without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes. Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of iucompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it the native soil of himself and progenitors for several generations, I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. United States, GEORGE WASHINGON. HON. PARIS C. DUNNING, President of the Senate: SIR-Herewith is transmitted the STATE BANK OF INDIANA, Annual Report of the State J. MORRISON, President. Bank of Indiana, which please to lay before the Senate. Respectfully, In Senate, December 13, read and laid on the table, and 500 copies ordered to be printed. STATE BANK OF INDIANA, HON. GEORGE W. CARR, Speaker of the House of Representatives : SIR-Herewith is transmitted the Annual Report of the State Bank of Indiana, which please to lay before the House of Representatives. Respectfully, J. MORRISON, President. On motion by Mr. HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 13, 1848. Ordered, That five hundred copies of the Annual Report of the State Bank of Indiana be printed for the use of this House. Attest, JNO. W. DODD, Clerk. |