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STATE CAPITOL.
MICHIGAN.
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
AND
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
FOR THE
YEARS 1899-1900
COMPILED BY JUSTUS S. STEARNS SECRETARY OF STATE
LANSING ROBERT SMITH PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS
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Allen County Public Library Ft. Wayne, Indiana
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NO. 44, PUBLIC . ACTS OF 1899.
Owing to frequent changes in the boards and officers of State Institutions, by reason of deaths, resignations, etc., the following is submitted:
ERRATA.
On page 674, W. H. Tunnicliffe should appear as Deputy Dairy and Food Commissioner, vice John R. Bennett.
Page 717, J. B. Montgomery, as Superintendent of State Public School, vice A. J. Murray.
Page 721, G. L. Chamberlain, M. D., as Medical Superintendent of Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, vice Samuel Bell.
On page 674, Albert M. Manning as Chief Clerk and Examiner, Salary $1,200, vice Lester M. Sherwood.
Allen County Public Library Ft. Wayne, Indiana
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ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.
PAGE.
Agricultural college
64-5
Attorney general.
592-3
Auditor general. 560-1
Capitol. Frontispiece
Central Michigan normal school. 176-7
576-7
Eastern Michigan asylum for insane.
272-3
Governor. 480-1
368-9
Industrial home for girls.
200-1
Industrial school for boys.
192-3
Lieutenant governor.
496-7
Maps of congressional districts. 432-3
Maps of judicial circuits.
208-9
Maps of railroads.
256-7
Maps of representative districts
448-9
Maps of senatorial districts.
464-5
Members of state board of education
624-5, 640-1, 656-7
State asylum.
240-1
Michigan asylum for insane ..
224-5
Michigan college of mines
96-7
Michigan school for the blind
128-9
Michigan school for the deaf
112-3
Michigan state public school .
160-1
Northern Michigan asylum for insane
304-5
Secretary of state.
528-9
Soldiers' home
144-5
Speaker of house of representatives
672-3
State house of correction and branch of state prison in upper peninsula
352-3
State house of correction and reformatory.
336-7
State normal college. 80-1
State prison. 320-1 State treasurer 544-5
Superintendent of public instruction 608-9
University of Michigan. 48-9
Upper peninsula hospital for the insane. 288-9
Commissioner of state land office.
Home for feeble minded and epileptic.
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THE CAPITOL.
Under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to provide for the erec- tion of a new state capitol and a building for the temporary use of the state officers," approved March 31, 1871, Governor Baldwin appointed E. O. Grosve- nor. James Shearer and Alexander Chapoton as a board of building commis- sioners. They met at the office of the governor on the 11th day of April, 1871, took the constitutional oath of office, filed their bonds and completed their organization by the election of Commissioner Grosvenor as vice president of the board, the governor being ex officio the presiding officer. It was decided at this meeting to make a tour of observation, and in furtherance of this design the board visited Springfield, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin, during the month of May.
On the fifth of June the board met and prepared an advertisement and ordered the same published in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Lansing. inviting from architects the submission of plans and designs for the proposed new capitol, in competition for the premiums offered by the legislature ; said plans to be deposited with the governor on or before the 1st day of Decem- ber next. On account of the Chicago fire, October, 1871, in which some of the designs were destroyed, the time was extended until December 28th, at noon, when twenty sets of drawings were submitted. On the 24th of January, 1872, the examination of designs was completed, and by a unanimous vote of the commissioners and all the state officers present, the design entitled "Tuebor," submitted by Elijah E. Myers, of, Springfield, Illinois, was adopted. The second prize was awarded to P, H. Decker, and the third to Edward S. Jenison, both of Chicago, Illinois. On March 20 the board entered into an agreement with Elijah E. Myers to act as architect and general superintend- ent of the construction of the new capitol, at a compensation of twenty- five thousand dollars. On the 20th of May the detail drawings and specifica- tions were completed by Mr. Myers, and on the 21st an advertisement was prepared and forwarded for publication to the cities of New York, Chicago, Detroit and Lansing, soliciting proposals from builders and contractors for erecting and completing the capitol in accordance with the plans and speci- fications adopted. The bids were submitted July 8, and on the 15th the com- missioners entered into a contract with N. Osburn & Co., of Rochester, New York, and Detroit, Michigan, to construct and complete the capitol, in accordance with the plans, specifications and detail drawings, for the sum of $1,144,057.20, all four fronts to be constructed of No. 1 Amherst, Ohio, sand- stone. The contract required the building to be completed December 1, 1877, and the contractors entered at once upon the work.
The legislature of 1873, by a joint resolution, approved April 24, provided for a public celebration upon the laying of the corner stone of the capitol,
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and for the appointment of a committee to provide appropriate arrange- ments therefor.
