Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-01-04
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Friend Clarke I've are here, and expect g
te 70. several days vet. On Tuesday 24ih iust.y
Mr.. Gaines, ffmn the Joint Com nittse on Ways
and Means. reported the Appropriation Bill. and
after providing for the payment of all officers of
the State. &c. The Bill provides for officers to
come after.
The 10th section reads thus: -
"SEc. 10th. Be IL fussAer enacted, That from
and after the 4th day Of March, iS45, nothing
but gofd aud silrer or funds equivaient to specir
shall be Collected or received by any collector
the revenue, or for debts due, which shall bt
due the Stn,e Of Arkansas; and it shall be the
outy OF tie Auditor to give public notice of this
requsition of law, and of all others CONCERNED. TO
observe and comply with said law: Procidcd.
That the amounts now charged 10 Sheriffs for
State revenue. for the year lS44 shall be receiv.
ed and payable in such kIn1 OF funds as have
been heretofore received from such SheriRs. F"
The bill comes up Tomorrow on its 81 reading.
The Senate laid the Specie BiH'' on the table
inc other day, for SO years, by vote Of IA to
10.
On Tuoslay last, tho House buried theirs. by o.
vote of 81 to 80, bu, afterwards they recon sider
ed the vote, took up tho bill AMI referred It to a
select committee. who reported it bac to-day, but
has finally acted on it, One will be passed cer-
tain In some shape.
The bill to incorporate your city passed. the
Senate on Tuesday last, md is now the law Of tho
land.
E Mr.. Walker, from the committee on Memorials
reported the following Preamble and Resolutions
to-day:
Whereas, In the opinion of the General As.
sembly the title of the Government of the U.
States to that portion Of the Territory Of Oregon
lying between the parallels of AZ degrees and 81
degfees 40 minutes North latitude; exiendi ing from
the Rocky Mountains on the East to the Pacific
Ocean on the West, and ineluding the entire val
ley Of the Columbia river. now in dispute between
the United States and Great Britain, is clearly
and fully Established by purchase from Spain, and
by priority Of discovery. -
And Whereas, The benefits and advantages Of
that large and valuable territory are now almost
exclusively enjoyed by the Brush Government,
and by the British subjects, and whereas the cili.
zens OF the United States prohibited from sci.
ting and trading in that territory, by the unjus,
and high-handed movements OF British trading
companies, therefore
Be ii Resolved, That our Senators in Congress
be instructed and our Representative requested to
use ali their influence with the Congress of the
United States 10 pass law organising Terrific
rial Government ovcr SAID territory, and providing
FOR It's mantainance, and protection OF cIlizens o.
the United States settling or trading there, By
sufficient military force for lha. purpose.
Resoired, further, That His ExceiI-ncy, the
Governor of this State. be requested to forward
10 our delegates in Congress copies OF this Pro-
ambfe aud Resolutions
Which were read first time.
As it is so late. l will close, by promising you
another ep'slle in II few days. -
Respectfully years,
BKICKFyE