ively preside, and both agree as to the precautionary meas ures necessary to success-which are, separate domicils for the occupation of the sexes, a careful and sleepless supervision, a high tone of moral sentiment among the students, and in the community by which they are surrounded, and frequent opportunities for well regulated social intercourse.

These prerequisites provided, and there can no longer remain a doubt of the propriety of throwing open the doors of the literary department of the University to the women of the State, and providing for their admission to the privileges which their brothers enjoy in that favored institution.

When this shall be done, our State will no longer present the anomoly offering free to the citizens of other States those privileges which are denied to one-half the people of our own. But should this act of simple justice to the women of Michigan be finally withheld, it is hoped that the policy of levying upon the public treasury an annual tax of seven thousand dollars, for the support of the University, will at least be postponed, until some plan can be adopted that will secure the benefits of this expenditure to the people of our own State.

If these prerequisites do not exist, then the time has arrived when the public should take cognizance of the fact. If the tone of moral sentiment in our University is not such as may be prudently and profitably shared by our sisters and daughters, then it is time, high time, that efficient measures be adopted for its improvement and regeneration. The men of the State should no longer be compelled to breathe an atmosphere in our public institutions which is unfit for those who are to become their future companions, and the most effective teachers of their children.

It is claimed that in the University, with its medical and its contemplated law departments, which it is insisted are

essential to its complete success, the preponderance of men who will attend its lectures, for comparatively limited periods, and around whom cannot be thrown those wholesome restraints which are enforced upon students pursuing the ordinary course of college studies, will be such as to prevent that absolute moral security which is an essential prerequisite to the admission of women into that insti tution.

To meet this objection, and at the me time increase the usefulness of the medical department, by furnishing additional facilities to the students, at a u ainished public expenditure, your committee recommend the removal of the medical department to the city of Detroit, where it would have been at first established had the interests of the University and of the students been consulted, and where alone the facilities for practical demonstration, so essential to the medical student, can be found. So great is the necessity for these advantages which commonly exist in the large cities, that even now both professors and students are obliged to ask them in the locality proposed.

The removal of this department to Detroit, and the institution of admission fees to be paid by all non-resident students, commensurate only with the superior advantages which there exist, would relieve the University of a heavy drain upon its income, and render the medical department nearly or quite self-sustaining.

This, with the continuation of the annual appropriation of seven thousand dollars, which for several years past has been made to the University, would, under proper management, warrant the establishment of a law department, which should also be located at Detroit, and for reasons similar to those which have been mentioned as applicable to the removal of the medical department. There the student at law would be surrounded by the constant and varied practice of men experienced in the daily and intricate duties of the profession, and which cannot be gleaned

from books or the school-room. There the conflicts of actual life in all the grades of courts recognized by our laws,. and the forms and usages which matured experience has suggested and established, may be studied with the greatest facility, and the student will go out from your law department an accomplished and practical lawyer instead of a mere book-worm, as would necessarily follow from his graduation at a place removed from these demonstrative adjuncts incident to a location at the commercial emporium of the State. There, too, the medical class would pass from the study to the hospital, where are congregated the subjects necessary to a practical demonstration of the science they are pursuing, and where may be learned in a single day, more of the progress of disease, the effects of remedies, or the skill of the surgeon, than could be gathered in a year from authors or the lecture-room.

The University, as a whole, will share in the advantages incident to the location of these departments, where superior privileges may be enjoyed, in the higher reputation of her graduates, and in the additional social security and elevation of the tone of moral sentiment, resulting from the removal of these departments to a point where the irregularities of their students, arising from the want of fixed habits and an established residence, will be overborne by the preponderating public sentiment of a popu lous city; advantages which cannot attend its retention at Ann Arbor, where the social sentiment of the town will be comparatively lost, or controlled by the less settled habits, and more turbulent manners of the College.

Your committee are deterred from presenting a bill for the reorganization of the University, in accordance with the views expressed, by the large demand which will be made upon the Treasury for the completion of the highly deserving benevolent institutions now in progress; the expenditure which the proposed reorganization would involve; and the still more controlling consideration, that a

change so important should not be made except upon ma ture reflection, and after a free and full discussion of the whole subject by the people of the State.

All which is respectfully submitted.

H. BARNS, Chairman.

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REPORT of the Select Committee upon amendments to the Constitution.

The select committee to whom was referred that portion of the Governor's message which relates to amendments of the Constitution, and sundry petitions upon the same subject, would respectfully report:

That there are many respects in which the constitution of this State is burdensome and really injurious to the interests of the State, seems to be conceded by all. Indeed, your committee are of opinion that there has not been a single Legislature assembled under it, which has not endeavored to obtain its alteration under the provision which itself lays down for that purpose. Hitherto, these endeavors have failed; principally, as your committee believe, for want of time on the part of the Legislature to fully consider and perfect the proposed amendments; but partly also from the fact that the attempt has generally been to accomplish too many changes. No resolution has ever yet passed both Houses of the Legislature to submit any amendments to the people of the State. Your committee