able estates of legatees and wards in the hand of Executors, Administrators, Trustees or guardians.

Mr. Kent, pursuant to notice given on Monday last, had leave to introduce a bill entiled, An act in addition to an act entitled, An act, empowering school districts to build and repair school houses, passed July 6, 1327.

Which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That said bill be referred to the committee, on bills on their second reading.

On motion of Mr. Freese-

Resolved, That the committee on Banks be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a State Bank at Concord, in the county of Merrimack, with leave to establish branches in other parts of the State. Also, the expediency of vesting the proceeds of the three per cent stock, belonging to the State therein. Also, what proportion of the directors of said bank, shall be chosen by the State, and what by the individual stock holders. Also, what shall be the amount of the capital stock of said bank--and what proportion thereof shall be owned by the State, and that they report by bill or otherwise.

Mr. French from the joint committee on Engrossed Bills, by leave of the House reported, That they have examined bills with the following titles:

An act to incorprate the Portsmouth Iron Foundry Company. An act to incorporate certain persons by the name of the first Freewill Baptist Society in Sanbornton.

An act relating to mortgages and pledges of personal property subject to any lien created by law.

An act in addition to an act, regulating marriages, and for the registering of marriages, births and burials, and find the same correctly engrossed.

Said bills were signed by the Speaker.

Ordered, That the Clerk inform the Senate thereof.

A Message from the Senate by their Clerk.

"Mr. Speaker-The Senate concur with the House of Repreresentatives in the passage of the following bills.

An act to incorporate certain persons by the name of the Melville Academy.

An act to incorporate certain persons by the name of the proprietors of the Young Ladies Seminary in Derry Village.

Also in the passage of a resolution in favor of Messrs. French and Brown."

Mr. French from the joint committee on engrossed bills reported, That they have presented to His Excellency the Governor, for his approval, the four bills last reported as correctly engrossed.

The House proceeded to the order of the day on the resolution granting a certain tract of land to Abel Crawford.

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Which was read a second time.

Ordered, That said bill be read a third time to-morrow at 10 o'clock, forenoon.

And then the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1832.

Mr. Perkins of Strafford, presented the petition of Joshua Otis Southrin for the alteration of his name.

Also, the petition of Isaac Leathers and others, for the alteration of their names.

Mr. Burns presented the petition of William G. Dalrymple for the alteration of his name.

Ordered, That they be referred to the committee on the alteration of names.

Mr. Kennison presented the petition of the field officers of the 14th regiment for a new field piece.

Ordered, That it be referred to the committee on military affairs. Mr. Pillsbury, presented the petition of William Tenney and others, inhabitants of Sandown.

Mr. Bachelder of Hampstead, presented the petition of Jabez Hoit and others, inhabitants of Hampstead.

Also, the petition of John H. Clindennin and others, inhabitants.

of Salem.

Mr. Peaslee, presented the petition of Moses Johnson and others, citizens of Atkinson.

Also, the petition of Edward Brown and others, inhabitants of Plaistow; all of which petitions that the terms of the Superior Court and the Court of Common Pleas, for the county of Rockingham may be removed from the town of Exeter to Hampstead. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the select committee, consisting of the delegation from the county of Rockingham.

Mr. Nesmith, from the committee on Bills on their second reading, to whom was referred the bill entitled, An act to incorporate sundry persons, by the name of the Wentworth Mechanic Association, reported the same with amendments, which was read. and adopted.

Ordered, That said bill be read a third time to-morrow at 10o'clock forenoon.

Mr. Nesmith, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill entitled, An act to incorporate Colebrook Academy, reported the same in a new draft.

Which was read a first time.

Ordered, That it be read a second time to-day at 10 o'clock,

forenoon.

Mr. Peaslee, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill entitled, An act for taxing locks and canals, reported the same without amendment,

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On motion of Mr. Peaslee

Ordered, That said bill lie on the table.

Mr. Peaslee, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill entitled, An act in addition to an act entitled an act empow ering school districts to build and repair school houses, passed July 6, 1827, reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That said bill be read a third time to-morrow at 10 o'clock forenoon.

Mr. Gregg, from the committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill entitled, An act allowing compensation to John H. White and others, reported the same in a new draft.

Which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That said bill be read a third time to-morrow at 10 o'clock, forenoon.

Mr. French, from the committee on Towns and Parishes, to whom was referred the petition of the Selectmen of Piercy, reported a bill entitled, An act to change the name of Piercy to Stark. Which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That said bill be read a third time to-morrow at 10 o'clook, forenoon.