The committee was to consist of the governor, who should be its chairman, the members of the board of state building commissioners, and ten citizens of the state, to be appointed by the governor. The committee so appointed consisted of the following persons:
GOVERNOR JOHN J. BAGLEY, Chairman -
Detroit
EBENEZER O. GROSVENOR, Vice President
Jonesville
ALLEN L. BOURS, Secretary Lansing
JAMES SHEARER -
Bay City
DAVID ANDERSON
ALEXANDER CHAPOTON Detroit Bear Lake Mills JOHN P. HOYT - Vassar
WILLIAM H. WITHINGTON
AUGUSTUS S. GAYLORD
ELLERY I. GARFIELD
JOHN HIBBARD -
LEONARD H. RANDALL
OLIVER L. SPAULDING
WILLIAM H. STONE
JOHN S. TOOKER
Jackson Saginaw Detroit Port Huron Grand Rapids St. Johns Adrian Lansing
The board of state building commissioners was directed by the legislature to procure a suitable corner stone, and to cause the following inscription to be carved thereon with raised letters in sunk pannels. On the east face. "A. D. 1872," and on the north face, "A. D." and the year of completion.
The commissioners selected New Hampshire granite. The design was prepared by Architect Myers and the contract for preparing it awarded to Struthers & Sons, of Philadelphia.
The corner stone of the capitol of the state of Michigan was laid in the city of Lansing on Thursday, the 2d day of October, 1873. A procession was formed under the direction of General William Humphrey, chief marshal, consisting of the military, civil officers, commanderies of knights templar, masonic fraternity, encampment I. O. O. F. and fraternity I. O. O. F., after which an introductory address was delivered by Governor Bagley; this was followed by prayer of Bishop Samuel A. McCoskry, and the singing of the national anthem "America" by the assembled multitude; then came the oration of the day by Hon. William A. Howard; following which was the impressive ceremony of laying the corner stone, conducted by Hon. Hugh McCurdy, grand master of the grand lodge of ancient, free and accepted masons of Michigan. The capitol was finally completed in 1878 at a total cost of $1,427,743.78. The aggregate of appropriations amounted to $1,430,000.00, leaving an unexpended balance of $2,256.22. The state capitol was dedicated and occupied in January, 1879. It is situated in the center of a square tract of land containing ten acres; is 345 feet long, including porti- coes and steps 420 feet; 192 feet wide, including porticoes and steps 274 feet ; and 267 feet high. It covers one and one-sixth acres and has a walk around the outside of 1,520 feet in length. The capitol is at present occupied by the legislature when in session, the governor, the state officers, the supreme
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court and the library. Owing to the growth and development of the state the business of the various deportments has increased until the state court of mediation and arbitration, the commissioner of labor, and the dairy and food commissioner are compelled to occupy quarters in the old state build- ing, corner of Washington avenue and Allegan street. The military equipage is also stored in the old state building.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JULY 4, 1776.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind re- quires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien- able rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov- erned; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer- able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former system of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and press- ing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large. districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature-a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, un- comfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into a compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and rais- ing the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in time of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them by mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves in- vested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his pro- tection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has en- deavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legis- lature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have re- minded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connexions and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice, and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war; in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in general congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; and they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved, and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
JOHN HANCOCK.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
No.
Name.
Colony.
Occupation
Born.
Died
1
John Adams.
Massachusetts Bay ..
Lawyer
1735
1826
3
Josiah Bartlett.
New Hampshire ...
Physician
1729
1795
4
Carter Braxton.
Virginia. .
Planter
1736
1797
5
Charles Carroll
Maryland
Lawyer
1737
1832
6
Samuel Chase
Maryland
Lawyer
1741
1811
Abraham Clark.
New Jersey
Lawyer
1726
1794
8
George Clymer
Pennsylvania
Merchant
1739
1813
9
William Ellery.
Rhode Island, etc.
Lawyer
1727
1820
10
William Floyd.
New York.
Farmer.
1734
1821
11
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania.
Printer.
1706
1790
12
Elbridge Gerry
Massachusetts Bay ..
Merchant
1744
1814
13
Button Gwinnett
Georgia.
Merchant
1732
1777
14
Lyman Hall.
Georgia
Physician
1725
1790
15
John Hancock.
Massachusetts Bay
Merchant
1737
1793
16
Benjamin Harrison
Virginia.
Farmer.
1740
1791
17
John Hart .
New Jersey
Farmer
1708
1780
18
Joseph Hewes.
North Carolina.
Merchant
1730
1779
19
Thomas Heyward, Jr .. ..
South Carolina.
Lawyer
1746
1809
20
William Hooper.
North Carolina.
Lawyer
1742
1790
21
Stephen Hopkins.
Rhode Island, etc.
Farmer
1707
1785
22
Francis Hopkinson
New Jersey
Lawyer
1737
1791
23
Samuel Huntington.
Connecticut
Lawyer
1731
1796
24
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia.
Lawyer
1743
1826
25
Francis Lightfoot Lee ..
Virginia.
Farmer.
1734
1797
26
Richard Henry Lee
Virginia.
Statesman
1732
1794
27
Francis Lewis. .
New York
Merchant
1713
1803
28
Philip Livingston
New York ..
