further, That any said soldier, sailor or marine, may voluntarily pay to the said board of managers any sum of money voluntarily offered by him and the said board is hereby authorized to accept such money and pay the same into the State Treasury on or before the fifth day of each month to be credited to the general fund in the State Treasury. The said board of managers is hereby vested with authority to retain from such money a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars to be used for expenses incident to the burial of any such soldier, sailor or marine." Recommend that the amendment be concurred in, and that when so amended the bill pass. CARL E. MAPES, Acting Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. Mr. Mapes moved that the Senate concur in the amendment made to the bill by the committee. The motion prevailed. The bill was then referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Soldiers Home: The Committee on Soldiers Home reports A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 212 of the Public Acts of 1893, entitled "An act establishing a home for the soldiers, sailors and marines, who served in the late civil war, their wives and mothers, and making an appropriation for the erection and maintenance thereof," being compiler's section 2067 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 139 of the Public Acts of 1899; With the recommendation that the bill pass. CARL E. MAPES, The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Judiciary: The Committee on Judiciary reports Senate bill No. 295 (file No. 273), entitled A bill to create and establish a State law library and provide for its management, control and maintenance; With the recommendation that the bill pass. CHAS. E. WHITE, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Roads and Bridges: The Committee on Roads and Bridges reports Senate bill No. 34 (file No. 22), entitled A bill to amend section 1 of chapter 2 of Act No. 254 of the Public Acts of 1897, entitled "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and repeal all other laws relative thereto," as amended, being section 4310 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as last amended by Act No. 118 of the Public Acts of 1909; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JOHN LEIDLEIN, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Roads and Bridges: A bill making appropriations for the State Highway Department for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and providing a tax to meet the same; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JOHN LEIDLEIN, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the Committee on Finance and Appropriations under the rules. By the Committee on Roads and Bridges: The Committee on Roads and Bridges reports: House bill No. 426 (file No. 258), entitled A bill to amend sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Act No. 278 of the Local Acts of 1889, entitled "An act to establish a bridge district in Bay county, and to provide for the appointment and election of commissioners, and for the construction, care and maintenance of bridges therein," approved January 28, 1889, as amended, and to add one new · section thereto to stand as section 9; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JOHN LEIDLEIN, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Roads and Bridges: A bill to amend section 7 and 8 of chapter 9 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 elec tion and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials;" With the recommendation that the bill pass. JOHN LEIDLEIN, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Roads and Bridges: The Committee on Roads and Bridges reports Senate bill No. 366, entitled A bill to protect turnpike, gravel or macadam roads, and to provide a penalty for its violation; With the following amendment thereto : By striking out section 1 and inserting in lieu thereof a new section to stand as section 1, and to read as follows: "Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to haul over any turnpike, gravel or macadam road, a load on any vehicle the combined weight of which load and vehicle, including driver, shall be more than two tons and less than three tons unless said vehicle shall have tires at least three inches in width, nor shall any loads be bauled on such roads the combined weight of which load and vehicle, including driver, shall be greater than three tons unless said vehicle shall have tires four inches or more in width." Recommend that the amendment be concurred in, and that when so amended the bill pass. JOHN LEIDLEIN, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. Mr. Leidlien moved that the Senate concur in the amendment made to the bill by the committee. The motion prevailed. The bill was then referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Roads and Bridges: The Committee on Roads and Bridges reports House substitute for House bills Nos. 91, 158, 159 and 285 (file No. 169), entitled A bill to amend sections 1 and 2 of chapter 2, section 2 of chapter 3, section 1 of chapter 5, sections 2, 4 and 8 of chapter 7, section 1 of chapter 8, and to repeal section 8 of chapter 2 of Act No. 254 of the Public Acts of 1897, and section 9 of chapter 7 of Act No. 320 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, entitled "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains and the assessment and collection of taxes therefor, and to repeal all other laws relative thereto;" With the recommendation that the bill pass. JOHN LEIDLEIN, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on State Affairs: The Committee on State Affairs reports House bill No. 454 (file No. 213), entitled A bill to provide for the appointment of an auditor of school district accounts by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and fix the salary for the same; With the recommendation that the bill pass. F. B. KLINE, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. A bill to provide that all articles of jewelry, watch cases, spectacles or eye-glass frames made to resemble gold or silver, and manufactured, sold or offered for sale as gold filled, rolled plate, gold front, electro-plate, plated goods, or known by any other name as imitation of gold or silver, shall be marked, stamped or labeled with the quality of the article and the name of the manufacturer; With the recommendation that the bill pass. F. B. KLINE, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on State Affairs: The Committee on State Affairs reports A bill regulating the sale of turpentine, and providing penalties for the violation of this act; With the recommendation that the bill pass. F. B. KLINE, The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on State Affairs: A bill to provide for the transfer of an unexpended balance of a special appropriation for a new roof and approach to the training school building of the Central Michigan Normal School to the fund appropriated for installing a men's lavatory in the normal school building; With the recommendation that the bill pass. F. B. KLINE, The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on State Affairs: The Committee on State Affairs reports House bill No. 474 (file No. 217), entitled A bill to amend section 14 of Act No. 217 of the Public Acts of 1903, as amended by Act No. 335 of the Public Acts of 1907, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane, and to regulate the care, management and use thereof, and to provide for the apprehension of persons believed to be insane, and for their care and custody;" With the recommendation that the bill pass. F. B. KLINE, The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. . By the Committee on State Affairs : The Committee on State Affairs reports House bill No. 201 (file No. 148), entitled A bill to provide for the support of certain dependents of those confined in the prisons and reformatories of the State of Michigan, and to provid a tax to meet the same; With the recommendation that the bill pass. F. B. KLINE, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Agricultural Interests: The Committee on Agricultural Interests reports House bill No. 393 (file No. 209), entitled A bill to protect fruit and shade trees and other useful and ornamental shrubs and vines planted, standing or growing along the margin of streets and highways in the cities, villages and townships of this State; to provide a fine and punishment for injuries thereto, and to provide and establish civil remedies in connection therewith; With the recommendation that the bill pass. L. W. SNELL, The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Railroads: The Committee on Railroads reports House bill No. 520 (file No. 257), entitled A bill to amend sections 7, 10, 14 and 25 of Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to define and regulate common carriers |