CHANCERY CASES, IN CIRCUIT COURTS, PENDING Fort Street Union Depot Company v. Dix, Auditor General. Detroit Union Railroad Depot & Station Company v. Dix, Auditor General. City of Lansing v. Alamanzo A. Piatt and Board of State Auditors. William B. Dixon v. Kirk Ludington et al., Dix, Auditor General, and French, Commissioner of State Land Office. Oren, Attorney General, v. Board of Supervisors, Cheboygan County, et al. Oren, Attorney General, v. City of Albion, Warren S. Kessler and The Albion Malleable Iron Co. Oren, Attorney General, ex rel. Osborn, Commissioner of Railroads, v. The Michigan Traction Co. Wm. E. Boice v. John H. Bloomshield, and Wildey, Commissioner State Land Office. The Seventh Day Adventist Educational Society of Battle Creek v. City of Battle Creek, the Auditor General, et al. CHANCERY CASES, IN THE SUPREME COURT, PENDING JUNE 30, 1901. Auditor General v. John M. Hoffman. Board of Managers of Michigan Soldiers' Home v. Richard O. Jackman. Auditor General v. Sage Land & Improvement Company. CHANCERY CASES, IN THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, IN EQUITY, PENDING JUNE 30, 1901. Merritt Chandler v. Dix, Auditor General. Wisconsin & Michigan Railway Co. v. Powers, Auditor General. SCHEDULE E. List of chancery and other cases referred to the prosecuting attorneys of the various counties in which commenced and left in their charge. These are tax cases wherein some state officer has been made a party or in which the state has some interest. No. 1. In re petition of Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for taxes of the year 1893. Chancery bill. Iosco county.* No. 2. Edward Sawbridge v. A. Whitbeck Co., et al. Chancery bill. Menominee county.* No. 3. Hubbard Head v. Dix, Auditor General et al. Chancery bill. Crawford county. No. 4. Rufus N. Goodell et al. v. Peter W. Kalmkruna et al. Declaration. Houghton county. No. 5. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for taxes of the year 1894. Gogebic county. No. 6. Otis Smith v. James Kelley, Albert E. Kimball, and Dix, Auditor General. Declaration. Ionia county. No. 7. Alvin R. Moore v. Andrew Skang et al. Bill of complaint. Delta county. No. 8. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for taxes of 1895 and 1896. Chancery bill. Alpena county. No. 9. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for taxes of 1892. Chancery bill. Clare county. No. 10. Eliza Lloyd, etc., v. City of Saginaw, Board of Supervisors of Saginaw County, Auditor General et al. Bill of complaint. Saginaw county. * Also in 1900 report (Nos. 57 and 58), page 43. No. 11. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for taxes of 1898 and previous years. Chancery bill. Oceana county. No. 12. Isaac Cousins v. Nelson Pratt and Auditor General. Chancery bill for injunction. Tuscola county. No. 13. Elias S. Gibbs and Mary E. Gibbs v. Nelson Pratt and Auditor General. Chancery bill for injunction. Tuscola county. No. 14. Clarence D. Harvey v. Nelson Pratt and Auditor General. Chancery bill for injunction. Tuscola county. No. 15. Almon H. Stoner et al. v. Peter McRae et al. Chancery bill. Delta county. No. 16. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for taxes of 1891. Chancery bill. Sanilac county. No. 17. Fletcher Paper Co. v. Charles J. Wallich et al. Chancery bill. Otsego county. No. 18. Frank C. Heath and Mary H. Rossiter v. Nathaniel Fogelsanger et al. Ejectment. Bay county. No. 19. William A. Putnam v. Edward R. Hobert et al. Petition to vacate decree. Ogemaw county. No. 20. John H. Wheeler et al. v. Henry Conkrite and Auditor General. Bill of complaint. Wexford county. No. 21. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for delinquent taxes of 1891. Chancery bill. Gogebic county. No. 22. James K. Miller v. Auditor General et al. Chancery bill. Bay county. No. 23. James B. Peter v. Auditor General. Petition to vacate decree. Midland county. No. 24. Thomas F. Marston v. Auditor General et al. plaint. Bay county. Bill of com No. 25. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1889. Chancery bill. Marquette county. No. 26. In re petition of the Auditor General for the sale of certain lands for the taxes assessed thereon for the years 1881 and 1883. Chancery bill. Washtenaw county. No. 27. Frank M. Boeckling et al. v. Auditor General et al. Chancery bill. Berrien county. No. 28. Henry M. Loud et al., co-partners, doing business under the firm name of the Oscoda Lumber & Salt Co. v. Auditor General, County Treasurer, et al. Chancery bill, Alcona county. Stipulation discontinuing case and dissolving injunction filed May 23, 1901. No. 29. George J. Lang v. Commissioner of the State Land Office. Bill of complaint. St. Joseph county. SCHEDULE F. Statement of disbarment and removal proceedings; ejectment, replevin, assumpsit, prohibition and false imprisonment cases, and appeals under inheritance tax law, of which the attorney general had charge during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS DISPOSED OF UP TO IN RE BAUMAN. Petition for the removal from office of Otto Bauman, supervisor of the second ward of the city of Manistee, who was charged by the board of state tax commissioners with official misconduct and wilful neglect of duty in undervaluing and neglecting to place certain taxable property on the assessment rolls as provided by law. Upon the filing of the petition the probate judge of the county of Manistee was designated as the officer before whom proofs should be taken, and a hearing was set for the 27th of November, 1900; but the proceedings were terminated by the resignation from office of Mr. Bauman on November 23, 1900. IN RE WARD, SHEA, HOMBACH, AND BAY. At the instance of the board of state tax commissioners, petitions for the removal of Thomas V. Ward, supervisor of Ford River township, Delta county; John Shea, assessor of the city of Negaunee; Peter W. Hombach, assessor of the city of St. Ignace, and Franklin E. Bay, comptroller of the city of Marquette, were prepared, but were not filed. ASSUMPSIT CASES, IN CIRCUIT COURTS, DISPOSED OF UP TO JUNE 30, 1901. PEOPLE v. WM. L. WHITE, EX-QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, AND FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT CO. Circuit court, Ingham county. Declaration in assumpsit to recover from the Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, as surety for William L. |