Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-01-11


the subject, and it any such laws have been
smuggled through, in which the real object
was not manifested, to repeal the same at once
and to leave these corporations in precisely
the same situation, in which their own acts
placed them, at the time they were perpeIrt-
ted
Additional ch,ncery powers have been vc>.
ted in some of the courts of this Common
wealth, without suitable provision having been
made for the execution ofthtse powers The
benefits to be derived from this modification
of our Jurisprudence will in great measure
he lost, unless these defects are supple'fs
Among other provisions authority sioud be
given for the appointment of masters IN chan
Gerry, and auditors, AMI their functions defined
The legislature having omitted to appoint
an agent to receive from the general govein-
ment the dividend of this state from the pro-
ceeds of the sales OF the public lands, | ap
pointed Job Mann, Esq, State Treasurer, Gy
virtue Of the authority given me by an act Of
Congress, who has received IT. amounting IL
S60,313 27.
The exploration connected with the GcolGs
gical survey having been brought TO sue
cessful termination, it is necessary that meas
ures be now adopted by the legislature for euI-
bodying and publishing the results without Lc
lay. As the state has expended con-ldera.
BILE sum in this examination Of her mineral re-
sources, as il is known that the final n port
and maps of the state Geo,ogist Will Coutai:i
much valuable information of a nature to in
vite and direct the investments of capital ne
cessary for the developeneut of our unsuf-
passed mineral wealth; and as the expenses
| of arranging and Publishing the details pro-
cured, will bear but a small proportion 10
! that already incurred in collecting them, coz
| sideratons Of sound economy aud the public
good require, that the proper steps be taken
| for affordng our citizens the benefits OF tins
survey as so1n as practicable. BY applying
the balance of the appropriations for the in
cidental expenses of the survey, the GeOlogls5
/ has been enabled to make considerable pro-
gress towards completing the maps. and
drawings, and various other portions OF the
work; but much delay has arisen from the
legislature having omitted at Its last session,
to make provision !or the furnishing and
! craving Of the maps, fOr the reception of the
! State Cabinet, and for the printing Of the final
report, in conformity 70 the suggestions IN the
last annual report Of the Geologist, to which
you are respectfully referred.
! Oppressed, as the state is, BY pecuriaTy en-
barrassments, at the present time, it behoves
US to retrench al expenditures of the public
money, and 20 guard the interest Of cur con-
stituents with the same fidelity and care that
we would exert in guarding our own Among
to the legislature seem to have been, for the
last twenty years, greatly on the increase.
w hile the expenses Of the other departments
have been almost stationary those of the Le-
gisature have been considerably more than
doubled. No satisfactory reason can be shown
for this, and it calls aloud for inquiry and re-
dress. The public printing is one of the lar
gest items in this expenditure. and has increas-
ed in a ratio that dehes;reasonable explanation.
J It demands remedy. ! can see none better
than to provide for appointing public prin-
ter to execute all the public printing at fixed
and reasonable prices The work can then
be done with greater facility and economy.
Sound policy strongly recommends this meas
ure, and the example of other states fully sane
tions it. respectfully commend it TO your
attention.
4 This is the first occasion on which have
had the honor 70 address a majority Of both
houses of the general assembly, belonging TO
the same political relationship with myself;
and cannot iorbear TO express the gratihca-
tion feel at the prospect Of a harmonious and
confidential understanding between the sever
al legislative departments Of the government.
trust we shall recollect, that the gre at dis
tinctive characteristics of the party to which
we are attached, have ever been magnanimi-
ty and Justice to our opponents. Let US not
majorities; and that whatever may have been
the examples set US by others, it is the part
of those who are genuine believers in the
principles OF democracy, "to do unto others,
as they would that others should do unto
them"
You will allow me, in conclusion. to subnis
to you, in a spirit Of perfect frankness and res
! pect, tho propriety of prompt and energetic
: despatch cf the public business, and an adj
: jOurnment at the earliest day practicable.
Put few leading measures of public Importance
! will come before you, and those are not o. a
nature to be essentially benefited by pro
tracted delay. The people will certainly be
willing to forgo at the present session most
if not all of those private matters, which usu
e ally occupy 50 large share of the time and
attention of the legislature. We have had sur
felt of jumbled private legislation. Let those
, measures in which the public at large really has
an interest, be adopted; and the work for which
you have assembled is done. Let the rest be
! postponed until the condition of the Treasury
; justifes the continuance of the Legislature toI
private uses; the present is not that that time
To whatever department of the govern
, ment we belong, We should remember, that
our efforts to reform abuses, and TO tetrencf
q expenses, will avail but little, if we do not