Total,

310,100

71,177.50 21,974-71

$3,875,894 $1,017,910-39 $240,039-47|

ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.

The Baptists in this district have 18 churches, 10 ministers, and 1,658 communicants; the Presbyterians, 9 churches, 11 ministers, 5 licentiates, and 996 communicants; the Methodists, 1,400 members; and the Episcopalians, 5 ministers; the Catholics, several churches; the Unitarians, 1 minister.

The settlements in Michigan Territory have been formed principally in the southeast part. But a small portion of the lands has yet been purchased of the general government. See page 149.

George B. Porter,

GOVERNMENT.

Governor, appointed in 1831; salary $2,000 do. 1,000

Stephens Thompson Mason, Secretary,

Judges. Wm. Woodbridge, Solomon Sibley, Henry Chipman, and James D. Doty. Salary of each $1,200. Daniel Leroy, Attorney; Peter Desnoyers, Marshal.

ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.

The Methodists in this territory have 11 preachers and 675 members; the Presbyterians, 6 churches and 6 ministers; the Episcopalians, 5 ministers; the Baptists, 1 association, 2 ministers, and 187 communicants; the Roman Catholics, several priests.

Judges. J. Woodson Bates, Benjamin Johnson, Thomas P. Eskridge. Salary of each $1,500. Samuel C. Roane, Attorney Elias Rector, Marshal.

ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.

The Methodists in this territory have 7 preachers and 983 members; the Baptists, 1 association, 8 churches, 2 ministers, and 88 communicants; the Roman Catholics, several priests; the Presbyterians, 3 or 4 ministers; and the Episcopalians, 1 minister.

GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES,

with the Manner of their Election, and the Commencement and Expiration of their respective Terms of Office.

With respect to those Governors who have been elected more than once, the commencement of the term for which they were last elected is here given.

In all the states except New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, the Governor is voted for by the people; and if no one has a majority of all the votes, in the states in which such a majority is required, the legislature elects to the office of Governor one of the candidates voted for by the people. In the state of Louisiana, the people give their votes, and the legislature elects one of the two candidates who have the greatest number of votes.

The Governors of the Territories are appointed by the President of the United States, with the consent of the Senate, for the term of three years.

* The term of the Governor of Massachusetts, here given, is less than full year, owing to an amendment of the Constitution. See page 185.

† Daniel Martin, who was elected Governor of Maryland Jan. 3, 1831, died July 10.

TABLE exhibiting the Governor's Term and Salary, the Number of Senators and Representatives with their respective Terms and Pay, and the Mode of choosing Electors of President and Vice-President, in the several States.

* There is no senate in the legislature of Vermont; but the Executive Council, consisting of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and 12 Counsellors, elected by the freemen, are empowered to lay before the General Assembly such business as shall appear to them necessary; also to revise and propose amendments to the laws passed by the House of Representatives. †The number of representatives in the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1831, was 481; but the number is very variable. (See page 185.)

The pay of the Senators, in the legislature of Connecticut, is $2 a day; that of the Representatives, $1.50.

The upper house, which forms an independent branch of the legislature of New Jersey, is styled the "Legislative Council."

§ Three different modes of choosing the electors of President and VicePresident in the different states, are authorized by the Constitution, viz. by the people by districts, by the people by a general ticket, and by the state legislatures. The same states have not all uniformly adhered to the same mode; and the mode may be varied at the pleasure of the state legislatures.