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1808 152 (1808)

handle is hein.ssl/ssma0391 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLVES, Of the General Court of Massachivet s, PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGAN AND HELD, AT BOIToN, ON TIE TWVENTY-FIFTII DAY OF MAY, IN THE YMIR OF OUR LORD OXE THIOUSA'JXJ B£IGi' IiUXDRED AND EIGflT. GOVERNOUR'S SPEECH. REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, TUESDAY, JUNE 7. At 10 o'clock, agreeably to notification, is Excellency the Governour, preceded by the Sher/ff and acconpamni d biq the Council, met the two branches, and delivered thefolowing SPEECH: ENTLEME'J OP THE SENArE, AND GRUTLEMEN Or THE HOUSE or n .,PuESLnTTiVzq, HAVING been informed by your joint Committee, that the two branches of the Legislature were ready to receive any communication from the Governour which lie might have to make to them, I requested you to allow me the honour of meeting you at this time and place. - This practice has been respected in the days of safety and prosperity, as vell as in the periods when our country was involved in dangers and difficul- ties. It might be justified by common usagc to submit to your consideration the particular business which I conceive to be necessary to your deliberations in the present session, and to call your attention to no other subject. The method, which I am urged by the exigencies of the Country to pursue, does by no means exclude me Friom laying before you, by special messages, the particular concerns of the Commonwealth :-But in the present critica. state of our na. T