This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

Approved March 16, 1849.

[ No. 25.]

JOINT RESOLUTION of thanks to Mr. Vattemare.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the secretary of state be directed to present to M. Vattemare, and also, through him to the minister of finance of France, the thanks of the legislature of the state of Michigan, for the valuable present of books made by them to this

state.

Resolved, That M. Vattemare be presented with copies of our state documents and laws, together with such other books and maps relating to the history and resources of the state as the secretary of state shall select from the state library, to be distributed by M. Vattemare in such manner as he may think best calculated to aid the object of international exchange.

Approved March 19, 1846.

[ No. 26. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the distribution of the Session Laws, Journals and Documents of the Legislature of the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the officers and members of the present legislature be, and they are hereby entitled each to one copy of the session laws passed in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine; also, the journals and documents of the legislature of said year; and the secretary of state be, and is hereby required to forward one copy of each to the several officers and members of this legislature, by forwarding the same to the county clerks of the several counties of this state, in which the officers or members reside, so soon as the same may be printed, bound and ready for delivery.

Resolved, That this resolution shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 19, 1849.

[No. 27. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Commissioner of the State Land Office to issue a certificate of purchase of certain School land to Thomas B. Abell.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioner of the state land office be and he is hereby authorized to issue, at any time within one year from the passage of this resolution, a certificate of purchase to Thomas B. Abell for school section number sixteen in township eight south, range seventeen west, in the county of Berrien, for the minimum price of four dollars per acre: Provided, That the payments heretofore paid by the said Abell, or others, towards the purchase of said section, or interst thereon, shall not be considered or accounted any part of said four dollars per acre.

This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 21, 1849.

[No. 28.]

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to a settlement with the Palmyra and Jacksonburg Railroad Company.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the board of state auditors are hereby authorized to settle and compromise the balance due the state from the Palmyra and Jacksonburg railroad company, upon such terms as shall in their opinion be most conducive to the interests of the state; and upon such settlement and compromise being made, the said board are hereby authorized to cancel and release all securities given by said company, or any person in its behalf, to the state for the re-payment of the principal and interest due upon the certificates of stock issued to said company.

Resolved further, That the said board of state auditors shall have like power to release any securities given by individuals upon the payment by any individual of such proportion of the said balance as may in their opinion be for the best interests of the

state.

Approved March 21, 1849.

[ No. 29. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to certain State Property. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the state treasurer and the secretary of state be required to obtain immediately the property of the state formerly in the keeping of the state geologist, and deposit the same for safe keeping in some suitable place in the capitol building. This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 26, 1849.

[ No. 30. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to a donation of lands by the General Government for the erection of State Asylums for the Insane, Blind, Deaf and Dumb.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our senators in congress be directed and our representatives requested, to use their efforts in procuring the pas

sage

of a law granting to this state thirty thousand acres of land to be used in the erection and completion of a state asylum for the insane and also an asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit to our senators and representatives in congress, a copy of the foregoing resolution.

This joint resolution shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 28, 1849.

[No. 31. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Auditor General to draw certain Warrants.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the auditor general be, and he is hereby authorized and required to draw two warrants upon the internal improvement fund, to correspond in every respect with warrants numbered four thousand two hundred and eighty-nine and six thousand five hundred and fifty-six, heretofore issued by the auditor general,

and deliver the same to A. & E. S. Higgins, of the city of New York, whenever they shall have given to the state of Michigan a good and sufficient bond, indemnifying said state of Michigan against the payment of said warrants, numbered four thousand two hundred and eighty nine and six thousand five hundred and fifty-six, heretofore issued by the auditor general: Provided, Said bond shall be approved by the auditor general and state treasurer: Provided further, That said warrants, or either of them, shall not have been paid.

This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 28, 1849.

[ No. 32. ]

PREAMBLE AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to Moore and Hascall's Harvesting Machine.

Whereas, Messrs. Moore and Hascall did on the twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-six, obtain from the general patent office of the United States, letters patent for a certain machine called and known as "Moore and Hascall's harvesting machine," for the period of fourteen years, which term will expire on the twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty; and

Whereas, The importance of the invention, when fully perfected, and the determination on the part of the said patentees to consummate it, have induced them to make many and great improvements, whereby the abilities of the machine have been much increased; and

Whereas, By virtue of the great improvements recently made by the said patentees, they are now enabled to harvest, thresh, clean and deposit in the sack, from the grain standing in the field, twenty to twenty-five acres of grain per day, which could not have been done by said machine as originally invented; and

Whereas, The great improvements so made as aforesaid have been attended with great and heavy expenses, so much so, that the said patentees have in fact received but a small portion of the amount paid out or disbursed by them in obtaining the original

invertion and the necessary improvements thereto, whereby the utility of the machine has been greatly enhanced, as above mentioned; and

Whereas, The nature of the machine is such that all alterations or improvements can only be made with certainty, by actual experiment from time to time, during the short harvesting period of each year, and hence limiting the time in which the machine could be operated for grain, which in fact is one reason by which to account for the said patentees not having received but a small portion of the amount so paid out by them; and

Whereas, The said patentees have refrained, as is well known, from vending or selling the patent right of their machine, on the ground that they did not intend to do so until it should be brought to perfection; therefore

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our senators in congress be instructed and our representatives be requested, to use their influence for and in behalf of the passage of an act by congress authorizing and empowering the said Moore and Hascall, their heirs and assigns, the exclusive right to use and vend and dispose of said Moore and Hascall's harvesting machine for the further period of fourteen years from and after the said twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty.

Resolved, That the governor of this state be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress at the commencement of the next session thereof.

Approved March 30, 1849.

[ No. 33. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the surrender of certain laternal Improvement Warrants.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That upon the surrender of any internal improvement warrants at the state treasury, for the purpose of being funded un der act number one hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, if said warrants shall have been drawn subsequent