Sterling, Town of, doings confirmed, Suffolk County, Resolve for an additional Notary, repealed, T. Treasurer, directed to vest $50,000 in the United States Stock, 66 66 66 to dispose of uncurrent Bank Bills, Walcutt, Thomas, pay granted, W. Washington County, choice of an additional Notary, provided for, 39 Woolwich, doings of the First Parish confirmed, 51 57 OF THE GENERAL COURT OF THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts, PASSED AT THEIR SESSION, WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH OF JANUARY, AND ENDED ON THE TWENTY FIFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY. Published agreeably to a Resolve of 16th January, 1812. BOSTON: PRINTED BY RUSSELL & GARDNER, FOR BENJAMIN RUSSELL, PRINTER TO THE STATE. RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS, PASSED AT THEIR SESSION, WHICH COMMENCED ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED ON THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JANUARY 13, 1820. The two Houses being in Convention, the Secretary of the Commonwealth came down from the Council Chamber, to the Senate and House of Representatives, with the following Message from His Excellency the Governor: MESSAGE. Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, IN taking a survey of the present condition of the people of this Commonwealth, we find abundant reason for thankfulness to Almighty God, for the smiles of his Providence, in continuing to us the blessings of peace, of general health, and of civil and religious liberty. The seasons of the past year have been uncommonly favorable to vegetation, and our land, under the influence of improved cultivation, has yielded a rich increase. Many branches of important manufactures, though laboring under discouragements, have reached a high degree of respectability. Through the medium of the several Agricultural Societies, and other correct sources of information, we learn, with satisfaction and pride, that the manufactures of the State are rapidly increasing; and that, adapting themselves to the wants, the habits, and the circumstances of society, they are becoming, what is indispensable for their support and permanence, objects of the people's partiality and choice. This important subject is now before the National Legislature; and from their liberal and enlightened views, we may rest assured, that every degree of encouragement will be afforded to that branch of national industry, not incompatible with the interests of the whole community. Those branches of manufactures, connected with national defence, merit preeminent regard; and it would yield the highest satisfaction to the citizens of our country to learn, that competent provision was made for manufacturing all the essentials for the military defence of the nation. Parsimony in this item of expenditure, might prove more dangerous than profusion. ; If, in some of the great departments of active and lucrative pursuit, especially navigation and commerce, many of our fellow citizens are suffering depression and embarrassment, our regret is tempered by the reflection, that those evils are partial, and constitute a part of the price of the general peace of the world a peace, which, as it restored to nations their rights, and to individuals their occupations, compelled, in each, a reliance on their own respective resources. The transition of nations from a state of war to peace, must always prove disastrous to numerous individuals. At the termination of the late protracted war more especially, in the course of which, the habitual pursuits of a large proportion of the people of the com |