ommend him to the Nation as the people's candidate for the Pres idency for another term, subject to the decision of a National Convention.

On motion of Mr. Mason,

The House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

Lansing, Thursday, January 28, 1864.

The House met, pursuant to adjournment, and was called to order by the Speaker.

Prayer by Rev. Mr. Potter.

Roll called: quorum present.

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS.

By Mr. Harmon: petition of David G. Colwell and other citizens of the township of Tyrone, in the county of Livingston, praying for the passage of an act to legalize certain proceedings in regard to payment of bounties;

Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Wheeler: petition praying for a law to allow the township of Park, in St. Joseph county, to take stock in the Schoolcraft and Three Rivers railroad, signed by citizens of Park township;

On motion of Mr. Wheeler,

The petition was laid on the table.

By Mr. Porter: proceedings of the township board of the township of Byron, county of Kent, in regard to raising bounty for volunteers;

Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Winans: remonstrance of Robert Worden, John Peer, S. V. R. Hayes and others, against legalizing the action of the citizens of Green Oak, in voting a tax to raise bounties to pay volunteers, on the ground that sufficient notice was not given of said meeting, and that a majority of the electors of said township did not vote therefor;

Also, remonstrance of W. W. Dean, Elijah Johnson, Harvey Grattan, and other citizens of Green Oak, Livingston county,

against legalizing the action of said township in raising bounties for volunteers, and setting forth such action as informal; Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Jenison: petition of George Smith, Jason Nichols, D. I. Daniels and 53 others, of Watertown, Clinton county, praying for the passage of a law to authorize the said township, to raise a sum of money not to exceed two hundred dollars for each man that has been drafted or may hereafter be drafted, or may hereafter enlist from said township, into the military service of the United States;

Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Denman: memorial of the township of Pokagon, county of Cass, in relation to bounties;

Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Bowen: petition of M. W. Bowen, E. Berry and 100. other citizens of Quincy, Branch county, praying for an act to legalize the action of that township in raising bounty money;

Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Cowan: petition of citizens of Eaton county, asking for the passage of a general or special law empowering them to raise money to aid in the construction of a railroad;

Referred to the committee on banks and incorporations. By Mr. Fellows: petition of A. H. Hill, Chas. P. Russell, Hugh McCall and 75 others, citizens of Alamo in the county of Kalamazo, who furnished the money to pay volunteers en listing into the service of the United States from said township, asking the passage of an act to legalize the proceedings taken by said township to raise and pay the same;

Referred to the committee on ways and means.

By Mr. Howard: petition of P. Ledebar, H. D. Post and 51 others, to incorporate the city of Holland;

On motion of Mr. Howard,

The petition was laid on the table.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

The majority of the select committee of the Senate, and of the committee of ways and meaus of the House, authorized by con

current vote of both branches to act as a joint committee, and to whom was referred so much of the Governor's message "as relates to the legalization of the action of towns and counties in raising bounties for volunteers;" and to whom was also referred, on the part of the Senate, the following memorials and petitions, viz:

Of the board of supervisors of the counties of Midland, Saginaw, Alpena, Lenawee and Kent, asking that certain orders and bonds issued by them to volunteers, or for the payment of bounties to volunteers, by their respective counties, to fill the quotas of said counties under the last call of the President, and all action in reference to said bonds, or to the raising of money for the payment of the same, be legalized;

Of the board of supervisors of the county of Branch, asking that the action of said board may be legalized in offering a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars to each volunteer for said county;

Of the board of supervisors of the county of Saginaw, asking that a law be passed to legalize the action of towns in raising funds to encourage enlistments, and also to legalize all acts passed by said board, or which may hereafter be passed, to facilitate the raising of volunteers;

Of the board of supervisors of Hillsdale county, asking for the passage of a law making bounties uniform throughout the State, and doing away with all subsequent township bounties;

Of the board of supervisors of Montcalm county, asking that a law shall be passed whereby the State shall assume the payment of town and county bonds to volunteers;

Of Nathan Cole and 39 others, tax-payers of West Bloomfield, in the county of Oakland;

Of D. D. Riley and 24 others, citizens of the township of Sherwood, in the county of Branch;

Of A. M. Felt and 59 others, inhabitants of the township of Clayton, in the county of Genesee;

Of the township board of Iosco, in the county of Livingston;

Of the township board of Sharon, in the county of Washte naw;

Of T. C. Carpenter and 90 others, inhabitants of the township of Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph;

Of L. A. Beadle and 97 others, citizens of the township of Ross, in the county of Kalamazoo, asking for the passage of such laws as shall be necessary to authorize and legalize the assessment and collection of taxes in their respective towns, for the payment of bounties to volunteers, or for the payment of moneys which have been advanced for that purpose;

Of John I. Gordon and 23 others, inhabitants of the township of Clayton, in the county of Genesee, asking for the passage of a law authorizing said township to raise by tax, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, to refund the commutation money paid by men drafted Oct. 26th, 1863;

Of the board of supervisors of the county of Oceana, asking that the bonds issued by said county for the payment of bounties, be assumed as a State tax;

Of John McDermid and 10 others, tax payers of the township of Cambria, in the county of Hillsdale, asking for a law to authorize the levying and collecting of a tax not exceeding one thousand dollars, to refund moneys loaned and paid to volunteers, in bounties;

Of the board of supervisors of the county of Cass, asking that the bonds of the county be legalized, and that a law be passed authorizing the levying and collecting of township taxes to redeem the bonds issued by the townships in said county;

Of the township board of Fayette, in the county of Hillsdale; Of John McLouth and 40 other inhabitants and electors of

the township of Wheatland, in the county of Hillsdale;

Of the township board of Adams, in the county of Hillsdale;

Of Sylvester Hoyt, supervisor, and A. J. Bennett, clerk, of the township of De Witt, in the county of Clinton, asking that the action of said township in issuing bonds and borrowing money for the pay of bounties to volunteers, be legalized; and that

they be authorized to raise the necessary amount for the payment of the same, by taxes;

Of S. V. Irwin and 30 others, electors and tax-payers of the township of Albion, in the county of Calhoun;

Of W. H. Bidwell and 20 others, electors and tax-payers of Sheridan, in the county of Calhoun, who furnished the money for that township to pay the bounties voted to be raised and paid by said township to volunteers enlisting in the service of the United States from said township-asking the passage of an act to legalize the proceeding taken by said township to raise and pay the same;

Of Joseph Darwood and 58 others, citizens of the township of Dryden, in the county of Lapeer, asking the enactment of a law authorizing said township to levy taxes on the taxable property of the township, in accordance with a vote of the electors thereof, to pay volunteers and drafted men mustered into the United States for three years, and credited to said township of Dryden, one hundred dollars each, from December 11th, 1862, to the whole number it may require to fill the quotas of said township on any and all calls of the President of the United States, until the end of the rebellion, and to refund to Charles T. Latham and others the amount they have advanced, and interest, to procure substitutes, at the rate of one hundred dollars to each man drafted and credited to the said township of Dryden;

Of A. J. Pullen and 26 others, inhabitants of the township of Romulus, in the county of Wayne, praying that the action of said township in holding special township meeting and raising money by tax upon the taxable property of said township, may be legalized;

Of the township board of St. Charles, in the county of Saginaw;

Of the township board of Webster, in the county of Washtenaw; and

Of P. H. Reeve and 78 others, tax-payers of said township of Webster, asking that the action of said town in reference to