Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1807-02-16

power emanates regard 30 Public
tranquility; and dehre to prevent
itrife and animoGty, we humbly con-
Ceive ought 10 a6fuate wife Legif-
laure and constitutional queftisn
70 deliberately fettled, ought never TO
be made the fubje6t of contention.
1t therefore became the Contribution
al duty Of the Houfe, initead of
paiing the rcfolve or vote, to have
proceeded as theConftitution directs
to rc-con6der the flid Bill and Re-
lolve And NOT having 70 proceed
ed, but having by implication in their
vote or rciolve faid, that the Bill and
Relolve have the force of law the
fame will prove fumbIing block to
the people Of this Commonwealth
and ferve to milead, and location
much confulion and contention,
which, ESPECIALLY in the preieDt Juno
turc, is much 70 be regretted The
conltitutionai queition Of the Bill and
Retolve were thus evaded, which,
upon every valuable confederation,
ought to have been explicitly decided.
We protefs TO have a fefpc4fhl re-
gard for al ConaitrtioEal Acts and
Laws Of the Legislature but having
a hyperion and indiiPeniabIe obhga-
ton upon u8-the Contribution. and
the oath OF God--truly TO execule
our offices as Members Of ibis
houfe conformably thereto We
DO therefore folemnly enter our
DISSENT and PROTEST And
appealing to the ALL-SEARcHER OF
HEARTs for the correctness of our
motives we do aver, that faid Bill
and Rclolve have not, neither can
have, the force Of law Becaufe that
not only the principle attempted. as
let forth in HIS ExcehenCy's meHage,
is in itlelf unwarranted By the Con-
ltitution but is in contravention
thereof and even if the Legislature
had the authority to enact the fame:
it has not been done, as they were
not paaed Purfuant to the Coultitu-
ton
Jabez UPham, Jonathan Olgood, Dan'I Graves,
John Calender, Peter BRYANT, Nathan1 Chand-
Ter, Otis Little Laban Wheaton, Ilaac Clark,
N ~ rpF. nj
Sears, Eleazer Brsdlhaw, Timothy Page, Moles
Wright, Thaddeus Clap, Alden Spooner, Luther
Farrar, Ithamar Ward, Edw2rd Tuckermsn,
Barnabas Maynard, Ephraim Spooner, Mat
thew Cobb, William Brown, William Jenks,
Jonas Whitney, IlaaC Gregory, David Smith,
Abner Brown, Thomas Danforth, Stephen
Goldman, Nathaniel Hall, Levi Stearns, John
BannIIter, Thomas Davis, William Drury,
Nathaniel Fairbanks, Timothy Packard, ApO-
los Tobey, Samuel Moody, Thomas Periey.
Benjamin. Adams, juH. John Se,vali, James
keyes, William Gregg, James Rogers, Ehhu
Hayt, Joihua Green, Samuel Porter, Ebenezer
Rice, Jonas KendeII, Adam Packard, Juiiah
Stone, Charles Davis, Abijah Powers, James
Humphreys, William Whitney, Benjamin Par
ions, William Sullivan, Benjamin Whitman,
Ethan Ely, John Wilton, Jacob Bits Samuel
RedngtOn, William Dodds, Oliver PIympton,
Aaron Marlh James Langley, Stephen Z.
Gardner, David Paylon, Jonathan Gage, An
drew rockingham, ohm Pearlon, Nathaniel
Hammond, Daniel SticGney, Ebenezer Stocker.
Edward Little, Nathaniel Wade, Benjamin
Haley, Jufah Little, Timothy Jackfon, Cyrus
Stoweil, Zenas Wheeler, Jared Bradley, James
Wn. y, David Bots, Bryce M'LeIian, John
Slack Stephen Howard, william Bowdoin.
BEDFORD Weblter, hOmas W. Sumner, Benia-
min During, Enoch Sawyer, Timothy BigeIow.
lanes Lloyd, Jun. John r. ApthroP, Benjamin
RuGell, Mark Fitz, Jonathan Wilder, John
Stone, Euos Pomroy, Ephram Williams, 10
feph Locke, Benjamin Beae, Seth Spooners
Stephen Pyncheon, Thomas Larned, Jofeph
Thomas, Hrael Allen, Tiaac AbercrOmbie, Sam
uel F. Dickinson, William Smith, Benjamin
Goddard Thomas LathroP, David Wan
wright Sas Kellogg, Thomas K Jones, Jona-
than HunewelI, F Wright, Thomas Perkins,
Ioh1 Weles, John Winlow, Samuel ParkmanD
Daniel Sageot. Simon Elliot, Calvin Sanger
1873.