Mountain Boys from the British, at Bennington, on the 16th of August, 1777, and deposit the same, when received, in the State House at Montpelier; and, whereas, it appears by the annual message of the Governor, that upon application by him to the Secretary of War, the delivering of the cannon has been declined by the National Executive, and the Governor referred to Congress, as the appropriate authority to place said cannon at the disposal of this State;

Therefore, Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Senators of this State in Congress be instructed, and the Representatives requested to use their exertions to obtain an order of Congress for the delivery of said cannon, to be deposited in the State House of this State, as a memorial of the valor which achieved the victory, so honorable to the Green Mountain Boys, as well as signally beneficial to the country.

Which was read and passed in concurrence.

A message from the Governor, received this forenoon, was read, and is as follows:

To the House of Representatives:

I transmit, herewith, for the use of the General Assembly, sundry resolutions and other proceedings of the Legislatures of several States of the Union, referred to in my annual message of the 11th inst.,

viz:

The report of a special Joint Committee of the two Houses of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the subject of the proposed annexation of Texas to the United States, with the resolutions of the Legislature relative thereto, adopted previous to the passage of the joint resolutions of Congress, making overtures to Texas for its admission, together with the resolutions of the same Legislature, adopted subsequent to the passage of said resolutions of overture;

Also, resolutions of the Legislatures of Ohio, Delaware, and Rhode Island, against the measure of annexation, and of the Legislatures of New Hampshire and Alabama in favor of the same;

Also, resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, disapproving the proposal of Massachusetts to amend the Constitution, so as that the number of free persons shall be the basis of the representation in the House of Representatives of the United States; and resolutions of the State of Alabama, declaring said proposed amendment to be evincive of a disposition on the part of Massachusetts to dissolve the Union;

Also, resolutions of the State of New Hampshire asserting the right of the United States to the territory of Oregon, to the 54th degree of North Latitude;

Also, resolutions of the State of New Hampshire, disapproving the treatment of Thomas W. Dorr, by the State of Rhode Island;

Also, resolutions of the State of Rhode Island, relative to said resolutions of New Hampshire, and directing the return of the same;

Also, resolutions of the State of Maine, protesting against the proceedings in the case of Thomas W. Dorr, and resolutions of Rhode Island expressive of its sense of the interference of Maine in the matter; Also, resolutions of the State of Connecticut, approving the proceedings of Rhode Island in the case referred to;

Also, resolutions of the State of New Hampshire, in favor of a Tariff for revenue, with incidental protection; against a distribution of

the proceeds of the sales of the public lands; in favor of the system of the Independent Treasury; and declaring that newspapers ought to to pass free of postage to every part of the State where printed;

Also, resolutions of the State of Alabama against the altering or abolishing of the Veto power; against a distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands; against a high protective Tariff; against the Tariff of 1842; against a National Bank; against repudiation of State debts; and declaring that the joint occupancy of Oregon by England and the United States should cease;

Also, resolutions of North Carolina and Indiana, approving the plan of an exchange of laws and Judicial decisions between the several States, and of the latter State against a repudiation of State debts;

Also, a copy of a memorial to Congress by the General Assembly of Missouri, in favor of an extension of the laws of the United States over the territory of Oregon.

I have the honor, also, to inform the House of Representatives that I have this day transmitted to the Senate, for the use of the General Assembly, resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, requesting the Governor of that State to expel from its limits an agent of Massachusetts, charged with the duty of taking measures to carry to the Supreme Court of the United States the question of the validity of certain laws of South Carolina, by virtue of which colored citizens of Massachusetts are seized on board the ships of Massachusetts, in the harbors of South Carolina, and imprisoned, and sold into slavery, in default of their commanders to redeem them and pay the expense of their detention;

Also, the declaration and solemn protest of the State of Massachusetts against said laws of South Carolina, and against the expulsion of the Agent of Massachusetts from its limits;

Also, resolutions of the States of Arkansas and Alabama, approving the expulsion of the Agent of Massachusetts from South Carolina; and Also, resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, disapproving the proceedings of South Carolina.

I have also transmitted to the Senate a copy of a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, dated on the 4th of July last, and transmitted to me by the President of the Republic, expressive of its sense of the "services rendered by Major General Andrew Jackson, to the cause of civil and religious liberty," and in the name and behalf of the Republic, tendering to him the homage of the nation's gratitude.

I have also transmitted to the Senate a memorial addressed to me by Mr. Alexander Vattemare, of Paris, on the subject of "international exchanges of the productions of nature and of mind," with a request that I would lay it before the General Assembly of this State. Mr. Vattemare has long been engaged in making arrangements for effecting such exchanges, and has established for that purpose a Depot at Paris, where, in the language of his memorial, "every State can forward the productions of her intellect, industry, government and national resources, and exhibit them to Europe;"-Paris being "the literary and intellectual centre of the Continent-a place from whence they can be discriminatingly distributed, and where the governments, writers, painters, sculptors, engravers, geologists, and other learned sons of France, can offer their gifts to the members of the American family."

Mr. Vattemare says he has established the Depot by request of many

of the first men of both continents, and that he has been appointed as agent to effect exchanges by the Legislature of Maine, and the National Institute in the District of Columbia, and asks a small appropriation to cover expenses of transportation, postage, &c., his own services being gratuitously rendered.

I deem this a matter of sufficient importance to justify me in calling the attention of the Legislature to it, with a view to the furnishing to the Depot of exchanges at Paris, such of the laws and documents of this State, as may fall within the description in the memorial referred tobeing pursuaded that we shall receive in return more than an equivalent for any expense we may incur for this object.

States.

