RESOLUTIONS.

A RESOLUTION appropriating a room in the Capital for the use of the Clerks of the General Assembly.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, have the use of the room on the East of the Rotunda, for the purpose of preserving the papers, stationery &c. of the Houses.

Approved, December 14, 1836.

PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION in relation to the Troops raised under the proclamation of the Governor of this State, for Camp Sabine.

WHEREAS, The Lieutenant and acting Governor of the State of Kentucky, in July last, issued his proclamation under the requisition of General E. P. Gaines of the United States Army, calling upon the Militia of this State for one thousand volunteers to rendezvous at Frankfurt, the seat of government, the 17th day of August, 1836, to march to Camp Sabine, the head quarters of General E. P. Gaines, to engage in the service of the United States, in protecting the South Western Frontier; and whereas, the pat-riotic young men of the State promptly responded to the call, and prepared, at considerable expense, for the service, but orders were given by the Executive for their discharge, before they had commenced their march for Camp. Sabine-Therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives from this State requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law by Congress to make suitable provisions for the payment of the Troops, thus called and received by the Executive of this State for said service. Approved, December 16, 1836.

A RESOLUTION fixing a day for the election of a Senator in Congress.

Recolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That they will, on the 15th of this month, by joint vote, proceed to the election of a Senator to represent this State in the Congress of the United States, for six years, from and after the 3d day of March, 1837, in the room of the Honorable Henry Clay, whose term of service will then expire.

Approved, December 21, 1836.

RESOLUTIONS for the appointment of Joint Committees to examine into the situation and condition of the Bank of Kentucky, Louisville Bank, and Northern Bank of Kentucky, and for other purposes.

1st. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common wealth of Kentucky, That a commitee of three on the part of the Senate; and six on the part of the House of Representatives, be appointed to examine into the condition of the Bank of Kentucky, and branches, and the Kentucky Bank of Louisville; also that a similar committee be appointed to examine into the condition of the Northern Bank and branches, and that said committee inquire whether either of said Banks has violated its charter, and if so, in what particular.

2nd. Resolved, That said committees inquire whether the discounts and business of said banks have been transacted on safe sureties, and the calls on negotiable notes of accommodation uniform.

3d. Resolved, That said committees inquire whether either of said banks, under the pretext of purchasing and dealing in exchange, or facilitating the transfer of credits, or money from one point to another, have purchased bills of exchange with a knowledge that the drawer had no funds in the hands of the drawee, or authority by letter or otherwise, to draw, with a view of exacting the premium over and above the legal interest.

4th. Resolved, That said committee inquire into the amount of exchange transacted by said banks upon places within and without the State, and at what rates.

5th. Resolved, That said committees inquire whether any Director or other officer of either of said banks, is connected with any exchange broker, and whether either of said banks has, knowingly, loaned money to ex change brokers or shavers; also whether any Director, or other officer of either of said banks, has purchased any note or bill, offered and not discounted, and then after the rejection of the note or bill, whether such note or bill has again been offered at the bank, endorsed by the purchaser, and discounted, and if so, the reason thereof.

6th. Resolved, That said committees inquire whether either of said banks have adopted a rule that no note or bill will be discounted without a city endorser, and if they have adopted such a rule, or practised on such a one; whether there is a regulation among the merchants of Louisville, belonging to the Chamber of Commerce, to charge two and a half per cent for endorse ments, and whether any of the Directors, or other officers of said banks, are members of the Chamber of Commerce.

7th. Resolved, That said committees inquire who are the Directors of said banks and branches, and what members of the said firm, are Directors in different banks.

8th. Resolved, That said committees examine the officers of said banks, and all other witnesses, on oath, and have a right to inspect the rules, bylaws, and general accounts, in the books of said banks.

9th. Resolved, That said committees have the right to count the cash and funds of said banks, and to visit the branches if deemed necessary.

10th. Resolved, That said committees also inquire whether either of said. banks have, in any instance, purchased a bill of exchange, with an agreement to waive acceptance, and that the bill should remain in bank, and be paid at maturity by the drawer or endorser.

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11th. Resolved, That said committees report, whether the Bank of Kentucky, and the Northern Bank of Kentucky, have distributed to the branch. es their fair proportions of the capital, and in what kind of funds; and whether either of said banks has sold or made money on the State bonds executed to them.

12th. Resolved, That said committees inquire whether the Bank of Lou, isville have employed any part of their capital in exchange in the South or elsewhere, and if so, under what circumstances, and to what amount.

13th. Resolved, That said committees proceed forthwith to the examination.

Approved, January 17, 1837.

Preamble and RESOLUTIONS on the subject of the recognition of the independence of Texas by the United States.

WHEREAS, The people of Texas have renounced all political connexion with, and declared themselves wholly independent of the government of Mexico, and established and put in operation a government of their own, similar in all its essential characteristics to that of the United States, in accomplishing which they have shown that they deserve to be free-Therefore,

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That whenever it shall be the opinion of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, that the independence of the Texian government can be ac knowledged without any violation of our treaty stipulations, the laws of nations, or our national honor, there should, in the opinion of this Legislature, be no hesitation or delay on the part of the constituted authorities of this republic in making such acknowledgment, and that our Senators be instructed and our Representatives in Congress be requested, when such shall in their opinion be the case, to use their exertions to procure the acknowledgment of the independence of Texas.

