standings of municipalities to the State Treasurer; and to limit the rate of taxation for bonded indebtedness of municipalities. Senate bill No. 148 (file No. 121), entitled A bill to prohibit the taking, catching, killing or destroying of any kind of fish at any time in the inland waters of this State located in the west half of the southeast one-quarter of section 15 and the east half of the southeast one-quarter of section 16 of the township of Lockport, St. Joseph County, and to provide a penalty for a violation of the provisions of this act. Senate bill No. 149 (file No. 122), entitled A bill to protect certain pine, spruce, hemlock, cedar and other evergreen trees, and to regulate the sale and transportation thereof when severed from the soil, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. Senate bill No. 150 (file No. 123), entitled A bill to provide for an appropriation to assist in the equipping, maintaining, operation and expansion of the home for dependents of former service men. House bill No. 197 (file No. 70), entitled A bill to provide standard weight of bread; to provide for labeling; to provide for enforcement, and to fix penalties for violation of the provisions thereof. The Secretary announced the printing of the following entitled bills and that the said bills were filed in the Document Room of the Senate March 7, 1925. House bill No. 254 (file No. 71), entitled A bill to amend section 5 of chapter 5 of Act No. 3 of the Public Acts of 1895, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan and defining their powers and duties," as amended, and being section 2623 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. House bill No. 97 (file No. 72), entitled A bill to amend section 40 of chapter 35 of Act No. 314 of the Public Acts of 1915, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this State; the powers and duties of such courts, and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proIceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with, or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section 13432 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended by Act No. 165 of the Public Acts of 1921. The Secretary also announced the printing of the following entitled bill and that the said bill was filed in the Document Room of the Senate March 9, 1925. Senate bill No. 151 (file No. 124), entitled A bill to amend section 87 of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1893, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the land taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1891 and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," the same being section 4085 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. Messages from the House. A message was received from the House of Representatives transmitting A resolution requesting the Auditor General to furnish, at the close of the present session, a detailed statement of all appropriations. Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Auditor General of the State of Michigan be and is hereby requested to have compiled, within thirty days after final adjournment of the Legislature, a detailed statement of all appropriations made by the present 1925 session, and to have mailed a copy of such statement to each member. The message informed the Senate that the House of Representatives had adopted the concurrent resolution, in which action the concurrence of the Senate was requested. The concurrent resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules and Resolutions. Reports of Standing Committees. Mr. Brower, submitted the following report: The Committee on Finance and Appropriations, respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill with amendments, recommending that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill, as thus amended, do pass: Senate bill No. 40, entitled A bill to make appropriations for the Supreme Court for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, for maintenance and operation. The following are the amendments recommended by the committee: (1) Section 1, line 11, strike out the words "eighty-seven". (2) Section 1, line 14, strike out the words "eighty-seven". (3) Section 1, line 21, strike out the figures "4,887.00-4,887.00" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "4,800.00-4,800.00". (4) Section 1, line 23, strike out the figures "$112,887.00-$112,887.00" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "$112,800.00-$112,800.00". The report was accepted. BURNEY E. BROWER, Chairman. The amendments recommended by the committee were agreed to and the bill, as thus amended, was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. William L. Case submitted the following report: The Committee on Public Health respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass: House bill No. 158 (file No. 44), entitled A bill to amend sections 1 and 10 of Act No. 92 of the Public Acts of 1923, entitled "An act to regulate the sale, disposition, distribution and possession of certain habit forming drugs; to provide a procedure for the discovery of evidence of the violation of this act and to provide for penalties for the violation hereof," approved April 26th, 1923. The report was accepted. The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole. W. L. CASE, Chairman. Introduction of Bills. Mr. Greene introduced Senate bill No. 158, entitled A bill to authorize and direct the State Highway commissioner to lay out and establish a trunk line highway commencing at the junction of the main road of Lenox with trunk line 19; thence in a northwesterly direction to Richmond on the main paved road; thence to Memphis and Emmett and through Emmett to the junction of trunk line 21, following the main traveled county road so far as practicable, said road being in the counties of Macomb and St Clair. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Highways. Mr. Greene also introduced Senate bill No. 159, entitled A bill to amend section 2 of Act No. 274 of the Public Acts of 1913, entitled "An act to provide for the medical and surgical treatment of children who are afflicted with a curable malady or deformity and whose parents are unable to provide proper treatment, providing for the expenses thereof, and prescribing the jurisdiction of the probate court in such cases," being section 5286 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Public Health. Mr. Greene also introduced Senate bill No. 160, entitled A bill to amend section 2 of Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1915, entitled "An act to provide free hospital service and medical and surgical treatment for persons afflicted with a malady or deformity, which can be benefited by hospital treatment who are unable to pay for such care and treatment, and for pregnant women unable to pay for such care and treatment and for the children of such pregnant women born during the period of hospital care, and providing for the expense thereof, and prescribing the jurisdiction of the probate court in said cases," being section 5277 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Public Health. Mr. Pearson introduced Senate bill No. 161, entitled A bill to amend sections 4, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30-a, 31, and 34 of Act No. 281 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act relative to the nomination of party candidates for public office and delegates to political conventions, to regular primary elections and to prescribe penalties for violation of its provisions, and to provide for the printing upon election ballots of the names of candidates nominated under the terms of this act, and to repeal Act No. 4 of the Public Acts of the Extra Session of the year 1907, and all local primary election acts contravening the provisions of this act, except as in this act otherwise provided," as last amended by Act No. 400 of the Public Acts of 1919 and Act No. 67 of the Public Acts of 1921. