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| Serial set 1 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Fifteenth Congress; begun and held in the City of Washington, December 1, 1817, and in the forty-second year of the sovereignty of the said United States. | 1 |
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In Senate of the United States, December 31, 1817. Mr. Burrill submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the committee to whom was referred the petition of the committee of the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends at Baltimore... In Senate of the United States, February 13, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Daggett asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to a second reading: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of State cause to be distributed to each of the judges of the Supreme Court, and of the district courts in the United States, one set of the state papers... In Senate of the United States, December 15, 1817. Mr. Troup submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, such information as he may possess, touching the execution of so much of the first article of the late treaty of peace and amity between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, as relates to the restitution of slaves... In Senate of The United States, January 22, 1818. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of passing a law, to vest in the State of Ohio... In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Morril asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to a second reading: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of State cause to be distributed to each of the senators and representatives of the Fifteenth Congress, and to the delegates of territories, who have not been supplied therewith, the sixth volume of laws... In Senate of the United States, January 19th, 1818. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the sale... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Forrest, report: That the petitioner's case was, at the last session, referred by the House of Representatives to the Secretary of State, whose report has been made at the present session. To this report, the Committee refer for a legal and equitable exposition of the nature of the claim. The facts of the case are, that the petitioner, in May 1812, chartered his vessel to the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1818. Mr. Tait submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing the third section of an act passed the 3rd day of March last past, entitled "An Act To Establish a Separate Territorial Government for the Eastern Part of the Mississippi Territory..." In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1818. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of Alan Farquhar, of the State of Ohio... In Senate of the United States, December 10th, 1817. Mr. Sanford submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury lay before the Senate information of the progress which has been made in the settlement of public accounts... In Senate of the United States, December 15, 1817. Mr. Morrow submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that a committee be appointed to inquire whether any, and if any, what legislative provision is necessary to be made, for ascertaining and establishing the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio... In Senate of the United States, December 12th, 1817. Mr. Campbell submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for authorizing those who hold titles, derived from the State of North Carolina, to lands in that part of the State of Tennessee... In Senate of the United States, December 10th, 1817. Mr. Morril submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, such information as he may possess relating to the progress made in surveying the several tracts of military bounty lands... In Senate of the United States, December 5, 1817. Agreeably to notice, Mr. Daggett asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of State cause to be distributed, one set of state papers and public documents... Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Fifteenth Congress. December 2, 1817. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 15, 1817. Mr. Barbour submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, such information as he may possess, and which the public interest will permit him to disclose, relative to our pending negotiation with Spain. In Senate of the United States, December 15, 1817. Mr. Daggett, from the committee to whom was referred the resolution authorizing the distribution of certain public documents, reported it with the following amendments... In Senate of the United States, December 12, 1817. Mr. Daggett submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of passing a law on the subject of bankruptcies... In Senate of the United States, December 9, 1817. Agreeably to notice, Mr. Barbour asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading. Resolution for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, in relation to internal improvements... In Senate of the United States, December 8, 1817. Mr. Sanford submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee of Finance inquire what alterations or amendments may be requisite in the present system of collecting the duties charged... In Senate of the United States, December 15, 1817. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire what provisions are necessary to give effect to the laws of the United States, within the State of Mississippi. In Senate of the United States, December 12th, 1817. Mr. Lacock submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of dividing the State of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts... Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the sixteenth instant, relative to the restitution of slaves under the first article of the Treaty of Ghent. December 29, 1817 In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Haffield White, report: That the petitioner represents himself, in the month of April, 1777, to have been in military service... In Senate of the United States, December 23, 1817. Agreeably to notice given yesterday, Mr. Morril asked and obtained leave to introduce the following resolution, which was read, and passed to the second reading: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the Commissioner of the General Land Office furnish each soldier... In Senate of the United States, December 30, 1817. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petitions of William Edwards and John G. Stubbs, report that the petitioners, covenanted with the Surveyor General of the United States, on the 25th of August, 1815, separately, each to survey twelve townships of land in the Illinois Territory... In Senate of the United States, December 23, 1817. Mr. Smith submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before the Senate a statement of the amount of duties on imported salt... In Senate of the United States, December 24, 1817. The Committee of Claims, to whom has been referred the petition of Silas Willard, report: That the petitioner stands bound in a recognizance to the United States, in the penal sum of $4000, for the appearance of John M. Willard, in the circuit court of Vermont, who stands charged... In Senate of the United States, December 30th, 1817. Read, and ordered to be printed. Treasury Department, 26th Dec., 1817. Sir, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the 24th inst. directing the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the Senate a statement of the amount of duties on imported salt... In Senate of the United States, December 23, 1817. Mr. Dickerson, agreeably to notice given yesterday, and in obedience to instructions received from the Legislature of New Jersey, asked and obtained leave to introduce a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as it respects the election of representatives in Congress, and the appointment of electors of President and Vice President of the United States... In Senate of the United States, December 30, 1817. Mr. Smith submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that "a statement, from the Treasury Department, showing the amount of duty which accrued on salt..." In Senate of the United States, December 29, 1817. Mr. Tait submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Militia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of augmenting the pay of the militia... In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Weaver Bennet, report: That the petitioner represents himself to have shipped as a sergeant of marines, on board the public armed brig, Washington... In Senate of the United States, January 5, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Edmund Dana, report: That during the late war the petitioner appears to have been permitted to act as clothing sutler... In Senate of the United States, January 6, 1818. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Rice, report that the petitioner, in November, 1808, enlisted for five years in the 4th Regt. U. States' Infantry; and that, on the 7th day of November, 1811, in an action with the enemy at Tippecanoe... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. Memorial to the honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, the petition of the inhabitants of the County of Oneida, in the State of New York; as well manufacturers as others... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Purcel and Martin Rose, report: The petitioners accompanied the expedition that marched to Tippecanoe... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Essenbeck, report: The petitioner was messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Brown, report that the petitioner duly entered certain stills... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. Mr. Tait submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, the proceedings which may have been had, under the act entitled "An Act for the Gradual Increase of the Navy of the United States..." In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. The Military Committee, to whom was referred the petition of John Hebbert and others, report: The petitioners state they enlisted during the late war with England, in the 43rd Regiment of Infantry, and continued in service until after the ratification of the treaty of peace, when they procured substitutes... In Senate of the United States, January 7th, 1818. Mr. Campbell submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of requiring by law the nomination of agents to Indian tribes... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1818. The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of the trustees for the Vincennes University... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1818. Mr. Taylor submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the sale of the surplus lands which were reserved to satisfy militia... In Senate of the United States, January 14, 1818. Mr. Williams, of Massachusetts, submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to inform the Senate what measures have been taken in pursuance of so much of the third and fourth sections of the act, entitled "An Act To Authorize the Appointment of a Surveyor for the Lands in the Northern Part of the Mississippi Territory"... In Senate of the United States, January 14, 1818. Mr. Fromentin submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing to the judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Faris, report: That the petitioner appears to have obtained a patent on the 29th April, 1797, for propelling boats, by wheels... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1818. Mr. Ashmun submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be directed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the attendance of witnesses before courts martial. In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Nathaniel Cutting, report: The petitioner acts as a clerk in the Department of War... In Senate of the United States, January 13, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire whether any, and if any, what further provisions by law are necessary to secure to the heirs of soldiers who died... In Senate of the United States, January 15, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Rees Hill, respectfully report: That the said Rees Hill commanded a regiment of Pennsylvania militia... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petitions of Joseph Cumming, administrator of James Murren; and Samuel Parker, executor of George Parker, deceased, report: The petitioners represent the persons in whose right they claim as having been purchasers of lands... In Senate of the United States, January 30, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, a statement of all the arms and accoutrements which have been manufactured at the different armories... In Senate of the United States, January 21, 1818. Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to inform the Senate in what manner the troops in the service of the United States now operating against the Seminole tribe of Indians have been subsisted... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Peters and Sabin Pond, report that the petitioners were owners of the brig Romulus, a vessel of the United States, which in February, 1813, they were induced to put under Swedish flag, to elude the British cruisers... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1818. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Keemble, report: The petitioner states that he entered the Army of the Revolution as surgeon's mate... In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1818. Mr. Noble submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route... In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1818. Mr. Burrill submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to report a bill extending, for the term of nine months, from the first day of March, A.D., 1818, the time limited for the exhibition of claims for certain land warrants... In Senate of the United States, January 17, 1818. