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STATE CAPITOL, LANSING.
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MICHIGAN OFFICIAL DIRECTORY AND
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
E PLURIBUS UNUMYT
TUEBOR
SI QUÆRIS PENINSULAM AMCNAM CIRCUMSPICE
FOR THE YEARS 1909/1910
COMPILED BY FREDERICK C. MARTINDALE SECRETARY OF STATE
ADDENDA.
Villages incorporated by boards of supervisors-Ahmeek, Keweenaw county, February 19, 1909; Hilltop, Berrien county, October 13, 1908; Walkerville, Oceana county, October 20, 1908.
State officers elected April 5, 1909-Justices of the supreme court, Charles A. Blair, Jackson; John W. Stone, Marquette. Regents of the University-William L. Clements, Bay City; George P. Codd, Detroit. Superintendent of public instruction-Luther L. Wright, Ironwood. Member of state board of education-William J. McKone, Albion. Members of the state board of agriculture-Two year term, William L. Carpenter, Detroit ; William J. Oberdorffer, Stephenson. Four year term, Alfred J. Doherty, Clare; Robert D. Graham, Grand Rapids. Six year term, William H. Wallace, Bay Port; I. Roy Waterbury, Highland.
Presidential electors, 1908-Frederick M. Alger, Detroit and George Clapperton, Grand Rapids, at large; John N. Bagley, Detroit, Jerome H. Bishop, Wyandotte, Clifford C. Ward, Hillsdale, Salomon Stern, Marcellus, Frederick A. Washburn, Belding, George Barnes, Howell, William H. Acker, Richmond, Alvin M. Bentley, Owosso, Warren A. Cartier, Ludington, Henry B. Smith, Bay City, Alfred J. Doherty, Clare, James R. Thompson, Ironwood.
State Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries-Prof. L. R. Taft, East Lansing.
Page 393-William R. Kendrick appointed circuit judge of the 10th judicial circuit vice Chauncey H. Gage, deceased.
Page 393-Charles A. Golden elected circuit judge of the 38th judicial circuit vice Harry A. Lockwood, resigned.
Page 684-George L. Lilley, governor of Connecticut, died April 21, 1909.
Pages 769, 771-Townsend A. Ely of Alma appointed state highway commissioner for the term of four years from July 1, 1909.
Page 792-Rowland Connor of Saginaw appointed a member of the advisory board in the matter of pardons, term ending December 11, 1911, vice William R. Kendrick, resigned.
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MICHIGAN.
Twenty-sixth state of the union. First permanent settlement, 1668. Territory organized July 4, 1805. Admitted to statehood January 26, 1837. Total area, 58,915 square miles. Population in 1904, 2,530,016. Corn and hay most important agricul- tural products. Wheat, oats, potatoes, sugar beets, beans, buckwheat, rye and barley are grown in abundance. One of the most important states in the union in the culti- vation of apples, peaches and various fruits of temperate climates. The state has very extensive fresh water fisheries. Leads in the production of iron, furnishes 70 per cent of amount produced in the United States; produces 14 per cent of the best grade copper of the world; has rich coal fields; produces more than one-fourth of the salt obtained in the United States; and large deposits of gypsum are found. Has extensive lumber interests. Railway mileage: Steam, 8,723; electric, exclusive of city lines, 930.
CONTENTS.
Pages
Capitol, sketch relative to building, etc., of.
1-2
Declaration of Independence .
3-5
Constitution of the United States (complete)
6-14
Amendments to ..
14-17
History of Amendments.
18
History of Michigan (outline) .
19-30
Admission of Michigan to the Union.
, 30
Former Officials of Michigan:
Governors.
31-34
State officers, elective and appointive.
35-41
State officers, appointive. 42-43
Legislatures:
Territorial
44-46
State ..
47-48
Members of Legislature from 1835 to 1908:
Senators
49-63
Presidents, Pro Tem., of senate.
64
Secretaries of senate.
65
Representatives
66-136
Speakers of house.
137
Speakers, Pro Tem., of house
138
Clerks of house. .
139
Former officials of United States from Michigan. 140-145
Public documents, list of .
146-147
Reports required by statute. . 148-158
Cities of Michigan, list of. .
159-171
Villages of Michigan, list of. 172-185
186-188
Postoffices in Michigan, list of.
189-197
Population of Michigan by counties.
