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tatives ten dollars per day; and to the Assistant Clerk of the Senate six dollars per day, for each and every day's attendance they have been, or may be employed in that capacity during the present session of the Legislature; and that there be further paid to the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, one hundred dollars each, for copying the Journals for the Library, as required by the orders of the two branches of the Legislature. And His Excellency the Governor, with advice and consent of Council, is requested to draw his warrant accordingly.

CHAP. XLVI.

Resolve on the Petition of the Inhabitants of the Plantation of Ervings Grant.

March 11, 1833.

Resolved, For the reasons set forth in said petition, that the county commissioners of the county of Franklin, be, and they hereby are authorized to support and repair, at the expense of said county, from time to time, as often as may be necessary, so much of the highways and bridges within the limits of said Ervings Grant, as, in their opinion, the circumstances of the case and the public good may require; and may also appoint an agent, if they see cause, to superintend said repairs, and render to said commissioners an account thereof.

PET. OF ISAAC NEWTON, 2d, & OTHERS. 355

CHAP. XLVII.

Resolve for the purchasing of Cobb's Manual on the growth of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk.

March 11, 1833.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be authorized to purchase eighteen hundred copies of Cobb's Manual on the growth of the Mulberry tree and the culture of Silk: provided, that the whole amount of said purchase shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars.

Resolved, That each member of the Legislature shall be furnished with one copy, and each town in the Commonwealth with three copies of said Manual, and the remaining copies shall be disposed of as His Excellency the Governor shall direct.

CHAP. XLVIII.

Resolve on the Petition of Isaac Newton, 2d, and others. March 11, 1833.

Resolved, For the reasons set forth in said petition, that the county commissioners for the county of Franklin, in addition to the sum authorized by a resolve of this Legislature, on the petition of Eliel Gilbert and others, passed the 5th day of February, A. D. 1320, be, and

they hereby are authorized and empowered to grant and allow, for the purposes specified in said resolve, such sum or sums of money, from time to time, as they may think proper, not exceeding one thousand dollars in all; and may also appoint an agent, if they see cause, to superintend the expenditure of all monies so granted, and render to the said commissioners an account thereof.

CHAP. XLIX.

RESOLVES

In relation to the proceedings of the Convention of South

Carolina.

March 11, 1833.

The Joint Select Committee, appointed to consider so much of the Governor's Address as relates to the proceedings of the late Convention of the people of South Carolina, and the purposes and policy thereof: and to whom have been referred Resolutions of the States of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Illinois, North Carolina and Delaware upon that subject, have attended to the duty assigned them, and beg leave to submit the following Report:

In the partial Report which they have already submitted, the committee have stated in general terms the character of the proceedings of the late Convention of the people of South Carolina; and the subject is now so familiar to the public, that it does not seem necessary to enter very fully into a recapitulation of facts. It is generally known that this convention, which appears to have

been assembled agreeably to the forms prescribed by the Constitution of the State, met at Columbia on the 22d of last November :-that almost immediately after, and with very little deliberation, it proceeded to pass an Act, denominated an Ordinance, declaring null and void all the laws of the United States which impose duties upon the importation of foreign goods, particularly those of the 19th of May, 1828, and the 14th of June, 1832; prohibiting the execution of them within the State of South Carolina, and making it the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as should be necessary to give full effect to the Ordinance, and to prevent the enforcement and arrest the execution of the laws aforesaid :-that the Legislature, at a session subsequent to the meeting of this Convention, has in fact passed certain laws for these purposes, which were to go into operation on the first day of this month, and which, if executed, must bring the constituted authorities of the United States and of South Carolina, into open collision.

The papers in the hands of the committee include a printed copy of this Ordinance of the convention, transmitted by its order to His Excellency the Governor, and also printed copies of a long report of the committee which drafted the Ordinance, and of addresses in the name of the convention to the people of the United States and of South Carolina. These documents undertake to justify the proceedings of the convention, on the ground that the duties on the importation of foreign goods were laid, in part, at least, for the purpose of protecting domestic industry: that the General Government is not invested by the constitution with the power of laying duties for this purpose, and that, whenever the General Government assumes powers which, in the opinion of any one of the States, are not given to it by the constitu

tion, the State which entertains this opinion may, without violating the constitution, declare the act by which the power so assumed has been exercised, null and void, and prevent the execution of it within its limits. It also appears to have been supposed by the Convention, that on the adoption of such measures by any one State, it would become the duty of the General Government to suspend the execution of the law complained of, at least within the limits of the complaining State, and to apply to the people in the form prescribed for amending the Constitution, for a grant of the power supposed to have been unconstitutionally assumed :-that, if the power should on this application be refused by the people, it would be the duty of the General Government definitively to repeal the law by which it had been exercised, and that if, on the contrary, it should be granted, it would then become the duty of the complaining State to acquiesce. There seems, however, to be some uncertainty in the views of this part of the subject entertained by that portion of the citizens of South Carolina upon whom the responsibility for these measures rests: as the Legislature of the State, instead of leaving it to the General Government to propose to the people in the form prescribed for amending the Constitution a grant of the power of laying duties upon the importation of foreign goods, have themselves, at their late session, passed resolutions, proposing to the other States to hold a Convention for the purpose of settling this and other questions which they consider as doubtful.

It is affirmed, in these addresses and reports, that the laws of the United States, imposing duties upon the importation of foreign goods, thus declared to be null and void, are exceedingly burdensome and oppressive to the people of South Carolina. This proposition is not made

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