History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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of the article on "Corporations" announced the individual liability of
stockholders; pronounced against discrimination in transportation
charges and against railroad consolidation or monopoly, and laid down
the principle that no "general law providing for the incorporation of
trust companies or corporations for banking purposes, or regulating
the business thereof, shall be adopted, amended or repealed, except by
a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the legislature. Such laws shall not authorize the issue of bank notes or paper
credit to circulate as money."
OAKLAND COUNTY'S PART IN CONSTITUTION MAKING
It looks well on paper to state that Oakland county men have taken
a prominent part in the formation and revision of the state constitutions, but for the purpose of proving it in detail, a list of the delegates
which she has sent to these august bodies, with special mention of some
of the leaders, is herewith presented.
The constitution of 1835 convened at Detroit May I th and adjourned June 24th, Oakland county being represented by the following
delegates: Isaac I. Voorheis, Randolph Manning, Seneca Newberry,
Joshua B. Taylor, Elijah F. Cook, Ebenezer Raynale, John Ellenwood,
Jeremiah Riggs, Benjamin B. Morris, William Patrick, Jonathan Chase,
Samuel White, Thomas Curtis and Norman Davison.
In attendance at the first convention of assent, which was held at
Ann Arbor from September 26 to September 30, I836, were Origen D.
Richardson, William Draper, S. A. L. Warner, Samuel Satterlee, Edward W. Peck and John L. Brownell.
At the second convention of assent, which convened at Ann Arbor
December 14 and adjourned Dlecember 15, I836, there were present as
delegates from Oakland county: Gideon 0. Whittemore, Hiram Barritt,
Joseph Coates, Charles Grant, Parley W. C. Gates, John S. Livermore,
Henry S. Babcock, William K. Crooks, Samuel White, James B. Hunt,
David Chase and Benjamin B. Morris.
Oakland county delegates to the convention which convened at Lansing June 3, and adjourned August 15, I850: James Webster, Alfred
H. Hanscom, Seneca Newberry, Jacob Vanvalkenburgh, Ebenezer Raynale, Gideon O. Whittemore, William Axford, Zebina M. Mowry and
Elias S. Woodman.
Delegates from Oakland county to the convention of 1867, held at
Lansing from May 15 to August 22, 1867: P. Dean Warner. Edward
P. Harris, Willard M. McConnell and Jacob Vanvalkenburgh.
Lysander Woodward represented the county on the constitutional
commission of I873, which convened at Lansing, August 27 and adjourned October I6, I873.
The last constitutional convention which assembled at Lansing, October 22, 1907, and adjourned March 3, I9o8, sent as delegates from
Oakland county (in the twelfth senatorial district) Kleber P. Rockwell and Andrew L. Moore, both of Pontiac.