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Cargoes of slave ships Constitution, Louisa, etc. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting copies of the depositions of Gilbert C. Russel and Francis W. Armstrong, in relation to the cargoes of the slave ships Constitution, Louisa and Marino, etc. Rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of 5th inst. April 7, 1826. Read and referred to the Committee on the Slave Trade Franking privilege to post masters. Letter from the Post Master General, upon the subject of abolishing the privilege of franking now enjoyed by the post masters of the United States. March 17, 1826. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Memorial of the Central Committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention, and of the commissioners appointed by the States of Virginia and Maryland, and by the United States, to open books for subscription of stock to the said canal. April 3, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Slave ships Constitution, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 4th instant, in relation to the rights of certain persons to the cargoes of the slave ships Constitution, Louisa, and Marino, &c. &c. April 20, 1826. Referred to the Committee on the Slave Trade Message from the President of the United States, upon the subject of an appropriation to carry into effect a mission to Panama. March 17, 1826. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting documents accidentally overlooked in his reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th ultimo. April 5, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Commerce and navigation of the United States -- 1825. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the commerce and navigation of the United States for the year ending on the 30th September, 1825. March 31, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Expenditures -- internal improvements. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th ult., in relation to expenditures incident or relating to internal improvements for the years 1824 and 1825. April 3, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Road from Washington to New Orleans. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of the Board of Internal Improvement, upon the subject of a national road from the City of Washington to New Orleans. April 12, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Survey -- Connecticut River, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of a survey of Connecticut River, from Barnet, in Vermont, to Lake Connecticut, and, also, a canal route from Memphrymagog to Connecticut River. April 12, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Balances due by receivers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting (in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of 17th January last), a list and statement of balances due by the receivers of public moneys up to 30th September, 1825. April 13, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Juniatta, and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the engineer employed in exploring the country between Bedford and Cumberland with a view of uniting the Juniatta and Wills Creek with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. April 12, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. April 13, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Memorial of the trustees of Cumberland College, in the State of Tennessee. April 17, 1826. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Congress at Panama. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th inst., in relation to the governments which, it is expected, will be represented in or at the Congress of Panama. April 15, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Augmentation of Engineer Corps. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th ult. in relation to an augmentation of the Corps of Engineers. April 12, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Appointments from the members of Congress. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting reports from the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, and of War, and from the Postmaster General, with documents containing the list of appointments of members of Congress, &c. &c. April 25, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. Treaty with Creek Indians, &c. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a treaty with the Creek Nation of Indians. Concluded 24th January last. Also, a copy of a treaty, superseded by the same, signed at the Indian Springs on the 12th of January [i.e., February], 1825, &c. April 26, 1826. Read, and referred to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Location of Florida Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th inst. relating to the present location of the Florida Indians, their country, its soil and water, etc. April 18, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. |
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Court-martial -- Colonel Chambers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, a copy of the proceedings of a court martial for the trial of Col. Talbot Chambers, &c. May 12, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Contracts, Post Office Department, 1825. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of the contracts made by the Post Office Department for the year 1825. May 3, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Canal -- Buzzard and Barnstable Bays. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a memoir on the survey of the route of a canal to connect Buzzard and Barnstable Bays, in the State of Massachusetts, with three sheets of drawings. March 2, 1825. Read, and laid upon the table. Money advanced to a foreign minister. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the copy of an opinion of the Attorney General, in relation to the right of a foreign minister to retain money which had been advanced to him as an outfit, beyond the sum appropriated by law. April 26, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. Navy yard -- Philadelphia. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st instant, in respect to taxes imposed, or paid, on the Navy yard near the City of Philadelphia, &c. April 28, 1826. Read, and by order of the House, laid upon the table. Treaties with several tribes of Indians. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of treaties with Indian tribes which have been duly ratified during the present session of Congress. May 17, 1826. Read and laid on the table. Argument of Mr. Adams, of 5th June, 1822. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th instant, a copy of the argument of Mr. Adams, referred to by the Attorney General in his opinion dated 5th June, 1822. May 16, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Memorial of John Mason. May 13, 1826. Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. May 18, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Harbors -- Marblehead & Holmes' Hole. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 30th Jan. last respecting the improvement of the harbors of Marblehead & Holmes' Hole. May 6, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Appropriations 1st session 19th Congress. Statement of appropriations made during the first session of the Nineteenth Congress, prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 20th May, 1826. May 20, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Passengers arriving in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of passengers arriving in the United States for the fourth quarter of 1824, and the first, second, and third quarters of the year 1825. May 11, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Revenue at Key West. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th ult. in relation to the revenue which has accrued, and the amount collected, at Key West since it was made a port of entry. May 6, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Light -- Bahama Bank. Message form [i.e., from] the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th instant, in relation to a negotiation with Great Britain for a cession of certain keys on the Banks, with a view to the establishment of light houses, &c. May 19, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. Cost per mile -- road to New Orleans. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th ult, in relation to the probable cost per mile of making the road, on each of the routes lately examined, between Washington City and New Orleans. May 13, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Cumberland Road. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th instant in relation to the state of the Cumberland Road. April 29, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Deep Creek and Castleman Summits. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of the engineer employed in exploring the country, and running levels between the Deep Creek and Castleman's Summits, on the contemplated route of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. April 29, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. May 1, 1826. Ordered to be printed. Accounts. Treasurer United States. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting the accounts of his office from 1st April, 1824, to 1st April, 1825. April 20, 1826. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Emoluments of registers and receivers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting [a] statement of the annual emoluments of the registers & receivers of the several land offices of the United States, exclusive of salary, from the 20th April, 1818, to the close of the year 1824, rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th of February last. May 3, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. list of the members of the House of Representatives, at the first session of the Nineteenth Congress, and the delegates from territories, designating the place where each was born, so far as the same has been ascertained. |
