STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

Whereas the present crisis in our public affairs calls for a decided expression of the voice of the people of this State; and whereas we consider it the undoubted right of the Legislatures of the several States to instruct those who represent their interests in the councils of the nation, in all matters which intimately concern the public weal, and may affect the happiness or wellbeing of the people: Therefore,

1. Be it resolved by the Council and General Assembly of the State, That while we acknowledge with feelings of devout gratitude our obligations to the great Ruler of nations for his mercies to us as a people, that we have been preserved alike from foreign war, from the evils of internal commotions, and the machinations of designing and ambitious men, who would prostrate the fair fabric of our Union, that we ought, nevertheless, to humble ourselves in his presence, and implore his aid for the perpetuation of our republican institutions, and for a continuance of that unexampled prosperity which our country has hitherto enjoyed.

2. Resolved, That we have undiminished confidence in the integrity and firmness of the venerable patriot who now holds the distinguished post of Chief Magistrate of this nation, and whose purity of purpose, and elevated motives, have so often received the unqualified approbation of a large majority of his fellow-citizens.

3. Resolved, That we view with agitation and alarm the existence and gigantic power of a great moneyed corporation, which threatens to embarrass the operations of the Government, and, by means of its unbounded influence upon the currency of the country, to scatter distress and ruin throughout the community, and that we, therefore, solemnly believe the present Bank of the United States ought not to be rechartered.

4. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our members of the House of Representatives be requested, to sustain, by their votes and influence, the course adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Taney, in relation to the Bank of the United States, and the deposites of the Government moneys, believing, as we do, the course of the Secretary to have been constitutional, and that the public good required its adoption.

5. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the above resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States.

IN COUNCIL, January 11, 1834.

These joint resolutions having been three times read in Council, Resolved, That the same do pass.

By order of Council:

MAHLON DICKERSON, Vice President of Council.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, January 11, 1834.

These joint resolutions having been three times read and compared in the House, Resolved, That the same do pass.

By order of the House :

DANIEL B. RYALL, Speaker of House of Assembly. Mr. Binney presented a petition of S. Morris Waln and Company, merchants, of the city of Philadelphia, praying that the duties may be remitted on certain wines which were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 7th of January instant.

Mr. Chambers presented a memorial of the President and Directors of the Bank of Chambersburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, asking that the deposite of the public moneys may be restored to the Bank of the United States.

Mr. Sutherland presented a memorial of inhabitants of the city of

Philadelphia, against a restoration of the deposite of the public moneys to the Bank of the United States.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, presented a memorial of William H. Hale, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, praying Congress to discountenance any proposition for the chartering of a bank or banks.

Ordered, That the said petitions, resolutions, and memorials, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Pearce, of Rhode Island,

Ordered, That the petition of Stephen T. Northam and John G. Whitehorne and Samuel Whitehorne, presented January 22, 1827, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Speight,

Ordered, That the petition of Amos Wade, presented December 21, 1829, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Galbraith presented a petition of the Trustees of Alleghany college, in Meadville, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for a grant of public land.

Mr. Plummer presented a petition of Benjamin Roach, of the State of Mississippi, praying permission to relinquish certain lands purchased by him of the United States, and to locate other lands in lieu thereof, for reasons set forth in the petition.

Mr. Duncan presented a petition of John Jordan, of the State of Illinois, praying permission to locate the bounty land, for which he has received a warrant, on any public lands within the said State, instead of the Territory of Arkansas.

Mr. Ewing presented documents in support of a claim of John Allen, of Indiana, to the right of pre-emption in the purchase of certain public lands.

Mr. Clay presented a petition of Sutton Stephens, of the State of Alabama, praying permission to sell the fee simple title of a tract of land reserved to him in the treaty of 1818, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians.

Mr. Bull presented a petition of inhabitants of the State of Missouri, who are purchasers of public lands, praying that the benefits of the acts of May 23, 1828, and March 31, 1830, may be extended to them.

