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was passed, giving the people of each county 

 the right to vote on the question of prohibition 

 or license once in three years, in case one fifth 

 of the voters petition for an election. The 

 people may vote to prohibit not only the sale 

 but the manufacture of liquors within the 

 county. Another act, providing a system of 

 high license, imposes a tax of $500 on each 

 wholesale, and $300 on each retail liquor- 

 dealer. All saloons are required to be closed 

 on Sunday, and at 11 o'clock on every secular 

 night. A State constabulary was created to 

 enforce these laws. Provision was made for 

 the election of an additional judge of the Su- 

 preme Court. The tax-levy for 1887 was fixed 

 at $910,312, and for 1888 at $753,750. Among 

 the specific appropriations are the following : 

 for new buildings at the State Reformatory at 

 Ionia, $14,470 ; for two buildings at the East- 

 ern Michigan Asylum, $26,000 ; for completing 

 and furnishing the State House of Correction 

 and branch State Prison at Marquette, $75.712 ; 

 for new buildings and improvements at the 

 State Prison at Jackson, $104,200 ; for addi- 

 tions to the normal-school building, $60,000 ; 

 for a building for the use of the mining-school 

 at Houghton, $75,000. Other acts of the ses- 

 sion were as follow : 



Making an appropriation for the equipment, sup- 

 port, and expenses of a State weather-service. 



To punish drunkenness in public places. 



To punish registration of cattle and other animals 

 under false pretenses, and giving false pedigrees of 

 such animals. 



To provide for the confinement of female prisoners 

 in the Detroit House of Correction. 



To prevent the adulteration of candies and confec- 

 tioneries, and the sale of such adulterated articles. 



To abolish the Superior Court of Detroit. 



To validate the collection of taxes assessed prior to 

 Act 153 of the session of 1885. 



Authorizing the organization of corporations to im- 

 prove the breed of horses by promoting the interests 

 of the American trotting-turf. 



To prevent the taking of bonds, notes, and other 

 evidences of indebtedness, in whole or part consid- 

 eration of bonds, contracts, and other agreements for 

 the sale of grain, seeds, and other cereals at a fictitious 

 price, and to prevent the sale and transfer of such 

 evidences of indebtedness. 



Providing three additional circuit judges for the 

 third judicial district. 



To incorporate the Woman's Christian Temperance 

 Unions of the State. 



To provide for the appointment of a game and fish 

 \varden. 



To provide a bounty of one cent for each English 

 sparrow killed in the State. 



To authorize the board of supervisors of any county 

 to purchase lots in any cemetery or burial-place for 

 deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines. 



To revise the laws providing for the incorporation 

 of co-operative and mutual-benefit associations. 



To protect children, and to prevent them from being 

 educated in immorality and crime. 



To prevent gambling in stocks, bonds, petroleum, 

 cotton, grain, provisions, and other produce. 



Providing for the incorporation of associations for 

 the purpose of supplying water and water-power. 



To revise the laws authorizing the business of bank- 

 ing and to create the office of commission of bank- 

 ing to supervise such business. 



To provide for the correction of frauds and mis- 



takes in the canvass and returns made by inspectors 

 of elections. 



To provide for the appointment of inspectors of 

 mines and their deputies. 



To prevent truancy and -the disorderly behavior of 

 youth. 



To incorporate engineering societies. 



To prevent the sale of impure, unwholesome, or 

 adulterated milk, and to provide for milk inspectors. 



To regulate and govern the State House of Correc- 

 tion and branch ot the State Prison in the Upper 

 Peninsula. 



To provide for an independent forestry commis- 

 sion. 



Revising the fish and game laws. 



To prohibit railroad companies whose road has been 

 built vyholly or in part by public aider local subscrip- 

 tion given as a bonus for such construction, from re- 

 moving the tracks and abandoning such road. 



Making the keeping of houses of ill-fame a felony. 



To provide for the incorporation of Arbeiter-bunds. 



Providing that all deputy or under sheriffs shall be 

 lona-fide residents of the State. 



Providing a means for the settlement of back taxes 

 on vacant or part-paid swamp, school, and other State 

 lands. 



To establish a municipal court in the city of East 

 Saginaw. 



To provide for the incorporation and regulation of 

 building and loan associations. 



To provide for the completion of biographical and 

 historical work relating to early State officials, begun 

 by the Semi-centennial Commission. 



To enable the State Agricultural Society to fix a 

 permanent location for the State fair. 



To make possession of fish and game out of season 

 prima-facie evidence of the violation of laws protect- 

 ing the same. 



To authorise the incorporation of suburban home- 

 stead, villa, park, and summer-resort associations. 



To provide for the incorporation of associations for 

 the purpose of constructing, owning, controlling, and 

 leasing ouildings for hotels, elevators, or public'halls. 



To provide for the organization of log and timber 

 insurance companies, to insure against the risk of 

 transportation in towing or carrying logs and timber 

 on the Great Lakes and connected waters. 



Permitting the incorporation of societies of repu- 

 table pharmacists. 



Regulating the testimony of minors. 



Providing for the incorporation of lodges of the 

 Ancient Order of United Workmen. 



Making all debts for labor preferred claims against 

 the estates of insolvent debtors, and giving them pre- 

 cedence of all debts that were not a lien on such es- 

 tates prior to the performance of such labor. 



For the incorporation of companies for the purpose 

 of buying and selling brood animals. 



Changing the termination of the fiscal year of the 

 State from September 30 to June 30. 



Regulating the methods of heating railroad trains. 



Requiring a civil license in order'to marry, and the 

 due registration of the same, and to provide a penalty 

 for violation of these provisions. 



To punish the carrying of concealed weapons. 



To provide for the punishment of crimes committed 

 by any person confined or before the expiration of his 

 sentence in any penal institution of the State. 



Raising the age of consent in women to sixteen 

 years. 



Regulating the adoption and change of name of 

 minors. 



Requiring railroads to run at least one passenger 

 train each day. 



To prohibit the employment of male children mulor 

 fourteen years, and female children uuder sixtmi 

 years, more than nine hours each day. 



To regulate the sale and use of oleomargarine, but- 

 terine, and other articles resembling butter, providing 

 a penalty for the sale of such as if genuine butter. 



