Of Committee on Education.

On petition of the trustees of Leoni theological seminary, for a loan
from the school fund, 38.

On bill to incorporate the Tecumseh literary institute, 87.

Bill to amend chapter fifty-eight of the revised statutes of 1846, 124.
Bill to provide for the better education of primary school teachers,

124.

On petitions of inhabitants of Fairfield, in Lenawee county, 133.
Bill to establish a state Normal school, 142.

Bill to amend section one hundred and seven of chapter fifty-eight
of the revised statutes, 155.

On petition of J. B. Watson and others, for the dissolution of a certain
school district in Oakland county, 171.

Bill to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the Wsleyan seminary
at Albion, 204.

On bill to enlarge the powers of the district board of school district

number one in the township of Jackson, in Jackson coun y, 216.
On bill to enlarge the powers and increase the number of officers in

school district number four, in the township of Ypsilanti, 268.
Bill requiring the commissioner of the state land office to make an
annual report to the regents of the university of Michigan, 296.
On joint resolution relative to furnishing legislative documents to
township libraries, 3.5.

On bill to enlarge the powers and increase the number of offiers in
school districts in certain cases, 394.

On petition of Sloan Cooley and others, for the dissolution of a cer-
tain school district, 551.

Bill supplementary to an act entitled an act to establish a state Nor-
mal school, 601.

Bill to authorize Adrian union school district number one to borrow
money for the purposes therein mentioned, 601.

On bill in relation to school district number six in the township of
Barry, in the county of Barry, 617.

Of Committee on Elections.

On the memorial of N. Buel Eldredge, claiming a seat from Lapeer
county, 38.

On petition of Horace Church, claiming a seat from Washtenaw.
county, 76, 86.

On concurrent resolution relative to the election of a United States
Senator, 82,

On

papers of Evert B. Dyckman, claiming a seat from Kalamazoo
county, 206.

Joint resolution in relation to the county of Shiawassee, 635.
Joint resolution to rescind joint resolution number thirty-two of the
session laws of 1848, 659.

Of Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment.

Bills engrossed, 33, 72, 81, 93, 101, 107, 128, 142, 160, 165, 171,

177, 190, 196, 206, 215, 223, 231, 251, 296, 306, 313, 319,
338, 349, 358, 370, 382, 398, 408, 415, 427, 438, 450, 458,
477, 493, 514, 523, 524, 528, 534, 551, 564, 571, 587, 618,
632, 637.
Bills enrolled, 58, 81, 93, 148, 179, 206, 223, 231, 244, 251, 268,
285, 297, 313, 349, 358, 370, 382, 392, 407,
458, 477, 493, 504, 514, 528, 531, 564, 571,
6л1, 613, 614, 618, 637, 655, 656, 670, 678,
711, 721, 722.

415, 438, 450,
578, 58, 587,
689, 698, 703,

Bill for the dissolution of a certain school district in the county of

Oakland, 410.

Bill to incorporate the Oakland female seminary, 586.

Of Committee on Federal Relations.

On joint resolutions respecting the territories of the United States, 39.
Bill to improve the navigation of the St. Joseph river, and to incor-

porate the Niles hydraulic and manufacturing company, 3.6.
On joint resolutions instructing our senators and requesting our rep-
resentatives, in congress to use their influence in favor of a re-
duction of postage, 349.

On preamble and joint resolutions relative to the construction of a
rol from Saginaw to Michilimackinac, and Saut Ste Marie, 349.
On preamble and joint resolutions relative to slavery and the slave
trade in the district of Columbia, 426.
of a

On memorial of yearly meeting of Friends, asking the passage
law prohibiting our citizens from assisting in arresting fugitive
slaves, 426.

Bill relative to the support of the poor in the several counties in this
state, 427.

Bill to incorporate the Lake Michigan and Terre Coupee plank road
company, 5.3.

On resolutions of the state of Alabama, and the state of Texas, rel-
ative to the Wilmot proviso, 634.