Merchant
1716
1778
29
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
South Carolina.
Lawyer
1749
1779
30
Thomas Mckean
Delaware ..
Lawyer
1734
1817
31
Arthur Middleton
South Carolina.
Planter.
1743
1787
32
Lewis Morris
New York
Farmer.
1726
1798
33
Robert Morris
Pennsylvania.
Merchant
1733
1806
34
John Morton.
Pennsylvania
Surveyor.
1724
1777
35
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Virginia.
Statesman
1738
1789
36
William Paca ..
Maryland .
Lawyer
1740
1799
37
Robert Treat Paine
Massachusetts Bay
Lawyer
1731
1814
38
John Penn.
North Carolina ..
Lawyer
1741
1788
39
George Read
Delaware.
Lawyer
1733
1798
40
Cæsar Rodney
Delaware.
General
1730
1783
41
George Ross ..
Pennsylvania.
Lawyer
1730
1779
42
Benjamin Rush
Pennsylvania.
Physician
1746
1813
43
Edward Rutledge
South Carolina.
Lawyer.
1749
1800
44
Roger Sherman
Connecticut ..
Shoemaker ..
1721
1793
45
James Smith
Pennsylvania
Lawyer
1719
1806
46
Richard Stockton
New Jersey
Lawyer
1730
1781
47
Thomas Stone ..
Maryland ..
Lawyer .
1743
1787
48
George Taylor ..
Pennsylvania.
Foundryman.
1716
1781
49
Matthew Thornton.
New Hampshire
Physician . .
1714
1803
50
George Walton.
Georgia.
Lawyer
1740
1804
51
William Whipple
New Hampshire
Sailor
1730
1785
52
William Williams.
Connecticut.
Statesman
1731
1811
53 James Wilson
Pennsylvania
Lawyer
1742
1798
54
John Witherspoon
New Jersey
Educator.
1722
1794
55
Oliver Wolcott.
Connecticut
Soldier
1726
1797
56
George Wythe.
Virginia. .
Lawyer
1726
1806
Samuel Adams
Massachusetts Bay ..
Merchant
1722
1803
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION-
1. Of the legislative power.
2. House of representatives; quali- fication of members; apportion- ment of representatives and di- rect taxes; census; first appor- tionment; vacancies; officers of the house; impeachments.
3. Senate, classification of senators; qualifications of; vice president to preside, other officers, trial of impeachments.
4. Election of members of congress; meetings of congress.
5. Powers of each house; expulsion of members; journal; adjourn- ments.
6. Compensation and privileges; dis- abilities of members.
7. Revenue bills, passage and ap- proval of bills; orders and reso- lutions
8. General powers of congress.
9. Certain limitations of the powers of congress.
10. Limitations of the powers of indi- vidual states.
ARTICLE IL
1. Of the executive power; electors, how and when chosen; qualifica- tions of president; when powers of to devolve upon vice presi- dent; compensation and oath of president.
SECTION-
2. Powers and duties of president; making of treaties; power of ap- pointment.
3. Other powers and duties.
4. Officers liable to impeachment.
ARTICLE III.
1. Of the judicial power.
2. Extent of the judicial power; juris- diction of the supreme court; trials for crimes.
3. Treason defined; trial for and pun- ishment.
ARTICLE IV.
1. Effect of public acts, records, etc., of each state.
2. Citizenship; fugitives from justice and from service to be delivered up.
3. Admission of new states; power of congress over territory.
4. Republican form of government guaranteed to the several states; protection from invasion or do- mestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
1. How constitution may be amended. ARTICLE VI.
1. Of the public debt; constitution to be supreme law of the land; con- stitutional oath of office; relig- ious test prohibited.
ARTICLE VII.
1. Ratification of constitution.
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CONSTITUTION OF UNITED STATES.
ART. L.
AMENDMENTS.
ARTICLE-
1. Religious freedom; freedom of speech and of the press; right of petition.
2. Right to bear arms.
3. Quartering of soldiers.
4 Unreasonable searches and seiz- ures: search warrants.
5. Rights of persons charged with crimes; taking of private prop- erty.
6. Trials in criminal cases and rights of the accused.
7. Trials by jury in civil cases.
8. Excessive bail, fines and punish- ments.
ARTICLE-
9. Rights of the people.
10. Of powers reserved to the states.
11. Extent of judicial powers.
12. Manner of electing president and vice president; qualification of vice president.
13. Prohibition of slavery.
14. Citizenship; security of persons and property; apportionment of representatives; who prohibited from holding office; validity of the public debt; what obligations to be void.
15. Right of citizens to vote.
Preamble. We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more per- fect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America.
ARTICLE L.
SECTION I.
Legislative power.
1 All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a con- gress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives.
SECTION II.
House of representa- tives, and qualifica- tion of electors. Of repre. sentatives.
1The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states; and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. 2 No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and has been seven years a citi- zen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Apportion- ment of representa- tives.
3 [Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, accord- ing to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound in service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.] (a) The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the con-
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