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152 Resolved, That the present session of the Legislative Council shall terminate on the day of March, 1834.

Resolved, That the second session of the sixth Legislative Council shall commence on the  day of January, 1834, at the Capitol in the city of Detroit.

The engrossed bill to amend "an act to regulate highways," approved April 17, 1833, being read the third time,

On motion of Mr. Britain, the vote upon the question of engrossing and reading the said bill the third time, taken yesterday, was reconsidered.

Mr. Haseall moved to lay the bill on the table. This motion was disagreed to.

Mr. Haseall moved that the said bill be engrossed and read the third time tomorrow. This motion was also disagreed to.

On motion of Mr. Martin, the following was inserted as the first section of the said bill:

1. That any two commissioners of highways of any township may make any order in execution of the powers conferred in said act.

The bill, so amended, was read the third time and passed.

The following bills were considered in committee of the whole, reported to the Council, engrossed, read the third time, and passed:

A bill to extend the time for laying out territorial roads, and for other purposes;

A bill to incorporate the Portage Canal Company.

The Council resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill to amend an act to regulate taverns, approved April 23d, 1833; and, after some time spent therein, the committee rose, and Mr. Doty reported, that the committee of the whole had had the said bill under consideration and instructed him to report the same with amendments.

The Council having concurred in the said amendments, Mr. Hascall moved further to amend the first section, by adding to it a proviso, allowing appeals to the judges of the circuit courts by applicants for permits to keep taverns, when refused by the township boards, and authorizing and requiring the said judges to grant them, if they are satisfied that a tavern is necessary at the place designated, and that the applicant is of good moral character and of sufficient ability to keep a tavern.

And on the question, will the Council agree to the said amendment? it was decided in the affirmative, as follows:

Yeas: Messrs. Britain, Doty, Durocher, Farnsworth, Hascall, Martin, Moran, Stockton, M'Donell, president—9.

Nays: Messrs. Bacon, Millington, Renwick, Satterlee—4.

Mr. Renwick moved to strike out of the bill all after the enacting clause.