The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-04-05

The senate passed the following bills
on the eth: To authorize the prose
cutor OF Oakland county TO appoint an
assistant; relative to ejectment; pro-
posing constitutional amendmentem-
towering the legislature To- appropriate
money for highways: making certain
shool police laws applicable to Portage
township, IIoughton county; authoriz-
ing the auditor-general to deed lot
observatory lott to Grand Rapids; TO
amend the law relative TO commence
ment OF suits against joint defend
ants residing in several counties; amend
laws relative to garnishment proceed
ings in circuit courts; 10 amend the
law authorizing proceedings against
garnishes; senatorial reapportionment
| bill; to amend law relative to the sale
of perishable property; to provide for
the incorporation of associations for
building and owning buildings for
stores, offices, halls, etc; amend charter
OF the public schools of Calumet.
The following bills were passed by
! the house on the eth: Additional stated
appropriation OF Sc, 600 IA year for clerk
hire in the attorney generals office; to
detach certain territory from the
township of Spalding, Meuominee Co.,
and TO organize the township of Per-
ron therefrom; providing that the sal
| aries of the officials of Springwells
! township shall be spread upon the tax
! rolls, instead of being paid out of the
! general fund; also allowing the super
visor $500 year extra for clerk hire;
authorizing the township of Paw Paw
| to borrow SIS, 600 for the construction
/ of n public building; confirming the or
! ganization of school district No. z,
/ fractional, of Lansing and Meridian
township, Ingham county; authorizing
! Michigan fire and marine insurance
companies to invest 30 per cent of their
funds in foreign railroad bonds of
roads that have paid dividends of at
least per cent for the last 10 years
and whose bonds are secured by first
| mortgages; making certain school po-
! lice laws applicable to Portage town
ship, Ioughton county; authorizing
! township of Grant to borrow S., 90 TO
/ pay judgments; amending charter of
/ Port Huron; authorizing summer re-
sort associations TO appoint three as
SCISSORS to apportion the taxes paid by
the association among the owners of
cottages; also empowering the associa-
ton to use its highway labor tax on its
own grounds; To protect owners of stall
, lions; providing that not more than
1000 of the drain tax assessed against
townships shall be assessed in any one
year; providing for the appointment OF
the soldiers monument commission, 20
be composed of five members appointed
| Ivy the governor, who shall select a suit
able design for the state soldiers monu-
ment to be erected on capitol grounds;
providing that slaughter houses
within a mile of any city shall have a
proper water supply and proper sewage
facilities; deficiency appropriation for
Michigan Soldiers Home, So, 200; max
ing the president of the village of Har-
risville ex-ofiicio memb ers of the board
of supervisors of Altoona county; pro-
viding that any light guard or military
company which has made application
To be accepted as a company of state
troops may be Incorporated for the
purpose of erecting an armory; provid-
! ing that the members of the veteran
or civil corps of any light guard OIL
military company in the state shall be
entitled TO membership therein as cor
porators; to provide for the incorpora-
ton of trustees of religious denomina'
tions; fixing time when sheriff's GER
tificate of sale of real estate under exc.
cution shall expire.
The following bills were passed by
the senate on the 2Sth: Extending the
time one year-to l902-when dehn
| quent tax lands in North Muskegor
| shall be sold; to incorporate the public
schools of Alpena; to amend Port
! Huron charter; repeating the provision
requiring the fling of statements OF
election expenses; amending school
laws so trustees cannot take contracts
from the board; requiring viva voce
vote instead of secret ballot in political
conventions in Kent county; to pro-
hibit foreign corporations from doing
business in Michigan unless they com
ply with all provisions of the statues
amending general provisions relating
to corporations; bill drafted by secre'
tary of state to cover defects in present
laws; including mental labor, editors
etc, in the law giving MI nual labor
the right to n LABOR lien; TO prohibit
the manufacture and sale of impure
black pepper; to authorize to town OF
! Grant, in Iosco county, TO borrow
5000 TO pay a Judgment; to confirm
the orga nization of school district No
fractional of Lansing and Meridian
townships, Ingham county.
The overdue German steamer Brutus
from Scotland for Kiel, has been lost
with all on board.
The circuit court at Cleveland Oh