On resolutions of the state of Ohio, relative to the acquisition of for-
eign territory, &c., 635.

On preamble and joint resolutions relative to slavery and the slave
trade in the district of Columbia, 685.

Of Committee on Internal Improvement.

On petitions of sundry citizens of this state, for appropriations of in-
ternal improvement lands, for the improvement of roads, 87.
On bill to amend an act entitled an act to provide for laying out and
establishing a state road from Albion to Eaton Rapids, and for
opening and improving the same, 94.

On bill to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the supervisors
of the county of Kent to construct a canal and locks around the
rapids of Grand river at Grand Rapids, approved February 20,
1847, and the acts amendatory thereto, approved January 29,
1848, and March 28, 1848, 107.

On resolution of board of supervisors of Berrien county, 107.

On petition of board of supervisors of Kent county, 133.

On petition of C. R. Sherman and others, for an appropriation on a
certain road in Eaton county, 141.

Joint resolution authorizing the board of state auditors to settle cer-
tain claims, 160.

On bill to authorize the improvement of the Kalamazoo river and
for other purposes, 183.

On petition of James Scribner and C. A. Loomis and others, rela-
tive to Grand Rapids canal, 183.

Bill to incorporate the St. Joseph river navigation company, 184.
Joint resolution requiring reports from certain special commissioners,

192.

On petitions of citizens of Ionia county, relative to the construction of
the Grand Rapids canal, 224.

On petition of Elisha Belcher and others, for an appropriation on the
Kalamazoo river, 263.

On bill appropriating certain internal improvement lands for the
purpose of constructing certain roads and bridges in the county
of Berrien, 260.

On petition of Chauncey Parker and others, for an appropriation on
the Rouge river, 305.

On bill for the improvement of the road leading from Grand Blane

to the Thread mills, in the county of Genesee, 320, 340.
On bill for the improvement of the road leading from the township
of Marathon, in the county of Lapeer, to Oxford, in the county
of Oakland, 320.

On bill for the improvement of Flat river, in the counties of Mont-
calm, Ionia and Kent, 321.

On petition of Loren L. Treat and others, of Oakland county, for an
appropriation to improve the Pontiac and Lapeer road, 394.
On bill to provide for improving Grand river, in the township of Lan-
sing, as a public highway, 425.

On bill to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to authorize
the supervisors of the county of Kent to construct a canal and
locks around the rupils of Grand river, at Grand Rapids, ap-
proved February 2), 1847, and the acts amendatory thereto,
approved January 29, 1848 and March 28, 1848, approved Jan-
uary 25, 1849, 449.

On bill to amend an act appropriating certain interna! improvement
lands for the benefit of the Holland colony and other immi-
grants now settling in the counties of Ottawa and Allegan, 478.
On petition of J. H. A lams, and others, for an appropriation on
the De Witt and Lansing road, 528.

Bill making appropriations for a certain bridge in the town of Lan-
sing, 536.

On bill for the improvement of Flat river, 549.

On bill for improving the navigation of Maple river, 635.

Of Committee on the Judiciary.

On petition of heirs of Betsey Kingsley, 39.

On resolution of inquiry into the expediency of amending the act
to exempt a homestead from forced sale, so that the exemption
may include eighty, instead of forty acres, 59.

On bill to legalize the proceedings of the trustees of the first society
of the Methodist Episcopal church of Lapeer, in the county of
Lapeer, 59.

On bill to amend certain provisions of chapter ninety-three of the re-
vised statutes of 1846, 59.

On bill to amend chapter ninety-two of an act entitled an act for re-
vising and consolidating the general statutes of the state of Mich-
igan, approved May 18, 1846, 59.

On bill to amend section seven of chapter two of title two of the re-
vised statutes of 1846, 82.

Bill to amend section two of chapter seventy-eight of the revised stat-
utes of 1846, 95.

On bill to amend chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of 1846,
in relation to religious societies, 95.