198-201
Congressional apportionments 202-203
204-219
Taxable property, valuation of, by counties
220-222
State tax levied, summary of. 223-226
Maps. 224-225
Liquor tax by counties, and summary.
227-231
Report of State Treasurer, 1907, 1908.
232-233
Building and Loan Associations
234-235
Publications in Michigan, list of.
236-251
Railroads of Michigan:
Steam.
252-271
Electric
272-275
State Land Office:
Description of lands and information to purchasers
276-277
Acres of land by counties, subject to entry October 19, 1908. 278-279
Banks: State, list of. 280-285
National, list of. 286-287
Local option, vote on, 1890-1909
288-290, 824
Postal subjects, general instructions upon.
Districts, Congressional, Senatorial and Representative, giving population
viii
CONTENTS.
School System of Michigan:
Growth of, and statistics ..
School Commissioners, list of. 292-293
Presidents of the United States, list of.
296
Electoral vote for Presidents, 1789-1908.
297-303
Presidential vote by counties, 1836-1908
304-321
Presidential vote, summary of, 1836-1908.
322-325
Vote on Governor by counties, 1854-1908.
326-351
Vote on Governor, summary of, 1835-1908 352-354
Vote for State Officers, official canvass of, 1908.
355-374
Vote for State Officers, summary of, 1908 ..
375-376
Vote for State Officers, official canvass of, 1907.
377-384
Cuts of State Institutions
334-385
Judicial System of Michigan:
Supreme Court, history, and justices of 385-387, 391
. District Courts and Courts of Chancery. 388
Circuit and Probate Courts. 389-390
County and Justices' Courts. 390
Supreme Court, justices and officers of, salaries, etc. 391
State Court of Mediation and Arbitration.
392
Municipal and Circuit Judges.
392-393
Judicial Circuits, with population and terms of court.
394-397
Vote on Circuit Judges.
398-419
Primary Election, vote for Governor, 1908.
420-421
Congressional vote by counties, 1908.
422-429
Congressional vote, from 1835-1908.
430-437
Election and Census Statistics:
Vote for Governor and Secretary of State, 1908, and population, 1904, by townships, cities and wards. 438-517
Vote for State Senators, 1908
518-533
Vote for State Representatives, 1908. 534-544
Cuts of State Institutions
544-545
Vote on Revised Constitutions.
545-547
Vote on Constitutional Conventions.
548-551
Constitution of 1850, amendments to
552-557
Constitutional Conventions. 558-565
Constitution 566-594
The Legislature:
Statutes relative to powers, organization, etc. 595-599
United States Senators, election of, by. 599
Senate rules 600-606
607-616
Joint rules.
617-618
Practice and proceedings. 619-624
625-653
Legislature, 1909-1910:
Senators, list of ..
654-655
Officers and employes of Senate.
656
Representatives, list of .
657-660
Officers and employes of the House.
661-662
Representatives of the Press in attendance.
662
Senate committees.
663-664
House committees.
665-666
County Officers, list of, 1909-1910.
667-678
Cuts of State Institutions.
672-673
Qualifications for voting in United States
679-681
Legislatures, State and Territorial, statistical information 682-683
Administrative officers of all the States. 684-690
Pages 291
Legislative decisions (Index 625-631)
House rules.
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Sixty-first Congress:
Pages
Senators ..
691-692
Representatives.
693-698
Delegates from Territories. 699
Biographical Sketches:
United States Senators 700
Members of Congress.
701-705
Justices of the Supreme Court .
706-709
State Officers. 710-714
State Senators.
715-723
State Representatives. 724-747
Cabinet Officers of the United States.
748
Executive Department of the United States Government .
749-753
Interstate Commerce Commission.
753
United States Government Offices in Michigan.
754-757
Judiciary of the United States:
Supreme Court and Circuit Courts. 758-759
Court of Claims.
759
United States Courts in Michigan.
760-761
Legal Holidays ..
762
Commissioners of Deeds.
763-764
Ministers of United States in Foreign Countries.
765
Foreign Ministers in United States.
766
Foreign Consuls in Michigan
767
Photo engravings of' State officers.
768-769
State Government of Michigan:
Elective Officers, residences and salaries, 1909-1910.
768
Appointive Officers.
769
State Departments
770-771
Department Duties.
772-784
Michigan National Guard, register of officers of ..
785-787
Michigan Naval Brigade
787-788
Separate Military Organizations.
788
State Boards, Meetings and duties of.
