President, resolutions relative to his term of office, and a uniform mode for his election, see Delaware. Pressed hay, see Hay. No. Preston, John, et al. report on their petition, .... Public lands of the United States, see Delaware and Tennessee. Q. .... Queens and Suffolk, preservation of trout in, R. .... 131 187 245 337 68 Rail roads, report of the committee on that subject generally, Rensselaer lumber inspector, report of E. S. Fuller, Rotterdam, report on the petition of its trustees, ....... Ruggles, C. H. report of his fees as circuit judge, 167, 234 193 Schoharie and Otsego rail-road, see Otsego and Schoharie rail road. Schoonmaker, J. J. see Hasbrouck, Joseph, jr. Schuylerville, a road district, report on the subject, Seneca race course,....... 258 285 ... Sheriff, office of, report relative to service of declarations, &c. 259 .... 181 176 17 173 275 Steuben, Tioga and Tompkins, report as to a new county from, 169 Stillwater and Schaghticoke bridge, report relative to renewing the charter for, 22 No. ... 313 St. Lawrence literary association, Superintendents of the poor, county records, 224 Supreme court clerk's office, see Clerk's office, &c. Syracuse school, SECRETARY OF STATE, AND SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS. His annual report, ...... 11 His report on the returns of the superintendents of the poor,.. 33 Communication relative te the deaf and dumb, 101 His report relative to the archives of the Assembly chamber,. 302 Communication relative to the distribution of certain maps and statutes to the governors of the several States, 305 SURVEYOR-GENERAL. His report on the petition of Daty Allen,... T. 235 Tariff, resolutions of Maine and Delaware relative to,........ 3 Taxes, lands sold for, see Comptroller. 281 Ten Broeck, Wessel, report on his petition,.. Tennessee, resolutions of its legislature relative to the public lands, and relative to internal improvements, 183 Throop, Enos T. see Governor. Tompkins sole leather inspector, report of E. Thayer, 333 84 Tompkins, Tioga and Steuben, report as to a new county from, 169 Ulster county, Esopus creek, report as to improving its channel, 16 Ulster county, superintendents of the poor, Union College, annual report of its trustees, Van Den Heuvel, J. report on changing his name, 55 Vanderpoel, J. report of fees received by him as circuit judge, 122 Van Patten, Henry N. report on his petition, 254 Van Valkenburgh, Rynier, et al. report on their petition, Victor, see Bloomfield northeast congregational society. W. Wands, George, see Bethlehem. Washington county, northern turnpike road, .. Washington county, report on the petition relative to the accounts of overseers of the poor, justices, &c. connected with the subject of pauperism, Washington county, road to the 45th degree of north latitude, see Clinton. Washington's birthday, 128 252 12 137, 306 Watervliet, report relative to opening a certain highway in that town, 20, 31 Watervliet school district number two, report on a petition from, 69 Webb, Isaac, see Masters, N. ... 288 Wells, Gardner, report on his petition,.. Williams, Nathan, report of his fees as circuit judge, Wreck-masters, 133 wine at, 228 139 321 276 Wright's creek, report as to declaring it a public highway,.... 27 Wright, Silas, jr. see Comptroller. : In compliance with a resolution of the General Assembly of this State, I herewith transmit to you a copy of a report adopted, and of resolutions passed by that body, at its late session. To His Excellency, the Governor of New-York. REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS. At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hart ford in said State, on the first Wednesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. The Joint Committee, appointed to take into consideration such part of the Message of the Governor as relates to the Constitu tion and Judiciary of the United States, with the accompanying documents relative to those subjects, REPORT: That they have had under consideration the part of the Message of the Governor referred to them; and also a communication from the Governor of Vermont, covering certain resolutions of the Legislature of that State relative to the amendments of the Constitution of the United States, proposed to the Legislatures of Georgia and Louisiana, touching the manner of election, and the term of service of the President and Vice-President of the United States. The Legisla ture of this State, at their session in 1830, having passed an opinion upon this subject, in which your committee fully coincide, they deem it unnecessary to go into it again. Your committee have also had under consideration certain resolutions of the General Assembly of Ohio, relative to appropriations made by the General Government in aid of the colonization society. As it does not appear that the government have ever made, or contemplated making, such appropriations, this Legislature will doubtless concur with the General Assembly of Ohio, in the opinion that it is premature and inexpedient to express any opinion whether such appropriations be or be not constitutional. Your committee have also had under consideration certain resolutions of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, relative to the judicial power of the United States; a subject of sufficient importance to justify a more extended notice. At a period when, in some portions of our country, a disposition is manifested to array the jealousies of the people against the judicial department of the Government of the United States; when executive officers are instructed, in all the formality of legislative enactment, to disregard the legal precepts of the Supreme Court of the United States, it well becomes those who regard a dissolution of our Union as one of the most dreadful of political evils, to interpose a mild, but firm expression of their opinion. The People, by their sovereign pleasure, created by the same act the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the Federal Government. The inefficiency of the old confederation to secure respect and obedienoo, taught them the necessity of so organizing the Federal Government, that it could lay its hand upon individuals, and thus directly enforce the laws of the Union, and protect those acting under them from injury or interruption, by the laws of any one of the States. It was the force of external circumstances only, that gave to the recommendations of the old Congress the authority of laws. When the outward pressure was removed, the Union was practically dissolved, and anarchy ensued. Without the judicial department the Congress of the United States would now be but an assemblage of embassadors, whose efficiency would begin and end in advisory consultations: the people would obey, or not, as their interest and feelings might dictate. The courts of the several states partake, too readily, of local jealousies and excitements, to be entrusted with the final determination of questions involving the validity or construction of the federal laws; and questions of policy of much less importance than those which now agitate our country, would soon put an end to our ephemeral Union. The judicial department, therefore, constitutes one of those peculiarities which distinguish the present government from the old confederation—a co-ordinate branch-which, in the opinion of your committee, is absolutely neeessary for the successful organization of our government. |