Mr. Sevier presented documents in relation to the correction of an error in an entry of land claimed by Thompson Simpson.

Ordered, That the said petitions and documents be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Hiland Hall presented a petition of Timothy Fisher, praying to be allowed the arrears of pension to which he thinks he is entitled.

Mr. Philo C. Fuller presented a petition of Earl Potter, of the State of New York, praying remuneration for revolutionary services.

Mr. Lansing presented a petition of John Becker, and Amy, his wife, son-in-law and daughter to Abraham Briggs, deceased, praying the balance of pension to which they conceive said Briggs was entitled at the time of his death.

Mr. Sutherland presented a petition of Captain Ebenezer Parrish, praying to be allowed half pay as a sergeant, in consequence of a wound received by him in the revolutionary war.

Mr. Sutherland presented a petition of Elizabeth Stewart, widow of

Christopher Stewart, an officer of the revolution, praying compensation for services rendered by said Stewart in the revolutionary war.

Mr. McKim presented a petition of John H. Barney, praying to be allowed a pension for his services in the army of the revolution.

Mr. Pope presented a petition of Mashach Pearson, praying for arrears of pension to which he conceives he is entitled.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Mr. Wardwell presented a petition of Samuel Linnell, of Jefferson county, in the State of New York;

Mr. Sutherland presented a petition of James Bartam;

Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, presented a petition of Thomas Morton, a citizen of Gibson county, in the State of Tennessee;

praying, respectively, that their names may be placed on the roll of invalid pensioners.

Mr. McKim presented a petition of Amos A. Williams, praying to be allowed the arrearage of pension to which he believes himself entitled.

Mr. Fulton presented a petition of John Russell, praying for an increase of pension.

Mr. Wise presented a petition of William D. White, praying to be allowed the increase of pension to which he conceives he is entitled. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Mr. Slade presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Middlebury, in the State of Vermont, praying that an appropriation may be made for the improvement of the navigation of the Hudson river; which petition was referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill for the improvement of said river.

On motion of Mr. Deming,

Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of the State of Vermont, for the establishment of a post route from Danville to Wolcott, presented February 16, 1833, be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. "

On motion of Mr. Laporte,

Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of the county of McKean, in the State of Pennsylvania, for a post route from Smithport to Great Valley, presented February 4, 1833, be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

Mr. Galbraith presented a petition of the inhabitants of the counties of Venango, Crawford, and Warren, in the State of Pennsylvania; Mr. Deberry presented a petition of citizens of Fayetteville and Carthage, in the State of North Carolina;

Mr. Lea presented a petition of inhabitants of the State of Tennessee; Mr. Spangler presented a petition of inhabitants of the counties of Wayne and Holmes, in the State of Ohio;

Mr. Leavitt presented a petition of inhabitants of the counties of Harrison and Belmont, in the State of Ohio;

Mr. Ashley presented a petition of the inhabitants of the Blackwater settlement, in the State of Missouri;

Mr. Bull presented a petition of the inhabitants of the State of Missouri;

Mr. Sevier presented a petition of inhabitants of the settlements along the bank of the Mississippi river, between Helena and the mouth of White river, in the Territory of Arkansas;

praying, respectively, for the establishment of post roads therein designated and described.

Mr. Beaty presented a petition of Elisha Smith, praying to be allowed compensation for losses incurred by him in the transportation of the United States mail on route No. 1,757, in the State of Kentucky.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

Mr. Fillmore presented a petition of Nancy McPherson, late widow of Andrew Clarke, deceased, praying to be paid for property belonging to said Clarke, which was destroyed at the river Huron, in the Territory of Michigan, in the late war with Great Britain.

Mr. Lansing presented a petition of Spencer Stafford and John Van Ness Yates, of the State of New York, praying that certain moneys which they paid to the United States as sureties of Solomon Southwick, late postmaster at Albany, may be refunded to them, for reasons set forth in the petition.