789-796
State Institutions
797-812
Miscellaneous State Associations
813-820
Political Central Committees
821-823
Local Option, Vote on, 1909
824
LIST OF MAPS.
Plate No.
Railroads, Lower Peninsula
Upper Peninsula.
2
Congressional districts, Lower Peninsula.
3
Second district
4
Third district.
4
Fourth district
5
Fifth district
5
Sixth district
6
Seventh district
7 6
Ninth district.
8
Tenth district.
9
Eleventh district
10
Twelfth district (west half)
11
Twelfth district (east half).
12
Senatorial districts, Lower Peninsula.
Upper Peninsula.
14 15
Wayne county
15
Representative districts, Lower Peninsula.
16
Upper Peninsula
Allegan county
Bay county
Berrien county.
Calhoun county.
Genesee county
Houghton county
Ingham county .
19 19 18
Kalamazoo county
Kent county.
18
Lenawee county.
19 18 19 18
Ottawa county.
19
St. Clair county
19
Washtenaw county.
19
Wayne county.
19
Judicial circuits, Lower Peninsula.
20
Upper Peninsula.
21
17 18 19 18 18 19 18
Jackson county.
Marquette county.
Oakland county.
Saginaw county.
1
Eighth district
13
Kent county
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THE CAPITOL.
Under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to provide for the erection of a new state capitol and a building for the temporary use of the state offices," approved March 31, 1871, Governor Baldwin appointed E. O. Grosvenor, James Shearer, and Alexander Chapoton as a board of building commissioners. 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 de- cided 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 first day of December next. On account of the Chicago fire, October, 1871, in which some of the designs were destroyed, the time was extended until De- cember 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 20th the board entered into an agreement with Elijah E. Myers to act as architect and general superintendent of the construction of the new capitol, at a compensation of twenty-five thousand dollars. On the 20th of May the detail drawings and specifications were completed by Mr. Myers and on the 21st an adver- tisement 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 specifications adopted. The bids were submitted July 8, and on the 15th the commissioners entered into a con- tract 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 draw- ing, for the sum of $1,144,057.20, all four fronts to be constructed. of No. 1 Amherst, Ohio, sandstone. 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 and for the ap- pointment of a committee to provide appropriate arrangements 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 follow- ing persons:
GOVERNOR JOHN J. BAGLEY, Chairman Detroit
EBENEZER O. GROSVENOR, Vice President Jonesville
ALLEN L. BOURS, Secretary - Lansing JAMES SHEARER - Bay City
ALEXANDER CHAPOTON Detroit
DAVID ANDERSON Bear Lake Mills
JOHN P. HOYT -
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WILLIAM H. WITHINGTON - Jackson Saginaw AUGUSTUS S. GAYLORD -
ELLERY I. GARFIELD - Detroit
JOHN HIBBARD Port Huron
Grand Rapids
LEONARD H. RANDALL OLIVER L. SPAULDING St. Johns
WILLIAM H. STONE Adrian
JOHN S. TOOKER 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 panels. 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 $1,510,130.59. The total appropriations amounted to $1,525,241.05, leaving an unexpended balance of $15,110.46. 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 porticoes 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.
During the year 1899-1900 a system of electric lighting was inaugurated in the capitol, which necessitated the laying of 34 miles of rubber covered wire, 34,000 feet of circular loom conduit and 4,500 feet of iron conduit; 3,400 incandescent and five arc lamps were placed in position, the expense of which was about $18,500. In November, 1905, the dome of the capitol was wired and 800 incandescent lights in- stalled at a cost of $1,218.64.
The capitol is at present occupied by the legislature when in session, the governor, the state officers, the supreme court and the library. Owing to the growth and development of the state the business of the various departments has increased until the commissioner of labor, the dairy and food commissioner, the state highway com- missioner and the state geologist are compelled to occupy quarters in the old state building, corner Washington avenue and Allegan street. The military equipage is also stored in the old state building. The state tax commission is quartered in the city national bank building, and the railroad commission and state game, fish and forestry warden in the Oakland building.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
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 dis- solve 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 requires 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 unalienable 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 governed; 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 sufferable, 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 pro- vide 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 pressing 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.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, 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 ob- structing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to en- courage their migration hither, and raising 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.
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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 consti- tution, 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, estab- lishing 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 invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection 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.
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 endeavored 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 legislature to extend an unwarrant- able jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our em- igration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magna- nimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections 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 in- tentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that tliese 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 connection 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
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