anoke Inlet, in North Carolina, with a view to a navigable communication between the Albemarle Sound and the ocean.

On motion of Mr. Strong.

Resolved. That a Committee be appointed to ascertain the probable cost, economy, and advantages of publishing a stereotype impression of the laws of the United States.

And Mr Strong. Mr. Floyd, of Virginia, Mr. Davis, of South Carolina, Mr. Beecher, and Mr. Baldwin, were appointed the said committee. On motion of Mr. White,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the survey of the bar and harbor of St. Augustine, with a view of ascertaining the practicability and cost of improving the same, by the erection of a pier, or otherwise. On motion of Mr. Allen, of Massachusetts,

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of bringing in a bill for the reduction of the duties on teas.

On motion of Mr. Moore, of Alabama.

Resolved. That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of adopting some legislature enactment, calculated to give effect to the act, (agreeably to its true spirit,) passed at the last session of Congress, entitled An act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improv ing the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa. Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers ;" and in such manner as may give to the State authorities the right to make the selection of the quantity granted within the counties specified; or grant to the State, in addition, the remnant of relinquished and unappropriated lands within those counties, not exceeding 97,129 acres, for the purposes mentioned in the above recited act.

On motion of Mr. Sevier,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of permitting the people of Arkansas to elect or appoint all the civil and military officers of the Territory, except those appointed by the President, under such regulations and restrictions as the Legislature of the Territory may point out and establish.

On motion of Mr. Bates, of Missouri.

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating the nett revenue arising from the rents of the public lead mines on the Upper Mississippi (or so much thereof as may be necessary) to the removal of obstructions to steamboat navigation in the Mississippi, at the Rock river and Des Moines rapids. On motion of Mr. Ramsey,

Resolved. That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill, making provision for creating and supporting an Army asylum. by retaining from each officer, noncommissioned officer,, and private, in the Army of the United States, a certain portion of their monthly pay. for the purpose of creating a fund, to be called the Army Asylum fund," for the support of all aged, infirm, poor, and disabled soldiers, who have served in the Army of the United tates, since the American Revolution.

M. Jennings moved the following resolutions; which were read, and laid on the table, viz:

1. Resolved. That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this House a copy of the instructions given for the government of the Agent of the United States, Superintendent of the lead mines in Missouri and Illinois.

2. Resolved, That the Secretary for the Department of War be directed to lay before this House a copy of the last annual report of Casper W.. Wever, Superintendent of the Cumberland road northwest of the river Ohio.

On motion of Mr. Wickliffe.

The House proceeded to consider the following resolutions, submitted by Mr. Mercer on the 26th of May last. and laid on the table, viz :

1. Resolved, That the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lands, not specially pledged for the payment of the public debt of the United States, be applied, under such regulations as the Legislatures of the several States and Territories may, respectively, provide, to popular education.

2. Resolved, That, in effecting this purpose, the said sum be distributed among the several States and Territories, according to their respective federal numbers.

3. Resolved, That the nett proceeds of the sales of the residue of the public lands, not included within the provisions of the preceding resolutions, be applied, in like manner, to the object of popular education, in the same proportions, so soon as the public debt now charged thereupon shall bave been paid: Whereupon,

Mr. Wickliffe moved to refer said resolutions to the Committee on the Public Lands.

A motion was then made by Mr. Jennings, that these resolutions be laid on the table which motion being disagreed to by the House,

Mr. Wickliffe modified his motion, so as to refer the same to a select. committee: And thereupon,

On motion of Mr. Strong,

Ordered, That the said resolutions be committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, to which is committed bill No. 145.

On motion of Mr. Everett,

Resolved, That a committee of three members be appointed, who, with three members of the Senate, to be appointed by that body, shall direct the expenditure of the money appropriated for the purchase of books and maps for the use of the two Houses of Congress.

And Mr. Everett. Mr. Woods, of New York, and Mr. Miner, were appointed of the committee on the part of this House.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in this, resolution.

On motion of Mr. Pearce,

Resolved. That the petition of Elizabeth Mays, referred, with the accompanying documents, at the last session, to the Committee on Naval Affairs. be again referred, with bill No. 209, for her relief, and which passed this House, to the same committee.

Mr Gilmer moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to inform the House of Representatives what number of appointments have been annually made in the regular Army since 1820, designating, particularly, the number

made in the Corps of Engineers, and, also, the regiments of artillery; and that he also inform the House of the number of the cadets educated at West Point, who, since 1820. received commissious in the Army, alter the expiration of the five years that they were bound to continue in service; and, also, the number of officers now in the Army, who entered it as cadets at West Point: and, also, that he inform the House what number of cadets it would be necessary to educate at West Point, in order to supply all the vacancies in the Army by cadets; and, also, what number in order to supply the vacancies in the Corps of Engineers, and, also, those in the artillery regiments and that the Secretary of War be requested to report to the House such plan as he may think most practicable to compel such persons as may be appointed cadets at West Point to continue in the military service of the United States; and for so modelling the West Point academy, as to make the number of cadets to be annually educated at that place correspond, as near as practicable, with the number of vacancies which annually occur in the Army of the United States.