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,

October 22, 1845.

WILLIAM SLADE.

Which message and the accompanying documents were referred to the Joint Committee under the 5th Joint Rule.

Mr. Crowley called up the resolution from the Senate, providing for a Joint Assembly this forenoon at ten o'clock, for the election of Judges of the Supreme Court.

And on his motion said resolution was amended, by striking out the word" Wednesday," and inserting the word "Friday,"

And the resolution, thus amended, was passed in concurrence.

(S. 18.) The bill from the Senate entitled "An act in addition to Chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Of the Supreme and County Courts,' was read the third time and passed.

Engrossed bills of the following titles were severally read the third time and passed, namely:

(H. 44.) "An act constituting Adelia Sophia Barber heir at law of Ephraim Griswold."

(H. 50.) "An act annexing Wood's Island to the town of St. Al

bans."

(H. 9.) The engrossed bill entitled "An act to incorporate the Bank of Brandon," was read the third time.

On motion of Mr. Briggs, (Mr. Kellogg being in the chair,) Said bill was committed to a member with instructions to amend the 11th Section by striking out the word "five," and inserting the words four and a half," thereby limiting the rate of interest on loans to the State to four and a half per centum.

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And the bill was committed to Mr. Briggs with such instructions; who afterwards reported the same amended agreeably to instructions. On motion of Mr. Marston,

Ordered, That said bill lie on the table.

The House adjourned.

AFTERNOON.

Mr. May presented the petition of Moses Hastings and 161 others, and the petition of John Morse and others, each praying for the revival of the Militia law of 1818, as to the enrolled Militia; which referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

(H. 73.) Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill entitled "An act in relation to the disposition of property attached."

Which was read the first time and referred to the Judiciary Committee. (H. 74.) Mr. Barlow introduced a bill entitled "An act to pay Jerome J. Beardsley the sum therein mentioned."

Which was read the first time and referred to the Committee of Claims.

(S. 4.) The bill from the Senate entitled "An act relating to Attorneys at Law," was read the first time, and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

(H. 22.) Mr. Crowley, from the General Committee, to which was referred the bill entitled "An act relating to Exemptions from Attachment," reported that the same ought not to pass.

And the question was stated, Shall the bill be read the second time? and being put, was decided in the negative.

And the said bill was rejected.

Mr. Chase of Calais presented the petition of Henry Y. Barnes, Overseer of the Poor of Montpelier, praying that the State would pay to said town the expenses of interring the remains of one Alden, a State Prisoner; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Crowley, from the General Committee, to which was referred the petition of Burten Bames and others, praying that the debtor may be allowed a team free from attachment,--reported that the prayer of said petition ought not to be granted.

Which report was concurred in, and it was

Ordered, That the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition.

(H. 17.) Mr. Stoddard, from the Committee of Claims, to which was referred the bill entitled "An act to pay Sewall Fullam the sum therein mentioned," reported said bill with amendments, which were adopted, and said bill was read the second time.

Ordered, That said bill be engrossed and read the third time.

Mr. Clark of Middletown, from the Committee of Claims, to which was referred the petition of Sylvester Phelps, praying to be compensated for a quantity of tobacco seized and confiscated under the embargo law of 1813, reported that said claim was presented to the General Assembly in 1843, and therefore, according to the statute, could not be considered again without the concurrence of two thirds of the members

of the House, and that, unless such concurrence should be voted, the Committee recommended that the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition.

On motion of Mr. Rice, said petition was laid on the table.

(H. 2.) Mr. Russell, from the Select Committee to which was referred the bill entitled "An act laying a tax on the County of Chittenden," reported in favor of the passage thereof with an amendment; which amendment was adopted, and the bill read the second time.

Ordered, That it be engrossed and read the third time.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Clarke, their Secretary :

MR. SPEAKER:-The Governor has announced to the Senate that he has this day approved and signed the bill (S. 14) entitled "An act to alter the name of the Windsor County Bank."

The Senate have considered the amendment of the House of Representatives to the resolution providing for a meeting of the Joint Assembly to elect Judges of the Supreme Court, and have passed the same in con

currence.

(S. 27.) The Senate have passed a bill entitled "An act in addition to Chapter 18 of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Of Common Schools,' in which they request the concurrence of the House of Representatives.

(S. 27.) Said Senate bill, No. 27, was read the first and second time, and ordered to be read the third time to-morrow afternoon.

(H. 47.) Mr. Lawrence, from the Select Committee to which was recommitted the engrossed bill entitled "An act in addition to an act for the relief of the Insane Poor,' approved October 30, 1844," reported. in favor of the passage of the same.

And said bill was passed.

(S. 7.) Mr. Stevens, from the Judiciary Committee, to which was referred the bill from the Senate entitled "An act in addition to Chapter 28 of the Revised Statutes," reported that the same ought not to pass.

And the question was stated from the chair, Shall the bill be read the second time? and being taken, was decided in the negative

And the House refused their concurrence in the passage of said bill.

Mr. Hammond, from the Committee on the State Prison, to which was referred, by resolution, so much of the Report of the Auditor of Accounts as relates to the State Prison, submitted a report, which was read. [See Appendix E.]

Mr. Hammond also reported the following bills:

(H. 75.) "An act to commute the punishment of Eugene Clifford." (H. 76.) "An act for the relief of Insane Prisoners in the State Prison."

(H. 77.) "An act providing for the payment of the debts against the State Prison."

(H. 78.) "An act relating to the sale of the Old State Prison." Which were severally read the first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time; and it was

Ordered, That said bills Nos. 76, 77 and 78 be read the third time tomorrow afternoon.