Trowbridge asserts that these proceedings are a true copy of the records of the University of Michigan: At the meeting of these trustees held at the Academy in Detroit, Monday, Nov. 10, 1823, there were present Lewis Cass, president, William Woodbridge, Solomon Sibley, John R. Williams, Austin Ewing, Abraham Edward, Peter J.Desnoyers and John Leib. The report of Woodbridge, Beddle, and Williams of a memorial to Congress for permission to locate the sections and fraction donated to the University was read, as follows: Included in the minutes. According to the Act of Congress of Mar. 21, 1804, townships of land were set aside for the encouragement of literature and for a university. While Detroit was set up under that act, the provisions of the land for the University were not carried out. They ask now that since the country has been improved and a university established the grant to be made, but ask that since there is scarcely a whole township uninhabited that the land be granted in smaller strips throughout the peninsula. This would not decrease the value or the utility of the land. To the objection that it would increase the value of the fund, they answer that considering the attendant gain to the inhabitants of the neighboring lands, there would be no pecuniary loss to the government. To further the petition, the memorialists point out the nearness to British dominions and the lack of schools in this frontier country. Should the condition of the territory be inferior to the British dominions, comparisons would likewise be made of political institutions fostering them. Consequently Congress is requested to allow the trustees to choose the strips so long as taken together they do not exceed the equivalent of a township. The memorial was adopted at the motion of Mr. Sibley and the president of the University was ordered to transmit a copy of it. The endorsement reads: Dec. 17, 1823 referred to Committee on public lands. Feb. 3, 1824, "decided to lie." :: III-2-f A.D.S. 8pp. 8vo., 10