House bill No. 301 (file No. 229), entitled

A bill to change the name of the village of South Frankfort, in the county of Benzie, to that of Elberta;

House bill No. 567 (file No. 356), entitled

A bill to amend section 16 of Act No. 244 of the Public Acts of 1903, entitled "An act to amend sections 1 and 4 of Act No. 191 of the Public Acts of 1877, entitled 'An act to authorize the formation of partnership associations, in which the capital subscribed shall alone be responsible for the debts of the association, except under certain circumstances,' as amended, the same being sections 6079 and 6082 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, and to further amend said act by adding five new sections to stand as sections 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16," approved June 18, 1903, relative to reorganization of partnership associations;

House bill No. 519 (file No. 250), entitled

A bill to prohibit the false billing, false classification and false weighing of any goods, property, or effects offered to any common carrier in this State for the purpose of transportation and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof;

House substitute for House bills Nos. 101 and 181 (file No. 215), en

titled

A bill to provide for the punishment of persons fraudulently connecting, using or obtaining water, steam, electric or gas service or supply, and to repeal Act No. 147 of the Public Acts of 1897, being sections 11603, 11604 and 11605 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 86 (file No. 214), entitled

A bill to amend section 7 of Act No. 70 of the Public Acts of 1877, entitled "An act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals," being section 11745 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 37 (file No. 162), entitled

A bill to repeal Act No. 238 of the Public Acts of 1889, entitled "An act to provide for the amicable adjustment of grievances and disputes that may arise between employers and employes, and to authorize the creation of a State court of mediation and arbitration," the same being sections 559 to 568 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 inclusive, as amended by Act No. 69 of the Public Acts of 1903 and Act No. 152 of the Public Acts of 1909;

House bill No. 501 (file No. 267), entitled

A bill to authorize the establishment of houses of correction in cities and to authorize the sentencing of persons convicted of crime thereto, and the confinement and detention of persons charged with or convicted of crime therein, and to fix and prescribe the duties and powers of all city, State and county officers with regard thereto; House bill No. 450 (file No. 280), entitled

A bill to amend section 34 of chapter 103 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, as amended, being section 344 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, relative to the return and summoning of jurors;

House bill No. 566 (file No. 294), entitled

A bill to permit the transfer of jurisdiction in guardianship matters from the probate court of one county in this State to that of another county, in certain cases;

House bill No. 548 (file No. 283), entitled

A bill defining and regulating the right of married women to their own earnings;

House bill No. 564 (file No. 375), entitled

A bill to authorize the Board of State Auditors to replace the present wooden shelves in the State Library with fireproof steel stacks, and to cause to be floored over a portion of the area of said State Library; House bill No. 561 (file No. 384), entitled

A bill to authorize boards of education to acquire and control lands for sites for schoolhouses, agricultural sites, athletic fields and playgrounds, and to establish, equip and maintain trade and other vocational schools and to acquire lands for such purposes outside the district limits; House bill No. 171 (file No. 242), entitled

A bill to amend sections 2 and 3 of Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1905, entitled "An act to provide for the compulsory education of children, for penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of the same;"

House substitute for House bill No. 339 (file No. 153), entitled

A bill fixing the minimum amount of tuition to be paid by non-resident students attending the normal schools of this State;

House bill No. 111 (file No. 53), entitled

A bill to amend section 2 of Act No. 183 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to prohibit the taking, killing, trapping or molesting of certain fur bearing animals at certain times, and to prohibit the destruction or the molesting of the houses of certain fur bearing animals at all times," approved June 1, 1909; to remove the protection upon bears and skunks;

Senate bill No. 448 (file No. 426), entitled

A bill permitting the catching or taking by use of seines, German carp, red horse, suckers, mullet and dog fish in the waters of Lake St. Clair bordering on this State;

House bill No. 540 (file No. 401), entitled

A bill to encourage the breeding of horses; to regulate the public service of stallions; to require the registration of stallions, and to provide for the enforcement thereof;

House bill No. 615 (file No. 392), entitled

A bill to prohibit drivers of milk wagons and unauthorized persons from opening milk bottles or in any way interfering with, or molesting the caps or covers thereof after such bottles shall have been closed at the creamery, and during and after the process of delivery to patrons; House bill No. 528 (file No. 234), entitled

A bill providing for the incorporation of medical milk commissions and the certification of milk produced under their supervision; House bill No. 565 (file No. 357), entitled

A bill to provide for better protection against the setting of fires by traction or other portable engines;

House bill No. 585 (file No. 372), entitled

A bill to repeal all local or special acts providing a salary of one thousand dollars to circuit court commissioners;

House substitute for House bills Nos. 271, 387, 504 (file No. 395), entitled

A bill to amend sections 1, 2 and 26 of Act No. 207 of the Public Acts of 1889, approved June 29, 1889, entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing of vinous, malt,

brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any mixed liquor or beverage, any part of which is intoxicating, and to prohibit the keeping of any saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of such liquors or beverages, and to suspend the general laws of the State relative to the taxation and regulation of the manufacture and sale of such liquors in the several counties of this State under certain circumstances; to authorize the qualified electors of the several counties of this State to express their will in regard to such prohibition by an election, and to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of the several counties, after such election, if they shall determine the result to be in favor of such prohibition, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, giving away or furnishing of any such liquors, or the keeping of a saloon or any other place for the manufacture, sale, storing for sale, giving away or furnishing of the same in their respective counties, and to provide for penalties and rights of action in case of its violation," as amended and added to by Act No. 183 of the Public Acts of 1899, approved April 18, 1899, and by Act No. 170 of the Public Acts of 1903, approved June 3, 1903, and by Act No. 107 of the Public Acts of 1909;

