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[Motion – Vote of thanks to the Hon. R. P. Dunlap. Pres. of the Senate] On motion by Mr. Williams Mr Dennett having taken the Chair, Resolved that the thanks of the Board be presented to the Hon. Robert P Dunlap President of the Senate for the able, faithful, and impartial manner in which he has, at the present session, discharged the duties of his station, and while the members of the Board are impressed with a sense of his assiduous and efficient efforts to facilitate and expedite the despatch [dispatch] of the business of the session, they would tender to him the assurance of their personal respect for the benefits conferred upon their Constituents by the prompt and discreet course pursued by him to promote the interest and prosperity of the State. This Resolution having been read from the Chair was unanimously passed.

[Presidents reply] The President then resumed the Chair and made the following reply:

Gentlemen of the Senate:

The approbation you have been pleased to express of my official conduct as evinced by the Resolution you have just adopted and the numerous instances in which I have had the honor to preside over your deliberations cannot but awaken in the mind, feelings of the most lively sensibility.

Though the ties arising from similar pursuits must now suffer a convulsive shock, will not memory often look back to this Hall of Legislation, where we have pursued together the round of duty and have felt the impulse of a common interest, Yes Gentlemen