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1846! includes accounts of building railroads, grain output from recently destroyed Atlas Mills in Clinton, MI
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Page 3 - ... may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands in this State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all the rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools throughout the State.
Page 2 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this state, for the support of schools...
Page 3 - University ; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the support of said University, with such branches as the public convenience may demand, for the promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be authorized by the terms of such grant.
Page 15 - ... for a fractional township, containing a greater quantity of land than one-quarter, and not more than one-half of a township, one-half section; and for a fractional township containing a greater quantity of land than one entire section, and not more than one-quarter of a township one-quarter section of land...
Page 5 - ... so made as aforesaid, and also after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, the legislature shall apportion anew the representatives and senators among the several counties and districts according to the number of white inhabitants.
Page 1 - If the child is not then forthcoming, a summons follows. The parent is cited before the court ; and if he has no excuse and refuses compliance, the child is taken from him and sent to school, the father to prison.
Page 33 - Without the teachers conservative influence, under the best legislation, the great mass of the people will be lawless; while the tendency of his labors is to qualify the rising generation who constitute our future freemen and our country's hope, to render an enlightened, a cheerful and a ready obedience to the high claims of civil law. The well qualified, faithful teacher, becomes the right arm of the Legislature.
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| Title | Joint Documents ... for the Year ... |
| Author | Michigan. Legislature |
| Published | 1846 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jun 2007 |
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