IN CARPENTER AND JOINERS' SHOP.-1 stove and pipe, 1 grind stone, 4 work benches, 3 bench screws, 1 set of coopers' tools, 1 set of carpenters' and joiners' tools, 1 tool chest, and 1 small desk. IN PRISON YARD.-1 hand cart, 4 wheel barrows, 4 shovels, 3 iron bars, 4 buck saws, 3 bucks, 1 pick, 2 hoes, 1 set of stone cutters' tools, 3 pairs of hand cuffs, 10 pair of shackles, 5 balls and chains, 2 sets of takle blocks and ropes, 1 gin and fixtures, 1 iron rake, 4 cauldron kettles, 1 hand screw for raising buildings, 200 feet of dressed stone, 150,000 brick, and about 2,000 lbs. of scrap iron. IN GUARDS' AND GATE HOUSES.-5 stoves and pipe for each, 5 chairs, and 5 fire caps. IN PRISON BARN AND YARD.-1 horse, 1 cow, 1 buggy and harness, 1 cart and harness, 1 cutter, 1 hay fork, and 3 ladders. IN SWINE PEN.-40 head of swine. State of Michigan, Jackson County, ss. Peter Dox, Agent, and G. Bloomfield, Clerk of the State Prison, being duly sworn, depose and say, that the foregoing account and inventory are correct and true, according to the best of their knowledge and belief. PETER DOX, Agent. G. BLOOMFIELD, Clerk. Subscribed and sworn to, before me, this fourteenth day of Decem ber, A. D. 1854. J. B. PIERCE, Justice of the Peace. 1855. No. 2. [ No. 2.] MEMORIAL of MORGAN L. DRAKE, Sec'y of Lake Sup. Railroad Co., asking for such an act of assent on the part of the State of Michigan, to the act of incorporation by the Legislature of Wisconsin, of the aforesaid company, as may be necessary to authorize said company, under said act of incorporation, to construct its roads and branches within the State of Michigan, and to give such encouragement thereto as may be proper. To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Michigan: The undersigned, as Secretary of the Lake Superior Railroad Comis directed to transmit to your honorable body the following memorial: pany, In the summer of 1852, the project was formed, to secure the construction of a Railroad from Detroit to the mining district of Lake Superior. It was believed that the wealth of the Upper Peninsula, which at present is but partially appreciated, and the many important and grow. ing relations between the two Peninsulas, arising out of the affairs of the State Government and of the several local authorities, and of commerce, required, as a matter of State policy and of good citizenship, that some communication should be established as early as practicable, other than by water, notwithstanding the increased facilities to be afforded by the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. It was, after a careful consideration, believed that a Railroad would afford a communication most suitable to the progressive spirit of the age, and to the rapid development of the country. Such measures were taken as seemed most likely to promote this object. Application was made, and is still pending before Congress, for a grant of land sim |