth
priBoa the Countlos Of Kalamazoo md nDuren;
tho Thirteenth, ,stho Counties Of Emnlot, Charlie
| yoix, Antrim, Kalkaslsa, Grand Traverse, Loo
| lana,, and Mhsa,lkeo; and the Fourteenth, tho
VI ot't1na, n,,s;"tt " t'e6,,
zio, Manisteo, Wexford, Mason, Lnko, nnd
0tta steoa n a ,eavv .t,u s;ucaa u ~ liz WoSno @
Ottawa' ZIP heaVy onsl''ess =. .llo ""ts.o to
utc @ opf mpw ., natrot 't In rt term of
which las just opened. The Bar Of that city iB
f,oI.,y n,;y,rno Eon,t - - IL utmMhaf o1 it aen
sn,a w. tio, hon ho 1,,ar5n IN Torn;t rlo
salary Of tho Judges Of that tribunal las been
| raised from 81, ,50D to 81 0U0 cacl.
n,o ,,,o, f,,tnnr avatcma,izaj Ir ii,o addt;on or
s pst ~ ~, ~ troe ~ lmrcana
and Sv thn ;mnostion nf rew ,lntics. Char
at a,,a +haso nu ndr''nna IN t,,o Ro;irno1 romms.
a5,; .neoo Iiamt tia ,ta+ noa,1 ~ IJooIt Ina
aien henn fo;r,y nreanzoI md ita Secretary tcc-
| nm";ro5 -. tho observation-disclosures ~ vital Hfptin-
ysa rhe hs fns,,ra'co e las by
shoer mnrjt, forced iteolf upon tho good viii Of
| tha T,aniainfura which hna 0rod tlo salary Of
tho C9mmisaioner ut S.. Goo. md tlat Of Lis
i1onrty ~ al JIM 0'9'
0otA'' r1su AND GAME.
The fishing intorast succeeded by hard work
| the sunnork of a fiail-broedinc estabIinhment.
liz ~ Camc,;aaiounr ,vh6ao aa1arv ia fIc3
~ - 9nn " rho 1awa fnr tha nrotcetinn NJ f;si,
N tne hllhno 1akee =! tap otate ato mauo n'u.o .
strnlgeht, as aio also sI9 sapie,ams: % ~" tho
seasons are aistaS''y beE1n5u WIFI VII xa.s ~
nlegal 70 catcn nsh or klsa oaoe Mau suanesa,
woodcocka, rralrle chckons, etc: IN the CENSUS
to the fruit-crops' also
sALAniEs' H. .,,a a.,..,o =.
Enofsa nase peon nia.o 70 hA .no . s;t. u
| public officers satistacsof1y, n't Win nrtlo mt
effect, except IN somo minor cases lho
salary Of tn tho propate ri! Jnago 's place! paeea
at Si,oou, except Ia T. Nay1'e eouInMty}
wl1elo no receives lst s1ano VI" 10 el'tl.aea
to have negstor 70 aease nm. Corta!n pro-
bato foes for transcript OF papora haSo also hoen
regulated, and the iaW pIovlaihg no o1nce win
stationery 10 maao 70 'nclode iaol aao; eupef-
mileage but thoy must not st moro than tlfteen
days at regular meeting. nor moro Than three
in IN extra soHsson. Char;s- t9r certain papers
in tho Auditor tohofals once hasc heoh hxod,
and 20 hayo tho lcos OF Justices OF LILO ieaco,
shorifts, Commissioners anu Appraisers, 1llrors,
etc, in cortain caHe1.
Quo of tho very best laWs paasod requires n
1ull, uetalleu, ana o8Act account, from btAto
DOurdH md educational itlBkttuttOuH Rnu their