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[41] [Governor message] general approbation. By this correct and wise course of policy, the executive and legislative departments of that government have laid the foundation of a lasting harmony between the two States. Assembled for the purpose of performing the first acts of legislation, on you is devolved the arduous and important duty of devising, maturing, and perfecting a system of wise, equal and wholesome laws. Nor is the responsibility and difficulty of your situations as members of the first Legislature diminished by the consideration that the consequences, which may result from your deliberations, will have an important bearing on the generations, which are to succeed you, as well as upon the present and future character and standing of the State. The establishment and organization of a Supreme Judicial Court will require your early attention. As the security of the people, the uninterrupted enjoyment of individual rights, the protection of property and the peace and harmony of society, in a great measure depend upon the correct exposition and impartial administration of the laws through the instrumentality of our Courts of Justice; it is highly important to the people themselves, that such adequate compensation should be assigned to our first judicial officers as shall command the services of men of unquestioned integrity, possessing the first [?] intelligence and extension of legal attainments. Connected with the establishment of our judicial system there is a subject which I submit to your consideration with great dissidence [?]. Our statutes which embrace, as is well known, but a small portion of our laws, are comprised in five or six large volumes. In many case in consequence