The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-01-27

and 800 a mile extra for each added
foot Of width. Rep. Wells has intro
duced a bill providing penalties Of So
to SIS In fines on any one who in
jures improved roads by heavy haul
Ing on vehicles that are not equipped
with friction locks. Rep. Chew, In
another bill. seeks to have Boyne City
included In the list of towns on the
trunk line highway system of the
state.
Rep. Macarthur. In the house. and
Senator Trip, In the senate. both
have introduced bills aiming to repeal
the mortgage tax law.
The honor of being first to have a
bill reported out of committee in the
1917 session fell to Rep. Warner, Of
Ionia county. The bill permits coun-
ties which desire to cooperate with
other counties In establishing and
maintaining tuberculosis sanatoriums
to do SO, instead of each county be-
ing compelled to either build its own
or do without. The house public
health committee reported this bill
out the day after 1t was introduced
and 1t took its place on the house cal
endar as Bill No. 1.
Township officials may borrow mon
ey to meet necessary expenses where
the people have failed to vote such
money. II bill put in by Rep. Wells
and referred to the committee on
towns and counties Is passed by the
legislature. Rep. Schmidt, in another
bill, seeks to have the time for pay
ing state and county taxes extended
to Feb. 1 of each year.
Rep. Croll, of Clare county, wants
the legislature to put through, quickly
enough to have the people vote on 1t
in April, proposal to amend the con-
stitution so that drainage districts
may issue bonds for drainage pur-
poses.
Taxing of timber removed from pri-
vate forest reserves that are exempt
from taxation while the timber stands,
is aimed at in a bill offered by Rep.
Schmidt. Under the terms of this bill.
1t would be necessary for the owner
to obtain license before he could cut
any timber on such private reserve.
The license would be issued by the
township assessing officer after he had
estimated the value of the timber to
be cut and II would cost the owner 5
per cent of that value for the license.
Also he would have to plant new trees
in order to keep his standing as own
er of private forest reserve.
State institutions began early to put
in their estimates of what they will
need for maintenance during the next
two years and for improvements,
buildings, equipment, etc.
The normal school at Marquette
wants $4,000 for a new building, $685.
O32 for next year; $4,000 for the year
after and 1898 for special purposes.
Fifty thousand dollars is asked in an
other bill to pay off the last Of the
claims arising out Of the Spanish war.
A total of $4,000 for the next two
years Is asked for Marquette prison.
The College of Mines wants $77,705
a year and $13,84s for special pur-
poses. The soldiers home at Grand
Rapids asks $250,000 year for main
tenance A total of $208,0O0 for main
tenance and $65,376 for land and build
ings is sought for the girls Industrial
school at Adrian.
Seems as though some sheriffs and
township assessing officers haven't
been paying strict attention to the
terms of a law enacted at the last
legislature. This law made them re-
sponsible for the collection Of dog
tax on every dog in their districts,
the money so collected to go into a
fund to pay damages to persons los
ing sheep because of the depredations
OF dogs. Not having been as thorough
ly observed as 1t might have been,
proposes in bill to put teeth In the
law itself. He would do so by making
any official who fails to carry out the
terms of the law subject to removal
from office.
Rep. Gayde. of Plymouth, wants all
vehicles to carry lights in front and
rear on state highways after dark and
proposes III IL Oil 10 me duyOne. DO
to $40 who fails to do 80.
The disability Of married women to
sign instruments binding them with
their husbands to pay debts will be
abrogated II bills introduced by Rep.
Biinn in the house and Senator Scully
in the senate are made into law. The
bills aim to make the wife's property
liable to judgment collections.
A proposal to have state purchas-
ing agent appointed by the governor
ia advanced In a bill introduced by
Rep. Young. The purchasing agent
would contract for all supplies for
state institutions and each institution
would have a store keeper to handle
the work OF obtaining and distributing
the supplies. The bill provides prison |
terms of two to five years for the
agent or store keepers II
they do any grating in connection
with the letting of contracts for sup
plies; and prison terms of two to ten
years II they make personal use OF
any of the state supplies.
The senate has started off this year |
to confirm the appointees OF GOyernor