1st Session. RESOLUTION No. 57. OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA, IN FAVOR OF Increasing the salaries of the United States district judges for that State. MARCH 18, 1852. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed. JOINT RESOLUTIONS instructing our senators and requesting our representatives in Congress to obtain an increase of the salaries of the district judges in California. Whereas the salary allowed by law to the judges of the United States district courts for the two judicial districts of California, is totally inadequate to compensate the incumbents for the arduous and constant labors of the office, exclusive of that porton of the salary necessarily expended in holding courts at the different points in the districts designated by law: be it therefore Resolved by the Senate and Assembly, That our senators are hereby instructed, and our representatives requested, to use all proper exertions for the enactment of a law by Congress, allowing an increased salary to the judges of said districts. Be it further resolved, That the governor of the State be requested to forward to each of the representatives and senators in Congress from California, a copy, of the above resolutions. Approved February 7, 1852. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. JOHN BIGLER. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. I, W. Van Voorhies, Secretary of State for the State of California, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and literal copy of a joint resôlution, entitled as above, now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the great seal of State this eleventh day of February, A. D. 1852, at Sacramento city. W. VAN VOORHIES, [L.S.] Secretary of State. 1st Session. RESOLUTION OF THE No. 58. LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA, RELATIVE TO The Civil Fund of that State. MARCH 18, 1852. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the Civil Fund of California.” Resolved by the Senate and Assembly, That we deeply regret that Con-gress has so long delayed in refunding to the State of California money's collected in her ports, and from the honest industry of her citizens, previous to her admission into the federal Union. Resolved, That we consider the fund heretofore known as the "Civil Fund of California" to be the property of this State; and that any other appropriation of it, by the general government, we hold to be unjust and ungenerous. Taxation without representation is a principle always repudiated by the American people. Resolved, That our senators be instructed, and our representatives requested, to continue all honorable exertions to procure from Congress the recognition of our rights to the moneys taken from us by the general government, and an appropriation to that effect; and that we call upon our sister States to see that this act of justice is performed towards the youngest of the republic. Resolved, That the governor be requested to present to our senators and representatives, each a copy of the foregoing resolutions. Signed February 5, 1852: I, W. Van Voorhies, Secretary of State, do hereby certify that the fore going is a true and literal copy of a joint resolution, entitled as above, now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the great seal of State, this eleventh day of February, A. D. 1852. [L. s.] W. VAN VOORHIES, Secretary of State. 1st Session. RESOLUTION OF No. 59. THE LEGISLATURE OF TEXAS, IN FAVOR OF The incorporation of the Texas navy into the navy of the United States. MARCH 23, 1852. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. JOINT RESOLUTION instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives to use their influence to procure the incorporation of the officers of the late navy of Texas into the navy of the United States. Whereas there were connected with the great measure of annexation to the confederacy of which we are now a member, various reciprocal rights and conditions, prescribed by the terms thereof, as well as others clearly implied and fairly deducible from the same, all of which Texas has on her part fully and completely redeemed; and whereas it is the opinion of this legislature, that the officers of our late navy, by a liberal and just construction of the terms of annexation, should be incorporated into the navy of the United States in their several ranks, and that they are justly entitled to the same, as well from the construction here claimed, as from their high characters, personal and professional, and the zeal, fidelity, patriotism and valor with which they sustained the cause of their country during her struggle for independence; therefore, Section 1. Be it resolved by the legislature of the State of Texas, That our senators are hereby instructed, and our representatives in Congress requested, to use their influence to procure the passage of a law by the Congress of the United States, incorporating the officers of the late navy of Texas into the navy of the United States, in the rank which they severally held in the late navy of Texas. Section 2. Be it further resolved, That the governor be requested to cause copies of this joint resolution to be immediately forwarded to the President of the United States, and to each of our senators and representatives in Congress. Approved February 16, 1852. DAVID C. DICKSON, Speaker of the House Representatives. President of the Senate. P. H. BELL. |