[No. 27. ] JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to postage. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, be authorized to receive the written statement of each member of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives respectively, of the amount of the postage on all mailable matter received by each during the session, and to certify said amount, not exceeding five dollars, so due to each of said members, and that the same be paid out of the State treasury. Joint resolution is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 17, 1957. [ No. 28. ] JOINT RESOLUTION respecting the United States circuit and district courts for this State. Whereas, Our citizens in portions of this State remote from Detroit, now, and for some time past, have found it inconvenient, expensive, and otherwise onerous, to visit Detroit, where the United States courts for the District of Michigan are alone holden, for the transaction of business in said courts; And whereas, Our State is fast settling in the north and north-western portions thereof, requiring, in justice to our citizens, a division of the State into two districts, making an east and a west district, in which districts Detroit should be the place of holding the courts for the eastern district, and Grand Rapids for the western district; therefore, Resolved, That we believe it to be the duty of the Congress of the United States, to divide our State into two districts, respectively embracing such territory as will best promote the interest of our citizens, and that Detroit should be made the term place of the eastern, and Grand Rapids of the western district. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be and they are hereby instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence and vote for the passage of an act of Congress that shall accomplish the object recited in the foregoing preamble and resolution. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward copies of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved February 17, 1857. [No. 29. ] JOINT RESOLUTION to cede to the United States certain land for a light house on Grand Island in Lake Superior. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That such a quantity of the land on which the light house on Grand Island, in Lake Superior, stands, as shall be necessary, be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States for that purpose. Approved February 17, 1857. [ No. 30. ] JOINT RESOLUTION relative to furnishing certain township officers with copies of laws. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby instructed to procure to be printed, in pamphlet form, so much of the revised statutes and session laws as has reference to the duties of highway commissioners and overseers of highways, and to forward to each of the county clerks a sufficient number of copies of suid laws to supply each of said officers with one copy, relative to powers and duties of commis-sioners and overseers of highways. This joint resolution shall take immediate effect. [ No. 31. ] JOINT RESOLUTION for the aid and relief of emigrants from Michigan to the territory of Kansas. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the general fund, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the aid and relief of emigrants from the State of Michigan to the territory of Kansas; the aforesaid sum, or any part thereof, to be drawn by the Governor, at his discretion, for the above mentioned purpose, and no other. Approved February 17, 1857. NOTE.-The words and sentences enclosed in brackets in the foregoing pages, were in the engrossed bills, as passed by the Legislature, but are not in the enrolled copies. |