The Yale expositor., 1907-07-05

bonding. Township may build bridges
and culverts costing not over $500
without inviting bids. Defects in coun-
ty good roads law corrected.
Boarding house and restaurant keep
ers given the same protection against
deadbeats as hotel-keepers have.
The laws relating to the examina-
ton, licensing and registration of doc
tors and dentists amended so as to
raise the standard of practitioners.
Doctors forbidden to employ anyone TO
get patients for them.
Labor legislation: Better sanitary
conditions required in foundries. Ten
hours a day made the limit for wo-
men in factories. Better protection
for the health and morals OF girls
under FL and boys under 10 in fac
tories. No persons under Fl to DO
employed where liquor is sold. Com
pulsory FIRE escape law extended. Two
more free employment bureaus au-
thorized. Labor bureau given greater
power in the collection of statistics.
Ten insurance bills embodying rec
concentrations Of the national conven-
ton of insurance commissioners and
ruary, 1906. They forbid political con-
tributions by insurance companies.
make insurance agents the agents Of
the company, not OF the insurers; re-
quire that all agreements must bs
written in the policy; requires uni
form policies and permits the organ
ization of surety bond companies.
Forbids the carrying on of a bust
ness under a name that does not show
the names of the actual owners of the
business.
Creating a veterinary department
at the State Agricultural College.
Allowing mining companies to buy
and hold land without limit to the
amount
Giving electric railways, electric
| light companies, gas companies and
water power companies wider latitude
TO consolidate.
Authorizing boards OF supervisors
to send to gold cures at public ex-
pense INDECENT drink victims who
want to brace up. Also permitting
magistrates to impose a temperance
pledge on drink victims instead OF fine
or Imprisonment.
Withdrawing Michigan agricultural
lands in Iosco and Altoona from the
market and holding them for forest
reserves.
Commission OF nine authorized to
| investigate and report to the next
! legislature a general plan for refor-
estation.
Forestry commission authorized to
| trade lands so as to get tracts all In
one piece.
Senatorial redistricting bill passed
which reconstructs some of the 80 dis
tricts and gives Wayne county five In
stead of four districts.
Constitutional amendment resolu-
ton to give the state tax commission
power to tax joint stock corporations.
Constitutional convention author
lied with SO members. Primaries
Aug. 8; election of members, Sept,
II; convention assemblies.
| School laws-Deaf and dumb chill
dren between and IS must be sent
either to the state school for instruo-
ton or to some private school. Tru-
ant officers placed under school
boards. School treasurers may give
surety bonds. Children between IL and
IA permitted to leave school for relig-
| ious instruction for confirmation.
The common councils in the fol-
lowing cities and villages authorized
to restrict the number of saloons, Inn
pose a license tax in addition to the
state tax, and to accept surety bonds
from barroom keepers: Portland,
Morley, Perry. Caro-, Nashville, st.
Johns, Cass City, Lake Odessa, Mar
quette, Caledonia, Benton Harbor st.
Joseph, Edmore, North Branch, Stand
lsh, Stanton, Ford City, Chelsea,
Rochester, Tower, Allegan, Gaylord.
Dowagiac, Ionia, Harrietta, Cadillac,
Luther, Stanton and Olivet,
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