267:. The council was to meet at a place of the governor's choosing for no more than 60 days per year, and any acts of the council were subject to disapproval by Congress. Each member received a salary of $ 2 per day while in session, plus an additional $ 2 per twenty miles traveled to and from the session, paid by the federal government. The act stopped short of creating a general assembly comprising both a legislative council and house of representatives, as stipulated in the Northwest Ordinance. It did authorize the council to put the question of whether a general assembly should be organized to a vote of the people at any time, but the council took no such action during its existence.
230:, the governor—or the secretary, in his absence—exercised executive power, with the judges forming the judicial branch of government, and all of them were appointed by Congress. The governor and judges had the authority to adopt laws from already-existing states to their own use in the territory, and so collectively formed the legislative branch. The governor and judges organized a
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called an election to decide whether the territory should proceed to the "second stage" of government provided by the
Northwest Ordinance. His proposal lost due primarily to financial concerns over the cost of a legislature that would be paid for by the territory itself, whereas the governor and
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November 1834, the council authorized the election of delegates to a state constitutional convention in April 1835. Anticipating that the convention would organize a new state legislature to govern the portion of the territory set to become the state of Michigan, but not
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on March 3, 1823, created a four-year term for the judges and transferred the powers of the territory to the governor and a legislative council of nine people serving terms of two years. The names of the top eighteen vote-earners in a general election were to be sent by the governor to the
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wanting to leave the rest of the territory without effective government, the council authorized the governor to apportion the seats on the next council among those counties that would remain in the territory. On the final day of the Sixth
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judges were paid by the federal government. Public frustration with the system of government continued to grow, in part because the judges—who had lifetime appointments—refused to hear cases anywhere other than
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105:Michigan Legislature
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326:President
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218:Background
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182:, was the
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244:Detroit
210:History
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