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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

OF THE

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

In Assembly, January 7, 1840. Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) that the Secretary of State cause to be prepared and printed, by the printer to this state, for the present year, and annually hereafter, for the use of the Senate and Assembly, a book, to be denominated a manual, which shall contain the constitutions of this state and of the United States, diagrams of the Senate and Assembly chambers, extracts from statutes, and statistical and other information of the same description with that contained in the books heretofore procured by the clerks of the two houses respectively, with such other matter as may be deemed useful; and that he have the same bound in a pocket volume, and a copy thereof delivered within two weeks after the commencement of each session of the legislature, and as much earlier as may be practicable, to each of the members and officers of the two houses, and to each of the state officers who are entitled to copies of the Session Laws, with the name of such member or officer lettered on the cover; and also a map of the state, exhibiting the route of all canals and rail-roads that are finished or in course of construction; the necessary expense whereof shall be paid by the Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller.

By order.

P. B. PRINDLE, Clerk.

In Senate, January 15, 1840.

Resolved, That the Senate concur with the Assembly in the foregoing resolution.

By order.

JOHN F. BACON, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

In Assembly, January 30, 1840. Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) that the people of the State of New-York, through their legislature, do solemnly and earnestly protest against the bill recently, and for the fourth time, reported in the Senate of the United States, by a senator from this state, commonly known as the Independent Treasury Bill, and against any scheme on the part of the Federal Government whereby the revenues of that government shall be required to be collected in specie alone, or in any other medium than the common currency of the country, at all times convertible into coin, or by which those revenues shall be placed in the custody of agents appointed by, and responsible only to, the executive of the United States; and which, as the prominent leading measure and political test of the general government, has been thrice directly submitted to the people of this state, and by them as often rejected and entirely repudiated, as being adverse to the best interests of our country; as establishing practically one currency for the government, and another and a different currency for the people; as being an untried experiment on the finances of the country, requiring specie alone in the payment of all debts to the government, and enabling it thereby to control and destroy the currency created by the states, and by the withdrawal and hoarding of millions of gold and silver, to affect injuriously all our branches of industry, and to take from the farmer, the merchant and the mechanic, the value of his products and the price of his labor; as augmenting and esta blishing, to a most dangerous extent, the patronage and influence of the general government, and as being hostile to the fundamental maxims of free government, which withhold from the executive all control over the public treasure, as pregnant with danger to the business, the credit, the prosperity and liberties of the people.

Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) that in the judgment of this legislature, the reiterated recommendation of the aforesaid scheme by the President of the United States, seconded, as it has been, by the persevering efforts of a senator of this state, in direct opposition to the expressed will of his constituents, to procure its adoption, have deeply alarmed the people of this state, and furnish at this time a prominent obstacle to the prosperity of the country; and that the senators and representatives of this state in the congress of the United States, will conform their acts and votes to the expressed will and best interests of their constituents, by steadily and faithfully opposing the measure aforesaid; and that any senator or representative, who shall persist in advocating the said project, and in urging its adoption, will misrepresent the views, wishes and interests of his constituents, and his conduct will merit and receive our unqualified disapprobation.

Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) that his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit to each of our senators and representatives in congress, a copy of the foregoing resolutions, with a request to present the same to both houses of congress. By order.

P. B. PRINDLE, Clerk.

In Senate, February 12, 1840. Resolved, That the Senate do concur with the Assembly in their said resolutions.

By order.

SAM. G. ANDREWS, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

In Assembly, February 12, 1840. Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) that the vote and decision of the house of representatives of the United States, on the twenty-eighth day of January last, by which that house refused to receive thereafter, or in any manner act upon, any petition relating to slavery in the United States, are, in the opinion and judgment of this legislature, a denial of the common right of any and every citizen of this country to be heard by their representatives upon any and every subject upon which they may think proper respectfully to address them, and are, moreover, a violation of the common and natural right of every human being to address his prayers for aid to those who have the power to afford protection and relief; and an open and direct infringement of the constitution of the United States, and of the principles of the declaration of independence.

Resolved, That this legislature has seen with deep regret, that certain representatives from the state of New-York, voted with the majority for the adoption of the rule of the house of representatives, by which the right of petition is denied, and without whose votes the rule aforesaid could not have been adopted.

By order.

P. B. PRINDLE, Clerk. In Senate, February 16, 1840.

The Senate do concur with the Assembly in the foregoing resolutions.

By order.

S. G. ANDREWS, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

In Assembly, February 15, 1840. Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) That the consent of this legislature is hereby given to the construction by the government of the United States, of a ship canal around the falls of Niagria; and that the senators and representatives of this state, in the congress of the United States, be requested to use their best efforts to procure the passage of a bill for this purpose.

Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) That the Governor of this state be requested to transmit to each of the representatives of this state, in the congress of the United States, a copy of the foregoing resolution.

By order.

P. B. PRINDLE, Clerk.

In Senate, April 18, 1840.

Resolved, That the Senate do concur with the Assembly in their said resolutions.

By order.

SAM. G. ANDREWS, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

In Senate, March 12, 1840. Resolved, (if the Assembly concur,) That the congress of the United States is imperiously called upon by the embarrassments which have prostrated the business of the country to exercise that power conferred by the constitution, which authorizes them to establish uniform laws, on the subject of bankruptcies of natural persons throughout the United States.

Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolution, to the respective senators and members of congress from this state.

By order.

SAM. G. ANDREWS, Clerk.

In Assembly, March 20, 1840.

Resolved, That the Assembly do concur with the Senate in

the above resolution.

By order

P. B. PRINDLE, Clerk.

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STATE OF NEW-YORK.

In Assembly, April 16, 1840.

Resolved, (if the Senate concur,) That the public lands, the national domain, is the common property of all the United States, "and of right constitutes a common fund for their common use and benefit, and ought to be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever.

Resolved, That we protest against the surrender of this common property of all the states to a portion of them, as unjust in the abstract, as in direct violation of the uses and purposes for which it was ceeded to, and the conditions on which it was accepted by the United States.

Resolved, That we protest against the sale of those lands, at a price below the present minimum, as a virtual violation of the trust and pledge under which they were received, as wasting the common fund, and by inducing, exhausting emigration from, and as diminishing the value of the lands of the old states.

Resolved, That it is not to be endured, that a government free from debt, and at peace with all the world, should use and consume for its current expenses, the national domain; that the common resources, from imposts and tonnage, are abundantly sufficient, when faithfully collected, and prudently and economically applied, for all the legitimate purposes of the common government.

Resolved, That we recommend a separation of the proceeds of the public lands, from the general revenue, and an equal distribution thereof amongst the several states, "according to their usual and respective proportions, in the general charge and expenditure."

Resolved, That the senators and representatives of NewYork, in congress, will conform to the views and wishes, promote the interests of the people of this state, by acting in accordance with the foregoing resolutions.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward copies of the foregoing report and resolutions, to the senators and representatives in congress, from this state, with a request, that the same be laid before the senate and house of representatives; and also to the Governors of the several states in the union, with a request to lay the same before their respective legislatures.

By order.

P. B. PRINDLE, Clerk.

In Senate, April 28, 1840.

Resolved, That the Senate concur with the Assembly in the above resolutions.

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