relative to the taxation of property by a State Board of Assessors, is hereby proposed and submitted to the people of the State.

SEC. 10. The State may continue to collect all specific taxes accruing to the treasury under existing laws. The legislature may provide for the collection of specific taxes from corporations. The legislature may provide for the assessment of the property of corporations, and the property, by whomsoever owned, operated or conducted, engaged in the business of transporting passengers and freight, transporting property by express, operating any union station or depot, transmitting messages by telephone or telegraph, loaning cars, operating refrigerator cars, fast freight lines or other car lines, and running or operating cars in any manner upon railroads, or engaged in any other similar business, at its true cash value, by a State Board of Assessors, and for the levying and collection of taxes thereon. All taxes thereafter levied on the property of such classes of corporations as are paying specific taxes under laws in force on November six, nineteen hundred, shall be applied as provided for specific State taxes in section one of this article. Be it further Resolved, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the election to be held upon the first Monday of April in the year nineteen hundred eight. The Secretary of State is hereby required to certify the foregoing amendment to the clerks of the several counties of the State, as required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare a ballot for the use of the electors in voting upon said amendment, which ballot shall be in substantially the following form:

At the top of each ballot shall be printed, in boldfaced type, the words:

"Vote on amendment to section ten, article fourteen of the constitution, relative to the taxation of property by a State Board of Assessors." Then shall follow:

"Amendment to section ten, article fourteen of the constitution, relative to the taxation of property by a State Board of Assessors, () Yes.

Amendment to section ten of article fourteen of the constitution, relative to the taxation of property by a State Board of Assessors, () No.

It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election, at the several voting precincts within their respective counties, within the time ballots to be used at said election are required to be delivered, to such inspectors under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning the vote for State officers.

This joint resolution is ordered to take immediate effect.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS, 1907.

[No. 1.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION submitting to a vote of the people the question of nomination of United States Senator, Governor and Lieutenant Governor by direct vote of the electors. (a)

Resolved by the Senate the House of Representatives concurring, That there shall be submitted to the people of the State of Michigan at the election to be held on the seventeenth day of September, nineteen hundred seven, for choosing delegates to the constitutional convention, the question of nomination by direct vote of the qualified electors of the State, of United States Senator, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, the candidate of any party receiving the highest number of votes of such party for either of said offices to be the candidate of such party for such office, and the Secretary of State is hereby required to certify the same to the clerks of the several counties, and give notice of the same to the sheriffs of the several counties of this State, and the sheriffs of the several counties of this State shall be required to give notice of the same to the several townships and wards in said State, in the manner required by law, and the said question shall be printed upon a separate ballot used at said election, as follows;

"For nomination of United States Senator by direct vote of the electors, () Yes."

"For nomination of United States Senator by direct vote of the electors, ) No."

"For nomination of Governor by direct vote of the electors, ( ) Yes." "For nomination of Governor by direct vote of the electors, ( ) No." "For nomination of Lieutenant Governor by direct vote of the electors, () Yes."

"For nomination of Lieutenant Governor by direct vote of the electors, ( ) No."

Such ballots so prepared shall be sent out by the board of election commissioners at the same time as the ballots to be used at said elec

tion.

All votes cast on said question shall be taken, counted, canvassed and returned as provided by law for the election of State officers. Approved June 28, 1907.

(a) Held, not adopted by a majority vote of the senate and void.-Kelley v. Secretary of State, D. L. N., Vol. 14, p. 351. Õpinion filed July 15, 1907.

[No. 2.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Governor to appoint a commission.

Resolved by the Senate the House of Representatives concurring, That the Governor be and he is hereby directed to appoint a commission of three citizens of Michigan, on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred eight, to which commission shall be referred the entire subject of an addition to the capitol building. The commission shall have power and authority to employ an architect, or architects, to prepare plans for such capitol addition or annex, and shall also advertise for bids for the construction of such capitol addition to the end that the commission may make a report to the next session of the legislature of the actual cost of such structure; and be it further

Resolved, That the commission shall also appraise the State property at the corner of Washington avenue and Allegan street and report to the next legislature such appraisal and the advisability of disposing of the same, the proceeds from such sale to be turned into a capitol building fund when the same is created.

And be it further resolved, That the members of the commission shall receive their actual and necessary expenses, all bills incurred by the commission to be audited and allowed by the State Board of Auditors. Approved June 28, 1907.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Amendment to the constitution "relative to circuit courts," proposed by the legislature of nineteen hundred seven, and ratified and approved by the people at the April election of nineteen hundred seven.

ARTICLE VI.

SEC. 6. The State shall be divided into judicial circuits, in each of which the electors thereof shall elect one circuit judge who shall hold his office for the term of six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. The legislature may provide for the election of more than one circuit judge in the judicial circuit in which the city of Detroit is or may be situated, and in the judicial circuit in which the county of Saginaw is or may be situated, and in the judicial circuit in which the county of Kent is or may be situated, and in the judicial circuit in which the county of St. Clair is or may be situated. And the circuit judge or judges of such circuits, in addition to the salary provided by the constitution, shall receive from their respective counties such additional salary as may from time to time be fixed and determined by the board of supervisors of said county. And the board of supervisors of each county in the Upper Peninsula, and in the counties of Bay, Washtenaw, Genesee, Ingham and Jackson and the counties in the judicial circuit in which the county of Isabella is or may be situated in the Lower Peninsula, is hereby authorized and empowered to give and to pay the circuit judge of the judicial circuit, to which said county is attached, such additional salary or compensation as may from time to time be fixed and determined by such board of supervisors. This section as amended shall take effect from the time of its adoption.

Amendment to the constitution "relative to the board of county auditors in the counties of Saginaw, Jackson, Washtenaw, Kent, Wayne, Genesee, Bay, Cheboygan and St. Clair," proposed by the legislature of nineteen hundred seven, and ratified and approved by the people at the April election of nineteen hundred seven.

ARTICLE X.

SEC. 10. The board of supervisors, or in the counties of Saginaw, Jackson, Washtenaw, Kent, Wayne, Genesee, Bay, Cheboygan and St. Clair the board of county auditors, shall have the exclusive power to fix the compensation for all services rendered for and to adjust all claims against their respective counties, and the sums so fixed and defined shall be subject to no appeal.

Amendment to the constitution by striking out section "relative to the teaching of mechanical trades to convicts in the State prison of this State," proposed by the legislature of nineteen hundred seven, and ratified and approved by the people at the April election of nineteen hundred seven.

SEC. 3. Stricken out.

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ARTICLE XVIII.