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Appropriation -- slave trade. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the subject of the estimate of appropriations for the service of the year 1826. February 6, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States for the year 1826 Fire in the Library. January 4, 1826. Read: Ordered that it lie upon the table. Francis Valle et al. February 15, 1826. Road from Baltimore to Philadelphia. January 26, 1826. James Mitchel. January 12, 1826. Engineer Department. January 16, 1826. Quartermaster General Mullany. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of James R. Mullany, late colonel and division quartermaster in the Army of the United States. January 3, 1826. Site United States arsenal, Mount Dearborn, South Carolina. March 21, 1826. Representatives of John P. Cox. March 13, 1826. Samuel Angus. January 20, 1826. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the petition of Samuel Angus, made the following report: Which was read, and laid upon the table. Walley and Foster. February 24, 1826. Warner Wing. February 17, 1826. Charles Anderson and Arthur Jones. February 20, 1826. Witnesses imprisoned to secure their attendance in court. February 24, 1826. Charles Noble. January 24, 1826. Lieutenant Duncan. January 18, 1826. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Lewis Rouse. February 15, 1826. Mr. Williams, from the Committee of Claims, to which was referred the petition of Lewis Rouse, made the following report: Which was read, and laid on the table. February 16, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Joseph Strahan and others. Report of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. January 3, 1826. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the Bill No. 23, to revive and continue in force an act entitled "An Act Further To Provide for the Refugees from the British Provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia." National Road -- Cumberland to Washington. March 3, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. James Cooke. January 13, 1826. Legislature of Arkansas. February 24, 1826. School fund for the several states. February 24, 1826. John E. Dorsey. March 2, 1826. Petition of William Hollinger. March 1, 1826. Bill reported (No. 128) and committed. Administrators of Andrew Mitchell. March 3, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Navy yard -- Narraganset Bay, R.I. March 2, 1826. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which the subject had been referred, made the following report: Which was read and laid upon the table. Courts in Michigan. March 2, 1826. Wm. Mendenhall. March 3, 1826. Navy yard -- River Thames, Conn. March 2, 1826. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which the subject had been referred, made the following report: Which was read and laid upon the table. Navy yard -- Baltimore. March 2, 1826. Ordered to be laid upon the table. Daniel Fielding. March 3, 1826 Le Roy Edwards. March 4, 1826. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill for the relief of Ann D. Baylor. Certificates of further credits for land. March 7, 1826. School lands in the Illinois Grant. March 7, 1826. Nicholas Hart. March 7, 1826. Public buildings. March 17, 1826. William Benning. March 8, 1826. Edward Lee. March 8, 1826. Executors of John Kerlin, et al. March 8, 1826. Heirs of Joseph Jeans. March 8, 1826. Willie Blount. March 17, 1826. Additional naval force. March 17, 1826. National observatory. March 18, 1826. Fort Washington. March 20, 1826. Territorial taxes. March 20, 1826. Arsenal -- St. Louis. March 21, 1826. Elizabeth Keazy. January 24, 1826. Assessment law of Washington. February 22, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. John McCartney [i.e., M'Cartney]. February 15, 1826. James Hedge. February 21, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. William Thompson. February 21, 1826. Isaac Hodsdon. December 23, 1825. William Morrison. Claim of the Marquis de Maison Rouge. December 19, 1825. Representatives of G.S. Wise. December 19, 1825. Marigny Danterive [i.e., D'Auterive]. December 20, 1825. Daniel Clarke. December 22, 1825. Deaf and dumb. December 22, 1825 Joseph Shomo. December 21, 1825. Bastrop's land claim. December 20, 1825. Alterations in the hall. December 29, 1825. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Gerard and Hypolite Chretien. December 28, 1825. James Wolcott and wife. January 6, 1826. Thomas Cutts, Jun. December 28, 1825. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Virginia military land warrants. January 4, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Thomas Cooper. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary. January 3, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. Claims and titles to land in West Florida. January 6, 1826. Massachusetts militia claims. January 3, 1826. Better organization of the Quartermaster's Department. Jan. 5, 1826. Heirs of Louis De la Houssaye. January 10, 1826. Bankruptcy. January 3, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday the 16th instant. Hambly and Doyle. January 10, 1826. Michael Copp. December 30, 1825. William M. Dever. December 30, 1825. Revolutionary officers. January 3, 1826. Case of Henry Hitchcock. January 4, 1826. Eliphalet Loud, Samuel Bailey, Israel Thorndike. January 6, 1825 [i.e., 1826]. Read, and laid upon the table. Unfinished business. January 12, 1826. Mr. Moore, of Kentucky, from the Committee of Revisal and Unfinished Business, made the following report, which was read, and laid upon the table. Elizabeth Lewis. January 12, 1826. Henry Lee. January 12, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. King and Thirber [i.e., Thurber]. December 21, 1825. Mr. Owen, from the Committee of Claims, made the following report: Which was read, and laid upon the table. January 13, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Land claims between the Rio Hondo and Sabine. January 13, 1826. Exploration of the northwest coast. January 16, 1826. Isaac Pool. January 16, 1826. Military road in Michigan. January 16, 1826. John H. Mills. January 17, 1826. Election in Michigan. January 18, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Thomas C. Withers. January 20, 1826. Isaac Philips [i.e., Phillips]. January 21, 1826. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the memorial of Isaac Phillips, made the following report, which was read, and laid upon the table. Fortifications -- Pensacola Bay. January 23, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Henry Freeman. Report of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, in the case of Henry Freeman. January 4, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. January 23, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mrs. Decatur -- prize money. January 24, 1826. Mr. Holcombe, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made the following report. Accompanied by a bill for the relief of Susan Decatur, widow, and representative of Captain Stephen Decatur, and others. Library fire-proof. Report of the Library Committee of the House, on the subject of rendering the library room fire-proof. February 6, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. John Adams. January 27, 1826. Road -- Cantonment Gibson to Natchitoches. February 8, 1826. United States arsenal in Georgia. March 9, 1826. Government of Florida. January 26, 1826. On the state of the finances. Mr. McLane, of Del., from the Committee of Ways and Means, made the following report. February 6, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Marigny D'Anterive [i.e., D'Auterive]. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Marigny D'Anterive [i.e., D'Auterive]. January 30, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Wilkins Tannehill. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the bill from the Senate for the relief of Wilkins Tannehill. February 3, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Daniel Davis. January 31, 1826. Washington Turnpike Road Company. January 30, 1826. February 9, 1826. Read, and, with the bill therein mentioned, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Polk, from the select committee to which the subject was referred, made the following report: The select committee, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of the State of Tennessee, asking a relinquishment of the title of the United States to certain vacant lands therein described... Ann D. Baylor. January 26, 1826. Thomas H. Bradford. January 13, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. February 6, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. John Steinman and others. February 1, 1826. Bounty lands unfit for cultivation. January 27, 1826. Samuel B. Crocket. February 2, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Daniel Steinrod. January 27, 1826. School lands -- Michigan. March 10, 1826. Inhabitants of the Province of East Florida. March 10, 1826. Interest to the State of Maryland. March 13, 1826. William L.D. Ewing. March 13, 1826. Improvement of the navigation of the Kennebec River. March 14, 1826. Process of execution -- United States' courts. February 13, 1826. Luther Chapin. February 13, 1826. Phinehas Underwood. February 14, 1826. Daniel Seward. February 17, 1826. Revolutionary pensioners. February 17, 1826. Michigan election. February 13, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Nahum Ward. March 3, 1826. Penelope Denny. December 19, 1825. Isidore Moore. February 24, 1826. Robert Brooke [i.e., Brook]. February 20, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Elbert Anderson. March 10, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Land claims in Michigan. February 14, 1826. Relating to settlers on the public lands. January 18, 1826. Lands -- St. Helena and Jackson, C.H. Districts. March 17, 1826. Asa Herring. March 10, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. |
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Francis Larche. April 20, 1826. Read, and laid on the table Lieutenant Isaac M'Keever [i.e., McKeever]. April 3, 1826 Mr. Owen's motion -- case of Francis Larche. April 22, 1826. Read, and ordered to lie on the table Gabriel W. Perpall. May 15, 1826. Read and laid upon the table Mr. Wickliffe's resolutions. December 12, 1825. Read, and laid upon the table. Against amending the Constitution. February 24, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union Road from Buffalo to Hanover. May 17, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Richard W. Meade. Processes in courts U.S. May 17, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Slave trade. February 14, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table To amend the Constitution. Mr. Powell submitted the following resolution. February 21, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. James Ross. May 3, 1826. Read, and referred to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. To amend the Constitution. March 7, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Statue of Washington. April 28, 1826. Internal improvements. Mr. Mercer's resolutions to provide a fund for internal improvement, and rules for its application. April 25, 1826. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Amendment of the Constitution. February 16, 1826. Mr. Garnsey submitted the following resolution: Which was read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Nathaniel Childers. January 20, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. March 12, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Alexander M'Nish, and al. April 1, 1826. Mr. Wood, from the Committee on Military Pensions, made the following report: Read and laid upon the table. Report of Commodore Porter's trial. Mr. Weems submitted the following for consideration. February 22, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. John Good. March 25, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. To amend the Constitution. February 24, 1826. To amend the Constitution. February 24, 1826. