Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-04-09
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

incorporating St. Ignaee: and amending act %
Of 1858 relative 70 the payment Of wages earned
and materials furnished for public buildings
March ~. In the House, the Governor noted
his approval Of the acts amending section 1000
the Peace. and sutSOrisns drain proceedinSs in
Warren, Midland County. Bills passed: Incor-.
porating Frankfort Benzie County. and incor-
porating Roscommon. Roscommon County
BOTH houses held two sessions on the 2sth
ult, and did little talking and considerable work.
The military committee did not resume the
Quartermaster Generals Office inquiry, postpon-
ing further action till tho 3lst ult In the
Senate the following bills passed: Reorganizing
the union school district OF Flint; amending the
act relative to the Vassar School District No. 1;
TO poor officers; providing uniform
system of accounts for poor officers;
amending the act to consolidate the poor
laws; amending Act 2l3. OF 1883, relative to
highways and public roads: authorizing State
Auditors TO pay the claims OF fire companies
for extinguishinR fires In State property; amend,
schools; incorporating Attica. Lapeer County;
amending Section 1901, Howell, relative to the
service OF process es in action OF eJectment;
amending Section bse7 Howell, relative to par
tition OF estates; the joint resolution al
lowing the Central Michigan Soldiers and
Sailors Association use Of tents; amending
Grand Rapids charter; changing the name of
Mabel l. WILDER to Mabel r.. Cook: reincorpo-
rating Marine City; amending the act to protect
fish and preserve fisheries. In the House the
following bills passed. Establishing Record
er's Court In Kalamazoo; Incorporating Leslie
and Muskegon; detachtng territory from Mar
quette and Merominee and organizing the coun-
ty of Iron. A resolution that hereafter mem
beers should forfeit their paywhen absent was
referred to the Committee on State Affairs.
CONCURRENT resolution for adjournment of
the two houses from Thursday, April 2, to
Wednesday, April 8, was adopted by the Senate
on the SOth ult The adjournment is on ac-
count OF the spring elections. remonstrance
of the Board of Supervisors of Marquette
County against detaching any territory from
that county to organize the new county of Iron
was presented. The following bills passed !:
Incorporating Leslie for alphabetically index
ing the names OF Michigan soldiers: for con-
tnuance of actions In Justices courts In cases
of vagrancy, but by reason OF sickness, absence
relation TO returns by township clerks; for
finishing the asylum for insane criminals
at Ionia: for the publication of news
professors Of the Agricultural College.
The labor Representatives in the House had
their ire aroused by Oviatt's bill TO punish dy-
namiters. After few minutes warm discus
sion the bill was placed on the order OF third
reading. The Senate having made amendments
to the Bay City charter to which the House
could not agree, and on which the Senate In :
sisted, Black, Marley, and Oviatt were named
as House conferrees. The Secretary OF State In
formed the House that the total cost OF eompil-
ing and publishing annual cereal statistics was
$4,2S453 T he House had too small an attend
ance to attempt the third reading of bills, and
the day was spent in committee OF the whole.
THE House bill amending the charter of the
city of Muskegon and the Agricultural College
appropriation bill were passed by the Senate
on the 3lst ult. The military clause. which the
House struck out, was reinstated by the Senate;
The House passed the House Dill
amending the charter Of the city
resolution providing for an adjournment
was amended 80 as to make the adjournment
Wednesday, April 8. The Committee on Ways
luton to pay the claim of the Detroit House Of
Correction for the board OF female risoners
transferred from the State prison. The Senate
gave up the chamber in the afternoon to the
Railroad Committee, which spent the day in
listening to arguments OF representatives OF
Michigan roads on several Senate bills affecting
railroads. Chief Justice Howard, OF Arizona,
Speaker Of the last Michigan Legislature, adj
dressed the House in the afternoon.
THE Senate passed the following bills on the
list inst Organizing the county OF Iron; amend
ing section 6SOJ, Howell relative to Judges Of
Probate approprlating 5000 for the semi cen
tennial celebration of the admission OF Michi-
gan as a State for the partition of real estate in
certain cases; amending section 1888, Howell,
relative to inquests; extending the time for the
completion OF the Marquette, Houghton, and
approved the acts Incorporating Boyne City
and Frankfort. Bills passed the House:
thoTi1in U the State Auditor to light the
Capitol building Anq 1g58ppaAt HttR n6ttee
keepers; legalizing mortgage of the Midland
County Agricultural Society; amending section
1886, Howell, relative to liquor dealers; relative
to bridges across the An Sable River in Osceola
County; amending section 2166. Howell. relative
to the protection OF fish; for the Incorporation
OF building, loan fund and savings associations;
authorizing the use of arms by Sons of Veterans;
to repair the State road in st. Clair County;
amending section 22i4. Howell, relative to adul-
terations in milk; amending chapter 1853, 1876,
M nffQ fha lfxyaa Of
making 1t felony to unlawfully manufacture
or us dynamite; amending section 6747, How
ell, relative to sales OF lands in pursuance Of de-
crees in chancery; authorizing the purchase of
land adjoining the Kalamazoo Asylum; consoli-
dating the asylum laws
THE bill amending sections 1884, Howell,
relative to the payment Of entry and jury fees
in Circuit Courts, was passed by the Senate on
the I'd inst, reconsidered, and tabled. The
bill repeating act 90, 1888, to prevent debtors Civ
ing preferences, was passed. A resolution was
adopted instructtng the Committee on Appropri-
ations and Finance to ascertain II the
drsWS eaSes Hed mea9e % Clerk HdT
the Detroit bar against the bill to abolish the
TS a me
leans Exposition Commission: INCORPORATING
Newberry; revising the charter of Adrian; in
cooperating Metamora; Incorporating the
schools of Green Township; Incorporating
Manistee; amending the Grand Rapids Police
Court act; Incorporating St. Ignace;
Incorporating Benton Harbor; revising
the charter of Bay City; incorporating Leslie;
ing certain sections Of the charter of Grand
Rapids; amending the charter of Kalamazoo;
allowing the soldiers Of Central Michigan the
was received, saying Gen. Grant wished to ex-
press his thanks to the Legislature of Michigan
for their expressions of goodwill and sympathy
for him Both houses adjourned until Wednes-
day, April Z.