Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-06-18

improvements; defining liability Of fire and
marine insurance lost; amending general rail-
way laws-passed; amending OF charter OF
Port Huron; amending tine military laws. The
Senate In committee OF the whole agreed 10 the
drainage bill. The Senate passed the Honse bill
10 amend the general highway law; to refund
money paid the state trespass agent by John
MacFie Of Muskegon county; TO facilitate the
giving OF bonds required by law; TO provide
for filling or fencing of pit-holes or shafts Oh
unoccuped lands; amendment TO statutes rel
alive to plank roads; amendment TO general
highway laws The bill for a board OF med
cal examiners was lost, yeas z, nays IL. Ad-
journed.
apportionment reported favorably the
Senate and House apportionment bills. Bills
passed: Authorizing Bancroft, Shiawassee
county, TO borrow money; establishing lien
for labor upon logs, timber, etc; relative TO
jurors In courts OF record in Wayne county;
amending act 4OS of 1871, relative to Rogers
township school district; to reapportion the
state senatorial districts. Adjourned.
JUNE 12-SENATE-The governor communi-
Gated his approval of the Senate apportionment
bill. Bills passed; Apportioning anew. the
representative NATIVE. districts; making single
Adjourned.
HOUSE - A concurrent resolution for
the assembling of the two houses
IN In Joint convention ny nD,o to- to receive s.ei
Tue hon, luONuS W, rainier, Onltcu otdtce
senator, was adopted The governor noted his
approval OF the act to authorize Bancroft to
raise money for public improvements. The
following bills passed unless otherwise
noted: reducing the test on oil to ITO
degrees lost, reconsidered and laid on the
table; TO reappoint the representative districts
of the state passed; to regulate the manner In
which insurance companies not organized in
this state, shall do business, otherwise known
as the Fletcher bill' to prevent combinations
among local boards of underwriters, lost, re-
considerd and laid on the
table. After meeting In joint
convention and listening to an address by SEN
ator Palmer, a recess was taken until 1880 p.
IN. when the following passed: Providing for
the purchase of additional land for the Kala-
mazoo insane asylum; amending the act organ
iZing union school in the district of Bay City.
Adjourned
JUNE 13-SENATE-The governor noted his
approval of the acts placing S691 IS to the
credit Of Manitou county to settle a claim of
Muskegon county under act 1877 OF 1883; 10
prohibit tie manufacture, importation and sale
of butterine and oleomargarine; for the punish
ment OF public officers who appropriate public
funds TO their own use. The following bills
passed: TO incorporate the Bay City schools;
for the purchase Of grass lands for the
Michigan Alysum for the Insane;
establishing board of building inspectors in
Detroit. The bill amending section 1919,
Howell, relative to the compensation OF mem
bers of the state board of agriculture was laid
on the table. The following were also passed:
to regulate the counting of votes at elections;
amending section 1929, How, relative
TO primary school interest fund,
to be paid semi-annually; legalizing a
ditch tax in Windsor, Eaton county;
amending act for inspection of illuminating
oils, lost; reconsidered and laid on the table.
The House concurrent resolution for the Inn
mediate preparation and publication In
phamphlet form of the general laws passed at
this session. also for payment of the secretary
and clerk for indexing journals were both
adopted. Adjourned until Monday, 10 a. IN.
HoUsE-The corresponding clerk was In
structed to draw pay certificates for members
upto and including the Goth instant
The corresponding and journal clerks were
granted extra compensation at the rate Of 81
per day for the session. Resolutions of thanks
TO James b. Wilson and Gil X. Osmun private
counselor and secretary respectively To the
governor, were adopted. The governor com
municated his approval of the following acts I:
| Amending section S14, Howell, relative to the
reorganization of the state troops; providing
for fencing or filling in holes and shafts;
amending the labor bureau act Adjourned
until p m. Monday.