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14.] 3. Reports of committees.

4. Bills and resolutions ready for a second reading.

5. Bills on their passage.

6. Reports in possession of the Council, which offer grounds for a bill, are to be taken up, that the bill may be ordered in.

7. Bills or other matters before the Council, and unfinished the preceding day.

8. These matters being despatched, for expediting business, the general file of bills and other papers are then taken up, agreeably to their first introduction to the Council."

On motion of Mr. Stockton,

The petition of sundry inhabitants of Macomb county, praying for the incorporation of township No. 2 north, range 12 east, into a separate township, by the name of Bloomfield, presented on the 10th instant, was referred to the committee on territorial affairs.

Mr. Doty presented a petition from the supervisors of the county of Brown, praying for the passage of a law authorizing them to hold a meeting and levy a tax upon the estate in said county, and to settle the claims chargeable against the county. The petition was referred to the committee on the judiciary.

Mr. Doty presented a petition from the members of the bar of the counties of Crawford and Iowa, together with a memorial and sundry resolutions adopted at a public meeting held at Mineral Point, on the 16th of October, 1833, praying for the abolition of the county courts of said counties, and for the institution of a circuit court in each of them, to be held by a competent judge, with an adequate salary: to hold three terms a year in the county of Iowa, and two terms a year in the county of Crawford.

The petition, memorial, and resolutions were referred to the committee on the judiciary.

Mr. Millington presented a petition from the inhabitants of township No. 3 south, range 4 east, in the county of Washtenaw, praying that the said township may be organized into a separate township by the name of Freedom, and the inhabitants authorized to transact the business of the township within its limits.

The petition was referred to the committee on territorial affairs.

On motion of Mr. Martin,

Resolved, That the territorial committee be instructed to report a memorial to Congress, praying the erection of the state of Michigan, and the establishment of the Territorial government of Wiskonsin.

Mr. Stockton submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the admission of this territory into the Union on equal footing with the several states thereof, by

1. Providing for taking a census of the inhabitants of the territory.