Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-05-30
DOINOS OF THE 4iST SESSION.

on the 23d; ADOllSnlng once or chief
deputy game warden; Detroit police
pension act; amending charter OF Port
Huron amending Saginaw charter; APP
preparation upper peninsula prison,
SIC, cas-; providing that officers making
levy on personal porperty shall file a
statement within As hours of where
goods are stored; setting aside certain
state lands in Crawford and Roscom-
mon counties for the use of the forest
reserve commission; dairy and food
commission appropriation, $4,000 n
year and increasing salaries of com
missioner, deputy and chemist; amend
ment to the law relative to the taxa
ton of inheritances; repeating sparrow
bounty law; amending Detroit charter
so as to authorize the common council
to license laundry branch offices; pro-
viding for the drainage of highways
where il is necessary To secure private
right of way; authorizing the incor-
poration of associations for the instruc-
ton of embalmers; providing that pro.
cesses against electric interurban rail
ways may be served on conductors out
side of cities; providing for the appoint
ment of boards to examine and license
plum bers; placing the state census of
1904 under control OF the secretary of
state; income tax, | per cent on in
comes over $1,000; organizing the
township Of Millen, Altoona county,
into "A union school district; authoriz-
ing the state board of health TO ex-
anime and license underta<ers TO en-
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diseases for transportation; abolishing
political conventions in Kent county
! referendum attached; general military
bill.
The senate passed the following bills
on the 21st: To make a boulevard of
Lafayette avenue, Detroit railroad
| taxation bill; TO authorize Houghton
county TO build pest house; amend
Manistee charter; 10 pension Detroit
policemen; to reorganize school dis
tricts in Saginaw county; TO fix the
salaries OF officers of the legislature;
relative to the fees of registrar of
deaths: relative to the incorporation
of A. O. L. w. lodges; relative TO the
| incorporation of fratern,l beneficiary
societies; relative to the incorporation
of societies for the prevention of cru
city to children; relative to estates in
remainder; relative to the duties of
salt inspectors for county abstract
! system in Ontonagon county; TO fix the
salary of the state superintendent of
! fisheries; TO empower the state board
/ of education to prescribe all courses Of
/ study in state normal schools.
The following bills were passed by
the house on the cath: Amend
! ing the charter of Saginaw so as
| to reduce the number of school in
spectors from Is to II, beginning in
1908; to prohibit fishing with nets in
che Saginaw river and its tributaries
within two miles of its mouth; Great
ing the office of educational secretary
! of the state board of Agriculture; pro-
! viding that the state or any county
may have lien against the estate of
persons who may have been main
tanned in any of the asyums as indig-
eDts; providing for the regulation OF
foreign corporations; amending law
making railroad, tunnel and bridge
companies subject to damages for fires;
regulations for foreign Tontine and
other companies.
The following bills were passed by
the house on the ED: Amending Sag
NAV county salary bill; allowing mem
bers of Wayne county jury commission
10 cents a mile for travel; providing
! specific tax of per cent on gross earn
ings of sleeping car companies; estab-
| fishing union school district in Ttta-
bawassee township; authorizing sale
of delinquent tax lands in Bay City;
amending charter of Sault Ste. Marie;
| Detroit water board bill; same subject;
| publication of the laws and documents.
The general military bill was finally
passed by the house on the 23d, by a
voteof So TO and if the senate con-
ours to Rep. Ames' amendment rela-
tive to a colored company the state
military board will be able to make
the necessary preparations for To-
days camp, which this year will he
| held at Manistee.
The senate passed the following bills
on the ed: To amend Port Hurons
charter; to amend Saginaw's charter;
for the transfer of certain state lands
TO the city of Lansing for highway
/ purposes; relative TO pay of Saginaw
county officers; for the Torrens system
of registering land titles.
Gov. Bliss has appointed the seven
members Of the state road commission.
which was recently created by bill,
as follows: Senators Earl and Palmer,
Reps. Mckay, French and Goodrich,
and Capt f. Z. Allen, of Ypsilanti,
and c. j. Munroe, of South Haven
For all practical purposes the work
of the present session will he brought
to close at noon on the the sem
ate concurring in the house resolution
providing for no further business after
that time and fixing the date of final
adjournment for June 6.
A delegation of labor men from De-
troit, Grand Rapids and Flint had a
hearing before Gov. Bliss on the 22d
on the garnishee bill, and they pre-
scented numerous arguments to sup
port their petition that the governor
veto the bill.
The following bills were passed by
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