Portrait and biographical album of Hillsdale county, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . lum for the Insane was establised, as also theAsylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. Both ofthese institutes were liberally endowed with lands,and each of them placed in charge of a board of fivetrustees. The appropriation in 1S49 for the deaf anddumb and blind amounted to $8< 1500. On the firstof March,
Portrait and biographical album of Hillsdale county, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . lum for the Insane was establised, as also theAsylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. Both ofthese institutes were liberally endowed with lands,and each of them placed in charge of a board of fivetrustees. The appropriation in 1S49 for the deaf anddumb and blind amounted to $8< 1500. On the firstof March, 1848, the first telegraph line was com-pleted from New York to Detroit, and the first dis-patch transmitted on that day. The foUowmg figuresshow the progress in agriculture: The land reiwrtedas under cultivation in 1848 was 1,437,460 acres; ofwheat there were produced 4,749,300 bushels; othergrains, 8,197,767 bushels; wool, 1,645,756 jwunds;maple sugar, 1, liounds; horses, 51,305 ; cat-tle, 210,268; swine, 152,541; sheep, 610,534; whilethe flour mills numbered 228, and the lumber millsamounted to 730. 1S47, an act was passed removingthe Legislature from Detroit to Lansing, and temix)-tary buildings for the use of the Legislature were im-mediately erected, at a cost of $1^,
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