Mr. McEachern moved that the bill be given immediate effect. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the members-elect voting therefor.

THIRD READING OF BILLS.

House bill No. 69 (file No. 65), entitled

A bill to provide for the better drainage of highways in certain cases; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

House bill No. 310 (file No. 72), entitled

A bill to facilitate the inspection of the records and files in the offices of the county, city, township, town, village and school districts in this State, amending Section 1 of an act to facilitate the inspection of the records and files in the offices of county, city and township officers in this State, being Act No. 205 of the Public Acts of 1889, approved June 28, 1889, said Section 1 being Compiler's Section 3461 of Miller's Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan;

Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

House bill No. 363 (file No. 82), entitled A bill to amend Section 30 of Act No. 264 of the Session Laws of 1861, entitled "An Act to authorize proceedings by garnishment in the circuit courts and the district court of the Upper Peninsula," approved March 16, 1861, as amended by Act No. 266 of the Session Laws of 1889, entitled "An Act to amend Section 30 of Act No. 264 of the Session Laws of 1861, entitled 'An Act to authorize proceedings by garnishment in the circuit courts and the district court of the Upper Peninsula,' being Section 8086 of Howell's Annotated Statutes," approved July 5, 1889; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

Senate bill No. 56 (file No. 36), entitled

A bill to amend Act No. 164 of the Public Acts of 1877, entitled "An Act to authorize cities, incorporated villages and townships, to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading rooms," being Sections 3449 to 3460 inclusive of the Compiled Laws of 1897, by adding thereto five sections providing that adjacent or adjoining townships may unite with other townships, with villages and cities for the same purpose, to be known as Sections 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17;

Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

House bill No. 322 (file No. 93), entitled

A bill to amend Section 1 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;"

Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

A bill 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, as amended by Act 239 of the Public Acts of 1901;

Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

Mr. McCarthy moved that the bill be given immediate effect. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the members-elect voting therefor.

House bill No. 2 (file No. 66), entitled

A bill to create a commission and define its duties and powers for the purpose of marking by monument in memory of the 700 Michigan soldiers who died in prison at Andersonville, Georgia, during the Civil War; to make an appropriation for the same and to provide a tax therefor; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: