enumeration;" and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections: First. The Constitution has prescribed that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers; and there is no one proportion or divisor, which, applied to the respective numbers of the States, will yield the number and allotment of Representatives proposed by the bill. Second. The Constitution has also provided, that the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand; which restriction is, by the context, and by fair and obvious construction, to be applied to the separate and respective numbers of the States: And the bill has allotted to eight of the States more than one for every thirty thousand. G. WASHINGTON. Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for the reconsideration of the said bill, in the mode prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have agreed to a resolution that Congress will adjourn on Tuesday the seventeenth of April instant; to which they desire the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying his report on the subject of compensations to the officers employed in the collection of the revenue, pursuant to an order of the eighteenth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table. The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act fixing the compensa. tions of the doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress;" and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Bourne, of Rhode Island, reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made several amendments thereto; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same were severally twice read, and agreed to by the House. The said bill, together with the amendments, was read the third time, and on the question that the same do pass, It was resolved in the affirmative. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. FRIDAY, APRIL 6. An engrossed bill, authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates, according to the terms therein expressed, was read the third time, and the blanks therein filled up. Resolved, That the said bill do pass, and that the title be, "An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates." Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate, and desire their concurrence. A bill to indemnify the estate of the late Major General Nathaniel Greene for a certain bond entered into by him, for the public service, during the late war, was read the second time; and, on a motion made and seconded that the said bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the first Monday in August next, The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Ordered, That the said bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Mr. Fitzsimons, from the committee appointed, presented, according to order, a bill supplementary to the act making provision for the debt of the United States; which was received and read the first time. On motion, The said bill was read the second time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next. The House, according to the order of the day, proceeded to reconsider the bill passed by the two Houses, entitled "An act for an apportionment of Representatives among the several States, according to the first enumeration," which was presented for approbation on Monday the twenty-sixth of March, and returned by the President yesterday, with objections. The said bill was read at the Clerk's table, and is as followeth: "AN ACT for an apportionment of Representatives among the several States, according to the first enumeration. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the third day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of one hundred and twenty members, elected within the several States according to the following apportionment; that is to say: Within the State of New Hampshire, five; within the State of Massachusetts, sixteen; within the State of Vermont, three; within the State of Rhode Island, two; within the State of Connecticut, eight; within the State of New York, eleven; within the State of New Jersey, six; within the State of Pennsylvania, fourteen; within the State of Delaware, two; within the State of Maryland, nine; within the State of Virginia, twenty-one; within the State of Kentucky, two; within the State of North Carolina, twelve; within the State of South Carolina, seven; and within the State of Georgia, two. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate." The President's objections were also read, and after debate on the subject-matter of the said bill, the question, "That the House, on reconsideration, do agree to pass the bill," was determined in the mode prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, 28, And so the said bill was rejected, two-thirds of the House not agreeing to pass the same. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers," to which they desire the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew. The House, according to the order of the day, again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to supplies necessary for the ensuing year; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Bourne, of Rhode Island, reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said report under consideration, and made a farther progress therein. Resolved, That this House will, to-morrow, again resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the said report. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate agree to the first, and disagree to the last amendment pro posed by this House to the bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act for fixing the compensations of the Doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress." And then he withdrew. The several orders of the day were further postponed until to-morrow. SATURDAY, APRIL 7. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying sundry petitions which were referred to him, and returned pursuant to an order of the House of the twenty-seventh ultimo. The bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers," was read the first time. On motion, The said bill was read the second time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the Whole House immediately. The House then accordingly resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the said bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Bourne, of Rhode Island, reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made an amendment thereto; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same was twice read, and agreed to by the House. The said bill, together with the amendment, was read the third time; and the question being put that the same do pass, It was resolved in the affirmative. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act to erect a light-house on Montok Point, in the State of New York;" and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Smith, of South Carolina, reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made no amendment thereto. The said bill was then read the third time; and the question being put, that the same do pass, It was resolved in the affirmative. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. The House proceeded to re-consider their last amendment, to which the Senate hatlı disagreed, to the bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act fixing the compensations of the Doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress;" and, the same being read, Resolved, That this House doth recede from their said amendment. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. On motion, Ordered, That a committee be appointed to prepare and bring in a bill or bills apportioning Representatives among the several States according to the first enumeration, at the ratio of one Representative for every thirty thousand persons in the respective States; and that Mr. Laurance, Mr. Seney, and Mr. Smith, of New Hampshire, be the said committee. The House, according to the order of the day, again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to supplies necessary for the ensuing year; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Bourne, of Rhode Island, reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said report under consideration, and come to several resolutions thereupon; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same were severally twice read, and agreed to by the House, as follow: Resolved, That the existing duties on the articles hereafter enumerated, be repeal ed, and that, instead thereof, the following duties be imposed, to wit: Teneriffe and Fayal per ditto 20 All other wines, forty per centum ad valorem, provided the same shall not, in any case, exceed thirty-three cents per gallon. Ditto ditto for children Shoes and slippers, of stained or colored leather (other than black) for men and women per pair 25 28 3 25 20 10 7 10 All other shoes, (for men and women) clogs and goloshoes All other shoes and slippers, for children On salts, called glauber salts, and on sal ammoniac, for every 112 lbs. China wares ARTICLES AD VALOREM. Looking glasses, window and other glass, and all manufactures of glass (black quart bottles excepted) Muskets, pistols, swords, cutlasses, hangers, and other fire and side arms Hair-powder Wafers Glue Woollen laces, fringes, and paper hangings Cast, slit, and rolled iron, and generally all manufactures of iron, steel, tin, pewter, copper, brass, or of which either of these metals is the article of chief value (not being otherwise particularly enumerated) other than brass and iron wire Cabinet wares Leather tanned and tawed, and all manufactures of leather, or of which leather is the article of chief value (not being otherwise particularly enumerated) Medicinal drugs, except those commonly used in dying Hats, caps, and bonnets, of every sort Artificial flowers, feathers, and other ornaments for women's head dresses Fans Dolls, dressed and undressed Toys Buttons of every kind 7 200 15 per cent. ad valor. 10 per centum ad valorem. Carpets and carpeting Sail cloth Sheathing and cartridge paper All powders, pastes, balls, balsams, ointments, oils, waters, washes, tinctures, essences, liquors, or other preparation or composition commonly called sweetscents, odours, perfumes, or cosmetics All dentifrice, powders, tinctures, preparations or compositions whatsoever for the teeth and gums Printed books (except those specially imported for a college, academy, or other public or incorporated seminary of learning or institution, which shall be wholly exempted from duty) Resolved, That the foregoing duties be appropriated, in the first place, to the payment of the interest of the public debt; in the second, to such other grants and appropria |