REPORT. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STATE AUDITORS, To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of Michigan: } In obedience to the requirements of law, the undersigned respectfully submit the following Report, showing the proceedings of the Board of State Auditors for the fiscal year ending the 30th day of November, A. D. 1864. JAMES B. PORTER, Secretary of State, JOHN OWEN, State Treasurer, SAMUEL S. LACEY, Com. State Land Office. Annual Settlement with the State Treasurer. The Board of State Auditors, for the purpose of making an annual settlement with the State Treasurer, met at the office of the Secretary of State on the 22d day of January, A. D. 1864. Present, Hon. James B. Porter, Secretary of State, Hon. Emil Anneke, Auditor General, and Hon. Samuel S. Lacey, Commissioner of the State Land Office. The Hon. John Owen, State Treasurer, having exhibited his account current with the State of Michigan, and the same having been compared by the Board, with the books of the Auditor General, we find that during the fiscal year ending the 30th day of November, 1863, the State Treasurer has received into the Treasury, the sum of three millions four hundred eighty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty cents, and that he has disbursed three millions one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and fiftytwo cents, showing a balance in the Treasury of three hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and eight cents, for which balance he exhibited duly accredited vouchers and certificates. G. & C. Merriam vs. the State of Michigan. The parties in this case, claimed as due them, the sum of $559 09, to balance an account against the State for 2,000 Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries, furnished the State in the years 1858 and 1859, together with the sum of $134 18 interest on said balance, from March 1st, 1859, to March 1st, 1863. The claim was accompanied by a memorial of the parties, G. & C. Merriam, setting forth in full its nature and the action of the Legislature in regard thereto. The memorial and account aforesaid were verified by the affidavits of G. & C. Merriam. After duly canvassing the claim aforesaid, the Board awarded G. & C. Merriam the sum of $435 09, the amount shown to be due by the vouchers in the Department of Public Instruction, for dictionaries received and distributed by the agents of the State. In the matter of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railway Company, and the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company. Whereas, An Act of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, approved March 17, 1863, conferring certain lands, rights and privileges upon the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Com pany, contains the following provision in section 2 of said act: "Provided, That said Railroad Company pay the Directors of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railway Company for its surveys, maps and field notes, such sum in money, or in lands from said grant, as the Board of State Auditors shall decide on a hearing of the parties to be just and fair; and said Board shall determine whether said sum shall be paid in money or in land, and if in land, they shall appoint an agent to select and appraise the same, at the expense of the parties." And whereas, The said parties, the Marquette and Ontonagon Railway Company, by Thos. W. Lockwood, and the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, by L. H. Morgan, appeared before us, the Board of State Auditors, at Lansing, on the 24th day of November, 1863, and submitted their respective cases, under said proviso. Now, therefore, the Board award and determine: First. That the award shall be of money and not of land. Second. That the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company shall pay to the Directors of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railway Company, for their surveys, maps and field notes, the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars in satisfaction of said proviso. And we further award and determine, that the payment of said sum shall be made upon the delivery to said Board of Auditors of the remaining materials of said survey, which are now in the possession of Asa W. Wiles, the former engineer of said Marquette and Ontonagon Railway Co.; and also upon the like delivery of any field notes of the exploration of mineral lands on the line of the said railway survey, in the possession of said Company or of said Wiles. Whereas, A certain attachment, in which Asa W. Wiles is plaintiff, and the Marquette and Ontonagon Railway Co. are defendants, issued on the third day of October, 1863, and served upon Joseph S. Fay, President, and Joseph F. Greenough, Treasurer of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, attaching the "goods, effects and credits of said Railway Company, in the hands or possession of said Railroad Company," is now |