CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1.] CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. WHEREAS, In eighteen hundred and seventy-seven the secretary of the interior placed under suspension certain contested homestead cases in the counties of Oceana, Mason, Charlevoix, and Emmet, upon charges of fraud preferred by the Indian agent of Michigan; AND WHEREAS, The suspension has worked great hardship to the people by withholding the said land from settlement and taxation, and depriving many of the contestants, veterans of the late war, of a home on land they helped to save; AND WHEREAS, Five years have passed in which to have proven the alleged fraud and it has not been done; therefore, Resolved (the Senate concurring), That the secretary of the interior be and is hereby respectfully requested to remove the said suspension and allow the homestead law to take its course. Approved March 8, 1883. [ No. 2.] CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to authorize the United States to obtain and use certain lands for light house and other purposes, at Grand Marais, Lake Superior. Resolved (the House concurring), That the United States are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire the title, by gift or purchase, of the following land, to-wit: All of lot one (1), of section six (6), in town forty-nine (49) north, of range thirteen (13) west, Michigan meridian, lying east of a line parallel to, and one thousand (1000) feet west of the east line of said lot one (1), situate in the State of Michigan, and also to erect light houses, or other public buildings thereon. Approved June 1, 1883. [ No. 3. ] CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives be, and they are hereby directed to compile and prepare for publication, and make indexes, and superintend the publication of the journals and documents of the present legislature, and when completed and certified to by the secretary of State, the secretary of the senate shall be entitled to and receive for such services the sum of five hundred dollars, and the clerk of the house of representatives shall be entitled to and receive for such services the sum of six hundred dollars, the same to be paid on the certificate of the secretary of State. Approved June 8, 1883. [ No. 4. ] CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. Resolved, (the Senate concurring), That the secretary of State be requested to furnish manuals as per schedule: NOTE.-The words and sentences enclosed in brackets in the foregoing acts and resolutions were in the bills and resolutions as passed by the legislature, but not in the enrolled copy as approved by the governor. AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the legislature of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and ratified and approved by the people at the November election of eighteen hundred and eighty-two. ARTICLE IX. SALARIES. SECTION 1. The governor shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; the judges of the circuit court shall each receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; the State treasurer shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; the superintendent of public instruction shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; the secretary of State shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred dollars; the commissioner of the land office shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred dollars; the attorney general shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred dollars. They shall receive no fees or perquisites whatever for the performance of any duties connected with their office. It shall not be competent for the legislature to increase the salaries herein provided. I, HARRY A. CONANT, secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify, that the date of the final adjournment of the regular session of the legislature of this State, for the present year, was June ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Michigan, at Lansing, this eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. [L. S.] HARRY A. CONANT, |