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. To amend the Constitution. February 24, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Amendment of the Constitution. February 24, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Resolutions to amend the Constitution. February 24, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Preservation of the Cumberland Road. March 27, 1826. James Monroe. March 23, 1826. Richard W. Steele. March 27, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. To amend the Constitution. April 4, 1826. April 6, 1826. Mr. Cambreleng, from the select committee, to which the petitions from the institutions of New York and Pennsylvania for the instruction of the deaf and dumb had been referred, made the following report... John A. Webster. March 25, 1826. Fixing the time of adjournment. March 27, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Mission to Panama. April 4, 1826. Petition of Mary James. April 4, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. John Valery Delassize. April 6, 1826. George Merchant. March 28, 1826. Moses Shepherd. March 22, 1826. Public buildings. March 22, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Unclaimed dividends. March 25, 1826. Elizabeth Kramer. April 10, 1826. William King. April 7, 1826. In the House of Representatives of the United States, April 7, 1826. The House being in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and having under consideration the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs upon the subject of the contemplated mission to the Congress of Panama, Mr. Markley submitted the following resolutions... Canal -- Lake Michigan to Illinois River. March 30, 1826. Mission to Panama. March 25, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Samuel Youngs. March 30, 1826. Jacob Butler. March 22, 1826. In the House of Representatives of the United States, April 3d, 1826. The following resolution being under consideration in the Committee of the Whole House upon the State of the Union, viz: Resolved, that, in the opinion of the House, it is expedient to appropriate the funds necessary to enable the President of the United States to send ministers to the Congress of Panama... Gilbert C. Russell. March 31st, 1826. Foreign bills of exchange. March 22, 1826. Petition of Sarah Chitwood. April 4, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Arsenal Watervliet -- New York. March 31, 1826. Ludlow and Roberts' lines -- Ohio. March 28, 1825 [i.e., 1826]. Amendment to the Constitution. April 3, 1826. Survey -- canal route -- Olean Point to Erie Canal. April 4, 1826. Road from Detroit to Lake Michigan. March 28, 1826. George Johnston and others. April 12, 1826. Survey of canal routes -- Mississippi and Louisiana. April 14, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Post route -- Litchfield to Norfolk, Con. April 14, 1826. Intercourse with foreign nations. April 12, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Elizabeth Morgan. April 12, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Sewall, Williams & Co., and G. & W. Bangs & Co. April 14, 1826. Benjamin Woodworth. April 17, 1826. Business to be acted upon. April 25, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Alexander McNish. April 21, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Resolution, submitted by Mr. Livingston. April 25, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Discriminating duties -- Hamburg. April 25, 1826. Remains of the late Capt. O.H. Perry. May 4, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. James May. April 26, 1826. Sewall, Williams, & Co. April 28, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill for the remission of duties on certain goods destroyed by fire. Samuel A. Ruddock. April 26, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. John Peters and Sabine Pond. April 27, 1826. Mulberry -- silk worm. May 2, 1826. Commissioner of Public Buildings. May 3, 1826. William H. Bassett. May 4, 1826. Daniel Steinrod. May 2, 1826. Caleb Stark. May 4, 1826. Read and laid on the table. General Moses Hazen. May 4, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Francis Preston. May 5, 1826. Revolutionary pensioners. May 5, 1826. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill authorizing certain persons to be placed on the list of Revolutionary pensioners. Invalid pensioners. May 5, 1826. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill concerning invalid pensioners. Proposition to amend the Constitution. Mr. Haynes submitted the following resolutions. February 22, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Suppression of the slave trade. May 22, 1826. Read, and ordered to be printed Canal to connect Lakes Champlain and Ontario. May 22, 1826. Read: Ordered that it be printed. Additional executive department. May 22, 1826. Isaac Ricker. May 9, 1826. Roads -- Black Swamp to Cumberland, & Pittsburg to Rapids of Miami, of Lake Erie. May 15, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Pedro Miranda. May 8, 1826. Samuel Chesnut. May 5, 1826. May 9, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. Mr. Forsyth, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to which had been referred the petition of Archibald Gracie, of John F. Dumas, of Samuel Hays, of Oliver Keating, and of citizens of Newburyport, upon the subject of depredations by France, Holland, Naples, and Denmark, made the following report... Ira Allen. May 16, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Canal around Muscle Shoals. May 15, 1826. Richard Key -- Insurance Company of Baltimore, and Robert E. Griffith, et al. May 9, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. William Legg and James Feland. May 15, 1826. Judiciary system United States. May 12, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. On altering election laws. May 16, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. Heirs of Caron de Beaumarchais. May 16, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Increase Marine Corps. May 6, 1826. Canal -- Tennessee and Coosa Rivers. May 16, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal -- extension of. May 16, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. Edmund Brooke. May 19, 1826. Colonel Chambers. May 20, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. Henry Bedinger. May 16, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Northwest coast of America. May 15, 1826. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to authorize the establishment of a military post or posts within the territory of the United States on the Pacific Ocean, and to provide for the exploration of its coasts and waters Excise on domestic spirits &c. May 19, 1826. Read, and the resolution therein contained concurred in by the House. Walker K. Armistead. May 8, 1826. Read; and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. John Burton, and al. May 10, 1826. Intercourse with the Indians. May 20th, 1826. Read and laid upon the table. May 9, 1826. Mr. Burges, from the Committee on Military Pensions, to which the subject had been referred, made the following report: The Committee on Military Pensions, on a more equitable construction of the several laws "providing for persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War," report: The law made and passed on the 18th day of March, Anno Domini 1818... Bird and Abraham Smith. May 12, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. To hold a treaty with the Seneca Indians. May 13, 1826. Surviving officers of the Revolutionary Army. May 8, 1826. Canal -- Boston Harbor to Narraganset (sic) Bay. May 15, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Mission to Panama. Mr. Miner's resolutions. January 25, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. Amendment of the Constitution. February 16, 1826. To amend the rules. February 16, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Amendment of the Constitution. February 20, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Dorsey submitted the following as an amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Amendment of the Constitution. February 20, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Bailey & Rinker. March 22, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. April 21, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Petition of Moses Smith. April 21, 1826. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mission to Panama. April 18, 1826. Jno. Ab. Willink. May 2, 1826. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. May 22, 1826. Amendment to Constitution. Mr. Mitchell's (of Tenn.) resolution. December 13, 1825. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Motion of Mr. McDuffie to amend the Constitution. December 9, 1825. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Webster's proposition to amend the rules. December 12, 1825. Read, and laid on the table until tomorrow. Canal in Florida. Mr. Webster's resolution. December 19, 1825. Read, and laid upon the table. Benjamin Wells. Internal improvements. Mr. Bailey's resolutions proposing to amend the Constitution of the United States in relation to internal improvements. December 13, 1825. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Internal improvements. Resolution submitted by Mr. Test. December 27, 1825. Read, and laid upon the table. Amendment to the Constitution. Mr. Cook's resolution. December 29, 1825. Read and laid upon the table. Consolidating revenue laws. January 18, 1826. Mr. Livingston submitted the following resolution, which was read, and laid upon the table. February 6, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Resolution, submitted by Mr. Clarke [i.e., Clark], of Kentucky. Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill providing that no final judgment, or decree, shall be pronounced by the Supreme Court of the United States, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States... Mr. Talliaferro [i.e., Taliaferro] -- to amend the rules. February 6, 1826. Ordered to lie one day. Amendment to the Constitution -- senators. February 14, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Land to officers of the late war. May 17, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Amendment to the Constitution. March 8, 1826. To amend the Constitution. February 22, 1826. Ephraim Sutton. April 18, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Daniel Loomis. March 21, 1826. John Eustace. April 18, 1826. Amendment to the Constitution. Mr. Phelps's proposition of amendment to the Constitution of the United States in relation to the election of President and Vice President of the United States. January 11, 1826. Read twice and laid on the table. Amendment to the Constitution. March 3, 1826. With Bill No. 263. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of Benedict Joseph Flaget, Bishop of Bardstown, in the State of Kentucky. May 10, 1826. Mission to Panama. April 11, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Baltimore -- vessels sunk for defence of. April 17, 1826. Amendments to the Constitution. February 24, 1826. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. |
