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A trial of strength was then clearly foreshadowed, and each member of the committee was left to act independently, as his interest or patriotism might dictate. Thus separated, the members went to work and produced three separate, reports. They again assembled to compare notes. The first of these reports was signed by George B. Throop, as chairman, the second by John D. Pierce and Patrick Marantette, and the third by Enos Goodrich. The drift of the chairman's report was that the State was yet undeveloped and the treasury embarrassed, and that, though conceding that the time would come when an interior location would be eminently proper, it would be premature to make such location at present, and, therefore, that it be temporarily retained at Detroit.
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