House bill No. 423 (file No. 286), entitled A bill to provide for marking on packages designed for the shipment of certain specified kinds of fruit, the number of pounds which each of said packages shall contain; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Title agreed to. Whitney Williams Zimmerman Speaker 70 0 Mr. Belknap moved to reconsider the vote by which the House acceeded to the request of the Senate for the return of House bill No. 305, entitled A bill to authorize the common council of the village of Caro, in the county of Tuscola, to permit the laying of a railway track in, along and across the streets, highways, alleys and public places in the village of Caro, and the operation of such road by means of steam, electric or other motive power; Which motion prevailed. The question being on complying with the request of the Senate for the return of the bill, On motion of Mr. Belknap, The bill was laid on the table. House bill No. 976 (file No. 258), entitled A bill for regulating the marking of high explosives; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Title agreed to. House bill No. 405 (file No. 290), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 8 of an act entitled "An act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases of fruit trees," being act No. 109 of the session laws of 1895; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect roting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: House bill No. 175 (file No. 291), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 2 of act No. 222 of the public acts of 1887, being compiler's Sec. No. 9315d of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "An act to prevent crime and to punish truancy;" Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect voting theefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Mr. Adams Allison Alward Mr. O'Dett YEAS. Powers House bill No. 450 (file No. 293), entitled A bill to amend an act entitled an act to revise and amend an act entitled "An act to organize the union school district of Bay City," approved April 13, 1887, and to add one new section thereto, to stand as Sec. 20; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: By a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect the bill was ordered to take immediate effect. House bill No. 116 (file No. 22), entitled A bill to amend Sec. 6 of Chap. 339, being Sec. 9639 of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to "County jails and the regulation thereof;" Was read a third time, and pending the taking of the vote on the passage thereof, Mr. Perry moved to amend the bill by inserting in line 5, Sec. 6, after the word "time," the words, "unless said prisoner is employed at labor under the care of a keeper;" Which motion prevailed, two-thirds of all the members present voting therefor. The question being on the passage of the bill, Mr. Bryan moved that the enacting words of the bill be stricken out. Pending discussion, Mr. Scully demanded the previous question. The demand was seconded. The question being shall the main question be now put, The same was ordered. The motion that the enacting words of the bill be stricken out, then prevailed. House bill No. 141 (file No. 73), entitled A bill to provide for the taxation of inheritances, transfers of property by will, transfer 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; Was read a third time and passed, a majority of all the members elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: The question being on agreeing to the title, Mr. Green moved to amend the title so as to read as follows: "A bill to provide for the taxation of certain transfers of property, by gift, grant, inheritance, devise and bequest;" Which motion prevailed. The title as amended was then agreed to. |