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181. Can an individual sue a county? If so, who would represent the county?

182. If a sheriff allows a prisoner to escape, by negligence, what is the remedy?

183. Name three ways in which our laws favor the poor. Do they favor the rich? How?

184. Why should a record of births, deaths and marriages be kept?

185. Give one reason for and one reason against the board of supervisors fixing the clerk's salary.

186. What is a tax sale? Tell all you can about it.

187. What is a fine, a forfeiture, a penalty, a recognizance? To what purposes are these put?

188. What is a deed, a mortgage, a title?

189. If a road is ordered through a man's farm, how is he compensated?

190. What is the law in regard to Canada thistles?

191. Is there such a thing as a drain tax?

192. Are persons taxed whose lands are not benefited by the drain?

193. Are residents of a township obliged to keep up partition and road fences?

194. If A's cow strays onto B's premises and eats corn, does a suit against A lie?

195. If B's premises have no road fence, and A's cow is poisoned on B's land, does a suit against B lie?

196. Are road fences of wire legal?

197. If a defective bridge causes loss of life, who is sued? Are bridges required to be railed?

198. If a man opens a saloon in a township, who grants his license?

199. What is an ex officio position? Name three.

200. Are all townships of the same size?

201. Distinguish between corrupt conduct in office and out of office.

202. Under what circumstances may an impeachment be directed?

203. What is the inquisitorial power of the house?

204. Do you regard Art. XII., Sec. 4, just? Why?

205. What is a provisional appointment, and who may make one?

206. Mention an act for which a judge may be removed.

207. Does this refer to supreme judges, or to any judge?

208. If the legislature afterwards find the removal to be unjust may it reinetate the judge?

209. Define misfeasance and malfeasance.

210. What is the origin of the primary school fund?

211. What per cent interest does it yield, and what is the income from the fund?

212. About how many acres of swamp land have been set apart for the primary school fund?

213. How many acres are today subject to entry?

214. In which county is the greatest number of acres?

215. What is the swamp land fund? What is the rate of interest?

216. How many acres of swamp lands are subject to entry and what is the average price per acre.

217. In what year were the swamp lands given to Michigan?

218. How many different kind of lands did the United States give to Michigan for school purposes?

219. How many acres do Indians own?

220. Were there any escheats to the State during last year?

221. For how long a time shall school be held in each school district?

222. What is the penalty for violation of this law?

223. What relation to education is the one mill tax, district taxes, surplus dog tax, and fines collected under violation of the penal laws?

224. In what language shall instruction be given in the schools?

225. If a teacher teacher teaches Latin and German by the natural method, and speaks only those languages in the class, can he be said to give instruction "conducted in the English language?"

226. Tell something of the history and present organization of the State University.

227. What is the source of the University fund?

228. By what other revenues is the University supported?

229. What were the total expenses of the University for the last year?

230. What was the total expenditure for educational purposes in the previous year? In the same time what was the amount expended for alcoholic drinks in the State?

231. How is the Normal School supported, and what were the expenses for the last year?

232. Where are the institutions for the blind, insane, deaf and dumb located? 233. What is the policy of the State in regard to these institutions?

234. When was the Agricultural College established?

235. What is the object of the school; what are its resources?

236. Has the State ever appropriated for it the salt lands mentioned in the constitution?

237. Are any of our institutions self-supporting?

238. May the residents of a township vote money to buy books for the township library?

239. When may a school district establish a library?

240. Can this be done at a special meeting?

241. Who has charge of library money and who expends it?

242. Under what circumstances are library moneys forfeited?

243. Is there a library in your township? In what condition is it?

244. Is it the gross or net proceeds of fines that are applied to library purposes?

245. For what particular expenditure is the interest on the primary school fund intended?

246.

What is a board of visitors? How are they paid? What are their duties, and by whom are they appointed?

247. What are the duties of the board of school examiners? By whom are the members elected and what is their term of office?

248. What are special duties of the commissioner, and how is he paid?

249. How often are teachers required to be examined?

250. What are the requirements for, and the legal standing of, the three grades of certificates?

251. What is the examination fee, and for what purpose does it go.

252. What persons are not required to take county examinations?

253. What township officers are more or less connected with educational affairs?

254. How many months of school are required in a district numbering 900 children?

255. Name the legal school holidays.

256. When does the school year begin? What exception?

257. How much money for building school-houses can be voted at a school meeting in a district having nine children? How much can be appropriated in a district having forty children?

238. What is the limit of the amount that can be raised for school apparatus, etc.?

259. What are the limits to the bonded indebtedness of school districts? 260. What is the organization and duty of the district board?

261. What are the duties of individual members?

262. What is the true distinction between real and personal property?

263. What real estate is safe from execution?

264. If A mortgage to me his homestead, can I come into possession? 265. What is the rule for the descent of property in Michigan?

