House bill No. 712 (file No. 382), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 1 of Chap. 4 of an act, entitled "An act to provide for a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June 7, 1883, as amended by an act approved June 2, 1887. Also, House bill No. 715 (file No. 385), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 9 of Chap. 11 of an act, entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June 7, 1883, as amended by an act approved June 2, 1889. Also, House bill No. 803 (file No. 292), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 14 of an act, entitled "An act relative to free schools in the city of Detroit," approved February 24, 1869, and as amended March 28, 1873, March 11, 1881, June 8, 1883, and May 23, 1893. Also, House bill No. 431 (file No. 213), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 of act No. 393 of the local acts of 1885, entitled "An act to establish a board of building inspectors in and for the city of Detroit and to define its powers and duties." Also, House bill No. 604 (file No. 214), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 30, Chap. 7, of an act, entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June 7, 1883. Also, House bill No. 605 (file No. 154), entitled A bill to amend Chap. 7 of an act, entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June 7, 1883. Also, House bill No. 1116 (file No. 134), entitled A bill requiring the trustees of the various asylums in this State for insane, except the asylum for criminal insane, to properly stamp and promptly mail without opening or reading all letters sent by the inmates of any asylum in this State. Also, House bill No. 1111 (file No. 322), entitled A bill to amend act No. 237 of the public acts of 1881, entitled "An act to authorize and regulate within this State the business of plate glass, accident, live stock, steam boiler and fidelity insurance, and to repeal acts Nos. 42 and 72 of the session laws of 1877," as amended, being compiler's Chap. 135 of Howell's annotated statutes by adding one new section thereto to stand as Sec. 8. Also, House bill No. 980 (file No. 367), entitled A bill to prohibit all manner of reproductions of any form of pugilistic encounters, and to provide a penalty therefor. Also, House bill No. 963 (file No. 440), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 10 of Chap. 164 of the revised statutes of 1846 relating to clerks appointed by grand juries and the evidence taken by such clerks, being compiler's Sec. 9499, second volume Howell's annotated statutes. Also, House bill No. 566 (file No. 444), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 43 and 44, and to repeal Secs. 45 and 47 of Chap. 178 of the compiled laws of 1871, said chapter being Chap. 249 of Howell's annotated statutes in relation to actions of replevin in justice's court. Also, House bill No. 464 (file No. 454), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 11 of Chap. 229 of the compiled laws of 1871, being compiler's Sec. 8723 of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to the limita tion of personal actions. Also, House bill No. 448 (file No. 105), entitled A bill to provide for the appraisement of real estate or any interest therein, offered for sale at mortgage sale, sheriff's sale or chancery sale, and to prohibit the sale thereof at less than two-thirds of its appraised value. Also, House bill No. 348 (file No. 463), entitled A bill to provide for the transfer of civil causes from one justice's court to another and to repeal act No. 99 of the public acts of 1881, being Sec. 6937 of Howell's statutes. Also, House bill No. 329 (file No. 438), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 1 of act No. 156 of session laws of 1891, entitled "An act to regulate the interest of money on account, interest on money, judgments, verdicts, etc." Also, House bill No. 273 (file No. 465), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 184 of Chap. 249 of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to appeals from justice court, being Sec. 6999 of said compilation. Also, House bill No. 219 (file No. 96), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 2, 3 and 4 of act No. 95 of the session laws of 1887, being Secs. 7629b, 7629c and 7629d of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act in relation to jurors in courts of record in the county of Wayne and to revise the laws relative thereto," approved May 6, 1887. Also, House bill No. 165 (file No. 77), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 1 and 5 of act No. 120 of the public acts of 1893, approved May 25, 1893, entitled "An act to amend Secs. 1 and 5 of act No. 25 of the public acts of 1887," approved March 9, 1887, entitled "An act to provide for three additional circuit judges for the third judicial circuit," so as to provide one other additional circuit judge for the third judicial circuit. Also, House bill No. 31 (file No. 486), entitled A bill to provide for the analysis of water in use by the public in certain cases. Also, House joint resolution No. 35 (file No. 479), entitled Joint resolution to provide for the relief of Thomas Allen. Also, House bill No. 333 (file No. 76), entitled A bill to amend act No. 203 of public acts of 1877, approved May 23, 1877, entitled "An act relative to dividing townships and villages into election districts and to provide for the registration of electors in such cases," by adding thereto another section to be known as Sec. 14. Also, House bill No. 822 (file No. 111), entitled A bill to provide for the issue and sale of an interchangeable and redeemable system of mileage books by all persons, companies or corporations operating steam railroads in the State of Michigan.