(C.) SIR, London, February 21, 1834. In consequence of your suggestion, that the Record Commission were desirous of presenting copies of their valuable publications to some of the literary institutions of the United States, I have the honor of enclosing herewith, a list of the principal libraries where they would be most acceptable, and to which I shall have great pleasure in forwarding copies. I have numbered them according to their relative importance, in order that the Commissioners may be the better enabled to judge which to send to. Some of the latter numbers are inserted more on account of their locality, there being other libraries of more importance, but situated in the immediate neighborhood of the institutions mentioned in the first part of the list. It will be a great gratification to me to be the medium of transmitting to the United States, this noble mark of the liberality and good feeling of the British Government towards my country; and I feel confident that it will be productive of the happiest effects in drawing together the bonds of union between two nations more closely allied by natural ties than any other two on the face of the globe. With sentiments of respect and esteem, C. P. COOPER, Esq. Very sincerely, your humble servant, Secretary to the Record Commission, &c. O. RICH. PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 1. The Philadelphia Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2. The Boston Athenæum, Boston, Massachusetts. 3. The New-York Society Library, New-York. 4. The Charleston Society Library, Charleston, South-Carolina. 5. The Baltimore City Library, Baltimore, Maryland. 6. The New-York State Library, Albany, New-York. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES. 7. The Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 8. The Library of Yale College, New-Haven, Connecticut. 9. The Library of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. [Senate No. 3.] 15 10. The Library of the College of South-Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 11. The Library of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. Hampshire. 12. The Library of Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. 13. The Library of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. 14. The Library of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. 15. The Library of Brown University, Providence, Rhode-Island. 16. The Library of the College of New-Jersey, Princeton, N. J. 17. The Library of the University of North-Carolina, Chapel Hill, North-Carolina. 18. The Library of the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. 19. The Library of the University of the State of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 20. The Library of the University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio. Being assured that his Majesty's Government and the Record Commissioners entertain sentiments in all respects corresponding to those which you recently stated to me were entertained by the United States towards the British Isles, I have had no hesitation in instructing his Majesty's Printers to prepare sets of the Record Publications for the whole of the American Libraries mentioned in the list accompanying your letter of yesterday. I am, sir, your obedient humble servant, O. RICH, Esq. C. P. COOPER. Of the Attorney-General on a bill referred to him by the Senate, May 3, 1834. STATE OF NEW-YORK, TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. } Sir-In obedience to a resolution of the Senate, I submit herewith a report on a bill referred for the opinion of the Attorney-General, and on several questions relating to the creation of corporations. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Albany, January 6, 1835. Senate No. 4.] GREENE C. BRONSON. REPORT, &c. "STATE OF NEW-YORK, IN SENATE, MAY 3, 1834. } Resolved, That the bill entitled "An act in addition to the act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes," be referred to the Attorney-General, and that he be requested to submit to the Senate his opinion, whether the provisions contained in said bill, and the law which it proposes to amend, are constitutional, and also whether any company can be incorporated without the con currence of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature to each act of incorporation. By order. JOHN F. BACON, Clerk." The Attorney-General, in obedience to the foregoing resolution of the Senate, respectfully submits the following REPORT: By the act entitled "An act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes," passed March 22, 1811, it was provided, that any five or more persons who should be desirous to form a company for the purpose of manufacturing woollen and various other articles mentioned in the act, might become a body politic and corporate, for the term of twenty years, on complying with certain prescribed terms. The provisions of this act were, on the 14th of April, 1817, extended to associations "for the purpose of manufacturing morocco and other leather;" but such companies were not allowed "to locate their establishment in any other counties than Greene and Delaware." On the 7th of April, 1819, the right to locate leather factories was extended to the county of Oneida. The act of 1811, so far as it related to the right of forming associations, was origi nally limited to the period of five years. After having been several times revived and continued in force, it was rendered perpetua |