by that body, according to the forms of
the Constitution, to the several States for ratification.

_Resolved_, That if said commissioners cannot agree on such
adjustment, or if agreeing, Congress shall refuse to submit
for ratification, such amendments as may be proposed, then
the commissioners of this State shall immediately
communicate the result to the executive of this
commonwealth, to be by him laid before the convention of the
people of Virginia and the General Assembly: _Provided_,
That the said commissioners be subject at all times to the
control of the General Assembly, or if in session, to that
of the State convention.

_Resolved_, That in the opinion of the General Assembly of
Virginia, the propositions embraced in the resolutions
presented to the Senate of the United States by the Hon.
JOHN J. CRITTENDEN, so modified as that the first article
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, shall apply to all the territory of the United
States now held or hereafter acquired south of latitude
thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes, and provide that
slavery of the African race shall be effectually protected
as property therein during the continuance of the
territorial government, and the fourth article shall secure
to the owners of slaves the right of transit with their
slaves between and through the non-slaveholding States and
territories, constitute the basis of such an adjustment of
the unhappy controversy which now divides the States of this
confederacy, as would be accepted by the people of this
commonwealth.

_Resolved_, That ex-President JOHN TYLER is hereby
appointed, by the concurrent vote of each branch of the
General Assembly, a commissioner to the President of the
United States, and Judge JOHN ROBERTSON is hereby appointed,
by a like vote, a commissioner to the State of South
Carolina, and the other States that have seceded or shall
secede, with instructions respectfully to request the
President of the United States and authorities of such
States to agree to abstain, pending the proceedings
contemplated by the action of this General Assembly, from
any and all acts calculated to produce a collision of arms
between the States and the Government of the United States.

_Resolv