By Mr. Swift, of James Fisk, presented on the 2d January, 1828, and of Samuel Hutgate, presented on the 13th December, 1825.

By Mr. Taylor, of Samuel Demarest, presented on the 22d December, 1819.

By Mr. Cambreleng, of Washington Bowie, Daniel Kurtz, and others, presented on the 27th November, 1820; and of Lewis Rouse, presented on the 13th December, 1825.

By Mr. Owen, of Haynes Crabtree, presented on the 18th March,

1822.

By Mr. Wing, of Hubert La Croix, presented on the 15th January, 1827; and of Medard Conture, presented on the 17th December, 1827.

Mr. Johnson presented a petition of David Rogers & Son, of the city of New York, praying for the payment of the drawback of duties on teas exported from the United States; which petition was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Ward presented a petition of Jacob G. Dyckman, of the State of New York, setting forth that he is the author of a work, called • The American Militia Officers' Manual," and praying that the same may be adopted in training the militia of the United States; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Militia.

Mr. Tracy presented a petition of William Throop. of the State of New York, praying for a grant of land, in consideration of the losses sustained by his father, Josiah Throop, as a refugee from the Province of Nova Scotia, in the Revolutionary war.

Mr. Garnsey presented a petition of Michael Hinman, of the State of New York, praying compensation for services rendered in the Army of the Revolution.

Mr. Barnard presented a petition of Francis Bents, of the State of New York, praying compensation for services rendered in the French forces in America, in the Revolutionary war.

Ordered, That these petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

On motion of Mr. Woodcock,

Ordered, That the petition of Thomas Park, presented on the 18th January, 1827, be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Hobbie presented a petition of inhabitants of Harpersfield, in Delaware county, in the State of New York;

Mr. Duncan presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Washington, in the State of Illinois;

severally praying for the establishment of post routes.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

On motion of Mr Jennings,

Ordered, That the resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, relative to the western mail route from Louisville, in Kentucky, to St. Louis. in Missouri, presented on the 25th February, 1828, be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

Mr. Weems presented a petition of the Trustees of Mount Zion meeting-house, of the Methodist church, in the county of Anne Arundel, in the State of Maryland, praying that a lien which the United States have on one acre of land attached to said meeting-house, may be released to them; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Polk presented a petition of Reuben A. Carter, of the State of Tennessee, praying that the plan invented by him, for improving the navigation of the western water courses, may be adopted and that he may be remunerated for his invention; which petition was referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

On motion of Mr. Jennings,

Ordered, That the memorial of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, for the improvement of the route laid out for the Cumberland road through that State, presented on the 20th February, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

On motion of Mr. Woods, of Ohio,

Ordered, That the petition of Matthias Roll, presented on the 31st December, 1827, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Mr. Gurley presented a petition of Charles and Joseph Cuillier, a petition of Joseph and Marie Crahand, a petition of Baptiste Le Gendre, a petition of Francois Isidore Cuillier, a petition of Alexander Fridge, a petition of Robert Hillin, and a petition of James Young, senr., all of the State of Louisiana, praying, respectively, for a confirmation of their claims to land; which petitions were referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

On motion of Mr. Smith, of Indiana,

Ordered, That the petition of Minor Thomas, presented on the 19th December, 1827, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Wing,

Ordered, That the petition of Cecille Boyer, alias Kau-che-cha-wa-qua, and the petition of Angelia Cutaw, alias Mu-ta-ma-go-quo, half-breed Indian women, presented on the 21st January, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Mr. Vinton, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to which the subject was referred, reported a bill [No. 304] to authorize the appointment of a surveyor for the Virginia Military District within the State of Ohio; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

The resolution submitted by Mr. Sawyer yesterday, and laid on the table, were read, considered, and agreed to by the House.

The resolutions submitted by Mr. Jennings yesterday, and laid on the table, was read, considered, and agreed to by the House.

The resolution submitted by Mr. Gilmer yesterday, and laid on the table, was read, considered, and agreed to by the House.

The resolution submitted by Mr. Orr yesterday, and laid on the table, was read, considered, and agreed to by the House.

