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was read in the House of Representatives and with the accompanying documents committed to Messrs. Todd, Dennet and Starr, together with such as the Senate might join.

Read and concurred, and Messrs. Bradbury & Ripley were joined on the part of the Senate.

Order of the House that the said Committee be instructed to cause to be printed three hundred copies of such papers alluded to in the foregoing communication, as they may deem proper – came up for concurrence. Read and concurred.

[Governor's general message] The Secretary of the State then came in and laid on the table the following written message from the Governor viz. "Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives –

The commencement of the political, like that of the civil year, invites to a review of the past as well as to the prospect of the future. For the blessings of the one we have abundant reason to be grateful to our Supreme Legislator; in view of the other to implore direction from the same source of wisdom & of peace. Among the favours of the past year, which call for our sincere acknowledgments, are the abundance with which the exertions of our husbandmen have been crowned; the health and peace which have pervaded our land, and the continuance of all the inestimable civil and religious advantages secured to us by our Constitution. During the last political year this Constitution, which had been ratified with unexampled unanimity by our fellow citizens, has been put into complete operation, and in no part has it been found materially defective. Those valuable institutions, which, under the parent state, had proved the palladium of public and private repose, have been nourished and protected here.

The enlightened and judicious exercise of the Legislative and Executive powers have been evinced by the establishment of our highest judicial tribunal on a basis as permanent as in any State, and by filling it in a manner highly satisfactory. Our literary