People ex rel. Sutherland v. Governor

This is an application for an order requiring the governor to show cause why he does not issue his certificate showing that the Portage Lake and Lake Superior ship canal and harbor have been constructed in conformity with the acts of Congress making a land grant for the same, and the acts of the legislature of this state conferring the grant upon a corporation, which the relators now claim to represent.

When the application was first' presented to us we de*322dined to make the usual ex parte order until the question of our jurisdiction in the premises should have been argued, and this having now…