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Report of the Secretary of War, in relation to the number of white persons residing on Chickasaw and Choctaw lands. Rendered in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 25th ult. February 1, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 26, 1827. Mr. Cobb made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hickman Johnson, guardian of Juliet Eliza Sollers, report: That, from the testimony submitted with the petition, it appears that the said Juliet Eliza Sollers, on the 11th September, 1814, was owner of a farm on Patapsco River, below and near Baltimore... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1827. Mr. Hendricks, from the Select Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom were referred a resolution of the Senate and two memorials of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, on the subject of a canal communication between the navigable waters of the Wabash and those of the Miami of Lake Erie... List of committees of the Senate of the United States, Nineteenth Congress, second session, 1826-'7. Report from the Secretary of the Senate, showing the expenditures of the contingent fund of the Senate for the year 1826. December 4, 1826. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual report on the state of the finances. December 13, 1826. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the land debtors in Alabama. December 22, 1826. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 22, 1826. Mr. Robbins, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Oliver and others, directors of an association called the New England Mississippi Land Company, &c. reported as follows... Memorial and petition of Francis Henderson and Francis Henderson, Jun. on behalf of themselves and family, heirs and representatives of John Laurens, deceased. December 21, 1826. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Legislature of Illinois on the subject of the public lands in that state. January 12, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In the Senate of the United States, January 23, 1827. Mr. Benton made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the petition of William M. Sneed, report: That, upon careful examination of the petition and accompanying papers, it appears that a certain Lieutenant Archibald Sneed... Memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, asking for a grant of land to aid said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with the Illinois River. February 7, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 7, 1827. Mr. Chambers made the following report: The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was assigned, by a resolution of the Senate of the 15th ultimo, the duty of inquiring "into the expediency of releasing the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, from certain obligations contracted with the late Secretary of the Treasury, amounting to $25,958.12..." In Senate of the United States, February 6, 1827. Mr. Benton made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred so much of the President's message as related to the non-execution, in part, of the act of March 2d, 1821, entitled, "An Act To Reduce and Fix the Military Peace Establishment of the United States..." Memorial of the inhabitants of the State of Georgia in relation to depredations committed by the Creek Indians prior to the year 1802. February 1, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report in relation to the execution of the treaty of October 18, 1820, with the Choctaw Nation of Indians. In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 18th ultimo. February 2, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1827. Mr. Johnston, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee of Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of the inhabitants of Wilmington, North Carolina, report: That the inhabitants of Wilmington, North Carolina, represent that the navigation of the Cape Fear River is so obstructed... Letter from the Third Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate passed on the 16th instant, a report of his proceedings in relation to payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed while in the service of the U. States. January 25, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of merchants and traders of New York, in relation to spoliations of their commerce. January 26, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1827. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to commerce, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report: That, by the British Order in Council, of July last, the commercial intercourse between the United States and the British West India colonies is interdicted, and the American navigation excluded from all participation in the trade between them... In Senate of the United States, January 18, 1827. Ordered to be printed. Documents relating to Senate Bill No. 63, for the relief [of] Samuel Gilbert... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1827. Mr. Cobb made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Brunson, report: That the petitioner states that in the year 1813, during the war between the United States and Great Britain, he was a merchant and the owner of a house and store... In Senate of the United States, January 3, 1827. Mr. Woodbury, from the Committee on Commerce, to which the subject had been referred, made the following report: The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of the Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia, concerning an artificial harbor or breakwater at the mouth of Delaware Bay... Memorial of sundry citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, representing the necessity of passing a general bankrupt law. January 4, 1827. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States, December 26, 1826. Mr. Cobb, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the bill from the House of Representatives entitled " An Act for the Relief of John M'Cartney," reported: That from an examination of the petition and documents submitted to them with the bill, it appears that in the year 1817 the petitioner was a citizen of Madison County, in the Territory of Alabama... In Senate of the United States, January 8, 1827. Mr. Hendricks, from the Select Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, praying for an appropriation to aid in opening a passage for vessels over the bar at the east pass of the mouth of Pascagoula River... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Governor of Georgia, with accompanying documents. February 8, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1827. Mr. Van Buren made the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, upon the petition of George Wilson, report: That George Wilson, of Tennessee, claims payment at the Treasury Department for half the amount of certain transportation accounts... In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1827. Mr. Johnson, of Ky., made the following report: The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the bill for the relief of Nathaniel Patten, report: That the petitioner sets forth that he was postmaster in the Town of Franklin, in the State of Missouri in and about the year 1820; in which year a considerable sum of money, amounting to about eight hundred dollars, received for postage... Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia on the subject of militia claims. January 11, 1827. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States, January 16, 1827. Mr. Smith, of Maryland, made the following report: The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the petition of Parke Walton, made thereon the following report: That, sometime in the year 1819, it appears that Parke Walton, before and at that time receiver of public monies for the district west of Pearl River, in the State of Mississippi, received, in his official character, and in payment for the public lands... Memorial of delegates of St. Lawrence County, N.Y., praying countervailing measures against the late acts of the British Parliament regulating commercial intercourse, &c. January 24, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Legislature of Indiana in relation to the sale of public lands. January 29, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In the Senate of the United States, February 2, 1827. Mr. Johnson, of Ky., made the following report, which was concurred in by the Senate. The committee to whom has been referred the subject of carrying the mail by steamboats, from Cincinnati or Louisville to New-Orleans, present the letter of the Postmaster General... In Senate of the United States, January 26, 1827. Documents relating to Senate Bill 75, for the relief of Haley and Harris. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of the last session of Congress to hold treaties with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, for the purpose of extinguishing their claims to lands within the State of Mississippi. January 15, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 15, 1827. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Gulledge, of Pike County, in the State of Mississippi, made the following report: That it appears to the Committee, not only from the petition and affidavit of the said Thomas Gulledge, but likewise from the affidavits of Thomas Hamilton and James Ellis, that some time in the month of March, in the year 1821, the said Thomas Gulledge made a written application to the Register of the land office... In Senate of the United States, January 11, 1827. Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, made the following report: The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate, instructing them to examine into the expediency of increasing the salary of the Postmaster General... In Senate of the United States, January 25, 1827. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred "A Bill for the Relief of Elihu Hall Bay and Others, Confirming Grants of Land in the District West of Pearl River, Derived from the British Government of West Florida, and Not Subsequently Granted by Spain or the United States," made the following report... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1827. Mr. Reed submitted the following motions: Resolved, that the Secretary of War be directed to report to the Senate the number of white persons, as near as may be, resident upon the territories occupied by the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes of Indians... In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1827. Mr. Marks made the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of J.S. Barney, administrator of the late Colonel George W. Evans, Deputy Quarter Master General, in the brigade of Georgia militia, in the service of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 25, 1827. Mr. Hendricks made the following report: The Select Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the subject of a road from Lake Michigan, by way of Indianapolis, to the Ohio River, report... Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, on the subject of land titles in that state derived from the French and Spanish governments. February 5, 1827. Printed by order the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures for the construction and repair of the Cumberland Road, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of May last. January 10, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 8, 1827. Mr. Holmes made the following report: The select committee, to whom was referred the petitions of Joseph Emerson and many others, praying to be remunerated for losses sustained by captures and other injuries under authority of the French Republic, ask leave to make the following report... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report relative to the result of an assay of foreign coins, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate. January 18, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Statement in relation to the lead mines and salt springs in Missouri. Laid before the Senate by the Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands. December 27, 1826. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, praying Congress to enable the state to open a canal through the bar at East Pass, mouth of Pascagoula River. December 13, 1826. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. |
