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| − | Ansious to preserve amicable relations between the States of Georgia and Maine, two members of this great confederacy, and to maintain the harmony of the Union, I must respectfully ask your Excellency's attention to the case of Philbrook and Kelleran charged with having committed a crime against the laws of theis State and renew the demand for their arrest and confinement until an agent can be sent to receive and bring them for trial to the jurisdiciton within which offence is alleged to have been committed. The correspondence | + | Ansious to preserve amicable relations between the States of Georgia and Maine, two members of this great confederacy, and to maintain the harmony of the Union, I must respectfully ask your Excellency's attention to the case of Philbrook and Kelleran charged with having committed a crime against the laws of theis State and renew the demand for their arrest and confinement until an agent can be sent to receive and bring them for trial to the jurisdiciton within which offence is alleged to have been committed. The correspondence with the authorities of the State of Maine on this subject, has been laid before the Representatives of the people of Georgia, and the reasons therein of signed for refusing to comply with the demand have been maturely considered by them and they regard them as wholly unable and inconsistent with the provisions of our common Constitution. In this opinion I fully concur. The General assembly of Georgia at its last session acting under the solemn belief that the State of Maine had disregarded her constitutional rights by refusing to surrender persons charged |
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Executor Department Ga Milledoeville 4th October 1841 Ansious to preserve amicable relations between the States of Georgia and Maine, two members of this great confederacy, and to maintain the harmony of the Union, I must respectfully ask your Excellency's attention to the case of Philbrook and Kelleran charged with having committed a crime against the laws of theis State and renew the demand for their arrest and confinement until an agent can be sent to receive and bring them for trial to the jurisdiciton within which offence is alleged to have been committed. The correspondence with the authorities of the State of Maine on this subject, has been laid before the Representatives of the people of Georgia, and the reasons therein of signed for refusing to comply with the demand have been maturely considered by them and they regard them as wholly unable and inconsistent with the provisions of our common Constitution. In this opinion I fully concur. The General assembly of Georgia at its last session acting under the solemn belief that the State of Maine had disregarded her constitutional rights by refusing to surrender persons charged