ads. Isaac Willard. The complainants in this case, claim to have a prior mortgage on a piece of land mortgaged as security under the general banking law, to the Auditor General. Schedule C. Criminal Matters. 1. Hillsdale circuit: the People vs. Homer Rowell. Indictment for assault and battery, with an offensive weapon, with intent to kill; tried at last April term, found guilty, and sentenced to four years imprisonment in the state prison. 2. Hillsdale circuit: the same vs. the same. maiming; not tried. Indictment for 3. Jackson county circuit: the People vs. Levi D. Smith, Albert Clark and Horatio N. Baldwin. Iudictment for conspiracy to defraud; found at last April term. 4. Jackson county circuit: the People vs. Jira Payn, Chas. H. McClure, Porter G. Hughes, Abel F. Fitch, John S. Boyd and Paul B. Ring. A like indictment for conspiracy to defraud; found at same time. In both the above cases, motions to quash the indictment were made by the defendants' attorney at the last October term, which were argued and overruled by the court. Demurrers were then put in, and a motion was made to continue the causes until next term, which was refused by the court. The causes were then argued by defendants' counsel, and continued until the next term, as I have been informed. Owing to sickness I was compelled to leave the court, and took no part in the argu ment. 5. Jackson county circuit: the People vs. Levi D. Smith, Albert Clark and Horatio N. Baldwin, Abel F. Fitch, Samuel T. Hooper and Gould Butler. Indictment for felony under the general banking law; found last April term. 6. Jackson circuit: the People vs. Jira Payn, Paul B. Ring, Porter G. Hughes, Abel F. Fitch, Phineas Farrand, Wm. Ford, and Walter Budington. The like in all things. In both these cases, motions to quash were made by defendants' counsel at October term; which, after argument, were overruled; demurrers were then filed, and a motion was made to continue them until next term, on the ground that my own sickness had prevented me from making any preparations for the argument, and that I was then unable to argue the demurrers. This was refused, and, as I have been informed, the demurrers were argued by defendants' counsel, and the demurrers sustained. In both cases, however, it is believed that public justice requires the prosecution of the offences; and it is intended to prefer new indictments before the grand jury of Jackson county, at its next session. 7. Monroe circuit: the People vs. Pamela Brown and Milton N. Brown. Indictment as principal and accessory, in poisoning Amanda Brown; tried at Monroe circuit last June 'term, and Milton W. Brown acquitted of being accessory, and Pamela Brown removed to the county of Lenawee for trial. At the October term of that circuit, the cause was postponed until December, when a special term was held, and the trial came on upon the merits, and the jury rendered a verdict of acquittal. 8. Washtenaw circuit: the People vs. George Howe and Andrew G. Irwin. Indictment for felony, under the general banking law. This cause will be ready for trial next terin. Indict Indict 9. Lenawee circuit: the People vs. Henry C. Fuller. ment for passing counterfeit money; tried at last June term. 10. Lenawee circuit: the People vs. John Lapham. ment for passing counterfeit money; tried at last June term. Both the above trials were attended to at the particular request of the District Attorney for that county. (No. 6.) Report of the Judiciary committee on the bill and report of the select committee relative to the collection of taxes in Wayne county. The committee on the judiciary, to whom was referred a bill from the select committee, authorizing the supervisors of Wayne county, to perforin certain duties therein mentioned, report: That the remedy provided by said bill is not contained in the provisions of a bill reported by this committee, entitled "A bill to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes for the year 1838, and for other purposes," and they therefore concur with said select committee in recommending the passage of the bill reported by said committee. GEORGE C. GIBBS, Chairman Judiciary Committee. The special committee to whom was referred the petition of the township board of the township of Dearborn, in the county of Wayne, beg leave to report: That for some reason unknown to the committee, the tax list and warrant of collection for said township, was not made out at the meeting of the board of supervisors in October last; leaving said township without authority to supply the deficiency. Your committee are of the opinion, that the taxes ought to be collected, notwithstanding the legal measures for that purpose have been neglected, and therefore beg leave to report the annexed bill. (No. 7.) Report of the expenditures on the St. Clair and Romeo Railroad, January 10th, 1839. State of Michigan, county of St. Clair, ss. The undersigned, Thomas Palmer, president, and Horatio N. Monson, secretary of the St. Clair and Romeo railroad company, being duly sworn, do depose and say,-That the total amount of expenditures of every kind on said road up to the first day of January instant, have been (so far as they can now be ascertained, some accounts remaining yet unsettled,) about nine thousand dollars. In witness whereof, they have affixed their seals, this tenth day hereunto set their hands and of January. A. D. 1839. Subscribed and sworn to, the day and year above written, before me, THO'S PALMER, [L. s.] A. E. HATHON, N. P., W. C. (No. 8.) State Bank Charters. House of Representatives, January 10, 1839. On motion of Mr. L. Allen, Resolved, That the committee on printing be authorized to cause to be printed one hundred copies of the charter of the State Bank of Indiana, and the same number of the charter of the State Bank of Tennessee, for the use of the members of this House. BANK OF INDIANA. An act establishing a State Bank. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That there shall be, and is hereby created and established, a state bank with ten branches, which, or so many as shall be organized under this charter, to be known and styled the "State Bank of Indiana," and shall continue as such until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Sec. 2. The directors of the state bank first appointed are authorized, and it is hereby made their duty, to locate one branch of said bank at such place within each of the districts hereinafter named as they may deem expedient, to wit: District No. One, composed of the counties of Marion, Johnson, Shelby, Hancock, Madison, Hamilton, Boon, and Hendricks. District No. Two, composed of the counties of Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Switzerland, and Decatur. District No. Three, composed of the counties of Union, Fayette, Rush, Wayne, Henry, Delaware, and Randolph. District No. Four, composed of the counties of Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, Bartholomew and Jackson. District No. Five, composed of the counties of Floyd, Harrison, Washington, Crawford, and Clark. District No. Six, composed of the counties of Posey, Vanderburgh, Perry, Spencer, and Warrick. District No. Seven, composed of the counties of Knox, Sullivan, Daviess, Gibson, Pike and Dubois. District No. Eight, composed of the counties of Orange, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan, Martin and Greene. District No. Nine, composed of the counties of Vigo, Clay, Owen, Putnam, Park and Vermillion. District No. Ten, composed of the counties of Tippecanoe, Fountain, Montgomery, Warren, Carroll, and Clinton, and of the |