Resolution of the General
Assembly of the Missouri Territory
for the relief of the inhabitants
of the County of New Madrid who
have suffered by Earthquakes

12 Feby. 1814
Refd. To the comss on the public Lands.

24 Feby. 1814
Bill reported and committed to
committee of the whole House on Monday next:

	A Resolution for the relief of the Inhabitants of 


Whereas in the Catalogue of Miseries and Aflictions, with which it has pleased the Supreme
being of the Universe,  to visit the Inhabitants of this earth, there are none more truly
a------ and destructive than Earthquakes -- Man's wisdom can not foresee, nor -- precaution
guard against them --  In whatever Sections -- the habitable world, this wreck of matter,
these convulsions of nature secur; They do not fail profoundly to impress us with --, and to
-- our --      at their terrible effects -- As members of the great human family, our deepest
commiseration should not fail to be  -ated, and our hearts expanded with charity for the
relief of those whole lives an? saved from the general wreck -- We ought never to forget that
what was their fate Yesterday may be ours tomorrow -- And whereas it is notorious to this
general assembly, that the Inhabitants of the late District - now County of New Madrid, in
this Territory, have lately been visited with Several Calamities of this Kind, which have
deluged larg(e) portions of their Country and involved in the greatest distress, many
families, whilst others ha(ve) been entirely ruined whole districts of country have been a --
lated and many valuable farms utterly destroyed -- many of these our unfortunate felow
citizens are now wandering about without a home to g(o) -- a roof to shelter them from the
pitiless Storms -- And whereas the ? light in which the Calamities are viewed by the
enlightened humane government of the United States, has been conspicuously manifested, by
their liberal ?ations in favo(r) of the Sufforers at ?Carracar, This General Assembly can we
therefore doubt but what it will be equally ready to extend relief to a portion of its own
Citizens, under Similar Circumstances -- Be it therefore resolved by the General Assembly for
the Territory of Missouri, that they do recommend the Inhabitants of the Said County of New
Madrid, who have thus (su)ffored, to the consideration of the National Legislature, and that
in the opinion of the Said General Assembly provisions ought to be made by law, for granting
to the Said Inhabitants relief, either out of the public land or in Such other way as may seen
meet to the wisdom & liberality of the general government.