Commissions, form of, and fees upon, considered, (Bills H. R. No. 18)
Committees, to be appointed by the Speaker

ordered to report,

Committee of Elections appointed,

report

Committee, joint-1st Sess., 1st Cong.

to count votes for President and Vice President of the United States
to prepare joint rules to govern the two Houses, in cases of conference
→ and appointment of Chaplains, appointed

་

11, 13

to make arrangements to receive the President and Vice President of the
United States, appointed

to congratulate the Vice President of the United States on his arrival,
appointed

to report a proper mode of communicating papers, bills, and messages,
between the two Houses, appointed

report
on style or titles to be annexed to the offices of President and Vice Pre-
sident of the United States, and to consider the time and place for
administering the oath of office to them, appointed

report

to conduct the ceremonial on the reception of the President of the United
States, appointed

report

on the future disposition of the papers in the office of the late Secretary
of the United States, appointed

report

to prepare and report joint rules for the two Houses, for the enrolment,
attestation, publication, and preservation, of the acts of Congress; as,
also, on the mode of presenting addresses, bills, votes, or resolutions
to the President of the United States, (See Rules) appointed

on supply of newspapers for the members, and the printing for Congress,
(See Printers,) appointed

on receptions of bills or messages from the President of the United
States, appointed

34, 37

report

40, 41

report

on adjournment of Congress, and unfinished business to be acted on,
appointed

report

35

32

50

38

43

71

78

to notify the President of the United States of the proposed recess,
appointed

to wait upon the President of the United States, to request him to recom-
mend to the People of the United States a day of Public Thanksgiv
ing and Prayer, appointed

report 57, 59, 65, 68, 71, 72, 73, 84, 87, 91, 94, 106, 107, 110, 111, 114, 115,
118, 119, 128, 129.

2d Session, 1st Congress-

to wait upon the President, and notify him that a quorum of both Houses
have assembled, appointed

134

report 152, 153, 163, 182, 183, 186, 187, 190, 191, 193, 198, 202, 204, 212,
221, 225, 233, 241, 243, 247, 252, 253, 255, 257, 268, 272, 274, 275,
278, 281, 282, 286, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298

to inquire and report on the question, When according to the Constitu-
tion, the terms for which the President, Vice President, Senators,
and Representatives, have been respectively chosen, shall be deemed
to have commenced? And, also, to consider of, and report their
opinion on such other matters as relate to this question, appointed
(See Resolutions H. R.)
report 215, 216, 217, 218, 296
to consider when it will be proper to adjourn, and what business is neces-
sary to be acted on previously. (See Res. H. R.) appointed

207

235

report 238, 246, 251

to consider what further regulations are necessary for carrying on busi.
ness between the two Houses, appointed

235

report

236, 238

to wait upon the President, and notify him of the proposed recess,
appointed-

295

report

297

3d Session, 1st Congress→→→

to wait on the President, and notify him that a quorum of the the two
Houses have assembled, appointed

330

341

on enrolled bills, appointed

report 342, 350, 351, 352, 366, 368, 371, 372,373, 374, 377, 378, 381, 387,
395, 396, 398, 399, 407.

to consider and report the proper time of the meeting of next Congress
(See Bills H. R. No. 122, 132) -

1st Session, 2d Congress-

358, 359, 363, 366

to wait on the President and inform him that a quorum of both Houses
have assembled

for enrolled bills, appointed

- 434, 435
449, 450

report 450, 475, 479, 483, 486, 492, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 521, 525, 526,
538, 540, 541, 543, 544, 549, 553, 554, 555, 573, 575, 581, 583, 387,
590, 592, 593, 597, 600, 602, 603, 605.

to consider and report on the subject of erecting an equestrian statue to
General Washington, appointed

to request the President of the United States to recommend a day of
thanksgiving, humiliation, and prayer

468

515, 525, 551

593

594, 600, 601, 602

to notify the President of the United States of the proposed recess of
Congress

2d Session, 2d Congress-

to wait on the President to inform him that a quorum of both Houses
have assembled

for enrolled bills, appointed

610

- 651, 652

report 653, 656, 666, 667, 670, 693, 695, 696, 698, 700, 703, 705, 706, 712,
717, 718, 722, 723, 725, 730 731, 733, 734.

to ascertain and report the mode of examining the votes for President and
Vice President, and of notifying the persons who shall be elected of
their election, and to regulate the time, place, and manner, of admin-
istering the oath of office to the President
689, 694, 699, 700, 703

to wait on the President, and inform him of his unanimous re-election - 703, 704
that Congress is ready to adjourn

Compensation to the President of the United States, (Bills H. R. No. 15, 227)

735

26, 40
43, 60, 61, 64, 699, 693

of Vice President, and Members of Congress, (Bills H. R. No.
19, 227)

to the officers, assistants, and clerks,
ments, (Bills H. R. No. 21)

Compensation to the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Re-
presentatives, (Bills H. R. No. 19)

to the sergeant-at-arms, doorkeeper, and assistant doorkeeper,
of the House of Representatives, (Bills H. R. No. 19)

to the Judiciary, (Bills H. R. No. 28)

to the Attorney General of the United States, (Bills H.R. No.
28)

to the Members of the House of Representatives, and their
clerks, committee appointed to ascertain the,

Page.

