MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR. The following message from the Governor was received and read: To the President of the Senate: EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Sir-I have this day approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State Senate bill No. 47 (file No. 182), being An Act to provide for the examination and licensing of barbers, and to regulate the management of barber shops; Also: House substitute for Senate bill No. 85, being An Act to authorize and empower the county of Ontonagon to purchase or to make, have made and maintain a system of abstracts of title of all lands in said county; to make and sell abstracts of title and furnish information concerning the condition of titles and charge such fees therefor as the board of supervisors of said county shall from time to time determine; to employ some person to keep and maintain such system of abstracts, and to do all things necessary for the carrying on of a general abstract business of titles to lands in Ontonagon county; Also: Senate bill No. 132 (file No. 78), being An act to fix the salary of the Chief of the Division of Vital Statistics in the Department of State; Also: Senate bill No. 149 (file No. 193), being An Act to authorize the State Board of Health to determine the qualifications of, and issue licenses to persons engaged in preparing for transportation human bodies dead of infectious or contagious diseases; Also: Senate bill No. 173, being An Act to amend sections 35, 43, 50, 67, 76, 135, 152, 198 and 213 of, and to repeal section 142 as amended by an Act approved May 23, 1901, and to add three new sections to be known as sections 7a, 44 and 45 to Act No. 448 of the Local Acts of 1897, entitled as follows: "An Act to revise and amend Act No. 346 of the Local Acts of 1881, entitled 'An Act to revise an Act to incorporate the City of Bay City,' approved March 30, 1881, as amended and revised by the several Acts amendatory and revisionary thereof;" Also: House substitute for Senate bill No. 232 (file No. 77), being An Act to amend sections 14, 22, 26 and 33 of Act No. 190 of the Public Acts of 1891, entitled "An Act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and (deception) deceptions at elections in this State," as amended, being compiler's sections 3625, 3632, 3636 and 3648 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; Also: Senate bill No. 237 (file No. 132), being An Act to provide for the service of processes, notices and writings. upon all corporations owning or operating electric railways in the State of Michigan; Also: Senate bill No. 259 (file No. 188), being An Act to amend section 25 of Act No. 44 of the Public Acts of 1899, entitled "An Act to provide for the publication and distribution of laws and documents, reports of the several officers, boards of officers, and public institutions of this State, now or hereafter to be published, and to provide for the replacing of books lost by fire or otherwise, and to provide for the publication and distribution of the Official Directory and Legislative Manual of the State of Michigan, and to repeal Act No. 122 of the Session Laws of 1889, Act No. 20 of the Session Laws of 1889, and all other laws or parts of laws contravening or inconsistent with this Act;" Also: Senate bill No. 288 (file No. 112), being An Act to prescribe the terms and conditions on which foreign corporations may be admitted to do business in Michigan; Also: Senate bill No. 330 (file No. 134), being An Act to amend section 13 of Act No. 35 of the Laws of 1867, being "An Act to provide for the formation of street railway companies," and being section 6446 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; Also: Senate bill No. 358, being An Act to revise and amend the charter of the City of Saginaw, as revised and amended by Act No. 465 of the Local Acts of 1897, approved June 2, 1897, as further revised and amended by Act No. 431 of the Local Acts of 1899, approved June 1, 1899, and Acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act; Also: Senate bill No. 367 (file No. 180), being An Act to provide for the keeping of the accounts of all county and municipal officers who receive or pay out moneys belonging to the respective counties, and providing a penalty for violation thereof; Also: Senate bill No. 384 (file No. 129), being An Act to authorize common carriers to sell perishable freight and animals in case the person entitled to the same fails to pay or tender the lawful charges against the same; Also: Senate bill No. 415, being An Act to amend section 35 of chapter 17, section 1 of chapter 21 of Act No. 390 of the Local Acts of 1885, entitled "An Act to amend and revise the charter of the City of Port Huron," approved June 17, 1885. and the amendments thereto, and to add one new section thereto to stand as section 32 of chapter 15; Also: Senate bill No. 450, being An Act to amend section 22 of Act No. 186 of the Public Acts of 1897, entitled "An Act defining the limits of the judicial circuits of the State of Michigan," as amended by Act No. 15 of the Public Acts of 1899, and to add a new section thereto; Also: Senate bill No. 479, being An Act to revise and amend Act No. 426 of the Local Acts of 1869, approved April 3, 1869, entitled an Act to revise an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the board of education of the City of East Saginaw," and the several Acts amendatory thereto, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act; Also: Senate bill No. 541 (file No. 205), being An Act to amend article 2 of chapter 164 of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan of the year 1897, said chapter 164 being "An Act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of railroad companies, and to regulate the running and management, and to fix the duties and liabilities of all railroads and other corporations owning or operating any railroad in this State," by adding a new section thereto, to stand as section 51; Also: Senate bill No. 560 (file No. 151), being An Act to amend section 101 of Act No. 121 of the Public Acts of 1895, relative to the competency of witnesses and examination of parties in certain cases, being compiler's section 10212 of the Compiled Laws of 1897; Also: Senate bill No. 562, being An Act to amend sections 1 and 5 of Act No. 372 of the Local Acts of 1893, entitled "An Act to provide for placing on the retired list on reduced pay members of the metropolitan police force of the City of Detroit, who shall have become disabled or incapacitated while in active performance of official duty, and members of said force and persons in the employ of the police board of the City of Detroit who after 25 years of faithful continuous service shall have become permanently incapacitated from performing regular or active duty," as amended by Act No. 440 of the Local Acts of 1895, approved May 24, 1895; Also: Senate concurrent resolution authorizing and directing the Secretary of State to furnish the Compiled Laws of 1897 to members of the Legislature of 1901. Very respectfully, A. T. BLISS, Governor. Mr. Humphrey moved that the Senate adjourn. The motion prevailed, the time being 12 o'clock m., and the President pro tem. declared the Senate adjourned without date. |