that they had carefully examined and found correctly engrossed, bills with the following titles and the following preamble and resolution: "An act in amendment of chapter 199 of the Revised Statutes;" "An act in atendiment of the one hundred and eighty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes;" "An act in amendment of an act, entitled an act to regulate the times and places of holding the courts of probate within and for the county of Rockingham," passed Dec. 27, 1844; "An act in addition to chapter 69 of the Revised Statutes;" "An act to incorporate the Dover Bank;" "An act to sever a certain tract of land from the town of Hebron, and annex the same to the town of Plymouth;" “An act to sever a certain tract of land from the town of Hebron, and annex the same to the town of Groton;" An act in amendment of chapter 67 of the Revised Statutes;" Preamble and resolutions relating to a distribution of the reports of the supreme court of the United States, among the states. A message from the House of Representatives by their clerk: "Mr. President-The Speaker of the House of Representatives has signed bills with the following titles and the following preamble and resolutions, reported as correctly engrossed by the committee on Engrossed Billls: "An act in amendment of chapter 199 of the Revised Statutes;" "An act in amendment of the one hundred and eighty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes;" "An act in amendment of an act, entitled 'An act to regulate the times and places of holding the courts of probate within and for the county of Rockingham,' passed Dec. 27, 1844;" "An act in addition to chapter 69 of the Revised Statutes;" "An act to incorporate the Dover Bank;" "An act to sever a certain tract of land from the town of Hebron and annex the same to the town of Plymouth;" "An act to sever a certain tract of land from the town of Hebron and annex the same to the town of Groton;" “An act in amendment of chapter 67 of the Revised Statutes;" Prean.ble and resolutions relating to the distribution of the reports of the supreme court of the United States, among the several States." Thereupon, the President of the Senate signed the aforesaid bills, preamble and resolutions, and they were delivered to the committee on Engrossed Bills, to be by them laid before His Excellency the Governor, for his approval and signature. A message from the House of Representatives by their clerk: "Mr. President-The House of Representatives have passed bills with the following titles and the following resolutions, in which they ask the concurrence of the Honorable Senate: "An act to change one of the terms of the superior court in the fourth judicial district;" "An act in amendment of section twenty-third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, of the Revised Statutes;" Sundry resolutions relating to the tariff and an Independent Treasury; A resolution appointing William Fisk, keeper of the state house and state house yard, the ensuing year. The House concur with the Hon. Senate in the adoption of their amendment to the bill, entitled "An act authorizing married women to devise their real estate;" And also in the passage of the resolution, appointing Jacob C. Carter, librarian for the ensuing year." The foregoing bill, sent up from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act to change one of the terms of the superior court in the fourth judicial district," Was read a first and second time. Ordered, That the same be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. The foregoing bill, sent up from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act in amendment of section twenty-third of chapter one hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes," Was read a first and second time. Ordered, That the same be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. The foregoing resolution, sent up from the House of Representatives, appointing William Fisk, keeper of the State House and State House yard, Was read a first and second time. Ordered, That the same be referred to the committee on Agriculture and Manufactures. The following resolutions, sent up from the House of Representatives, having been read, passed: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That in the opinion of this legislature, the true welfare and permanent prosperity of the whole people of the United States demand of our national government, so far as possible, through its revenue and all other laws, equal favor and protection to all the great interests of our extended. Union, so that while its blessings shall be dispensed, "like the dews of heaven, unseen and unfelt, save in the freshness and beauty they contribute to produce," its burdens may be alike unfelt, and no class of the community, nor any section of our common country, have cause to complain of the oppressiveness or inequality with which they are imposed. Resolved, That we repudiate the policy of taxing one portion of our citizens for the benefit of another—a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue; but advocate such a system of impost duties, to be adopted in that spirit of equity, caution and compromise in which the constitution was formed, as will be sufficient to defray the necessary expenditures of an economical administration of the general government, at the same time furnishing reasonable, and, as far as practicable,equal incidental protection to all the great and important departments of our national industry. Resolved, That, we regard our existing revenue laws as, in several essential respects, defective, unequal, unjust and oppressive, and believe they should be so modified as to remove their objectionable features, and relieve the suffering, from those evils which their wrongful operation unceasingly inflicts. Resolved, That the result of the recent Presidential election affords full and conclusive proof, that a large majority of the American people, under the influence of that "sober second thought," which always sooner or later comes to honest and intelligent minds, prefer an Independent Treasury, to any other mode of administering the fiscal affairs of their government. Resolved, That we regard the re-establishment of an Independent Treasury, providing for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue, by officers appointed by the government and responsible to the people, requiring the public money to be deposited in the treasury or its branches, and prohibiting any loan or use of it except in the legal disbursements of the government, under severe penalties, as a great and salutary measure of practical and permanent reform, calculated to prevent the monetary affairs of our vast and rapidly increasing nation from being ever again subjected to the caprice and instability of irresponsible corporations, which it is the imperious duty of Congress forthwith to accomplish. Resolved, That the secretary of state he directed to forward a copy of these resolutions to the governor of each of the several states and territories in the Union, to the presiding officer of each of the two houses of the twenty-ninth congress, and to each of our senators and representatives in the congress of the United States. On motion of Mr. Robinson The Senate adjourned. THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1845. A message from the House of Representatives by their clerk: "Mr. President-The House of Representatives have passed bills with the following titles, in which they ask the concurrence of the Hon. Senate: "An act in addition to chapter one hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes;" “An act to alter and amend the charter of the Columbian Manufacturing Company;" "An act in addition to chapter one hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes;" "An act in amendment of an act entitled an act to alter the times of holding the terms of the court of common pleas," approved December 28, 1844." The House concur with the Hon. Senate in the passage of a bill with the following title, and the following resolution: "An act in amendment of chapter seventy of the Revised Statutes, in relation to school district meetings;" A resolution granting one of Carrigain's maps to the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Northfield." The foregoing bill, sent up from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act in addition to chapter one hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes," Was read a first and second time. Ordered, That the same be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. The foregoing bill, sent up from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act to alter and amend the charter of the Columbian Manufacturing Company," Was read a first and second time. Ordered, That the same be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. The foregoing bill, sent up from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act in addition to chapter one hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes," Was read a first and second time. Ordered, That the same be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. The foregoing bill, sent up from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act in amendment of an act to alter the times of holding the terms of the court of common pleas," approved Dec. 28, 1844," Was read a first and second time. Ordered That the same be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Cross, from the committee on Roads, Bridges and Canals, to whom was referred the bill, entitled "An act incorporating the Portsmouth, New Market and Concord Railroad," and also the bill, entitled "An act to incorporate the Portsmouth, New Market and Exeter Railroad," reported said bills without amendment. The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the bill, entitled "An act to incorporate the Portsmouth, New Market and Concord Railroad." Mr. Patten moved to amend said bill, by striking out the words "fifty-three" in section 7, and insert instead thereof the words "forty-seven;" and also strike out the words "fifty-five,” and insert instead thereof the words "forty-eight." On the question, Shall said bill be amended by striking out the words "fiftythree," and inserting the words "forty-seven?" Mr. Lane asked for a division of the question. On the question, Shall said bill be amended by striking out the words "fiftythree?" It was decided in the affirmative. So said words were stricken out. On the question, Shal! said bill be further amended by inserting the words "forty-seven?" Mr. Lane moved to amend said amendment, by striking out the word "seven," and inserting the word "eight," so that said proposed amendment should read "forty-eight" instead of "forty-seven." |