Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-03
LOCAL LEGISLATURE.
The Senate Votes Down a Measure
Appropriatipg $4,000 for tho
State Weather Service.
In Consid GRAFTON OF the
Tax Bill.
Bills OF More or Less Importance
Passed by the Michigan
Law-Makers,


LANSING, June "a. - SENATE - Bills
passed: Amending laws OF 1887, relative to
copper and smelling and mining companies,
by compelling list of stockholders to be
included within their annual reports;
amending laws of 1889 for the protection
of hsh; to incorporate the village Of Lake
City; prohibiting the catching of fish in
certain rivers and lakes in st. Joseph
county; TO bond Wayne county for court
house. Adjourned. HoUsE-Bills passed:
Repeating acts 225 and 272 of 1889; TO pro-
vide charter for the city of Detroit and
TO repeal all acts and parts OF acts in con-
fiict Herewith; to authorize proceedings in
chancery in relation to the laying out
dividing and plating into lots streets and
alleys; declaring certain abstracts OF
records of Cbarlevoix county public
records; for the protection Of fish in lakes
and streams in St Joseph county for five
years; for the Incorporation OF orders OF
Sons of st. George; for the incorporation OF
equal suffrage associations in Michigan;
for the formation of companies for the
construction, maintenance. and operation
of sewers in cities in the county OF Muske-
gan; reucorporating Dowagiac; amending
act l52 of 1885 relative to home for dis
abled soldiers, sailors and marines; amend
ing act 1913 of 1887 TO provide for the re-
lief. outside of the Soldiers's Home, of dis
abled soldiers; amending charter OF Three
Rivers; to establish, protect and enforce by
lien the rights Of mechanics and others fur
nishing labor or materials for buildings
wharves or other structures. Lost on third
reading; To protect bees from poison
through the spraying OF fruit trees with
London purple, paris green, white arsenic,
or other virulent po.sons, yeas 81, nays
SO; for deepening the channel of Black
River in Sanilac county-yeas II, nays "a;
amending section 2l55-5G Howell, relative
to fish chutes in mill dams-yeas As, nays
20-reconsidered and laid on the table;
creating the Office of factory inspector
yeas 40, nays ~. Adjourned.
LANSING, June 25. - SENATE - Bills
passed: Making the Office of circuit court
commissioner at Detroit a salaried Office;
for the submission OF the question of a
convention for a revision of the constitu-
ton; for the submission OF the ques tion of
issuing 81, 900, 900 in sewer bonds; author
izing the village of Rockford TO borrow
money; amending charter of Dawagic;
prohibiting the spearing of fish in Neway-
go county; detaching certain territory
from school district No. /, village OF
Centerville, and attaching the same TO
district No. Z; making an appropriation
for the worlds fair. Adjourned. HOUSE
Bills passed: Amending law in refer
ence TO management of insane asylums;
for the compensation OF the county officers
of Kent county by regular salary TO be
fixed by the board of supervisors; TO pro-
hibit the spearing of fish in any OF the
waters Of Newaygo county; detaching ter
ritory from school district No. l, of Cot
trellville, and to attach the same to school
district No. of the same township.
Adjourned.
LANSING, June 90. - SENATE - Bills
passed: Appropriating 1000 for tho
upper peninsula prison; organizing town.
ship school districts in the upper peuin
sula; incorporating Sons of ST. George;
authorizing the formation of sewer and
construction companies; authorizing the
recompilation of Michigan and its re-
sources; amending law relative to agri-
cultural societies; amending charter OF
Alpena; relative to the construction and
maintenance OF drains. Adjourned until
Monday IL a. IN. HoUsE-Bils passed:
public improvements; making an appro-
priation for additional power, machinery,
lumber, furnishings and general repairs at
the Ionia house of correction; fixing the
salary OF the clerk OF the supreme court
| at SO, 500 and for the payment OF all fees
received by him into the state treasury;
dividing the state into twelve congress
sional districts; amending section 2298,
Howell, repeating the proviso which
pretermits public aid to county agricul-
tural societies which have horse racing at
their fairs; amending the charter of
Alpena; Incorporating Buchanan. Ad-
iourned.
LANSING, June 80. SENATE - Bills
passed: Providing stenographer for the
police court of Grand Rapids; for the pay
ment of franchise fees by corporations;
providing a stenographer for Gogebic and
Ontonagon counties, composing the thirty
second judicial district. Lost on third
reading: Appropriating $4,000 for the
state weather service-yeas 10, nays o.;
amending the act for the taxation
of car loaning and fast freight lines-yeas
IL, navs4. Adjourned. HOUSE - The