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158 but the enterprise, whatever it may he, should be left entirely to individual exertion, and to that spirit of competition which never fails to be awakened and rendered sagacious by personal interest or the alluring prospects of gain."

G. B. PORTER.

March 7,1834.

Mr. Doty moved the adoption of the following resolution:

Resolved, That the reasons assigned by his excellency, George B. Porter, for refusing his signature to the act to amend the "act to provide for the assessment and collection of territorial taxes," are not satisfactory to this Council.

The motion being seconded by Mr. Farnsworth, the said resolution was, after debate, on motion of Mr. Millington, laid on the table.

Mr. Millington, from the committee on enrolment, reported, as correctly enrolled,

An act to incorporate the stockholders of the Michigan Insurance Company of Detroit;

An act to incorporate the Portage Canal Company;

An act to establish certain territorial roads and for other purposes;

An act to provide for making alterations in territorial roads;

An act to incorporate the Detroit and Pontiac Rail Road Company;

An act in addition to an act for the punishment of crime;

An act to repeal an act to provide for establishing seats of justice, and the act amendatory thereof;

An act to extend the time for laying out territorial roads and for other purposes;

An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate highways," approved April 17, 1833;

An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors, approved March 20, 1833;

An act to amend an act to regulate taverns, approved April 23, 1833.

The president announced, that he had presented the said bills to the governor for his approbation.

Mr. Farnsworth, from the committee on territorial affairs, reported the following resolutions, which were severally read, and, after debate, adopted:

Whereas, The subject of entering into a State Government has been long agitated, and the people of this territory are anxiously and justly desirous of exercising the rights of self-government, as secured to them by the ordinance of 1787; and whereas in the event, that the application now pending before Congress for a state government shall fail, it will become both expedient and necessary that a census should be taken, in order to enable the territory and