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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0672 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS.
No. 29.-Resolutions providing for inviting the officers and soldiers of the revo-
lution and others to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Wash-
ington monument on tile twenty-second instant.
[Adopted February 7, lt50.]
Officers and so]. 1. Resolved, That the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution
diers of revola, be and are hereby invited by the general assembly to le present at tile
tion invited to
laying corner laying of the corner stone of the Washington moutuent on the twenty-
stone of Wash. second of February.
melgn aon. . Resolved, That a joint committee of the two houses of the general
Committee of assembly be appointed for the reception and entcrtninmcnt of the guests
reception. invited by tile general assembly.
No. 30.-Resolutlon changing the inscription to he placed upon the medul voted
General Winfiehl Scott.
(Adopted March 21,1850.]
Inscription for 1. Resolved by the general assembly, That so much of the joint resolu-
medal to General tion, adopted ol the seventh day of February in the year eighteen til-
.eott. dred and forty-eight, as prescribes the inscription to be placed upon the
medal thereby voted to Major-General Winifield Scott, Pe find tile sam
is hereby rescinded, and in lieu thereof the following inscription is hero-
by directed to be placed upon said medal, to wit: 1 The commonwealth
of Virginia presents this medal to Major-General Winfield Scott, as a
memorial of her admiration for tihe great find distinguished services of
her son whilst commander-in-chief of the Americant armics in tile war
with Mexico, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.:
Preamble and Resolutions relative to the legislation of congress upon tile subject
of fugitive slaves, and suggesting additional legislation tlereon.*
[Adopted February 7, 1849.]
Preamble. The committee appointed to enquiro how far the existing legislation of
congress, under the third clause of the second section of the fourthi ar-
ticle of tile constitution, fulfils the intent and object of that instrument,
in aflording an adequate remedy for the recapture of slaves absconding
from this state into the non-slaveholding states of this confederacy; in(l
if found itadequato in its provisions, to suggest such relief as the ur-
gency of the case requires, and itlso the mode in which the rights of the
citizens of this state, and of the other slaveholing states of the Union,
shall be brought to the atteution of the congress of the United States,
[have bestowed on the subject the attention which its imlortanco do-
iands, and now report to the house the result of their enquiries.
The clause of the constitution referred to ia the resolution of tile
house, is to time following effect:
'No person held to service or labor in one state under the laws there-
of, escaping into another, shall, itt contsequenee of ny law or regulation
therein, lie discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered
fill, on claim of tile party to whom such service or labor may be tile.
A knowledge of tile history of this constitutional provision is essential
to a right understanding of tile subject referred to the committee.
Long before the revolutionary war, the institution of slavery had dif-
fused itself throughout the thirteen colonies, which by the result of that
war subsequently bectinme tile United States of America. Tihe preva-
letoe of this institution through fill the colonies, had created, at an early
period, a customary law, utnider which the owners of ftugitive slaves were
allowed to recapture them in whatever colony found, and( convey them
to that from which they had escaped. Tris usage, the offspring of mu-
tial interest and of international comity, was still in force 'to a great
extent when tile articles of confederation were formed by the states ;
and this may account for the omission in those articles, of t clause like
* These resolutions were accidentally omitted in the publication of the acts of 1848-9, and are
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