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Elections. Mr. Butler introduced Senate bill No. 162, entitled A bill to amend section 4 of Act No. 302 of the Public Acts of 1915, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles and trailers attached thereto, operated upon the public highways of this State and of the operators of such vehicles and to provide for levying specific taxes upon such vehicles so operated and to provide for the disposition of such funds and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto," being section 4800 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as last amended by Act No. 1 of the Public Acts of 1925. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Transportation. Mr. Herald introduced Senate bill No. 163, entitled A bill to amend the title and sections 13, 14 and 16 of Act No. 317 of the Public Acts of 1921, entitled "An act to license and regulate the business of making loans in sums of three hundred dollars or less, secured or unsecured, at a greater rate of interest than seven per centum per annum, prescribing the rate of interest and charge therefor, and penalties for the violation thereof, and regulating the assignment of wages or salaries, earned or to be earned, when given as security for any such loan, and to repeal Act No. 228 of the Public Acts of 1915, being sections 6031 to 6039, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1915, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act," and to add a new section thereto to be known as section 15-a. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on State Affairs. Mr. Butler introduced Senate bill No. 164, entitled A bill to create a board of examiners, to regulate the practice of chiropractic, to provide penalties for practicing the same without a license, and to prohibit the practice of any other system under the name of chiropractic and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Public Health. Mr. Pearson introduced Senate bill No. 165, entitled A bill to provide for the establishment of commercial forest reserves and for the administration and taxation of the same. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Conservation. Mr. Truettner introduced A bill to amend sections 2, 3 and 5 of Act No. 138 of the Public Acts of 1921, entitled "An act to promote the establishing of deep-water connections between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, to provide for a commission to carry out the object hereof, to make an appropriation for expenses incurred hereunder, and to provide a tax to meet the same", as amended by Act No. 117 of the Public Acts of 1923. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on State Affairs. Mr. Martin introduced Senate bill No. 167, entitled A bill to amend section 10 of chapter 2 of Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials", being section 4327 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as last amended by Act No. 332 of the Public Acts of 1917. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Highways. Mr. Young introduced Senate bill No. 168, entitled A bill providing for the protection and assistance of aged persons under certain conditions in the State of Michigan and prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions hereof and making an appropriation for the carrying out of its purposes. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on State Affairs. Mr. Karcher introduced Senate bill No. 169, entitled A bill to amend section 4 of chapter 42 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, "Of the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children", being section 7756 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Mr. Bernie L. Case introduced Senate bill No. 170, entitled A bill to amend section 1 of chapter 158 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, entitled "Of Offenses against Chastity, Morality and Decency", same being section 15462 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Mr. Martin introduced Senate bill No. 171, entitled A bill to amend section 3 of Act No. 278 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages and for revising and amending their charters," being section 2845 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended by Act No. 256 of the Public Acts of 1919. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Towns and Counties. Mr. Martin also introduced Senate bill No. 172, entitled A bill to amend section 76 of chapter 16 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, entitled "Of the Powers and Duties of Townships, and Election and Duties of Township Officers", being section 2133 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Towns and Counties. Mr. Martin also introduced A bill to amend sections 2 and 4 of chapter 2 of Act No. 3 of the Public Acts of 1895, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the State of Michigan and defining their powers and duties," being sections 2570 and 2572 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. The bill was read a first and second time by its title, ordered printed, and referred to the Committee on Towns and Counties. Third Reading of Bills. The following entitled bill was read a third time: A bill to amend section 3 of Act No. 128 of the Public Acts of 1887, entitled "An act for the requiring of a civil license in order to marry and the due registration of the same, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the provisions of the same," being section 11378 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended by Act No. 195 of the Public Acts of 1917. The question being on the passage of the bill, the roll was called and the Senators voted as follows: So, a majority of all the Senators-elect having voted therefor. The Senate agreed to the title of the bill. Mr. Leland entered the Senate Chamber and took his seat. The following entitled bill was read a third time: A bill to define and extend the powers of circuit judges. The question being on the passage of the bill, the roll was called and the Senators voted as follows: So, a majority of all the Senators-elect having voted therefor, The bill was passed. The Senate agreed to the title of the bill. |