Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-06-12

pOftCn of OuI ClHLenN, MY Dc 1uuiF Ctemct
| CT the hrit Importance, aid its improvement
cannot fail to reflect befing.on ever,
member of the community, as wellas OF
| the Commonwealth at large. Ii therefor,
merits and will doubtefs receive from thu
| enlightened Aiembly, all The encouragement
of which il is fucceptible.
The mode fuggefled in the Contribution, for
the promotion of this branch of indultry, Sy
rewards & immunities, and by the encourage.
ment of private focieties, and public inltitu.
tions hath been proiecuted with iucceis.--L
| has already occahoned the collection aud diff
futon of much knowledge, and excited gen.
eral fpirit of improvement through the Fate
From the experience OF other nations as well
as OF our own, it is probable, that the ditrbu.
ton ofiuch funds as the Legislature ihali think
adviiible TO appropriate to this Object, may be
more advantageouily applied, through focie-
ties, eftabliihed under the coustenance Of gov
ernn,snt, than in any other way.
Manufactures and commerce promote
agriculture, as they offer the mott liberal
rewards for all its productions. So far,
then, as theic interefts fucceed, agriculture
ispromoted and advanced and not onlyper-
ions Immediately occupied in manufac-
lures, and in the van and various fcenes of
commercial entcrprize, are benefited by
their encouragement, but the proprietors
and culiiyators of the foil arc deeply con.
cerned in whatever tends TO their fecurlty
and incrcaie.
II is true, that the principal means of
foitering thefe great intereas arc conhded
excluively, to the government of the u
aion,yet peculiarly intereaed as is thisCom-
monwealth, in their advancement, wife
Legnature will ever be vigilant to adopt
all fuch as are within their authority, to al.
fit difcreet and laudabe fpirit of enter
prize in fuch important Objects. Among
theie, may be reckoned the making,
and executing juf and practicable laws Of
INFECTION on manufactured articles, the
encouragement of focieties, where necrfIary,
for carrying on any particular manufac-
ture under fuitable reArietions, and limita-
tons, and the rendering conn. onication
between all parts of the Comm onwealth,
eafy, fate, and economical. Thefe with
every other branch of induftry, and every
other fource, from which human hap
pineis and the meaps of enjoyment may
be prefumed to flow, are mott effeefually
Imported, protected and increafed, by en-
forcing honefy and punttuality in the per-
formance of contracts, by an inviolable re-
gard to the rights Of property, and facred
relpeet to all the principles Of juitice.
But, as in a nation greatly commercial,
the utmoft prudence and fagacIty cannot
always fecure from misfortune, thofc,
Whole occupations are, in their very ma
ture, fubjeet to hazard, there is no doubt
that the government may and will, 70 far
of the Contribution, relieve the unfortunate
from tho(e embarraifments into which they
have been plunged by circumstances not
under their controul, and reitore to them
the opportunity of providing for themfelves
and ferving the community by honeR In
duAry.
On the wifdom of the Legislature the
people repoie with confidence, for good &
wholefome laws, and all the neceffary pro-
vi6ons, for the impartial Interpretation of
thefe laws, and the adminiftration of juf-
tice.
The Contribution inaruets US, and expe-
riencc confirms its propriety, that it is not
only the beft policy, but for the fecurity of
the rights of the people, and of every cit
izen, that the Judges Of the Supreme Judi
cial Court Mould have honorable falaries,
efablif.ed by fanding laws what fala-
ries are of this character mutt always ret
with the found diicretion of the Legifla-
ture to decide. Whenever they can al
certain the amount that meets this defcrip-
ton, they will have no heiitation IN eftab'
lining the fame by law.
The bulinefs of this court is 70 extenhvc,
various & important, that it can be prop
erly performed, and with fufficient dfpatch
BY none but the albeit men, and can leave
to upright judges no leifure for attention
to diftinet concerns, or to provide for the
fnpport of their families, by other means
than their falaries.
The Militia of the Commonwealth is,
at all times, a fubjed Of tbs deepeft inter-
eft, as on its organization and diiciplne,
the peace and fafety of the State greatly
depend.
For remedy of fuch defects in the fyf-
tenn, as experience fhall have difcovered,
and the confirmation of fuch arrangements
as have proved fuitable, the citizens look
to their Legislature, and fure am gentle
men, that the intelligence and zeal contain
ed in this ailembly will fatiSfy their juit
expectations.
The ffcal concerns of the Common
wealth will always claim your ferrous at
tention. To draw from the citizens the a.
mount, neceHary to diicharge. with pune
tuality, the obligations of the fate, in
manner the mott equal, & leaf burtheniome
to thofe, who are to pay,will be the frit aim
of awiie government-To iecure the money
againft lofs after il is collected from the
people. is an Object no leis important
This was fuppoied to have been provided
for, by rendering the choice of the treaiur-
or, dependen, on thofe, who in common
with their conftituents, mutt iuffer from