STATE OF NEW York.

In Assembly, Jan. 15, 1850.

Resolved, That the assembly do concur in the above re solution.

By order,

JAS. R. ROSE, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

In Assembly, January 18, 1850. Whereas, A resolution has been introduced in the senate of the United States, instructing the committee on public lands to inquire and report on the propriety of setting apart of a portion of the public domain to be granted, free of all charges, to the exiles of Hungary already arrived, and hereafter to arrive in the United States, as well as to the exiles fleeing from oppression in other European countries: Therefore:

Resolved (if the senate concur), That this legislature is in favor of the measure proposed, and that our senators and representatives are requested to do all in their power to carry it into effect, provided the persons receiving the lands shall become actual settlers thereon.

And, whereas, a large portion of the people of our own country are landless and without homes, therefore,

Resolved (if the senate concur), That our senators be instructed, and our representatives be requested to make the public lands free, in limited quantities, to all actual settlers who are citizens of the United States, who are not the owners of land, or possessed of the means of purchasing it; Congress to retain the power of making special grants.

Resolved (if the senate concur), That the governor of this state be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of our senators and representatives from this state in Congress.

By order of the assembly,

JAS. R. ROSE, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

In Senate, January 22, 1850.

Resolved, That the senate do concur in the passage of the

foregoing resolutions.

By order of the senate,

WILLIAM H. BOGART, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

In Assembly, January 21, 1850.

Resolved, (if the Senate concur) that this Legislature has seen with profound satisfaction the patriotic and constitutional recommendations of the president of the United States that wise and sufficient appropriations be made for the construction of harbors and the improvement of the navigation of rivers.

Resolved, (if the Senate concur) that our Senators and Representatives in Congress will reflect and express the wishes of the people of the state of New York in advocating such bill as will best facilitate the speedy and complete improvement of the harbors and rivers of our country.

Resolved, That the Senate do concur in the foregoing resolutions.

By order of the Senate,

WILLIAM H. BOGART, Clerk.

IN SENATE.

February 5, 1850.

Resolved, (if the Assembly concur) that the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State be requested to advocate the passage of a law establishing a mint in the city of New York.

Resolved, (if the Assembly concur) that the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolution to

each of the Senators and Representatives from this state in Congress.

By order,

WILLIAM HENRY BOGART, Clerk.

IN ASSEMBLY,

February 6, 1850.

Resolved, That the Assembly concur in the passage of the above resolutions.

Resolved, (if the Assembly concur) that our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to promote the passage of an act providing for the removal of the rocks which obstruct and render dangerous the channel of the East river at Hurl Gate, near the city of New York.

Resolved, (if the Assembly concur) that the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

By order of the Senate,

WILLIAM HENRY BOGART, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

In Assembly, February 9, 1850.

Resolved, That the Assembly do concur in the passage of the above resolution.

STATE OF NEw York,

In Senate, January 16th, 1850.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That as the federal constitution was formed and adopted expressly to secure the blessings of liberty to the people of the United States and their posterity, therefore the federal government ought to

relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence or continuance of slavery or the slave trade, wherever it has the constitutional power over those subjects, and our senators in congress are hereby instructed and our representatives are requested to use their best efforts to procure the passage of laws that will effectually and forever put an end to the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That the determination indicated by the governors' messages and the resolutions of the legislatures of various of the slave-holding states, and by the representatives of such states in congress, to extend domestic slavery over the territory acquired by the late treaty of peace with the republic of Mexico, we feel bound to oppose by all constitutional means; and recognizing the constitutional power of congress to prohibit, by positive enactment, the extension of slavery into free territory, our senators in congress are hereby instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best efforts to insert such a positive prohibition into any law they may pass for the government of the territories in question.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) that our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to resist firmly and to the utmost of their ability, and by such positive legislation as may be necessary, the extension of human slavery or the jurisdiction of Texas over any part of New Mexico.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That we have learned with great satisfaction that the people of California have adopted a constitution which is entirely in accordance with the spirit of the free institutions of our country, and our senators in congress are hereby instructed, and our representatives requested, to aid in the passage of such laws as may be necessary to admit that state into the Union.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That the people of this state are desirous of preserving inviolate the federal union, and that they will strenuously oppose all attempts, from whatever source they may emanate, or under whatever pretence they may be made, to effect its dissolution.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That the governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of the senators and representatives from this state in Congress. By order of the Senate, WILLIAM HENRY BOGART, Clerk.

State of New York.

In Assembly, February 14th, 1850.

Resolved, That the assembly do concur in the passage of the foregoing resolutions.

By order,

JAMES R. ROSE, Clerk.

STATE OF NEw York.

In Senate, February 12th, 1850.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That the senators and representatives of this state in congress are hereby requested to inquire whether injustice was done to the rights and interests of the people of this state by an act of congress approved February 26, 1845, entitled "An act to extend a patent heretofore granted to William Woodworth," commonly known as the act extending Woodworth's planing machine, and whether the passage of said act was procured through misunderstanding or misrepresentation, and whether it is not hostile to the spirit and objects of the patent laws; and if they shall be of the opinion that said act is liable to those objections, that they are hereby requested to use their best efforts to procure its immediate repeal.

Resolved, (if the assembly concur) That the governor be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress.

By order,

WILLIAM HENRY BOGART, Clerk.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

In Assembly, February 20, 1850.

Resolved, That the assembly concur in the passage of the

foregoing resolutions.

By order,

JAS. R. ROSE, Clerk.