266. What was the rule under the common law?

267. What did the ordinance of 1787 say about education?

268. Name the pioneers of our educational system.

269. Who planned our educational system?

270. What was the rate bill and when abolished?

271. 272.

Define a direct and indirect tax.

Has the United States ever levied a direct tax?

273. Is the United States liquor tax a direct or indirect tax?

274. Name in the order of magnitude the different taxes that an ordinary citizen pays.

275. What are specific taxes, and to what purposes are they put?

276. How many dollars were raised by State tax last year?

277. How does the per capita taxation in Michigan compare with taxation in other states?

278.

cease?

What is a sinking fund? When was it established, and when did it

279. When is a debt funded?

280. Give the different elements of the State debt.

281. It is sometimes said Michigan has no debt; explain.

282. What is the meaning of the last sentence of Sec. 2, Art. XIII

283. How is the State limited in regard to deficits in revenue?

384. For what purposes may the State contract debts?

285. In what way is money paid out of the treasury?

286. What is the meaning of Sec. 6, Art. XIII?

287. What is script? May a state emit bills of credit?

288. Tell something of the finances during "wildcat times."

289. What is a bond? Describe the bonds of the United States.

290. Has the State any bonds out? When were they due?

291. Why should Sec. 8 be inserted in the constitution?

292. Who has made "grants to the State of lands or other property?"

293. Explain what is said in the ordinance relative to the admission of Michigan into the United States; about lands for public buildings; and proceeds for roads and canals.

294. From what corporations are specific taxes collected?

295. What per cent are railroads and banks taxed?

296. What are plank roads? Are there any now? Under what circumstances were toll-gates allowed?

297. How many each of legislative, senatorial, and judicial districts in the Upper Peninsula?

298. What distinction has been made in regard to representatives from the Upper Peninsula?

299. What is done with specific taxes from mining companies in the Upper Peninsula?

300. Do mining companies pay State taxes?

301. Are mining companies incorporated for more or less than thirty years? 302. What are inspection laws, and by whom are inspectors appointed?

308. What is the inspection tax on each barrel of salt? On each barrel of illuminating oil?

304. May a state place a duty on imports?

305. Name five things inspected by Michigan officers.

306. How often are statements of receipts, etc., to be published?

307. Why are laws required to be in the English language?

308. Give the amendment of the United States Constitution corresponding to Sec. 7, Art. XVIII.

309. What are "concealed weapons?" Is there a law against carrying them? 310. May a person carry a revolver for his defense?

311. Has Michigan a compulsory education law?

312. How many months must every child attend school in each year?

313. What regulation is there in regard to employing children?

314. What is an "ungraded school?" What pupils are sent thereto?

315. What may be done with truants? If a boy 15 years old is an habitual truant may he be arrested as a juvenile offender?

316. Is the truant law enforced in your village?

317. Name and locate the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions of Michigan.

318. Would it be best to have convicts manufacture no articles of consumption.

319. What is the law in regard to bridging and damming navigable streams? 320. Does the latter part of Sec. 4, Art. XVIII., conflict with Sec. 9, Art. XIV.? 321. Give the substance of the official oath.

322. What officers are not required to take oath?

323. For what offenses are persons sent to Jackson?

324. May boys be sent there? May women?

325. What is the shortest time for which one may be sent to Jackson?

326. Under whose control is the Detroit House of Correction?* Who may be sent there and under what circumstances?

*Detroit House of Correction is under the control of the city of Detroit. The State pays for the support of such female prisoners as it finds necessary to send there.

SYNOPSES.

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[The numbers designating the Articles are given in Roman; those of the Sections in Arabic figures.]

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HOUSE OF REP.-Continued.

Legislation, IV., 13.

Oath, XVIII., 1.
Impeachment, XII., 3.
Vacancy, IV., 5 and V., 10.
Prohibitions, IV., 2 and 3.

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Elgibility, V., 2, 15 and note. Election, V., 3.

5.

Commander-in-chief, V., 4 and 12.
Heads of departments, V.,
Legislative, V., 7.8, 9.

Laws, V., 6 and IV., 14.
Pardons, V., 11.

Prohibitions, V., 16 and IV., 22.
Commissions, V., 19.

Term, V., 1 and VIII., 2.

Vacancy. VIII., 3.

Salary, IX., 1 and note.

Removals, XII.. 6. 7, 8 and note.

Impeachment, XII., 1, 2.

Oath, XVIII., 1.

Lieutenant Governor.

Eligibility, V., 2.

Election, V., 3.

Senate, V., 14.

Impeachment, XII., 1.

Trial and removal, XII., 2.

Executive vacancy, V., 12.

Vacancy--how supplied, VIII.. 13.

Salary, V., 17 and IV.. 17.

Prohibition, V., 16, IV., 22.
Term, V., 1 and VIII., 2.
Oath, VIII, 1.

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