REPORT
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 Of the Select Committee, in the House of

 Assembly. ralatiye to extra judieal and Ma sonic paths.

 The Select Committee, tO which was re- ferred the memorial of the delegates of the counties of Chautauque, Erie. Niagara, Or leans, Genesee, Monroe. Livingstone, Wayne, Yates. Seneca. and Tompkins, on the subject lof extra judicial and Masonic eaths. RE- PORT

 That they have devoted to the subject of the memorial,th that diligent examination which wss demanded by its intrinsic importance, magnifed as it IS, by the facts set forth in the memorial. In deliberdtinginpon this subject. your committee have directed their attention to the general character and consequences of l all such paths unsanctioned by the laws. as

 we'll as the peculiar nature and policy of those set forth in the papers referred to in

 the memorial Under every form and char 1 acter which human government has at any l time assumed, the principle of responsibility 1 to a higher power, however modified or per verted. has been appealed to, as furnishing the foundation to the highest obligations which could be imposed upon human nature. Mos: civilized governments have approved of the wisdom of resOrting tolan oath as secu- l rity for the faithful discharge of an official duty, and all have deemed it indispensable in | the administration of justice. The most sa- cred rights of society and individuals are sub- iected to it's disposal. and no vice could be regarded as more alarming than practice which in any degree, should have the effect to weaken the obligation, ,or impair the con fdence, which, not less hy law than the au- thority of the human heart is repOsed in an oath. The right to exact # belongs to the sovereign power of the state; and in most instances, its efficacy is attempted 10 be in creased, by inficting the jseyerest penalties | mon it's violations. The duties it timpOses must be the same. whatever may be the form of it's administration butiit is entirely obvi- ous that reverence to the being whose atten- ton is invoked, not less than regard to its influence on the mind, demand that the Oc- casion should be importan$ and the cerenno- nv solemn. The frequent. unauthorized and 1 irreverent administration of paths. has pow erful influence, in the judgment of your ecua-