Resolved, That our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested to urge the passage of a law that shall put an end to the slave trade in the district of Columbia without delay; and also provide for ascertaining the views of the peo ple of said district, upon the question of the entire abolition of slavery therein. Resolved, That the governor be requested to forward copies of the for going resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress. Approved April 2, 1849. [ No. 39 1 JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the discharge of a certain Morig g Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the board of state auditors be, and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the clum of Edwin A. Wales of the city of Detroit, relative to the discharge of a certain mortgage and promissory note accompanying the same, given by Austen Wales and wire and Ebenezer Wales, on the 10th day of September 1838, to the president, directors and company of the Michigan state bank, and which said mortgage and note was afterwards assigned and transferred by said bank to the state of Mich gat; and if upon said examination, the said bard of audi ors shall find that the said mortgage and said promizory note have been paid, or the sun cannot be enforced legally of equitably, then that said board of auditors be and they are hereby authorized and required to cancel and discharge the same from record. Resolved, That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage Approved April 2, 1849. [ No 40. JOINT RESOLUTION relative to a certion appropriation of Intercal Improvement Lands. Resolved, by the 8 nate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the special commissioner appointed under and by virtue of act number two hundred and eighty-five, being "an act to provide for the construction and improvement of the northern wagon road, from Port Huron. in the county of St. Clair, through the counties of Lapeer and Genesee to Corunna, in the county of Shiawassee," approved April 3. 1848, be, and he is hereby in tructed and required to expend between the villages of Flint and Corunna, on said rond, at least tree thousand and five hundred acres of the appropriation made by said act: one thousand acres of land appropriated by said act 295, in improving the road between the village of Lapeer and the Oakland county line: Provided, That a cast one thousand dolla ́s shall be contributed by volun ary subscriptions and expended under the direction of said commissioner in the improvement of said road, before any orders may be drawn by said commissioner on the auditor gene al for warrants on account of the aforesaid one thousand acres. This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. [No. 41. ] JOINT RESOLUTION making cert in appropriations and for other purposes. Resolved, by the Senate and H use of Representatives of the State of Mi higan, That there be allowed to Willian L. Bincroft, secretary of the senate the sum of six cents per folio, for making a fair copy of the journals of the senate, of the present session of the legismature, to be paid on the certificate of the secretary of state, (who shall certify the number of tolio,) that the work has been correctly done and deposited in his office. That there be allowed to A. W. Hovey. cierk of the house of representatives, the sum of six cents per folio for making a fair copy of the journals of the house of representatives for eighteen hundred and forty-eight and eig teen hundred forty-nine, to be paid on the certificate of the secretary of state, (who shall certify the number of folios,) that the work has been correctly done and the copie deposited in hs office: Provided, The expense of m king the aforesaid copy of the journals of the house of representatives for the years eighteen hundred and forty-eight and eighteen hundred and forty-nine, shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars. Resolved, That the board of state auditors are authorized and required to make enquiry into and to investigate the appropriations made by the legislature since eighteen hundred and forty-one, for newspapers furnished the legislature, with a view to ascertain what part of the sums thus appropriated, if any, have been withheld by any person or persons and not applied to the object for which the appropriations were made, Approved April 2, 1849, APPENDIX. ' TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT. STATE TREASURER'S OFFICE. To the Legislature of the State of Michigan: Statements are herewith submitted, exhibiting the payments, to and from, the different funds for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30th, 1848. Notice was given through the state paper to the holders of general fund warrants, on the 24th of Oct. last, that they would be paid on presentation at the state treasury, and that inte est would cease to be paid after sixty days from the first pub'ication of the notice in accordance with act No. 22, "approve March 1st. 1945." All warrants, and other demands on this fund have been paid during the past year when presented at the treasury. Under the discretion authorized by act No. 24, 1848, to advance the in eres: as it became due on the liquidated portion of the five million loan,” from this fund, if in my opin on such payments could be unde without impairing the ability of the fund to meets other in leb!edness," I have advanced the interest for Jan. 1st, and July 1st, 1848, and shall send forward to the Phoenix bank. New York, $9,112 03, to meet the interest due Jan. 1st, 1849. The $1,049 13 deposited in that bank is on account of balance of interest, not called for, due on these bonds for 1846, 1847 and 1848. There was paid into the treasury $15.000 in money, on account of the assig ment of the Detroit and Pontiac railroad mortgage; without this aid it would have been impossible to have made these advances without impairing the ability of the general fund to meet promptly its other liabilities. There has been cancelled and burnt $539 of treasury notes, (state scrip) during the past fiscal year, leaving yet a balance of $1,187 outstanding. GEO. B. COOPER, State Treasurer. |