Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-06
DoINos OF THE 4isT SESSION.

The house passed the following bills
on the 2sth: New BARRIERS law; cor
recting errors in Bay City charter; con-
stitutional amendment relative to the
division of state and county taxes and
finances; authorizing Crystal Falls
township school to borrow money to
erect building; authorizing Ontonagon
county TO maintain an abstract system;
authorizing Blissield to borrow money
to improve bridge across the Raisin
river; detaching certain territory from
school district No. ?, Marion, and at
taching same TO district No 6; amending
Saginaw charter relative to the pay of
aldermen when acting as supervisors;
Detroit bridge bonding bill; extending
time of payment of indie btedness of
counties and townships; freight CLASH
fcation bill; providing that no person
acting as an agent for a contract with
a deceased person shall be competent
witness equally within the knowledge
of decendent unless called by the heirs;
authorizing county road commissioners
to grant street railway franchises for
territory within their jurisdiction;
amending compulsory education law so
as to provide that children between s
and Is years shall attend school at
least 10 half days each week and five
months a year, instead of eight half
days and four months year; author
izing common carriers to sell perish
able freight within "a hours after
charges have not been paid, and ami
mails within a week; regulating the
granting of franchises in the city of
Detroit; Ann Arbor charter.
The senate passed the following bills
on the 2sth: Amending the Grand
Rapids primary election law by pro-
vding for independent candidates and
decreasing the fee for some minor can
didates; to amend Saginaw charter; to
authorize Detroit to build another
bridge to Belle Isle; authorizing Bliss
field township, Lenawee county, to
borrow money; relative TO school taxes
in Crystal Falls; to reorganize school
districts in Marion township, Osceola
county; amended by house-relative to
the East Saginaw school law; Barnaby
primary election bill for Kent county;
to make Monroe county the 3sth
judicial circuit.
The house passed the following bills
on the Goth: Proposing an amendment
to the constitution relative to indeter-
inmate sentences; general budget bill,
carrying Sc, 544, sol. IL; regulating rail
way service on steam railways; COM
polling county and municipal officers
to keep accounts; amending railroad
incorporation act so that projectors of
interurban electric railways need Sc
cure the consent of only two-thirds of
the abutting property owners for a
right of way.
Gov. Bliss on the night of the 27th
sent TO the senate the names of ex-
Senator Ira T. Sayre, of Flushing, and
Graham Pope, of Houghton, as the two
additional members of the state tax
commission. Sayre gets the long term
to 1906 and Pope's term will expire in
1904.
The house passed the following bills
on the 27th: Amending Grand Rapids
primary election law; authorizing the
village Of Blissfeld to borrow SIS, 900
for street improvements; amending
horseshoers' act so as to provide for
renewal of licenses
The budget made up by the state
accountant shows the total for 1901
and 1902 to be Sc, 1927, zsl "a. which is
an increase of 5000, 265. 81 over the total
taxes levied by the last legislature.