The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-23
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, May 13-SENATE.-A bill was
passed to amend chapter 17S relating to courts
held by Justices of the Peace. The remain
der of the time was consumed in committee Of
the whole in consideration Of sundry bills.
HoUsE.-A Joint resolution was passed au'
horizing and instructing the Agricultural Land
Grant Board to adjust certain alleged irregula r
sales of Agricultural College lands; also a
resolution fixing May 81 as the day for final
adjournment of this session, in which the Senate
cOncurred. Bills were passed. In relation to
to the commencement OF actions; to amend
chapter So, relative to disorderly persons rela-
tive to general taxation, which repealsth pres
ent system entire; relating to tramps; to pro-
vide for the incorporation of the Baptist church
and transfer certain sum OF money from the
general fund provided for the support of the
asylum for the insane at Kalamazoo; to meet q
deficiency incurred in the care of certain insane
soldiers Of the State; to provide for the appoint
ment Of clerk and deputy clerk of the Re-
corders Court, city of Detroit; provide for the
laying out and establishing and building a State
road from Bear lake to sherman; relative to the
costs OF proceeding in criminal cases; to amend
sections and of act 1913 of the laws of 1875
and 1877; to prevent the sale or delivery of IN
toxicating liquor, wines and beer to minors and
drunken persons and to habitual drunkards; to
provide remedy against persons selling liquor
TO husband or children in certain cases and to
add one new section thereto to stand as section
q; to amend the law relating to the cancellation
OF mortgages; relating to the reple win of beasts
distrained; to authorize the Board of Control of
State Swamp Lands to make an APP preparation
to drain and reclaim certain swamp lands in
the townships of Sanges and Clyde; relative to
the foreclosure OF mortgages; relating to spe-
cial administrations.
JOINT SEssIoN.-Both houses met in Joint
session tonight, in the hall of the House of
Representatives, at which session the Joint
committee on the Kalamazoo Asylum made
their report.
WEDNESDAY, May 14-SENATE.-One bill
was passed, to amend the law relative to the
inspection of Illuminating oils manufactured
from petroleum or coal oils. The Senate
was in committee Of the whole nearly all day.
HoUsE.-In the House one bill was passed,
to vacate the township Of Sherman, in the
county of Wexford, and to incorporate it's
territory within the adjoining townships Of
Springvllle, Antioch, Hanover and Wexford -.
resolution was passed authorizing the publ
cation of 600 copies Of the kalamazoo asylum
testimony, given before the select committee,
for the use Of the Legislature. =. The House
was in committee of the whole.
THURSDAY, May 15-SENATE.-Bills were
passed: To provide for the keeping of the ac-
counts and of the deposits of the public money
of the county of Wayne; to authorize AID en-
power the Board of Control of State Swamp
Lands to make an appropriation of State swamp
lands for the construction of the Petoskey and
Gaylord State road; also, to make an apprOpria-
ton of State swamp lands in the construction
of the Ocqusoc branch of the Duncan City and
Alpena State road also, to make appropriations
Of Estate swamp lands to complete and make pass
able the Alpena and Long Lake State road; also,
to make an appropriation of State swamp lands
IN, tba afruct Of he ThnpIar Rqv
Of the Alpena and Duncan State road; to ap-
propriate 1900 acres Of State swamp lands to
drain Gun marsh, in the townships of Martin
and Complain; to provide for the laying out,
establishing and building q State road from
Bear Lake to Sherman; to amend the charter
Of the city of Manistee; relative to Circuit
Courts; relative to offenses against property;
relative to proof Of demand in suit; to repeal
section 2 of an act to confer certain powers
on the Board Of the County Auditors Of
Wayne county; relative to proceedings
against corporations in chancery; relative to
the cost of proceedings in criminal cases; to
authorize the allowance of injunctions by Cir
cult Judges of adjoining judicial districts in
certain cases; to provide for the collection Of
State and county taxes in the city of Detroit; to
provide for uniform and cheaper school text
books; to authorize the Board Of Control of
State Swamp Lands to make an appropriation
to complete the Tawas and Manistee State road
from the West branch; also to establish State
road, and make an appropriation of swamp
lands to aid in the construction thereof, In
Mason county.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: To amend the char
ter Of the city of Lansing; making an appro-
priation for general and other expenses Of the
universities for the years 1879 and 1880, Of
$50, go; relative to the formation of corpora
tons TO construct corrals or harbors and i'm
prove the same; to prohibit spearing or shoot
ing fish in Goguac lake, in the township of
Battle Creek relative to fees of Justices OF the
Peace, constables and Sheriffs in criminal
cases; making an appropriation for the main
tenance of patients at the Eastern Asylum for
| the Insane and for the current expenses
of the same for the years 1879 and 1850,
of $4,000: to moro efectually protect tho
inmates of insane asylums of this State in their
postal rights and privileges, and to secure q
| Coroner's inquest TO be held In cases of sudden
and mysterious death therein; to amend the
law of 1857 providing for the organization of
Protestant Episcopal churches; to authorize
the Board of Control Of State Swamp Lands to
make appropriation To- drain and reclaim GER
tain swamp land and overlooked landin Yanka-
kee Springs township; also, to make an appro-
priation of State swamp lands to aid in the
construction of a ditch nBay county.
FRIDAY, May 16.-SENATE.-The following
bills were passed: To attach certain territory
to the city of Coldwater; making appropria-
tons for the finishing and furnishing Of build
| 1ngs needed at the Eastern Asylum IOr the III
sane at Pontiac, s2l no; to establish separate
school for the blind; to amend the charter OF
Grand Rapids; to authorize and empower the
Board of Control Of State Swamp Lands to
make appropriation of State swamp lands to
drain and reclaim certain swamp and over
flowed lands in town north, of range 3, east,
being the town of Rush, Shiawassec county;
making appropriation Of $1,000 for the pur-
chase Of full-length portrait Of the late
Douglas Houghton, first Geologist of this State;
to amend the charter of the city Of Detroit.
Adjourned to Monday evening.
HoUsE.-Bills were passed as follows: To
enlarge and define the duties of the State Board
of Education; to authorize the Board OF Con-
troll of State Swamp Lands to aid in the con-
struction aud repairing of roads in the county
of Berrien; making an appropriation for the
State House of Correction and Reformation nj
lonia Of $4,000. 50; to provide for the constitute
ton Of plank and gravel road across Lynn
marsh, in the county of st Clair, and for the
| drainage of said marsh to amend the charter
ot the city Of YpsilantiL -. The House ad-
| journed to next Monday at $50 p m
MONDAY, May l9-SENATE Senate met
at $3.50 u m, but there was no business trans
acted, with the exception of reading few mes