Claim of

Porter.

contractors for building the cells in the State Penitentiary, be recommitted to the Board of State Auditors, who are hereby empowered Bolton and to settle the same upon just and equitable terms, and if they shall find any amount due said claimants, they are hereby authorized to certify the amount that shall be found due to them to the Auditor General, who shall draw his warrant on the State Prison fund for the amount awarded to them, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay said sum out of any money in the treasury to the credit of said fund, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved March 24, 1845.

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No. 25.

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the distribution of the
Session Laws, Journals, &c.

titled to doe

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Reprsentatives of the State of Michigan, That the officers and members of the present legisla- Member enture be, and they are hereby entitled each to one copy of the session uments. laws, journals and documen's of both houses, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and that the Secretary of State is hereby required to forward the same to the county clerks of the several courties of this state, for each officer and member, so soon as the same shall be printed and ready.

Approved, March 24, 1845.

No. 26.

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing prisoners under crimi-
nal process within the county of Wayne, to be im-
prisoned in the jails of any of the adjoining counties:
Be
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Michigan, That the keeper of the common jail in the county
of Wayne be authorized to commit prisoners in his custody under
eriminal process, to the jail of any of the adjoining counties, during
the progress of the repairs and other work upon the jail of the said
county of Wayne, provided for by an act entitled "an act to provide

Prisoners

may be

confined.

lor.

for reparing the jail in the county of Wayne," approved February 15, 1845.

And it shall be the duty of the jailor of any such adjoining county Duty of Jal- to receive into and detain in his custody until discharged by due course of law, any prisoner so as aforesaid committed: Provided, however, That the jailer of said county of Wayne, on committing any prisoner as aforesaid, shall deliver to the jailor of the adjoining coun ty, in which such prisoner shall be committed, a copy of the process by virtue of which such prisoner is held in custody: And provided further, That the county of Wayne shill pay all expenses necessarily incurred in keeping of such prisoners or otherwise under this resolution.

Approved March 24, 1845.

Νο 27.

JOINT RESOLUTION of instruction relative to an Indian

Treaty.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the state of Michigan, in her sovereign right, has plenery jurisdiction over every portion of territory, (not especially ceded away,) within her acknowledged limits, to which the Indian ti tle has been extinguished.

Resolved further, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, nl our Representatives requested, to use their efforts in procuring Instructions the passage of a law, terminating the assertion of jurisdiction by the general government, un lor the provisions of a certain treaty concluded with the Chippewa Indians on the 4th day of October, 1842 and subsequently ratified by the Senate of the United States.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

Approved March 24, 1845.

No. 28.

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Governor to direct the removal of a certain Steam Engine, &c, to the State Prison at Jackson,

of Gov'n'r.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Governor be authorized to direct the remo. Authority val of the engine, machinery, fixtures and materials used in boring for salt on the T ttibawassee river, to the State Prison at Jackson, and that the "Salt Spring fund" be credited with the same at the original cost, and the amount debited to the State Prison, with the cost of the removal.

Approved March 24, 1815.

No. 29.

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to printing the revision of the statues.

Resolved By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioner appointed to revise the statutes of this state, be authorized and required to cause to be printed in bill R. Statutes to be printed form, the revision, and that a number sufficient for the use of both in will form. branches of the legislature at its next session be made up in book form, with proper narginal notes and references for the use of the members.

Approved March 24, 1845.

No. 30.

JOINT RESOLUTION to encourage emigration into this

State.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to appoint some suitable and proper person, agent for this state to reside in the city of New York from the 1st day of April next until the 20th day of November thereafter, and whose duty it

Agent.

shall be to encourage emigration into the state and travel on our public railroads, under such advice or direction as the Governor may from time to time deem proper to give, and for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of such agency, the Governor is hereby authorized to draw upon the contingent fund for any sum or sums of money, not exceeding, in all, seven hundred dollars.

Approved March 21, 1845.

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