Which motion did not prevail.

Mr. Koon then voted as recorded above.

On motion of Mr. Warner,

The title was amended by striking out the word "seventeenth," and inserting in place thereof the word "sixteenth." Title, as amended, agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Jenks,

By a vote of two-thirds of all the Senators elect, the bill was ordered to take immediate effect.

GENERAL ORDER.

On motion of Mr. A. Smith,

The Senate went into committee of the whole, on the general order,

Mr. A. Smith in the chair.

After some time spent therein, the committee rose, and through the chairman, made the following report:

The committee of the whole have had under consideration the following bills:

1. Senate bill No. 176, entitled

A bill to amend section 19, of chapter 172, of the revised statutes of 1846, being section 6176 of the compiled laws, relative to the salaries of officers and Agent of the State prison;

2. House bill No. 133, entitled

A bill to attach Manitou county to the thirteenth judicial circuit;

3. House bill No. 95, entitled

A bill to provide for the laying out and establishing the Juniata branch of the "Port Sanilac and Tuscola State road;"

4. House bill No. 109, entitled

A bill to prohibit, discourage and punish prize fighting within the State of Michigan;

5. House bill No. 149, entitled

A bill to provide for the laying out and establishing a State road from Caro to Hurd's Corners, in Tuscola county;

6. House bill No. 85, entitled

A bill for the protection of fish in the waters of the inland lakes and streams of the county of Kalamazoo;

Have made sundry amendments thereto, and have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate, asking. concurrence therein, and recommend their passage.

The committee of the whole have also had under consideration the following bill:

7. House manuscript bill, entitled

A bill to change the name of Eva E. Strong to Rebecca. Barnes, and to constitute her heir-at-law of Henry S. Barnes. and Sarah Barnes;

Have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate, without recommendation.

The committee of the whole have also had under consideration. the following bills:

8. Senate bill No. 174, entitled

A bill to incorporate the village of Chelsea;

9. Senate bill No. 175, entitled

A bill authorizing the board of control of the State Reform School to convey certain real estate;

10. House bill No. 132, entitled

A bill to repeal act No. 138, of the session laws of 1865, entitled "An act to attach the county of Manitou to the county. Leelanaw, for certain judicial purposes," approved March 10, 1865;

11. House bill No. 33, entitled

A bill to aid in the completion of a bridge across Cass river, near Cass city, Tuscola county;

12. House bill No. 142, entitled

A bill to provide for laying out and establishing a State road

in Eaton county, and opening the same;

13. House bill No. 135, entitled

A bill to organize the county of Benzie;

14. House bill No. 157, entitled

A bill to authorize the township of Swan Creek, in the county of Saginaw, to aid in the construction of a bridge across the

Tittabawassee river, in said county, by issuing the bonds of said township, and to provide for the payment thereof;

15. House bill No. 148, entitled

A bill to provide for laying out and establishing a State road in Eaton, Ingham and Jackson counties, and opening the same; 16. House bill No. 153, entitled

A bill to authorize the Auditor General to issue new tax deeds, in place of those lost;

17. House bill No. 146, entitled

A bill to change the time of holding probate court in the county of Leelanaw;

18. House bill No. 140, entitled

A bill to repeal sections 1 and 2, of act No.471, of the session laws of 1867, entitled an act appropriating certain non-resident highway taxes for the improvement of certain State roads, and providing for the construction and improvement thereof, and to amend section three of the same act;

19. House bill No. 143, entitled

A bill to organize the county of Wexford, and the townships of Hanover, Wexford, Colfax and Springville, therein;

20. House manuscript bill, entitled

A bill to legalize the action of the board of supervisors of Ingham county, in discontinuing a certain piece of State road; 21. Senate bill No. 147, entitled

A bill to provide for the vacating of cemetery plats and cemetery grounds lying within the incorporated limits of cities; 22. Senate bill No. 150, entitled

A bill to limit the operation of the first proviso to an act approved March 27, 1867, to amend section one of an act entitled "An act relative to laying out, altering and discontinuing highways," approved March 15th, 1861;

23. House bill No. 91, entitled

A bill to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act rendering persons disqualified for sitting as jurors in certain cases," approved March 27, 1867, being act No. 129, of the session laws of 1867;

24. Senate bill No. 144, entitled

A bill to assume the institution of learning at Kalamazoo (known as the "Michigan Female Seminary,") as a State institution;

Have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate, without amendment, and recommend their passage.

The committee of the whole have also had under consideration the following:

1. House joint resolution No. 16, entitled

Joint resolution urging upon our Senators and Representatives in Congress the importance of securing to certain Indians and other persons, their rights to Indian reservation lands in Muskegon county;

Have made an amendment thereto, and have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate, asking concurrence therein, and recommend its passage.

The committee of the whole have also had under consideration the following joint resolutions:

2. House joint resolution No. 17, entitled

Joint resolution requesting our Representatives in Congress to call the attention of the Indian Department to the necessity

of having the Indians of this State vaccinated, &c.;

3. Senate joint resolution No. 16, entitled

Joint resolution asking an appropriation to aid the Geological Survey of this State;

4. House joint resolution No. 13, entitled

Joint resolution for the relief of Alanson Holbrook;

Have directed their chairman to report the same back to the Senate, without amendment, and recommend their passage. AMOS SMITH, Chairman.

Report accepted and committee discharged.

On motion of Mr. Warner,

The Senate concurred, in gross, in the amendments made to the first six named bills, and the first named joint resolution. On motion of Mr. Peirce,

The seventh named bill was laid on the table.

Mr. Standish moved that the second named bill be put upon its immediate passage;

Which motion prevailed.

The bill was then read a third time and passed, a majority of all the Senators elect voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as fol

The title of the bill was amended by adding at the end thereof the words "and to attach Osceola county to the fourteenth judicial circuit."

Title, as amended, agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Williams,

By a vote of two-thirds of all the Senators elect, the bill was ordered to take immediate effect.

The remaining bills and joint resolutions were placed on the order of third reading.

By unanimous consent, the committee on enrolled bills submitted the following report:

The committee on enrolled bills, to whom was referred

A bill to incorporate the city of Manistee,

Respectfully report the same herewith, correctly enrolled, and ask to be discharged from further consideration of the subject.

GEO. THOMAS, Chairman.

Report accepted and committee discharged.