1st Session. PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS IN LOUISIANA. RESOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF LOUISIANA, Upon the subject of private land claims in said State. JUNE 12, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a monition law, founded upon such principles as will speedily perfect, as far as the General Government is interested, the titles to the private land claims that have been surveyed, represented upon the township maps, and which are claimed under certificates of confirmation, that have been issued by the commissioners of the land offices in this State. And be it further resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved, January 22, 1841. WM. DEBUYS, A. B. ROMAN, Governor of the State of Louisiana. 1st Session. GENERAL BANKRUPT LAW. RESOLUTION OF THE LEGISLAURE OF LOUISIANA, In favor of a general bankrupt law. JUNE 12, 1841. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a "General Bankrupt Law," at the present session of Congress. And be it further resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved, January 19, 1841. WM. DEBUYS, A. B. ROMAN, Governor of the State of Louisiana. NATIONAL CURRENCY. MEMORIAL OF LITTLETON DENNIS TEACKLE, PRESENTING A plan of National Currency and depositories of the public moneys, and praying that its principles and details may be considered and acted upon by Congress. JUNE 12, 1841. Referred to the Select Committee appointed on the subject of the Currency. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The subscriber, with profound respect for the superior wisdom of the supreme legislature of the American people, submits the accompanying plan, which proposes to create a National Currency for the common convenience and benefit, and to provide for the collection, custody, and disbursement of the public moneys; and he respectfully prays that its principles and details may be examined and considered by the select appointments of your honorable bodies, to which those important topics have been referred, and that the results of their deliberations thereon may be acted upon as in your wisdom may seem meet. LITTLETON DENNIS TEACKLE. WASHINGTON, D. C. June 9, 1841. Memorial of Littleton Dennis Teackle, presenting a plan of a National Bank, and praying that its principles and details may be considered and acted upon by Congress. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Con gress assembled: The undersigned, a native citizen of the United States, residing in the State of Maryland, in the exercise of a constitutional privilege, with deference approaches your honorable bodies, to present a proposition designed to remove the embarrassing and vexatious circumstances which have arisen from derangements in monetary affairs, and to avoid the recurrence of simiGales & Seaton, print. |