Kingston, Calvin Thayer, New Market, William W. Stickney, Newtown, Elijah R. Currier, North Hampton, James Batchelder, Northwood, Edson Hill, Nottingham, John Crawford, Poplin, Perley Robinson, Portsmouth, Thomas P. Treadwell, Nehemiah Moses, Samuel Langdon, Raymond, Samuel Poor, Plaistow, James G. George, FROM STRAFFORD COUNTY. Albany & Chatham, Russell Charles, Alton, Jonathan P. Hill, James McDuffie, 3d, Barnstead, Joseph A. Walker, Joseph Jenkins, Barrington, George McDaniel, Jonas D. Townshend, Thomas E. Sawyer, Effingham, Jonathan Wedgewood, Farmington, Jeremiah Dame, Gilford, Ebenezer S. Lawrence, Samuel G. Sanborn, Gilmanton, Nathaniel Edgerly, Lee, Samuel G. Wilson, Madbury, Samuel Davis, Jr., Meredith, Joseph Ela, Abel B. Eastman, Milton, James Berry, Moultonborough, Thomas Shannon, New Durham, Nathaniel Locke, New Hampton, Nathaniel Norris, Rochester, John Witham, Algernon S. Howard, Sanbornton, David Taylor, William Durgin, Strafford, Paul Perkins, Elisha Weeks, Sandwich, Paul Wentworth, Somersworth, William E. Griffin, Wolfborough, Thomas L. Whitten, Benjamin F. Thompson. FROM MERRIMACK COUNTY,, Allenstown, John Perkins, Andover, Benjamin F. Scribner, Boscawen, Simeon B. Little, Joseph Morrill, Bow, William Messer, Canterbury, David Morrill, Chichester, Jeremy N. C. Leavitt, Concord, Moses Shute, Jacob Hoit, Abiel C. Carter, Epsom, James Martin, Franklin, Henry Burley, Franconia & Lincoln, Clark Knapp, Orford, Henry S. Perrin, Bartlett, Joseph Pitman, Colebrook, Benjamin Whittemore, Dalton, Aaron Ballou, Errol, Clarksville, Dixville, Millsfield & Indian Stream, Joseph A. Young, Jefferson, Kilkenny,Randolph, Stewartstown, Jonathan Young, Jackson & Hart's Location, Joseph Per-Whitefield, Simeon Warner. kins, Joseph Davis, of Antrim, having been duly qualified as Repre sentative from that town in the place of Jacob Whittemore, resigned, was introduced by the Secretary of State, and took his seat. A quorum consisting of a majority of the whole number of members of the House of Representatives being present, On motion of Mr. Randall Resolved, that information be sent to the Hon. Senate that a quorum of the House of Representatives have convened and are ready to proceed to the business of the session. Ordered, that the Clerk inform the Senate thereof. A message from the Senate by their Clerk: + "Mr. Speaker-I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate have convened and are now ready to proceed to the business of the session." On motion of Mr. Woods Resolved, that when the House adjourn this forenoon they adjourn to meet at three o'clock in the afternoon, and when they adjourn this afternoon they adjourn to meet on the day following at ten o'clock in the forenoon until otherwise ordered by the House. On motion of Mr. Bruce Resolved, that a committee be appointed on the part of the House, with such as the Hon. Senate may join, to wait on his excellency the Governor and inform him that a quorum of both branches of the Legislature have assembled and are ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make. Ordered, that Messrs. Bruce, Batchelder of Marlborough, and Hoit of Concord, be the committee. Ordered, that the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate therein. On motion of Mr. Hoskins Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed to procure a clergyman to officiate as Chaplain of the House during the present session, and that prayers be attended in the Representatives' Hall, at a quarter before ten o'clock in the forenoon on each day of the session. Ordered, that Messrs. Hoskins, Townsend and Libbey be the committee. A message from the Senate by their Clerk : "Mr. Speaker-The Senate concur with the House of Representatives in the passage of a resolution appointing a joint committee to wait upon His Excellency the Governor, and have on their part joined Mr. Gregg." Mr. Bruce, from the joint select committee appointed to wait on the Governor and inform him of the organization of both branches of the Legislature, reported that they had attended to the duty assigned them. A message in writing was received from His Excellency the Governor by the Secretary of State, which was read and is as follows: Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives In pursuance of an adjournment in June last, we are again assembled, clothed with the high functions, and charged with the responsible duties of legislators. The full consideration of much of the important business then before the Legislature was necessarily postponed to this time, and will doubtless receive that attention its importance demands. Since our last sitting, that long agitated and most important bill, establishing an Independent United States Treasury has received the sanction of the legislative authority of the Union, and become the law of the land. The influence of this measure will be felt, it is believed, in checking the great fluctuations in the nominal prices and value of property, so ruinous to industrious enterprise, by preventing the vast expansions and consequent contractions in the amount of paper money, and by infusing a greater amount of the less variable, and universally employed and acknowledged measure of value, specie, into our medium of circulation. Its tendency will be to prevent suspension of specie payments by the banks, by compelling them to adhere to the regular and legitimate course of their business, under the certain expectation that while the revenues of the General Government shall be paid in part or wholly in specie, they will be held to the performance of their chartered stipulations with the public, and be called to redeem at least partially their promises to their bill-holders, with the gold or silver their bills are supposed to represent. To this no bank can offer any valid or reasonable objection, and no solvent and properly conducted bank need fear it. The withdrawal of the national funds from the custody of the banks, which funds are collected from the whole mass of our cit izens for national and not for individual purposes, will also by lessening the means of temptation thereto keep in check that wild and reckless spirit of adventurous speculation, which meets with success only at the expense of the industrious and frugal, and which has heretofore covered with disaster and embarrassment the whole |