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In Senate of the United States, February 14, 1827. Mr. Smith, of Maryland, made the following report: The committee appointed by the Senate to join the committee selected on the part of the House of Representatives to report what subjects it is necessary to act upon, at the present session, and in what order it is expedient to take such subjects into consideration... In Senate of the United States, February 13, 1827. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of James Moore, of Mississippi, made the following report: That it appears to the satisfaction of the Committee, by the petition and affidavit of the said James Moore, and by the corroborating testimony of one of the Committee (who has some knowledge upon the subject), that the petitioner and the other heirs of Alexander Moore, deceased, have claims to land in West Florida... Duties on imports. Memorial of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, adverse to the passage of the bill imposing duties on imports. February 22, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Report from the Secretary of War, with abstract of licenses granted by superintendents and agents of Indian affairs to trade with the Indians during the year ending the first of September, 1827. February 8, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 16, 1827. Mr. Eaton laid the following letter on the table, which was ordered to be printed. The undersigned, agent of the United States for defending the suits in ejectment, Duncan McArthur vs. John Reynolds, and the said McArthur vs. Henry Vanmetre, now pending before the Court of Common Pleas of Champaign County, Ohio, for the recovery of land in the valley of the Great Miami River... In Senate of the United States, February 23, 1827. Mr. Johnston, of Louisiana, made the following report: The Committee of Commerce, to whom was referred the petition of N. Potts and Samuel Clement, assignees of Jacob Clement, have had the same under consideration, and report: The claimants demand indemnity from the government for the injury and damages sustained by the seizure and detention of their vessels... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the purchases and sales of the public lands since the declaration of independence. February 16, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting information respecting the cost of, and expenditures at, the several Navy yards; in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of January 17. February 12, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 15, 1827. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred the petition of the representatives of William Scott, deceased, with the accompanying documents, made the following report: That, on the 26th day of April, 1787, William Scott, the ancestor of the petitioners, preferred (i.e., proffered) his petition to the Governor of Louisiana, for the grant of a tract of land... Memorial of sundry citizens of Portsmouth, N.H., on the subject of their claims against France for injuries sustained since A.D. 1806. February 12, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, adverse to the bill for altering the duties on imports. February 19, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 14, 1827. Mr. Bateman made the following report: The Committee of Claims, to which has been referred the petition of Daniel Renner, report: That the petitioner, as the responsible partner of the firm of Renner and Heath, was, at the period of the late war, proprietor of a rope walk... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, relating to public lands in Missouri and Illinois which are unfit for cultivation, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of 4th April, 1826. February 14, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, against the proposed law increasing the duties on woollen goods imported from abroad. February 22, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 13, 1827. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Public Lands, to which was referred the petition of Joseph Dunbar, receiver of public money in the district west of Pearl River, State of Mississippi, made the following report: That it appears to the satisfaction of the Committee, that when the said Joseph Dunbar entered upon the duties of his office, as such receiver of public money, the books of his office were very much in arrear... Resolutions of the State of Alabama, in relation to the system for the disposal of the public lands. February 12, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of citizens of Logan County in the State of Ohio. February 12, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 12, 1827. Mr. Sanford made the following report: The Committee of Foreign Relations having considered the memorial of certain merchants of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, the memorial of certain merchants of the City of New York, the memorial of certain merchants of the City of Philadelphia, and the memorial of certain merchants of the City of Baltimore, submit their report: The memorialists have claims upon the government of France... Memorial of the citizens of Portsmouth, N.H., respecting the construction of a dry dock at the Navy yard at that place. February 13, 1827. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the commerce and navigation of the United States during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1826. February 26, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, in relation to a provision in lands for the disbanded officers of the late Army of the United States. March 3, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of inhabitants of Boston and its vicinity, adverse to an increase of duty on imported woollen goods. February 26, 1827. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In the Senate of the United States, March 1, 1827. The Committee to whom was referred the several messages of the President of the United States, of the 5th and 8th February, and a report and certain resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia, ask leave to make the following report... |
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Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Nineteenth Congress. December 5, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. list of reports to be made to the House of Representatives at the second session of the Nineteenth Congress by the executive departments. Prepared by the Clerk, in obedience to a standing order of the House of Representatives. December 4, 1826. |
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Florida Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of May last in relation to the Florida Indians. December 18, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs Negotiations with Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by resolutions of the House of Representatives, relating to certain negotiations with the government of the United Mexican States. December 28, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table Road -- Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives, in relation to the construction of a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson. December 22, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Lead mines -- Illinois and Missouri. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 8th May last, in relation to the lead mines belonging to the United States in the states of Illinois and Missouri. December 8, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War with that of the Board of Engineers, for internal improvement concerning the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. December 7, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Contingent expenses of the Navy -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of the expenditures on account of the contingent expenses of the Navy during the year ending September 30, 1826. January 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Patents for useful inventions in 1826. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of persons to whom patents have been issued for the invention of any new or useful art, or machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any improvement thereon, from Jan. 1st, 1826, to Jan. 1st, 1827. January 8, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Burning frigate Philadelphia at Tripoli. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, the names of the officers and seamen on board the ketch Intrepid in the attack on the frigate Philadelphia in the year 1804, in the harbor of Tripoli. December 8, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Contingent expenses H. Representatives. Annual report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, of the names of the clerks, messengers, &c. in the service of the House, and of the expenditure of the contingent fund of 1826. December 6, 1826. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Donations by Indians to government agents. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives, respecting proposed donations of land by Indian tribes to any agent or commissioner of the United States. December 8, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. State of the finances. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual reports on the state of the finances. December 13, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Indian affairs. Message from the President of the United States, communicating sundry papers relating to Indian affairs. December 11, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. West's paintings. Letter from the sons of Benjamin West, deceased, late president of the Royal Academy of London, offering to sell the government of the United States sundry paintings of that artist. December 11, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Public buildings. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the annual statement of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, of the expenditure on the same, and of the progress of the said buildings. December 8, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Expenditures on the Public Buildings. Road -- Washington to Buffalo. Survey -- Roanoke Inlet, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information in relation to routes for a national road from Washington City to Buffalo; also, information respecting the progress in fulfillment of the act of the last session of Congress authorizing a survey of Roanoke Inlet and Sound. December 18, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Road -- Cumberland to District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report upon the subject of an extension of the National Road from Cumberland to the District of Columbia. December 18, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Survey of the harbor of Baltimore. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report on the survey of the harbor of Baltimore. December 18, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Canal -- Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information relative to making a canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. December 12, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Road through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Chief Engineer, in relation to the road through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. December 20, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Sheep's wool on the skin. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury; transmitting information in relation to the importation of sheep's wool on the skin. Rendered in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th instant. December 20, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Manufacturers. Survey of lands in Mississippi and Louisiana south of 31st degree of latitude. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 19th inst., in relation to a survey of the lands lying south of the 31st degree of latitude in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. December 26, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Cases of shipwreck, loss, and disaster within the Bay of Delaware, &c. by vessels being driven into, or out thereof, by storm or by ice, &c. December 28, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Fortifications at Charleston, S.C. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information (in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th inst.), upon the subject of the works intended for the defense of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina. December 22, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Fortifications for Pensacola. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report respecting plans and estimates of fortifications contemplated for Pensacola. January 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Post Office clerks. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of the number of clerks employed in the Post Office Department during the year 1826, with their names and salaries. January 3, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Road -- Zanesville to Columbus. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report on the subject of the National Road between Zanesville and Columbus. January 3, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Proceedings of the Congress of Panama. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in relation to the proceedings of the congress which assembled last summer at Panama, &c. December 26, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Removal of the Indians westward. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th Dec. last, information in relation to the disposition of the several tribes of Indians to emigrate west of the Mississippi. January 3, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Clerks -- Navy Department -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the names of the clerks employed in the Navy Department during the year 1826, and the compensation allowed to each. January 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Trade with Great Britain. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting (pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 19th inst.) a copy of the three articles marked A, referred to in the protocol of the third conference of the American and British plenipotentiaries on the fifth of February, 1824. December 22, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Navy contracts for 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of contracts made by the Department during the year 1826. January 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. British colonial trade. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting extracts of a letter from the minister of the United States at London, relating to the late discussions with the government of Great Britain concerning the trade between the United States and the British colonies in America. December 18, 1826. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. |
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Stockbridge Indians. Extracts of letters upon the subject of the present condition of the Stockbridge Indians. January 8, 1827. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Statutes of the British Parliament, in relation to the colonial trade; to which are appended the acts of Congress on the same subject. December 19th, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Appropriation for the Capitol. Estimate of money necessary for continuing the work upon the Capitol for the year 1827. January 15, 1827. Laid before the House of Representatives, and ordered to be printed. Convention with Great Britain. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of a convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed on the 13th of Nov. last at London, providing for the payment of citizens of the U. States for claims arising under the first article of the Treaty of Ghent. January 16, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Compensation to Surveyor General, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement shewing the compensation to the Surveyor General, and other surveyors, &c. for the years 1824, 1825, and part of 1826. January 17, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Estimates of appropriations for 1827. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the estimates of appropriations necessary for the service of the year 1827. January 4, 1827. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Encroachments on Choctaw lands. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 20th ultimo, in relation to encroachments by white men upon lands ceded to the Choctaw Indians in the Territory of Arkansas. January 8, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Memorial of sundry merchants of the City of Philadelphia upon the subject of spoliations committed under the authority or decrees of the government of France. January 8, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Postage accruing in the U.S. -- 1826. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of the nett amount of postage accruing at each post office, in each state and territory, for one year ending 31st March, 1826. January 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia, on the subject of militia claims. January 8, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Contingent expenses -- military -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement shewing the expenditures of the money appropriated for the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1826. January 10, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Clerks -- Treasury Department, 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement shewing the names of the clerks of the Treasury Department during the year 1826, and the compensation allowed to each. January 13, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Patent Office. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 19th ult. upon the subject of the organization of the Patent Office. January 13, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Quapaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th ultimo, in relation to the present condition of the Quapaw Nation of Indians. January 10, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Navy hospitals. Report of the commissioners of naval hospitals, upon the state of their funds. January 15, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Navy Pension Fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the annual report in relation to the Navy Pension Fund. Prepared in compliance with the act of Congress, of 23d April, 1800. January 12, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Clerks -- Department of War. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of the clerks in the Department of War during the year 1826, and the salary allowed to each. January 10, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Fortifications on Staten Island. Message from the President of the United States, with sundry documents, relating to a proposition by the State of New York to sell to the government of the U. States the fortifications erected by said state on Staten Island. January 15, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Brevet rank and pay. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Second and Third Auditors, and of the Adjutant General, in relation to brevet rank conferred since 1821, and payments made to officers in consequence thereof. January 8, 1827. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the City Council of Charleston, S. Carolina, praying that a marine hospital be erected at that port for accommodation of sick and disabled seamen, etc. January 18, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. December 20, 1826. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. January 9, 1827. Bill reported -- No. 356. Monthly statements Bank U. States for 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the monthly statements of the Bank of the United States, rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the third instant. January 9, 1827. Read and laid upon the table. Impressment of seamen from American vessels. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, relating to the impressment of seamen from on board American vessels since 18th February, 1815. January 15, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. |
