The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1821-03-26

Resolve compromising James LorIng Child, Esq
for certain services.
Resolve allowing to Araos Nichols sum q mou-
ely for extra services
Resolve making appropriation lor the further
compensation Of the engross'ns Clerks.
Resolve granting pension 70 David Seavy.
Resolve f.r dividing the State into Districts for
the choice of Senators.
Resolve making appropriation Tor The payment
or the Board Of Commissioners, appointed under
the act Of Separation.
Resolve granting sum Of money TO Josiah Dan,
Jr. and Israel Warehouse
Resolve allowing 10 Isaiah ingalls, and John Mer-
rn sum Of money each, for certain services.
Resolve on the Pay Roll Of the Senate.
Resolve authorizing Nathaniel Greene, Asa
Clapp, and Samuel Redngton, 10 contract for tlva
printing of the Laws and Resolves of the last and
present session.
Resolve appointing committee 70 examine GER
tain accounts, and 10 report the same TO the Gov
ernor and Council.
Resolve apporioning the Representatives on the
several counties, towns, Plantations and classes,
on the first apportionment.
Resolve on the Pay Roll Of the House Of Repre-
sentatIyes.
On motion Of Mr.. Timer 0he President with.
dra wing from the chair and the Secretary Of the
Senate putting the question:
Voted, unanimously, That the thanks of the
Senate be presented 10 The Honorable Presi-
dent for the dignIhed and impartial manner m
which, through this long and laborious session,
he has discharged the aTduoUs duties OF the
chair and that the members et this Board wilt
always recOileCt with emotions OF pleasure.
The harmony which has prevailed among them.
during the time in which he has presided
,hair 81 hot tha
him their best wishes for bis safe return TO bis
family and friends and Tor bis future prosperity
and happiness.
The President then resumed the chair and
addressed the Senate as follows -
Gentlemen Of he Senate,
The testimonial Of appreciation, so gener-
ously rendered by your vote, much oblges me
and richly deserves the most grateful returns.
On the opinion Of my distinguished associates,
have always sci high value, and their COM
mendallons on this occasion cannot but touch
the finest senslbIlties ofny heart. Friendships
are the more endeared q lasting when formed
% places Of reciprocal responsibility and So
lIcitude and cemented in mutual confidence.
A long and most abonous session OF Legs.
lation has now come 70 a close we ale III
part perhaps 10 meet ID earthly abodes az
more. Our political connexions here are 70 Le
dissolved, aud we 10 carry our measures 10 the
portions Oi the community we have The honor
10 represent. We have teen called III epis-
late at period Of our government, both crit
ical and interesting. To deveIope he resour-
ces OF this new State, TO elevate iis public
character. 10 give It vigot & influence AZ home
and abroad, u promote & guard the great and
numberless Interests Of social life, are duties
40 which this constituent Of The administrs-
ton has taken an immediate part Subjects
the most important have crowded upon our
consideration our numbers al this board are
lew, and IN the discharge OF the various trusts
delegated 10 Us, we have experienced and felt
more than can well be expressed.
The code OF our Statute Law has been re-
viewed and mostly re-enacted numerous acts
have undergone a thorough revision many
have been taken into new and improved drafts,
and none has passed without special and some
times repeated commitments, for correction or
amendment. In word, the extent OF ten
weeks legislative labor can be partially 'imar-
lned, when it is recollected, that about five
hundred former Statutes have been revised
many laws entirely new have been enacted,
and many special resolutions passed and
most important negotiation has been accom-
pIished and on our part confirmed. to make
all the lands in Maine our own, and to settle
al once the complicated and blended concerns
Q! this and The parent slate
but srduous anG proracted az this session
has been; feel it my duty to bear testimony
to the devoted csndor, and the elevated de-
corurn, conspicuous ID al your debates and de-
iIberatIons The chair, Your SURFACES assign
cd ne, has been sustained with comparative
ease, because IT has been encrcIed with your
ready aids and supports 10 toe routine and
direction Of public business Oh nv part, YOU
have cast The mantle Of Charity over my mis-
takes and The graces of your torbearance have
repeatedly cheered my heart. long reco-
lection OF ihis winters tbs and occurrences
we shall all carry into acknowledgements
oil 2'ng done our duty, and ever anxious 10
witness the rising prosperity Of our beloved
State.
The erection " Maine into an independent
Sovereignty opens a wide prospective before
US, and 10 less throws our thoughts back 10
other times. In the events of American His
tory no other PORTION 81 our cumnun country
has waded Though difficulties more deep amt
dreadful than The region We inhahIt. Neigh
boring provincial. and IelentlesS savsces have
repeatedly raYageh aud wasted il; many lines
a porleniOus and universal gloom has shFnud
ed The whole land. Within tue narrow cycle.
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