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eight dollars and thirty-three cents, as appears due him from the internal improvement fund, by vouchers of A. J. Center, assistant engineer on said road, acknowledging the payment of said amount not yet audited; and that the said auditor be required to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the above sum, to be paid out of any current funds belonging to the internal improvement fund, on the presentation of the proper vouchers.

Approved April 16, 1839.

To be charged to moneys

for southern

[No. 26.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the payment of a survey on the Southern Railroad.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the appropriated State of Michigan, That the auditor general be and he is hereby railroad. instructed to charge the amount (now audited) for the survey of a railroad route from Centerville, via Lockport, Geneva and Cassopolis, to Niles, to the appropriations already madè, or hereafter to be made for the construction of the southern railroad. Approved April 17, 1839.

Members and officers of

1839.

[No. 27.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the distribution of the Revised Laws and Session Laws.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the legislature of State of Michigan, That the officers of the legislature be and they are hereby entitled each to one copy of the revised laws, and one copy each of the session laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; and the members and officers of the present legislature shall be entitled to receive each one copy of the session laws, and of the journal and documents, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Approved April 18, 1839.

[No. 28.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION relative to an amendment to the constitution.

Whereas, an amendment to the constitution of the state was Preamble. proposed by the last legislature, in the words following: "That so much of the first section of the second article of the constitution as prescribes the place in which an elector may vote, and which is in these words, to wit: 'district, county or township,' be abolished, and that the following be substituted in the place thereof, to wit: 'township or ward.'"

And whereas, if said proposed amendment should be agreed to by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the present legislature, the same must be submitted to the people of this state, at such time as this legislature shall prescribe; therefore,

agreed to by

to be submit

at next elec

thereof to be

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Amendment State of Michigan, (two thirds of each house concurring therein,) legislature That the aforesaid proposed amendment to the constitution of the ted to people state, be and the same is hereby agreed to by this legislature; and tion; notice that the same be submitted to the people of this state, for appro- given. val and ratification, according to the provisions of the first section of the thirteenth article of the constitution, on the first Monday of November next, and the following day; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state, and all other officers required by law to give or publish any notices in regard to the annual election on said days, to give notice that the aforesaid amendment has been duly submitted to the electors of the state at said election. Resolved, That at the election aforesaid, a ballot box shall be Ballot box; kept for receiving votes for or against the amendment; on the turn of votes; ballot box [ballots] shall be written the words "for the amend-sers. ment," or "against the amendment," and a return of the same shall be made by the proper canvassing officers, to the office of the secretary of state, as in the case of the election of state officers, as near as may be; and the board of state canvassers shall give notice immediately after canvassing said votes, whether the same has been ratified according to the provisions of the aforesaid article of the constitution.

Approved April 18, 1839.

ballots; re

state canvas

Auditor, secretary of

[No. 29.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION of the Senate and House of Representatives to extend the time for settlement with the Michigan State Bank, and to increase the powers of the commissioners charged with that duty.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state and J. State of Michigan, That the auditor general, the secretary of authorized to state, and Jonathan Kearsley, be and they are hereby appointed

Kearsley

settle with

bank.

Duty of treasurer on pay

balance due.

commissioners to settle with the Michigan State Bank, upon such terms as they may deem equitable. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to extend the time for payment of the balances found to be due from said bank to the state, to such time or times as the ability of the bank to meet the said several balances may seem to justify; and said commissioners are hereby authorized to receive from said bank its bond or bonds, or other satisfactory security, conditioned for the payment of said balances at such times as may be agreed upon between said committee and the president and directors of said bank.

The treasurer of state is hereby directed, on the payment of ment of the balances so found due from said bank, to pass the same to the credit of the several funds to which they now stand due, in the proportions the said payments made bear to said several funds.

Bank failing to pay bonds.

In case the said bank shall fail to meet the payment of its bonds as conditioned, the auditor general shall be and he is hereby directed to report such failure to the attorney general, who shall thereupon proceed to collect from said bank and its sureties according to law the amount which may be due, in the name of the state of Michigan. Approved April 19, 1839.

[No. 30.]

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to contractor on third division of the Central Railroad.

that accrue

to contractor

sioners of

provements.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Damages State of Michigan, That the board of commissioners of internal to be charged improvement shall charge to the contractor for the construction by commisof the third division of the central railroad, all damage that shall or internal immay accrue to the state by reason of the non-fulfilment of his contract by the first day of June next, and if not paid when demanded, to prosecute him and his sureties for the collection of the same.

Approved April 19, 1839.

[No. 31.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Acting Commissioner on the St. Marie's Canal to advance money.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the acting commissioner on the St. Marie's canal be authorized to advance to the present contractors (on good security) a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.

Approved April 19, 1839.

[No. 32.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to Michigan State

Bank.

claims to be

bank on set

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Certain State of Michigan, That the commissioners authorized to settle allowed to with the Michigan State Bank, be and they are hereby author-tlement. ized to allow and credit said bank the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, the amount advanced and paid to Mr. Buell, Mr. Butler, Mr. Smith and Mr. L. Cook, members of a committee authorized to investigate the Bank of Michigan, in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

And further, to allow and credit to said bank such sum or sums as have been advanced to the members and officers of the present legislature, and the said commissioners are required to see that the checks are cancelled upon which the aforesaid moneys were drawn.

Approved April 19, 1839.

Secretary of state to contract for.

[No. 33.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the contracting for wood for the use of the state.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the secretary of the state be and he is hereby authorized to contract for sixty-five cords of hard wood for the use of the state, the same to be delivered at some convenient time previous to the meeting of the next legislature. Approved April 20, 1839.

[No. 34.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize the state treasurer to credit the internal improvement fund with certain moneys.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the state treasurer be directed to credit the internal improvement fund with the amount of moneys drawn from that fund for defraying the expenses of running, and the repairs of the central railroad, and charge said amount to the sinking fund.

Approved April 20, 1839.

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