hundred" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "fifty-one thousand two hundred." Recommend that the amendments be concurred in, and that when so amended the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. Mr. Bradley moved that the Senate concur in the amendments made to the bill by the committee. The motion prevailed. The bill was then referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: The Committee on Finance and Appropriations reports House substitute for House bill No. 281 (file No. 309), entitled A bill making appropriations for the State Board of Fish Commissioners for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; With the recommendation that the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: A bill making an appropriation for the Michigan State Normal College for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, for the payment of a certain claim for the construction of sidewalk and curb through the campus at the Michigan State Normal College, and to provide a tax therefor; With the recommendation that the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: House bill No. 529 (file No. 334), entitled A bill making appropriations for the State Industrial Home for Girls for building and special purposes and for current expenses, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax therefor; With the recommendation that the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: House bill No. 222 (file No. 312), entitled A bill making appropriations for buildings at the Michigan Agricul tural College for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; With the recommendation that the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: A bill making appropriations for the State Public School for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; With the recommendation that the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Finance and Appropriations: The Committee on Finance and Appropriations reports House bill No. 49 (file No. 302), entitled A bill to provide for the location of a normal school at Alpena, and to make an appropriation therefor; With the following amendment thereto : By adding four new sections to the bill to stand as sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 and to read as follows: Sec. 3. The sum of thirty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the erection of a suitable building or buildings in the establishment of a normal school under the provisions of this act, which building or buildings as the case may be, shall be erected in accordance with the requirements of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, as provided in section seven of Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of the year 1881, and shall be ready for occupancy October 1, 1911. Sec. 4. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the payment of salaries and conduct of said normal school for the years nineteen hundred eleven and nineteen hundred twelve, namely: Two thousand five hundred dollars for nineteen hundred eleven, and seven thousand five hundred dollars for nineteen hundred twelve, which amounts, together with the appropriaton in section three of this act, shall be expended under the direction of the said State Board of Educa tion to be drawn from the State treasury in the manner that appropriations are generally drawn. Sec. 5. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred eleven the sum of thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, and for the year nineteen hundred twelve the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be assessed, levied and collected, in the manner as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sum when collected shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse it for the sum appropriated under the provisions of this act. Sec. 6. The said Eastern Michigan normal school shall be under and subject to the control of the State Board of Education, according to the provisions of act number one hundred ninety-four of the Public Acts of 1889, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the state board of education," and amendments thereto, also according to the provisions of Act No. 175 of the Public Acts of 1897, entitled "An act to fix the relation of the existing normal schools of the State," which laws are made applicable to this school, except as herein otherwise provided. Recommend that the amendment be concurred in, and that when so amended the bill pass. WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. Mr. Bradley moved that the Senate concur in the amendment made to the bill by the committee. The motion prevailed. The bill was then referred to the committee of the whole and placed at the head of the general orders. By the Committee on Counties and Townships: The Committee on Counties and Townships reports 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; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JAMES A. MURTHA, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Counties and Townships: The Committee on Counties and Townships reports 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; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JAMES A. MURTHA, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Counties and Townships: The Committee on Counties and Townships reports 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; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JAMES A. MURTHA, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Counties and Townships: The Committee on Counties and Townships reports 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; With the recommendation that the bill pass. JAMES A. MURTHA, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. By the Committee on Counties and Townships: The Committee on Counties and Townships reports 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 power and duties of its members, and to provide for their compensation;" With the recommendation that the bill pass. JAMES A. MURTHA, Chairman. The report was accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole and placed on the general orders. Unanimous consent being obtained, Mr. White moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate concurred in the recommendation of the committee of the whole, in striking out section 9 of Senate substitute for House bill No. 39 (file No. 5), entitled A bill to provide for formulating and establishing a uniform system of accounting and reporting in the several departments of the State government, including State institutions and boards, and in all county offices, charged with the keeping of accounts throughout the State, under the supervision of the Auditor General; to provide for the examination of the books and accounts of the several State departments including State instiutions and boards and county officers charged with the keeping of accounts, and to further provide for annual reports showing all receipts and expenditures of the several State departments, State institutions and boards and county offices, and for the tabulation and publication of comparative statistics of the receipts and expenditures of said State departments, State institutions and boards and county offices, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening any of the provisions of this act. The motion prevailed. The question being on concurring in the recommendation of the committee of the whole that section 9 be stricken from the bill, The Senate did not concur. The bill was placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills. Mr. Mapes moved that when the Senate adjourns today, it stand adjourned until tomorrow at 9:30 o'clock a. m. The motion prevailed. Mr. Snell moved that the Senate adjourn. The motion prevailed, the time being 10:45 o'clock p. m. The President declared the Senate adjourned until tomorrow at 9:30 o'clock a. m. ELBERT V. CHILSON, |