Ready For Lateral Sewers

One of the quickest 'pieces of legislative work this year was done yesterday in the passage of the act enabling the city of Ann Arbor to build lateral sewers. This is the act that the council, Monday evening, empowered a committee to draw and get through the legislatura. A committee consisting of Mayor Thompson,1 President Watts, Aid. Ferguson, and 'City Clerk Miller, went to Lansing, Wednesday evening. On arriving there they were told on all sides that it was impossible to get any bill through at this late day, as many republican measures were unacted upon, although lobbies had been there for several days, as the members could not secure recognition. Representative Kline took hold of the bill with his characteristic push. At 11:15 a. m. Thursday the bill had passed the house. Fifteen minutes later it had been railroaded through the senáte, and by two o'clock it had been engrossed and was in the hands of the governor, who gave a hearing to the committee and stated that he would sign the bill. The committee were home by six o'clock last evening. The bill empowers the city to construct lateral sewers at the expense of adjacent property owners, and to raise by loans a sum not exceeding 150,000, for a period not exceeding five years, at a rate of interest not greater than five percent, not more than $40,000 of such bonded indebtedness being outstariding at any one time. The bill permits the paying of the sewer tax placed on the property owners adjacent to the laterals in equal annual installments during a period not exceeding five years, permitting such property owners at their election to pay the whole sum in one installment.