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The Committee on Federal relations,

To whom was referred certain Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, in relation to Georgia and Maine Controversy, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to Report; That after a careful examination of the facts and circumstances set forth in the preamble to the Said Resolutions connected with felonous [sic] stealing and carrying away, the slave Atticus by Daniel Philbrook and Edward Kilbron from the State of Georgia, and transporting him to the State of Maine, and the refusal of the Executive of the State of Maine, to surrender said Philbrook & said Kilbron as fugitives from justice upon demand made by the Governor of Georgia, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Constitution, They have come to the conclusion, that the demand made was legal & proper, That the right was clear under the Constitution, & that the refusal to surrender was inconsistent with the Constitutional obligations of a State; They therefore concur in the following resolutions of said State, and recommend their adoption by the General Assembly of this State.
[In left margin] R. 1st
Resolved 1st  That it is the duty as well as the right, of any State; to insist on the faithful observance of the Federal Constitution, by each State in the Union.
[In left margin] R. 2d
That to define crimes and felonies within its Jurisdiction, is an incident to the Sovreignty [sic] of each State, and that no other State can question the exercise of that right.
[In left margin] R. 3d
That to demand the surrender and removal of fugitives from justice is by the Constitution a right, and the arrest and surrender a duty; the denial or impairment of this right is inconsistent with the Constitutional obligations of a State, and subversive of the peace and good government of the other States.
[In left margin] R. 4th