above preamble and resolutions to be transmitted each to the President of the United States, our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the commanding general of the American army in Mexico.

10. Resolved, That these joint resolutions take effect and be in force from and after their passage.

Approved February 13, 1847.

[No. 10.]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to a settlement of a claim of John M. Morrow.

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 empowered to make a final settlement with John M. Morrow, on just and equitable terms, for any claim that he may have against the state for service rendered in the office of the superintendent of the Southern Railroad, in the years eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and forty-one, and if they shall fin l any amount due said claimant from the state, they are hereby authorized to certify the amount that shall be found so due him to the auditor general, who shall draw his warrant on the internal improvement fund for the amount so certified to be due him, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay said sum out of any moneys in the internal improvement fund not otherwise appropriated.

Approved February 16, 1847.

[No. 11.]

JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Harvey Sherman. Whereas, Harvey Sherman did on the twenty-seventh day of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-two, become the purchaser of lot number fourteen of university lands, containing twelve acres, being a part of the north east quarter of section twenty-seven in township two, south of range six, west;

And whereas, He has paid twenty-five per cent of the principal

as required by law, and the interest in full to March first, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-five;

And whereas, He neglected to pay the interest due March first, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for sixty days thereafter, and also the interest and twenty-five per cent forfeiture by the first day · of October following, in consequence of which the said land is forfeited to the state. Therefore,

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioner of the land office be and is hereby authorized to reinstate Harvey Sherman in his purchase of lot number fourteen, of university lands, containing twelve acres, being a part of the north east quarter of section twenty-seven in township two, south of range six west, and grant to the said Harvey Sherman all the rights to which he would have been entitled, had the same not have been forfeited: Provided, That the said Harvey Sherman shall on or before the first day of May next, pay or cause to be paid to the commissioner of the land office, all the interest now due, and the amount due by reason of his forfeiture, together with the interest due the first day of March next: And provided further, That the said land has not been sold to any other person or persons.

Resolved further, That this joint resolution shall be in full force from and after its

passage.

Approved March 1, 1847.

[No. 12.]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the distribution of the session laws, journals and documents.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the officers and members of the present legislature be and they are hereby entitled each to one copy of the session laws passed in the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven ; also the journals and documents of the legislature of the said year; and the secretary of state be and he is hereby required to forward one copy of each to the several officers and members of this legislature, by forwarding the same to the county clerks of the

several counties of this state in which the officers or members reside, so soon as the same may be printed, bound and ready for delivery.

Approved March 1, 1847.

[No. 13.]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to Publishing the Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the superintendent of public instruction be requested to compile so much of his annual reports for the years eighteen hundred and forty-five and eighteen hundred and fortysix, as he may deem necessary for the purpose of giving general information relative to common schools, and that the contractor to do the state printing be required to print four thousand and five hundred copies of said compilation of reports, to be distributed by said superintendent of public instruction, one copy to each township and county clerk, one copy to each school inspector, and one. copy to each school director within this state, and to such other persons as he may deem advisable. The costs of such printing and publication shall not exceed eighty dollars. Approved March 4, 1847.

[No. 14.]

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the Claim of Cyrus Dana, Rodney C. Paine and Job Brookfield, for Relief.

Whereas, By an act approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, a board of auditors was constituted for the purpose of investigating all claims and applications for relief growing out of the sale of primary or common school, university, salt spring, state building and internal improvement lands;

And whereas, It was made the duty of said board by said act, to examine into all claims and applications for relief growing out of the sales of the lands aforesaid, and enter into a full settlement and final adjustment of all such claims and applications for relief as

by said board might be deemed just and equitable, having in view the interests of the different funds for which the lands were originally appropriated, and the just and equitable relief which each par ticular case might demand;.

And whereas, Job Brookfield, Cyrus Dana and Rodney C. Paine, presented to said board of auditors their several claims for relief growing out of the sale of the northwest fractional quarter of section thirty-five, township seven north, of range seventeen west;

And whereas, It appears that said board of auditors awarded the said land to Job Brookfield, and that a patent has been issued to said Brookfield for the same;

And whereas, It appears that a full hearing was not had before said board on the claim made by said Dana and Paine for relief in regard to said land;

And whereas, It was provided by said act, that the provisions thereof should not preclude any person who might feel himself aggrieved by the decision or award of said board from applying at any time after such decision and award to the legislature for relief; and the said Dana and Paine having petitioned the legislature for relief in the premises, it is hereby

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the said board of auditors re-examine the said claim of said Job Brookfield, and the said claim of said Dana and Paine for relief, in relation to the sale of said lands, and into all equities between the State and said parties, and into all equities as between the said Brookfield and the said Dana and Paine, growing out of the sale of said lands, whether under the original certificate of sale, or the subsequent transfers thereof. And the several parties have the right to produce testimony in relation to the several claims; and the said board of auditors shall enter into a full examination of said several clams; and if, upon a full hearing of all the parties, they shall determine that the said Job Brookfield is not justly and equitably entitled to said land, then and in that case, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to proceed before the proper tribunals by scire facias or otherwise, to cause said patent so as aforesaid issued to said Brookfield to be vacated, and if they shall on such hearing determine that said Dana and Payne

are justly and equitably entitled to relief in the premises, they shall make such award as by said board shall be deemed just and equitable; and such award shall be subject to the "provisos" contained in section two of act one hundred and two, approved March twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, herein above referred to, and that said board make full report of the proceedings herein, and the ground and reasons of their decision, and the substance of the evidence before them.

Approved March 5, 1847.

[No. 15.].

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to a certain Sum of Money stolen from the Treasurer's Office, in Shiawassee County.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the auditor general be, and he is hereby directed and required, to proceed to carry out the provisions of joint resolution number eighteen, of eighteen hundred and forty-six, relative to money stolen from the treasurer's office in Shiawassee county, without first demanding or receiving the official bond of the county treasurer therein referred to; and that so much of said resolution as requires the demand or delivery of said bond, or the prosecution thereof be and the same is hereby rescinded: Provided, The county of Shiawassee, before availing itself of the benefit of the resolution aforesaid, assign and wholly transfer to the state of Michigan, all the rights of said county against Isaac Castle, late county treasurer of said county, for the money to which the resolution hereby amended relates, and furnish satisfactory evidence that the bond specified in said resolution is lost or destroyed.

This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to furnishing legislative documents to the British Museum.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State