No. 4. S

1845.

Communication from the President of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad.

Statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad from January 1st to December 31st, 1843, inclusive.

Gross amount received for freight and passage,

Expenditures,

Profit and loss,—loss,

$26,770 38

$23,968 90

4,959 61

28,928 51

$150,000 00

Cost of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad, as stocked,

about,

A. D. MASON, Pres. pro tem.

State of Ohio. S Henry Demmon, Treasurer of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that the above statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company, during the year eighteen hundred and fortythree, is correct, according to the best of my knowledge and belief. Dated, Toledo, February 6th, 1844.

[L. S.]

HENRY DEMMON, Sworn and subscribed to this 6th day of February, A, D. 1844, before me,

JUNIUS FLAGG,

Notary Public, Lucas Co., Ohio,

To His Excellency, JOHN S. BARRY,

Governor of the State of Michigan :

The annexed sheet contains a statement of the gross receipts and expenditures of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, sworn to by Henry Demmon,

the Treasurer of said road, and also a statement of the cost of said

road.

Your obedient servant,

A. D. MASON, President pro tem

Detroit, February 7, 1844.

No. 5. S

1845.

Communication from the Auditor General.

Detroit, January 30, 1845.

To the Honorable, the Speaker of the House of Representatives: SIR-I have the honor to reply to a resolution adopted by the House on the 28th instant, and amended on the 29th, to wit:

Resolved, That the Auditor General be requested to report to this House the amount of damages claimed upon unpaid instalments of the five million loan, under an act, entitled "an act to provide for the adjustment of the five million loan, " approved February 17th, 1842; also, the number and amount of bonds belonging to the state, left in possession of the United States Bank, and for which no equiv. alent has been received by the state or any of her accredited agents.

First, That the amount of damages claimed upon unpaid instalments of the five million loan was, according to resolution No. 38, approved February 17th, 1842, found on the 172nd page of session laws of 1842, "twenty-five per cent," which, on $1,844,106 54, which was the amount unpaid at the time of making up the estimate by the Auditor General and State Treasurer, 23rd April, 1842, amounted to $461,026 631.

After deducting this latter amount as damages, from the amount paid by the United States Bank and Morris Canal and Banking Company, the nett proceeds received by the state on the $3,813,000 bonds held by the United States Bank, or their pledges, was $998,000, showing that the "amount of bonds belonging to the state, left in possession of the United States Bank, and for which no equivalent has been received by the state, or any of her accredited agents," was $2,815,000, or if no damages were claimed by the state, the amount of bonds for which the state has not received, consideration held as above would be about $2,354,000.

I will respectfully refer the House to a "communication from the