The resolution submitted by Mr. Owen yesterday, and laid on the table. was read. considered, and agreed to by the House.

On motion of Mr. Bartley,

Resolved, That the petitions presented at the last session of Congress, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, praying for the lo. cation and construction of a road from Pittsburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, to some point on the south shore of Lake Michigan, be again referred to the same committee.

Mr. Conner submitted the following resolution :

Resolved, That the Committee on Manufactures be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reducing the duty on salt: Whereupon,

Mr. Woodcock demanded the question of consideration thereon. And on the question, Will the House now proceed to consider this resolution ?

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, Willis Alston, John Auderson, William Armstrong. Philip P. Barbour, Daniel L. Barringer, Burwell Bassett, Edward Bates, John Bell, Titus Brown, John H. Bryan, Daniel A. A. Buck, Churchill C. Camureleng, Samuel P. Ca. son, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Henry W. Conner, David Crockett, John Culpeper, Thomas Davenport, John Davis, Robert Desha, Clement Dorsey, William Dayton, John Floyd, of Virginia, John Floyd, of Georgia. Tomlinson Fort, Joseph Fry, Levin Gale, George R. Gilmer, Thomas H. Hall, Jonathan Harvey, Charles E. Haynes, Joseph Healy, Thomas Hinds, Gabriel Holmes, Jonathan Hunt, Jacob C. Isacks. Jonathan Jennings, Kensey Johns, jr., Joseph Lecompte, Pryor Lea, Peter Little, John Long. Wilson Lumpkin, Chittenden Lyon, John H. Marable, William McCoy, George McDuffie, Rufus McIntire, John M. Kee, Orange Merwin, Charles Miner, James C. Mitchell, Gabriel Moore, William T. Nuckolls, George W. Owen, James K. Polk, John Randolph, James W. Ripley, William C. Rives, John Roane, Augustine H. Shepperd, Michael C. Sprigg, James S. Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Wiley Thompson. James Trezvant, Daniel Turner, George C. Washington, John C. Weems, Charles A. Wickliffe, Richard H. Wilde, Ephraim K. Wilson, Joseph F. Wingate.—75. Those who voted in the negative, are,

Samuel C. Allen, Samuel Anderson, John Bailey, John Baldwin, Noyes Barber, David Barker, jr. Stephen Barlow, Daniel D. Barnard, Ichabod Bartlett, Mordecai Bartley, Isaac C. Bates, Philemon Beecher, George O. Belden, Thomas H. Blake, James Buchanan, Samuel Butman, Thomas Chilton, Lewis Condict, Richard Coulter. Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Henry Daniel, John Davenport, John J. De Graff, John D. Dickinson, Joseph Duncan, Jonas Earll, jr.. Edward Everett, James Findlay, Chauncey Forward, Daniel G. Garnsey, Benjamin Gorham, Innis Green, John Hallock, jr., Selah R. Hobbie. James L, Hodges, Michael Hoffman, Ralph J. Ingersoll, Jeromus Johnson, Richard Keese, Adam King, Joseph Lawrence, Isaac Leffler, Robert P. Letcher, John Magee, Rollin C. Mallary, Henry C. Martindale, Dudley Marvin, Lewis Maxwell, John Maynard, William McLean, Charles F. Mercer, Daniel H. Miller, Thomas P. Moore, Thomas Newton, Jeremiah O'Brien, Robert Orr, jr., Dutee J. Pearce, Elisha Phelps, Isaac Pierson, David Plant, William Ramsey, John Reed, Joseph Richardson, William Russell, Lemuel Sawyer, John Sergeant, Thomas Sinnickson, Oliver H. Smith, Peleg Sprague, William Stanberry, John B. Sterigere, Andrew Stewart, Henry R. Storrs, John G. Stower, James Strong, Samuel Swann, Benjamin Swift, Joel B. Sutherland, Thomas Taber, John W. Taylor, Phineas L. Tracy, Ebenezer Tucker, Joseph Vance, Stephen Van Rensselaer, John Varnum, Gulian C. Verplanck, Samuel F. Vinton, Aaron Ward, Thomas Whipple, jr., Elisha Whittlesey, James Wilson, John J. Wood, Silas Wood, John Woods, David Woodcock, George Wolf, Silas Wright, jr., Joel Yancey.-99.

