Resolved, That the committee on territorial affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of communicating with the Senate and Assembly of the State of Ohio upon the subject of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
Mr. Stockton moved the following as a substitute to the said resolution:
1. Resolved, That the executive of the Territory of Michigan be authorized to open a correspondence with the Executives of Ohio and Indiana on the subject of the location of the Wabash and Erie Canal.
2. That the committee on the judiciary inquire into the expediency of appointing commissioners to confer with the Ohio and Indiana Legislatures upon the same subject.
On motion of Mr. Stockton,
The resolution and the substitute were laid on the table.
Adjourned.
Mr. Hascall presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of Oakland and Macomb, praying for the removal of the legal disabilities of Samuel Fowler, and the restoration to him of the rights of which he has been deprived. Referred to the committee on the judiciary.
Mr. Millington presented several remonstrances from sundry inhabitants of Saline, in the county of Washtenaw, against the division of that township. Referred to the committee on territorial affairs.
Mr. Bacon presented two petitions from sundry inhabitants of the county Of Lenawe, praying for the incorporation of a bank, to be located at Tecumseh in that county. Referred to the committee on incorporations.
Mr. Bacon, from the committee on territorial affairs, to whom were referred several petitions for the erection of a new county out of parts of the counties of Washtenaw and Jackson, and a remonstrance against the same, made a report unfavorable to the prayer of the petitioners, and moved that the report be accepted, and that the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. The motion was adopted.
Mr. Bacon, from the same committee, made a report adverse to the removal of the seat of justice in Jackson county.
On motion of Mr. Bacon, the report was accepted, and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject.
Mr. Bacon, from the same committee, to whom the reports of the Auditor and Treasurer of the Territory, in relation to the receipts and expenditures of 1833, were referred, moved that the said reports be spread upon the journals of the Council, and fifty copies of the same be printed for the use of the members.
The motion was adopted.
