Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-03-29
The Legislature.

SENATE, March 20.-Petitions were
presented for the amendment of acts 1876 and
$50, session laws of 1851, relative TO the regula-
tion Of the retail liquor traffic. Against the
enactment Of prohibitory law. For homeo-
pathic medical control of the new Northern
asylum for the insane; for the protection Of
forests AMI the encouragement of tree planting
The following bills were reported adversely,
and all tabled TO establish department of
eclectic medicine at. the State University; to
amend the constitutional provisions relative 70
the compensation mileage Of members of the
Legislature; to amend the act-19S of 1SS1-rL-
lative to the dog tax and the payment of dam
ages for sheep killed; to supply certain officers
with treatise on townships and township Off
GERS. The bill Incorporating AlpeDa was re-
turned TO the House. The following bills were
passed: to organize the township of Warren,
In the county of Antrim; to enable Houghton
county TO buy or build bridge across Portage
Lake: to authorize the repair of bridge over
the Menominee river; to amend sections 439S,
1899 and 400, OF the compiled laws, relative to
title TO lands of heirs Of deceased persons; TO
amend sections 4, IL and 49, OF an act to estab-
lish n Board of Public Works In the city of De-
troit. The vote by which the Senate concurred
in the action of the committee OF the whole, In
striking ont all after the enacting clause of
House bill No. So, to incorporate investment
associations, was re-consdered. The action OF
the committee was then non-concurred In and
the bill was laid upon the table. The governor
announced his approval of Senate bill No. 149,
for the building of bridge over Huron river,
In Berlin township In Monroe county, and of
Senate bill No. 80, authorizing the Howell COM
pilation to be received and used In evidence.
Adjourned.
DEMONSTRATIONS were received for the sub
mission Of q prohibitory amendment: also
protest against the same; remembrance against
the passage of bill to create a Poor Commits
sion In Wayne County; for the control Of the
Northern Asylum to be given over to the hon.
eopathists; for amendments TO the liquor law;
for the passage of a law making freight rates
uniform. Adverse reports were made upon
the following bills, and the bills were all laid
on the table, viz: House bill No SO, TO compel
railroad companies TO post schedules or time
tables, and to provide penalty for failure to
comply with the terms of the schedule; House
bill No. 6l9, for grant OF lands TO construct
road In Mssaukee aud Crawford Counties;
House bill No. 590 for an appropriation of
swamp lands to widen and deepen the Thorn
apple River; for grant OF State lands to make
a ditch In Saginaw and Shiawassee Counties |
The House passed the following bills: Amend |
ing chapter SO, compiled laws, relative to dis |
orderly persons: for the protection Of hotel |
keepers; amending section 5976 OF the compiled |
laws relative TO actions of trespase; for Ier- |
atty for obtaining money, railroad tickets or |
transportation by false pretenses; TO protect |
the rights OF laborers; authorizing the cove |
nant mutual benefit associations OF Michigan |