Michigan and Its Resources: Sketches of the Growth of the State, Its Industries, Agricultural Production, Institutions and Means of Transportation; Descriptions of Its Soil, Climate, Timber, Financial Condition, and the Situation of Its Unoccupied Lands; and a Review of Its General Characteristics as a Home |
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Page 125 - ... containing such facts, statements and explanations as will disclose the actual workings of the system of railroad transportation in its bearings upon the business and prosperity of the people of this State, and such suggestions in relation thereto as to them may seem appropriate.
Page 24 - On approaching the eastern part of the military lands, toward the private claims on the straights and lake, the country does not contain so many swamps and lakes, but the extreme sterility and barrenness of the soil continues the same. Taking the country altogether, so far as has been explored, and to all appearances, together with the information received concerning the balance...
Page 171 - All debts due to any association, on which interest is past due and unpaid for a period of six months, unless the same are well secured, and in process of collection, shall be considered bad debts within the meaning of this section.
Page 179 - All honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, who have served in the army or navy of the United States in the late war of the Rebellion, and who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living, and who would be otherwise dependent upon public or private charity...
Page 149 - This Academy still maintains its place as the leading military institution of the country, outside of West Point, and in all its details it is the most complete and thorough school of the kind I have ever inspected. The State may well be proud ol Orchard Lake Military Academy, and the young men it graduates, as they will be the material on which the country can rely for officers in the event of war.
Page 169 - The passage by congress of the national banking act in 1863 and the law passed in 1865 imposing a tax of ten per cent on the amount of the notes of any State bank or banking association, effected a complete change in the system of banking in our State.
Page 165 - The real and personal property of persons who, in the opinion of the supervisor and board of review, by reason of poverty, are unable to contribute toward the public charges...
Page 1 - This work contains sketches of the growth of the State, its industries, agricultural productions, institutions and means of transportation, descriptions of its soil, climate, timber, financial condition, and the situation of its unoccupied lands, &c.
Page 137 - ... provide for the establishment of at least one library in each township and city, and all fines assessed and collected in the several counties and townships for any breach of the penal laws shall be exclusively applied to the support of such libraries, unless otherwise ordered by the township board of any township or the board of education of any city : Provided, That in no case shall such fines be used for other than library or school purposes.
Page 192 - We have no means of ascertaining what the rate of mortality would be among men living in the most favorable sanitary conditions; otherwise observations for a term of years on a considerable number of such persons would supply a standard rate with which other rates could be compared. In the absence of such a standard, the districts of England in which the mortality rate did not exceed 17 annual deaths in 1,000 living have been selected as the basis of a new Life Table.