Rivers.

ESTIMATE OF GRADES.

pidu!

1.26gbna

3.66 πίστα

916.66219902

1.162.800 70 do 9.361 bb♬

4.16m 86.7114.14gieM 12 9.87 0813.7 1.31 68 Dej 100.4 15.45 i 1397.81.99 gir8.5 1.0729 of 9108.90 16.529 nf 14 9.11 4.10 36 i od 104.8 nag 17.08slider 15 don2.71 out bin7.803.48 w sosi112.6 prit 0320.5605in 16 34.66 22.1.650bde134.73 v21.41 ? To Bolmen inelovened seodw noiseimimoo art of oals you

Table showing the quantity of water running in the following

named streams.

Prairie river,
St. Joseph river, 19th July, 1838, 258 72 2.28 103.08
Christiana creek, 3d Aug. 1838, 10.56 1.10 123.75

17th July, 1838. 29.48 1.74

129.83

6054.23 55277.27 1306-80

62638.30

One eleventh is deducted from the measurement for friction.

Amount in cubic
feet per minute.

Making an aggregate amount of,

3,774 80 17,118 00

159,774 32

$308,134 74

30,813 47

$339,948 21

Distance, 40 miles and 35% chains, at $8,399 30% per mile. In conclusion, permit me to express my high regard to the inhabitants in general for their timely aid and many favors, and particularly to the committee who accompanied the examination, for their active services and courtesy shown throughout the survey, also to the commissioner, whose benevolent attention, in time of severe sickness of myself and company, demands the high consideration of your obedient servant.

All which is respectfully submitted.

ERASTUS HURD, Engineer.

(No. 25.)

Report of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs and condition of the Bank of Macomb county and Oakland county bank.

Detroit, February 15, 1839.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives.

The committee appointed by a joint resolution of the legisla ture, to examine into the affairs and condition of the Bank of Macomb county and Oakland county bank, have the honor to communicate a report in part of the result of their investigation, which is herewith transmitted.

Very respectfully,

A. FELCH,

K. PRITCHETTE.

REPORT, &c.

In compliance with the joint resolution of the legislature of February instant, the undersigned visited the banking-house of the Oakland county bank, on the 6th day of the present month, and made an examination into the affairs and condition of the said institution.

This bank purports to have been organized under the provisions of a charter granted by the legislature of this state, approved March 28, 1836, entitled "An act to incorporate the Oakland county bank."

The following statement of the affairs and condition of the institution was furnished to the undersigned, by the officers in charge of the bank at the time of examination, viz:

Statement of the affairs and condition of the Oakland county

The bills discounted in bank are as follows, viz: Note signed by Lewis Godard, and others, due March next,

$2,000 00

Note signed by Lewis Godard, and others, due in
April next,

Note signed by H. N. Howard, endorsed by F. Dar-
row and A. H. Peck,

Note signed by E. H. Spalding, endorsed by Lewis
Godard,

2,000 00

100 00

407 13

Note signed by A. B. Newcomb, endorsed by A.
Buckland,

75 00

2,000 00

Note signed by S. L. Collins, endorsed by E. Hewitt

and Robert Duff,

L. Godard's check,

100 00 $6,682 13

The amount due from other banks, the largest item among the assets of the bank, was found to consist of certain notes and acceptances which had been forwarded to certain banks for collection, and were as follows, to wit:

In the Lewis county bank, two drafts drawn by Lewis
Godard, on Isaac Bacon, and endorsed by E.
Hewitt, dated March 7, and February 10, 1838,
at three and four months, amounting to
In the Farmers' bank of Troy, a draft made by Da-
niel Greene on James Taylor, and accepted, due in
March next, (balance,)

In the Phoenix bank, eight drafts of $500 each, made
by Charles Wells, on Daniel Greene, and accepted

$9,500 00

515 00

by him,

One draft made by S. L. Collins, on Charles Gould, due in Febrbary,

4,000 00

1,455 11

$15,470 11

The amount specified to be in the hands of agents, is said to be