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So, two-thirds of all the Senators-elect having voted therefor,
The joint resolution was passed.

The Senate agreed to the title of the joint resolution.

By unanimous consent, the Senate returned to the order of

Reports of Standing Committees.

Mr. Clark submitted the following report:

The Committee on Finance and Appropriations respectfully reports back to the Senate the following entitled bill, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass:

Senate bill No. 13 (file No. 17), entitled

A bill to provide an additional appropriation to the State Banking Department for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1922, and June 30, 1923, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The report was accepted.

The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.

ROY CLARK,

Chairman.

Mr. Ross asked and was granted leave of absence from tomorrow's session.

Mr. Eldred moved that the Senate adjourn.

The motion prevailed, the time being 3:42 o'clock p. m.

Accordingly the President declared the Senate adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, June 2, at 2:00 o'clock p. m.

DENNIS E. ALWARD,

Secretary of the Senate.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

FIRST EXTRA SESSION OF 1921.

Senate Chamber, Lansing, Thursday, June 2, 1921. 2:00 o'clock p. m.

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment and was called to order by the President.

Religious exercises were conducted by the Rev. John P. Jockinsen of Pilgrim Congregational Church of Lansing.

The roll of the Senate was called by the Secretary.

Present: Senators Amon, Baker, Bolt, Brower, Bryant, Clark, Condon, Davis, Eldred, Engel, Forrester, Hamilton, Hayes, Henry, Johnson, McArthur, McNaughton, McRae, Penney, Phillips, Riopelle, Sink, Smith (2nd dist.), Smith (11th dist.), Tufts, Vandenboom, Wilcox and Wood-28; a quorum.

Absent with leave: Senators Lemire and Ross-2.

Absent without leave: Senators Hicks and Osborn-2.

Mr. McRae moved that the absentees without leave be excused from today's session.

The motion prevailed.

Bills Printed and Filed.

The Secretary announced that the following entitled bills have been printed and placed on file in the Document Room of the Senate: Senate joint resolution No. 1 (file No. 1), entitled

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section 9 of Article V of the State Constitution with reference to the compensation of members of the Legislature.

Senate bill No. 1 (file No. 2), entitled

A bill making an appropriation for military purposes and to encourage the recruitment and perpetuation of the Thirty-second Division, United States Army, and veteran association thereof.

Senate bill No. 2 (file No. 3), entitled

A bill to amend the title and section 1 of Act No. 272 of the Public Acts of 1915, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for procedure in courts of chancery to enjoin and abate any building, vehicle or places used as houses of lewdness, assignation and prostitution, used or kept for the resort of prostitutes or other disorderly persons, or for the manufacture, sale, giving away, bartering, furnishing, transporting into or about the State or otherwise disposing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquors or beverage, any part of which is intoxicating, or for the keeping of a saloon or any other place where such liquors are manufactured, sold, stored for sale, given away or furnished in this State contrary to any law of this State; to declare the same to be nuisances, to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner, or agent thereof, or any premises used for such purposes, to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to provide

for contempt proceedings for disregard or violation of any order or decree of abatement or injunction issued in proceedings under this act, and providing for the forfeiture of the benefits of property exemptions in the enforcement of orders, decrees or writs of execution made or issued by virtue of this act," being section 7781 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended.

Senate bill No. 3 (file No. 4), entitled

A bill to amend Act No. 388 of the Public Acts of 1913, entitled "An act to provide for State insurance on State property and against liability arising, or that may arise, under the provisions of Act No. 10 of the first special session of 1912," by adding a new section thereto to stand as section 10.

Senate joint resolution No. 2 (file No. 5), entitled

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Article VIII of the State Constitution by adding thereto a new section to stand as section 30, authorizing the Legislature to provide for the incorporation of ports and port districts with power to engage in work of internal improvements.

Senate joint resolution No. 3 (file No. 6), entitled

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section 3 of Article X of the Constitution relative to finance and taxation.

Senate joint resolution No. 4 (file No. 7), entitled

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section 7 of Article VIII of the Constitution, relative to commission form of government for counties.

Senate bill No. 4 (file No. 8), entitled

A bill to provide for the approval of sprinkler heads, air valves and other devices; to create a commission for such purpose, and to define the powers and duties thereof; to prevent discrimination by insurance companies against insurers of buildings equipped with the approved type of sprinkler heads, air valves or other devices, and to provide penalties for the violation hereof. Senate bill No. 5 (file No. 9), entitled

A bill to provide for the protection and care of certain trees and shrubs within the limits of public highways within the State of Michigan and for the planting of trees and shrubs as a part of the maintenance of the road in certain cases. Senate bill No. 6 (file No. 10), entitled

A bill making an additional appropriation for the Department of Conservation to carry out water and soil surveys.

