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aire. It even throws the entire lands a. pcrpctnI e!ur9 upon this treasury. It does not return to th3 people moneys accidentally or unavoidably paid by them to the Government, by which they are not wanted; bat compels the people to pay moneys i;ito tha treasury for the mere purpose of erecting a

urplua for distribution to their state governments. If this principle be once admitted, it is not difficult to perceive to what consequences it may lead. Ali it.:. t:il t ii : 1 i

.relay un uiu uy lurowing uie lauu sysium un m revenues from imports for. support virtually distributes tho states a part of those revenues. - The proportion may be iacreased, from time to time, without any departure from the principle now

asserted, until the state governments shall derive

no principle, vialates no compact, and deranges no system. Already has the price of those lands been reduced from two dollars per acre to one dollar and a quarter, and upon the will of Congress, it depends whether there shall be a further reduction. While the burdens of the east are diminishing by the reduction of the duties upon imports, it seems but equal justice that the chief burden of the west should be lightened in an. equal degree at least. It would be just to the old states and the new, conciliate every interest, disarm the subject in all its dangers and add another guarantee to the'perpctuity of our happy union. Sensible, however of the difficulties which sur

round this important subject, I can only add to my

patible with the constitution and public fa.th shall have my hearty concurrence. ANDREW JACKSON. December 4th, 1833.

all tha funds necessary for their-support from the. regrets, at finding myself aain compelled to dis

Treasury of the United States, or, it a sufficient agree with the legislative power, the sincere declasupply should be obtained by some states and not ration, that any plan which shall promise a final and

oy omers, tne cencit-ut owns .n..t. iujjh.uu, biiusiaciory disposition or .me question, and be com

and to put an end to ail mrxnsr uimcuuy, Congress, without assuming any. new principle, need go but one step further and put the salaries of all the state govenors, judges, and other officers, with a sufficient sum for other expenses, in their general appropriation bill. - It appears to me that a more direct road to conalidation cannot be devised. Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states, will all political power be substantially concentrated. The state governments, if governments they might be called, would lose all their independence and dignity. The economy which now distinguished them, would be converted into a profusion, limited only by the extent of the apply. Being the dependents of the genenal government and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass, and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the cen

tral power.

REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. Gexeral Post Office Department, ) November, 30, 1833. To the President of the United States: Sir When in 1829, the functions of this Department devolved upon me, the annual transportation of the mail amounted to 13,700,000. The contracts then in existence, with the other expenses of the Department, had within tiie year ending the 30ih June 1829, diminished its surplus revenue 101,25( 03, and those contracts were still in force from one to four years in prospect. The surplus available revenue had been reduced to the nominal amount of $230,819 07. But it has subsequently been as-

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j. aw quite sure tiiac uiu iiimiiieiit uwuuie 01 our ,1 4i .1 1 j 1 , . . .- r , b 1 .. certaincd, that there had been ex penseveral states, will be satisfied on a little reflection, . , - . . '

that it is neither wise nor safe to release the mem- 7 ii""3r"i"u" a-L

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bersof their local legislatures from the responsibility cf levying the taxes necessary to support their state governments, and vest it in Congress, over most of whose members they have no control. They will net think it expedient that Congress shall be the tax gather and paymaster of all their state governments, thus amalgamating all their officers into one mass of common interest and common feeling. It is tuo obvious that such a course would subvert our well balanced system of government, and ultimately deprive us of all the blessings now derived from our happy union. However willing I might be that any unavoidable surplus in the treasury should be returned to the people through their state governments, I cannot assent to the principle that a surplus may be created for the purpose of distribution. Viewing this bill as in effect assuming the right, not only to create a surplus for that purpose, but to divide the contents

of the Treasury among the States without limitation, from whatever source they may be derived, and asserting the power to raise and appropriate money for the support of every state government and institution, as well as for making every local improvement, however trivial, I cannot give it my assent. It is difficult to perceive what advantages would accrue to the old states or the new, from the system of distribution which. this bill proposes, if it were otherwise unobjectionable. It requires no argument to prove that if three millions of dollars a year, or any other sum, shall be taken out of the Treasury by this bill for distribution, it must be replaced by the same sum collected from the people through some other means. The old states will receive annually a sum of money from the Treasury, but they will pay in a larger sum, together with the expenses of collection and distribution. It is only their proportion of seven-eights of the proceeds cf land sales which they are to receive; but they must pay their due proportion of the whole. Disffiiise it as we rnav.the bill nronnsps to thorn n. dnnrl