On petition of James S. Pitts, of Ross, Kalamazoo county, 95.
On bill to amend chapter eighty-nine of the revised statutes of 1846,
relative to fixing the terms of the circuit court, 98.

Bill to amend section seven of chapter one hundred and forty-one of
the revised statutes, in relation to the punishment of fraudulent
debtors, 100.

Bill to provide for the punishment of certain offences, 100.

On bill to authorize Wilkies W. Durkee, of the county of Oakland, to
sell certain real estate, 100,

On petition of John Mickle and others, to legalize the acts of certain
school inspectors, 101.

Bill to provide for obtaining returns from the prosecuting attorneys
of the several counties in the state of Michigan, and for other
purposes, 133.

Bill to provide for the support of the poor in the county of Calhoun,
and for other purposes, 133, 198.

Bill to amend chapter thirty-eight of the revised statutes of 1846,

133.

Bill to amend chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the revised stat-
utes. in relation to forgery and counterfeiting, 140.

Bill to authorize Norman A. Harrington, of the county of Ingham,
to convey certain real estate, 141.

On bill to repeal the poor laws repealed by the revised statutes in
the coun y of Kent, 141.

On bill to amend an act entitled an act to revive the poor laws re-
pealed by the revised statutes, in certain counties, approved March
17, 1847, 141.

Bill concerning divorces, 170.

Bill to authorize the arrest and removal of fugitives from justice,

177.

Bill to amend an act entitled an act to amend the revised statutes of
1846, approved March 17, 1847, 177.

Bill to authorize proceedings against garnishees, and for other pur-
poses, 183, 240, 329.

On bill to repeal section twelve of an act to amend the revised stat-
utes of 1846, approved April 3, 1848, 183.

On petition of George Thomas and others, for an alteration in the
poor laws, 191.

Bill relative to the publication of laws and joint resolutions, 205.
On petition of W. Dansen and others for a restoration of the gar-
nishee law, 205.

On bill to amend section fifty of chapter one hundred and eight of
the revised statutes of 1846, 206.

Bill to authorize the wardens and vestry of the Trinity church in
Marshall, to convey certain real estate, 216.

On bill relative to the discharge of judgments and decrees, and for
other purposes, 221.

On petition of Minor Y. Beckwith, for authority to sell certain real
estate, 222.

On petition of G. S. Willson and others, for a repeal of the usury
laws, 222.

Bill to amend section thirteen of chapter sixty-six of the revised stat-

utes, 222.

On bill repealing section eight and amending section one of chapter
one hundred and fourteen of the the revised statutes, 222.
On bill to amend section twenty-three of chapter forty-one of the re-
vised statutes of 1846, 223.

On bill to amend chapter twenty-four of the revised statutes of 1846,

223.

On bill to authorize James S. Pitts to convey real estate, 223.
Bill to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the draing of
swamps, marshes and other low lands, approved March 17,
1847, 224.

On bill to amend an act entitled an act to exempt a homestead from
forced sale in certain cases, approved March 25, 1848, 232.
On bill to define and amend the eighth subdivision of section wenty-
seven of chapter one hundred and six of the revised statutes of
1846, 232.

On bill for the relief of the township of Waterloo, in the county of
Jackson, 239.

On bill to amend the revised statutes of 1846, relative to university
lands, 244.

Bill to amend chapter one hundred and twenty-three of the revised
statutes of 1846, 244.

Bill to amend section four of chapter fifty-eight of the revised stat-
utes of 1846, 244, 371.

Bill to amend chapter ninety-three of the revised statutes of 1846,
relative to appeals, 244.

Bill to vacate the plat of the village of Sharon, in the county of Wash-

tenaw, 250.

On bill to repeal section sixteen of an act to amend the revised stat-
utes of 1846, approved April 3, 1848, 250.

Bill to amend section eighteen of chapter one hundred and twenty-
three of the revised statutes of 1846, 259,