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Constitutional power to pass such laws, and that, if it should pass them, such acts could not be efficacious to any useful purpose as our Courts would not recognize them as Constitutional. And can any one suppose it transcends the Constitutional power of the Legislature to pas a law curing such defects or irregularities in the doings of the most petty corporation, and yet that this Legislature has the competency to infuse life and rigor into all the acts and resolves of the last legislature, which were before a dead letter because unconstitutional and all this by the magic of a simple declaration.

4th All the reasons we have urged against the power of this Legislature to declare the acts and resolves of the last Legislature good and valid for any useful purpose apply with equal force to the 4th and 5th sections of this act, which go to declare the acts & doings of the Executive Department of the Government of last year unconstitutional and then profess to make them good and valid.

But the facts asserted or insinuated in the preamble of this act are as we believe without foundation and that any impartial and intelligent tribunal would on the most rigid scrutiny so pronounce them.

We are not told by this act in what respect the Legislature of last year was not properly organized, and are left on this subject to the dim light of conjecture. It is easier and sometimes more convenient to deal in insinuations or generalities than to undertake the humble but honest task of specification.

the two Houses of the Legislature, of last year, were organized in the accustomed manner by choosing their presiding officers, sixteen senators being five more than a quorum, were declared duly elected - There is much reason to believe that this minority