Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-06
Bills Signed by the Governor.

The following bills have been signed
by the governor:
TO amend act No. ais. local acts 1897. 10 re-
wise and amend act Incorporating Bay City, as
approved Mar 30 1881, and May 20, 1877; 70
amend section OF act No. 4iS, local acts loi'
being an act 10 amend 10 revise and amend an
act TO incorporate Bay City, as approved March
30, 1881; TO change the boundary OF Pottervile
Eaton county, by detaching certain territory
and adding the same 20 the township OF Bentoni
to provide for the purchase of books and equip
ments for the state library and the Michigan
travelling library
Amending the act providing for the forma-
tion OF corporations for the purpose OF owning,
maintaining and improving lands and other
property kept for the purpose OF summer re-
sorts or for ornament. recreation or amusement;
TO reineorporate the First Universalist society
OF Fairfield, for 30 years from Sept. ., 1891, and
making valid all acts OF said society from sept
5, 1894 to Feb 20, 1898; providing for inspection
of Illuminating oils, manufactured from petro-
leum or coal oils, repeating act l27 OF the laws
of 1873 and act 81 OF the laws OF 1898; amending
the act under which the city OF Ann Arbor Is
reincorporated and 10 revise the charter OF said
city; authorizing the formation Of corpora
tions for intellectual scientific, aesthetic, splr-
itual, liberal culture or inquiry, and TO repeal
IAN act to authorize the formation OF assoc
Citations for intellectual. scientific aesthetic,
spiritual religious or liberal culture or inquiry,
approved May 20, 1915" changing the date Tor
holding annual election and school meeting for
the township OF Crystal Fails, Iron county;
amending sec l. chapter /, acts 10, laws 1867,
tary forces of the state Of Michigan; repeating
the act TO create q board of commissioners for
the purpose of securing for use in certain COM
mon or private schools in the state, uniform
series OF text books. to fix a maximum price to
be charged for said books and to make an APP
preparation FOR carrying out provisions or said
act; for the publication, printing and binding OF
10000 copies OF the history OF Michigan organi-
cations, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Mis-
Sionary Ridge. written by Capt. Chas. r., Bel
KNAPP. and providing for distribution OF same;
nHtlOri tOWngnin- q A Y,
to borrow money for public improvements and
to issue bonds therefor; 10 change the name OF
Frank Crawford to Frank Lull; making the
president OF the village OF Ontonagon, Ontona-
gon county, eX-oficio member OF the board oil
supervisors OF said county; organizing the union
school district of the township of Halves, Altoona
county; vacating the village OF Chase, Lake
county; authorizing the Oak Grove cemetery
association of Napoleon, Jackson county, 10
convey the cemetery TO the board OF health OF
Napoleon, TO be used for maintaing cemetery
detaching certain territory from the townships
of Dafter, Rudyard and Pickford, in Chippewa
county, and TO organize the township of KinroSs
in said county; 10 amend the act providing for
the appointment and fixing compensation and
defining the duties OF stenographer for the pro-
bate court for Lapeer county, ana for the taking
OF testimony on examination Of persons charged
with criminal offenses In said county amending
an act TO incorporate the city of Battle Creek.
Advices from Nicaragua say the peo-
pie are weary of continual fighting and
that the sentiment for annexation to
the United States is daily growing
stronger.
State Inspector Urine has reported
the result of his investigation of the
orchards and nurseries of the state.
Out of the 24O inspected but % were
affected by the San Jose scale and in
Is of these the pest is thought to have
been exterminated.
Gov. Gen. Brooke has almost made
up his mind to send the $4,000, 900 back
to the United States which was sent
there to pay off the Cuban soldiers il
the Cuban military assembly does not
give up the army rolls, which it has
thus far refused to do
Baroness Hirsch, widow of the late
Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew philanthro-
pist, is dead. The husband left an es
tate of $4,000, 900, much of which
was bequeathed to charity. After his
death the baroness spent millions in
colonizing large bodies of Russian ref
ugees in the U. S. and the Argentine
Republic.