gress for the survey of railroad from Potosi on the Mississippi river, to Lake Michigan.

No. 14. (H. of R. file,) Resolution to furnish the Assembly with the Revised Statutes: and

No. 5, (C. F.) Memorial to Congress for an appropriation for the construction of a McAdamized road from Mineral Point to Potosi. And after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the same to the House without amendment.

Ordered, That bill No. 47 and resolution No. 14, Ilouse of Representatives file, be engrossed for the third reading.

Bill No. 50, resolution No. 2, and memorial No. 5 from the Coun. cil were severally ordered to the third reading.

On motion of Mr. Rockwell,

And by special order, bill No. 47, (H. of R. file) was read the third time, passed, and the title thereof agreed to.

Ordered, That the Council be requested to concur in the said bill. On motion and by special order of the House, resolution No. 12, (C. F.) was read the third time, and on the question of its final pasthe ayes and noes were called for and were as follows:

sage

Ayes-Mesers. Batchelder, Bond, Brazelton, Brown, Burt, Dewey, Eastman, Ellis, Gray, Hackett, Jenkins, Mills, Ray, Rockwell, Shepard, Tripp, Whiton, and Newland.-18.

Noes-Messrs. Darling, Giddings, La Chappelle, Ogden, Parkison, and Sutherland.-6.

So the said resolution passed and the title thereof was agreed to. Ordered, That the Counci! be acquainted therewith.

By the special order of the House, bill No. 50, and memorial No. 5, from the Council, were severally read the third time, passed, and the titles thereof agreed to.

Ordered, That the Council be acquainted therewith.

Mr. Shepard moved a reconsideration of the vote adopting the report of the committee of the whole by which bill No. 32 (C. F.) was negatived, entitled "A bill to provide for the taking the census of the inhabitants of the territory of Wisconsin, and to authorize the Governor to apportion the members of the Council and House of Representatives:"

Which, on motion of Mr. Brown, was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Jenkins offered the following resolution.

Resolved, If the Council concur, that the commissioner of public buildings is hereby instructed to omit putting up the galleries and cornice in the Legislative Halls in the Capitol, and such other work as he shall deem for the interest of the Territory, with the consent of the contractor, deducting the value of such work from work done on the capitol not included in the contract.

The Speaker decided that the said resolution was not in order and could not be received.

Mr. Jenkins desired that the question of reception might be put to the House.

And thereupon the question was put and determined in the neg ative.

Mr. Ellis, from the committee on Territorial affairs, by leave, made the following report:

The committee on Territorial affairs, to which was referred the Governor's message of the 16th inst., relative to the northern boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan, report:

That they have considered the subject, and concur generally with the views of the Executive. At this late period, they do not think it expedient to submit any elaborate argument, but recommend for the consideration of the House the following resolutions and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

February 18, 1842.

A. G. ELLIS, Ch'n.

Resolved, That this House concur in the views of the Executive of Wisconsin Territory, as set forth in his message of the 16th inst., "that that part of the western boundary of the state of Michigan, as prescribed by the act of Congress of the 15th June, 1836, is an impracticable line, there being no such natural boundary as therein described, and that it is in consequence become necessary to designate a new line.

Resolved, That such line ought to be that set forth by the Legisla ture of Michigan by an act of that body of the 26th January, 1836, to wit: a line drawn through the middle of lake Michigan to its northern extremity."

Resolved, That this House solemnly protest against any other boundary than the one above recited between Michigan and Wisconsin, and that our delegate in Congress be requested to use his influence to procure the establishment of such boundary.

Resolved, That copies of the message of His Excellency, the Governor, and of these resolutions, be forwarded to the President of the Senate, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Delegate in Congress.

The report and resolutions were adopted and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

On motion of Mr. Batchelder,

Resolved, That the Librarian is hereby instructed to deliver to the Hon. Theophilus La Chappelle, Hon. Jonathan Eastman, and to the Hon. James Tripp, each, one Judson's map of the territories of Wis consin and Iowa.

On motion of Mr. Ellis,

The following resolution was taken up and considered, to wit: Resolved, That C. Latham Sholes, publisher of the "Southport Telegraph," be employed to print the Journal of this House the present session, and the same pay, pro rata, per page be allowed as was allowed for the journal of the last session.

