The following communications were announced:

To the House of Representatives:

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
Michigan, April 3, 1848.

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I have this day approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State,

An act making apprapriations for the salaries of the state officers for the year 1848;

A joint resolution relative to certain lands;

An act to incorporate the St. Joseph Valley rail road company;
An act concerning the village of Hillsdale ;

An act to incorporate the Macomb county mutual insurance company; and

A joint resolution relative to the claim of Whitney Jones.

To the House of Representatives:

EPAPHRO. RANSOM.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
Michigan, April 3, 1848.

I have this day approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State,

An act to amend the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and fortysix;

An act making appropriations to defray certain expenses, authorized for the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

To the House of Representatives:

EPAPHRO. RANSOM. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Michigan, April 3, 1848.

I have this day approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State,

An act to incorporate the Oakland and Ottawa rail road company; An act to amend an act to provide for the draining of swamps, marshes and other low lands.

EPAPHRO. RANSOM.

Mr. Eldredge moved the appointment of a committee on the part of the House to act with a like committee on the part of the Senate, to wait on the Executive and inform him that the two Houses have no

further business before them, and ask if he has any communication to make.

The Speaker appointed Messrs. Eldredge and Kingsley as such committee, who after a short absence, returned and reported that they had discharged the duty assigned them, and had received for answer that the Executive had no further communication to make.

Mr. Smith moved that the House adjourn sine die.

The Speaker then resumed the chair, and addressed the House as follows:

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:

That period of our session has arrived, with which our labors are about to terminate. I am pleased to avail myself of that precedent which permits me now to expsess those spontaneous emotions of the heart, which for the moment overcome the mind, and close its avenues to the ordinary duties of legislation.

The sacred trust reposed in us by the people has now been discharged: Heaven grant that it has not been betrayed, and that our labors may promote the welfare and honor of Michigan. Though far removed from the populous portions of our state, the public eye has yet been upon us. That your acts may be crowned with public prosperity as their fruit, and public approbation as their reward, is the earnest hope of him whose fortune it has been to preside over your deliberations.

This session, like almost every other, has had its days of interest. They brought with them their excitements, which I am happy in believing passed away with the occasion that gave them birth. They brought with them, too, their embarrassments and responsibilities; but that confidence which first imposed upon me the burden of delicate cares and duties, I shall ever be proud to remember, has sustained me even to the approaching moments of our separation.

If I have erred in the discharge of my duties, I desire to assure you, that I have ever been actuated by a détermination to observe the strictest impartiality, and to conduct your deliberations in a manner most consistent with despatch, safety and order. If I have been successful, I cannot refrain from expressing my great obligations for the efficient aid of an experienced clerk, and above all, for your constant co-operation, your friendly and official confidence.

The relations here established-the ties here joined, though official in their origin, have ripened into bonds of personal union, which death alone can sunder. That you may, each and all, be ever blessed with health, prosperity and happiness, is the heartfelt wish of him who has been so much honored by your distinguished favor, and the emotions of whose heart seem now to forbid the utterance of the parting salutation-FAREWELL.

And the House adjourned, sine die.

INDEX.

MEMORIALS, PETITIONS AND REMONSTRANCES.

Of Andrew Harvie, claiming a seat as representative, 14.
Of Henry M. Dodge, claiming a seat as representative. 14.

Of Henry F. Hughes and others, for the appointment of commission-

ers to lay out a certain state road, 14.

Of Sidney H. Beach and others, relative to a state road in Barry
county, 14.

Of W. H. Brown, for authority to erect a dam across Thornapple

river, 14.

Of citizens of the village of Kalamazoo, for the incorporation of a
bank, to be located in said village, 18.

Of David Paddack and of Solomon Close, for the setting off of cer-
tain lands from the corporate limits of the village of Pontiac, 18,
117.

Of F. G. Beaman and others, for an amendment to the charter of the
Adrian and Coldwater plank road company, 18.

Of R. E. Bird, for relief, 18.

Of Z. K. Johnson, for the refunding of certain moneys, 18.

Of Horace Garlick, for authority to sell certain real estate, 18.

Of the township board of the township of Caledonia, in Kent county,
for a law authorizing the sale of certain lands, 23.

Of Asa Pratt, for relief, 28.

Of Knowlton S. Pettibone, for the payment of services rendered, 28.
Of E. B. Bostwick and others, of Kent county, for the discontinuance
of a certain state road, 29.

Memorial of the national medical convention of 1847, relative to re-
gistration of births, marriages and deaths, 36.

Of Joel Rathbone and others, fer the passage of a law authorizing the
conveyance of certain lands therein described, 36.

Of officers of a certain school district in Brighton, for a law legali-
zing certain acts, 36.

Of the township board of Port Huron, for a law legalizing certain
acts, and for other purposes, 37.

Of John A. Brooks and others, for an appropriation of state lands for
building a bridge across the Muskegon river, 37.

Memorial of Lieut. Col. Williams and other commissioned officers of
the first regiment of Michigan volunteers, for a further appropri-
ation for the filling up of said regiment, 42.

Of W. S. Gunn and others, for the organization of a certain town-
ship in Kent county, 42.

Of O. B. Galusha, and others, for the organization of a certain town-
ship in Kent county, 42.

Of W. H. Withey, and others, for the attaching of a portion of the
township of Plainfield, Kent county, to to the township of Alpine,

43.

Of citizens of Clinton county, for an amendment of the act to improve
the Pontiac and Grand River road, 43.

Of Sands McCamly, and others, in relation to a state road from Bat-
tle Creek to Michigan, 47.

Of citizens of Clinton county, for a law authorizing Robert Palmer
and Morris S. Allen to build a dam across Grand River, 47.
Of Warren Streeter, and others, for an appropriation of lands to aid
in the construction of a certain road in Ottawa county, 54.
Of the Livonia monthly meeting of Friends, for a repeal of so much
of the militia law as imposes a direct tax on every citizen, 55.
Of inhabitants of Berlin, St. Clair county, for the organization of a
new county, 55.

Of the township board of Greenfield, Wayne county, for a law extend-
ing the time for the collection of taxes in said township, 59.
Of Rev. A. C. Van Raalte and others, for an appropriation of state
lands for the construction of a pier at the mouth of Black river,
and for other purposes, 59.

Of Benjamin O. Davis and others, for, the incorporation of a company
to construct a plank road from Jackson, via Eaton Rapids, to the
capitol, 59.

Of L. G. Rand and others, for the incorporation of a company to
construct a plank road from Eaton Rapids to the capitol, 59.

Of H. Burnham and others, relative to certain state lands, 59.
Of inhabitants of the township of Wayland, Allegan county, for the
organization of a new township, 62.

Of citizens of Macomb county, for the abolition of the county court,
62.

Of the collector of the township of Monroe and others, for an exten-
sion of the time for the collection of taxes in said township, 62.
Of Isaac Barber and others, for the incorporation of the Leoni Theo-
logical Institute, 62.

Of the board of supervisors of Wayne county, relative to the jurisdic-
tion of the county court, 62.

Of E. C. Seaman, and others, for an amendment to the judiciary sys-
tem, 62.

Of the supervisors of the county of St. Joseph, for an enlargement of
the powers and duties of county courts, 66.

Of B. Garland and others, for the organization of a new township, 66