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Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana. 1837 14 (1837.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0204 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 up said Bayou to lake St. Joseph, thence direct to the beginning point. Its name. SECT. 3. Be itfurther enacted, 4c. That said Parish bc caled Parish seat. Madison, and that the Parish scat of said Parish be locatd at MeEacharn's point, and shall be called Richmond. Parish tax. SECT. 4. Be it further nacted, c. That the Parish tax of said Parish bo doublc that of tfc State, tillna sufficiency ofmoncy shall have bcel raised to pay for the building of a Court Ilous and Jail. SECT. 5. Beiturther enacted, 4oc. That the Governor be Officers. authorised and required to nominate and appoint thle s~evcral of- ficers necessary in said Parish,taoorling to the existing law. Records of the SECT. 3. Be itfurtier enacted, t*c. That all the records be- parish, longing to the Parish of Madison, and now in the office of the Parish Judge, of the Parish of Concordia, shall he, by the said Parish Judge, delivered over to the Parish Judge of Madison, Duty of the and it shall be the duty of the clerk of tile District and Parish trit 'nd and ail cler of hcd S-ct of Bfutherho Concrd, inc h hea Goven ob courts of o acor- deliver to the clerq ofthe District and Parish Courts of the Par- dif. isns of Madison, all records and documents appertaining to suits and judicial proceedings wherein thle defendant or defendants re- side in the Parish of Madison, which suits shall continue overand have trial in the Parish of Madison, and that this law take efsact Fromt and after its passage. Parish j Pdg a to SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Porish Judge be x-officlo mioua of t the Parish of Madison, he cx-orhicio Notary Public, and ry pudblic. that all elections in saice Parish be conducted in the style as usual in Concordia. (Signed) J0SEP11 WALKER, (Signed) Speaker of the House of Representatives. C. DERBIGNY, President of the Senate. Approved, January 19th, 1838. (Signed) E. D. WHITE, Governor of the State of Louisiana. Resolution. Preamble. Whereas, on divers times and occasions, efforts have bon made on the floor of Congress by the Representatives from the cast- ern States, to disturb the peace and harmony of these United States by agitating the question of slavery in the southern portion of the Union, and whereas we hold all attempts of this kind, an interference with matters which exclusively belong to local legislation, and therefore not within the constitutional powers of Congress, and whereas, we believe the tendency of these efforts to be, to destroy the vested rights of the citizens of the Southern portion of these United States, and if pursued in, will operate to the dissolution of the Union, and a termina. I

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