loss, in the ratio of eight to seven, in addition to expenses and other incidental losses. This assertion is not the less true because it may not at first, be palpable. Their receipts will be in large sums, but

their payment in small ones. The governments of

the states will receive seven dollars for which the people of the states will pay eight. The large sums received will be payable to the senses; the small sums paid, it requires thought to identify. But a little consideration will satisfy the people that the effect is the same as if seven hundred dollars were given them from the treasury, for which they were at the same time required to pay in taxes direct or indirect, eight hundred. I deceive myself greatly if the new states would find their interest promoted by such a system as this b 11 proposes. Their true policy consists in the rapid settling and improvement cf the waste lands

' within their limits. As a means of hastening those events, they have been long looking to a reduction in the price of public lands upon the final payment of the public debt. The effect of the proposed system would be to prevent that reduction. It is true the bill reserves to Congress the power to reduce the price, but the effect of its details, as now arranged, would probably be forever to prevent its exercke. With the just men who inhabit the new states, it is a sufficient reason to reject this system, that it is in violation of the fundamental laws of the republic and its constitution. But if it were a mere question of interest or expediency, they would still reject it. They would not sell their bright prospect of increasing wealth and glowing power at such a price. They would not place a sum of money to be paid into their treasuries, in competition with the settlement cf their waste lands and the increase of their

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jarge annual rum to do paid to their governments and immediately expended, as an equivalent for that enduring wealth which is composed of flocks and herds, and cultivated farms. No temptation will allure them from that object of abiding interest, the

settlement of their waste lands and the increase of a hardy race of free citizens, their glory in peace and their defence in war. On the whole, I adhere to the opinion expressed by me in my annual message of 1832, but it is our true policy that the public lands shall cease as soon as practicable to be a source of revenue, except for the payment of those general charges which grow out of the acquisition of the lands, their survey and sale. Although these expenses have not been met by the proceeds of sales heretofore, it is quite certain they will be hereafter, even after a considerable reduction in the price. By meeting in the treasury so much of the general charge as arises from

that source they will hereafter, as they have been

formed prior to the 1st of July, 1829,

which were not embraced in that account, to' the amount of - 51,248 79.

Which reduced the real surplus to $108,000 31 The annual transportation of the mail was, on the 1st July, 1833, 26,854,485 miles. The annual amount of the transportation of the mail in stages . and steamboats on the 1st of July, 1829, '.yas 0,507,818 miles. The annual amount of the transportation of the mail in stages and steamboats, on the 1st of July, 1833, was 18,322,570 miles. The expense of transporting the mail for the year ending 30th June, in 1829 was $1,1 53,040 21. The expense of transporting the mail for the year ending 30ih June, 1833, was $1,894,088 03. The gross amount of postages, constituting the revenues of the Department, was for the year ending 30th June, 1S29, $1,707,418 42. The gross amount of postages for the year end-

! ing 30ih June, 1833, was $2,010,533 27.

The incidental expenses of the Department for the year ending 30th June, 1829, amounted to $09,249 08. The incidental expenses of the Department for the year ending 30lh June 1833, amounted to $87,701 01. The number of post offices, in the United States, on t he 1st of July, 1829, was 8,001. On the 1st of July, 1832, the number of post offices in the United States was 10,127.

