Berrien County, JAMES BROWN, Prosecuting Attorney. For obstructing, resisting and opposing an officer," 1 1 14 2 12 14 2 1 1 2 2 9 15 2 13- 15 Ingham County, DANIEL L. CASE, Prosecuting Attorney. Before Court of Special Sessions, 2 1 4 2 9 For larceny, convicted and fined, assault, 4 Hillsdale County-CLEM. E. BABB, Prosecuting Attorney. passing counterfeit money, having counterfeit money with intent to utter, 1 1 25 2 1 10 12 25 St. Joseph County-J. ESTMAN JOHNSON, Prosecuting Attorney. Lenawee County-F. C. BEAMAN, Prosecuting Attorney malicious injuries and destruction of personal property, assault with intent to commit rape, being retailers of spirituous liquors with license, having counterfeit bank notes with intent to pass, obtaining goods under false pretences, 10 32 4 5 Genesee County-J. K. RUGG, Proseeuitng Attorney. For larceny, assault and battery with intent to commit rape, assault and battery and resisting an officer, 7 2 1 3 15 1 1 1 2 33 3 14 16 33 1846. No. 7. ANNUAL REPORT of the Adjutant General. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Detroit, December 1st, 1845. To His Excellency, JOHN S. BARRY, Governor and Commander-in-Chief: } SIR-In obedience with the act of 1841, I have the honor to submit my this year's report of the administration and condition of this and the Quarter Master General's Department, during the same. Since my last annual report which exhibited the full numerical strength of the militia in the year 1844, as well as the returns of the arms and military stores belonging to the State, 1 regret to be compelled to state, that notwithstanding the sanguine hopes and expectations of nearly all the inhabitants of this state, subject to do military duty, that the present existing militia laws, inefficient in themselves, and oppressive in some of their details, would by the last legislature have been so amended and ameliorated as to render the execution and performance of the same less burdensome, or by the framing of an entire new military code, have made the duties more acceptable to the people, still that body left the existing laws unaltered and in full force. The consequence of this measure is, that public opinion has formed itself so strongly adverse to militia duty, not only as to the existing acts of the state, but even to those prescribed by Congress, that the Commandants of the Divisions, Brigades and Regiments throughout nearly the whole State, find the execution of either impracticable. An augmentation of this evil is that by the act approv ed April 13th, 1841, entitled an act to amend the several acts relative to the militia, civil officers, such as city and township assessors and supervisors, are required to aid and assist the military officers in the performance of certain duties. Thus the civil and military authorities are blended together, and neither the one or the other is willing to perform the duties assigned to them, which is of great detri |