Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-08
LOCAL LEGISLATURE.
Grind Goes On, While Everybody
Wonders When the End VIII Come.
The House Passes the Bill Appro-
priating $4,000 to the Use OF
the State School for the Blind.
Bills OF More or Less Importance
Passed by the Michigan
Law-Makers.

LANSING, April 90. - SENATE -. Bills
passed: Pensioning disabled or retired
Grand Rapids policemen and firemen; fix
ing salary Of stenographer of superior
court OF Grand Rapids; Incorporating
tho village of Fcnton. Approved by the
governor: Incorporating tho village of
Bellaire. Adjourned. HOUSE Bills
passed: To provide for the taxation OF
railroads organized and existing under any
special acts of incorporation, or which
have heretofore been taxed under any
special act or acts, and to repeal all acts
or parts of acts; authorizing the employ
ment of five stenographers by the justices
OF the supreme court, each stenographer to
be paid a salary of $500 a year; amending
tho charter of Port Huron; authorizing
F'owlervillc 10 borrow money for water
works; amending sec. S6S7 How, relative
10 writs of error and certiorari;
authorizing the board of state
auditors to eXpend $1,000 in improving
certain vacant lots owned by the state in
the city of Lansing; prohibiting the use Of
dynamite, herculean powder and other
explosives in the waters of the state in,
which dwell fish. Lost on third reading:
To regulate fishing in inland lakes and
riyers-lost, yeas 2S. nays 3S. Approved
by the governor: The acts Incorporating
Manistique; amending charter OF Owosso;
Incorporating schools Of Montmorency;
amending law relative to state board of
equalization; Incorporating schools OF
Whcatfcld, Moatmorency county; author
izing state auditors to investigate the claim
of II. Lake; legalizing action of Bay county
in voting $50, 600 Cor bridge. Adjourned.
LANSING, April 30. - SENATE Bills
passed: Making an appropriation for the
support and maintenance of the Michigan
school 5or the deaf; incorporating poultry
and pet stock associations; Incorporation
of veterinary associations revising and
consolidating the laws relating to building
and repairing of highways. Adjourned.
HoUsE-Bils passed: Incorporating Au
Sable and Oscoda; Incorporating Feuton,
Genesse county; to establish n commits
sioner of toll roads; annexing certain ter
ritory il. Hamtramck and Greenfield 10
Detroit. Lost on third reading:
For the organizing of company 10 clear
out the Ontonagon river-lost, yeas AZ,
nays -. Reconsidered and tabled; 10
establish the penalty of death for the
crime Of murder-yeas A., nays Al.
Reconsidered and tabled. Approved by
coming; prohibiting the use of oieomar-
gerine or butteriLe in any of the public
institutions of the state; amending the
charter of Grand Rapids; amending the
soldiers home act Adjourned.
LANSING, May 1.-SENArE-Bills passed:
To punish fraudulent entries and prac-
tees in speed contests: amending police
act of city of Grand Rapids; allowing
Josiah w. Begole 70 appear before the
board OF state auditors and present claim;
setting apart certain lards in Wildfowl
Bay for public shooting park; establish
ing state road in Bay county; preventing
fast riding or driving across the Bay
county bridge district; providing for the
collection of delinquent drain taxes in
Mcnroe county; authorizing the formation
of corporations for the purpose of holding
and acquiring real estate upon which to
erect buildings. Approved by the govern
or: The act amending law of 1885 rela-
tive TO stenographer for the sixteenth
judicial circuit. Adjourned. House.
Bills passed: Amending the law for the
protection Of hotel keepers; amending the
law to pension aged and disabled fremen
of Detroit, their wives and children.
Adjourned until Monday evening, 9:l5
o'clock.