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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS, 1909.-No. 3.

has been established and liberally endowed, a corporation known as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the purpose of which is to encourage the adoption of teaching as a profession by providing retiring allowances for professors and administrative officers after long service, and for the widows of professors; and

WHEREAS, By a large addition to the original endowment, Mr. Carnegie has enabled the administrative officers and professors of State institutions of a certain grade to receive the benefits of retiring allow ances, and also the widows of professors, providing the board of control makes application for such admission, with the approval of the legislature and Governor of the State; and

WHEREAS, The State Board of Agriculture, the governing board of the State Agricultural College, appreciating the advantage that participation in said fund will afford by enabling them to employ and retain the services of a much higher class of educators than would otherwise be possible, have applied for participation in said fund; therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the provision which Mr. Carnegie has made for promoting the cause of advanced education, is deeply appreciated, and that the action of the State Board of Agriculture in making application for admission of administrative officers and professors and the widows of professors of the Agricultural College to the benefits of said fund is hereby approved; And be it further resolved, That these resolutions, when adopted by the legislature, be presented to the Governor, for his approval. Approved May 12, 1909.

[No. 3.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION granting legislative approval of the action of the State Board of Education in applying for participation in the benefits of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Fund, for the officers and faculty of the Michigan State Normal College.

WHEREAS, Through the generosity of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, a corporation has been formed and liberally endowed, known as The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the purpose of which is to encourage worthy persons to adopt the profession of teaching permanently by providing retiring allowances for professors and certain administrative officers in the institutions of higher learning after long service, and for the widows of professors; and

WHEREAS, The original endowment has been largely increased to admit of extending the benefits of retiring allowances to professors and certain administrative officers in tax-supported institutions, and the widows of professors, in case the governing board applies for such admission, and the legislature and Governor of the State approve such applications; and

WHEREAS, The State Board of Education of Michigan, realizing the advantage that participation in said fund will give in securing and retaining the services of the best educators of the country, have made application to participate therein; therefore be it

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Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the action of Mr. Carnegie in thus promoting the cause of higher learning is deeply appreciated, and that the legislature of Michigan hereby approves the course of the State Board of Education in asking that the professors and administrative officers and widows of professors of the Michigan State Normal College be included as beneficiaries of said fund;

And be it further resolved, That this resolution when adopted by the legislature, be presented to his Excellency, the Governor, for his approval. Approved May 19, 1909.

[No. 4.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section twelve of article eight of the constitution relative to bonded indebtedness of counties.

Resolved, By the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the following amendment to section twelve of article eight of the constitution, relative to the bonded indebtedness of counties, is hereby proposed and submitted to the people of the State.

SEC. 12. No county shall incur any indebtedness which shall increase its total debt beyond three per cent of its assessed valuation, except counties having an assessed valuation of five million dollars or less, which counties may increase their total debt to five per cent of their assessed valuation;

Be it further resolved, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the election to be held on the first Monday in April in the year nineteen hundred ten. The Secretary of State is hereby required to certify the foregoing amendment to the clerks of the several counties of the State, as required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare a ballot for the use of the electors in voting upon said amendment, which ballot shall be in substantially the following form:

"Vote on amendment to section twelve of article eight of the constitution, relative to bonded indebtedness of counties.

Amendment to section twelve of article eight of the constitution, relative to bonded indebtedness of counties, Yes [ ].

Amendment to section twelve of article eight of the constitution, relative to bonded indebtedness of counties, No [ ].

It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election, at the several voting precincts within their respective counties, within the time ballots to be used at said election are required to be delivered to such inspectors under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning the vote for State officers.

CERTIFICATE.

MICHIGAN

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

LANSING.

I, Frederick C. Martindale, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred nine was on the second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred nine.

[L. S.]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature
and the great seal of the State, at Lansing, this thir-
tieth day of June, in the year of our Lord, nineteen
hundred nine.

FREDERICK C. MARTINDALE,
Secretary of State.

APPENDIX

CONTAINING

STATE TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1909

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