to all the States the proper proceeds of their value; that we protest against any change in the long established system of managing the national estate, as it was devised by the Congress of the Revolution, and sustained by every administration of the Government till the present; and we maintain that the lands shall be sold at their proper prices for the benefit of all the people of the States, not squandered and confiscated for the benefit of a few; and we also maintain that the six hundred millions of acres yet unsold are the great inheritance of the future people of these States; and that any faithless consent of this generation to abandon that inheritance to the Federal Government, to be sold piece meal, and the money used as common revenue, would be to make that Government more powerful and to foster extravagance in public expenditure, while it would lessen the rights of the States, and deprive them of this unfailing means of advancing the condition of their people for centuries to come: We do further declare that, after the payment of the national debt, the proceeds of the public lands belonged of right to the States, and Congress was bound to distribute the same, according to the deeds of cession; and as the surplus in the treasury, on the first day of January, 1837, should be regarded as the avails of our great land capital, converted to money after the debt was paid, good faith required its distribution to the States: We, therefore, regard the recommendations of the President of the United States, and the act of Congress passed in accordance with it, to intercept the fourth instalment of the surplus as not to be justified by any wants of the Federal treasury, however urgent; and by no means justified when the money was, at the same time, declared to be unavailable to the Government, and for that alleged cause, lent to the deposite banks in one quarter of the Union, while the want was, in fact, supplied by the new national debt under the disguise of treasury notes, at once augmenting the circulation of irredeemable paper money, and making a forced loan from the people at the rate of two per cent: We do further declare, that all payments to the Federal treasury, and from it, should every where be uniform; and the exaction of gold and silver to it, and the payment of paper credit from it, is unequal and unjust; we deem it an odious distinction that executive officers, members of Congress, and those who collect public moneys, may be paid in coin, thus increasing the value of their salaries, and that the soldiers and arti sans, the laborers in public employ, and the contractors for supplies may be paid in paper, which the Government would, in turn, refuse to receive: we repudiate the doctrine which denies to Congress the power of regulating the currency, and providing for the welfare of the people, and yet claims that the Executive, and the subordinate agents of his own appointment, may dictate the laws of circulation, and decry the paper money of the States: we insist that the money system of half a century's duration, with which this country rose and prospered, shall not be rashly abandoned for any new born fallacies in finance; nor the powers of the Government be contracted to a mere domination, claiming to exist for itself alone and apart from the people, without sympathy in their business: We furthermore declare, that the people of this State have an unshaken confidence in the power of the General Government, if rightly administered, to make them prosperous and happy; they invoke an early return to the true financial habits of the republic, and desire to be ruled by laws, and not by trea sury circulars; they deprecate the proposed "Sub Treasury" scheme as a bold innovation on the long established practice of the Government, as in violation of the laws of internal trade, and as adverse to the prosperity of the people: they believe that, under such a system, the public treasure will be unsafe, may be used for corrupt purposes, and will augment the executive power to a dangerous extent, as by the removal and appointment of officers subservient to the will of the Executive, the entire control of the public treasure will be in the hands of the President alone: We, therefore, in the end declare, that no law should be passed by Congress for graduating or lowering the price of the public lands; or for the payment of public dues in coin alone to the exclusion of specie paying bank notes; or for the establishment of sub-treasuries, or any species of treasury bank; and we commend these opinions and sentiments to our Senators and Representatives in Congress for their consideration and concur rence. Resolved, That the Governor communicate to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of the foregoing resolution and declaration, with a request that the same be laid before their respective Houses. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. February 2, 1838. RESOLUTION In relation to the annexation of Texas to the Union. The subject of the annexation of Texas to the United States, having been presented to the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, by numerous petitions, and by a report of a committee of one branch of the Legisla ture, the following resolutions were submitted by said committee for their definite action and concurrence. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in the name and on behalf of the people of the State of Ohio, we do hereby solemnly protest against the annexation of Texas to the Union of these United States. And be it further resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and to the Governors of each of the States, a copy of the foregoing resolution, with a statement of the votes by which it was passed in each branch of the Legislature. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE J. SMITH, February 23, 1838. PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION In relation to the names of towns, &c. Whereas, In the transmission of letters and packages by mail, in the State of Ohio, there is much uncertainty, and consequently much inconve nience, and not unfrequently, damage sustained: And, whereas, it is be lieved that this evil arises from the fact that there is a large number of towns and townships of the same name: And, whereas, it is also believed that this difficulty can only be remedied by an alteration of the names of towns and townships, so that there shall be but one of the same name in the State: Therefore, Resolved, That the Auditor of State be, and he is hereby authorized and required to address his circular to the several county auditors of this State, requiring of them severally to report to him, on or before the first day of November next; first, the names of all the towns incorporated or unincorporated, within the limits of their said counties, with the date of their incorporation, or recorded plat; second, the name of all the townships in their several counties, with the date of their organization; and that said Auditor of State be required to present to the next General Assembly, on or before the 30th of December next, a list, alphabetically arrang ed, of all the towns within the limits of the said State of Ohio, with the date of their incorporation or recorded plat; also, the names of all the townships as returned to him by the several county auditors aforesaid, alphabetically arranged with the date of their several organizations, with the view to the passage of a law requiring that no two towns or townships shall be of the same name, within the limits of this State. C. ANTHONY, March 1, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION Providing for the appointment of a Trustee of the Ohio Institution for the Blind. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That James Hoge be, and he is hereby, appointed a trustee of the Ohio Institution for the instruction of the Blind, for the term of one year from and after the third day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of his present term of office. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE J. SMITH, March 5, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION For the printing of a certain act therein named, in connection with the General Laws of this session. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Secretary of State cause to be printed, in connection with the General Laws of this Session, so much of an act entitled "An act to provide for the regulation of Turnpike Companies," passed January 7th, 1817, as has not been repealed; and also, the amendatory acts thereto, which are now in force. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. March 6, 1838. RESOLUTION For settlement of the claim of Matthew Nichol. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Superintendent of the National Road be directed to pay to Matthew Nichol, of Belmont county, the balance that may be found due him for repairs made on the fifth mile of the National Road, after deducting the expenses attending the removal of the pile of earth at the west end of said fifth mile. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. March 7, 1838. RESOLUTION Appointing Trustees for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That William Preston, Robert W. McCoy, Bela Latham, and Dr. Robert Thompson, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, to serve for the term of three years from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. March 7, 1838. L. L.-52. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION Relating to the payment of Postage. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Speakers of the respective branches be, and they are hereby directed to audit for payment the accounts for postage against the members and officers of the present General Assembly. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. March 7, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION Providing for the distribution of the Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the re ports of the Superintendent of Common Schools, and of C. E. Stowe, shall be distributed to the different counties of this State, in proportion to the number of school districts in each, and that the Superintendent of Common Schools cause said reports to be put up in packages, the proper number for each county, and forwarded to the county auditors as early as possible: Pro vided, That when no earlier means of distribution can be obtained, free of expense, they shall be forwarded with the laws of the present session, and the carriage of the same shall be paid for at the same rate as is allowed for distributing the laws, taking into view the quantity of paper in each. Resolved, That the several county auditors be, and they are hereby instructed to distribute said reports to the several township clerks in propor tion to the number of districts in each township, and that the township clerks shall distribute the same to the several district clerks, to be by them preserved for the use of the districts. C. ANTHONY, March 7, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION In relation to Eliza Jane Johnson. Whereas, It is represented to this General Assembly that Eliza Jane John son, a free woman of color, was lately carried by force, and without le gal authority, from her home in Brown county, Ohio, into Mason coun ty, Kentucky, on the pretence of being a slave of Arthur Fox, of said county of Mason, and though the said Arthur Fox disclaims any title to said Eliza, she is still detained in confinement in the jail of said county Therefore, |