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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0671 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS.
mended to pen. people of the South to take counsel together as to tile best and most
pd1. effectual means of resisting the aggressions of the North, of enforcing a
compliance on their part with their constitutional obligations, and there-
by of preserving the union of these states, now in imminent peril by
reason of the course pursued by the non-slaveholding states, and their
representatives in congress, in the ceaseless agitation (and that too in the
most unfriendly spirit,) of qAtons involving the peace, the institutions,
and the very existence of the Southern states; and approving the ob-
jects of said convention, as above set forth, the general assetmly doth
recommend to the good pcoplo of this commonwealth to send delegates
Istrict ceonyn. theieto ; and that to this end they hold primary meetings in each city,
tions reom county and election district in this state, and appoint delegates to a coil-
mended. vention, to be held in each congressional district in the month of May
What delegates next; antd that the district conventions so constituted, dlo each select
to be chosen. two persons, (one from each of the tvo political parties of the country,)
who shall be delegates.to the said Nashville convention.
(overnor to for. 6. Resolved, That thd governor of this commonwealth be requested to
wordI resoltons
ro srutte SCod a copy of these resolutions to each of tie states of this Union, and
also to our senators and representatives in congress.
No. 2.-Resolution for returning to the state of Vermont resolutions adopted by
its legislature upon the subject of slavery.
[Adopted January 14, 1850.]
Resolutions of Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That the resolutions from
Vermont rbetve the state of Vermont, on the subject of slavery, be returned to tile go-
to stavery, to bo
returned. vernor of this commonwealth, with a request that they be returned to
the governor of Vermont, and that the governor of Vermont be informed
that the legislature of Virginia understand their constitutional rights, and
mean to maintain them.
No. 3.-Resolution prescribing the rate of interest at which loans may be made
by the Board of public works.
[Adopted March 16, 1850.]
Whattnterest Resolved by the general assembly, That whenever the Board of public
may bepaid on works shall have been or may be authorized to borrow money by any
act passed at the present session of the general assembly, for the pay-
ment of any subscription or appropriation to any work of internal un-
provenment, tile said money may be borrowed by said board at any rate
of interest not exceeding six per cent. per amnim, any thing in aiiy such
act to the contrary notwithstanding.
No. 4.-Resolutions relative to the guaranteed bonds of the Virginia Central
railroad company.
[Adopted March 19, 1850.]
Bonds of Virgt. 1. Be it resolved by the general assenibly, That it shall be lawful to
nia Central rai. make the bonds of the Virginia Central railroad company to which the
road to be regis.
tered stock, and guaranty of the state shall be affixed, agreeably to the provisions of the
transferable. act passed Februai)y second, eighteen hundred and fifty, a transferable
stock; ant for that purpose the secretary of the company shall keep a
register of the name of all persons to whom they are issued, as is re-
quired to be done in the case of the guaranteed bonds of the James river
and Kanawha company, under the net, entitled Ati act providing for
the conversion of the guaranteed bonds of the James river and Kanawlia
company into a registered stock, passed February sixteenth, eighteen
iund redl and forty-eight, and that the proceeding in the transfer and can-
cellation of any eonds by the secretary of the company, the annexation
of the state's guaranty to any new bond by the treasurer of the common-
wealth, and the cancellation of the same, or the original ])ends, shall be
in each ease as is provided in the said act passed February sixteenth,
eighteen hundred and forty-eight.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0671&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)