Senate bill No. 7 (file No. 11), entitled

A bill to amend section 107 of chapter 14 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, entitled "Of county officers," being section 2491 of the Compiled Laws of 1915. Senate bill No. 8 (file No. 12), entitled

A bill to provide additional appropriations for the State normal schools for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1922, and June 30, 1923, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

Senate bill No. 9 (file No. 13), entitled

A bill making an appropriation for the payment of Civil War bounties in certain cases, and providing a tax to meet the same.

Senate bill No. 10 (file No. 14), entitled

A bill to amend section 10 of Act No. 338 of the Public Acts of 1917, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away, bartering, furnishing, possessing, importing or transporting of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific and sacramental purposes; to regulate the manufacture, sale, possession, importation and transportation thereof for such excepted purposes; to provide for the enforcement of, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to prohibit certain advertising and advertisements pertaining to the liquor traffic; to prescribe the duties of officers, and of carriers pertaining to the liquor traffic, to prescribe rights of action, recovery of damages and rules of evidence thereunder; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith," as amended by Act No. 336 of the Public Acts of 1921. Senate bill No. 11 (file No. 15), entitled

A bill to regulate the practice of dentistry and dental surgery, providing for the examination, licensing, registration and regulation of persons who may prac tice the same, providing penalties for violations thereof, and to repeal Act No. 338 of the Public Acts of 1907.

Senate bill No. 12 (file No. 16), entitled

A bill to provide for the licensing, taxation and regulation of persons, firms and corporations engaged in the transportation of persons and property by motor vehicles as common carriers on the public highways of this State; to provide for the disposition of the moneys derived therefrom; and to prescribe penalties for a violation of this act.

Senate bill No. 13 (file No. 17), entitled

A bill to provide an additional appropriation to the State Banking Department for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-two, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-three, and to provide a tax to meet the same. House bill No. 1 (file No. 1), entitled

A bill to provide for the payment of a bonus to persons who served in the army, navy or marine forces of the United States during the late war with Germany and Austria; to authorize and provide for the borrowing of thirty millions of dollars to meet such payments, and the issuance of bonds for such indebtedness, and to provide for the payment of principal and interest on such bonds.

House bill No. 2 (file No. 2), entitled

A bill to amend section 3 of House Enrolled Act No. 238 of the session of 1921 to regulate selling of steamship tickets to or from foreign countries. House bill No. 3 (file No. 3), entitled

A bill to amend Act No. 421 of the Public Acts of 1919, entitled "An act to provide for the vocational and general education of employed and other minors under seventeen years of age who have ceased to attend all-day schools." House joint resolution No. 1 (file No. 4), entitled

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section 3 of article 10 of the Constitution, authorizing the enactment of an income tax law.

House bill No. 4 (file No. 5), entitled

A bill to amend section 8 of chapter 1 of part 1 of House Enrolled Act No. 72 of the Public Acts of 1921, entitled "An act to provide for the organization, regulation and classification of domestic corporations; to prescribe their rights, powers, privileges and immunities; to prescribe the conditions upon which corporations may exercise their franchises; to provide for the inclusion of certain existing corporations within the provisions of this act; to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which foreign corporations may be admitted to carry on business within this State; to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts relating to corporations," approved April 26, 1921.

House bill No. 5 (file No. 6), entitled

A bill to repeal section 5 of Act No. 274 of the Public Acts of 1919, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of physical training in the public schools and State normal schools of this State; to define the aims and purposes of such physical training; to prescribe the duties of boards of education relative to physical training in certain school districts; to provide for a course of instruction in physical training in the normal schools of this State; to provide for the appointment of a director of physical training and the salary and expenses connected therewith; and to make an appropriation therefor and to provide a tax to meet the same," approved May 13, 1919.

House bill No. 6 (file No. 7), entitled

A bill to amend sections 1 and 7 of Act No. 6 of the Public Acts of the extra session of 1907, entitled "An act to define and to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children, to prescribe the jurisdiction of the probate court, and the power, duties and compensation of the probate judge and the probate register with regard thereto; to provide for the appointment of county agents, register of the juvenile division and probation officers, and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation and to provide for the granting of re-hearings and modifications of orders, sentences and decrees of said court," being sections 2011 and 2017 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, as amended by Act No. 92 of the Public Acts of 1921.

House bill No. 7 (file No. 8), entitled

A bill to amend sections 74, 78, and 84 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 heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien

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