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Mayor and Council of Georgetown, D.C. Representation and resolution of the Mayor and Council of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, upon the subject of a bill reported to the House of Representatives entitled "A Bill Concerning Free People of Color, in the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia." February 1, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which the above bill is committed Memorial of merchants and traders of New York, in relation to spoliations on their commerce. January 29, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Memorial of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States. January 29, 1827. Referred to a select committee Breakwater Delaware Bay. Statement, showing the value of vessels and their cargoes bound into the Delaware between 28th December, 1826, and 15th January, 1827, which were compelled to go to sea, or to seek precarious shelter elsewhere. January 29, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Prohibition of the slave trade. Statement showing the expenditure of the appropriation for the prohibition of the slave trade during the year 1826, and an estimate for 1827. January 30, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States Foreign wool imported. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th ultimo, in relation to the quantity of foreign wool and woolen manufactures imported during the last two years, &c. &c. &c. February 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Report and resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia with accompanying documents. January 23, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Memorial of the General Assembly of Missouri, relative to relief of inhabitants of New Madrid County, in that state, who suffered by earthquakes, &c. January 29, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Barracks, store houses, hospitals, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting to the Chairman of the Military Committee, a report of the Quartermaster General upon the subject of barracks, storehouses, hospitals, &c. January 25, 1827. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Military Committee, and ordered to be printed. Woollen manufactures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information in relation to woollen manufactures imported in the several years between the 30th September, 1820, and the 30th September, 1826, &c. January 25, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Woollen manufacturers. Report of a committee of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts, on the subject of woollen manufacturers, &c. February 1, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Duties on woollen goods. Statements in relation to existing and proposed duties on woollen goods. January 30, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Marine hospital -- sick and disabled seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th instant, in relation to the amount received and expended for the relief of sick and disabled seamen from the year 1819 to the year 1826, &c. January 29, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Discriminating duties -- government of the Netherlands. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State, with copies of a correspondence with the government of the Netherlands relating to discriminating duties. January 19, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Cavalry tactics. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a system of cavalry tactics, or, rules for the exercises and maneuvers of the cavalry of the militia of the United States. January 8, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Militia. |
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Expenditure -- naval appropriation 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing the appropriations for the naval service for the year 1826, and the expenditure of the same. February 9, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Clerks -- Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of the clerks employed in his office and in the Patent Office during the year 1826, and the compensation allowed to each. February 9, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. An act to amend the act of incorporation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. February 8, 1827. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the "Bill Authorizing a Subscription to the Stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company." National Road -- Wheeling to Missouri. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports and drawings relative to the National Road, from Wheeling to the seat of government in the State of Missouri. February 3, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. French and other spoliations. Memorial of merchants and others, of the State of Rhode Island, in relation to spoliations committed on the commerce of the United States by vessels of war of France and other European nations. February 5, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. French and other spoliations. Petition of merchants of Baltimore, upon the subject of spoliations on the commerce of the United States. February 5, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Florida Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee of Indian Affairs, transmitting information in relation to the condition of the Indians in Florida. February 7, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Friendly Creek Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, on the resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Georgia, in relation to the suffering condition of the friendly Creek Indians, etc. which had been referred to him by the House of Representatives to report thereon. February 6, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Memorial of inhabitants of New Bedford, Dartmouth, &c. against reducing the duty on salt. January 29, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. February 6, 1827. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Survey of Kennebec River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of a survey of Kennebec River, in the State of Maine. January 26, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Memorial of sundry inhabitants of Massachusetts, praying that the duty on imported salt may not be repealed. January 23, 1827. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Annual report of the Commissioner of the Sinking Fund. February 7, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Licenses to trade with Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an abstract of licenses granted to trade with the Indians. February 8, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Surveys -- roads and canals. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting (to the Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals), a statement exhibiting the number and designation of the examinations and surveys which have been made with a view to the construction of roads and canals. February 7, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Fortifications -- Pensacola harbor. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report from the Engineer Department, in relation to the contemplated fortification of Pensacola harbor. February 9, 1827. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. The survey of the Creek lands. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Governor of Georgia, with accompanying documents, in relation to the proceeding of certain Indians in said state. February 9, 1827. Read, and referred to a select committee. Letter from G. Davis, Surveyor of Mississippi, to Mr. Haile, of the House of Representatives. February 8, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Miscellaneous claims -- contracts Revenue Service, sick seamen, and contracts for oil, light-houses, &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements shewing: 1. Payments made at the Treasury during the year 1826 for the discharge of miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for; 2. Contracts made for Revenue Service during the year 1825; 3. Of expenditures on account of sick and disabled seamen; and, 4. Of contracts made relative to oil, light-houses, light-vessels, beacons, buoys, &c. February 13, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information respecting the surveys of roads and canals, and of their relative importance. February 19, 1827. Read, and laid on the table. Improvement in hall of House of Reps. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report of the Board of Inspection, appointed 19th of May last, in relation to improvements of the hall of the House of Representatives, U.S. &c. &c. February 12, 1827. Referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings. Road -- Baltimore to Philadelphia. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of General Bernard, of surveys of routes for a post road from Baltimore to Philadelphia. February 12, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Report -- Director of the Mint. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Director of the Mint, and a statement of its operations during the year 1826. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Canal -- Barnstable to Buzzard's Bay. Letter from the Secretary of War, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d of Jan. last. Requiring an estimate of the expense of making a canal between Barnstable and Buzzard's Bays. February 13, 1827. Read and laid on the table. Amend the Constitution. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, upon the subject of amending the Constitution in relation to the election of President of the United States. February 20, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Bulfinch on penitentiaries. Report of Charles Bulfinch, on the subject of penitentiaries. February 13, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Duty on imported salt. Remonstrance of inhabitants of Provincetown, in the State of Massachusetts, against a repeal of the law imposing a duty on salt imported. February 13, 1827. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Banks in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of the returns of the incorporated banks in the District of Columbia of the state of their affairs to the close of the year 1826. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Tonnage of the United States -- 1825. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual statement of the district tonnage of the U. States on the 31st December, 1825. February 13, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Duty on imported salt. Remonstrance of inhabitants of Chatham, in the State of Massachusetts, against a repeal of the law imposing a duty on salt imported. February 13, 1827. Referred to Committee of Ways and Means. Receipts and expenditures United States, 1825. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year 1825. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid on the table. Receipts from the Customs from 1815 to 1826. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th ultimo, being a statement of the annual receipts from the Customs from 30th December, 1815, to 30th September, 1826; and the annual amount of drawbacks from the same period. February 20, 1827. Read, and laid on the table. Dry dock -- Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Memorial of the citizens of Portsmouth, N.H., respecting the construction of a dry dock at the Navy yard at that place. February 12, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Road from Washington City to Buffalo. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of surveys of proposed routes of a national road from the City of Washington to Buffalo, in the State of New York. February 17, 1827. Read and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Cumberland Road & domestic manufactures. Resolutions adopted at a meeting of inhabitants of Ohio County, in the State of Virginia, in relation to the Cumberland Road and domestic manufactures of the country. February 19, 1827. Read, and laid on the table Expenditures at national armories. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditures at the national armories, and the arms, etc. made therein during the year 1826. February 13, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Survey of Saugatuck Harbor and River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report and map of the survey of Saugatuck Harbor and River. February 23, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Ratio of representation under fifth census. Documents submitted by Mr. Peter Little, of the House of Representatives. February 17, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Resolution of the General Assembly of Indiana, in relation to purchasers of public lands. February 26, 1827. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. February 27, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Live oak timber. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, on the subject of live oak timber. February 26, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information relative to the transactions of the Mint of the United States. February 26, 1827. Read, and laid on the table. Memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, asking for a grant of land to aid said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with the Illinois River. February 7, 1827. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the "Bill To Aid the State of Illinois in Opening a Canal to Connect the Waters of Lake Michigan with the Illinois River." Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the survey of the Creek lands in Georgia, with accompanying documents. February 5, 1827. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Foreign missions. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, relative to the appointments of charges des affaires, and to the commissions and salaries of the ministers and secretaries to the Panama mission. February 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Duties on the inland frontier -- northern. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d ultimo, in relation to duties collected for the three last years ending 30th September, 1826, in the States of Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, on British manufactures and teas, entered at the Customhouses on our inland frontier. February 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Memorial of citizens of Boston and its vicinity, against the contemplated increase of duty on certain woollen goods imported. February 26, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, upon the subject of the lands set apart for the use of schools in said state. February 27, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. |
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Abstract of American seamen -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of American seamen in the U. States for the year 1826. February 21, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Dry docks -- Portsmouth, N.H., Charlestown, Mass., &c. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of an examination and survey which has been made of a site for a dry dock at Portsmouth, N.H., Charlestown, Mass., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Gosport, Va. January 10, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Contracts -- War Department -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of contracts made by the War Department in the year 1826. February 22, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Contracts, Post Office Department, 1826. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting statements of contracts made by the Post Office Department during the year 1826. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Foreign commerce of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the commerce and navigation of the United States during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1826. February 26, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of communications of the Governor of Georgia and Lieut. Vinton, to the Secretary of War. March 2, 1827. Referred to Select Committee on the Resolutions, &c. of the Legislature of Georgia. Expenditure, Artillery School of Practice. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th January last, in relation to the expenditure, in any manner connected with the Artillery School of Practice, at Fortress Monroe, &c. &c. February 28, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Militia of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an abstract of the general annual returns of the militia of the United States. February 6, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Unproductive post roads -- 1826. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of unproductive post roads for the past year. January 20, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. S. 3. Documents accompanying the bill from the Senate entitled "An Act To Authorize Those Persons Who Have Relinquished Lands under the Provisions of the Several Acts for the Relief of Purchasers of Public Lands, To Purchase the Same at Private Sale, at a Fixed Price." February 28, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Appropriations -- second session, Nineteenth Congress. Statement of appropriations made during the second session of the Nineteenth Congress. Prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 3rd of March 1827. March 3, 1827. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Duff Green, esq. -- mail contract. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 24th February, 1827, in relation to the transportation of the mail between the City of Washington and Vincennes, in the State of Indiana. February 28, 1827. Read and laid on the table. |
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Balances -- collectors of the Customs and receivers of the land offices. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances on the books of the Register which appear to have remained unsettled by the collectors of the Customs and others for more than three years prior to 30th September last, and a similar list in the case of receivers of public moneys for the sale of public lands. January 23, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Unsettled accounts. Letter from the First Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances on the books of the Second Auditor. December 11, 1826. Read, and laid on the table. Balances on books of receipts and expenditures. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a report by the Register of the Treasury, of the balances on the books of receipts and expenditures which appear to have remained due and unsettled more than three years prior to Sept. 30, 1826. December 8, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. Balances on the books of Fourth Auditor. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of the balances on the books of the Fourth Auditor which appear to have remained unsettled more than three years prior to 30th September last. February 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. La Plaisance Bay harbor. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of a survey of La Plaisance Bay harbor in the Territory of Michigan. January 26, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Old internal revenue and direct tax, and direct tax of 1815 and 1816. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting lists of balances on the books of the Register of the Treasury on account of the old internal revenue and direct tax; also, an account of the direct tax of 1816 and 1816. February 12, 1827. Read, and laid on the table. Treasurer's accounts. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting copies of the general accounts of his office from 1st of April, 1825, to 1st of April, 1826. February 19, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Public Expenditures. Passengers arriving in U. States -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting an abstract of passengers arriving in the U. States from 1st Oct., 1825, to 30th Sept., 1826. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Emoluments of officers of the Customs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of the official emoluments and expenditures of the officers of the Customs for the year 1826. February 26, 1827. Surveys: Harbor of Edgartown, Merrimack River, &c. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of a survey of the flats on the northwest side of the Harbor of Edgartown; a survey of the mouth of Merrimack River; also, a survey of the Harbor of Hyannis, in the Vineyard Sound, with a map of each: rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the fourth of last month. February 9, 1827. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Military appropriations for 1826. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of appropriations for the service of the year 1826 showing the amount appropriated under each specific head, the amount expended under each, and the unexpended balance on 31st December last. February 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. Canal -- Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th December last, in relation to a canal from Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River. March 3, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. |
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Revenue of the United States. Statements exhibiting the revenue arising from duties on merchandise, tonnage, &c. during the year ending on the 31st Dec., 1825; referred to in the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury upon the state of the finances of the 12th December, 1826. December 13, 1826. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Trade with British American colonies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements exhibiting annually, from the 30th Sept., 1815, to 30th Sept., 1826, the amount and description of merchandise exported to, and imported from, the British American colonies, embraced in the recent orders in council, and others; with the tonnage employed therein, &c. &c. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. |
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| Serial set 156 | Disbursements to the Indians -- 1826. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of accounts rendered by persons charged with the disbursement of money, goods, or effects, for the benefit of the Indians, from 1st September, 1825, to 1st September, 1826, &c. &c. February 24, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. | 1 |
| Serial set 157 | Spoliations on the commerce of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of States, transmitting a schedule of the claims of American citizens for spoliations by France and other European nations since the year 1805. January 31, 1827. Read, and laid upon the table. | 1 |
| Serial set 158 | Unsettled accounts -- Office Third Auditor. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting reports from the Third Auditor: 1. Of the names of such officers as have not rendered their accounts within the year. 2. Of accounts in his Office which have remained unsettled more than three years prior to the 30th September last. 3. Of moneys advanced prior to 3d March, 1809, on the books of the late Accountant of the War Department, and which remain to be accounted for. December 13, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. | 1 |
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