Mr. Hale, from the select committee, to whom was referred so much of His Excellency's message as relates to " certain new and dangerous opinions in regard to the respective persons of the General and State government," REPORT:

That they have approached the subject, fully aware of the delicate nature of the duty assigned them, not doubting on the one hand that the people of this State entertain an unshaken and immoveable attachment to the constitution of the Union, in all its general and characteristic features, while at the same time they would abjure and condemn in unqualified terms, any system of legislation the direct or remote consequences of which would be to enrich themselves at the price of the oppression, or impoverishment of a sister State.

We would then most deeply and heartily sympathize with our brethren of the south, in the evils of which they complain. We would meet them in a spirit of conciliation, extending to them most cordially the right hand of friendship, and shew them not only by our words alone but by our actions, that the spirit which led our fathers side by side through the glorious struggle of our revolution,and which formed our present constitution,on the principle of mutual forbearance and concession is not yet extinct among us. We would show them that our patriotism and love of liberty, is measured by something else than dollars and cents. We would therefore most earnestly recommend to Congress, in this spirit to adopt such measures, as may justly tend to remove the cause of dissatisfaction, a due regard being had to the interests of the whole Union. But

while your committee would go thus far for the sake of the Union, they would enter their solemn protest against the principle contended for, that one State possesses the right to nullify, resist or set at naught, an act of Congress of the United States. Such a right they have no hesitation in declaring, is, in their belief inconsistent with every idea of an union of the States. On this subject they connot be too explicit. They would deny it in all its forms, in whatever questionable shape it might present itself. They cannot per ceive the least difference between the concession of this right, and the abandonment of the Union. If such a distinction exists, it has escaped the penetration of your committee. At a time when speculation is busy calling in question the first axioms of government, and denying the correctness of those principles, which have heretofore been held indisputable and sacred, your committee have thought that a recurrence to the fundamental principles of our confederacy, as laid down by the fathers of the republic, would better subserve the interest of the country, than any suggestions which they might make.

A certain state paper entitled, the solemn declaration and protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the principles of the constitution of the United States of America, and on the violation of them, drawn by Thomas Jefferson, closes in the following manner, "And as a further pledge of the sincere and cordial attachment of this Commonwealth to the union of the whole, so far as has been consented to by the compact called the constition of the United States of America, construed acording to the plain and ordinary meaning of its language to the common intendment of the time, and of those who framed it, to give also, to all parties and authorities time for reflection, and for consideration whether under a temperate view of the possible consequences, and especially of the constant obstructions, which an equivocal majority must ever expect to meet, they will still prefer the assumption of this power, rather than its acceptance from the free will of their constituents, and to preserve peace in the mean while we proceed to make it the duty of our citizens, until the Legislature shall otherwise, and ultimately decide to acquiesce under those acts of the Federal branch of our government, which we have declared to be usurpations, and against which in point of right we do protest as null and void and never to be quoted as precedents of right. We therefore do enact and be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That all citizen of this Commonwealth, and persons and authorities, when the same shall pay full obedience at all times to the acts which may be passed by the Congress of the United States, the object of which shall be the construction of post roads, making canals of navigation, and maintaining the same in any part of the United States,

in like manner as if said acts were totidem verbis passed by the Legislature of this Commonwealth."

It should be borne in mind that this is the close of a solen:n protost of the Legislature of Virginia, against the right of the General Government, to pass laws for the making of roads and canals, and yet under the temperate counsel of a Jefferson, acquiescence and remonstrance and not nullification was the proposed remedy. The following is from Washington's farewell address.

"The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also dear to you. It is justly so. For it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real Independence; the support of your tranquility at home, you peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresce that from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth. As this is the point in your political fortress, against which the batteries of external and internal enemies will be most constantly and actively, though often covertly and insiduously directed; it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness. That you should cherish a cordial habitual and immovable attachment to it.

Accustom yourselves to think and speak of it as the palladium. your political safety and prosperity, discountenancing whatev er may suggest a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the net, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."

Such were the doctrines of Jefferson, and such was the advice of Washington. Our government was formed in a spirit of compromise and concession, and by such a spirit it must be preserved. But should not these measures of peace and conciliation be met in a like spirit, by those who are disaffected? We rely upon the wisdom and firmness of those to whom the good people of these United States, have delegated the necessary powers, to adopt such measures as may to them seem best to preserve the dignity of the gov ernment, and the integrity of the Union.

Your committee believe the liberty and union of the States to be inseperable and that the one cannot long exist without the oth

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We would then make one more appeal to our disaffected brethren. We would exhort them to pause in what our consciences constrain us to call their mad career--To réflect that this is the last abode of freedom, and liberty is here trying her last experiment whether civilized man is capable of self government? If she fails here, she fails forever. The last hope of the philanthropist