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Amended by adding thereto the following to stand as section

two:

"Sec. 2. Nothing contained in the preceding section shall be construed to impair any act or proceeding had or done under the provisions of the act hereby repealed, and whenever any act or proceeding has been commenced under said act, the same may be continued and completed in the same manner as if this act had not been passed.” The bill was then ordered to be engrossed and read the third

time.

On motion of Mr. Ingersoll,

The House adjourned.

Wednesday, January 31, 1849.

The House met pursuant to adjournment, and was called to order by the Speaker.

Prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and Messrs. Andrews, Bacon, Burk, Cady, Chamberlain, Chittenden, Curtis, Davis, Earl, Ferguson, Flower, Giddings, M. S. Gillett, Haight, Lockwood, Moffatt, Mulhollen, Salyer, Tilden, J. W. Turner, Turril, Tuttle and Wright were absent on leave, and Mr. Stoddard was absent without leave.

Mr. David asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Stoddard for an indefinite period.

The journal of yesterday was read and approved.

Mr. Hartsuff presented the petition of D. D. T. Chandler and others, for the re-charter of the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Michigan; laid on the table.

Mr. Hatch presented the petition of S. Smith Bagley and sixtyseven others, of the township of Pulaski, Jackson county, for a law authorizing the commissioners of highways of said township to alter the route of a certain road; referred to the committee on roads and bridges.

Mr. Parkhurst presented the petition of J. B. Watson and twentytwo others, of the townships of White Lake and Commerce, in Oakland county, for a dissolution of a certain school district; referred to the committee on education.

Mr. Dayton presented the petition of Isaac Van Tuyl and others,

of Genesee county, for an amendment of the tax laws; referred to committee on ways and means.

Mr. Kilborn presented the petition of Daniel Johnson and others, of Lansing, asking authority to drain certain lots on the school section in said township, and in regard to the payment for so draining; referred to the committee on public lands.

Mr. Bowne presented the petition of certain residents of the township of Johnstown, in Barry county, for a division of said township; referred to the committee on the organization of townships and counties.

Mr. Belding, from the committee on supplies and expenditures, who were instructed to make certain inquiries relative to the amount of postage charged to this House at the present session, submitted a report containing a statement from the postmaster at Lansing, which report was accepted and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

Mr. Fox, from the committee on state prison, reported a joint resolution relative to John G. Bean, a discharged convict, which was read twice, ordered to be printed, referred to the committee of the whole, and placed on the general order.

Mr. Parkhurst, from the committee on engrossment and enrollment, reported as correctly engrossed,

A bill to repeal act number one hundred and thirity seven of the session laws of the year 1848;

And also reported that the following entitled bills and joint resolution were correctly enrolled, and were this day presented to the Governor for his approval, viz:

A bill to provide for the collection of taxes in the township of Norton, county of Ottawa, for the year 1848;

A bill to extend the time for the collection of taxes for the 1848, in the township of Monroe, county of Monroe; and

A joint resolution for the relief of John Lee.

The following communication was announced:

year

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
Lansing, January 30, 1849.)

Hon. LEANDER CHAPMAN:

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the annual report

of the board of state auditors for the fiscal year 1848, prepared and printed for the use of the legislature pursuant to law.

Respectfully,

Yours, &c.,

GEO. W. PECK,

Secrerary of State, Chairman, &c.

The annual report of the board of state auditors was referred to the committee on ways and means..

Mr. Ingersoll gave notice that on some future day he should ask leave to introduce a bill repealing seetion twelve of an act to amend the revised statutes of 1846, approved April 3, 1848..

On motion of Mr. Coe,

Resolved, That from and including this day this House will hold but one session per day, commencing at half past nine o'clock in the morning.

The bill to legalize the proceedings of the trustees of the first society of the Methodist Episcopal church of Lapeer, in the county of Lapeer, was read the third time and passed, and

The title being under consideration, the same was, in accordance with the report of the committee on the judiciary, amended by striking out the words "to legalize the proceedings," and inserting "for the relief."

The bill to repeal act number one hundred and thirty-seven of the session laws of the year 1848, was read the third time and passed, and

On motion of Mr. Coe,

The title was amended by striking out all after the word “repeal,” and inserting "an act entitled an act to amend chapter twenty-seven of the revised statutes of 1846, relative to the erection, repairing and preservation of bridges, approved March 29, 1848."

The House having arrived at the order of unfinished business, took up the bill to amend chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the revised satutes in relation to forgery and counterfeiting, and it was,

On motion of Mr. G. B. Turner,

Laid on the table.

The bill to amend chapter thirty-eight of the revised statutes of 1846, was taken up, when

Mr. Pennoyer moved to amend the fourth line of the bill by stri

king out the words "two-thirds" and inserting "a majority of all the supervisors elected," which motion was lost, by the following vote:

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The fourth line was amended by striking out the words "present" and inserting "the supervisors elected."

On motion of Mr. Coe,

The second line of section one was amended by inserting the words "of 1846," after statutes."

The bill was then ordered to be engrossed and read the third time. The bill to provide for obtaining returns from the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties in the state of Michigan, and for other purposes, was taken up, and

The question being on concurring in the first amendment reported thereto by the committee of the whole, which amendment strikes out the words "the names of the persons charged with offences," and inserts "the names of the persons convicted of offences,"

A division of the question was called for, and it was first taken on concurring in that portion of the amendment which strikes out the words, and decided in the affirmative.

The question then recurring on that portion of the amendment which inserts, it was non-concurred in.

The remaining amendments were then severally non-concurred in. On motion of Mr. Coe,

The fourth line of section one was amended by inserting the words "the number of persons charged with offences," after "county." Mr. Coe moved to amend section two by adding thereto the words

"and transmit the same to the office of the Attorney General," which

motion prevailed.

On motion of Mr. Fox,

The bill was further amended by striking all out after the enacting clause and inserting the following:

"That the Attorney General be, and he is hereby required to furnish to the several prosecuting attorneys in the state of Michigan, all necessary blanks to enable them to make uniform reports, in conformity to the provisions of the fifty-sixth section of chapter fourteen of the revised statutes of 1846."

The bill was then ordered to be engrossed and read the third time. The bill to revive the poor laws repealed by the revised statutes, in the county of Kent, was taken up, and

On motion of Mr. Hawley,

Its further consideration was iudefinitely postponed.

The bill to amend an act entitled an act to revive the poor

laws repealed by the revised statutes, in certain counties, approved March 17, 1847, was taken up, and the amendment reported by the committee of the whole was non-concurred in.

The bill was then ordered to be read the third time.

The bill to authorize Norman A. Harrington of the county of Ingham, to convey certain real estate was taken up, and the amendment thereto, reported by the committee of the whole, was concurred in.

The question then being on, ordering the bill to be engrossed and read the third time, it was decided in the negative.

The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the general order, Mr. Coe in the chair, and after spending some time thereon, the committee rose and by its chairman reported back with sundry amendments, in which the concurrence of the House was asked,

A bill to establish a state Normal school.

On motion of Mr. Coe,

The bill was laid on the table.

Mr. Ingersoll, from a select committee, by unanimous consent made the following report, which was accepted and the committee discharged:

The select committee appointed to wait on Gen. Lewis Cass and invite him to take a seat within the bar of the House, during his

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