61

64

112

113

120

141

153

359, 363, 625

to persons employed in the intercourse between the United
States and foreign nations, (Bills H. R. No. 35, 52)

to Roger Alden, acting as Secretary of State, (Bills H. R.
No. 47)

to inspectors and officers to collect duties on distilled spirits,
(Bills H. R. No 119)

to widows, orphans, and invalids, (Bills H. R. No. 139, 152, 159,
Senate, 37)

to clerks, marshals, jurors, and witnesses, in courts of the Unit-
ed States, (Bills H. R. No. 126, 133)

to commissioners of loans, (Bills H. R. No. 135)

to commissioners for treating with Southern Indians, (Bills H.
R. No. 160)

to revenue officers, (Bills H. R. 183).

Conference, committee of, on disagreeing votes on-

364, 444

885

388, 389

492, 493, 495

564, 579, 581, 625

53, 54, 55

An act for laying a duty on goods, wares, and merchandise im-

An act allowing compensation to the President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States

53, 54, 55

76, 89

105, 106

105, 113

An act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States, 125, 127
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States 116, 117, 120, 121
Titles to be annexed to the offices of President and Vice Pre-
sident of the United States

32, 34

An act to provide for the remission or mitigation of fines, forfeit-
ures, and penalties,

182, 192

An act giving effect to the act therein named, in respect to the
State of North Carolina

An act to provide the means of intercourse between the United
States and foreign nations

231, 250

An act regulating post offices and post roads

269, 276

An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes 269, 273
An act providing for the settlement of accounts between the
United States and the States,

269, 270, 275

An act repealing duties on distilled spirits, and laying others in
their stead

An act for the protection of the frontiers

388, 391
522, 523, 525
528

539, 540, 543

An act to regulate the claims to half-pay and invalid pensions
An act making an apportionment of Representatives,
An act more effectually to provide for the national defence
An act regulating processes in courts of the United States
An act to regulate claims to invalid pensions
An act to fix the time for the next meeting of Congress,
Congress, first under the Constitution, first session

Congress, Constitution of the United States to be prefixed to acts of, (Resol.
H. R.)

Page.

58

67, 69

acts of, to be enrolled, examined, signed, &c.
adjournment of first session first Congress proposed and considered,
(Resol. H.R.; 71, 72, 78, 89, 90, 118, 130
second session, do (Resol. H. R.) 235, 237, 238, 246, 251,

third session, do

first session, second Congress,

second session, do

270, 298

409

564, 586, 598, 606

735

116

95

proposition to alter time of meeting of, (Bills H. R. No. 31)

proposition to fix at Old Philadelphia, the seat of

·

acts of, to be transmitted to the Executives of States, (Resol. Sen.) 45
proposition to furnish newspapers to members of

proposition to provide books for the use of members of
place of meeting changed, (Resol. H. R.)
court house at Philadelphia prepared for
proposition to consider time of meeting of next, (Bills H. R. No.
122, 132, 187, 236)

- 187, 191, 194

206, 249

231, 239

334

James Hillhouse, Jonathan Sturges, Jonathan Trumbull,
Jeremiah Wadsworth, and Amasa Learned

46, 64

amendments to the, proposed to the States, (Resol. H. R.)

amendments to the, considered 64, 67, 70, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88,

amendments ratified by the States of Virginia and Vermont, 483, 493
Consuls and Vice Consuls, regulation of fees of, (Bills H. R. No. 86) 243, 255, 256, 271

proposition to permit them to own vessels
proposition respecting, (Bills Sen. No. 18, 24)

256
364, 465
120
355, 484, 614, 685, 632

Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, inquiry into
Contingent Fund, statements of expenditure of the
Continental Taxes, propositions to compensate receivers of, (Bills H. R. 158,

200)

480, 487, 629

Convention between H. M. C. Majesty and the United States, proposition to
establish a consular, (Bills H. R. No. 143)

Page.

406

152

Counterfeiting public papers, device proposed for preventing,
Courts of the United States, proposition to regulate processes of the, (Bills
Senate, No.4, 9, 28, H. R. No.124, 237) 115, 202, 370,
373, 509, 710, 713
proposition to provide seals for Supreme and Cir-

cuit, (Resol. H. R. :

proposition to alter places of holding in Pennsyl-
vania, (Bills Senate, No. 13),

277

206

718, 720, 723

proposition to alter places of holding in Vermont
and North Carolina, (Bills Sen. No. 44.
proposition to establish in North Carolina, (Bills
H. H. No. 68)

219, 220

232, 233, 234

proposition to establish in Rhode Island, (Bills
H. R. No. 71, 73)
proposition to make provision for officers, jurors,
and witnesses, (Bills H. R. No. 126, 133, Sen.
No. 28)
286, 289, 369, 375, 385, 389, 509, 562
proposition to alter times of holding, (Bills Sen.

No. 31)

proposition to amend act establishing, (Bills H.
R. No. 212, Senate No. 41)

544

658, 684, 704
95, 109

Crimes against the United States, punishment of, (Bills Sen. No. 2 and 6)
States to surrender persons charged with certain, (Bills H. R. No. 146) 444, 454
Currency of the United States, subject referred to the Secretary of State,
142, 268

proposition to establish uniformity in the 338, 341, 356
Customs, proposition to compensate officers of the, (Bills H. R. No. 183) 579, 581
Petitions from Churchman, John (Bills H. R. No. 171) 14, 18, 137, 338, 341, 350, 366,

483, 489, 500, 524, 530

Cravath, Lemuel

Carnes, John, jun.
Campbell, Donald
Carman, Henry
Cook, David

162, 163, 176, 181, 189, 378, 385, 393, 399, 448, 463
(See Bills H. R. No. 53, 153 & 140.)