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Resolution in General Assembly. 1806 168 (1806)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0057 and id is 1 raw text is: jhould circulate as seedily as pobhiel ; and whereas niiih ia* f such inforu ition is occtsined for the want of a distriutngPomt Office in the southern part of this state . Resolved, That our senators in Congresshe insttucied to ehtlea. vor to obtain from the post nJaster jeit ral a distributing post-oftico i Rlissellsville, in Loga. fcoun'c br . . . . Aplr rtld bvcembei 2tthi . 80, IN GENERAL ASSEMiLY, December 0i 1804. 'NA1 Committee tovwliom was referred the governo'a iiaissge covering sundry resolutions of the hgislitres of the states Of Ma. i'yland, Tdnnes-eq Georgia, New mltimshire, Rhode lslind, zin No th Carolina; have according to order Jhad the saime unider con' ilehatioin, and respectfully submit the foiibotv. ig fvport : ' . I Yourcommittee have attended to the resoldtions of the sta'teofMa' ryland and Tennessee* proposing an amendment to the coustitutiot. of theUaiitedStates,so is to authorise and empower the ongrcss ot theUnitedStates to pass a law when tht.y may deem it expecdient, td prevent the furtherit-hpdrtation bf slaves from -any - of the Wcsi, India islands, from the coasts of Africa, or clswhere into the UnitU ed States, or any Oart thereof'; and after having given to the sub. ject that consideration and reflection whith the importance of it de- mands-state it as their opnion, that tnat part of the Federal Con- 6titution is beyond the reach of amendment : Your comaiittee re- fer to the first clause of the ninth section of the first article, and the fifth article ot the said constitution, to justify theim in their opi- nion. Your committee gave this opinion from a full conviction of itsjustmess, notwithstanding their sincere disopprobation t4 the slave trade and an anxious wish that such traffic corrld be cuos--itcl- tionally prohibited. Your committee submit the folloig resolution on the part of the papers referred to them. Re.solved, I'ht it is inexpedient for this state to contur with, or to c-peiate for the procuring said amnhndinv-t. Resoloed, that the ovfrnow he and he is h, rehy reqet sted to transmitcopies of the torgoirg report ard resolutio;i to the exectI tives of the states of Marylai and'Fear.css c, With a request thai thevlay them I)fore the respectwre lgisltitures. Your committee have attenled t) thex'solutioll of thO statis bf ,torgia, North Carolina, RhoV I;lmd, anti New -1 inq hire. - 1, Your committee conceive tat from their nature th y require no remarks farther than an acknowledgment of their being recci's'ed, as they all go to approve or disapprove of namn,lrrnts 'prt)poseJ t this and o:hcr statei to the constitution of li, United States.

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