This motion was disagreed to.
Mr. Martin moved that the said bill be laid on the table.
The yeas and nays being demanded on this motion, it was decided in the negative, as follows:
Yeas: Messrs. Farnsworth, Hascall, Martin, Moran, Stockton, M'Donell, president—6.
Nays: Messrs. Bacon, Doty, Durocher, Millington, Renwick, Satterlee—6.
The question was then taken on the section, as amended, and decided by yeas and nays, in the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas: Messrs. Bacon, Doty, Durocher, Farnsworth, Hascall, Millington, Moran, Renwick, Satterlee, M'Donell, president—10.
Nays: Messrs. Martin, Stockton—2.
Mr, Bacon moved further to amend the bill by adding the following as section 2:
"Sec. 2. That so much of the 10th section of the act of which this is amendatory, as requires the rate of interest to be six per centum, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the rate of interest be hereafter ten per centum."
Before any question on this motion was taken, the bill, on motion of Mr. Bacon, was laid on the table.
On motion of Mr. Hascall, the Council proceeded to the consideration of executive business; and, having disposed of the same,
The Council adjourned to 3 o'clock p. m.
[afternoon session.]
A message was received from the Governor on Executive business, by Mr. Pritchette, his private secretary.
The following messages were severally received from the Governor, by Mr. Pritchette, his private secretary, and the two first and fourth laid on the table:
To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan.
Agreeably to the request contained in the resolutions of the-Legislative Council, relative to the efforts "made in the western part of the state of New York and elsewhere, to effect a navigable communication on the American side, between Lakes Erie and Ontario," I have transmitted to the Hon. Lucius Lyon, delegate in Congress from this territory, and to Rudolph Bunner, Esq. president of the convention at Oswego, each, one copy of the said resolutions.
March 7, 1834. G. B. Porter.
To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan.
I have this day approved and signed, and herewith return to you, the following bills:
