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... passed by the Legislature of Michigan , approved April 15th , 1873 , the State Librarian issues this circular with a ... passing away , and with them the traces of their ancestors , and all traditions of the more recent events in their ...
... passed by the Legislature of Michigan , approved April 15th , 1873 , the State Librarian issues this circular with a ... passing away , and with them the traces of their ancestors , and all traditions of the more recent events in their ...
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... passed away , so let the names of the few that still remain be recorded , and the record preserved where future generations may know the names of those to whom they will be indebted for many of the blessings that will be transmitted to ...
... passed away , so let the names of the few that still remain be recorded , and the record preserved where future generations may know the names of those to whom they will be indebted for many of the blessings that will be transmitted to ...
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... passed it as the " legal tender " of the country . James Abbott was the agent of the American Fur Company , who had their " headquarters " for the west at Detroit ; Abbott was also post- The mails from the east were very irregular and ...
... passed it as the " legal tender " of the country . James Abbott was the agent of the American Fur Company , who had their " headquarters " for the west at Detroit ; Abbott was also post- The mails from the east were very irregular and ...
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... passed an act providing for the election of six school commissioners in each organized township for the purpose of dividing the township into districts , but no provision was made for the support of schools except by rate bills . The ...
... passed an act providing for the election of six school commissioners in each organized township for the purpose of dividing the township into districts , but no provision was made for the support of schools except by rate bills . The ...
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... passed with- out question . The change in the form of conveyance of these sections seemed not to have been noticed ; had it been , -as he subsequently told me , —no doubt the common form would have been substituted and the lands given ...
... passed with- out question . The change in the form of conveyance of these sections seemed not to have been noticed ; had it been , -as he subsequently told me , —no doubt the common form would have been substituted and the lands given ...
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Adrian Ann Arbor appointed Approved April Approved March base line Bay county Berrien county Blissfield boundary building built Calhoun Calhoun county called Cass church circuit court clerk commenced county canvassers county officers county-seat creek Detroit duties early east erected father feet French Governor held Hillsdale HILLSDALE COUNTY House of Representatives Huron Indian inhabitants thereof entitled James John Joseph Judge June Kalamazoo Lake Michigan land Legislative Council Legislature Lenawee Lenawee county line between ranges line between townships located meeting Menominee meridian Michigan enact miles mill Monday Monroe Muskegon Muskegon lake Ohio organized counties Pioneer Society present President principal meridian register of deeds road Saginaw Saginaw county seat Secretary Senate and House separate county settlement settlers street Tecumseh Territory of Michigan thence tion town village votes Washtenaw Washtenaw county Wayne William Ypsilanti
Popular passages
Page 254 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 451 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 140 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills ; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 236 - ... the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Page 139 - Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie! Around her knees domestic .duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Page 63 - President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, to each Member of Congress from the State of Washington, and to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Page 138 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 197 - SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Page 140 - Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.
Page 314 - In testimony whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of The United States to be hereunto affixed.