The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-01-02

accrue hundred and ktyivc thousand dollars
hundred thousand otd for the benefit of the
organized counties the Lower Ensula be expended in
draining and retaining the Stat &yamp Lands and placed
the at the disposal of the Officers by
them applied that purpose unt h rules and regulations
as they might prescribe Under tprovison of the law the
Board have let three contracts for lining certain
two Saniac and in Bay Cout The completing
the work has yet expired 1t @icved that these bitches
when completed will reclaim Eng into market Swamp
Land enough than defra1c expense Of drainage
The aggregate length of these dcks twenty-five miles
their capacity twelve feet broad four feet deep and
aggregate expense when complettwl be forty thousand
doars-three thousand two hunt& dollars be paid in
money and the balance in Swamp 81 al its minimum price
These file in the oSf the Secretary of State
One mile of the ditch in Bay COuntfd four miles of
the bitches in Sanlac, have already b. completed
RAIL RoADi
The Act disposng of certain grA of land made to the
State for Railroad purposes by Act Congress- approved June
3D. 1886 demands your consideration act after granting
the lands Railroad Compant Board Con
troll whose duty il shall be made and dispose Of such
lands in aid of the construction of ttaoresad Railroads
the this act provided and u and all other
necessary and proper respecting the obstruction budng
OF said Railroads" The Eleventh. son of the Act is as
follows:
"Should either said Railroad connies fail to accept said
lands tine of this Act within fty days fail make
the survey and maps by the first day December next
to construct its entire line of road ny part thereof in the
time and required in such H. said Board of Control
shall have the power and it crcbyadc their duty de-
clare said lands far they have heen sodorfeited
the State and said Board of Control hereby required
confer said lands upon other party under the
general regulations and restriction of As Act No portion
the law aemps to point out the mOdand by which
tins section can be enforced The sec section of the Act by
It's terms dots Of grants TO- cOntersDon and in the
different Railroad Companies therein rned the these
lands.
1t would that ~opcrlv belongs to the
Judiciary determine this question forfeiture Suppose
disputed question of fact should ween this Board and
the companies How To bettlcd Where is the
IL. Il
Can the Board udiciay and heary and determine the
matter: II for the interest OF the Gate that these railroad
companies. long they continued work should be
disturbed in the completion of the roc and any attempt
the part M the Board declare their rht these lands
ieited would have been dsasris the best inter
eSts Of The state the effect would been stop all
further prosecution Of the work until b question of forfeiture
could h ndcially settled Enertanir did doubts of
the cosut:oatv of the eleventh scctn said act, and
amuch other competent party nht have said lands
forfeited the State and conferred upnim under the gen
eral regulations and restrictions of the Ct RETAINED from
convenr the Board, and action h;huS far been taken
under said section Upon the third av September last past
the Flint and Pcre Marquette Railway ompany notified
that twenty continuous miles of It's completed and
requested examine the and i've the Company the
certificate contemplated by the srvenH section Of the act
Before examining the road submitted ttt Attorney General
for his official opinion, the question w,tl had the authority
make The certificate contemplated hyhe seventh section of
said without first being satisfied TT the twenty miles Of
road had been completed prior hers day Of December
1859 l~ opinion copy OF which is fcwit submitted)
CURED with my views upon the subjos the
that had the authority Upon the 5liay Of September 1860
examined the road and found that twenty continuous miles
thereof from East Saginaw towardsilhe City Of Flint,
completed the d gnatrd th" net, and To
he Company tie proper certificate Subsequently, and upon
he 2st day =" December, 1860 al IT. request OF the Anboy
Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad ompany, examined its
road ami found that twenty connUus miles from the City Of
Dwosso towards the City Of LansI were completed in like
manner ami gave this Company similar certificate. No
her road has made application tr certificate under said
Congress
declares that they shall be- exclusively applied in the cosruc
ion of road for and account OF which such lands
lcreby granted and shall be- disposed of only the work pro-
rresseS and the shall h. applied other purpose
whatsoever IL further decre> that any said roads
completed within years further sales shall be made
md the lands unSod shall the United States Nearly
nehal o the limited by tie act Of Congress has already
arS and from present appearances the groI body of these
andS wiz revert important the interests OF Michigan
hat these, roads should bc completed and that these lands
should ali be used i'll their construction Your policy towards
hem should be liberal Their construction would add millions
# dollars to the wealth of State and open settlement
great part oi northern wilderness.
MILITARY DEPARTyENr
The annual report the Adiuan General the Commander
Chief shows that the enrolled Militia of the State number
ne hundred and ten thousand able boiied The Lcgisa-
Of 1889 appropriated three thousand dollars per annun
the encouragement of volunteer Uniformed companies This
has had good effect We have forty of these compa-
es under excellent state Of Discipline recommend that
increase the appropriation to ten thousand dollars per
um II is upon the Citizen Soldey" that rely for
protection should resort to become necessary
hese independent companies, tie hour of danger would
nucleus around which the enrolled militia could gather
he history of the world teaches tina, that nation is
expected which is able and ready protect hcr citizens
her rights at the caInon mouth if
We live upon the borders Of the powerful nation the
fobe Seven hundred miles of the boundary line
etween Great Britain and the Unite States We peace
With the whole world but this peace may last year True
wisdom requires to put military department upon fir
Ter basis An appropriation of thousand dollars per