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a statement from the Treasury Department, showing the amount of duty which accrued on salt imported during the years 1815 and 1816, and from the 1st of January to the 30th June, 1817... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report, prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the eleventh Dec., 1817. January 22, 1818. Read, and ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1818. Mr. Barbour submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing naval depots... In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1818. Mr. Storer submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause a statement of the progress made under the Act To Provide for Surveying the Coast of the United States... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the eighth of January last, of the proceedings which may have been had, under an act entitled "An Act for the Gradual Increase of the Navy of the United States, " specifying the number of ships put on the stocks and of what class; the quantity of materials procured for ship building and also, the sums of money which may have been paid out of the fund, created by said act, and for what objects; and likewise, the contracts which may have been entered into, in execution of the act aforesaid, on which moneys may not yet have been advanced. February 2, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 27, 1818. Mr. Otis submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing for the examination and allowance of moneys paid by the State of Massachusetts for the supplies and services of the militia... In Senate of the United States, January 26, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause a statement of expenditures upon the public buildings... In Senate of the United States, January 21, 1818. Mr. Morrow submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire whether provision ought not be made, to limit and controul [sic] the issue and location of certificates for lands... In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1818. The committee to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate, directing them to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for enforcing the attendance of witnesses, before courts martial... In Senate of the United States, January 27, 1818. Mr. Talbott submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so far changing the present judicial system of the United States, as to provide for the gradual diminution of the judges who at present compose the Supreme Court... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom have been referred the petition of Ephraim Shaler, De La Fayette Wilcox, and Alphonso Wetmore, first lieutenants of the Sixth Regiment United States' Infantry... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1818. The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to whom was referred a letter from Julie Plantou to the President of the Senate, proposing to sell to the United States an allegorical painting of the Treaty of Ghent... In Senate of the United States, January 27, 1818. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred a resolution directing "that a commissioner of the General Land Office furnish each soldier who may receive a patent for military bounty land..." In Senate of the United States, January 21, 1818. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom have been referred the memorial of certain commissioned officers of the Navy, under the rank of commanders, and also the memorial of certain officers of the Marine Corps attached to the Mediterranean Squadron, have had the same under consideration, and report... In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1818. The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures have considered the petition of William G. Ridgely, which was referred to them by the Senate; and they submitted the following report... In Senate of the United States, January 28, 1818. Mr. Ashmun submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing for the security of passengers in stage coaches, in which the mail of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1818. Mr. Tichenor submitted the following motions for consideration: Resolved, that the Military Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing or modifying so much of the second section of the act, establishing the military staff, as relates to hospital surgeons... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Briggs, report: That they find among the documents referred to by the petitioner, a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in relation to the manner the troops in the service of the United States, now operating against the Seminole tribe of Indians, have been subsisted, whether by contract or otherwise, and whether they have been regularly furnished with rations. January 30, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 27, 1818. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Bevan of Georgia, report: The petitioner states he has imported from Liverpool, in England, a highly improved steam engine, intended to impel a mill for roling [i.e., rolling] steel to make patent hoes... In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1818. The Committee on the Judiciary have, according to the order of the Senate, had under consideration the expediency of allowing to the judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States a sum equal to the salary of the judge of the District Court of South Carolina... In Senate of the United States, February 3, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Ruggles asked and obtained leave to bring the following resolution, which was read and passed to a second reading. Resolution relative to the distribution of the late edition of the land laws. In Senate of the United States, February 3, 1818. Mr. Campbell submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing, by law, the salaries of Indian agents... In Senate of the United States, February 6, 1818. Mr. Morrow submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the committee appointed on the memorial of the State of Tennessee, respecting claims to lands in that state, be instructed to inquire into the propriety of making a reservation of land for the establishment of a military depot, armory... In Senate of the United States, February 23, 1818. Mr. Storer submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob Wendell and others, owners of fishing vessels detained in Nova Scotia... In Senate of the United States, February 25, 1818. The Joint Library Committee, to whom was referred the memorial of Thomas B. Wait & Sons, beg leave to report: That the memorialists state, that the second edition of their American State Papers, with which Congress has already been furnished, extend no further than to the close of the late war... In Senate of the United States, February 10, 1818. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making provision by law... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of the reports in relation to the surveys and examinations made by naval officers in co-operation with officers of the Corps of Engineers. February 11, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 22, 1818. The Committee on Military Affairs, who were instructed by a resolution of the Senate of the 14th inst. "to inquire whether any, and if any, what further provisions by law are necessary to secure to the heirs of soldiers, who died, or who were killed in the service of their country, during the late war, the bounty in land to which they are equitably entitled," report... In Senate of the United States, February 10, 1818. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the memorial and petition of James Brobson, Marshal of the District of Delaware, praying for some additional compensation to be made to him, report... In Senate of the United States, February 12, 1818. The managers on the part of the Senate have met and conferred with those on the part of the House of Representatives, on the subject of the disagreeing votes of the two Houses upon the bill, entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for the Military Service of the United States for the Year 1818..." In Senate of the United States, February 19, 1818. Mr. Tichenor submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to inform the Senate what requisitions were made upon the contractors, between the first day of June, 1817, and the 24th of December, of the same year, for deposits of provisions... In Senate of the United States, February 18, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Stockton, report: That the petitioner represents that he has holden office of the Commissioner of Loans, and agent for paying military invalids, in the State of Delaware... In Senate of the United States, March 6, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Davis, report: The petitioner appears, from a discharge exhibited to the committee, to have served honorably in the Revolutionary Army... In Senate of the United States, March 3, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom has been referred the memorial of certain merchants of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, and its vicinity; the memorial of merchants, underwriters, and insurance companies, of Philadelphia; the petition and memorial of merchants and underwriters of Baltimore; and the memorial and petition of merchants and underwriters, citizens of the United States, of Charleston, South Carolina... In Senate of the United States, March 3, 1818. Mr. Talbot submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of adopting some measures proper for the speedy extinguishment of the Indian title to the lands... In Senate of the United States, March 9, 1818. The joint committee, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3rd of March instant, on the subject of the adjournment of Congress, have agreed to report to their respective Houses the following resolution... In Senate of the United States, March 9, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Gamble, report: The petitioner appears to have acted as inspector of the Customs at the port of Lewistown in the District of Niagara... In Senate of the United States, February 26, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Hill, and others, inhabitants of the City of New York, and the Town of Salem, report: That the petitioners were holders of certain debentures issued in their favor... In Senate of the United States, March 9, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of John Hall, praying that Congress may pass a law authorizing the allowance of one hundred and fifty doubloons in the settlement of his accounts at the Navy Department, which he states to have been robbed from him... In Senate of the United States, March 4, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Philips, report: The petitioner states that he was placed on the pension list of the United States... In Senate of the United States, March 4, 1818. Mr. Campbell submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the provisions of the law prescribing the mode in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings in each state shall be authenticated... In Senate of the United States, March 2, 1818. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Martin Dubbs, report: That from a statement of facts made by the Third Auditor to the committee relating to the petitioner's claims... In Senate of the United States, March 6, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Wright, report: That the petitioner sets forth that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and served therein, from the commencement to the close of the war... In Senate of the United States, March 2, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of David Barley, report: That a letter, addressed to the Committee by the Secretary of the Treasury... Message from the President of the United States, complying with the resolution of the Senate of the eleventh of this month. December 18, 1817. Printed by the order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1818. Mr. Leake submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the several laws relative to the sale of public lands. In Senate of the United States, December 30, 1817. Mr. Daggett submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, a statement of the proceedings which may have been had under an act of Congress, passed the third of March, 1817, entitled "An Act To Set Apart and Dispose of Certain Public Lands..." In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1818. Honorable William H. Crawford, esq. Sir, your petitioners beg leave most respectfully to represent to you for your consideration the following case, the severity of which has nearly ruined your petitioners. In the month of February, 1814, the brig Anno... In Senate of the United States, December 18, 1817. