to the Comptroller of the Treasury and the Auditor for the War Department in accordance with the established practice and regulations of that department.

The work of preparing the claim was commenced about February 14, 1902 and the claim was settled and certified to Congress for appropriation on June 6, 1902 in the sum of $382,167.62. Governor Bliss has received check for this amount.

Respectfully submitted,

RALPH STONE,

Agent for Michigan.

SCHEDULE H.

Statement of money collected and turned over to the State Treasurer during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, through proceedings instituted in the Probate Courts of the respective counties, from estates which had escheated to the State under Act 238, Public Acts of 1897:

SCHEDULE I.

Statement of money collected and turned over to State Treasurer, through the efforts of the Attorney General, with the co-operation of the medical superintendents of the various asylums and the judges of probate of the various counties, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, as a reimbursement to the State for the support of certain insane persons at State asylums.

SCHEDULE J.

Statement of proceedings, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, for the deportation of certain insane persons, who were being maintained in the asylums of this State, pending the determination of the place of their legal residence.

IN THE MATTER OF ELIZA A. HALL, AN INSANE PERSON. Proceedings for deportation of Eliza A. Hall an insane person, from Michigan to Nebraska. Eliza A. Hall was committed to the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane at the expense of the State on order from Probate Court from Cheboygan County, commitment gave her legal residence as Nebraska. Matter taken up with the authorities of that State and arrangement made that she be received at the Nebraska Hospital for the Insane at Lincoln, Nebraska, she was subsequently transferred there.

IN THE MATTER OF WM. V. EDWARDS, AN INSANE PERSON. Proceedings for deportation of Wm. V. Edwards, an insane person, from Michigan to Illinois. Wm. V. Edwards was admitted to the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo at State expense, as an indigent insane person on order of Probate Court of Eaton County. This man escaped from the Illinois Eastern Hospital at Kankakee in June, 1901, application made to the authorities of that institution to receive him was refused under a rule that no patient who had been absent from the institution longer than ninety days could be taken back without a new order. The matter was taken up with the Attorney General of Illinois and arrangements made to receive Mr. Edwards at the institution from which he escaped, he was subsequently taken there by the asylum authorities.

IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD F. BYERS, AN INSANE PERSON. Proceedings for deportation of Edward F. Byers an insane person, from Michigan to Wyoming. Edward F. Byers was admitted to the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo at the expense of the County of Van Buren, on order of the Probate Court of that County until his legal residence should be ascertained. Proofs in case show that Edward F. Byers went to Wyoming with his parents in year 1888, and lived there until March, 1893, when he became insane and was sent to the Asylum for the Insane at Evanston, Wyoming, remaining there until June, 1901. He was released by the superintendent of that institution and his fare paid