The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-19
SPECIAL SESSION LAWS.
The Product Of the Late Special
Session.
LAWS THAT WERE ENACTED.
The Most of the Sessions Work Was on
Special Acts aud Resolutions-S4O,-
900 for the Soldiers That
the Governor Wanted was Done.

AN ACT to make available an Appropria-
ton TO furnish new Boilers TO replace
those now In use at the Michigan Sol
diers Home, being act number one hum
dred seventy-four, Public Acts OF
eighteen hundred ninety-nine approved
June twentS-three. eighteen hundred
ninety-nne, for the following purposes,
VIZ: The erection of a two-story BoAer
House, tie erection OF a BRICK CHM
Gey; the purchase and setting OF bolIerS,
including Dreeching TO connect same win
Smoke Stack; pipes and connections:
one new engine ana one new dynamo.
The People OF the State of Mlchigan
enact
section 1. That the sum of fifteen thou
sand dollars appropriated by section ona
OF act numbered one hundred seventy
four public acts OF eighteen hundred
ninety-nine. approved June tWenty-tnree,
eighteen hundI ed nnety-nine, be and the
same Is hereby made available tor pur-
poses ana amounts as follows: For the
erection of one two-stoIy boiler house,
three thousand dollars; Tor the erection
of one brick chimney, fifteen hundred
dollars; for the purchase or new steam
boilers and setting OF same. including
breeching to connect boilers with smoke
stack, SIX thousand seven hundred ntty
dollars for pipes and connections. two
thousand dollars; for the purchase OF
one new engine, one thousand dollars,
and for the purchase of one new dynamo,
seven hundred titty donars Provided,
That If the amount designated in this sec
ton for any of the purposes stated be
insufficient 10 complete the work or pur-
chases, any surplus remaining after the
completion of the other work or pur-
cnases specified in this section may be
used in the account or accounts where
such deficiency exists, the intent of TINS
prCvisO being to make the entire fifteen
thousand dollars available Tor the pur-
pose stated herein.
Section .. The amount appropriated by
the sand act number one hundred seven
ty-four shall be paid out of the general
fNa.a flfNaf IN
urer OF the Michigan Soldiers Home at
such times ana in such amounts as the
general accounting laws of the state
prescribe and the disbursing officer shall
render his accounts TO the Auditor-Gen-
eIal hereunder.
This act Is ordered to take immediate
effect
Approved December q, 1899
AN ACT to amend section two of act
number one hundred forty-two of the
laws of eighteen hundred ninety-nine,
entitled IAN act to repeal section eight
Of act number two hundred six of the
laws of eighteen hundred eighty-one,
entitled An act to provide for the Uni
form regulation of certain State Insti-
tutions, and amendments thereto be-
ing section two thousand two hundred
thirty of the Compiled Laws of eight
cen hundred ninety-seven, and TO pro-
vide for a change from the Calendar
TO the Fiscal year for all Limited and
standing Appropriations where the spe
chic act of the appropriation does not
so provide"
Inc People OF the State or Michigan
enact:
Section l. That section two of act num-
Der one hundred forty-twO Of the laws of
eighteen hundred ninety mine, entitled
AN act TO provide for the uniform reg
ulation OF certain State institutions and
amendments thereto. being section two
thousand two hundred thirty, of the
compiled laws of eighteen hundred nine
ty-seven, and TO provide for a change
from the calendar to the fiscal year for
all limited and standing appropriations
~ ~ ff. NFaTa~sa TaV=fs.
ton does not so provide" be amended to
read as follows:
Section 2. The Auditor General shall
keep al accounts with appropriations
made Egr any State institution or board
by hscni years, and. whenever provision
therefor is not contained in the act max
ing the appropriation, and the tax for
meeting the same is provided in the spe-
cine appropriation bill, the appropriation
met by such tax levied in the legislative
year shall be for the period ending June
thirty OF the succeeding year, and the
tex levied i'm the succeeding year shall
pe appropriated for the period ending
Provided, That ncthing herein contained
snail affect the appropriations heretofore
made for the University of Michigan
And Provided Further, Tat nothing
hcfoin contained shall affect the proyis-
ions Of section four of act number fifty
one of the laws Of eighteen hundred nine
This act is ordered to take immediate
effect.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION relative
10 the Appointment OF Lewis NJ. Miller
as Commissioners on the Revision OF the
United States Statutes
Whereas, There is a proposition pend.
Ing before the Congress of the United
States for the prominent of a commls.
sion for revision of the statutes, which
on account OF the general demand for
such revision, Will probably become q
law; therefore,
Re- oved, by the House Ohe Senate con-
.t...A
tatiVeS in Congress are requested to use
their best cndeavors to secure the appoint
ment, as member of said commits
sion, Of Lewis NJ. Miller of this State
whose ability has been so markedly evi.
denced by his work on the annotated com.
pilation of the general statutes recently
completed and placed in the hands of the
people of this State, who unanimously
declare the work invaluable and hitherto
unrivaled in its eXcellencies, and so per.
feet as 20 leave nothing further to be de-
sired; and,
Resolved, That we earnestly reques,
President Mckinley, in case of the pass
age Of the hill directing the sad revision
TO appoint the said Lewis NJ Miller 30 be
one of the commissioners to prepare TIE
text for said revision, believing as dc
that his services on said commission viii
he as valuable to the people of the United
States as they have proved to be to the
people Of the State of Michigan.
Resolved, That copies of this resolution
he sent by the Secretary of State to Presi-
resentatives in Congress.
Approved January 3. 1900.
AN ACT to amend section one OF
act number four hundred forty-five OF
the local acts of eighteen hundred nine
ty-nne, entitled. "An Act to authorize
the city Of Grand Rapids, in the Coun-
" OF Kent and State Of Michigan, to
borrow money to be expended in the
construction Of a bridge across Grand
River at Bridge Street in said city. APP
proved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred
ninety-nine.'
enact:
Section I. That section one Of act num-
Der four hundred forty-ive of the local
acts Of eighteen hundred ninety-nine. en-
titled. An Act to authorize the City OF
Grand Rapids in the County of Kent and
State of Michigan. to borrow money to
be expended in the construction Of a
bridge across Grand River at Bridge
Street in said city, approved June If
teenth. eighteen hundred ninety-nine'' be
amended so as 20 read as follows
Section 9. That the City Of Grand Rap
Ids I'm the County of Kent, and State OF
Michigan. is hereby authorized and en-
powered TO borrow money on the faith
and credit Of the city and to issue bonds