The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: To the President of the Senate: House of Representatives, Sir: I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 295 (file No. 273), entitled A bill to create and establish a State law library and provide for its management, control and maintenance; And to inform the Senate that in the passage of the bill the House has concurred. Very respectfully, PAUL H. KING, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: To the President of the Senate: House of Representatives, Sir: I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following bill: Senate bill No. 400 (file No. 376), entitled A bill to adopt and prescribe the design of a State coat-of-arms and State flag, and their use, and to prohibit the use of the same for advertising purposes, and to provide punishment for such forbidden use; And to inform the Senate that in the passage of the bill the House has concurred. Very respectfully, PAUL H. KING, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: House of Representatives, To the President of the Senate: Sir: I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following concurrent resolution: Senate resolution No. 83. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That when the Legislature adjourns at 12 o'clock noon on April 19, it stand adjourned until 11 o'clock a. m., on Tuesday, May 2, at which hour the business of the session may be completed in readiness for the final adjournment as already determined by the two Houses; In the adoption of which the House has concurred. Very respectfully, PAUL H. KING, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The resolution was referred to the Secretary for record. The following message from the House was also received and read: House of Representatives, To the President of the Senate: Sir:-I am instructed by the House to return to the Senate the following concurrent resolution: Senate resolution No. 85. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the following named House bills which have been passed by the Senate but which were not given immediate effect in either House, be and are hereby ordered to take immediate effect; the same being appropriation bills and necessary for the public necessity. Their titles are as follows: House bill No. 198 (file No. 308), entitled A bill making an appropriation for a heating, power and lighting plant for the University of Michigan, and to provide a tax to meet the same; House bill No. 168 (file No. 317), entitled A bill making appropriations for the Western State Normal School for current expenses and for building and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; House bill No. 327 (file No. 311), entitled A bill to provide appropriations for the State Board of Geological Survey for special purposes for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; House bill No. 156 (file No. 313), entitled A bill providing for appropriations for the Eastern Michigan Asylum at Pontiac, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, for building and special purposes, and to provide a tax to meet the same; House bill No. 124 (file No. 210), entitled A bill to provide for the expense of furnishing official information from the records of the Adjutant General's office for which no provision is made pertaining to the establishment, muster history and final disposition of the soldiers and sailors from this State during the war of the rebellion and Spanish-American wars; to furnish certificates of service to applicants where the soldier's muster out or discharge papers are lost; to furnish such information from the records of the office as to establish the soldier's or sailor's military or naval history; to distribute the regimental records, and to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide a tax to meet the same; House bill No. 347 (file No. 200), entitled A bill to amend section 7 of chapter 25 of Act No. 568 of the Local Acts of 1907, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Zeeland," approved May 29, 1907; In the adoption of which resolution the House has concurred. Very respectfully, PAUL H. KING, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The resolution was referred to the Secretary for record. The following message from the House was also received and read: House of Representatives, To the President of the Senate: April 19, 1911. Sir: I am instructed by the House to re-return the following bill: Senate bill No. 106 (file No. 96), entitled A bill making appropriations for the Michigan State Normal College for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and for building and special purposes for said institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and for building and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; Together with the report of the Committee of Conference appointed on the part of the House to consider the matters of difference existing between the Senate and House relative to the bill and to ask the concur rence of the Senate in the adoption of the report and in the re-passage of the bill. The report of the committee is as follows: The Committee of Conference appointed on the part of the House on the matters of difference existing between the two Houses relative to Senate bill No. 106 (file No. 96), entitled A bill making appropriations for the Michigan State Normal College for current expenses for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913, and for building and special purposes for said institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and for building and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and to provide a tax to meet the same; Submit the following recommendations: 1. That the House recede from its amendment to section 4, being amendment No. 6, as follows: "By striking out section 4" as amended. 2. That the House recede from its amendment No. 8 to line 4 of section 7, as amended. 3. That the following additional amendment to the bill be adopted: By striking out of line 4 of section 7 as amended, the words "three hundred twelve" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "two hundred ninety." And that the other said amendments adopted by the House be concurred in. Very respectfully, PAUL H. KING, Clerk of the House of Representatives. The question being on concurring in the report of the Committee of Conference, The report was concurred in. The question being on the re-passage of the bill, as amended by the Committee of Conference, The bill was then passed, a majority of the Senators-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: Mr. Newton moved that the bill be ordered to take immediate effect. The motion prevailed, two-thirds of the Senators-elect voting therefor. The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor. The following message from the House was also received and read: House of Representatives, To the President of the Senate: A bill to provide for the location, establishment and conduct of a normal school at Alpena, and to make an appropriation therefor; Which the Senate amended as follows: 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 appropriation in section three of this act, shall be expended under the direction of the said State Board of Education 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 col lected, 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. And the title of which the Senate amended to read as follows: A bill to provide for the location, establishment and conduct of a normal school at Alpena, and to make an appropriation therefor; And to inform the Senate that in these said amendments the House has not concurred. Mr. F. D. Scott moved that the Senate recede from its several amendments made to the bill. The motion prevailed, a majority of the Senators-elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: The Senate also receded from its amendments to the title to the bill, and the bill was ordered returned to the House, the Senate having concurred in the passage of the bill. The following message from the House was also received and read: To the President of the Senate: House of Representatives, Sir: I am instructed by the House to inform the Senate that the House has acceded to the request of the Senate for the appointment of a Committee of Conference on the matters of difference existing between the two Houses relative to House bill No. 563 (file No. 274), entitled A bill to amend sections 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, |