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pends. Corruption, oppression, and menaces, in whatever manner presented, are alike adverse to them. That the personal independence of the citizen, in all elections, may receive every special of protection that timely legislation can furnish, and that these hostile influences may be prevented from acting upon the choice of public officers, or be properly dealt by when detected, I respectfully suggest whether it may not be advisable to render them in this State, penal offences by legislative enactment, and subject to exemplary punishment. I can not but regard the late Acts of Congress relative to the gold and silver currency of the Country, as conducive to great improvement in this essential department of our national concerns. And it is worthy of consideration, whether a gradual curtailment of the privilege of issuing bills under the denomination of five dollars, now extended to the Several Banking Institutions in this State, by the twenty the section of the Act of March 31, 1831, will not beneficially serve the policy, this commended by national legislation. Simultaneous with the operation here suggested, an enactment of similar import with the repealed section of an "Act to restrain unincorporated Banking Associations, and for other purposes," passed March 13, 1821, would also be found expedient, to prohibit the circulation, within this State, of the bills of foreign Bank, of denominations prohibited to Banks in our own State. Upon the subject of education the duties of the legislation are made imperious by the