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Preamble and resolution in relation to slaves who escape from their owners into the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. 1836 353 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0301 and id is 1 raw text is: lith. Resdlted, That said committces report, whether (lie Bank of Ken- tucky, and the Northern Bank of Kentucky, have distributed to the branch- es their fair proportions of the capital, and in what kind of funds and wbeth- er either of said banks has sold or made money on the State bonds executed to them. 12th. Rcsolvcd, That said committees inquire whether the Bank of Lou. isville have employed any part of their capital in exchange in the South or elsewhere, and if so, under what circumstances, and to what amount. 13th. R olvcd, That said committees proceed forthwith to the examine ation. Approved, January 17, 18 . PR-AMLE AND RleowiuTIo.5 on the suhjectof the recognition of the indepeanjeuce of Texas by tile Uitcd States. WiisnAs, The people of Texas have renounced all political connexion with, and declared themselves wholly independent of the government of Mlexico, and established and put in operation a government of their ow;i, similar in all its essential characteristics to that of the United States, in aca complishing which they have shown that they deseive to be free-Therefore, Resolved, by Lhe G,,terI Asscrnbly of the Commonwtallh of. Kntuckyg That whenever it shall be the opinion of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, that the independence of the Texian government can be ac. knowledged without any violation of our treaty stipulations, the laws of ha, tions, or our national honor, there should, in the opinion of this Legislature, be no hesitation ordelay on the part of the constituted authorities of this re- public in making such acknowledgment, and that our Senators be instructed and our Representatives in Congress be requested, when such shall in their opinion be the case, to use their exertions to procure the acknowledgment of the independence of Texas. Resolved, That the Governor immediately forward to each of said Sen- ators and Representatives a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions. Approved, Jat.uary 4W1837 PAIAM LE AND R eSoLuTIoN in relation to slaves who escape from their owners into the SqqAs.t Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. WMrirnr-,s, It is represented to this General !Assembly, that many.of'th* citizens of this State have sustained much inconvenience, and someof them serious loss, by reason of the elopement of their slaves into the States-f Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; that they are furnished when there with facili- ties of concealing themselves therein, or of passing under concealment through these states into'thc territories of his Britannic Majesty, whereby they become irreclaimalle by their owners; it is further represented, that the slaves of our citizens in passing up or down the Ohio river in the com- pany and service of their owners, are, when they touch at the ports of 46 RkSELUT[ONs. 353

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