The increase of the annual transportation of

the mail within the four years ending the 30th June, 1833, is 13,151,185 miles, nearly equal to the whole amount of transportation in 1S29. The increase of the annual amount of postages within tho same period, is $909,1 19 S5, and the whole amount is more than the double of wiiat it

not appear in the transportation account, and tho' the moneys may have been paid to the contractors, they stand on the hooks as balances to that amount due from thetn to the department, constituting a part of its surplus fund; when, in fact, they constitute a part of the actual expense incurred for the transportation of the mail. The consequence h is been that the expenses for transporting the mail within any given period of time, as shown in the accounts, and reported annually through the Executive, have been always calculated to exhibit an amount considerably less than what Ins actually been incurred. This is an imperfection not of recent origin, but one which appears to have been co-existent with the department. When the number of contracts

was few, and tho surplus revenue bore a l irge ratio to its whole annual amount, the effect whs unimportant; but in the increased number of mail routes, and the diminution of its surplus rovenue, it wns calculated to produce serious inconvenience. From the statements growing out of this system, thus illusory in their results, together with the great expense of carrying into effect the law of the last Congress establishing new mail routes, and a disposition to gratify the wishes of the public in the improvement of mail facilities, I was led to carry those improvements to an extent which it was found the resources of the department would not well sustain. When the inconvenience was f dt, the cause was. carefully investigated, and the following result was disclosed. Prompt directions were given for the correction of the error in future. Itis not possible to determine, to an exact certainly, the whole expense incurred for transportation within any recent period; because it will often happen that improvements will become necessary, even for tho fulfillment of existing laws, the expenses of which, for want of proper evidence, must be reserved for subsequent adjustment, and to come into the account for a later period than that

in which the services were p?nor:neiJ. But these variations are of an inconsiderable amount, compared with the differences resulting from the system heretofore observed. On the 30th of June, 1S29, which was the close of the first quarter in which I had assumed the functions of tho department, the expenses which had been incurred for transporting the mail were $31,248 70 more than tho amount staled in my report to that day. On the first day of July, 1S32, the day to which my last report reaches, there was slated to be a surplus of available funds, after defraying till the

expenses of the department up to that

day, of It is however now ascertained, that the expenses incurred for transportation which had actually been performed prior to the 1st July, 1832, beyond tho amount stated in that report, were So that, instead of a surplus on that day, the department was actually indebted on the first day of July, 1832, beyond the Avholo amount of ils available funds, admitting that no losses of postage should be sustained, Tho cross amount of oostages for the year ending the 30th June, 1832, was

The gross amount of postages for the year ending tho 30th June,

tho preceding year and which may bo s ifi ly estimated ;is continuing, was 217,150 10

Making the net revenue for tha current year, , Leaving a defic it cf

2,037,410 SI

85,878 (11

The former method of keeping the accounts f the expenses of transportation would have 1. It out of this report expenses for transportation, as if they hid not been incurred, because not entered under their proper dates, the sum of 91,058 62, viz: For services performed prior to July 1, 1S32, 22,294 41 For services performed during 3d quarter, 1832, 9,120 50

4th quarter, 1S32, 9,932 21 1st quarter, 1833, 22,872 70 2d qu arter, 1S33, 27,138 97

u u

u

Making together,

91,0jS 82

$202,81140

205,050 07

Tlrs, had tho imperfection of that system remained unobserved, would hive mule the Department appear to be less indebted, by that amount, than what it is in reality. The otscovery of the excess of expenditures beyond its revenues, at once showed the necessity of retrenchment. The only practicable means of doing this, was the withdrawal of some of iho improvements which had l!rn made, and on such routes as would be least injurious to the public, and least prejudicial to ihe revenues of the Department. This Ins been done with great care and attention to these two points. The reductions have been directed on the transportation to take effect from th 1st of Jmuary next, to the annual amount of 202,370 The contracts have been renewed for the southwestern section, comprising the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, ami the Territory (if Aikansis, with a greater amount of improvements than curtails, at an atnnul s iving of 71, 93

2,S!i 07

2,258,570 17

1833, was

2,GiG,533 27

$357,908 10

The average expense of transporting the mail

in 1S29, was eight cents and four-tenths of a cent per mile. The average expense of transporting the mail in 1S33, is seven cents and fifty-seven hundredths of a cent per mile; making a difference in the rate

per mile, of eighty-three hundredths of a cent, equal, for the whole service, to $222,892 22 per year less, in proportion to the service performed, than the expense of transportation in 1829, besides a great increase in expedition between the principal commercial cities, and a much greater proportion of the whole performed in stages. After carrying into effect the law of the last Congress establishing new mail routes, the present length of mail roads in the United States, amounts

to 119,915 miles, viz

Making an increase for the year, over the former year, of

The net proceeds of postages, after deducting

commissions to post masters and the contingent expenses of their offices, for the year ending the 30th June, 1832, was. $1,543,098 49 For the year ending June 30, 1S33, it was 1,790,251 05

