The editor regrets that he has not been able to obtain a portrait of SieutenantGovernor Nathaniel Pitcher for this edition of the Sevemers: Messages. The autograph, which appears below on this page was copied from one of the laws signed by. Mr. Pitcher while he was. Acting-Gevemer:

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ary 19. To the Senate: Transmitting repted by the Legislature of Giga, prtesting the power assumed by Congress to encourage e manufactures, and to effect a system of internal ment within the states," asserting that an "inf tariff duties will and ought to be resisted by all d constitutional means, so as to avert the erying of such an unconstitutional measure," and closing

ution giving "due notice that Georgia, as one tracting parties to the federal constitution, and equal rights with the other contracting party, upon the construction of that instruinent consaid report and will submit to no other."

1828. FEBRUARY. LEGISLATURE, FIFTY-FIRST SESSION.

NATHANIEL PITCHER, Lieutenant-Governor.

FIRST MEETING-CONTINUED.

Governor De Witt Clinton died February 11, 1828. The Constitution, Art. 3, sec. 6, provided that on the death of the Governor "the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the lieutenant-governor for the residue of the term." On the death of Governor Clinton the Lieutenant-Governor, Nathaniel Pitcher, became acting governor, and continued as such during the remainder of the calendar year. He did not take an oath of office as Governor. The Senate journal describes him as Lieutenant-Governor, and the Assembly Journal as Acting Governor.

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

February 18. To the Assembly: Lieutenant-Governor Pitcher transmitted the annual report of the Governors of the New York Hospital.

February 19. To the Senate: Transmitting a long report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia, protesting against the power assumed by Congress "to encourage domestic manufactures, and to effect a system of internal improvement within the states," asserting that an "increase of tariff duties will and ought to be resisted by all legal and constitutional means, so as to avert the crying injustice of such an unconstitutional measure," and closing with a resolution giving " due notice that Georgia, as one of the contracting parties to the federal constitution, and possessing equal rights with the other contracting party, will insist upon the construction of that instrument contained in said report and will submit to no other."

March 1. To the Senate: Transmitting the following resolutions adopted by the Legislature of Ohio relative to the resolutions from South Carolina contained in the special message of February 2:

"Resolved, (by the general assembly of the state of Ohio) That to the general propositions contained in the first resolution, abstracted from definite questions of constitutional right or power, this general assembly perceive no grounds of exception.

Resolved, That this general assembly do not concur in the opinion of the legislature of South Carolina, as expressed in the second, third and fourth resolutions; and to the doctrines therein contained, this general assembly express their most solemn dissent."

March 19. To the Senate:

"GENTLEMEN.-Among the duties devolved by the constitution upon the person administering the government, that of taking care that the laws are faithfully executed,'* is perhaps the most important. A large portion of the inhabitants of the state, has been for more than a year highly excited by the alleged forcible and clandestine removal of a citizen, and by the uncertainty of his fate. It is believed by many that he has been murdered, and it is certain, that if alive he is held in captivity. This outrage upon our laws has justly alarmed our fellow-citizens, in that part of the state, and has produced exertions such as might have been expected from freemen conscious of their rights and determined to maintain them, to develop the mysterious transaction, and to bring the offenders to justice. As yet their efforts have failed. The rewards and inducements heretofore proffered for a discovery, have been unavailing. The trials and convictions that have taken place, have rather increased the mystery of the trans

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