RESOLUTIONS. CHAPTER 126. val of the of Missis Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That having extended to Expression the Hon. H. Dickinson, Commissioner from the State of Missis of disappro sippi, the courtesy due to him as the Representative of a sove resolutions reign State of the Confederacy, as well as to the State he repre- sippi. sents, we deem it proper and due to ourselves, and to the people of Delaware, to express our unqualified disapproval of the remedy for existing difficulties, suggested by the resolutions of the Legis lature of Mississippi. Adopted at Dover, January 3, 1861. CHAPTER 127. WHEREAS certain resolutions are now before Congress, sub Preamble. mitted by the Hon. John J. Crittenden, a Senator from the State of Kentucky, for the settlement of our difficulties about the slavery question; and whereas the said proposition for the settle ment of existing difficulties is deemed equitable, and ought to be accepted by both the North and the South, as it will in our opinion remove the cause that produces the danger of dissolution of the Union, therefore, of Senator Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State Propositions of Delaware in General Assembly met, That this General Assem- Crittenden bly approve of the proposition aforesaid of Senator Crittenden, approved. Copy hereof to be trans and hereby instruct our Senators in Congress, and request our Representative, to advocate the said proposition, (or any other fair and equitable proposition, or means of reconciliation which will be just to both sections of country, and obtain the sanction of Congress,) and in so expressing themselves they have no doubt they reflect the will of a large majority of their constituents; and they have sufficient confidence in the patriotism of the people of both sections, North and South, to believe they will approve it also, if their sense can be fairly taken. Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolution, signed by the mitted to our Speakers of the two Houses, and attested by the Clerks, be forSenators and warded immediately to our Senators and Representative in tive in Con- Congress. Representa gress Adopted at Dover, January 17, 1861. CHAPTER 128. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Joint Com State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That a Committee of two on the part of the Senate be appointed to act with a similar Committee on the part of the House as a joint Committee on Claims. mittee on claims appointed. Adopted at Dover, January 18, 1861. CHAPTER 129. Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, Samuel B. (by and with the concurrence of the Senate,) That Samuel B. Hitch be, and he is hereby appointed State Treasurer. Hitch ap pointed State Trea surer. Adopted at Dover, January 18, 1861. CHAPTER 130. Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, (by and with the concurrence of the Senate,) That William N. Wm. N. Hamilton be, and he is hereby appointed Auditor of Accounts. Adopted at Dover, January 18, 1861. Hamilton appointed Auditor of Accounts. CHAPTER 131. General neys due to Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That it shall be the duty Attorney of the Attorney General of this State, and he is hereby directed to directed to proceed without delay to collect from all officers or other persons collect mo all such sums of money as are now and which have been for the the State. space of six months due and payable to the State, and when so collected to pay over the same to the State Treasurer for the use of the State, deducting for his service ten per cent. of the amount His compenthereof; and that the Attorney General present to the next ses- To make resion of the Legislature a report of his proceedings under this reso- port to the lution. Adopted at Dover, January 22, 1861. sation. next Legislature CHAPTER 132. A Joint Resolution for the relief of the School Convention of New directed to lard Hall Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the Trustee of the Trustee of fund for establishing schools in the State of Delaware be directed School Fund to pay out of the income of the said fund in his hands, to Willard pay to WilHall, who was President of the last School Convention in New $157 32. Castle County, or his order, the sum of one hundred and fiftyseven dollars and thirty-two cents, to be applied to the payment How to be of a balance of that amount due from the School Convention of applied. that county for printing, and to be deducted from the share of said county of said income. Adopted at Dover, January 29, 1861. Preamble. Commission ed to attend the Peace Convention. CHAPTER 133. Joint Resolution appointing Commissioners. WHEREAS the State of Virginia has recommended the holding of a Convention of Delegates from all the States of the Union, at the City of Washington, on the fourth day of February next, for the purpose of taking into consideration and perfecting some plan of adjusting the matters of controversy now so unhappily subsisting in the family of States, and has appointed five Commissioners to represent the people of that commonwealth in said Convention; and whereas the people of the State of Delaware regard the preservation of the Union as paramount to any political consideration, and are fixed in their determination that Delaware, the first to adopt the Federal Constitution, will be the last to do any act tending to destroy the integrity of the Union; therefore Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ers appoint State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the Hon. George B. Rodney, Daniel M. Bates, Esq., Dr. Henry Ridgely, Hon. John W. Houston, and William Cannon, Esq., be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners on behalf of the State of Delaware, to represent the people of said State in the Convention to be held at Washington on the fourth day of February next. Expression to the senti Resolved, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, the of opinion as people of Delaware are thoroughly devoted to the perpetuity of the ments of the Union, and that the Commissioners appointed by the foregoing Delaware. resolution are expected to emulate the example set by the immortal patriots who framed the Federal Constitution, by sacrificing all minor considerations upon the altar of the Union. people of Secretary of nish a copy Resolved further, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to far State to furnish a copy of the above preamble and resolutions to to the Com- each of the Commissioners herein and hereby appointed, duly missioners. attested under the great seal of the State. Clerk of tify copy to the Secre Resolved further, That immediately upon the adoption of the Representa- foregoing preamble and resolutions, it shall be the duty of the tives to cer- Clerk of the House to transmit to the Secretary of State a copy thereof certified by him, and when the Secretary of State shall have received said copy so certified, it shall be evidence that said preamble and resolutions were duly adopted by this General Assembly. tary of State. Adopted at Dover, January 30, 1861. CHAPTER 134. Leatherbury old articles the State. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Samuel C. Lether- Samuel C. bury be, and he is hereby authorized to sell at public sale, after authorized tɔ giving five days notice of such sale, the chandaliers, lamps, stoves, sell certain and such other articles as have been laid aside out of the Senate belonging to Chamber and the Hall of the House of Representatives and now in the keeping of the said Samuel C. Leatherbury; when he shall have sold such chandaliers, lamps, stoves, &c., he is authorized to compensadeduct ten per cent. of the amount of said sales as payment for his trouble, and to pay the balance to the State Treasurer for the use of the State. Adopted at Dover, January 31, 1861. tion. Proceeds, to whom to be paid. CHAPTER 135. Joint Resolution appointing Bank Directors. the part of Farmer's Bank ap Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the following per- Directors on sons be, and they are hereby appointed Directors of the Farmers the State in Bank of the State of Delaware, on the part of the State, agreeably to the act of the General Assembly in such case made and pro- pointed. vided: For the principal bank at Dover, Wilson L. Cannon, Hunn Jenkins and Edward Ridgely; For the branch at Wilmington, James Delaplaine, Vincent C. Gilpin and J. Morton Poole; For the branch at New Castle, Nathaniel Young, James Truss and Charles Gooding; For the branch at Georgetown, Benjamin F. Fooks, James Ponder and Henry Wolfe. Adopted at Dover, February 7, 1861. CHAPTER 136. WHEREAS the remains of Joseph Hazelette, deceased, who en- Preamble. joyed the universal respect of his fellow citizens while living, and who was twice elevated by their suffrages to the Gubernatorial office of this State, lie buried upon the farm where he had lived in Sussex County, without a stone to mark his last resting place; and whereas while filling the Executive office of this State, in time of the last war with England, he expended no inconsiderable |