House bill No. 568 (file No. 360), entitled

A bill to repeal Act No. 514 of the Local Acts of 1905, entitled “An act to provide for the collection of taxes and accounting therefor, and for the payment of a salary to the township treasurer of the township of Calumet, county of Houghton, State of Michigan," approved May 1, 1905, upon approval by the electors of said township of Calumet; House bill No. 617 (file No. 397), entitled

A bill to authorize boards of supervisors to purchase for their respective counties the reversionary interests in real property, transferred to counties for public purposes; and to provide for the payment for the

same;

House bill No. 326 (file No. 390), entitled

A bill to amend section 95 of chapter 16 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, entitled "Of the powers and duties of townships and the election and duties of township officers," as amended by Act No. 98 of the Public Acts of 1907;

House bill No. 600 (file No. 368), entitled

A bill to detach certain territory from the township of Long Rapids in the county of Alpena, State of Michigan, and to organize the same into a new township to be known as the township of Wellington; House bill No. 610 (file No. 386), entitled

A bill to amend section 6 of Act No. 599 of the Local Acts of 1907, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a board of county auditors for the county of Bay, to prescribe the powers and duties of its members, and to provide for their compensation;"

House bill No. 516 (file No. 370), entitled

A bill providing that carnal knowledge of any female who is a patient. in any state or county institution for the care of insane, feeble-minded or epileptic persons shall constitute a felony, defining the word "patient” as used herein and providing a punishment;

House bill No. 151 (file No. 369), entitled ·

A bill to amend sections 3, 4 and 5 of Act No. 6 of the Public Acts of 1907, Extra Session, 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 courts, and the powers, duties and compensation of the probate judges with regard thereto; to provide for the appointment of county agents and probation officers and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation;"

House bill No. 538 (file No. 371), entitled

A bill to amend section 16 of Act No. 188 of the Public Acts of 1899, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfers of property by the intestate laws of this State, or transfers of property by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor, or donor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death," as amended by Act No. 195 of the Public Acts of 1903; House bill No. 571 (file No. 295), entitled

A bill to amend section 41 of Act No. 183 of the Public Acts of 1897, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May 29, 1897, being section 377 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 75 of the Public Acts of 1903;

House bill No. 446 (file No. 183), entitled

A bill to amend section 4 of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1901, entitled "An act to prescribe the terms and conditions on which foreign corporations may be admitted to do business in Michigan," as amended by Act No. 310 of the Public Acts of 1907;

House bill No. 434 (file No. 298), entitled

A bill to provide for justice courts in all cities of not less than one bundred thousand population incorporated prior to the enactment of Act No. 279 of the Public Acts of 1909, whose justice court acts are included in their present charters, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act;

House bill No. 286 (file No. 219), entitled

A bill to prescribe the fees of clerks of courts and registers in chancery;

House bill No. 122 (file No. 221), entitled

A bill to amend the title and sections 1, 3 and 4, and to repeal sections 5 and 6 of Act No. 97 of the Public Acts of 1889, entitled “An act to provide for an additional circuit judge for the seventeenth judicial circuit, and to define the powers and duties of the judges of said circuit and to provide for the manner of conducting the business of said court," being sections 285, 286, 287 and 288 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 175 (file No. 318), entitled

A bill making appropriations for current expenses and special purposes for the Michigan College of Mines at Houghton, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House substitute for House bill No. 209 (file No. 316), entitled

A bill making an appropriation for the completing of the armory at Saginaw, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 484 (file No. 363), entitled

A bill to regulate the sale of poison and poisonous substances in this State;

House bill No. 250 (file No. 255), entitled

A bill to amend section 1 of Act No. 112 of the Public Acts of 1885, entitled "An act to secure the minority of stockholders in corporations organized under general laws, the powers of electing a representative membership in boards of directors," the same being section 8553 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 223 of the Public Acts of 1903, as amended by Act No. 61 of the Public Acts of 1905, and as amended by Act No. 141 of the Public Acts of 1907;

House bill No. 300 (file No. 243), entitled

A bill to amend section 6 of Act No. 147 of the Public Acts of 1891, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a county commissioner of schools, for the appointment of school examiners, and to define the duties and fix the compensation for the same, and to repeal all existing acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act," being section 4813 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 447 (file No. 270), entitled

A bill to provide for the inspection of certain meats and meat products; for the appointment of local inspectors; to provide for their duties and compensation, and to provide a penalty for violations of this act; House bill No. 254 (file No. 117), entitled

A bill to amend sections 32 and 33 of Act No. 113 of the Public Acts of 1877, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of companies for mining, smelting or manufacturing iron, copper, silver, mineral coal and other ores or minerals, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations," as amended, being sections 7022 and 7023 of the Compiled Laws of 1897, as amended by Act No. 33 of the Public Acts of 1903;

House bill No. 544 (file No. 381), entitled

A bill to amend section 25 of chapter 3 of Act No. 164 of the Public Acts of 1881, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section 4691 of the Compiled Laws of 1897;

House bill No. 560 (file No. 273), entitled

A bill to authorize the exchange of certain lands in certain cases.

Mr. Vanderwerp offered the following resolution:
Senate resolution No. 85.

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the following named House bills which have been passed by the Senate but which were not given immediate effect in either House, be and are hereby ordered to take immediate effect; the same being appropriation bills and necessary for the public necessity. Their titles are as follows:

House bill No. 198 (file No. 308), entitled

A bill making an appropriation for a heating, power and lighting plant for the University of Michigan, and to provide a tax to meet the same;

House bill No. 168 (file No. 317), entitled

A bill making appropriations for the Western State Normal School for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same;