The Yale expositor., 1899-05-26

Ellis Signed by the Governor.
The following bills have been signed

Bills Signed by the Governor.
The following bills have been signed
by the governor:
| Providing that purchasers OF tax titles shall
| hotify the owners of property of such purchase;
amending the law relative 70 the incorporation
| of mercantile companies prohibiting the pol
luton OF the waters of Wolf Creek. Lenawee
county; amending the charter of the city OF
Adrian providing for the payment OF taxes,
fees, etc. OF insurance companies having agents
in this state; directing the board OF state audi
tors TO investigate the claim OF Geo. j. La Due,
| of Newberry; allowing the village OF Three
Oaks TO extend its water works and electric
| light plants beyond the village limits; provid-
ing for a county road system in the county OF
Saginaw; providing for state inspector of
coal mines; amending the law relative TO the
Detroit fire commission. providing for furloughs
| for fireman. etc. anneXing school district No.
| /. Spaulding township, Saginaw county, TO Sag
NAV city for taxing purposes; providing for
board of public works for Springwells township,
Wayne county; providing that fans and blowers
shall be used In workshops having emery
wheels; requiring that owners OF lands in Sag
inaw county shall clean out creeks and drains
running through such lands; providing for
printing the reports OF the state board OF geo.
| logical survey; authorizing the council OF Bay
City to borrow money TO pay certain water
work bonds; compelling the maintenance OF
water closets for workmen on buildings during
course Of erection; providing for the protection
of walks and sidepaths.
Senator A. q. Smith has substitute
for his bill for the encouragement of
trout raising, which he believes will
be passed by the senate. 1t provides
that trout raiser may hatch and keep
his fish in ponds that are not part of
streams, but which are fed by them,
and that he may sell at all seasons of
the year under supervision of the game
warden. Senator Smith argues that
there are n number of persons now en-
gagged in trout raising. They find it
profitable and the industry will grow
if it is encouraged. He believes the
raising of trout should be encouraged
as much as the raising of poultry, and
that it will become very important
industry in the northern part of the
state.
Gov. Pingree has sent to the senate
the following nominations: Samuel j.
| Tomlinson, of Pontiac, Oakland county,
as member of the board of trustees OF
the upper peninsula hospital for insane
for the term ending April II. 1908,
vice Con d. Danaher, resigned; George
W. Duhphy, of Quincy, as state veter-
marian, in place of George Coester, of
Detroit, whose term expires next July;
Comfort A. Tyler, of Nottawa, st.
Joseph county. as member of the state
live stock commission to succeed iona
than J. Woodman.
Senator Graham, of Kent county, is
working on bill for the taxation of
telegraph and telephone companies to
take the place of the law knocked out
by the supreme court. He would tax
telegraph companies 65 cents mile on
their wires, which is two cents a mile
less than they paid under the old law.
He would make the rate for telephone
companies so cents. Graham is inter
ested in a Grand Rapids telephone
concern.
The house ways and means commit
tee has agreed on the following APP
preparations: For the expenses of the
Agricultural college, s129, 900; Sos, 900
for the expenses of the fish co commission;
SO, 900 for library supplies; 5000, 600 for
a new state office building at Lansing;
SlG0, 900 for the mining school at
Houghton, and S270, 725 for the Flint
school for the deaf.