Chesley and others, remonstrating against the granting of the prayer of the foregoing petition, made a report, whereuponResolved, That the further consideration of said petitions be postponed to the next session of the legislature, and that the petitioners give such notice as the law requires. Mr. Brown of Ossipee, from the same committee, to whom was referred sundry petitions, praying for the severance of a tract of land from Eaton, and for the establishment of a new town, made a report, whereupon Resolved, That the further consideration of said petitions be postponed to the next session of the legislature, and that the petitioners give such notice of the pendency thereof as the statute requires. Mr. Folsom, from the same committee, to whom were referred the petitions of E. Watson, jr. and the petition of Israel Tibbetts and another, praying for the severance of tracts of land from Alton and their annexation to Gilmanton, made a report, whereupon Resolved, That the farther consideration of said petitions be postponed to the next session of the legislature, and that said petitioners be required to give such notice as the law directs. Mr. Ayer, from the committee on Roads, Bridges and Canals, to whom was referred the petition of the directors of the Granite Bridge, praying for an amendment of the charter of said bridge, made a report, whereupon Resolved, That the further consideration of said petition be postponed to the next session of the legislature, and that the petitioners give notice thereof, by publishing the same in the Manchester Democrat and Manchester American, three weeks successively, the last publication of which shall be at least fourteen days before said session. Mr. Cooper, from the committee on Education, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of altering the seventh section of the seventy-first chapter of the Revised Statutes, reported a bill, entitled "An act in amendment of the seventy-first chapter of the Revised Statutes,' Which was read a first time. Ordered, That it be read a second time this foreeoon at eleven o'clock. Mr. Carter, from the committee on Banks, to whom was referred the petition of Jeremiah Smith and others, praying for the passage of a law, directing cashiers of banks to notify the assess ors of towns of the stock of said bank owned in said towns, reported a bill, entitled "An act relating to the duties of cashiers of banks in certain cases," Which was read a first time. Ordered, That it be read a second time this forenoon at eleven o'clock. Mr. McQuesten of Litchfield, from the same committee, to whom was referred the message of His Excellency the Governor, relative to the payment of commissioners in examining the affairs of savings banks, reported a bill, entitled "An act in addition to chapter forty of the Revised Statutes," Which was read a first time. Ordered, That it be read a second time this forenoon at eleven o'clock. Mr. Kelly, from the committee on Banks, made a report, accompanied by an abstract, showing the condition of the several banks of the State, up to the time of the latest returns; Which report was, on motion, accepted. Mr. Sherwin, from the committee on Claims, to whom was referred the account of Laban Page, praying for relief for losses incurred in the public service, reported a resolution in his favor, Which was read a first time. On motion of Mr. Batchelder of Haverhill Resolved, That the rules be so far suspended, that said resolution be read a second time at the present time. On motion of Mr. Batchelder of Haverhill Resolved, That said resolution be recommitted, with instructions to report a resolution, allowing a sufficient sum to cover the sum expended by said Page, with interest, and reasonable compensation for his services. Mr. Fowler, from the committee, to whom was referred so much of the message of His Excellency the Governor as relates to the tariff, and the manner of collecting, safe-keeping and disbursing the public revenue, reported the following resolutions: 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 prac tical 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 be 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. |