met, That should the railroad from the borough of Gettys- Waynesboro, burg, in the county of Adams, to intersect the Baltimore to be made and Ohio railroad, in the state of Maryland, be made, that point in the the borough of Waynesboro', in the county of Franklin, railroad from shall be made a point through which the same shall pass:ete. Gettysburg, Provided, The same is practicable, and deemed expedient by the Canal Commissioners. That the term of the several courts in the county of Altering the Washington, which by the existing law commences on the time of holdfourth Monday of September, in each year, shall hereafter ing court in Washington commence on the third Monday of October, in each year, county. and so much of any law as is inconsistent herewith, be, and the same is hereby repealed. NER MIDDLES WARTH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of June, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. JOS: RITNER. ' No. 23. Resolution Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to purchase Locomotives, to cause surveys to be made, to avoid the inclined plane at Columbia, and the inclined planes on the Portage railroad, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby American, ko-authorized to contract for any number of locomotive comotive enengines, of American manufacture, in which stone coal shall gines. alone be used, that they deem necessary for transportation upon the railways of this commonwealth. and Philad'ac Resolved, That the Canal Commissioners be authorized Survey rekuand required to cause a survey and estimate to be inade, of tive to the inthe best mode of avoiding the inclined planes at Columbia clined planes and Philadelphia, and make report thereof to the next legis. at Columbia lature, towards which a sum not exceeding one thousand $1,000 ap dollars, is hereby appropriated; and after such survey, if a propriated Toute be found by which it is considered practicable to avoid the inclined plane at Columbia, at an expense not exceeding. $25,000 apone hundred and twenty thousand dollars, they shall put the appropriated same under contract, towards the payment of which, the sum to avoid the of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be plane at Co- charged to the internal improvement fund. Jumbia. The West Resolved, That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are Philad'a rail-authorized and directed to have the west Philadelphia railroad to be road surveyed by the state engineers, to have the length and surveyed,&c. grade of said road reported to the next legislature, and to report to the next legislature upon the expediency of the commonwealth's purchasing the same. Inclined Resolved, That the Canal Commissioners be authorized planes on the and required to cause a survey to be made across the Allegheny Portage railmountain, with a view to avoid, if possible, the inclined planes road to be avoided if pos- on the Portage railroad, and make report thereof to the next sible; $2,000 legislature, for which the sum of two thousand dollars is appropriated. hereby specifically appropriated. division Relating to Resolved, That if the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, the Erie ex- appropriated to the construction of that part of the Pennsyltension, and vania canal extending towards the harbor of Erie, by the act West Branch entitled "An act to repeal the state tax on real and personal Penn'a. canal property, and to continue and extend the improvements of the state by railroads and canals, and to charter a state bank, to be called the United States Bank," and the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the same act to the extension of the North Branch division of the Pennsylvania canal, should be expended before another appropriation shall be made by the legislature, the Governor Temporary shall be, and he is hereby authorized to negotiate a temporary loan of 200,-loan, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, at an 000 dolls, au- interest not exceeding four per cent., with any bank, corpora thorized. tion, individual or individuals, as in his opinion may be most advantageous, the money so borrowed, to be paid to and vested in the commissioners of the internal improvement How applied. fund, and to be applied towards the completion of so much of the improvements aforesaid, as may be put under contract by the Canal Commissioners during the present year, and to be repaid to the lender or lenders, within twelve months from the time of the negotiation of such loan, in such manner as may be hereafter provided by the legislature. Unservicea. ble locomo tive engines to be sold. Additional Resolved, That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized to sell and dispose of to the best advantage. all such of the locomotive engines belonging to the state, as in their opinion are unfit for service on the railroads, and the money arising therefrom, shall be paid into the internal improvement fund. Resolved, That the Canal Commissioners be authorized feeders to and required to inquire into the expediency of providing supply canal additional feeders for the supply of the Pennsylvania canal, between Nanticoke and Northumberland. Resolved, That the sum of eight thousand dollars appro- The $8,000 priated by resolution No. 424, passed the first day of April, appropriation Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for steam tow-boat, to for the purpose of procuring a steam tow-boat, to ply between be charged to Philadelphia and Bristol, and Bristol and Bordentown, be the internal charged to the internal improvement fund, and that the State improvement Treasurer pay the said sum to the commissioners of the fund. internal improvement fund, out of any mouies in the trea sury not otherwise appropriated. NER MIDDLESWARTH, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. JOS: RITNER. No. 24. Resolution Relative to the distribution of the Surplus Revenue of the United WHEREAS, it is an incumbent duty constantly to guard Preamble. the liberties of the people, and our free institutions of government, acquired for us by the valour and virtue of our revolutionary fathers, from the encroachment of power, common to all governments; And whereas, the immediate representatives of the people are bound to warn them of approaching danger, and endeavour to avert it from them: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That this Assembly will maintain and defend the con- The consti stitution of the United States, the rights of the states, and tution of the the integrity of the Union, and that i solemnly expresses U. S. to be its devotion to that Union, and its conviction that it can be preserved only by opposing every violation of the principles upon which it is based; maintained and defended That the powers of the federal government are defined Powers not by a written constitution, and are specifically enumerated; delegated are no power can be rightly claimed for, or be exercised by it, reserved to that is not expressly given, and the powers not delegated the states or to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by the people. it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people;" any attempt by the federal government, or those who administer it, to encroach upon, overawe, interfere with, or controul the states in the exercise of their reserved Dangers of That this general assembly views with profound regret, Deprecating the investment of the surplus revenue of the U. S. in state stocks. Evils and domestic policy of the state governments, to overawe and That this general assembly consider the proposition lately If to this, be added an increase of the standing army and dangers of navy beyond the necessities of the country, which will on consolidation one hand, enlist the tendency of man to pay homage to his and monar fellow-creature who can feed and honour him, and on the chy pourtray-other, employ the principle of fear by punishing imaginary ed. insurrections, under the pretext of preventive justice;" and t monarchy, both by indulgences and severities, and can act as spies over the free exercise of human reason," if all these measures are at once pursued by the general government, we may well fear the tendencies to consolidation, and warn the people of approaching danger; Therefore, representa Resolved, That our senators in Congress be instructed, Senators in and our representatives requested, to vote against any bill Congress infor investing the surplus revenue of the United States in structed and stocks, issued or authorized by the respective states, believing tires request. "that the most safe, just, and federal disposition which ed to vote acould be made of the surplus revenue, would be its appor-gainst investtionment among the several states." ing the surResolved, That copies of the foregoing resolutions be plus revenue. transmitted by the Governor, to each of the senators and representatives from the state of Pennsylvania in Congress, to be laid before the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. NER MIDDLESWARTH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, APPROVED-The sixteenth day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. JOS: RITNER. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HARRISBURG, I certify, that in obedience to the directions of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I have collated with and corrected by the original rolls on file and of record in this office, the proof sheets of the printed copies of the foregoing acts and resolutions, being the whole number of laws passed during the session of the legislature which terminated on the 16th day of June, 1836. THOS. H. BURROWES, |