to procure the passage of a law, providing for a more perfect and uniform organization of the Militia of the several States of the Union. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor of this State, be directed to transmit to each of our Senators and to our Representative in Congress, a copy of the foregoing Resolutions; also, a copy to the Governors of the other States in the Union, with a view, that the same may be submitted to their different Legislatures. JOSHUA BURTON, THOMAS DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed at Dover, February 1, 1833. [Assem. No. 211.] 2 IN ASSEMBLY, February 28, 1833. REPORT Of the select committee, on the petition of Pierre Joseph de Casters and others. Mr. Morris, from the select committee to which was referred the petition of Pierre Joseph De Casters and Jeanne Antoinette his wife, Charles Joseph Gulliand Delafaille, Jean Joseph Renier Osy, Jean Joseph Perison, all of Antwerp, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Jean Baptiste Francois de Seran, of Paris, in the Kingdom of France, and Honorine Camille Athenais de Lature du Pen, of the same place, REPORTED: That all the petitioners are aliens; some are citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium, others of that of France. The petitioners are all creditors of James de La Ray De Chaumont, of the county of Jefferson, in the State of New-York. They, or the persons whom they represent, many years since loaned large sums of money to Mr. La Ray De Chaumont, which money was chiefly employed by him in the purchase and settlement of extensive tracts of land in the northern counties of the State of New-York. In the year 1823, Mr. La Ray de Chaumont having become unable to reimburse the said loans, or longer to pay the interest thereon, made a general assignment of all his estate to his son, Vincent Ra Lay De Chaumont, in trust, to pay certain debts out of the proceeds thereof, and then to apply the residue of the proceeds towards the discharge of the demands of such of his other creditors as within one year after the date of said trust deed [Assem. No. 212.] 1 should come in under the same and accept its provisions in satisfaction of their respective claims. By the provisions of the trust deed alluded to, it was made the duty of the trustee, by a day specified, to sell at public auction all the residue of the trust estate, and to allow to such creditors who should come in under the trust, and should purchase at such sale, a credit on account of the purchase monies to the extent of their respective dividends of the whole proceeds of the trust estate. A bill has since been filed in the court of chancery of the State of New-York against Vincent La Ray De Chaumont and Samuel C. Kennedy, by the petitioners, Pierre Joseph De Casters and wife, in behalf of themselves and all other creditors who should come in and seek relief in that suit; in which suit a final decree has been obtained, ordering the residue of the trust estate to be sold by the trustee at public auction in the city of New-York. The trustee is directed by the decree, in conformity with the provisions of the trust conveyance, to allow the creditors purchasing at the sale, credit on account of their respective purchases to the amount of their respective dividends of the proceeds of the trust estate. It is also represented, and your committee believe, that if the trust estate (it being wild lands, and a large quantity,) should be exposed to be purchased only by those who were to pay the money for their bids, it would be sold for far less than its value, and these creditors would realize but a small proportion of the debt that is due them. Under this state of facts, the petitioners ask to be permitted to purchase and hold some of the said trust estate, to enable them to save a portion of the debt due to them by Mr. La Ray De Chaumont. They ask to be permitted to hold the land thus purchased for fifteen years, and to be authorised to sell and convey the same. They hope by this means to save a large proportion of the debt due to them. Your committee are of opinion that the request of the petitioners is just and equitable, and have therefore prepared a bill in accordance with their prayer, which they beg leave to introduce. |