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Joint Resolution appointing Commissioners. 1861 194 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0203 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE CHAPTER 188, Joint Resolution appointing Coninissioners, rreabnle. WImEREAs the State of Virginia has recommended the holding of a Convention of Delegates from all the States of the Utnion, ao the City of Washington, on the fourth day of February next, for the purpose of taking into consideration and perfcting soic plan of adjusting the matters of controversy now so unhappily subsisu. ing in the family of States, and has appointed five Commissioners to reprecut the people of that commonwealth in said Convention; and whereas the people of the State of Delaware regard the pre- servation of the Union as paramIontit to any political considerati ,., and arc fixed in their determination that Delaware, the first to adopt the Federal Constitution, will be the last to do any act ten- ding to destroy the integrity of the Union; therefore commlssIon. Be it Resolved by1 the Senate and House of Repnsentatives of i/i ernppolut. State of Delaware in General Assem6ly met, That the Ilon. Georgo dto atId -L 11111 Pece B.Rodncy, Daniel M. Bates, Esq., Dr. Henry Ridgely, Ion. John convoietnon. W. Houston, and William Cannon, Esq., be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners on behalf of the State of Delaware, to represent the people of' said State in the Convention to be held at Washington on the fourth day of February next. Epresion Resolved, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, the f. Opn ipeople of Dclaware are thoroughly devoted to the perpetuity of tho n o Union, and that the Commissionors appointed by the foregoing 'i. resolution are expected to emulate the example Bot by the immor- tal patriots who friamed the Federal Constitution, by sacrificing all minor considerations upon the altar of the Union. Secretury of Resolved firther, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State fur- State to furnish a copy of the above preamble and resolutions to to eion l- each of the Commissioners herein and hereby appointed, duly aisslotncro. attested under the great seal of the State. Clerkor Resolveul furthe7, rThat immediately Upon the adoption of tho 'te ,a. foregoing preamble and resolutions, it shall be the duty of the tceg , r- Clrk of the House to transmit to the Secretary of State a copy secr- thereof certified by him, and when the Secretary of State shall as e. have received said copy so certified, it shall be evidence that said preamble and resolutions were duly adopted by this General Assenbly. . Adopted at Dover, January 30, 1801. 191.

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