Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-06-11
THE LAW MAKERS.

THE LAW MAKERS
JUNE 2-SENATE-The governor noted his
approval of the following acts Suspending
sec. 4023, Howell, relative to tax on mines for
five years; amending Lowell village charter.
Senator Brown offered a resolution for final
adjournment on June II. Laid on the table.
Bills passed: Amending chap. 2l1, Howell,
troll; validate mutual fire insurance com
panies: Incorporating trade and labor
societies.; amending railroad commission
act; amending 1442, Howell, relative TO dam
ages caused by defective public sidewalks
amending section 77l6, relative to judgments
AMI executions; amending Grand Rapids pub
lie school act; 20 pension Detroit iremen, was
lost; vote reconsdered and bill tabled. Ad-
journed.
HoUsE-The governor communicated his
approval of the following Authorizing loan
OF camp equipage for use at encampment OF
Knights Templars at Grand Rapids; detach-
ing territory from Sodus attaching
same to Benton in Berrien county ;
The resolution asking congress TO pass the
land warrant bill of Mr. McAdoo was laid on
the table. The concurrent resolution for adj
journment Of the Legislature June IL and final
adjournment June % was adopted. The fol
lowing bills passed unless otherwise noted |:
Providing for the deposit of public moneys OF
Washtenaw county with banking corporations;
amending section 5671 How. to revise and cen
sOlludAt laws W publC lustl uCLiOiis
lost; to provide for the assessment of property
and the levy and collection of taxes there
on; consolidating the prison laws
making an appropriation for the fish commits
sion; amending law of 1888 relative to the com
pulsory education of children, lost; authoriz-
ing Decatur to pay back taxes declared void by
the supreme court, passed: amending act 80 of
1879 relative to canals and harbors; for grant
of swamp lands 10 clear Swan creek, Midland
county; to repeat the Baker conspiracy law,
lost; giving right of action to employees If in
iured or next of kin If killed in manufacturing
establishments insuficiently provided with fire
escapes, passed Adjourned.
JUNE 3.-SENATE-The governor noted his
approval af the acts Incorporating Pom
tiac; regulating practice of pharmacy; amend
ing laws relative 10 inspection of jails. The
following bills passed unless otherwise noted
Organizing lronwood, Ontonagon county; for
the organization of fractional districts In Rich,
Lapeer county, and Waterford, Tuscola county (;
TO pension Detroit firemen; amending section
1897, Howell, relative TO salaries of
judges of the supreme court
to prevent nonresident aliens from acquiring
or holding lands in this state, lost, motion to
reconsider laid on the table; amending sec.
5s3S, How, relative TO administrators, passed I;
for the protection of hotel keepers; for a board
OF county commissioners, lost; amending sec.
sos, How, relative alienation by deed, passed ;
amending sec. 1907, How, increasing salaries
.
for employment OF a stenog-
rapher in ninth judicial circuit.
The report of the Joint military committees.
Senator Shoemaker and Representative Wright
dissenting, upon the alleged official misconduct
of Gov Begole in reference TO the appropria-
| ton of $4,000 received from the general gov
eminent 20 the quartermaster' department and
| the payment of commission to friend Palmer
for collecting the same, also the report charg-
ing gross misconduct in office upon the late
QuartermasterGener Shakespeare, extrava-
gaDce and irregularities in the management of
the military encampment, were received, order
ed printed and laid upon the table. Minority
reports by the members dissenting will take the
same course.
HoUsE-The governor communicated his ap-
proval of the following acts Reincorporating
Birmingham, Oakland county; to provide for
an attorneys fee in mortgage foreclosure by
advertisement; amending South Lyon school
district act. Bills passed. amending OwossO
city charter; amending an appropriation for
the state industrial home for girls; incorpora-
ting the village of Tawas City. Adjourned.
JUNE 4-SENATE-The concurrent resolution
| TO adjourn June 20 was amended by making
date June II, formal business TO cease three
| days before, and passed. Bills passed: EX-
| tending the time for completing state roads I'm
Grand Traverse and Leelenaw counties; max
| ing an appropriation for the university; estab-
| fishing a soldiers home Ito provide better locks
:
| pay expenses of investigating charges against
| Nelson belong, mayor OF Muskegon in 1888.
| Adjourned.
HoUsE-The governor communicated his ap-
| prevail of the following acts: Amending act
| creating board OF public works of Grand
| Rapids; amending act establishing police and
| fire commissioners Of Grand Rapids; amend
| ing, revising and consolidating laws relative
| TO insane asylums. The following
| bills passed unless otherwise noted
TO prescribe the duties Of the attorney general
| to require supreme court and circuit judges 10
| report changes needed in the laws-enactlng
words of the bill struck out; asking congress
| TO pass an Interstate commerce bill, lost,
reconsidered and tabled: amending sec. 10 81,
| Howell relative to highways laid on the table
establishing state prison in the upper
! peninsula; for an appropriation of swamp
| lands to drain Ewers aud Hewes lakes, Ingham
county; amending act of 1851 relative to gen
eral and special elections; for punishment OF
| public officers who unlawfully appropriate pub
| lie moneys. The House refused to concur in
| the Senate's amendments TO the resolution of
adjournment, fixing the date of closing bust
ness June 13 and of final adjournment June
IL. Adjourned.
| June 5-SENATE-The governor noted his
approval of the act Incorporating Tawas City.
| The Senate concurred In the House resolution
for adjournment June IL, and of final adjourn
ment June %. The following bills passed un-
less otherwise noted; Authorizing the auditor
general TO place to the credit of Manitou coun-
| ty 81 500; forbidding the deputizing of any
person as under sheriff or deputy sheriff who
Is not citizen and elector of Michi-
gan, lost; reconsidered and tabled
authorized Bay county to buy, build or main
tain bridge across Saginaw river; amending
railroad laws so as TO prevent trespassing on
railroad tracks, lost; To provide boilers and
steam heaters for the insane asylum for crimi-
nals at lonia, passed; amending act III of 1881
relative to delivery Of grain by railroad com.
panies, lost yeas 49, navs 5, reconsidered and
tabled; amending Sec. 9}l5, Howell, relative 10
libel and SANDER; for grant OF swamp lands
to clear out Newton creek Alpena county
amending Sec. 5532 III. G. L., relative 10
criminal proceedingi: for the incorporation
or association for the business of breeding
FLOODED stock; TO prevent accidents from
shafts or machinery In fair grounds; for the
re-registration of electors, for the relief OF
Francis Marsac; 10 preserve morality and pub
lie decency. The Senate In executive session
confirmed the following as members of the
board of trustees for the northern asylum for
insane: For six years-Geo. A. Farr, Grand
| Haven; Henry II. Noble, Elk Rapids. For
four years-Thomas II. Bates, Traverse City
Joseph W. French, Three Rivers. For two
years-Alex. Chapoton, ST., Detroit; Charles
M: Wells. Traverse City. Adjourned.
HousE-Bills passed: Amending sec. 5774,
Howell, relative TO determination OF all estates