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her population and that by the laws passed
In pursuance of that constitution, she is now
entitled to sac representatives.
Resolved, That until Congress shall, by
law, make some regulation of the subject, the
Legislature of each State, has, by the Con-
stitution, full and exclusive powers to pre-
scribe "the times, places and manner of hold
ing elections for representatives" which ne
cessarily includes the power to prescribe the
manner In which the results of those elections
shall be ascertained and certified.
Resolved, That as the Legislature of New
Jersey has prescribed commission granted
by the Goyeanor under the great seal of the
State, as the only mode in which the cleo
ton of the Representative shall be officially
certified, such commission issued in due
form OF law, confers upon each person to
whom 1t is granted, a full and perfect right to
claim and exercise all the powers and duties
OF Representative of the State, until reg
ularly constituted and organized House Of
Representatives, after due examination, shall
have solemnly decided that he is not elect
ed or qualified, and that any other mode
of certifying such election is utterly invalid
and unknown to the laws Of New Jersey.
Resolved, That a House of Representa-
tives cannot be constitutionally and legally
organized, and invested with any authority,
Judicial or Legislative, while single represent
tative from any state duly returned and COM
missioned according to the laws Of that state,
is excluded from his seat or denied the exer-
else of the rights and privileges of Repre-
sentative.
Resolved, That the late acts Of portion
of the Representatives from the several states,
by which five of the persons who We're duly
commissioned under the great seal of the
State of New Jersey, as her Representatives
In the Goth Congress of the U. States, were
prevented from exercising their rights and
discharging their duties as such Representa-
tlves, was apalpable violation of the consti-
tuition and of the parliamentary laws estab
lished by reason and unvarying usage, a pre-
cedent of most alarming and dangerous char
acter, and gross outrage upon the rights and
feelings of the people ofNew Jersey-There-
fore,
Resolved, That in the name and behalf of
the people of the State of n. Jersey, we do
hereby solemnly protest against the acts a
foresaid as unconstitutional, unwarranted and
unjust, and against any assumption by the
remaining representatives from the several
states, of the right or authority to exercise a
ny OF the powers conferred upon constitu-
tional House of Representatives, and more
especially against the attempt to enact any
law for regulating the collection or disburse-
rnent OF the public revenue, for dlsposing OF
the public lands or the proceeds thereof, for
Pledging the public faith or credit, for impo-
sing any tax or duty, or for the apportion-
ment of Representatives, until the people of
N. Jersey, and their duly commissioned Rep
resentatives shall have been restored to the
rights of which they have been wrongfully
deprived.
Resolved, That copy of the foregoing
preamble and resolutions, certified under the
great seal of the State, which since 1776, has
been and still is the constitutional and cher
ished emblem Of the sovereignty of II. Jer-
sey, be transmitted to the Hon. r. MT.
Hunter, Representative from Virginia, with
request that he will lay the same before the
other Representatives from the several States
now assembled at Washington.
Resolved, That copy thereof he transmit
ted to the Governor of each of the several
States of the Union, with request that he
will cause the same TO be laid before the Lee
gislature thereof, and also to each of the SEN
tors and of the six Representatives of this
State.