I herewith transmit a copy of a resolve of the Legislature of this State, relative to an organization of the militia of the several States of the Union.

With considerations of high respect,

Your obedient servant,

SAMUEL DINSMOOR.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the organization of the militia of the United States, being a matter entrusted by the constitution to the general government, requires its attention, and can be only efficiently and satisfactorily done by that government.

Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be and and are hereby instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their exertions to procure the passage of a law providing for a more perfect and uniform organization of the militia of the several States of the Union.

Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor of this State be directed to transmit to each of our Senators and to our Representatives in Congress, a copy of the foregoing resolutions, and also a copy to the Governors of the other States in the Union, with a view that the same may be submitted to their different Legislatures.

Approved, July 5, 1833.

A true copy,

RALPH METCALF,

Secretary of State.

SIR,

(No. III. )

Letter from Governor Lumpkin of Georgia.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, GA.

Milledgeville, June 7, 1833.

In transmitting to you, the acts of the General Assembly of this State passed at its last session, I beg leave to correct an error, which occurred through the inadvertance of the press, and a want of proper scrutiny at this department, in regard to a resolution, transmitted to you on the 28th of December last, and purporting to have been approved on the 22d of said month. The resolution forwarded to you, was rejected by the Legislature, and a substitute adopted, (which you will find in the printed laws, pages 49 and 50.)

The official signatures of the officers of both branches of the General Assembly, and that of the Governor, were improperly placed by the printer, to the resolutions heretofore forwarded to you, and forwarded from this department without detecting the I have the honor to be,

error.

SIR,

Lotteries.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

Harrisburg, (Pa.) May 18, 1833.

In compliance with a resolution of the Legislature of this State, I have the honor of transmitting to you copies of the first and second sections of an act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and of a resolution upon the subject of the "entire abolition of lotteries," with a request that you will lay the same before the Legislature of the State over which you preside, accompanied with the recommendation of such measures as you may deem best

calculated to ensure the speedy action of that body upon a subject so vitally important to the welfare and happiness of society. I have the honor to be,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

To His Excellency the Governor
of the State of New-York.

GEO. WOLF.

An act for the entire abolition of lotteries.

"Section 1:-Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, all and every lottery and lotteries, and device and devices in the nature of lotteries, shall be utterly and entirely abolished, and are hereby declared to be thenceforth unauthorized and unlawful.

"Section 2:-And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the day aforesaid, any person or persons who shall sell, or expose to sale, or cause to be sold or exposed to sale, or shall keep on hand for the purpose of sale, or shall advertise or cause to be advertised for sale, or shall aid or assist, or be in any wise concerned in the sale or exposure to sale of any lottery ticket or tickets, or any share or part of any lottery ticket in any lottery, or device in the nature of a lottery within this Commonwealth, or elsewhere, and any person or persons who shall advertise or cause to be advertised, the drawing of any scheme in any lottery, or be in any way concerned in the managing, conducting, carrying on or drawing of any lottery, or device in the nature of a lottery, and shall be convicted thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not less than one hundred dollars, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court."

Resolution relative to the entire abolition of lotteries.

Whereas, lotteries are an acknowledged evil of great magnitude, vitally injurious to the morals and industry of any community: And whereas, the public and private injuries resulting from lotteries can only be remedied by their total abolition: And whereas, one State cannot effectually suppress the sale of lottery tickets, and the pursuit of this mode of gaming, without the co-operation of the other States of the Union: And whereas, the State of Pennsylvania has recently enacted that all lotteries shall be totally abolished in said State from and after the thirty-first day of December next, and has prohibited the sale of any ticket or tickets within the same after said period: Therefore,

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the first and second sections of the act of Assembly passed March the first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An act for the entire abolition of lotteries," together with a copy of these resolutions, to the Governor of each State, with a request that he will, at the earliest period, lay the same before the Legislature of his State, and request their co-operation in the efforts of this Commonwealth to effect the entire abolition of lotteries.

And be it further resolved by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the said sections, and of these resolutions, to the President of the United States, with a request that he will, at the earliest period, lay the same before Congress, and use such measures as may in his opinion be best calculated to effect the entire abolition of lotteries within the District of Columbia.

SAM'L ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JESSE R. BURDEN,

Speaker of the Senate.

Approved-The third day of April, A. D. one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-three.

This is to certify that the preceding extract is a true copy of sections one and two of "An act for the entire abolition of lotteries," passed the first of March last, and that the above copy of the "Resolution relative to the entire abolition of lotteries," is also true, both having been faithfully compared with the original rolls on file and of record in this office. Witness my hand and seal, S, McKEAN,

(No. V.)

Resolutions relative to the South Carolina Ordi

SIR,

nances, &c.

In compliance with the request of the General Assembly of this State, I transmit to you the following copy of resolutions passed at the recent session,

And have the honor to be,

February 9, 1833.

The joint committee, to whom was referred the Ordinance, and other documents transmitted us by the Governor of South Carolina, and that part of our late Governor's message, relating thereto, have given the subject that attention which its serious import demands, and report the following:

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in expressing our opinion upon the ordnance of nullification, and the recent proceedings of South Carolina, it is our duty to declare our opinions firmly on the principles assailed, and to expostulate mildly and affectionately with her.

Resolved, That we hold these principles to be incontrovertible, that the government of the United States was adopted by the people of the different States, and established in order "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity;" that it possesses all the powers necessary for the purposes for which it was instituted; that it is irreconcilable with the objects and purposes for which the constitution was adopted, to suppose that it contains in itself the principles of its own destruction, or has failed to endue the government, created by it, with the essential powers of selfpreservation.