state stock, Certificate of section of the act to enlarge the buildings of the State peniunder act of tentiary for the Eastern district, and for other purposes, 28th March, passed twenty-eighth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, shall be signed by the Auditor General, and countersigned by the State Treasurer in the usual form. 1831, to be signed in the usual form. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of Allegheny county be, and Allegheny co. comm'rs. they are hereby authorized and empowered (after at least authorized to thirty days public notice previously given in all the newspasell county pers published in Allegheny county) to sell, dispose of, and property. convey for the highest and best price that can be obtained for the same, either at public or private sale, the whole or any part of the real estate belonging to said county of Allegheny, and lying and being situate in said county, and a good and sufficient deed or deeds of conveyance, in fee simple, to make to the purchaser or purchasers of the same; and the said deed or deeds of conveyance, being duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, shall vest in the purchaser or purchasers of said real estate, all the interest and title of said county of Allegheny in and to the same; and the moneys arising from such sale or sales shall be by the said comissioners applied to the purchase of ground in the city of Pittsburg, and the erection of suita. ble buildings thereon, for the use of said county of Allegheny: Provided, That the county prison shall be erected on the plan Plan of pri- of separate confinement of prisoners; and the said commissioners shall, for the faithful expenditure of said moneys account to the auditors of said county, in the same manner as they are by law obliged to account for the expenditure of all other public moneys. To apply proceeds to purchase of ground, and erectior of public buildirgs. Proviso. son, &c. Preamble to ad section. Common wealth's right of escheat to estate of J. M'Donah WHEREAS, it is represented that John M'Donah, formerly of Beaver, left his residence more than thirteen years since, and went down the Ohio river, and never having been heard of, is supposed to have died; that he left some property in Beaver, and an illegitimate daughter named Margaret M'Donah, whom he had acknowledged and educated: Therefore. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That all the right, title, and interest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the estate, real and personal, of the said John M'Donah, by escheat or otherwise, is hereby vested in his said daughter Margaret M'Donah; provided that vested in his this act shall not be so construed so as to divest or impair the daughter. rights of third persons. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore Comm'rs, of said, That the commissioners of Dauphin county be, and they Dauphin co. authorized to are hereby authorized to make sale of the Lancasterian school sell Lancas house and its appurtenances, situate on Walnut street, in the terian school borough of Harrisburg; and to make and execute a sufficient house. deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers, and apply the proceeds of such sale to the payment of debts due by said county. SECT. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the act entitled "An act to authorize the commis- Repeal of act sioners of Dauphin county to establish a public school, in the establishing borough of Harrisburg, on the Lancasterian system," be, and school. the same is hereby repealed: Provided however, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with, or invalidate any contract relative to said school, or in any manner to affect the rights of third persons. Proviso. satisfaction of SECT. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority afore. said, That the recorder of deeds for the city and county of Recorder of Philadelphia, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to Philad'a. co. acknowledge satisfaction of record of a mortgage executed authorized to by the contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, to Thomas acknowledge Mifflin, Esquire, Governor of the state of Pennsylvania, a certain bearing date the seventh day of May, one thousand seven mortgage to hundred and ninety-three, recorded in the office for recording common'th. deeds, &c. in and for the city and county of Philadelphia, in mortgage book number nine, page three hundred and thirtyfive, &c. SECT. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor draw his warrant on the State $500 approTreasurer for the sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid to the Harrisburg Academy. Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAM'L. ANDERSON, THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. priated to Harrisburg academy. APPROVED-The ninth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. RESOLUTIONS. ment of the tion and laws of the U.S. No. 1. RESOLUTIONS Relative to the Union of the States, and the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Acknowledg. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Constitution of the United States, and the laws of supremacy of the United States, made in pursuance of the Constitution, the constitu- are the supreme law of the land to which every citizen of the United States owes obedience, and that no authority whatever can release him from his obligation to obey or require him to take any oath or enter into any engagement inconsistent with such obligation, and that every pretension on the part of a State or any portion thereof, so to release any citizen of the United States, or so to require of him, is unconstitutional and without the least foundation of right, and can afford neither shelter nor excuse for offences he may commit against the laws of the United States. Denial of the gress. Denial of the Resolved, That no portion of the citizens of the United States, have a rightful power to render invalid an act of the Congress of the United States, duly made by the people's representatives, and approved by the Executive, in the mode prescribed by the Constitution, nor to nullify the same either generally or within particular districts, but that every such act of Congress continues in full force every where within the United States, notwithstanding any such asserted nullification, and all persons who resist its execution, offend against the Constitution and laws of the United States, and are liable to prosecution and punishment for such offence. right of any Resolved, That no State has a right to withdraw from state to with the Union, and to declare itself independent of it, and that every attempt to do so, would be a virtual infrac draw from Union. tion of the Constitution of the United States, justifying and requiring the use of constitutional measures to suppress it. Resolved, That the faithful execution of all laws of the United States made in the mode prescribed by the constitution, is Duty of presi a duty enjoined upon the President of the United States, in dent in rethe constitutional discharge of which he is entitled to and gard to the ought to receive the aid and support of every citizen of the the laws. Union. execution of tariff. Resolved, That it is the clear and indisputable right of Congress, to impose duties upon importations and of the Constitutiongovernment of the United States, to collect the duties paya. ality of the ble by law upon goods imported into every part of the Union, and that every resistance to the collection of the same, is an offence against the Constitution and laws of the United States, and that the offenders are liable to prosecution and punishment for such offence. sistance Resolved, That in enforcing by all constitutional means the laws passed by Congress, for imposing and collecting Commonduties upon goods imported into the United States, and all wealth's asproffered to other acts of the Congress of the United States, and in bring. ing to punishment all persons who under any pretence, may aid the geneoffer resistance to them, the Commonwealth of Pennsylva- ral governnia will if necessary aid and assist the government of the ment. United States by all the means in her power. support. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves jointly and individually to sustain the Chief Magistrate of the United States, in Pledge of all constitutional measures, calculated to preserve petuate the Union of the States. and per Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a Transmission copy of these resolutions to the President of the United of resolutions States, and to each Senator and Representative in Congress from this Commonwealth, and the several Governors of the respective states and territories of these United States. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twentieth day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. GEO, WOLF. Preamble. No. 2. RESOLUTION Relative to the Tariff. WHEREAS, an alteration in the tariff system is proposed in the House of Representatives of the United States, by the committee of ways and means, and is now under consideration in that body; And whereas, it is believed, that if the bill now under consideration should become a law, its operation will be very injurious to the great manufacturing interests of the country, and consequently, prejudicial to the interests of agriculture, and to the industry and prosperity of the people generally; Therefore, Resolved by the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, That Expression in their opinion, the bill now under consideration in the against pro- House of Representatives of the United States, ought not to posed altera- become a law, and that no reduction of duties ought to be tion of tariff. made, calculated to affect the successful prosecution of our domestic manufactures, or in any way to impair the faith of the government, by which the enterprize of our own citizens would be checked, and successful domestic competition retarded. Transmission Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to our Senators and Representatives of resolution. in Congress, to be laid before their respective bodies. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of January, Anno Domi ni, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 3. RESOLUTION Relative to the payment of Collectors and Toll-keepers on the Pennsyl vania Canal. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the commissioners of the internal improvement fund be |