thereof, the same being section eight thousand and fifty-eight 7. An act making an appropriation for the current and running 8. An act to provide permanent headquarters in the Capitol build- 9. An act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics 11. An act to amend section forty-five of chapter one hundred and 12. An act making an appropriation for the current and running expenses of the Michigan Mining School until the general appropriation for that purpose shall be available. Approved February 17, 1897...... 13. An act to provide for the incorporation of labor associations. Approved February 18, 1897..... 14. An act to provide for the printing and distribution of all laws of 15. An act to provide for the continuance of the recompilation and PAGE. 9 11 11 12 13 13 14 15 16 17 four of act one hundred and ninety (190) of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-one (1891), as amended by section four of act number seventeen (17) of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three (1893), and to repeal all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act. Approved March 10, 1897. 17. An act to amend section thirty-eight of act number forty-four of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfive, entitled "An act to prescribe the manner of conducting and to prevent fraud and deception at elections in this State." Approved March 10, 1897..... 18. An act to amend section three hundred and sixty-four, chapter ten, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the several acts amendatory thereof, relative to boards of supervisors, the same being section five hundred and two of Howell's annotated statutes of the State of Michigan. Approved March 10, 1897..... 19. An act to amend section twenty-seven, of chapter one hundred and twenty-three, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, relative to the proceedings to recover the possession of land in certain cases. The same being compiler's section eight thousand three hundred and nine, of Howell's annotated statutes, as amended by act one hundred and ninety-nine, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Approved March 10, 1897..... 20. An act to amend section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and eight, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, relative to the action of ejectment, the same being compiler's section seven thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Howell's annotated statutes. Approved March 10, 1897..... 21. An act to amend act number one hundred and sixty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to require county treasurers to furnish transcripts and abstracts of records and fixing the fees to be paid therefor." Approved March 10, 1897.... 22. An act to provide for service of notices, writs or other process upon common councils, boards, commissions, or other public bodies, and for the making of answers by such bodies in suits or other judicial proceedings. Approved March 10, 1897.... 23. An act making it unlawful for prosecuting attorneys to defend or assist in the defense of any person charged with crime within their respective counties. Approved March 10, 1897.. 24. An act to amend section three of act number one hundred fiftysix of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of the several counties, and to confer upon them certain local administrative and legislative powers," the same being section four hundred and seventy-five of Howell's annotated statutes. Approved March 10, 1897... PAGE. 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25. An act to provide for the commencement and maintaining of actions by and against unincorporated voluntary associations, clubs and societies and for the service of process in such cases. Approved March 10, 1897.. 26. An act to provide for the completion, printing, binding, distribu- tion and sale of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Approved March 10, 1897... 27. An act to amend section one of act number one hundred and eleven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to prevent the destruction of muskrats and muskrat houses in the marshes along the shore of Lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron and Michigan," being section two thousand two hundred and sixteen of Howell's annotated statutes, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith. Approved March 10, 28. An act to amend section six of act one hundred eighty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ap- proved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to revise the laws providing for the incorpora- tion of coöperative and mutual benefit associations, and to define the powers and duties and regulate the transaction of the business of all such corporations and associations doing business within this State," and to add two new sections thereto to stand as sections thirty-two and thirty-three. 29. An act to provide for the purchase of books and equipments for the Michigan State Library and the Michigan traveling libraries. Approved March 12, 1897... 30. An act to amend section thirty-four of chapter one hundred and two of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, being compiler's section seven thousand four hundred and forty-nine, Howell's annotated statutes, relative to authentica- tion of records and other judicial proceedings in courts of for- 31. An act to provide for the incorporation of the Students' Chris- tian Association of the University of Michigan. Approved 32. An act to amend section eight, chapter one hundred and twelve, of Howell's annotated statutes, entitled "Water power com- panies," being compiler's section three thousand eight hun- 33. An act to amend section eight of act number one hundred and ninety-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty- seven, entitled "An act to amend act number two hundred and sixty of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, approved June ten, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, being chapter fifty-two of Howell's annotated statutes, relative to the protection of children in certain cases by adding thereto four new sections to stand as sections seven, eight, nine and PAGE. No. TITLE. PAGE. ten of said act," approved June eighteen, eighteen hundred 34. An act to amend section one of chapter sixty-seven of the com- 34 35 35. An act for the incorporation of National Societies of Colonial Dames of America in Michigan. Approved March 25, 1897.. 36 36. An act to protect the owners of bottles, boxes, siphons, fountains and kegs, used in the sale of milk, cream, soda water, mineral or aerated waters, porter, ale, cider, ginger ale, small beer, lager beer, Weiss beer, beer, white beer, or other beverages. Approved March 25, 1897... .. 37 37. An act to fix the per diem compensation of members of the State legislature from the upper peninsula for and during the session of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. Approved March 26, 1897.... 38. An act to provide rules for the care and use of the Abbott voting machine at elections in this State. Approved March 26, 1897 ... 39. An act to amend section two of an act, entitled "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for the purchase and improvement of grounds to be occupied for summer homes, for camp meeings, for meetings of assemblies or associations and societies organized for intellectual and scientific culture, and for the promotion of the cause of religion and morality, or for any or all of such purposes," approved March twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, being chapter one hundred and twenty d, volume three of Howell's annotated statutes as amended by act number one hundred and sixteen of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Approved March 26, 1897 ... 40. An act to repeal act number two hundred and twenty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, being an act to provide for the collection of the social statistics of Michigan and to provide for the publication of said statistics. Approved March 26, 1897.. 41. An act to repeal act number seventy of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, being an act supplemental to an act, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of statistical information of the insane, deaf, dumb, and blind, of this State, etc." Approved March 26, 1897..... 42. An act to provide for the treatment of the children of indigent poor people that are afflicted with any curable malady or deformity at birth, and to provide for the expenses thereof. Approved March 26, 1897... 40 40 43 44 45 45 43. An act to provide for the analysis of water in use by the public in certain cases. Approved March 26, 1897.... 44. An act to amend sections twenty-three and twenty-four of act number one hundred thirty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, 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 one hundred sixty-four, laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, also act one hundred ninety-four, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, also act ninety-one, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and the acts amendatory thereto, also act one hundred seventytwo, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three," approved June third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Approved March 26, 1897..... PAGE. 47 48 53 45. An act to amend section twenty-two of act number one hundred forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three entitled "An act to provide for a county and township system of roads and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers having charge thereof." Approved March 26, 1897...... 46. An act to amend section three of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of a franchise fee by corporations," being act number one hundred and eighty-two of the public acts of Michigan for eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended by acts number seventy-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three and number ninety-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five. Approved March 26, 1897.... 54 47. An act to provide for the commencement of suits in this State on bonds provided by law to be filed in probate courts in the county where such bond is filed, and for the service of process in any part of this State, when suit thereon is ordered to be commenced by the probate judge on such bond. Approved March 26, 1897.. 54 48. An act to provide for the encouragement of the manufacture of beet sugar and to provide a compensation therefor and to make an appropriation therefor. Approved March 26, 1897.. 55 49. An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of Slack Water Navigation companies, for the improvement of rivers in the counties of St. Joseph, Cass, Berrien and Cheboygan and defining their powers and duties." Approved March twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, and being act number four hundred and eleven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as amended by act number one hundred and ten of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved April thirteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, by adding thereto two new sections to stand as sections twenty-four and twenty-five. Approved March 26, 1897.... 50. An act to allow the spearing of fish. Approved March 26, 1897 58 |