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1853.]  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES.  106

By  consent,  the  Speaker  annoanced  the  foIk)wing  message  from

the  Governor:

ExEcuTivK  Office,     ^
Lafisinff,  January  Vl,  1853.  )

To  the  ffouse  of  RepreserUaUves  :

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

An  act  relative  to  the  organization  of  the  county  of  Ontonagon,
in  the  Upper  Peninsula.
R.  McClelland.
Under  the  head  of  unfinished  business,  the  House  then  took  up
the  following  concurrent  resolution,  offered  on  Saturday  by  Mr.
Mitchell,  and  ordered  to  layover  one  day,  to-wit:

Besohed,  (the  Senate  concurring,)  That  the  committee  on  State
prison  of  the  Senate  and  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  be  in-
structed to  visit  the  State  prison,  at  Jackson,  and  make  report  of  their
doings,  and  of  the  situation  of  said  prison,  with  all  convenient
speed.
The  question  being  on  the  adoption  of  the  resolution,  the  same
was  not  adopted.
A  bill  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  organize  the  county  of
Montcalm,  approved  March  20,  1850,

Was  also  taken  up;  and  the  question  being  on  concurring  in  the
amendment  reported  from  the  committee  of  the  whole,  which  amend*
ment  was  as  follows:

Amend  by  striking  out  the  word  ''eight,''  in  first  line,  and  insert
in  place  thereof  the  word  *'west;"  the  same

On  motion  of  Mr,  Ellsworth,

Was  concurred  in,  and  the  bill  ordered  to  be  engrossed  and  read
the  third  time.
A  bill  to  authorize  the  collection  of  corporation  taxes  for  tho  year
1852,  in  the  village  of  Coldwaterin  the  county  of  Branch,  and

A  bill  to  provide  for  the  publication  of  probate  and  other  legal  no-
tices.
Reported  by  the  committee  of  the  whole  House,  without  amend-
ment, were  severally  ordered  to  be  engrossed  and  read  the  third  time.
