which insurance companies not organized under the laws of this State, but doing business within it, shall transact business, and to provide for penalties for violations thereof, and to re-enact the following sections, viz.: Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the House, with the accompanying substitute therefor, entitled A bill to amend the title to, and act No. 285 of the session laws of 1887, so the same will read as follows: "An act to regulate the manner in which insurance companies authorized to do business within this State, shall transact business, and to provide for penalties for violation thereof;" Recommending that the substitute be concurred in, and that the substitute do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. W. R. Bates, Report accepted and committee discharged. Chairman. The question being on concurring in the substitute reported for the bill by the committee, The House concurred. The bill was then ordered printed, referred to the committee of the whole, and placed on the general order. By the committee on Industrial Home for Girls: The committee on Industrial Home for Girls, to whom was referred House bill No. 561, entitled A bill making appropriations for the current expenses and other necessary improvements for the State Industrial Home for Girls for the years 1897 and 1898; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to report the same back to the House, without amendment, and recommend that it do pass, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. Report accepted and committee discharged. Wm. Peters, The bill was ordered referred to the committee on Ways and Means. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: The committee on Liquor Traffic, to whom was referred Honse bill No. 289, entitled A bill to amend Sec. 8 of act No. 313 of the public acts of 1887, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation and regulation of the business of manufacturing, selling, keeping for sale, furnishing, giving or delivering spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and malt, brewed or fermented liquors and vinous liquors in this State, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act;" Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to request of the House that the bill be printed for the use of the committee. Report accepted and committee discharged. E. W. Moore, The question being on ordering the bill printed for the use of the committee, The House so ordered. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: The committee on Liquor Traffic, to whom was referred House bill No. 784, entitled A bill to amend Sec. 9 of act No. 313 of the public acts of 1887, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation and regulation of the business of manufacturing, selling, keeping for sale, furnishing, giving or delivering spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and malt, brewed or fermented liquors and vinous liquors in this State, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act;" Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to request of the House that the bill be printed for the use of the committee. Report accepted and committee discharged. E. W. Moore, Chairman. The question being on ordering the bill printed for the use of the committee, The House so ordered. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: The committee on Liquor Traffic, to whom was referred House bill No. 565, entitled A bill to authorize township boards to exercise the same powers in suppressing the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors as are now exercised by village councils within this State; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to request of the House that the bill be printed for the use of the committee. Report accepted and committee discharged. E. W. Moore, Chairman. The question being on ordering the bill printed for the use of the committee, The House so ordered. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: The committee on Liquor Traffic, to whom was referred House bill No. 940, entitled A bill to amend Sec. 17 of act No. 313 of the public acts of 1887, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation and regulation of the business of manufacturing, selling, keping for sale, furnishing, giving or delivering, spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and malt, brewed or fermented liquors, and vinous liquors within this State, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act;" Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to request of the House that the bill be printed for the use of the committee. Report accepted and committee discharged. E. W. Moore, The question being on ordering the bill printed for the use of the committee, The House so ordered. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: The committee on Liquor Traffic, to whom was referred House bill No. 433, entitled A bill to regulate the manufacture and sale of beer, ale and porter; Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to request of the House that the bill be printed for the use of the committee. Report accepted and committee discharged. E. W. Moore, Chairman. The question being on ordering the bill printed for the use of the committee, The House so ordered. By the committee on Liquor Traffic: The committee on Liquor Traffic, to whom was referred House bill No. 1004, entitled A bill to amend Secs. 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 15 and 16 of act No. 207 of the public acts of 1889, and to add a new section to stand as Sec. 25, and to repeal Secs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of said act No. 207 of the public acts of 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 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 board 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, etc., of any such liquors, etc.;" Respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration, and have directed me to request of the House that the bill be printed for the use of the committee. Report accepted and committee discharged. E. W. Moore, The question being on ordering the bill printed for the use of the committee, The House so ordered. By the committee on Enrollment: The committee on Enrollment report as correctly enrolled, signed and presented to the Governor, House bill No. 1044, entitled An act to allow the board of education of the township of Burt, in the county of Alger, to bond the township for school purposes; For which your committee hold the receipt of the Executive Office dated March 17, 1897, at 2:21 o'clock p. m. Report accepted. By the committee on Enrollment: C. W. Perry, Acting Chairman. The committee on Enrollment report as correctly enrolled, signed and presented to the Governor, House bill No. 579, entitled An act to provide for the preservation of deer in Monroe county and providing a penalty for their destruction; For which your committee hold the receipt of the Executive Office dated March 17, 1897, at 2:21 o'clock p. m. Report accepted. By the committee on Enrollment: C. W. Perry, Acting Chairman. The committee on Enrollment report as correctly enrolled, signed and presented to the Governor, House bill No. 196, entitled An act to form and incorporate school district No. 6 in Colfax township, Huron county, Michigan; For which your committee hold the receipt of the Executive Office dated March 17, 1897, at 2:21 o'clock p. m. Report accepted. By the committee on Enrollment: C. W. Perry, Acting Chairman. The committee on Enrollment report as correctly enrolled, signed and presented to the Governor, House bill No. 120 (file No. 18), entitled An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend Sec. 1 of act 77 of the session laws of 1869, entitled 'An act relative to life insurance companies transacting business within this State,' approved March 30, 1869, being compiler's Sec. 2936 of the compiled laws of 1871, Sec. 1, Chap. 131, of Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, as amended by act approved January 27, 1885;" For which your committee hold the receipt of the Executive Office dated March 17, 1897, at 2:21 o'clock p. m. Report accepted. By the committee on Enrollment: C. W. Perry, Acting Chairman. The committee on Enrollment report as correctly enrolled, signed and presented to the Governor, House bill No. 104 (file No. 40), entitled An act to amend Sec. 8 of act No. 192 of the public acts of 1887, entitled "An act to amend act No. 260 of the public acts of 1881, approved June 10, 1881, being Chap. 52 of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to the protection of children in certain cases, by adding thereto four new sec tions to stand as Secs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 of said act," approved June 18, 1887, as amended by the several acts amendatory thereof; For which your committee hold the receipt of the Executive Office dated March 17, 1897, at 2:21 o'clock p. m. Charles W. Perry, Acting Chairman. Report accepted. MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE. The Speaker announced the following: SENATE CHAMBER, To the Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sir-I am instructed by the Senate to return to the House the following bill: House bill No. 414, entitled A bill to define the limits of Wild Fowl Bay, and to prohibit fishing with nets within such limits; In the passage of which the Senate has concurred by a majority vote of all the Senators elect, and by a vote of two-thirds of all the Senators elect has ordered the same to take immediate effect. Very respectfully, Charles S. Pierce, Secretary of the Senate. The bill. was referred to the committee on Enrollment for enrollment and presentation to the Governor. The Speaker announced that the hour had arrived for the Being the consideration of SPECIAL ORder, House joint resolution No. 14 (file No. 173), entitled Joint resolution proposing an amendment to Sec. 1 of Art. 15 of the constitution of the State of Michigan, and to strike out and repeal Secs. 13 and 14 of said Art. 15, relative to the formation of corporations; Mr. Washer moved that the Special Order be postponed until 2:30 o'clock p. m. tomorrow; Which motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the members present voting therefor. MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Gustin moved to discharge the committee of the whole from the further consideration of Senate bill No. 51 (file No. 40), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 8 of act No. 206 of the session laws of 1893, entitled "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 taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establish |