Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-25
DoINos OF THE 4IsT SESSION.


that service NAV be had on the book
keeper or other responsible employe Of
a company; relative to corporations to
own and hold buildings for offices,
stores, halls, etc; relative to labor
liens on logs, etc. /; relative to assigning
errors on rulings Of circuit courts; re-
lative to maps of electric suburban
railways; to regulate the sale OF con-
centrated commercial feeding stuffs;
appropriation for the asylum at lonia,
S109, 700; relative to guardians of
drunkards; relative to filing of bonds
on appeal in probate court; to amend
tax law relative to assessment rolls;
for the better regulation of truancy;
for the registration of grange libraries;
appropriation for the state public
SCHOOL, relative TO taxation for high
way purposes; for the incorporation of
companies for carrying on any lawful
business; to amend the highway laws
relative to opening new roads; relative
to reports of mining companies; to va
cate St Helen township in Roscommon
county; giving the Bay county super
visors authority TO borrow $4,000 to
pay mortgage on the grounds of the
Bay County Agricultural society.
The following bills were passed by
the house on the l6h: Providing for the
payment of fees to the county of Arenac
in suits and proceedings in the circuit
court; making president of the village
of Stephenson ex-otlicio member of
the board of supervisors of Menominee
county; to vacate the township of st.
Helen, Roscommon Co.; to detach GER
tain territory from school districts No.
and No 5, township of Marathon,
Lapeer Co., and attach the same to
school district No. 5; authorizing SUI
pervisors of Bay county 20 make levy
of $1,000 to a mortgage against the
Bay County Agricultural society
grounds; to create a voting precinct in
the township of Ingallston. Menominee
Co; placing the drain commissioner of
Saginaw county under the control of
the board of supervisors; extra appro-
priation for state board of health,
$1,000; deficiency appropriation for
School for the Deaf, IS, 063. &c; appro-
priation for Eastern Michigan Asylum,
SIT, 500, TO purchase land: appropriation
for Home for Feeble Minded, $l96. $50;
additional appropriation of SO, 900 for
Pan American commission.
The senate passed the following bills
on the 18th: Relative to the salaries
of Saginaw county officers; 10 create a
voting precinct in Ingallston township.
Menominee county; to authorize the
supervisors of Springwells township,
Wayne county, to employ clerk at
$500 a year; regulation of telegraphers,
messenger boys, etc, so as to prohibit
giving away information intrusted to
them; to require adequate water and
sewer facilities at slaughter houses; to
prohibit prize fighting; relative to reg
istration in Saginaw county; amend
ing the law relative to the examination
of school teachers SO as to raise the
standards; to license and tax Ely by
night" merchantile concerns; appro-
priating about s140, 900 for the State
Industrial School for Girls; to appro-
$4,000 more for the Michigan building
at Buffalo
the house on the 18th: Authorizing
the building of bridge across Kaw-
kawlin river in Bay county, with
referendum clause attached; amending
the act authorizing Dickinson county
in conjunction with the proper author
tiles of Wisconsin to build bridge
across Menominee river; giving Detroit
hna ,.1 81 Zee -
the maintenance fund of the Detroit
board of education; amending charter
of the city of Port Huron; amending
act to incorporate the public schools of
the township of Ossineke, Alpena
county; appropriating S76,155 for the
Michigan fish commission; appropriate
ing Sl7, 500 to the Eastern Michigan
asylum at Pontiac for the purpose of
buying certain lands.
There is bill on general order OF
much interest to st. Clair Flats people.
1t is Rep. Dunn's house bill No. 29s,
file 293, and provides that the title of
all the unpatented main land OF the
township Of Clay on the north channel,
known as fractional sections and of
fractional township two, north range
Is east, and fractional sections "a and
35 of township three, north of range Is
east, shall rest with the state. This
will GUST lots of squatters
Gov. Bliss has not yet signed the
Grand Rapids snap legislation bill, and
there is a suspicion that the chief ex-
ecutive fears that the passage of such
measures may have serious effect on
his administration. In the matter of
signing bills the governor is regarded
as being in the hands of his friends,
but the rush tactics forced upon him
have put hirn in hole two or three
times
Gov. Bliss is spending his time these
days in interviewing senator's and rep
resentatives and trying to impress
them with the necessity of holding
down appropriations SO that economi-
cal administration may result, but he
is having poor success. The upper pen
insula delegation is not running out
of its way to do him any favors after
the Newett affair, and they are bent
on getting all they can in the way OF
approDriationS