Making together an annual retrenrhment of the expenses of tha department, of 274,233 In making th.ise retrenchments, many of the principal contractors who were to be c tf cted bv them, seeing the necessity which induced the measure, have readily d -chred their cordi ii acquiescence in it; and, with a pttriotic spirit beconuny iheir character, have shown a determination in sustain the l)ep iriment, as a paramount object, at any sacrifice which it may require on their pirl. After ill;? r.'d'KMions s!i dl I elf ct, the annual transportation cf the mail will stdl bo 25,527,957 miles, v'z: In stages 10,400,051 m'ls

In steamboats Horseback and sulkk a

7,137

8,5 10, 1 Oil

4t

Making an increase of net proceeds for the year of

Total

Thus, it will appear tint but a part f the improvements will be withdrawn, to enable the deli irtment still to rely exclusively on its own resources, as the annual transportation will slid be, afler the first of January next, 1.902,930 miles more than it was on the 1st July, 1832. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your o! Jii nt srrvmt, W. T. BAilRY.

In Maine N. Hampshire) Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia

N. Carolina

Miles.

3,824 2,400 2,531 4,845 491 2,701 13,250 1,901 11,010 494 2,102 10,588 0,850 4.510

In Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Aikansas Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Missouri Making together

Miles. 1,131 4,433 2,402

1,402 2,309 0,701 5,993 8,977 1,495 5,301 4,459 2,170

Tho expenses of the Department, incurred for the year ending Juno 30, 1833, were us follows, viz: Compensation to postmasters, including the contingent expenses of their offices 3d quarter, 1832, $202,431 20 4th do do 200,151 51 1st do 1833 214,935 50 2d do do 208,705 35

Thr' Globe has very clearly established the fict that Gal-s &, S aton wen; not ft illy elected at the 1st session of Congress, Printers to the House of TJfnresent :t lives. A list of nin;! v. six oieinlwi s is

$21,lob t puhlishi'd, with the evidence of having voted for

F. P. 131 air. According to the count of die election

of the l ite session Gales &, Seatou received 95-

119,910

Georgia 5,274 1

Over these roads, the annual transportation of the mail on the first of July last, was, In stages, 17,093,839 miles. In steamboats, 028,737 u On horseback and in sulkies 8,531,909 "

Transportation of the mails 3d quarter, 1S32, 435,892 95 4th do do 411,183 01 1st do 1S33 499,185 90 2d do do 518,120 10

-$820,283 G2

Incidental expenses for the year, Making together, The gross amount of postages, for the same period was,

-1,S91,0SS OS 87,701 01

$2,808,073 31

Blair 94 votes. The list now brforu us gives Blair 90 votes, and we are constrained to believe he was fairly elected Printer to thy House instead of Gales fc Sealon. Whilo we supposed Gales &. Seaton had been fairly elected, wo were not disposed to urge the present House to chose its own printer, though we believed the selection made bv the 1 ist Conn s to be wholly iinauthoriz d; but we now lu-ld it to

be the duty of that body to go into an election of printer to exercise the right of chosing its own officers and agents and, iuu manner loo, that will satisfy the corrupt, that tho representatives of the peoph cannot bo deceived or imposed on by the fraudulent conduct of a few opponents of the administration. Louisville Adctrtiscr.

Cisscizmati Currcsil. Corrected Weekly by the Republican.)

UAKRM-Hl'd VTe hail with joy our friends upon this day, May bitter ttrifebe banished fnr away; Thus f hall we all with pong of j iy appear, To welcome in the new-born, happy year. O, whit chinges occur in human lifts, A tnt'ge compound of plent-ure, peace, and ftr'f , Yet, friends ami foes each twelve-month do up;. ;:, To with to each a new and happy year. And this do we with joy all celebrate, The happy year the h!jh, the low, the great; All equal feel, nnd repird all appear, To wish to each, a new and happy year. When we look h ick upon the days of yore, Much cu?e we find our Saviour to rohire; Hi name wn praUe.with voices loud end clear. That wc behold another golden year. The Pestilence, itsfittal darts have hurl'd, Both thick nnd fiut, nil oVr the wide Kprend world; Thousands have fell, both in our front and rear, Yet we hurvive to see another year. O, what dinners we've pars'd in safety by, What matchless grace we've found forever nijjh; Then let us all with congs of praiso draw near,

lo celebrate the new-born, happy year. Another year of ourf-hort time is pnrs'd, Nor do wo know but this will be the last: How precious, then, each moment must appear. Let's 'prove them well the present happy year, By retrospect what errors we may find, 1 et us correct with nil the heart and mind; Thus idiall we feel a conscience always clear, Nor can wc fail to spend a happy year. Such thoughts as these chculd nerve us for tho race, And stir us up to quicken our slow pace; And secret prayer, to Christian ever dear, Wc should observe through each succeeding year. What numbers have from life's nmbig'ous shore, Putotfin lntt. since new-year's day before;. And oVr their thist we shed our llowinj tear Vo call to mind ourft inner hapj-y year. How many sirk are proaning under pain, At homo, abroad, in Europe, Franco, and Spue; Vet hippy we in prfert be tlth appear, To greet our friends with a new happy year. The var.quiis'iM Polos nn shamefully oppress'!, nd in our clime they talk of s vkiug rest; Thriro welco'no, then, vo val'rot: Polos draw near.

All frc? men wish you a new and happy year. nd some again both on the hnd nnd st. In hondag.i groan and long to h ft free; They high in vain, in vain th"y shH their tearr, And thousxnda will the remnant of t!eir years. Yet we rejoice to sse the eflort made, The intreit felt by men of every grade; To free them all and wipe away their tein, -May they succeed in many fleeting years. Our liberty more precious than fine gold, Ve still enjoy as in the days of old; Thousands such thoughts in colors bright appear, At the return of each new happy year. And there nrothoso whom reason hath forsook, Mioh men we see where o'er so, o'er wc look. Yet we retain our senses, bright and clear, To celebrate tho new-born, golden year.

But most of nil, th? topers wc behold, Undone forever by the flowing bowl; T ike brutes. they live, how loathsome they appear, And worse they grow each new, succeeding year. How many pine for want of daily bread, While happy ween luxuries are fid; With grateful songs then let us nil draw near, And wish the world a new and happy year. Ml such ns do tli3 golden rub obey, Tn rePreneo live to an eternal day; Forsake all vice, hold virtue to them dear, Will surely spend a happy, happy year. The burning sun, the silver queen of night, nd all the stars that shine with lustre bright; S'all quitthc-ir orbs and ever disappear, At the awfid close of the last, solemn year. The trumn shall sound, the keeping dead awaVe, eis shall retire, nnd all the earth shall quake; Tn Aiming fro, the judge4 shall then draw near, At the grand close of the list, column year. The t'mes at hand when vcara shall be no more,

Fternity will crown the ample score; Then may we all in glory, bright, appear, And spend a new, eternal, happy year. weet is the thought, we soon shall meet in TItarta, O, previous hooe to us through mercy given; With eraphs bright, moa joyful shall appear, Throughout a long, eternal, h ippy yeir. And t' ore shall we thro' fiod'a conturntnate gracs. hake hands ngiin and tec? each other's face, Tn robes of white, most glorioiu appear, Thrice happy be, through an eternal year. Yes, there shall we, our pious kindred meet. And join with them to walk tha golden street; In sons of praise to Angles ever dear, Shall eing and u bout a lorg, long, happy year

$ cts

Making together

26,854,485

The increase of transportation from the 1st July,

1832, to the 1st July, 1833, has been,

In stages,

In steamboats, On horseback and in sulkies,

1,471,090 miles.

129,4361,628,932 "

3,229,404

Making together,

The method in which tho accounts of ihe expenses of transporting the mail have always been

heretofore, be disposed of for the common benefit of k.ePl m lh,s department, has led to a misapprehen-

the United States, according to the compacts of cession. I do not doubt that it is the real interest of each and all the states in the union, and particularly of the new states, that the price of these landd shall be reduced and graduated: and that after they

had been offered for a certain number of years, the the mail on h

refuse remaining unsold shall be abandoned to the

tidies, ana the machinery of our land system entirely withdrawn. It cannot be supposed the compacts intended that the United States should retain forever a title to lands within the 6tates which are of no value, and no doubt is entertained that the general interest would be best promoted by surrendering mch lands to the states. Thim plan for dirposinjpof the public lands impair8

sion of the means of extending improvements in

mail facilities. It appears, from the earliest re

cords cf the department, to have been a rule not to enter to the credit of a contractor, nor to charge to

the account of transportation,the expense of carrying

is route, till after he had signed his

3d quarter, 1832, 4 th do do 1st do 1833 2d do . do

(512.089 22 030,161 47 073,'j5? 07 069,420 91

Leaving a deficit of Add this sum paid into the Treasury by irregular deposites, having been placed by ihe receiving oiticer to the credit of that department instead of this, The balance due by tho department on tho 1st July, 1832, as above stated, And the department was indebted on the first July, 1833, beyond the amount of available balances due to it, in the sum of

-2.010,538 27 192,135 04

22S 09

O C 1 4 lT

)UO J I

$105,208 40

contract and bond, and returned them to the de

partment with proper security, though the service may have been regularly performed, and, in many instances, the moneys actually paid. It has sometimes happened that contracts of the greatest magnitude have, from various causes, remained for

more than a year unreturned. In such cases,

The annual expense of transporting the mail under existing contracts, with all their improvements, is $2,033,2S9 12 Tho incidental expenses of tho department, estimated at 90,000 00

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2 4 8 i3" 6

Flour beat bbl 3 50 to 3 62

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aggregate

expense

Making the for a year

The net proceeds of postages for

the year ending the 30th June, 1S33,

amounted to

Tho net increase

$2,123,289 12

1,790,251 05

i though the expenses have been incurred, they do 'or tint year over

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Inrvp & Cunp lb 1 Y Hvson 75 to 80 Tobacco, Ky. m'a 7 to 8 Talbwb 7 to 8

Tha Rink pipers at Cincinnnti and Lou'svHIp, hivo mule, in concert, a violent attack on Mr. L ine, of I.i. Wo arc gl id to so, tint tho Indiana pipers treat this impudent attempt, with tho indignitton and contempt it rnrrita. We prrceivo by the Indi on Palladium thst sumi l ir attacks were iirufonn Mr. Lune, during thulist election, to aid his opponent, th 11 ink candidate. A m ijority of nearly two to one in the old and pop. ohms county in which both of tho candidates resided, w is nn excellent comment upon tho exertions of the 11 ink gentry. This result wns tha more gr;itif)ing, :is, if we remember rightly, tho votes had, at previous elections, been equally divided between tho Administration and the opposition. "Tho galled jide will wince1 and the e Bank editors can only vent their spleen in aluic. Wo can nsurc our editorial friend in Indiana

that the motives of this attack aro perfectly understood. Next to tho npprolntion of honest men, tho virulent censure: of such men as Hammond of thfl Gtzctte ia the best proof of ability andrcctitudo. dole. Tin Commissioner under tho Convention with the King ofih-. Two Sicilies, which Invebeen for the l ist four weeks n iijed in this city, in tho examination of m 'imiri ils, closed iheir session on Friday, having disp..s-d of all tho memorials filed wiih th Si-civtary, under their order ofSeptember last. Tli ir next tn- rtinj will tako phco on tha first Monday in M irch next. Globe.

A bill granting an additional Senator and twa additional Representatives to tho nothern counties, was yesienhy Jifiernoou re ad a third tinr in tbi Houso of Representatives und rASsco ycaa -Uf, nays 2S. II ivin; previously passed the Senate, it only ncedi the rjuclioa of the Gevarnor to b3j ce:ne a law. Indua JtnrjwZ,