The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-30
THE LEGIsLATURE

WEDNESDAY, April 21.-Senate- Bills passed
House bill relative to brokers and exchange dealers
Senate bill to amend the law relative to foreclosure
by advertisement for the safe-keeping of the pub
lie moneys, and relative to offenses against public
justice
Houss-Bs passed Relative TO election of trus.
tees of graded schools in the Upper Peninsula; re-
pealng section of act To compel children to at
tend school amending the act relative to laying out
highways increasing the fees of sheriffs reinsta-
ing the harbor and river improvement companies in
the Upper Peninsula fixing penalty for manning
pigeons nesting to prevent the destruction of
timber on land delinquent to the State for taxes (;
amending the statute relative to the custody of
sons acquitted of insanity; to pay non-commis-
stoned officers and privates of the 9th, 6th and It'll
regiments OF Michigan infantry, immediate effect
for the incorporation OF manufacturing companies.
THURSDAY, April 22.-Sendte-Four petit on
received praying that the Prohibtory Liquor
law may be made more effective. =. Bills passed (:
Amending the act concerning roads on the lines of
adjoining townships House bill authorizing the
printing and distribution of the drainage laws Sem
ate bill for the payment of volunteers who enlisted
prior to Feb. 4, 1865 House bill to amend the law
Furnishing murder by hanging and imprisonment.
House-Bills passed appropriatng money TO
the Agricultural College, and taxing shares in
National and State banks and relative TO ap-
peals from probate courts. This last is the bill
relation to the settlement of the estate of the late
Capt. T.. Ii. Ward Though nominally a compro-
mise the bill passed is in the interest of the contest
ing heirs.
FRIDAY, April 23.-Sendte- Senate in
Committee of the Whole, considered the following
bills: Substitute for House bill 12l regulating the
liquor traffic, and House bill a. affixing tax upon
the liquor traffic the bills being agreed to substan
tally they from the House, except that the
axes ON retailers of spirits were fixed follows
In the country, 500 per annum in places of from
1000 to 5000 people, $3.50 per annum; in larger
places, 5000 per annum.
House-Senate bill 1O2, to provide for the safe
keeping of the public moneys, was reported favor
ably and substitute for the House bill for taxing
railroad lands was reported without recommends
ton, and ordered printed in the journal The fol-
lowing bills passed: Relative to habeas corpus and
ceriorar; to amend the act TO authorize proceedings
against garnshees; to amend section 1910, TO pre-
ven the wrongful taking of fruit or shade trees to
regulate the catching of fish in certain waters to
amend the Drain law; relative To mutual benefit and
cooperative associations.
SATURDAY, April 24.-!Sendte-Th joint reso-
luton, submitting to the people the question of in
creasng the pay of Judges from 81 800 to 500 per
year. was taken up and passed Bills were passed:
Relative to the safekeeping OF persons acquitted OF
crimes by reason of insanity; allowing members Of
the Legislature from the Upper Peninsula - day.
HouSe-Bills passed To regulate the sale of
railroad tickets to provide method of giving no
tice of the fees of county and township officers
to provide for granting special certificates 70
teachers of eminent qualifications to regulate the
sale of wheat; TO provide for the payment to rail-
road companies of moneys collected by the agent of
the State from trespassers of the lands of said
companies.
MONDAY, April 6.-!Sendte-Routine bust
ness only was transacted and the bills passed are
unimportant.
House-A number of bills were agreed to in COM
mittee of the whole.
TUESDAY, April 27.-Se,adte-It was ordered
that in future all bills reported shall be placed on
the order of third reading. The bill taxing tho
liquor traffic was amended, and passed 1t rele-
gates the collection OF uniform tax of $3.50 upon
retail vendors of spirits and $40 upon vendors of
beer to the Sheriffs of counties. The Senate APP
portionment bill, for the apportionment of State
Senators in the Legislature taken from the Ia
BILE and considered. An effort made To cause
Osceoa county TO be transferred from the Twenty
eighth TO the Twenty-seventh District. 1t also
moved that Manstee be transferred from the
Twenty-seventh to the Twenty ninth District This
was opposed by Senator Mitchell. The motion
failed, and the bill passed.
House-Bills passed: House bill to amend a SEQ
ton of the laws relative to the jurisdiction of JUS
tice courts; to amend section of the laws for the
protection of dams, reservoirs, etc. for the better
security of public records to amend the act estab
fishing State Board of Agriculture.