On motion of Mr. Sevier,

Resolved. That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making donations of land to those citizens of Arkansas who resided west of the present eastern boundary line of the Choctaw nation of Indiaus, in the Territory of Arkansas, at the time of the treaty with said nation of Indians and the United States, in 1821, and who have not removed from said Territory, or received any donation of land from the Government, as an indemnity for the loss of their improvements and, also, those citizens of Arkansas who resided in the late Cherokee country, in the Territory of Arkansas, at the time of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians and the United States, in 1817, and who have not removed from said Territory nor received any donation of land for the loss of their improvements, nor were embraced in the Cherokee pre-emption law.

On motion of Mr. Bryan,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an additional appropriation for the improvement of Ocracock Inlet, in North Carolina.

On motion of Mr. Bartlett,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an additional appropriation for the construction of a light-house upon the rock called “Whale's Back," near the harbor of Portsmouth, in the State of New Hampshire.

Mr. Orr moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to communicate to this House, as soon as practicable, the report of the Engineer appointed to examine the Alleghany river, from the city of Pittsburg to the mouth of French creek, at Franklin, with a view to a slack-water navigation, being one of the routes in contemplation for a continuation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Lake Erie, with an estimate of the expense of the same.

On motion of Mr. White,

Resolved. That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the privilege secured to Spanish vessels,

In the 15th article of the Florida treaty, to all the ports of entry in the Territory of Florida.

On motion of Mr. Smith, of Indiana,

Resolved. That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire what further provisions, if any, are necessary to be made. by law, for the purpose of surveying, and bringing into market, the lands recently purchased of the Indian in the State of Indiana.

Mr. Owen moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to lay before this House the report of the Board of Engineers, on the subject of making a caua! between the Hiwassee and Conesauga rivers, and for the purpose of Connecting the waters of the same and that he be also directed to communicate to this House the report of Major Armstrong upon the same subject, under the authority lately given him to open a negotiation with the Cherokee nation of Indians.

The following resolation was submitted by Mr. Chilton, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of adopting some regulation for the appointment of a Commissioner in each of the United States. and Territories belonging thereto, whose duty it shall be, to report. annually to the President of the United States, or to Congress, such information as he may be able to collect, relative to the internal condition of the State or Territory for which he may be appointed, and the improvements necessary to be made therein.

This resolution was read; and, on the question, Will the House agree to the same?

It was decided in the negative.

On motion of Mr. Jennings,

Ordered, That leave be given to withdraw the petition and documents of David M. Hale, presented at the last session of Congress.

On motion of Mr. Newton,

Ordered, That leave be given to withdraw the papers of Charles Gratiot.

Two messages, in writing, were received from the President of the United States, by Mr. John Adams, his Private Secretary, viz:

FIRST.

To the House of Representatives of the United States:

WASHINGTON, December 8, 1828.

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 23d of May last, I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, with documents containing the information requested, relating to the harbors, roads, and other works of internal improvements, undertaken and projected since the 30th April, 1824.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Ordered That the said message and accompanying documents be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

SECOND.

To the House of Representatives of the United States :

WASHINGTON, December 8. 1828.

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 2d of April last, I transmit a copy of the letter from the Cherokee Council to Col. Hugh Montgomery, the agent, requested by the resolution, with a report from the Secretary of War.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Ordered, That the said message do lie on the table.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting.

1. A list of balances on the books of receipts and expenditures in the Register's office, which have remained unsettled for the last three years; 2. A similar list, rendered by the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury;

3. A list of officers who have failed to render their accounts to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, for settlement, pursuant to law. Ordered, That the said letter do lie on the table.

And then the House adjourned.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1828.

John Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, appeared, and took his seat, to-day. Mr. Bartlett presented a petition of Barnabas Fay and Diarca Allen, of the State of New Hampshire ;

Mr. Varnum presented a petition of Aaron Lord, of the State of Massachusetts;

Mr. Ward presented a petition of Nathaniel Reynolds, of the State of New York;

Mr. Dickinson presented a petition of Edmund Foster, of the State of New York;

Mr. Bell presented a petition of John Warren, of the State of Ten

nessee;

Mr. Woods, of Ohio, presented a petition of Joseph Randall, a petition of Thomas McGuire, a petition of Moses Masters, all of the State of Ohio;

Mr. Smith, of Indiana, presented a petition of Charles McClain, of the State of Indiana;

severally and respectively praying for pensions.

Mr. Johnson presented a petition of Daniel Palmer, of the city of New York, praying for an increase of pension.

Mr. Whittlesey presented a petition of Ephraim Shaler, of the State of Ohio, praying for arrearages of pension.

Ordered, That these petitions be referred to the Committee on Military Pensions.

On motion of Mr. Woods, of Ohio,

Ordered, That the petition of John Smith, of Ohio, presented on the 22d December, 1819, and the petition of Josiah Mott, presented on the 30th January, 1826, be referred to the Committee on Military Pensions. Petitions from the undermentioned persons, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee of Claims, viz: