Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-01-12

" euC CAtcttuS laws tCidltc W
granting licenses to theatrical exhibitions, pub
lie shows &c.
BY their provisions township boards, and the
corporate Boards of Villages, are empowered to
license theatrical exhibitions, public shows and
such other exhibitions as they deem proper, to
which admission is obtained on payment of mo-
ncy, upon such terms and conditions as they
may think Reasonable. ~ ET@E
By. the laws of many of the states, so heavy a
tax is Imposed Ga licenses as effectualy to pre-
vent such exhibitions altogether, or to contne
TO the cities and large towns, and in most OF
the states, persons obtaining licenses for such
purposes, are compelled to pay to the public
treasury what shall seem, in some degree at
least, an equivalent for the privileges conferred;
while the practicable operation of Dir law is
such, that public shows. of almost every grade
I'd character, are licensed as matter of course
application for that purpose, and usually,
believed, upon the payment of a sum mere
ainal. 1t will appear from any calcuIa-
bproachng to accuracy, that an expense
me and money, is annually incurred by our
-ltizens, on account of such exhibitions, exec
ding in alnonnt all disbursements made in sup
port OF the State government, and those who
are permitted to make this heavy draft upon US
render no adequate equivalent: thereforc,I sug
vest the expediency of fixing, by law, tariff
Tices for these licenses ranging upward from
established minimum, in proportion to the
Pulatlon of the county in which application
hall be made therefor. ~ ...s...
( recommend that the county treasurer alone
he empowered to grant such licenses, and that
all moneys received therefor, be paid to the
treasurer Of the proper county, and by him ap-
portioned among the several townships in the
county, to be applied to the purchase of books,
for their respective libraries.
The subject of canal around the falls OF the
St. Mary's, at the outlet of Lake Superior in
this state, will be strongly pressed upon the at
tention of the Legislature.
The importance Of such work can hardly
be over-estimated.
Though essentially national in its character,
the general government has made no provision
for its construction, and there is probably, lit
tie reason to expect appropriations by Congress,
for that object, so long at least as the country
is ivolyed in foreign war.
The State has not the means at command to
meet the expense of such work, and prudence
rs well as good faith towards our present cred
itors forbds resort to loans for such purpose,
even were they known to be accessible.
Private enterprise, and private capital alone,
seem available for opening this channel Oh con-
nection between Lake Superior and the waters
below.
With view to the attainment Of this object,
an act was passed by the last Legislature, gran
ting charter to any persons who might he
found willing to embark in the enterprise.
None, however, have appeared to accept its
terms and organize under its provisions.
1t has been represented that with some mod
ifications of the charter, the stock would be
Immediately taken, the necessary funds provi-
ded, the work be commenced without delay and
carried rapidly forward to completion.
Should such proposals, in tangible form, EN-
anating from responsible sources, be submitted
for your considerations it will then be for you t.
determine, whether the proposed amendment,
can be made consistently with the general in
terest of the state.
OF the nine million acres of land which We
possess in the Upper Peninsula, large par
is described by those who have most thorough
ly explored it, as equal in all respects, for the
purposes of settlement and agriculture, to an,
portion of New England, or the more northern
part of the peninsula.
The interests Of our own state, and indeed,
the whole union, would be promoted byt the set
Element and cultivation of that country, and by
the opening of its mines of copper and othe
valuable metals.
To encourage and foster these inportantsan'
increasing interests, by every means in Its pow
err is the plain duty of the state government.
The productions of the rich and inexhausta
BILE mines of iron, copper and silver, found a
long the shores of Lake Superior-the produc.
too, of the fisheries of that lake, scarcely exec
ded in extent OF value by those of Newfound
land, even, and the lumber from almost bound
less forests of pine and cedar, all must pas,
through the st. Mary's canal when made.
OF such vastmagnitude and Importance is tn,
business of the upper lake likely soon to become
and so indispensable to its prosperity and growth
is the construction of that canal, that it shout,
be encouraged by charter as liberal in its term
as can be granted without jeoparJiDg the jus
rights of the public. $3.50.
cannot permit the present occasion TO pas
without directing your attention, for moment
towards an interesting, ami, think, valuable
class of foreigners, that for the last few months
have been arriving in orr state.
They are a colony of HollanJers, settled il
the county of Ottawa, near Lake Michigan, re
mote from the inhabited parts of the country.
There language is the low Dutch. They ar
ignorant OF our yernacular tongue, and few PEI
sons in our state can act as interpreters of theirs
They are located in thickly tmbered re
gion,without roads, without mills, without mail:
without magistrates or police resulat ions Q
any kind, and indeed without those facilitie
and conveniences that are deemed indispensa
bly, necessary to civilized life, even in its hum
blest conditions.
Still they ask not private charity, nor do the
solicit appropriations from the public treasury
but they do invoke the interposition of state lie
gislation SO far as to extend to them the bene
fits of an organized township government, an
of such opened and constructed highways a
will afford them access to mills, merchants, me
chanics and post-offices.
They are a hardy, Industrious, frugal, mora
and religious people, ofwhat is denominated tb
Free Church of Holland, and like the Pilgrim
1890, came to this country, to escape the in
tolerance of their own, and in quest of libert
of conscience, where no alliance exists betwee
the church and the state, and where they ma
be permitted to worship God in their own wa !
The Colony now numbers about 200
souls, and it is believed, will be increased annu
ally, by many thousands OF their counrymer
should they receive the fostering care of on
government, and tokens of welcome and en-
conragemeut from our people,.
= Il recommend the organization of TOWNSHIP
which shall embrace the principal purchase
made by those colonists. They have now, II
government among them save the restraints 9
religion and the rules of Their church.