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On the 9th of March, in joint convention, JOHN WHITE and DAVID MERRILL were re-elected register and receiver.

A joint resolution was adopted requiring the receiver to pay the interest due on the ten canal bonds, which had been repudiated by the resolutions of February 18, 1842, and which were rescinded at this session, and providing for the payment of future interest.

Another resolution was also adopted, directing the register to ascertain the number and names of all persons who had purchased canal lands prior to January, 1847, and paid for the same a sum exceeding $1.25 per acre, which sum was to be refunded by the receiver.

By an act approved March 11, 1848, the duties of the gister were to be transferred to the Secretary of State, and those of the receiver to the State Treasurer of the STATE OF WISCONSIN, Within ten days after the first Monday of Janu4.), 1847, in case such officers should be elected and qualified.

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No settlement between the canal company and the Territory having been arrived at, although several attempts were made, those matters of difference, and the various other cognate subjects resulting from the canal grant and the attempt to utilize it, were left as a legacy to the STATE OF WISCONSIN, Whose sovereign attributes as one of the States of the Union were now recognized by the Congress of the Nation.

On the 9th of March, in joint convention, JOHN WHITE and DAVID MERRILL were re-elected register and receiver.

A joint resolution was adopted requiring the receiver to pay the interest due on the ten canal bonds, which had been repudiated by the resolutions of February 18, 1842, and which were rescinded at this session, and providing for the payment of future interest.

Another resolution was also adopted, directing the register to ascertain the number and names of all persons who had purchased canal lands prior to January, 1847, and paid for the same a sum exceeding $1.25 per acre, which sum was to be refunded by the receiver.

By an act approved March 11, 1848, the duties of the register were to be transferred to the Secretary of State, and those of the receiver to the State Treasurer of the STATE OF WISCONSIN, within ten days after the first Monday of January, 1849, in case such officers should be elected and qualified.

Appended to the State constitution, adopted February 1, 1848, were resolutions to the effect that Congress so alter the provisions of the act of June 18, 1838, making the canal grant, that the odd numbered sections unsold might be held and disposed of as part of the 500,000 acres grant, and that the even numbered sections reserved by Congress be offered for sale by the United States for the same minimum price as other public lands of the United States.

That Congress be requested to pass an act whereby the excess price over $1.25 per acre, which may have been paid by the purchasers of any of the even numbered sections which have been sold by the United States, be refunded to the owners thereof, or that they be allowed to enter any of the public lands to an amount equal in value to the excess so paid.

By the act of Congress for the admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union, approved May 29, 1848, the assent of Congress was given to these resolutions, and the acts of Congress referred to therein were amended so that the lands granted by the provisions of said acts, and the proceeds of said lands shall be held and disposed of by the State in the manner and for the purposes mentioned in said resolutions; provided, that the liabilities incurred by the Territorial government of Wisconsin under the land grant act of June 18, 1838, shall be paid and discharged by the State of Wisconsin.

No settlement between the canal company and the Territory having been arrived at, although several attempts were made, those matters of difference, and the various other cognate subjects resulting from the canal grant and the attempt to utilize it, were left as a legacy to the STATE OF WISCONSIN, Whose sovereign attributes as one of the States of the Union were now recognized by the Congress of the Nation.

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