` Also, House bill No. 529 (file No. 115), entitled A bill to amend subdivision 9 of Sec. 9 of Art. 2 of act No. 198 of the public acts of 1873, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of railroad companies, and to fix and regulate the running and management, and to fix the duties and liabilities of all railroads and other corporations owning and operating any railroad in this State." Also, House bill No. 475 (file No. 109), entitled A bill to repeal act No. 42 of the legislature of Michigan, passed at the annual session of 1846, entitled "An act to authorize the sale of the Central railroad and to incorporate the Michigan Central Railroad Company," approved March 28, 1846, and to designate a board to adjust any claim for damages on account of said repeal, and to authorize the incorporation of said railroad company under the general railroad laws of this State. Also, House bill No. 56 (file No. 333), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 1 and 7 of act No. 111 of the public acts of 1889, entitled "An act to protect fish and to regulate fishing in the waters of this State, by providing close seasons for certain kinds of fish, by prohibiting the catching of fish in certain speciific ways, by prohibiting the catching of fish of certain sizes and in certain waters, and for certain purposes, by prohibiting the obstruction of the free passage of fish and by prohibiting the sale of certain kinds of fish, to protect persons engaged in fish culture and to repeal inconsistent acts." Also, House bill No. 468 (file No. 405), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 2 of act No. 188 of the public acts of 1875, as amended by act No. 53 of the public acts of 1885, being compiler's Sec. 2175 of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act to regulate the catching of fish in certain waters of this State." Also, House bill No. 671, entitled A bill to provide for the erection and maintenance of shutes or ladders for the passage of fish through dams or other like obstructions across the Huron river and its tributaries in Monroe and Wayne counties, and to provide a penalty for violation of the provisions of this act. Also, House bill No. 233 (file No. 60), entitled A bill providing for barring the right of dower of insane, imbecile or idiotic married women and authorizing sale or mortgage of such dower right. Also, House bill No. 252, entitled A bill to vacate the township of Bear Lake, in the county of Ogemaw, and to incorporate its territory within the adjoining township of Foster, in Ogemaw county. Also, House bill No. 334 (file No. 238), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 7247 and 7248 of Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, being Secs. 5679 and 5680 of the compiled laws of 1871, relative to the eligibility of circuit judges to practice law in certain cases, as heretofore amended. Also, House bill No. 540 (file No. 404), entitled A bill to provide for the erection and maintenance of shutes or ladders for the passage of fish over the dam across Maple river at Elsie Mills, town of DuPlain, county of Clinton, and to provide a penalty for violations of the provisions of this act. Also, House bill No. 602 (file No. 119), entitled A bill to regulate the treatment and care of female patients confined in the insane asylums and the Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptic. Also, House bill No. 608 (file No. 443), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 7137 of the compiled laws of 1871, being compiler's Sec. 8698 of Howell's annotated statutes of the State of Michigan, relative to limitation of actions relating to real property. Also, House bill No. 904 (file No. 251), entitled A bill to define what constitutes inland lakes in this State. House bill No. 766 (file No. 358), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 63 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 thereon and for the collections of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied, making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased, and to repeal act No. 200 of public acts of 1891," and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act. Also, House bill No. 277 (file No. 234), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 9 of act No. 140 of the public acts of 1889, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for acquiring, holding, leasing and selling real estate, and for the erection of buildings thereon," approved June 8, 1889, and being compiler's Sec. 39830 of third Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, as amended by act No. 60 of the public acts of 1891, approved May 6, 1891. Also, House bill No. 965, entitled A bill relative to suits for damages for libel or slander, and to repeal act No. 216 of the laws of 1895, entitled "An act regulating the bringing of actions for, and limiting damages for libel and slander in respect to feelings, and providing for separate awards by juries in such actions." Also, House bill No. 72 (file No. 10), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 2 of act No. 135 of the public acts of 1885, entitled "An act to amend, revise and consolidate the laws organizing asylums for the insane, and regulating the care and management thereof, and of the inmates therein, and to repeal act 164, laws of 1859; also act 194, laws of 1877; also act 91, laws of 1873, and the acts amendatory thereto; also act 172, laws of 1873," approved June 3, 1885, the same being Sec. 1930a1, Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan. Also, House bill No. 1221, entitled A bill to authorize and empower certain townships in the counties of Ingham, Clinton and Gratiot to grant the right of way for the construction and maintaining electric or other motive power than steam power railroads through such townships and for the proper regulating the operation of the same, and provide a penalty for any obstructive placed on such track as stated in Sec. 4 of this act. Also, House bill No. 764 (file No. 263), entitled A bill to regulate the manner in which insurance companies organized under the laws of this State and insurance companies authorized to do business within this State, shall transact business, and to provide for penalties for violation thereof. Also, House bill No. 361 (file No. 106), entitled A bill to provide for the distribution of the estates of insolvents, the jurisdiction, powers and duties of certain courts and officers therein, the discharge of the debtor and the punishment of fraudulent and other prohibited acts in relation to the subject matter, being a general insolvency law. Also, House bill No. 296 (file No. 78), entitled A bill to amend Secs. 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 134 of act No. 206 of the public acts of 1893, being an act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied, making such tax a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or pur |