STATE OF MICHIGAN.
Preamble and joint resolutions relative to Mons. Vattemare's system of international literary exchanges.
Whereas Mons. Alexandre Vattemare, a citizen of France, has with an unexampled zeal devoted his time, his energies and his fortune to the philanthropic effort of establishing an intellectual confederacy among the nations of the earth; And Whereas his system of international literary exchanges is not only promotive of science and the improvement of literature and the arts, but is also conducive to the fraternization of governments and the diffusion of civilization through out the globe;
And Whereas the project has been approved by the chambers and ministers of France, by the congress of the United States and the legislatures of several of the States, and by the statesmen and literati of both nations,
Be it therefore resolved the senate and house of representatives of the state of Michigan that in greatful acknowledgment of his desinterested labors in the cause of humanity and for the valuable works presented by him to the state, the thanks of the people of Michigan are respectfully tendered to Mons. Alexandre Vattemare by the representatives of the people in legislature convened.
Resolved that his excellency the governor be and he hereby is authorized and requested to receive the parcel of books transmitted by Mons. Vattemare through Lewis Cass Jr. Esqr. to the state of Michigan and also the parcel consigned to E. Thayer and Co., forwarding merchants in the city of New-York, and to place the same in the state library.
Resolved that his excellency be and he hereby is further authorized and requested to transmit to Mons. Vattemare a copy of the revised statutes and session laws of the state of Michigan together with the journals and documents of both houses of the legislature and such maps of the several counties as are now completed.
Resolved that the state geologist be and he hereby is authorized and requested to examine and report to the next legislature what duplicate specimens of the natural history of Michigan are in his department of the University.