The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-30
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.


tive TO care of persons insane at the expiration
OF their term OF sentence ut any OF the penal
Institutions OF the State. or the Detroit House
of Correction; to provide for charging
out and for transferring unexpended bal
ances Of appropriations; to provide for
the incorporation Of Baptist churches; to
amend the law relative to highways; to pro-
vide for the incorpol alton OF State detective as
sociations; relative to reorganization OF the
State military forces relative to disorderly per-
Sous; to prevent the destruction and exporta-
ton OF deer; relative to creating q soldiers
fund fer disabled Michigan soldiers, sailors,
marines, and Michigan men who served In the
late war in other States; concerning churches
and religious societies.; establishing uniform
rules for acquisition and disposition OF property;
declaring Offices vacant in case the incumbent Is
convicted Of being intoxicated, and to provide
for the filling OF such vacancies: relating to
the Municipal Courts Of the city Of Grand
Rapids; providing for the better security OF
mechanics and other persons furnishing labor
OF material for the erection or altering OF
buildings; to amend the charter of the city Of
Muskegon; relating to Circuit Courts; appro-
priatlng 5000 for rebuilding and refurnishing
the State Normal School building in case OF
loss or damage by fire. Joint resolutions
were passed: To authorize the Board Of State
Auditors to pay State bounty to GER
tain soldiers; directing the Board of State
Auditors to settle the claim made by Manning
and money expended by him in recruiting and
organizing the Fourteenth Michigan infantry;
also asking Congress to enact q law equaliZing
the bounty OF all soldiers who served in the
Union army during the war of the Rebellion and
received all honorable discharge; and to pro-
vide for refunding moneys expended by GER
tain counties in support of the ms ane soldiers
at the Asylums of the Insane.
HoUsE-Bills were passed as follows To
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amend the charter of the city of Lansing; to
revise and amend the act establishing the De-
troit House of Correction; to amend the charter
of the city Of Jackson; to amend the charter Of
the city Of East Saginaw; to authorize the Board
of Managers Of the State House of Correction
and Reformatory to transfer a portion OF the
appropriation made for buildings in 1877 for
the purchase Of real estate contiguous thereto.
WEDNESDAY, May 21.-SENATE.-Bills were
passed as follows: To authorize and empower
the Board of Control of State Swamp Lands to
make an appropriation of State swamp lands
for the construction of State road from Che
boygan, in Cheboygan county, to Cross village,
in Emmett county; to amend the law relative to
limiting the pay Of Supervisors; the Sawyer
bill to define and suppress tramps. Most of
the day was passed III committee of the whole,
In consideration of the Tax bill.
HoUsE.-The following bills were passed: To
reduce the toll on the Bay City, Vassar and
Watrousvillo plank road; to provide for the
safety of persons attending public assemblies;
TO provide for the collection of the social statis
tics, and to provide for the publication of said
statistics, together with the statistics to be taken
by the United States in the year 1880; to pro-
vide for an appropriation for the publishing of
the proceedings of the annual meeting of the
Michigan superintendent of the Poor for
the years 1879 and 1850 of $500; making an ap
preparation for the Board of Fish Commission
ers for the years 1879 and 1880 Of SIS, 800; to
provide for the preparation, publication and
distribution Of legislative manual "A joint
resolution WAS passed to amend section IL, of
article IL of the constitution of the State, rela-
tive to penal fines. :. The Senate Liquor Tax
bill was killed.
THURSDAY, May p. -SENATE The follow
ing bills were passed: To prevent the catching
and killing of fish in Long lake, Kalkaska
county; to amend the law providing for NUM-
cipal Court to be hereafter called the Superior
Court, in the city of Detroit; to vacate the
township Of Sherman, in the county of Wex-
ford, and to incorporate the territory within the
adjoining townships OF Springville, Antioch,
Hanover and Wexford. in Wexford county; to
amend the laws relative to the Detroit House of
Correction.
HoUsE.-The following bills were passed: To
amend the law to require supervisors, directors
and overseers to make certain annual reports to
the county departments of the poor; to protect
the people Of the State from imposition and
fraud; to amend the law to provide
for the exercise by religious societies Of
corporate powers for certain purposes to
amend the law incorporating the village
OF Cassopois: for the collection of
damages sustained by reason of defective
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and culverts; to attach certain territory to the
city of Coldwater; to provide for the taxation
of the business Of manufacturing and selling
spirituous and intoxicating malt, brewed or
fermented liquors; to repeal section z OF the
act TO confer certain power upon the Board OF
County Auditors for the county of Wayne: to
amend the law to provide for the draining of
swamp, marsh and other low lands; concern
ing removals from office; to amend the law
relative to the foreclosure and the satisfaction
of mortgages concerning the appointment Of
guardians of habitual drunkards; to Or
game the township Of Davlin, Manitou coun-
ty: TO amend the law to establish a Police
Court in the city Of Detroit, to organize the
township of Gardner, in Mantou county; to
amend the law relative to the laying out, open
ing, locating or constructing water courses,
bitches or drains by Township Drain Commls-
sioners. After heated and savage debate
Senator Palmer's bill to establish an institu-
ton, under the name and style of "A School for
DtIDIucub OulS, pdcSeu. IA JoihV iOooiu-
ton was passed proposing an amendment to
section /. article 9, of the constitution of this
State, relative to the salary of the Governor.
FRIDAY, May 23-sENATE.-The following
bills were passed.: To detach certain territory
from the townships of Columbia and Akron,
and attach the same to the township of Geneva,
Tusccla county; to repeal the law relative to
street railway companies; to amend the law
relative to lands sold enormously for taxes;
relative to railway companies; to amend the
law to protect the title Of owners Of floating
logs and timber; making an appropriation OF
$4,000 for improvements at the State prison
at jackson; to prevent the killing of elk in HUI
ron county; to amend the law concerning fugi-
tives from JUSTICE to amend the law relative to
slaughter houses to amend charter Of the city
OF Pontiac; to amend the law regulating and
governing the House of Correction ut Ionia; to
amend the law incorporating the village OF
Nashville; to require orders drawn by the
Commissioners of Highways in the Upper Pen
Ursula to be audited by the township boards; to
authorize the Board of Managers Of the State
House of Correction and Reformatory to trans
fer portion of the appropriation made for
buildings, in the year 1877, for the purchase Of
real estate contiguous thereto; to amend the
charter of the city of jackson; to authorize the
city Of Alpena to purchase and to raise money for
the purchase and maintenance Of water-works ito
authorize the city of Detroit TO establish aud reg