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 MICHIGAN.

The legislature of Michigan met, but I have not been favored with a copy of their acts, or a list of their noteworthy enactments.

MINNESOTA.

Minnesota has created a board of railroad and warehouse commissioners consisting of three persons, to whom is confided the supervision of all railroad companies operating within the state, with power to examine all books, and the right to require reports. The act prohibits unjust discrimination by railroads as to the rates for the carriage of passengers or freights, and authorizes proceedings for any violation of this act before and under the direction of the railroad commissioners.

The same board, by another act, is empowered to regulate warehouses in Minnesota, and to inspect the weighing and handling of grain in said state.

A general act provides for the incorporation of villages, to supersede one of like character, which had been declared by the Supreme Court of Minnesota unconstitutional.

An important act provides, that all foreign corporations transacting business within the State of Minnesota, or which by any general or special act are deemed to be domestic corporations, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars for every application made to remove any suit, or proceeding, into the Federal Court, and shall furthermore, forfeit all right to transact business within the State, and be liable to a penalty of not less than one thousand, nor more than ten thousand dollars for each day that said corporation shall do business within the state after such forfeiture. Every foreign corporation now or hereafter doing business in Minnesota shall have the same and no greater rights, privileges, and immunities, than other domestic corporations, and shall in all