Resolved, That the Governor immediately forward to each of said Senators and Representatives a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions. Approved, January 24, 1837.

PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION in relation to slaves who escape from their owners into the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly, that many of the citizens of this State have sustained much inconvenience, and some of them serious loss, by reason of the elopement of their slaves into the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; that they are furnished when there with facilities of concealing themselves therein, or of passing under concealment through these states into the territories of his Britannic Majesty, whereby they become irreclaimable by their owners; it is further represented, that the slaves of our citizens in passing up or down the Ohio river in the company and service of their owners, are, when they touch at the ports of

those states, not unfrequently seduced from their service and possession, and concealed so effectually as to defeat the most vigilant efforts at reclamation. This Legislature feel satisfied that the citizens of those states are comparatively few, by whose artifice, crude, ill digested and fanatic notions of civil rights, the injuries referred to are inflicted, yet fearing their continuance in practice may have such an effect upon the minds of the people of Kentucky as to produce an excitement unfavorable to the amity and friendly intercourse which now so happily subsists, and should always subsist between coterminous republics; and believing that those enlightened states are not less regardful of the rights of the good people of Kentucky than tenacious of the rights of their own citizens, and will reciprocate the spirit of amity herein avowed towards them, by the enaction of laws calculated, under suitable penalties, to restrain their citizens from the practices herein above stated, so injurious to the proprietors of that species of property, and so exasperating in its effects upon the minds and feelings of the people of the slave-holding States. This Legislature would make no suggestion as to the species of legislative enactment which the condition of the states, in reference not only to slave property, but their common boundary, would seem to require. They confide the suggestions, already made, will awaken these states to a spirit of just and appropriate legislation upon this subject, so deeply interesting to the citizens of Kentucky in all aspects-Therefore,

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the Conmonwealth of Kentucky, That his Excellency, the Governor of Kentucky, be, and he is hereby most respectfully requested to open a correspendence with the Governors of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, respectively, upon this subject; and that he enclose to each a copy of this preamble and resolution, with such additional suggestion in furtherance of the object thereof, as in his discretion may best conduce to its accomplishment.

Approved, February 3, 1837.

PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS in relation to the improvement of the navigation of Cumberland river.

WHEREAS, The improvement of the navigation of Cumberland river is a subject of vast and vital importance to the whole State of Kentucky, and particularly to that portion of the State through which it runs, and which, if well improved, will afford great and valuable facilities of domestic intercourse, as well as connecting ourselves with the market of other states; the large portion of country through which said river passes being so situaated and so blessed by nature as to possess a climate congenial to health, and a soil fertile and vastly productive, abounding in lumber, stone coal, copperas, allum, materials for the manufacture of saltpetre, salt springs, with eligible situations for salt works, and possessing inexhaustible mines of the richest and finest quality of iron ore, the most of which have hitherto remained dormant, affording but little benefit to the country in consequence of the great danger, expense and difficulty of transportation: And whereas, The improvement of said river will not only redound to the interests of this State, but to that of Tennessee likewise, it is therefore highly important

that a mutual co-operation of exertions and energy should take place, and exist between said states on this subject, the reality of which is not nor car. not be doubted by the people of this State, from the knowledge they have of the high minded, liberal, and patriotic citizens of Tennessee, with the best feelings as a sister state, in heartily and confidently calling on the Legislature of Tennessee to co-operate with us in the completion of this most desirable measure-Therefore,

Be it resolved, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy hereof to his Excellency, the Governor of Tennessee, and request him to appoint some one to correspond with the Board of Internal Improvement in this State upon the subject of improving said river, together with the improvement of all roads contemplated by the Legislature of Tennessee to be improved, which will run into or through any part of this State; and when the Governor of said State shall notify the Governor of Kentucky that he has made said appointment, he shall forthwith inform the Board of Internal Improvement of the same, who shall immediately open said correspondence with the person or persons so appointed in Tennessee, giving full information of what has been done by the Legislature or themselves towards the improvement of said river, together with the plan of said improvement, and request similar information from the correspondent in Tennessee.

Be it further resolved, That said correspondents interchange all possible information upon the subject of all important roads, now under improvement or contemplated to be improved by said States, which may lead from one of said states into the other.

Be it further resolved, That the Board of Internal Improvement be requir ed to retain all of said correspondence, together with all other information they may procure upon this subject, and lay the same before the Legislature of this State at their next annual meeting, and that they request their correspondent in Tennessee to preserve said correspondence, and to lay the same before the Legislature of said State immediately after their next meeting, together with a copy hereof.

Be it further resolved, That if the Governor of Tennessee shall deem it not to be in his power to make said appointment herein asked for, that he be requested by the Governor of this State, to refer him to some tribunal, already constituted in the State of Tennessee, most appropriate to carry on said correspondence; and that the Board of Internal Improvement of this State be governed by said information, and carry into effect said correspondence.

Approved, February 15, 1837.

RESOLUTION in relation to connecting the waters of Cumberland and Barren rivers by slack water,

canal, or rail road.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Board of Green River Commissioners be required to cause a reconnoissance to be made by the Engineer of their Board, of the practicability of connecting the waters of Cumberland river with those of Big Barren river, by means of slack water, canal, or rail road improvements; and that they report to