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Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia (No. 9) 1853-1854 590 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0423 and id is 1 raw text is: 590 PRIVATE AND LOOAL LAWS.-RSsLTION. Nebraska Bill approved, &e. (No. 9.) The State of Georgia, in solemn convention, having firmly fixed herself upon the principles of the compromise measures of 1850, rela- ting to the subject of slavery in the Territories of the United States, as a final settlement of the agitation of that question, its withdrawal from the halls of Congress, and the political arena, and its refer- ence to the people of the Territories interested therein; and dis- tinctly recognizing in those compromise measures the doctrine that it is not competent for Congress to impose any restrictions, as to the existance of slavery among them upon the citizens moving in- to and settling upon the Territories of the Union, acquired or to be hereafter acquired; but that the question whether slavery shall or shall not form a part of their domestic institutions, is for them alone to determine for themselves; and her present Execvtive having reite- rated and aflirmed the same fixed policy in his inaugural address. Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of nesoluon the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Legislature ito,,;,. of Georgia, as the representatives of the people, speaking their will, and expressing their feelings, have had their confidence strength- ened in the settled determination of the great body of the northern people, to carry out in good faith those principles, in the practical application of them to the bills reported by Mr. Douglass from the Committee on Territories in the United States Senate at the present session proposing the organization of a Territorial government for the Territory of Nebraska. And be it further Re8olved, That our Senators in Congress, be and they are hereby instructed, and our Representatives requested, to vote for and support those principles, and to use all proper means in their power, for carrying them out, either as applied to the gov- ernment of the Territory of Nebraska, or in any other bill for Ter- ritorial government which may come before them. Resolvedfurther, That his Excellency the Governor be reques- ted to transmit a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved, February 20th, 1854. (No. 10.) The Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom were re- ferred the interlocutory decree of the Supreme Court of the Uni- ted States, relative to removing and marking certain lines between nd o r. Georgia and Florida, a copy of which decree was communicated or -t to the Senate by his Excellency the Governor, have had the same &c. Inruna under consideration; and after corresponding with Hon. John ine, McPherson Berrien, the Attorney of the State of Georgia, in the boundary controversy with Florida, beg leave to report the fol- lowing Resolution, and recommend its adoption: R8olved, That his Excelleney the Governor be and is hereby re- quested and authorized to appoint a Commissioner and Surveyor on the part of Georgia, to run and mark the lines in conformity

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