INDEX.

INDEX.

BILLS ORIGINATING IN THE SENATE; ACTION ON
THEREIN AND PAGES.

1. A bill to provide for the construction of a Ship Canal around
the Falls of St. Mary's, 7, 30, 34, 43-4, 69, 85, 91-2, 107 to
114, 119, 192, 198, 205-6, 224-6.

2. A bill ceding jurisdiction to the United States, over divers
tracts of land for Light Houses, 7, 12, 13, 25, 26-7, 97, 133,

153.

3. A bill to amend section 6, chapter 11, of the Revised Statutes
of 1846, 10, 11, 16, 67.

4. A bill to amend chapter 138 of the Revised Statutes of 1846,
14, 34, 63.

5. A bill to provide for the payment of the Members and Officers
and the incidental expenses of the Legislature, 15, 25, 26, 40,
49, 51.

6. A bill to amend section 3 and 4 of an act to define the limits, ju-
risdiction and powers of the Circuit Courts, 18, 34, 37, 38,
56, 330.

7. A bill to authorize the collection of corporation taxes for the
year 1852, in the village of Coldwater, in the county of
Branch, 18, 72, 79, 87.

8. A bill to incorporate the city of Adrian, 19, 22, 55, 57-8, 117,
18-19, 164, 168.

9. A bill to authorize the Board of Education and the Trustees of
the Michigan Asylums to appropriate lands, to open roads
across certain Asylum and Normal School Lands, 19, 27, 34,
38, 52, 66, 70, 74, 116.

19. A bill making appropriations for the salaries of State Officers
for the years 1853 and 4, 20, 34, 37, 38, 81, 82, 84. 85, 87.
11. A bill to re-enact sections 24 and 25 of chapter 90 of the Re-
vised Statutes of 1846, and to repeal section 16 of an act to
prohibit the maintaining suits in equity, approved June 28,
1851, 20, 34, 37, 38, 74, 75, 84.

12. A bill to amend the charter of the Detroit, Romeo and Port
Huron Rail Road Company, 23, 30, 42, 56, 59, 94, 121, 123
147, 357.

13. A bill to provide for the formation of rail road corporations,
23, 24, 46, 52, 133.

14. A bill to amend section 9 of an act entitled an act to provide
for funding the outstanding Internal Improvement Warrants
of this State and the interest due thereon, and also for liqui-
dating and funding the amount of principal actually due upon
the part-paid five million loan bonds, approved April 1st,
1848, 28, 91, 154, 330, 343, 344.

15. A bill for the construction of public offices at the seat of gov.
ernment at Lansing, 28, 47, 48, 50, 188, 304, 319, 320, 339,
342, 344.

16. A bill to provide for the appointment of a circuit court com-
missioner in all those counties in which vacancies may or have
occurred in that office, 28, 47, 68, 90, 341.

17. To provide for an additional circuit court commissioner for the
county of Wayne, 28, 42, 63, 99, 125, 133, 330, 343.
18. To amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend chapter
25 of the revised statutes of 1846, 28, 47, 48, 50, 269.
19. To amend chapter 12 of the revised statutes of 1846, entitled
"of certain State officers," 33.

20. Directing the Auditor General to credit the county of Monroe
with certain delinquent taxes, 33, 46, 63, 73, 144, 150, 168.
21. To repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Adrian In-
surance Company, 33, 47, 63, 67, 107.

22. To provide for taking the census and statistics for the year
1854 and every ten years thereafter, 33, 48, 56, 136, 164,
172, 179, 213.

23. To provide for taxing foreign insurance companies, 35, 47, 52,
68, 76, 77, 137.

24. To establish a municipal court of criminal jurisdiction in the
city of Detroit, 41, 164, 191.

25. To repeal section 7 of an act to consolidate the laws in relation
to county courts and for other purposes, approved April 2,
1850, 41, 73, 157, 159, 162.

26, To amend chapter 70 of the revised statutes of 1846, 41, 53.
27. To amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Detroit and
Howell plank road company, 42, 164.

28. To provide for the discharge of certain duties required to be
performed by circuit court commissioners, 42, 53, 139, 172,
330, 342, 344.

29. To cede certain premises to the county of Wayne for certain
purposes, 45.

30. To amend chapter 136 of the revised statutes of 1846, in rela-
tion to informations in the nature of quo warranto and in cer-
tain other cases, 45, 163.

31. To amend the laws incorporating the city of Detroit and the
several acts amendatory thereof, 46, 114, 154, 183, 184, 191.
32. Ceding jurisdiction to the United States over lot No. 1, section
34, in township No. 22 north range 8 east, 54, 68, 208, 224,

236.

33. To amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Pontiac and
Genesee Railroad Company, 59, 74, 126, 147, 154, 200.
34. To authorize the formation of corporations for mining, smelting

or manufacturing iron, copper, mineral coal, silver and other
ores, 59, 114, 149.

35. To authorize the district judge of the Upper Peninsula to hold
in trust and convey lands included in the town site of the vil-
lage of Ontonagon, in the county of Ontonagon, 59, 89, 157,
164, 168.

36. Authorizing the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of this State to hold certain property, 61, 147.
37. To amend the laws in relation to supplying the city of Detroit
with pure and wholesome water, and to provide for the com-
pletion and management of the Detroit water works, 64, 114,
156, 183-4, 211, 351, 352, 357.

38. Relative to the deeds of married women, 64, 114, 149.
39. To provide for the consolidation of the Detroit and Erin, and
Erin and Mt. Clemens Plank Road Companies, 64, 123.
40. To amend sections 2, 6 and 8 of an act to continue for a limit-
ed time the charter of the Farmer's and Mechanic's Bank of
Michigan, 64, 105, 123.

41. To amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 of an act to
amend and consolidate the act to incorporate the stockholders
of the Michigan Insurance Company of Detroit, approved
March 7, 1834, and the acts amendatory thereto, approved
March 28th, 1849, 64, 166.

42. To amend sections 6, 13 and 15 of an act to incorporate the
President, Directors and Company of the Farmer's and Mer-
chant's Bank of Ann Arbor, 64, 115, 137, 204, 307, 313,
358.

43. To provide for the removal of causes in civil cases, from justi-
ces' courts to circuit courts, by certiorari, and to repeal sec-
tions 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,
130, 131, 132, 133, 134 and 135 of an act entitled an act to
prescribe the powers and duties of justices of the peace in
civil proceedings, approved April 9, 1841, 1, 5, 125.
44. To amend sections 17 and 18 of chapter 103 of the revised
statutes of 1846, 65, 269, 352, 357.

45. To repeal sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of an act to provide
for the removal of the State Land Office to the seat of gov-.
ernment, approved March 31, 1849, 65, 148, 218.

46. Conferring additional powers and duties on the clerk of the
State Prison and for other purposes, 70, 93, 156.

47. To amend section 66, chapter 14, of the revised statutes, 70,
93, 330, 339, 354.

48. Relative to the University interest fund, 70, 94, 171, 174, 189,
330, 334, 336.

49. To provide for Sheriff's fees in certain cases, 70, 163.