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The Judiciary Committee, to which were referred the Resolutions of the General Assembly of Alabama, transmitted by the Governor, [? ] the controversy between the States of Georgia and Maine relating to the refusal of the latter to deliver up certain persons charged with offenses against the laws of Georgia, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully ask leave to make the following report.

    That they are duly sensible of the difficulty and delicacy of the question presented under its various aspects; and also of the respect that is due to the rights and sentiments of coequal members of this confederacy, upon points to which they may each, in their own view, attach permanent and even total importance; and more upon which they may be equally entitled to judge, so long as there shall be no acknowledged intermediate authority, to determine questions between them