IN ASSEMBLY, February 21, 1833. REPORT Of the committee on the judiciary on the petition of Joseph J. Deseamus, for divorce. Mr. Livingston, from the committee on the judiciary, to which was referred the petition of Joseph J. Deseamus, REPORTED: That the petitioner asks the Legislature to pass a law divorcing him from his wife, on the alleged ground of her having been guilty of adultery. Your committee have on a previous occasion assigned their reasons why the Legislature should not interfere in granting divorces in any case of adultery. They beg leave to refer to their report upon the petition of Levi Longwood; and for the general reasons there stated, they recommend that the prayer of the petitioner be denied. All which is respectfully submitted. IN ASSEMBLY, February 7, 1833. REPORT Of the committee on claims, on the petition of Truman Spencer. Mr. Russell, from the committee on claims, to which was referred the petition of Truman Spencer, praying compensation for revolutionary services, REPORTED: The petitioner states that he was a soldier in the war of the revolution: That he enlisted in March, 1782, in the regiment of NewYork State levies commanded by Col. Marinus Willet, for the term of nine months, with a promise that he should have a bounty of two hundred acres of land from this State: That he served the said term of service, and was duly discharged on the 31st day of December, 1782, at Fort Plain: That he has never received from the State the said two hundred acres of land, or compensation for said services. He now asks the said two hundred acres of land, as an equivalent therefor. The committee do not find that the claim of the petitioner can be sustained upon any principle heretofore adopted for the settlement of claims growing out of the war of the revolution; and however willing they might be to administer relief to the soldiers of the revolution, they would not feel themselves justified in adopting a new rule of practice upon that subject. They are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted, and offer for the consideration of the House the following resolution: Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted. |