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The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
resolutions be sent by the Governor of this State to the Legislature of Michigan. Ordered to be printed. Resolutions of Inquiry.--The following resolutions of inquiry were adopted and referred: By Mr. Wickham, of limiting the period of applying for appeals to the Courts of Appeals; by Mr. Coghill, of repealing so much of the law regulating examining Courts as requires the reduction to writing the testimony of the witnesses adduced at the trials in said Courts. Petition.--Mr. Christian presented the petition of John B. Donovan, and other citizens of Matthews county, praying the passage of a law for relief of Commissioners of the Revenue in said county. The order of the day being called for, the bill for the relief of the Banks of the Commonwealth was taken up. Mr. Coghill moved to reconsider the vote by which the 5th section of the bill had been adopted, in order to offer a substitute. The proposition gave rise to a debate of some length, in which Messrs
The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of delegates. (search)
cKenzie, which was to strike out the sentence "but no new or additional subscription shall be made to any joint stock company." Mr. Martin moved to amend in lien thereof by striking out all the preceding, after the enactment clause, embracing the amendment of Mr. McKenzie. The amendment of Mr. McKenzie being withdrawn, the question recurred on the proposition of Mr. Henry to strike out. A long discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Martin of H., Caperton, Chapman, Anderson, and Christian advocated, and Messrs. Kaufman and Yerby opposed striking out. The question to thus amend was decided in the affirmative — ayes 74, noes 38. Mr. Martin then moved to further amend by inserting in the 16th line, after the sentence "five hundred thousand dollars," the words "provided that, to the extent of said amount, it shall be in lieu of the appropriation made for the Covington and Ohio Railroad in 1860." The amendment was adopted. After sundry amendments were offered, the