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341 The undersigned members of the House of Representatives protest against an act intitled " an act making valid the acts and resolves passed by the Legislature of the year eighteen Hundred and thirty and for other purposed" passed on the seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen Hundred and thirty one and respectfully ask that this their protest may be entered on the Journals of the House

The preamble of this act asserts that great and serious doubts have arisen whether the acts and resolved passed by the last preceding Legislature of this State are obligatory in consequence of the unconstitutional manner in which said Legislature was constituted and organized - sundry doings of the Executive Department of Government for the last political year were unconstitutional - the act then proceeds to declare the Acts and resolves above mentioned to be valid to all intents and purposes and that none of the rights of property real or personal gained by any of the acts and doings of the Executive Department shall be set aside or made void by reason of the unconstitutionality of such acts or doings
 We are at a loss to understand whence these great and serious doubts have originated in as much as there has not been a solitary Petition or representation from any quarter made to this Legislature intimating that the people are disquieted with doubts as to the acts and resolves of the last Legislature or the acts and doings of the Governor and Council of last year or in any way dissatisfied with the same This assertion the we consider as entirely gratuitous and without foundation
  But if everything asserted or insinuate in the preamble be assumed to be true we protest against the acts for the following reasons
  The reason alleged for this Extraordinary and anomalous piece of legislation is not that the acts and doings of the Legislature or the public good or not calculated to advance the best interests of the State for in this were the case this Legislature might apply the ordinary corrective of repealing obnoxious acts and resolves and counteracting the doings of the Executive Department; but that the legislature was not invested with power to do what they did or rather that we had no Legislature