Mr. Whallon presented a petition of Nathaniel Platt, of Plattsburg, in the State of New York, praying compensation for the use of his buildings as barracks for the troops of the United States in the year 1814, for damage done to his premises, and for property taken for the use of said troops.

Mr. Wardwell presented a petition of Marinus W. Gilbert, of the State of New York, praying to be allowed interest on money advanced by him to pay troops of the United States in 1815, and for the discount on Treasury notes received from the officers of the United States army.

Mr. Turrill presented a petition of Israel Ellsworth, of Oswego, in the State of New York, stating that he was born in the United States, and removed to Canada in 1810, and purchased a farm; that, on the breaking out of the late war between the United States and Great Britain, he returned to the United States, and that his property in Canada was confiscated and sold by the British Government, and praying remuneration for his losses.

Mr. Stewart presented a petition of Jeremiah Axton, praying to be paid the rent of a house occupied by troops of the United States in the late war with Great Britain, and for damage done said house.

Mr. John J. Allen presented a petition of George Gale, of the State of Virginia, praying to be paid for a wagon and horses lost in the military service of the United States.

Mr. Lea presented a petition of John King, of the State of Tennessee, praying to be paid for a horse lost in the military service in the late war with Great Britain.

Mr. Ashley presented a petition of Joseph Cooper, of the State of Missouri, setting forth that he furnished the United States, under contract, with a large quantity of beef, and that the Government failed to pay him therefor, according to contract, and that he thereby sustained a heavy loss, which he prays may be made good to him.

Ordered, That the said petitions and documents be referred to the Committee of Claims.

The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee of Claims, viz.

On motion of Mr. Hazeltine: The petition of Benjamin Waterman, presented May 7, 1832.

By Mr. Chinn: The petition of Samuel Lewis, presented January 4, 1832.

By Mr. Allen, of Ohio: The petition of James Sharp, presented January 18, 1830.

By. Mr. Chilton: The petition of Joseph Abel, presented December 23, 1829.

Mr. Whallon presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Clinton, in the State of New York, praying that an appropriation may be made to improve the navigation of the Hudson river; which petition was referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill for the improvement of the navigation of said river.

Mr. Gillet presented a copy of the proceedings of a meeting of the inhabitants of the county of St. Lawrence, in the State of New York, expressive of the sense of said meeting of the propriety of constructing a canal around the rapids of the river St. Lawrence, at the Long Sault.

Mr. Clark, of Pennsylvania, presented memorials of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying that provision may be made for the construction of a canal navigation from the Chesapeake bay to Lake Ontario, through the Susquehannah river, Seneca lake, and Oswego river. Also, that a canal may be constructed to unite the waters of Lake Michigan and the river Illinois.

Mr. Coulter and Mr. Stewart, respectively, presented petitions of inhabitants of the State of Pennsylvania, praying Congress to subscribe for a million of dollars of the stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to be applied to the construction of the western section of said canal.

Mr. Galbraith presented a petition of inhabitants of the State of Pennsylvania, praying that measures may be adopted for the improvement of the navigation of the river Alleghany from Pittsburg to Olean, in the State of New York.

Mr. Burd presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Bedford, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying that a road may be constructed from Cumberland, in Maryland, to Holidaysburg, in Pennsylvania, so as to open a communication between the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and the Pennsylvania canal.

Mr. Pope presented petitions from inhabitants of the States of Indiana and Kentucky, praying Congress to purchase the capital stock of the Louisville and Portland canal, and that said canal may be made free of toll.

Mr. Galbraith presented à petition of inhabitants of the northwestern counties of the State of Pennsylvania, praying that an appropriation may be made for the construction of a harbor at the mouth of Elk creek, on Lake Erie.

Mr. Carr presented a memorial and joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, relative to the Louisville and St. Louis mail route.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.