Mr. Jenkins moved to strike out "C. Latham Sholes," and insert "Henry Plowman."

And pending the question thereon,

Mr. Barber moved to amend the amendment as follows: strike out all after the word "resolved," and insert the following words, to wit:

(If the Council concur) that George Hyer be employed to print the journal of the House of Representatives, and that William W. Wyman be employed to print the journal of the Council for the present session.

And the question being put it was determined in the negative, by ayes and noes, as follows:

Ayes-Messrs. Barber, Brazelton, Brown, Burt, Darling, Ellis, Giddings, Hackett, La Chappelle, Mills, Tripp, and Whiton.-12. Noes-Messrs. Batchelder, Bond, Dewey, Eastman, Jenkins, Ogden, Parkison, Ray, Rockwell, Shepard, Sutherland, and Newland, speaker.-12.

The question then recurred on the amendment offered by Mr. Jenkins, and it passed in the negative.

And the ayes and noes being called for,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Messrs, Barber, Jenkins, Ogden, Parkison, Ray, and Newland, speaker.-6.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Messrs. Batchelder, Bond, Brazelton, Brown, Darling, Dewey, Eastman, Ellis, Giddings, Gray, Hackett, La Chappelle, Mills, Rockwell, Shepard, Sutherland, Tripp, and Whiton.-18.

The question was then put on the passage of the resolution, and it was determined in the affirmative by ayes and noes as follows:

Ayes-Messrs. Batchelder, Bond, Brazelton, Brown, Dewey, Eastman, Ellis, Giddings, Gray, La Chappelle, Ray, Rockwell, and Shepard.-13.

Noes-Messrs. Barber, Burt, Darling, Hackett, Jenkins, Mills, Ogden, Parkison, Sutherland, Tripp, Whiton, and Newland, speaker.-12.

Ordered, That the Council be requested to concur in the said resolution.

On motion of Mr. Dewey,

The House resolved itself into the committee of the whole House, Mr. Tripp in the chair, having the following from the Council under consideration, to wit:

No. 46. A bill to authorize Webster Stanley to keep a ferry across Fox river.

No. 8. Memorial to the Congress of the United States for the relief of the owners or proprietors of mineral lots in the Wisconsin land district.

No. 9. Memorial to the Secretary of War in relation to the lead mines.

After a short time, the committee rose and by their chairman reported the said bill with an amendment, and the said memorial without amendment.

Ordered, That the said memorials 8 and 9 be read the third time. On motion of Mr. Hackett,

And by the special order of the House, the said memorials were severally read the third time, passed and their titles agreed to.

The amendment reported by the committee to bill No. 46, was agreed to, and the bill ordered to a third reading.

By the special order of the House, the said bill was then read the third time, passed and its title agreed to.

Ordered, That the Council be requested to concur in the amendment to said bill, and be acquainted with the concurrence of this House in the said memorials.

Mr. Hackett, from the committee on Enrolled bills, reported that the said committee had presented to the Governor for his approval on to-day the following, to wit:

Resolutions relative to the removal of the Indians.

An act to amend and define the act entitled an act to provide for the government of the several towns in this Territory, and for the revision of county government, approved February 18, 1841.

The undermentioned message received on yesterday, was read and ordered to lie on the table, to wit:

"To the House of Representatives

of the Territory of Wiskonsan:

The bill to incorporate the Beloit and Rock River Bridge Company, with authority to construct two bridges over Rock river, I have signed, and the bill is herewith returned.

I have signed this bill because the Assembly has passed the bill authorizing a bridge to be built over the same stream at Janesville, and that equal privileges may be granted to the inhabitants at each of the crossings of the river. This bill is free from most of the exceptionable features contained in the Janesville charter; but it is manifest that if these bridges should obstruct the present or future navigation of the river, the courts of the country may declare the charters void and direct the bridges to be removed. I also notice the omission of a provision authorizing the proper authorities of the county of Rock to purchase the bridges at their fair value, to make them free, at any time during the very long term of twenty years for which the privilege is granted to the company to charge the high rates of toll fixed in the charter. These are matters however which may be