The act relating to the duties of those indebted to the state, (marked No. 1,) came down concurred, and approved by the governor.

The resolution to adjourn until the first Monday in July next, came down concurred.

Mr Taber, of Smithfield, moved the following bill : Be it enacted by the General Assembly as follows:SECTION 1. In all elections of the captains and subalterns of militia companies, at their annual elections, the elections shall be made by the members of said companies delivering their votes, with the name of the person voted for thereon, to the officer of the company in command on the day of election; and all companies who may have neglected to choose their officers at their last annual election, may proceed to choose the same as aforesaid, on any day before the next annual election.

SEC. 2. The chartered military companies who have not made their returns, may make the same at any time previous to the next adjourned session of this Assembly.

SEC. 3. The governor is hereby authorized to commission the officers chosen by volunteer companies in this state for a term not exceeding one year from this time.

Voted to be enacted, and sent up for concurrence. Mr. Simmons, of Providence, moved the following resolution, viz. :

Resolved, by the House of Representatives, (the Senate concurring therein,) That the governor be authorized to appoint suitable persons as commissioners in behalf of this state, to proceed to Washington, to make known to the president of the United States, that the people of this state have formed a written constitution, and elected officers, and peaceably organized a government under the same, and that said government is now in full operation.

Voted, and sent up for concurrence. Mr. Nathaniel C. Smith, a member from Barrington, sent to the speaker his resignation.

Voted, That the same be accepted, and that the speaker issue his warrant to the electors of said town, requiring them to elect another representative in his place.

George Niles, a member from Richmond, resigned

his seat.

Voted, That the same be accepted, and that the speaker issue his warrant to the electors of said town, requiring them to elect another representative in his place.

Voted, That the clerks be directed to make out certificates of attendance for the pay of each member, according to the act of this session; and to deliver the same to them respectively.

On motion of Mr. Pearce, Mr. Simmons was appointed a committee to wait upon the governor, and inform him that this House is ready to adjourn if he has no further communications to make to them.

Mr. Simmons, the committee appointed to wait upon the governor, made report that he had performed that duty, and that the governor had nothing further to communicate.

The act relating to the election of military officers, to commissioning the same, and to charter companies, came down concurred, and approved by the governor.

The resolution appointing commissioners to proceed to Washington, came down concurred, and approved by the governor.

Voted, That John S. Harris be allowed, and paid out of the treasury, for his services as clerk this session, six dollars.

Voted, That Levi Salisbury be allowed, and paid out of the treasury, for his services as clerk this session, six dollars.

Voted, That Burrington Anthony be allowed, and paid out of the treasury, for attendance as sheriff, and other expenses this session, the sum of five dollars and fifty cents.

Voted, That Seth Howard be allowed, and paid out of the treasury, for attendance of himself and other officers at this session, the sum of ten dollars.

On motion of Mr. Newman, of Warwick, it is unanimously Voted, That the thanks of this House be presented to the Speaker for the able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has presided over its deliberations.

Voted and resolved, That all officers not reëlected, and in whose places others have not been appointed, be, and they are hereby, continued in their respective offices until the adjourned session of this General Assembly, to be holden at Providence on the first Monday in July, 1842, with as full power and authority as they have at any time had.

Voted and resolved, That all business lying before this Assembly unfinished, be referred to the adjourned session to be holden on the first Monday in July, 1842; that the secretary cause the acts, orders, and resolutions passed at this session, to be published, with a suitable index, and distributed according to law; and that this Assembly be, and the same is hereby, adjourned to the first Monday in July, 1842, then to convene in the city of Providence.

Voted to be enacted, and sent up for concurrence. The vote of adjournment came down concurred; and thereupon, the speaker informed the House that they were adjourned accordingly.

Attest:

J. S. HARRIS, Clerk.

It has already been shown that on the 3d of May, 1842, there were two organized political governments in Rhode Island, each claiming the exclusive right to the exercise of legislative functions; they could not both be right. One claimed under an exploded British charter, which the people had never adopted, and which no free, intelligent people ever would adopt; the government under which had been held by sufferance after the royal parchment had become a dead letter. The other claimed to derive its authority directly from the people. A very large majority of the whole people had, in the exercise of their inalienable sovereignty, conferred upon the latter legislative powers, and by the same act had forever abrogated and withdrawn all authority from the former. Under the charter the whole government of Rhode Island expired and was renewed every year, and the duties and powers of all officers, from the highest to the lowest, ceased and terminated at the end of every year, if they were not reëlected, and the government under the people's constitution was intended to commence at the time the old government expired by its own limitation. The charter legislature was nothing more than a tenant at will. This being the case, it follows of course that the government which had been set up by the people themselves had an undoubted right to make use of all necessary means to sustain itself. The people had committed their political interests to this new legislature, and it had become the duty of that legislature to protect and defend them. This each member of that legislature had sworn to do; therefore if any government ever had a right to defend and sustain itself by physical power, the people's legislature had that right, and must stand perfectly justified in the use of any measures necessary for that purpose. The question is simply this, Was the people's government set up upon the true principles of American democracy? The advocates for the charter government have told us that the people had no right to set up a government or to take any measures for that purpose without permission from the General Assembly. We have seen that fourteen thousand out of twenty thousand gave their votes for the constitution under which the people's government was organized; but we are told that that is of no consequence so long as the legislature did not give the people a license to proceed in the manner they did, and that therefore the old government must be considered as the rightful government until the General Assembly should authorize the people to set up a different form of government. Now if a government which had been