Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-11-29

reau thfd time and passed; To pay Aus
tin ID. Aims the sum mentioned for ser.
vices as Librarian, reported BY Mr.. Jones
facts stated the blIl was refused third
reading laying a lax on lands in Greens.
boro; reported by Mr. Hemmenway, with
proposals of amendment, which were adopt
ed, and the bill was read third time and
passed; incorporating he Bank of Mont
peler, reported by Mr. Mcmillan, with pro.
| posed amendments, which were adopted,
aud the bill was read third time and
| passed, yeas ID, nays 6 4; in alteration OF an
act providing for reporting the decisions Of
the supreme C lurt. read q third time and
passed: relating to common schools, the
two houses dIsagreeing in proposed amend
ments, the Senate received to insist ana
ask conference with the House com.
m'tee of conference. Messrs Swift, Eyer.
ton aud Eaton; relating to steam boat
stock, referred TO the committe on the
Judiciary, relating to pnupcre, called op,,ho
question being upon proposition to amend
was decided ~ the negative; relating to
steamboat stock, Sd reading refused yeas
8. nays IL !; relating to Lamollle County
Cavalry, third reading refused.
Revised Statutes chap. 90, of process,
returned from the House with proposals. Of
amendment, IN which the Senate concurred.
Resolutions, horlslng the Secretary
to make out, receive and pay over the de-
benlures Of the Senate. Adopted; relating
to committee OF Investigation. on WIndsor
and Essex Banks, sent up from the house
and the Senate resolved not TO concur j.:
from the house for C0DT!l'ler of two from
each house, TO report on amendments to
nth chapter Of the Revised Statutes,
concurred in and Messrs Plerpolnt and
Swli} appointed on the part of the Senate
; Mr. Eserion offered the following resolu
: tion,:
! Resolved, That the members of the Sen
ate being about to close their session ant
: separate, take the oocasen to express tt
. his Hon. David NJ. Camp. their entire ap
i probation OF his official conduct. as thei
| presiding officer, the high sense they en-
d terrain of the uniform impartiai'y, courles
: and entity, with which he has preside
i over their deliberations. and their arden
s desire for his uninterrupted health an
g happiness.
e The Senate, with a hearty and sponta
n neous expression of the affirmative, unar
= monsly adopted The resolu ION, when
VI The President addressed the Senate, i
II substance, as follows:
u GENTLEMEE,--T sentiments of III
y resolution so kind and so commendatory
4 which you have just passed, call upon M
IS IN manner not 10 b. resisted. if ! woul
!! avoid the impn'a'ion Of lnsenslbny or il
. gratitude, to endeavor to express IN
OF thanks and sense of the Obligations ia
| ho, 8 IN
OF is ever a stimulus to eXerllGu and presen
IN legitimate object Of ambition. We dill
St gently seek aud highly prize the approbl
I'd ton Of those whom we esteem, our ASST
y, GATES oar friends and familiar GcquaiI
n. tances' Tia, I stand IN these relations
TX you, Gentlemen, is my pride and boas
d. With some Of you have tong labored
ID the service OF our common constituent
ed and though with others my acqualn ont
'o has been more brief and less intimate, v
OF has it been SO distinguished by unllor
&c courtesy and kindness that forget no
IN short has been the period OF our inrercours
u, Your commentator derives addition
- value from the circumstance ihat it is Il
p' the hackneyed eulogIum OF approving p'
,! lltca friends, or the senseless formula
81 parting with presiding officer, uniform
d, and periodically rendered when the col
,' nec,ion is about to be dissolved, often co
w fcrred without discrimination and acquire
e. without merit You have DELAYED he e
~ preston OF your approbation nutli, it mi
u" be presumed, you are able correctly
." Judge, and by SO doing, given it a val
w winch favorable circumstances, it won
not possess. Much. as | must admit,
~ am indebted to your partial kindness,
10 ground l. left 10 suspect your sincerity.
return, can only say Gentlemen, | tend
" you my cordial thanks, and cheeriulIy q
." knowledge you have laid me under oh
!" cations of gratitude, which must rema
until the final wreck of all my moral pc
So ceptlons.
h., To the credit of the Senate Of Vermo
| must be permitted TO say,that during Il
-, tour years have had the honor and Il
M happiness to preside over your deliber
cd tions, not an instance has occurred,
-, which ! have found the indications of ev,
az q willingness, much less settled purpo
,,s on the part Of any senator TO obstruet Il
a, progress of business or cast an odlum up
~ n myself as presiding officer. When laborrt
under the enibarrassments of lneXperienc
n or erring through want Of care, | ha,
20 ever found ready resource in the symp;
-, thy. iorbearance aud kindness, which h
ID been conspicuous in the conduct of eve
~ senator. My mistakes have been passt
bo over IN silence or pointed out in the spl
n. it of friendship aud a triumph, viii,
sometimes might have been obtained
my expense, has been Indignantly spurn'
as utterly worthless.
ce If the character Of the people OF III
th state, in regard to the practical prlnclp
he of rotation ln Office, be preserved, or n
he own wishes consulted, my connection wi
la this body will terminate with the prese