STATE OF MAINE.

THE undersigned, one of the members of the Joint Select Committee of both Houses of the Legislature to which was referred the Governor's Message, of the 18th instant, with the accompanying Communication from the Secretary of State of the United States, asks leave to

REPORT:

That not having been able, upon a full and deliberate consideration of the subject, in all its bearings and principles, to arrive to the same conclusions and result, in all respects, with the majority of your Committee, he deems it an act of justice to himself to briefly state some of the reasons of his disagree

ment.

1. He entertains doubts of the constitutional power of this Legislature to create and invest a commission, or agency, under any name, with authority to invest, in the name and on behalf of the State of Maine, the President of the United States with the right and power of ceding the territory, and with it the sovereignty of a portion of the State,