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and fraudulent attachments of property, for pretended debts, should also be guarded against by the law.

These subjects are mentioned, with the view that they might elicit the public attention, and at this, or some less busy session of the Legislature, receive the consideration, to which they may appear to be entitled.

I have now suggested the principal topics, to which I have deemed it proper, at the present time, to invite your attention.

Should any thing further occur, of which it may appear interesting that you should be informed, I shall make it the subject of another communication.

It only remains for me to assure you of my cordial co-operation in all measures interesting to our State and country, and to express my confident hopes, that harmony and justice, under the influence of that wisdom which is from above, will prevail in all your deliberations, and that after having finished the arduous and accumulated business of the present session, you may return to your homes, animated with the consciousness of having faithfully discharged your duties, and receive as a merited reward, the approbation of your constituents.

Council Chamber, Portland, January 8th, 1831. [Samuel E. Smith]