Mr. Martin laid on the table the following resolution:
Resolved, That the territorial treasurer be, and he hereby is directed to transmit to the county treasurer of the county of Brown, all such sums of money as may have been received for taxes and duties from said county, contrary to law.
On motion of Mr. Farnsworth,
Resolved, That the committee on internal improvement be instructed to inquire into the expediency of memorializing Congress for an appropriation sufficient to extinguish the rights of private companies to certain bridges on the United States road leading from Detroit to the foot of the rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie.
On motion of Mr. Bacon,
Resolved, That the committee on the militia inquire into the expediency of reorganizing the several brigades of militia in this Territory.
Mr. Doty laid on the table the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Territory do cause the laws enacted at the present session of the Council, to be published so soon as they are deposited in his office, in the following newspapers, to wit:
The Democratic Free Press, printed at Detroit; the Michigan Sentinel, printed at Monroe; the Michigan Emigrant, printed at Ann Arbor; the Michigan Statesman, printed at White Pigeon; the Galenian, printed at Galena; and the Green Bay Intelligencer, printed at Navarino.
On motion of Mr. Doty,
Resolved, That the committee on incorporations inquire into the facilities granted to trade and commerce within the Territory, by the monied institutions of the country; and whether any other facilities ought to be granted by the incorporation of other banks at different places in the Territory; and that said committee do report by bill or otherwise.
On motion of Mr. Doty,
Resolved, That a select committee be appointed to inquire into* and report to this House, the causes for the delay in printing and delivering the volume of the condensed laws of the Territory.
The committee consists of Messrs. Doty, Renwick and Stockton.
On motion of Mr. Britain,
Resolved, That the committee on internal improvement be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending an act defining the mode of laying out and establishing territorial roads, approved April 23, 1833, as to require, in the field notes of each road, the course and distance of an adjacent section corner upon every three miles of said road.
The president announced, that, on the 31st of January, he had submitted to the Governor for his approbation, "an act to amend
