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Agnciillure in Congress, on the 22d April, 1832, did report a bill to encour¬ 
age the introduction and promote the culture of tropical plants in the 
United States, by convejdng conditionally to said Perrine and his associ¬ 
ates a township of land insouthern Florida : and whereas the gradual 
acclimation of tropical plants in all the Southern and Southwestern States 
may be better accomplished by their intermediate domestication in the 
tropical district of Florida : . . 
Sec. 1. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Rep^'esent- 
atives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That 
our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, 
to procure the passage of said bill into a law, under such conditions as 
may best comport with the public good. 
Sec. 2. And he it further resolved, That the Governor be instructed to 
forward a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representa¬ 
tives in Congress. 
ALCEE LABRANCHE, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
C. DERBIGNY, 
President of the Senate. 
Approved March 11, 1§37. 
E.D. WHITE, 
Governor of the State of Louisiana. 
A letter extracted from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 
transmitting information relative to the services and researches 
of Doctor H. Perrine under the circular of September 6, 1827. 
Tammany Hall, New York, March 21, 1832. 
Sir : The subscriber yesterday saw the first resolution reported on the 
i4th by the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, inquiring of the 
Department whether the America.n consul for Campeacliy has made any 
researches, and rendered any services, in compliance with the Treasury 
circular. 
It is respectfully considered by the subscriber that his communications 
on the logwood, the agaves, and the cochineal, are alone evidences of a 
great extent of researches, in a country where the obstacles to observa¬ 
tion and inquiry are so numerous and enormous as they are in Mexico. 
He did not burden the Department with detailed intelligence of many 
plants oipartial utility, believing that the journals of medicine and other 
sciences would be supplied with them through his private correspondents, 
and that the objects of the circular would be thus most conveniently ac¬ 
complished. It would require the labor of two or three months to ar¬ 
range and copy all the correspondence and other documents relative to 
Mexican plants now in the possession of the subscriber; and then “ the 
nature and extent of those researches and services’’ would not be com¬ 
pletely exhibited, in consequence of the unsettled state of the papers of 
the late Doctor Samuel L. Mitchill, and of the blanks occasioned by the 
