The report was accepted and the committee discharged.

The Senate thereupon advised and consented to the nominations of the persons recommended by the committee, by the following

The Senate advised and consented to the nomination of Calvin C.

The balance of the nominations being under consideration,
Mr. Howell offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the said nominations be indefinitely postponed for the reason that the Senate entertains the opinion that a sufficient number of Masters have already been appointed for the county of Oakland.

Mr. Thurber moved to lay the nomination of Dewitt C. Bancroft the table, which motion did not prevail by the following vote:

upon

The resolution was thereupon adopted by the following vote;

Saturday, February 14, 1846.

The Senate was called to order by the President pro tem,

Mr. Hale from the executive committee to whom was referred the executive communication of yesterday, reported the same back, and recommended that the Senate do advise and consent to the nominations therein contained, in gross.

Mr. Chipman moved to lay the nominations for Jackson county, upon the table, which motion prevailed.

The Senate advised and consented to the balance of the nominations by the following vote:

The nominations for Jackson county, were taken from the table. And the question being first taken upon the nomination of Mr. Bolton, the Senate did not advise and consent thereto by the following vote:

YEAS.

Hale,

Howell,

Robinson,

Pres't pro tem.

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The Senate advised and consented to the balance of the nomina

Mr. Bush moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the Senate did not advise and consent to the nomination of Abram F. Bolion, and then

Moved to lay the motion to reconsider upon the table, which last motion prevailed by the following vote:

The Senate was called to order by the President, who announced the following communication from the Governor :

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
Detroit, February 25, 1846.

To the Senate:

I hereby nominate James Sullivan to be prosecuting attorney for Cass county, for the constitutional term, to commence on the fourteenth day of March next, when his present term of office will expire.

I also nominate Andrew Harvie and Levi Bishop, to be masters in chancery for Wayne county;

Lyman W. Perkins to be master in chancery for Lenawee county;

William W. Lawrence, to be master in chancery for Jackson county;

Louis T. N. Wilson, to be master in chancery for Branch county; Edward Guilbault to be master in chancery for Michilimackinac county;

Joseph T. Copeland, to be master in chancery for St. Clair county;

Charles P. Calkins, to be master in chancery for Kent county; William Cameron, to be master in chancery for Chippewa county; Moses Hall, to be master in chancery for Calhoun county; his term of office to commence on the ninth day of March next;

Joseph Purdy, to be master in chancery for Shiawassee county; his term of office to commence on the eighth day of March next. I also nominate James L. Schoolcraft, to be notary public for Chippewa county;

Zachariah E. Adams, Thomas P. Watson, John M. Chase, William M. Snow, Clinton Haring, John M. Vickar, John B. Miller, Joseph C. Bailey, Ebenezer H. Rogers and Sears Steevens, to be notaries public for Wayne connty;

Jared Pond, Louis T. N. Wilson, Henry B. Stillman, and James W. Gilbert, to be notaries public for Branch county;

Ezra P. Baldwin, Hiram A. Rood, Peter Hogan, Howard A. Crumb, George Brownell, Archibald Phillips, and Erastus W. Lawrence, to be notaries public for Oakland county;

John L. Butterfield, to be notary public for Jackson county;
Reuben B. Dimond, to be notary public for St. Clair county;
Milton Sweeney, to be notary public for Monroe county;
John M. Fox, to be notary public for Kent county;

Adam L. Roof and Joab Baker, to be notaries public for Ionia county;

Amos A. Haile, Martin L. Shelman, George W. Barnes, Charles Ives, Charles West, Lintsford B. Coates, Osmond Smith, Elisha Ely and Eli P. Watson, to be notaries public for Allegan county;

Felix B. Higgins and Daniel D. Dewey, to be notaries public for Genesee county;

Daniel S. Weston, to be notary public for St. Joseph county;

Orrin Howe, David W. Palmer, and Thomas S. Humphreyville, to be notaries public for Washtenaw county;

John R. Baker, to be notary public for Van Buren county;

Rollin Robinson, John Hart, Benjamin Allen and E. Conant Winter, to be notaries public for Lenawee county;

Bradford D. Sherwood, to be notary public for Cass county;

Andrew Parsons, to be notary public for Shiawassee county.

I also nominate the several persons hereinafter named to be circuit court commissioners for the legal term, for the several counties specified, respectively:

Cortland Hill, for Clinton county;

Elisha Taylor, for Wayne county ;
Titus Babcock, for Monroe county;
Robert P. Eldridge, for Macomb county;
Andrew P. Hogarth, for Hillsdale county;
James McCabe, for Oakland county;
Dewitt C. Lawrence, for Kent county;
John P. Richardson, for Chippewa county;
Leander Chapman, for Jackson county;
Robert I. S. Page, for Genesee county;
Lauren K. Hewett, for Livingston county;
N. Buel Eldredge, for Lapeer county;
Alexander H. Redfield, for Cass county;
William Savier, for St. Joseph county;

Hovey K. Clark, for Calhoun county;

Ephraim B. Danforth for Ingham county;

George Danforth, for Washtenaw county; term to commence on the sixth day of March next;

Elijah N. Davenport, for Sagimaw county; term to commence on the eleventh day of March next ;

William F. Mosely, for Shiawassee county; term to commence on the twelfth day of March next;

Mitchell Hinsdell, for Kalamazoo county; term to commence on the twelfth day of March next;

Samuel Abbott, for Michilimackinac county; term to commence on the twelfth day of March next.