The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-04-19
DoINos OF THE Asst SESSION.

The house passed the following bills
on the 18th: Appropriating $4,000
for the Industrial school for boys; pro-
viding that foreign fire aud life insur-
ance agents must obtain certificates of
authority from the state insurance
commissioner; appropriating $4,000
for two years for the state library; to
do away with double taxation of mort
cages; authorizing Saginaw traction
company TO manufacture salt from the
surplus steam and furnish power light
ing and manufacturing 10 private cor,
poration; to abolish the political con-
vention system throughout the state
so that all candidates for Office may be
voted by the direct vote of the people,
with referendum clause attached; to
tax the property of railroads, tele-
graph, telephone, express, sleeping
ears and fast freight line companies on
the adj valorem basis; entering the open
season Of catching trout and wbitefish
in the waters of Lake Huron, Saginaw
bay, Green bay and Lake Erie; amend
ing the charter of the city of Grand
Rapids; for the state to loan So 900 to
the Mackinac Island board of commits
soners for the purpose of improving
the Mackinac Island state parks, roads
and walks, the state to receive per
cent interest each year for 10 years on
the money; appropriating $500 for a
monument to e. May Tower, the
Michigan army nurse who died in
Porto Rico, monument shall be erected
at Byron; appropriating sos, 400 for the
school for the blind.
The senate passed the following bills
on the 10th: For the relief of Edwin
c. Cummings; to amend charter of
Adrian; tax sleeping car companies; APP
preparation for home for feeble minded;
for the incorporation of boards of
trustees to hold property for religious
denominations; relative to the admis-
sion to state insane asylum of insane
inmates of the Soldiers home; provid-
ing for the removal of cases from one
justice of the peace to another; to
amend the act for the formation of
street railway companies so that they
will have to get permission from the
county highway commissioner before
they can lay tracks in public roads; re-
vising the truancy laws; to regulate
steam engines, etc, on highways to
incorporate Manistique, Schoolcraft
county, as fourth class Office.
Rep. Chandeliers ad valorem railroad
tax bill. amended so that the state tax
commission alone shall constitute the
assessing board, was reported out for
printing on the 9th by the committee
on railroads. The bill is amended so
that it will not go into effect until Jan.
/, 1902, when the repeal of the special
railroad charters-the Michigan Cen
trail, the Lake Shore, etc.-will have
become effective. If it were given eff
feet at an earlier date, some of the
roads for year would be paying spe-
cific taxes while others would be pay
ing ad valorem taxes The bill pro-
yides for the assessing of the property
of railroad, telegraph, telephone, ex-
press, sleeping-car and fast freight line
companies on the ad valorem system.
The following bills were passed by
the senate on the 9th: Amending the
law relative to the Incorporation of as
sociations for camp meetings, assem-
blies, etc; to authorize Hastings to
borrow So, 600 to pay debts; to amend
Detroit's charter so that the controller
! may publish an annual ''tabulated"
statement of accounts instead of a de-
tailed one; raising the salary of Wayne
| eouuty's clerk, treasurer and register
of deeds-given immediate effect; rela-
tive to the competency of witnesses in
certain cases; TO require fire escapes in
hotels; relative to the time for the
commencement of personal actions;
relative to the popular election OF U.
s. senator's; to prohibit the unlawful
use of G. A. r. badges, etc.
The following bills were passed by
the house on the 10th: Increasing the
number of wards in the city of Pc
| tosley to four; amending the charter
of the city of Saginaw by making "A
change in broadening powers OF COM
mon council in regard to assessments,
and by giving fire department board
power to make repairs to fire stations,
subject to the approval of the common
council; relative 10 the general revision
of the charter of the city OF jackson;
Incorporating the village of Manis-
JlQut, BIZ bnstb II
may become fourth class city and
also fixing the term of justices of the
peace; amending the election law rela-
tive to registration, compelling re-reg-
isSration of voters in Saginaw county.
The following bills were passed by
the senate on the 18th: To increase
the pay of election inspectors, clerks
and gate keepers in Springweils town
ship, Wayne county; to loan Mackinac
Island $40. 1000; to amend the charter of
Port Huron; to validate certain actions
of St stephens church of Adrian; to
| provide for an assistant prosecutor in
st. Clair county; authorizing the Oceana
| Telephone Co., of 0ceana county, to-
bond for SEC, 900; to amend the charter
of Grand Rapids 80 as to debar from
holding Office any defaulter; appropri-
ating 81, 500 for the state fair
The following bills were passed by
| the house on the 9th: Constituting the
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