took up the bill to amend section thirteen of chapter sixty-six of the revised statutes, and it was ordered to be engrossed and read the third time.

The bill to amend section four of chapter eighty-eight of the revised statutes was taken, up, and

On motion of Mr. Coe,

Recommitted to the committee on the judiciary, with instructions to incorporate the section of the statutes as amended, in the bill. The bill to amend the revised statutes of 1846, relative to univer sity lands, was taken up, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time.

The joint resolution rescinding the joint resolution to encourage emigration, approved February 1, 1849, was taken up, and

On motion of Mr. Coe,

Laid on the table.

The bill for the improvement of the Grand river state road was taken up, and the amendment to, being a substitute for, the bill, was concurred in, and it was ordered to be engrossed and read the third time.

The bill to require the supervisors of Berrien county to construct and maintain certain bridges in said county, was taken up, and the amendments thereto reported by the committee of the whole were severally concurred in.

On motion of Mr. G. B. Turner,

The following proviso was added to section one of the bill, viz: "Provided, That none of the expenses attending the construction or repairs of said bridges shall become a charge upon the state, nor shall the state become answerable in any wise for any damages arising from the construction of said bridges, or any of them.”

Mr. Giddings moved that all after the enacting clause of the bill be stricken out;

Pending which,

On motion of Mr. H. H. Comstock,

The bill was laid on the table.

Mr. Flower made a statement of the causes which had detained him for some length of time from attending the sessions of the House? when

Mr. J. W. Turner offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Hon. Mr. Flower has shown good and sufficient for his absence, and that his character as a statesman or citizen ought not to be injured by the previous action of this House.

cause

Mr. Hawley offered the following substitute for the resolution: Resolved, That the reasons given by the Hon. Mr. Flower, account-ing for his absence from the sessions of this House, be, and are hereby unanimously considered satisfactory;

Which substitute was concurred in, and the resolution as amended, was then adopted.

On motion of Mr. Stevens,

The House adjourned.

AFTERNOON SESSION..

Two o'clock P. M.

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

The special order, being the bill to amend an act entitled an act to. authorize the sale of the Southern railroad, and to incorporate the Michigan Southern railroad company, was taken up, when

Mr. G. B. Turner moved to amend the same by adding the following, to stand as section nine, viz:

"Sec. 9. The said company shall annually, after the passage of this act, cause to be laid upon the main line of their road, at such place or places as said company may deem best, at least five miles of track of heavy iron rails, which shall weigh not less than sixty pounds to the yard, until the whole of the said lines shall be laid with such rails; and for each and every failure to lay the amount with such rails, as required in this section, said company shall forfeit and pay to the state of Michigan the sum of ten thousand dollars annually, until said amount of track shall be laid; and so much of section nineteen of the act, to which this act is amendatory, as is inconsistent with this section, is hereby repealed;"

Which amendment was rejected, by yeas

and

nays, as follows:

Mr. Chamberlain moved to amend section one by adding thereto the following:

The said company shall build and complete the said road to Niles, in the county of Berrien, on or before the first day of January, 1860, and in case they shall not complete said road to Niles as aforesaid, they shall forfeit and pay to the state of Michigan the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for each and every year until the same is completed.

Which motion was lost, by the following vote:

Mr. Pennoyer moved to amend by adding the following to stand

as: the ninth section:

Sec. 9. Said company shall at all times receive and discharge

Tuttle,

Waite,

persons and property at all such warehouses and places along the line of said railroad, and at all such warehouses and places that may be on any side track on the side of said rail road, as such persons, consignees or owners of such property may direct or require, and on refusal or neglect for the space of ten days, under a penalty to the state of Michigan of five hundred dollars in each case;"

Which section was not agreed to.

Mr. Ingersoll moved that all after the enacting clause of the bill be stricken out, which motion was lost.

The bill was then ordered to be read the third time by the following vote:

Mr. Parkhurst moved that the House adjourn, which motion was

lost.

On motion of Mr. Coe,

The action of the thirty-ninth rule was suspended, and

The bill to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the sale of the Southern railroad and to incorporate the Michigan Southern railroad company, was read the third time,

And the question being on its passage,

It was decided in the negative, by the following vote, two-thirds not voting in the affirmative:

Mr. Hawley moved a reconsideration of the last vote;

Pending which,

Mr. G. B. Turner moved an adjournment, but the House refused to adjourn.

And the question recurring on the motion to reconsider, it prevailed.

Mr. Buck moved that the House adjourn, which motion was lost. Mr. McNair moved a call of the House, which was not ordered. The question then being on the passage of the bill, it was passed by a two-thirds vote, as follows: