STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, June 7, 1849. ORDERED, That 1,000 copies of the foregoing Report be printed for the use of the Legislature, 500 copies for the use of the Senate, and 50 copies for the use of the Warden.

ATTEST:

DANIEL T. PIKE, Secretary.

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE.

No. 10.]

STATE OF MAINE.

[HOUSE.

RESOLVES in relation to the Territories of the United States.

Resolved, That a proper solicitude for the prosperity 2 and welfare of those who have embarked their lives 3 and fortunes in the destiny of California and New 4 Mexico, demands that prompt, energetic, broad and 5 enlightened measures be adopted at once to relieve 6 them from the military rule and anarchy now weaken7 ing their attachment to the Union.

Resolved, That the factious spirit of the last con2 gress, its sectional and local jealousies,—its preference 3 of broils to action for the public good,—its failure to 4 institute a government when so much needed in our 5 newly acquired territories—admonishes us to use

Wm. T. Johnson, Printer to the State.

6 every legitimate influence tending to establish a state 7 or territorial government in California and New Mer8 ico, just in its principles and satisfactory to their peo

9 ple.

Resolved, That our senators in congress are in2 structed, and our representatives requested, to lay 3 aside all selfish, partizan, and sectional feelings, to be 4 governed by that pure love of country, by justice to 5 our distant brethren, and that interest in the general 6 welfare of our race, that shall guide them to immedi7 ate action upon this question in the true spirit of these 8 resolves.