Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-05-02
DOINOS OF THE 4iST SESSION.

the house on the Gath: Protection OF
rabbits of Washtenaw and Monroe
counties; amending charter of Bay
City; to provide for the reorganization
of the school district of North Star
township, Gratiot Co.; authorizing
township of Pentwater to borrow
money; amending game law; reappro-
priating SIS, 900 TO improve the sewage
system of Jackson prison; appropria-
ton for state reformatory, S10,025;
providing for the incorporation of
Christian Reformed churches; relative
to amending bylaws of corporations
TO prevent cruelty to children; same
subject; amending general tax law
relative to the payment OF taxes on
parcels of land; providing that regist-
rars of deaths must file reports with
county clerks in order to collect fees
allowed; providing that the members
Of boards of review must be taxpayers
and landowners; revision of laws rela-
tive to the inspection of coal mines,
providing a board of examiners and
providing for the appointment of an
inspection of coal mines; authorizing
district school board to furnish water
to schools; providing that in acknowl-
edging documents notaries must give
the time of the expiration of their COM
missions; providing for the recording
of bond and other securities in civil
cases instead of fling them; to permit
the hunting of rabbits with ferrets or
dogs on any property except where
specifically prohibited; limiting time
for the commencement of actions ques-
tioning the validity of tax titles TO six
months; appropriation for Marquette
normal school, sos, 260.
The railroads have never been ac-
cused of doing things by halves and it
is like writing an old story to chronicle
the fact that they scored another vic
tory in the senate on the evening Of
the 23d by effecting the passage of a
taxation measure built in their order.
The final vote was 20 TO s, and it was
simply case of the railroads securing
what they set out to get in the FIRST
place. AS finally acted upon the bill
is practically the same as it came from
the railroad committee, only two or
three miner amendments being tackled
road measure, as the entire fight was
made on the proposition of whether the
railroads should be assessed by the
state tax commissioners, who assess
all other property in the state, or
whether a separate board should be
provided, as the bill called for. Sen
| ator Nichols made gallant fight TO
have all property in the state assessed
by one board and the arguments he put
forth were left unanswered by the ma
| jority. But it was case of the rail
roads having the votes and they won
easily at the end.
The following bills were passed by
the senate on the 25th: To detach
Calhoun county from the 9Th judicial
circuit and make it the 37th circuit
to amend the justice court act for De-
troit; to prohibit fishing in Mill lake.
| Bloomingdale township, Van Buren,
county; fish appropriation, SIT, 600; for
a separate voting precinct in RocLland
! township, Ontonagon county; relative
to the investment of the capital of in
surance companies; for uniform sys-
TENS of accounting by county and city
officers; to amend the general election
law to provide separate ballots for con-
| stitutional amendments; to amend the
| BARRIERS act
The senate passed the following bills
on the cath: To regulate fishing in the
lakes of Cass county; to organize school
districts in Oss:neke township, Alpena
county; amend West Bay City charter;
amend Saginaw charter; TO raise the
salaries of Saginaw county officers; TO
organize school districts in North Star
| township, Gratiot county; to amend
the fishing laws of Muskegon county;
to authorize Pentwater, Oceana county,
to borrow money for improvements;
relative to the incorporation Of frater-
nal beneficiary associations; relative to
fishing in Maple river; appropriation
for state naval brigade.
The house passed the following bills
on the 23d: Regulating fishing in Silver
lake, Oceana county; regulating fishing
! in Wall lake, Barry county; prohibit
ing spearing of fish in Isabella county:
regulating fishing in certain lakes in
Cass and Van Buren, counties; regulat-
waters of the state; regulating fishing
in inland lakes of Cass county; to
tax railroad companies on ad valorem
basis; authorizing the pensioning of
Bay City tremen
These bills were passed by the senate
on the 93d; To raise the salary of the
state librarian from 81, 200 TO ST. 500:
for normal school in western Mich
igan; to authorize Dickinson county in
conjunction with the Wisconsin author
tiles, 20 build a bridge across the Me-
nominee river to prohibit the catching
of fish in Silver lake, Oceana county:
to regulate fishing in Indian and Magi-
clan lakes, Cass county; to prohibit fish
speariDg in Isabella county.
The following bills were passed by
the house on the 25th: Mining school
appropriation, $1,000 protection of
fish in the Au Sable river and its tri-
butaries; amending the charter of
Grand Haven, extending the city limits