$50,000, among the several counties of the state; the divisions alone are to be appropriated.

FREE-MASONS.-Two masonic lodges were incorporated.

INSURANCE COMPANY.-The Mississippi Insurance Company, in Vicksburg, was incorporated; its capital is $500,000.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.-All inland bills, drawn after the passage of this act, are placed on the same footing, and the same liability is incurred in every respect, in all cases of protest, without regard to the business or occupation of the drawer or drawee.

SUITS AGAINST THE STATE. It shall be competent for any person, to exhibit and file a bill in equity, in the superior court of chancery, against the state of Mississippi; the complainant is to enter into bond with sureties, in the sum of $250, conditioned to indemnify the state against all costs; and it shall be the duty of the attorney general to answer, defend, or demur to said bill; either party may appeal to the high court of errors and appeals; no execution whatever shall ever issue on any decree in chancery against the state, whereby the state may be dispossessed of lands and tenements, goods and chattels.

SEMINARY LANDS.-An act was passed to provide for selling the thirty-six sections of land, granted by the United States to the state for a seminary of learning, and for investing the proceeds in stock of the Planters' Bank.

STATE HOUSE.-The sum of $95,000 was appropriated for the erection of a state house; and $10,000 for the erection of a house for the governor, in the town of Jackson.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.-When it may be necessary to have the testimony

of any notary public in any suit or controversy, arising on any protested promissory note, bill of exchange, or other instrument of writing, the official act of such notary public, certified under his hand and notarial seal, shall be deemed conclusive evidence of the protest; and the notary shall not be required by any subpoena to go beyond the limits of the county of his residence. When any notary public shall protest any such instrument, he shall make and certify, on oath, a full and true record of what shall have been done thereon by him, in relation thereto; and such record shall have the same effect, in all courts of record, as if the notary were present and interrogated in court; and if any notary public shall falsely and wilfully set down and certify any matter untruly in his record, he shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of perjury, and be liable to punishment accordingly; but all notaries public are required to attend the courts of the counties of their respective resi dences, when thereto required by subpoena. Parties to suits, in any court of this state out of the county of the residence of any notary public, may cause his testimony to be taken by deposition or interrogatories, before a justice of the peace of the county in which he may reside.

RESOLUTIONS.--Resolutions were passed, non-concurring in a resolution of the legislature of Louisiana, requesting the president to order the United States engineers to make all the necessary surveys and estimates for a rail-road from New Orleans to Washington City; disapproving strongly of the doctrine of nullification; and non-concurring in a resolution of the state of Georgia, in relation to the calling of a convention of the people of the United States, to amend the federal constitution.

ELECTIONS.-Dec. 1833.-Alexander Porter was elected senator, in the place of J. S. Johnston deceased, by a vote of 32 to 30.

1833. The legislature of Louisiana met at New-Orleans on the 7th of January. The leading topic in the communication of Governor Roman, is the state of the controversy between South Carolina and the U. States. Governor Roman declares his conviction, that the principles avowed by the majority in that state inevitably tend to the total disorganization of public order, and to destroy the very foundations of the Union.

There is a paragraph against the lottery system, recommending its discouragement by an onerous tax. The message recommends the erection of a new penitentiary, on the plan of those in the northern states, in which the labour of the convicts is made to exceed the costs of confining and maintaining them. The support of criminals in Louisiana last year cost the state $20,809. The treasury is in a flourishing condition. The unexpected bal. ance is $95,018 28; and after paying all the current expenses, and all the appropriations of the last two legislatures, there will still remain a surplus of receipts during the year of about $20,000.

He recommends the establishment of an annual appropriation, as a fund for internal improvement.

LEGISLATION.Acts passed by the legislature of Louisiana, at its session in New Orleans, begun on January 7, 1833.

ACADEMIES.-The sum of $2,500 is to be paid annually out of the state treasury, for four years, for

the support of the Montpelier Academy, and the sum of $1,000, to be paid annually, for ten years, for the maintenance of an academy in Alexandria.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.-An act was passed to incorporate the Agricultural Society of Louisiana; the corporation is empowered to raise, by subscription or otherwise, a capital fund not exceeding $500,000; a model plantation is to be purchased, on which experiments shall be made in agriculture and horticulture.

BANKS.-The Commercial Bank of New-Orleans was incorporated, the chief object of which is to be the conveying of water from the river into the city of New-Orleansand its faubourgs, and into the houses of its citizens; the original capital stock of the company is to be $3,000,000, and is to be exempt from taxation.

The Mechanics' and Traders' Bank of New-Orleans was incorporated, with a capital stock of $2,000,000.

An act was passed,to establish, in New-Orleans, a bank under the name of the Citizens' Bank of Lou-isiana, with a capital of $12,000,000, which is to be formed and procured by a loan; subscriptions to the capital stock are to be guarantied and secured by mortgages of real estate and slaves, which shall form the basis and stand as a full security for such loan or loans and the interest thereon; the state is at all times to be entitled to a credit with the said bank, of at least $500,000, on the bonds or obligations of the state, being furnished in such manner as may be provided by law, bearing an interest which shall not exceed

exceed the former more than one fifth.

The unappropriated lands in the western district, are not taken into view, as the state is merely acting in the character of trustee in the appropriation; but it is not improbable that a considerable fund may be derived from this source at no dis. tant day.

LEGISLATION.--At an extra session of the legislature in 1832, the following resolutions were adopted on the subject of nullification unanimously in the senate, and only six dissenting in the house.

Believing that a crisis has arrived which renders it important that Tennessee should declare to the world her opinions, upon the subject of the relative powers of the federal and state governments, this general assembly, that no misapprehension may exist as to what are their political principles, do declare that they regard the resolutions adopted in the legislature of Virginia, in the year 1798, and the commentaries of Mr. Madison thereon, as furnishing a true and safe exposition of the principles of the federal constitution. Yet, as the supporters of nullification claim to be adherents to the same doctrines, it becomes the duty of this general assembly, distinctly to denounce nullification as a heresy, the more dangerous as it professes to rest upon the basis of the doctrines of 1798.

Therefore, resolved by the gene. ral assembly of the state of Tennessee, That we regard the doctrine, that a state has a right, under the constitution, either by its legislature, or by a convention of the people of the state, to render inoperative and void a law of congress within the limits of the state, as unwarranted

by the federal constitution, and dangerous to the existence of the Union.

Resolved, That we regard nulli. fication by either of these means, as destructive to the principles of the government, and, under the guise of a peaceful and constitutional remedy, calculated to precipitate the country into civil war.

Resolved, That the doctrine that a state has the right, under the constitution, to resist or render inopera. tive within her limits an act of con. gress, whenever the same may be declared unconstitutional by a legis. lative enactment, or in its highest political attitude by a convention of the people of the state, is wholly unwar. ranted by the constitution, danger. ous to the existence of the Union, inconsistent with the preservation of the federal government, and tending directly, under the guise of a peaceful remedy, to bring upon our country all the horrors of civil war.

Public acts passed at the first session of the twentieth general as. sembly, begun and held at Nashville, on September 16, 1833.

APPEALS. In all cases origina. ting before a justice of the peace, where judgment may be rendered in favour of the plaintiff, and the plaintiff shall appeal to the county or circuit court, and such court shall not give a judgment more favoura ble to the plaintiff than that given by the justice, making allowance for the interest accruing, it shall be the duty of said court to give judg. ment in favour of the plaintiff for the amount so by him recovered, to. gether with the costs recovered be. fore the justice, and at the same time to give judgment in favour of the defendant, for all costs occasioned by such appeal.

In all causes commenced in the