MICIIKJAN. 





MhMIKJAN*. Th iato tho State 



y (luring th- lisoal year, ending Novera- 

 re $2,879,889.98. Expenditures, 

 lunco in tho treasury 

 l.sn, which was $111,605.51 in cx- 

 : ho commencement of tho year. 

 i and Amdable debt amounts to 

 during tlie year of 

 t!n iiii-n-ase of cash in the treasury, 

 .idini,' tho heavy expenditures for 

 bounties and other war purposes. Tho increaso 

 ;te debt during tho war was about 

 $1,000,000 only. Tho demands of tho State 

 -t tho national Government for military 

 v still unsettled, but the settle- 

 ment is be'iim' vi-Mi-oti-ly urged by the State 

 authorities. The Auditor-General estimates 

 that in future tho receipts on account of the 

 ! funds, and the tax derived from the 

 sinking fund (three-sixteenths of a mill on the 

 taxable property), will bo sufficient to pay tho 

 ;s items of indebtedness as they fall due. 

 All the educational funds are received by tho 

 State as trustee, and the interest applied an- 

 nually to the purposes to which tho funds aro 

 devoted. The amount of each of the funds, in- 

 cluding sums due from purchasers on land con- 

 tracts, is now as follows : 



University fund $539, 270 02 



Normal School fund. 65,996 69 



Primary School fund 2,175,025 42 



The taxes levied on property for all purposes, 

 during tho year were $581,922.97, on an assessed 

 valuation of about $308,000,000. Specific taxes 

 collected as follows, besides those paid by 

 mining companies in the co'unties : from railroad 

 companies, $100,667.14; from banks, $900 ; from 

 insurance companies, $-40,039.74. Only one 

 bank is now in operation under the State laws, 

 and this issues no bills. The tolls collected at 

 - nit Ste. Marie Canal were $23,069.54. 

 The official estimates for the ensuing fiscal year 

 arc: receipts, $1,622,127.77; expenditures, in- 

 cluding $511,379.85 on account of State in- 

 luess, $1,031,133.60. 



The Republican State Convention met at 

 Detroit, August 80th, and, besides resolutions 

 complimentary to the soldiers of tho Union, tho 

 Stato administration, and the State delegation 

 in Congress, adopted tho following : 



Resolved, That, defeated in the field, the enemy 

 has renewed the struggle through the ballot-box, and 

 by political machinations aims at the governance of 

 that which it failed to destroy. In this crisis, it be- 

 hooves us to stand together as firmly as in the sup- 

 pression of the rebellion, and relying upon those 

 who, in the peril of the Republic, proved themselves 

 worthy of our trust, go straight onward with tho 

 1 "Viil masses of the country, confident that the same 

 i, energy, and fidelity, that sufficed to save us 

 from our armed foes, wfll protect us against the strata- 

 gems of our political opponents, and that through 

 I ho triumph of our principles, tho Union of our 

 . newly cemented by tho blood of their chil- 

 dren, will bo firmly established on the enduring foun- 

 ibtion of justice and liberty. 



Resolved, That, by their "acts of treason and rebel- 

 lion, and by their erection of governments in hostility 

 to the United States, the rebel communities dis- 



! their civil society, abrogated their political 

 iiiititutioiM, and left t.. , without govern- 



known to tho Cotuttfation, or recognized by 

 the Government of the United .States ; that to Con- 

 gress alone belongs the imperative duty of declarit!'' 

 when any such State is properly reorganized, ana 

 any government therein is legitimately constitut>-<l, 

 BO as to resume its former political relations with the 

 National Government, and of deciding when Senators 

 and Representatives from any such State are entitled 

 to admission ; that in the determination of such ques- 

 tions it is the right, as the duty of Congress to guard 

 against future danger to the peace and stability of 

 the Republic, and such State ought to be recognized 

 as fit to enjoy the privileges belonging to any .State 

 iu this Union, only when the people thereof shall 

 have by their conduct given clear and satisfactory 

 proof that they loyally accept the situation, and have 

 evinced an honest disposition to abide by the results 

 of the conflict, not only as involved in their physi- 

 cal defeat, but in the triumph of the great prin- 

 ciples which have been maintained and settled by the 

 war. 



Resolved, That, in the rehabilitation of the rebel 

 communities, it is the first and highest duty of the 

 Government to look to and provide for the protec- 

 tion of those who under persecution and oppres- 

 sion remained loyal to the United States, and that 

 as one result of the struggle has been the emancipa- 

 tion of millions of human beings, who are in a great 

 degree incapable of self-protection in the midst of a 

 hostile element, no scheme of restoration ought to be 

 approved which leaves them naked to their rebel 

 enemies ; since, as citizens of the United States, they 

 are entitled to its protection in securing equality be- 

 fore the law in tho maintenance of life, liberty, and 

 property, the common and inalienable rights of man- 

 kind. 



Resolved, That we approve the constitutional 

 amendment lately proposed by Congress for the ac- 

 ceptance of the States. The change in basis of rep- 

 resentation is imperatively demanded by the altered 

 condition of the people of the nation ; and the ex- 

 clusion from office of leading rebels and actual per- 

 jured traitors, is not only a measure of justice and 

 security eminently proper, but of unexampled 

 mercy, as the mildest and most generous terms of 

 amnesty and oblivion ever offered to a rebellious 

 enemy. 



Resolved, That, while it is the duty of the United 

 States to cause existing neutrality laws to be re- 

 spected, yet it is not required that those laws shall 

 be so framed as to render special benefits to other 

 nations, which are not accorded to us by them, and 

 especially are we not bound to be particularly re- 

 gardful of the interests of those nations that during 

 our late civil struggle manifested an unfriendly 

 spirit towards us, and an undue bias in favor of our 

 enemies; and we, therefore, ask the Congress of the 

 United States to review those statutes, and cause 

 them to conform to the strict rule of justice and fair 

 neutrality. 



Resolved, That wo most heartily sympathize with 

 the movement of the laboring men of our country to 

 shorten tho hours of toil, and wo believe that Il- 

 lation for the accomplishment of this object will aid 

 to improve the condition of the working classes, and 

 be in no wise detrimental to the interests of the 

 country or to capital. 



Resolved, That we regard the conditions embraced 

 in the Congressional plan of reconstruction as funda- 

 mental, and indispensable to the future peace of tho 

 country, and securing as they do by constitutional 

 amendment tho civil rights of all citizens of the Uni- 

 <ad States, tho right of life, liberty, and property, 

 everywhere under tho flag the exclusion of such 

 traitors a, while in high places, committed perjurvto 

 enact treason representation in Congress that shall 

 bo equal and just to all the guaranty and security 

 of the national debt these propositions, one and all, 



