Mr. Hascall moved to reconsider the vote of yesterday, postponing the farther consideration of the bill, concerning the circuit courts, to the next session of the Legislative Council;
And, on the question to reconsider being taken, the chair decided that it was carried in the affirmative.
Mr. Renwick demanded the yeas and nays on the motion to reconsider.
Mr. Martin inquired whether the call for the yeas and nays were in order, after the chair had declared the motion to be carried?
The chair decided, that, according to the usage of the Council, it was in order.
Mr. Martin appealed from this decision of the chair, and demanded the yeas and nays on the appeal.
And, on the question, "shall the decision of the chair be sustained? it was decided in the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas: Messrs. Durocher, Hascall, Millington, Renwick, Satter- lee, Stockton, M'Donell, president—7,
Nays: Messrs. Bacon, Britain, Doty, Farnsworth, Martin, Moran—6.
The question recurring on the motion to reconsider the vote postponing the further consideration of the bill concerning the circuit courts to the next session of the Council; the yeas and nays were as follows:
Yeas: Messrs. Britain, Durocher, Farnsworth, Hascall, Martin, Moran, Stockton—7.
Nays: Messrs. Bacon, Doty, Millington, Renwick, Satterlee, M'Donell, president—6.
So the motion to reconsider was decided in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. Britain, the said bill was recommitted to the committee on the judiciary.
The Council again resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the Fill No. 21, to establish branches of the Bank of Michigan, and of the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Michigan; and, after some time spent therein, the committee rose, and Mr. Stockton reported, that the committee of the whole had had the said bill under consideration, and instructed him to report the same with sundry amendments.
Mr. Martin moved, that the Council do concur in the said amendments.
Mr. Renwick called for a division of the motion, so as to take the question separately on each of the amendments, and demanded the yeas and nays on each.
The first amendment, comprising several new sections, providing for the establishment of a branch of the bank of River Raisin at Pontiac, in the county of Oakland, being under consideration, the question on the said amendment was taken by yeas and nays, as follows:
