Sidebilder
PDF
ePub

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims

On motion of Mr. Lyon,

Ordered. That the petition of Theodore Cooksey, presented on the sd February, 1825, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Washington presented a petition of John Adlum, of the District of Columbia, praying for the patronage of the Government towards his vineyard; which petition was referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

On motion of Mr. McLean,

Ordered. That the petition of the heirs of Joseph Peirce, presented on the 19th February, 1823, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

On motion of Mr. Gurley,

Ordered, That the petition of Dorothy Wells, presented on the 14th January, 1828, and the petition of Susannah McHugh, presented on the 27th December, 1827, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Gurley presented a petition of Marcellin Bonab l, of the State of Louisiana, praying permission to register bis claim to land in the proper office; which was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Blake,

Ordered, That the memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, in relation to pre-emption rights in cases of relinquished lands, presented on the 25th of February, 1828, be referred to the Committee on th Public Lands.

Mr. Hoffman, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill [No. 310] for the relief of Elizabeth Mays; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-mor

row.

On motion of Mr. Taliaferro,

Ordered. That the report of the Committee of Claims, at the last session, on the petition of Henry Lea, be committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Wickliffe,

Ordered, That the report of the Committee of Claims, at the last session, on the petition of Thomas Wheatley, be committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the report of the same committe on the petition of Orson and Sparks.

On motion of Mr. Thompson, of Georgia,

Ordered, That the report of the Committee of Claims on the petition of Jaines Mitchell, made at the last session of Congress, be committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Strong,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of restoring Archibald Jackson, a soldier of the Revolution, to the pension roll; and, also, of allowing him the amount of his pension for the time his name was on the roll.

On motion of Mr. Butman,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending an act passed at the last session of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for opening and making a military road in the State of Maine."

Mr. McDuffie moved the following joint resolution:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the rooms under the Library, heretofore occupied by the Columbian Institute, be appropriated to the use of the Committees of Congress.

This resolution was read the first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.

Mr. Lawrence moved the following resolution :

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the propriety of prohibiting the conveyance of the mail on the Sabbath day.

This resolution being read,

Mr. Martin moved that the same be referred to the Postmaster General: When it was,

On motion of Mr. Barnard,

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

On motion of Mr. Wright. of Ohio.

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be in structed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Berlin, in Holmes county, by the way of New Bedford, in Coshocton county, and Smith's Mills, in White Eyes Plains, in Tuscarawas county, in the State of (hio.

On motion of Mr. Vance,

Resolved, That the petitions presented and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, at the last session of Congress, for a grant of land to construct a road from Belle Fontaine, in the county of Logan, to the foot of the rapids of the Maumee river; also, the petitions for aid, in land or money, to improve the road from Cincinnati to Portland, in the State of Ohio; together with the bill on the table, containing an appro priation for that object, be again referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

On motion of Mr. Vinton,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so modifying the existing laws on the subject of school lands, as to make the lands reserved within the limits of any State hereafter admitted into the Union. or of any Territory hereafter created, a common fund for the maintenance of public schools within such State or Territory.

On motion of Mr. Sprague,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law that spirituous liquors shall not hereafter be furnished by the Government to the Army, except when prescribed as a medicine by a surgeon; and of prohibiting sutlers from selling spirituous liquors to the soldiers of the Army.

Mr. Smith, of Indiana, moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table:

Resolved. That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform this House, whether any of the Indian reserve lands, lying in the State of Indiana, have been sold by the Indians to individual purchasers; and if so, to whom, and what number of sections, and for what prices: and whether the sales have been confirmed; and by what authority such purchases have been made.

On motion of Mr. Gurley,

Resolved, That the Committee on Private Land Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of confirming to Bast and Youce, Manuel Landry, and Alexander Boyd, their several claims to land in Louisiana. On motion of Mr. Sevier,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of improving the navigation of the Arkansas river, in the Territory of Arkansas.

On motion of Mr. Woodcock,

Resolved. That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of John Royal, a Revolutionary soldier, on the pension list.

On motion of Mr Strong,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing the claim of William G. Hubbell, for wages. subsistence, and expenses, as an Assistant Commissary of Forage in the Revolutionary War.

On motion of Mr. White,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting the right of pre-emption to those persons in Florida whose improvements were sold in 1825, and those included within the lands ceded to the Indians, and who would have been entitled to a pre-emption, if the sale and cession had not been made before the passage of the pre-emption law in 1826.

On motion of Mr. Owen,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Burnt Corn, in Monroe county, by Dewberry's Mills and Rabb's Store, to Brooklyn, in Conecuh county, in the State of Alabama.

On motion of Mr. Sutherland,

Resolved, That the petition and documents of Elizabeth Whitehead, referred, at the last session of Congress, to the Committee on Naval Affairs, be again referred to that committee.

Mr. Bartlett moved the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Clerk be directed to procure four thousand printed copies of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances, in addition to those already ordered by the House.

This resolution was read, and laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Owen,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting to Grace and Fuller a tract of land each, in lieu of their bounty lands, which appear to have been forfeited, or lost to them, by the laws of the State or Territory in which their bounty lands were located.

On motion of Mr. Woods, of Ohio,

Resolved. That the Committee on the Public Lands inquire into the expediency of providing that the scrip issued for money paid on land that has reverted to the United States, shall be receivable in any land office in the United States, without being limited to the State in which the scrip may be issued.

On motion of Mr. Hall,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be in

structed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Stantonsburg, in North Carolina, via Hadley's Mills, thence, by Falksbridge. to Smithfield.

An engrossed bill, [No. 305.] entitled "An act for the relief of John B. Lemaitre," was read the third time, and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate on the said bill.

An engrossed bill, [No. 28,] entitled "An act extending the term within which merchandise may be exported, with the benefit of drawback," was read the third time;

And on the question, Shall the bill pass?

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors]

Nays.

152,
28.

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

Mark Alexander, Samuel C. Allen, John Anderson, Samuel Anderson, William S. Archer, John Bailey, John Baldwin, Noyes Barber, David Barker, Jr., Stephen Barlow, Daniel D. Barnard, John Barney, Daniel L. Barringer. Ichabod Bartlett, Burwell Bassett, Isaac C. Bates, Edward Bates. Philemon Beecher, George O. Belden, John Bell, John Blair, Thomas II Blake, William L. Brent, Titus Brown, John H. Bryan. James Buchanan, Daniel A. A. Buck, Churchill C. Cambreleng, John Carter, Samuel Chase, John C. Clark, Lewis Condict, Henry W. Conner, Richard Coulter, Benjamin W. Croninshield, John Culpeper, John Davenport. John J De Graff, Robert Destia, Clement Dorsey, William Drayton. Joseph Duncan, Henry W. Dwight, Jonas Earil, Jr., Edward Everett, James Findlay, John Floyd, of Georgia, Tomlinson Fort. Chauncey Forward, Joseph Fry, Levin Gale, Ganiel D. Garnsey. Nathaniel Garrow, George R. Gilmer. Benjamin Gorham, Inn's Green, Henry it. Gorley. John fallock, Jr., Thomas H. Hall. Jonathan Harvey, Charles E. Haynes, Joseph Healy, Selah R. Hobbie, James L. Hodges, Michael Hoffman, Jonathan Hunt, Ralph J. Ingersoll. Jacob C. Isacks, Jeromus Johnson, Kensey Johns, Jr.. Richard Keese, John Leeds Kerr, Adam King, Isaac Leffler. Peter Little, John Locke, John Long. Wilson Lumpkin, John Magee, Rollin C. Mallary, John H. Marable. Henry Markell, Henry C. Martindale, William D. Martin. Dudley Marvin, Lewis Maxwell, John Maynard, William McCoy, George McDuffie. Rufus McIntire, William McLean. Orange Merwin, Daniel A. Miller, Charles Miner, John Mitchell, James C. Mitchell. Gabriel Moore, Thomas Newton. Jeremiah O'Brien, Robert Orr, Jr., George W. Owen, Dutee J. Pearce, Elisha Phelps. Isaac Pierson, David Plant, James K. Polk, William Ramsay, John Reed. Joseph Richardson, James W. Ripley, William C. Rives, William Russell, Lemuel Sawyer, John Sergeant, Augustine H. Shepperd, Thomas Sinnickson, John Sioane, Alexander Smyth. Peleg Sprague, William Stanberry. Henry R. Storrs, John G. Stower, Samuel Swann, Benjamin Swift, Joel B. Satherland, Thomas Taber, John W. Taylor, Wiley Thompson, Phineas L. Tracy, James Trezvant, Ebenezer Tucker, Daniel Turner, Joseph Vance, Stephen Van Rensselaer, John Varnum, Gulian C. Verplanck, Samuel F Vinton, Aaron Ward, George C. Washington, John C. Weems, Thomas Whipple, Jr., Elisha Whittlesey, Richard H. Wilde, James Wilson, Ephraim K. Wilson, Joseph F. Wig

gate. John J. Wood, Silas Wood, John Woods, David Woodcock, George. Wolf, Silas Wright, Jr., John C. Wright.-158.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Willis Alston, William Armstrong, John S. Barbour, Philip P. Barbour, Richard A. Buckner, John Chambers, Thomas Chilton, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Henry Daniel, Thomas Davenport, Warren R. DaDavis, Thomas Hinds, Joseph Lawrence, Joseph Lecompte, Robert P. Letcher, Chittenden Lyon, Robert McHatton, Samuel McKean, Thomas P. Moore, John Roane, Oliver H. Smith, Michael C. Sprigg, James S. Stevenson, John B. Sterigere, Starling Tucker, Charles A. Wickliffe, Joel Yancey.-28.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill.

An engrossed bill, [No. 39,] entitled "An act to continue the present mode of supplying the Army of the United States, and for other purposes appertaining to the same." was read the third time; and the question was stated, Shall the bill pass ? When it was,

On motion of Mr. Vance,

Ordered, That the further consideration of the said bill be postponed until Monday next.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Board of Internal Improvement, on the subject of the communication between the Hiwassee and Conesauga rivers, with a report from Major Armstrong upon the same subject, called for by the House on the 9th instant; which letter and accompanying documents were laid on the table.

The Speaker laid before the House another letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of the last report of C. W. Wever, superintendent of the Cumberland Road west of the river Ohio, in pursuance of the resolution of the House of the 9th instant; which letter and report were laid on the table.

The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill (No. 18] to authorize the President to erect military storehouses in the cities of New York and New Orleans; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Wilde reported the same, with amendments; which were read, and concurred in by the House.

Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to-mor

Pow.

The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill [No. 58] to ascertain and survey the northern boundary of the State of Illinois; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. McCoy reported the same, without amendment. Ordered, That the said bill do lie on the table.

And then the House adjourned.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1828.

Another member, to wit: from New York, Rudolph Bunner, appeared

and took his seat.

Mr. Cambreleng presented a petition of Joseph Sillcock. guardian of the infant children of Caleb Crew, a mariner, who served as an assistant

« ForrigeFortsett »