D.

Officers and clerks of the Post Office Department removed from office between the 4th of March and the 16th of July, 1841, viz :

Robert Johnston, Second Assistant Postmaster General.

Daniel Coleman, Third Assistant Postmaster General.

William Tanner, special agent.

Frederick L. Grammer, clerk.

• Removed March 31, 1841, and on the 8th of May following employed as a temporary clerk, to receive compensation out of the contingent fund.

The defence of the seacoast and inland frontier of that State.

MARCH 29, 1842.

Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, That the exposed situation of the frontier and extensive coast of Maine; her large and increasing investments in agriculture, manufactures and commerce; the fact that a large portion of her territory is claimed by a foreign Power, and that her seaboard will be "the outward wall upon which the American standard will be first raised in the event of war," justify the State in again calling the attention of Congress to the subject, and demanding of them, in the exercise of their constitutional power and duty, "to provide, for the common defence," immediate and adequate appropriations for the defence of the State of Maine.

Resolved, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to enforce upon Congress, in every constitutional mode, the necessity and importance of immediate appropriations for the purpose mentioned in the foregoing resolve.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 18, 1842.

Thereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the original deposit

ed in this office.

Attest:

P. C. JOHNSON, Secretary of State.

SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

Augusta, March 28, 1842.

SIR: I have the honor, herewith, to transmit to you a copy of "Resolves relating to the defence of the seacoast and inland frontier of the State of Maine," adopted by the Legislature on the eighteenth instant, and would respectfully call your attention to the subject therein contained.

Your obedient servant,

Hon. Wм. PITT FESSENDEN,

P. C. JOHNSON, Secretary of State.

Washington, D. C.

2d Session.

MAINE-PUBLIC LANDS.

RESOLUTIONS

ОР

THE LEGISLATURE OF MAINE,

IN FAVOR OF

Repealing the act for the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands.

APRIL 5, 1842.

Laid upon the table.

RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, That the only sure safeguard of the liberties of the people is the rigid abstinence of Congress from the exercise of all powers not expressly granted by the Constitution, or which are not clearly necessary to carry tham into effect; and that the assumption of powers upon loose and vague implications is directly calculated to change a Government, intended to be one of defined limits, into an unbridled and all-pervading despotism. Resolved, That we have witnessed with consternation and alarm an assumption of power in Congress, at its late extra session, in passing an act distributing the proceeds of the sales of our public domain among the States of this Union, subversive of the principles of our free institutions, and having an obvious and inevitable tendency to transform our republican system of government into one of arbitrary and consolidated powers. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be carnestly solicited, to exert their influence to procure an immediate repeal of the act of Congress above mentioned.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit copies of these resolutions to the President of the United States, to the Governors of the several States, and also to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 18, 1842.

Read and passed.

Read and passed.

Approved March 18, 1842.

CHARLES ANDREWS, Speaker.

IN SENATE, March 18, 1842.

S. H. BLAKE, President.

JOHN FAIRFIELD.