The Speaker laid before the House the following communications, viz: I. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report on the state of the finances; which was read and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and six thousand copies thereof ordered to be printed for the use of the members of this House.

II. A letter from the Secretary of War, accompanied by a supplemental report from the officer in charge of Indian Affairs, on Indian civilization, and explanatory of the state of the annual appropriation for the promotion of that object; which letter was read, and laid on the table.

III. A letter from John Trumbull, respecting the preservation of the paintings in the Rotundo of the Capitol; which was read, and laid on the table.

The House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. P. P. Barbour reported that the committee had, according to order, had the state of the Union, generally, under consideration, particularly the bill [No. 77] establishing the Territorial Government of Huron; which bill he was directed to report to the House, with amendments.

Ordered, That the said bill do lie on the table.
And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1828.

Mr. Everett presented a petition of Israel Mead, of the State of Massachusetts, praying further compensation for services rendered as an officer in the Army of the Revolution.

Mr. John J. Wood presented a petition of George Concklin and Wm. Warner, of the city of New York, (executors of Joseph Falconer, late of said city, deceased,) and of Rebecca Williams, of New Castle, in Delaware, sister of said Falconer, praying payment of certain Revolutionary Loan Office certificates, the property of the estate of the deceased, and of the said Rebecca Williams.

Mr. Bassett presented a petition of Richard G. Morris, of the State of Virginia, praying payment of certain certificates of Revolutionary debt. Ordered, That these petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Locke presented a petition of inhabitants of the counties of Worcester and Middlesex, in the State of Massachusetts, praying for the establishment of a mail route; which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

Mr. Hunt presented a petition of Samuel Wellington, of the State of Vermont, praying for a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Military Pensions.

Mr. Garnsey presented a petition of Nathaniel Bird, of the State of New York, praying compensation for services rendered in the Army of the Revolution; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Johnson presented a petition of inhabitants, merchants, and traders, of the city of New York, praying that a duty may be imposed on certain sales at auction; which petition was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Smyth, of Virginia, presented a petition of William Kenney, of the

State of Virginia, praying payment for a horse lost in the service of the United States; which petition was referred to the Committee of Claims.

The Speaker presented a petition and memorial of Margaret C. Meade, widow and executrix of Richard W. Meade, deceased, praying for the payment of the claims of the said Richard W. Meade, arising out of his commercial transactions with the Government of Spain, heretofore presented to the House of Representatives; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Garrow presented a petition of Gartia Ray, widow of Wm. Ray, deceased, a seaman on board the frigate Philadelphia, when captured by the Tripolitans in 1803. praying to be placed on the Navy pension list of the United States; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. On motion of Mr. Wilde,

Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, for the establishment of a Navy Yard, presented on the 19th May, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Gurley presented a petition of James M. Bradford, and twentyfour others, stating that they have associated together for the purpose of removing to, and permanently settling on, the waters of the Columbia or Oregon river, within the territorial limits of the United States, as a company to hunt, trap, and trade-praying for grants of land, and other encouragement, therein set forth; which petition was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, to which is committed the bill [No. 12] to authorise the occupation of the Oregon river.

On motion of Mr. Gurley,

Ordered, That the petition of John C. Williams, presented on the 26th of March, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. On motion of Mr. Wing,

Ordered, That the petition of Amos How, presented on the 12th December, 1827, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. White,

Ordered, That the petition of the corporation of the city of Pensacola, in Florida, presented on the 19th of February, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Commerce :

That the petition of inhabitants of the Western Judicial District of Florida, for the establishment of a land office at Pensacola, presented on the 14th December, 1826, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands:

That the petition of the Legislative Council of Florida, respecting school lands, presented on the 28th of January, 1828, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands:

That the petition of inhabitants of Florida, for pre-emption rights, presented on the 11th February, 1828, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. McDuffie, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill [No. 305] for the relief of John B. Lemaitre, jr.; which was read the first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow.

Mr. Dwight, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill [No. 306] for the relief of William J. Quincy and Charles E. Quincy; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.