Laws Wot To Be Enforced

The council met in extra session Wed nesday evening and indulged in a regular pow-wow until after midnight. The first thing brought up was the matter of enforcmg the Sunday law. The mayor stated very frankly his position in regard to the arrest ot Chris. Millman, for violating the liquor law, noted in another column by a correspondent. He etated that Millman had come to him as soon as he got the crowd out of his saloon and represented to him that the crowd were drunk and that he could not get them out any sooner but that he had sold them no liquor after the hour for closing, and that under those representations he thought it best to withhold the warrant until he was violating the law again. A motion to sustain the mayor in his action was put and carried. The council then began wrangling, and the soene which foj. lowed is beyond description. The result of it was that the arrests of Fred Brown and Weloh & Gibney, whioh were made yesterday, for violation oL the liauor law are not to be presen ted, if they will make a promise to conduottheir business in acoordanoe with the laws in the future. The suit against Shippacaasee, Burleson and Rosey, are to be discontinued and now all a person has to do when arrested for vioiating the Sunday law or liquor law is to ask forgivness and all will be forgotten. The Washtenaw Fuel Gas company was granted the right to bore for ga3 and lay pipes in the city for a period of thirty years. The franchise does not bar any other company from getting the same privilege and in all other respecta it is similar to any franchise granted a like company. The matter of raising the salary of city officers carne up and received considerable discusaion. The following amendment to the city charter, was agreed upon and the city attorney instructed to draw up the paper, which will be sent to the legislature for its approval: The terms of the mayor and recorder is fixed for a period of two years each, to be elected alternately each spring. The mayor is to receive a salary of f 300 per year, and the recorder, who is made clerk of all committees, $500 year. The mayor is not to have a vote except in cases of a tie and is given the veto power, and the recorder is not to have a vote on any question. The salary of city attorney is fixed at $300 per year and the alderman each $50.