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EXECUTIVE OFFICE, TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 12, 1842.

Sir:

I have the honor to enclose a copy of a Preamble and Joint-Resolution, adopted by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, and to request that you will cause the same to be laid before the Legislature of the State over which you preside.

With high consideration, Your obedient servant, [illegiable] [illegiable] Governor of New Jersey.

To His Excellency, the Governor of the State of Tennessee

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

JOINT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, agriculture is the great and paramount interest of this country, with which all the other interests of the country are intimately connected; AND WHEREAS, Great Britain, France and other European nations, by enormous duties and other prohibitory restrictions, interdict the reception into their ports of many of our agricultural products, while their silks, wines, brandy, iron, cotton, woollen and other manufactures are admitted into this country at such low rates of duty as to induce excessive importations, and cause the export of large sums of coin, on which the circulating medium of this country is based, which rates do not afford sufficient revenue for the support of the General Government, and to put the country in such a state of defence as the exigencies of the times, and the aspect of our foreign relations seem to require; AND WHERAS, it is our deliberate opinion, that so long as foreign nations refuse a fair and reciprocal exchange of products, our commercial relations with them must be unequal and injurious to us; and that the proper remedy for this evil, from which our country is now suffering greatly, is the imposition of such duties on imports, as will countervail the injurious restriction on our exports, give sufficient revenue for the support of government and national defence, and sustain and protect those manufacturing establishments, which the former policy of our government has built up, and which afford to the agriculturalists of the grain and provision producing states, the best and chief market for their products:--therefore,

RESOLVED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, That the senators and representatives of this state in Congress, be requested to use their utmost exertions to procure such a revision of the tariff laws, as shall impose sufficient duties to effect these objects; and especially to afford, by discriminating duties, adequate protection to the various branches of the manufactures of this state and of the United States; and that a copy herof be transmitted to the Governor of each of the several states of the Union, with a request that he will cause the same to be laid before the Legislatures thereof; and also to each of the Senators and Representatives of this state in Congress.

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State of New Jersey.

I, Charles G. McChesney, Secretary of State of the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Joint Resolution passed by the Legislature of this State, February 11, 1842, as taken from and compared with the original now on file in my office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and [illegiable] my official seal, at Trenton, in said State, this twelth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

Charles. G. McChesney Secretary of State

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