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to roads and canals, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law, for the appointment of commissioners to survey, lay out, and mark, a road from the west bank of the Ohio River... In Senate of the United States, January 5, 1818. The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Joel Rivers, report: That it appears from the statement made by the petitioner, that he has, within the last year, commenced on improvement near Fort Claiborne... In Senate of the United States, December 16, 1817. Mr. Morrow submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting any location or surveys being made under military land warrants, on lands in the Virginia military tract... In Senate of the United States, December 18, 1817. Mr. Eppes submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending for a farther time an act entitled "An Act, Further Extending the Time for Locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, and for Returning the Surveys Thereon to the General Land Office"; and also, the act, entitled "An Act Authorizing Patents To Issue for Lands Located and Surveyed by Virtue of Certain Virginia Resolution Warrants." In Senate of the United States, December 31, 1817. Mr. Burrill submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of commencing the erection of the centre building of the Capitol... In Senate of the United States, December 29, 1817. Read, and ordered to be printed. To the Congress of the United States. The General Assembly of the State of Tennessee begs leave to address your honorable body on the subject of the unsatisfied claims for land... In Senate of the United States, December 22, 1817. Mr. Noble submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire what legislative provisions are necessary, if any, to authorize the payment of the three per cent. now due, or that which may hereafter be due, to the State of Indiana... In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Sanford asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was twice read by unanimous consent and committed: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the journal of the convention, which formed the present Constitution of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 6, 1818. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are necessary to the laws relative to section No. 29, reserved for the support of the Gospel... In Senate of the United States, February 4, 1818. Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate a list of the names of the several agents of Indian affairs... In Senate of the United States, February 6, 1818. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law, for the reservation of such tracts of lands... In Senate of the United States, February 5, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Elijah Rice, respectfully report: That the petitioner claims one hundred acres of land to which he was entitled by an act of Congress, for his services during the Revolutionary War... In Senate of the United States, February 6, 1818. The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures have considered the petition of Joshua Swain and others, inhabitants of the County of Cape May, in the State of New Jersey, which was referred to them by the Senate, and they submit the following... In Senate of the United States, February 6, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire whether any, and (if any) what amendments... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate of the nineteenth of January, 1818, with the letters, &c. referred to in it. February 13, 1818. In Senate of the United States, February 20, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate a list of all the pensioners of the United States, the sum paid annually to each... In Senate of the United States, February 20, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Henry Jones, report: That the petitioner states he enlisted in the Army of the United States, on the 27th of December, 1811... In Senate of the United States, February 12, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the time allowed, by the "Act To Provide for Designating, Surveying, and Granting, the Military Bounty Lands," approved May 6, 1812, to noncommissioned officers and soldiers... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement of the expenditures upon the public buildings, and an account of their progress for the year 1818. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of 2d inst., a statement of all the arms and accoutrements which have been manufactured at the different armories of the United States, with the cost of each stand; and the number delivered to each state respectively, under the act for arming the whole body of the militia. February 24, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 16, 1817 [i.e., 1818]. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route... In Senate of the United States, February 18, 1818. Mr. Barbour submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of changing the mode of supplying the troops of the United States by contract... In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1818. Mr. Daggett submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing, or altering, the law passed in 1812, establishing brevet rank... In Senate of the United States, December 18, 1817. Mr. Noble submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a land office in the eastern part of the State of Indiana. |
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In Senate of the United States, March 16, 1818. Mr. Roberts submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of making further provisions by law for preventing the introduction of slaves... In Senate of the United States, March 11, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Margaret White, widow of Colonel Anthony Walton White, make report: That the petitioner represents her late husband... In Senate of the United States, March 13, 1818. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Belinda Bowee, report... In Senate of the United States, March 20, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Anthony Gale, report: The petitioner represents himself to have made sundry disbursements, while senior officer of the Marine Corps stationed at Philadelphia, on account of that service... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, respecting the supplies of the Northwestern Army, within certain periods, therein specified, by contractors, commissaries, and agents, and the expense thereby incurred. April 10, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third of February last, a report from the Secretary of the Treasury respecting the progress made under the Act To Provide for Surveying the Coast of the United States. March 16, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, April 3, 1818. Mr. King submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury do report to the Senate the sum of the funded debt of the United States... Memorial of Thomas Tenant and George Stiles, of the City of Baltimore, merchants, and ship owners, praying that certificates of registry may be granted to their vessels. February 2, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures. In Senate of the United States, March 12, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Ashael Clark, report: That the petitioner acted as judge advocate of a court martial detailed in the State of New York... In Senate of the United States, March 12, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the petition of John Adlum, report: That a law, passed on the 5th July, 1812, authorizes the President of the United States to lease out, for a term not exceeding ten years, the reservations of the public grounds in the City of Washington... In Senate of the United States, March 11, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Wells, report: The petitioner states he served as a forage master in the Revolutionary War... In Senate of the United States, March 10, 1818. Mr. Storer submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the causes which so frequently prevent the due arrival of the public mail. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, respecting the requisitions that were made on the contractors between the 1st of June and the 24th of December, 1817, for deposites of provisions, in advance, at the several posts on the frontiers of Georgia, and the adjoining territory; their conduct in compliance therewith; the amount of money advanced to B.G. Orr; and the extent of his failure; with a copy of the articles of contract entered into with him. March 11, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, March 12, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Michael Hogan, make report: That they find the petitioner's house in the Village of Utica, in the State of New York, was forcibly occupied... In Senate of the United States, March 12, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom has been referred the memorial of a committee on behalf of the surviving officers of the Revolutionary Army, soliciting an equitable settlement of the half pay for life as promised by the resolves of Congress, make report... In Senate of the United States, March 13, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Godfrey H. Belding, report: That the petitioner states in September, 1812, he enlisted in the 11th Regiment of Infantry... In Senate of the United States, March 31, 1818. Read and passed to the second reading. Resolution directing the printing and distribution of the act to provide for the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army... In Senate of the United States, March 17, 1818. Mr. King submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and hereby is, requested to cause to be resumed and completed, a survey of the harbors of Boston, Newport, New York... In Senate of the United States, March 20, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Phineas Meigs, report: In May, 1814, a detachment from the enemy's ships, then stationed off New London, landed and set fire to a dwelling house owned by the petitioner... In Senate of the United States, March 20, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Richard Frisby, report: The petitioner is owner of a farm on Fairlee Point, situate[d] on the waters of the Chesapeake, in Kent County, Maryland... In Senate of the United States, March 25, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Catherine M. Smith, administratrix of the estate of J.D. [i.e., Thomas D.] Smith, deceased, report... In Senate of the United States, March 27, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Vassel White, report: That your committee have examined the case of the petitioner. He states that he served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier... In Senate of the United States, March 24, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Dickerson asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to Major General William Henry Harrison, and Isaac Shelby... In Senate of the United States, March 25, 1818. Mr. Troup submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Militia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of setting apart and appropriating the dividends which shall arise from the shares held by the government... In Senate of the United States, March 20, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Benoni Williams, report: That the petitioner states, that in the winter of 1813 he was stationed at Fort Megs... In Senate of the United States, March 27, 1818. Mr. Horsey submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the compensation of the postmaster... In Senate of the United States, March 27, 1818. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, who were instructed by a resolution of the 29th January, "to inquire into the expediency of providing for the security of passengers in stage coaches..." In Senate of the United States, March 23, 1818. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending further time to the purchasers of public land... In Senate of the United States, April 16, 1818. Mr. Tait submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, as early as possible in the next session, a full statement respecting the Navy Pension Fund... In Senate of the United States, April 18, 1818. Mr. Johnson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the reports of the commissioners for the districts east and west of Pearl River, in West Florida, relative to land claims, together with the memorials, petitions, and other papers addressed to the Senate upon the same subject, be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury... In Senate of the United States, April 17, 1818. Mr. Lacock submitted the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: Resolved, that Robert Tweedy, Tobias Simpson, and George Hicks, assistants to the sergeant at arms... In Senate of the United States, April 16, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Lieutenant Samuel Brown, respectfully report: That the petitioner represents himself as having been a private in the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, and a lieutenant in General Arnold's detachment against Quebec, where his captain was killed, the command of the company devolved on him, and he and they were eventually made prisoners... In Senate of the United States, April 4, 1818. The Committee on the Militia, to whom was referred a resolution respecting the expediency of setting apart and appropriating the dividends which shall arise from the shares held by the government in the Bank of the United States, to the manufacture of arms and equipment... In Senate of the United States, April 3, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Henderson, report: The petitioner, in right of his wife, the daughter and only child of colonel John Laurens... In Senate of the United States, April 15, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to direct the proper officer to lay before the Senate, at an early period of their next session, a list of the useless offices of the Customs... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the fourth instant, the amount of the funded debt of the United States bearing an interest at seven, six, and three per cent, which has been paid by the subscribers towards the capital of the Bank of the United States, distinguishing the amount of each, which has been paid upon the several instalments; stating the sums and species of funded debt sold by the Bank; how much thereof was redeemed by the United States; how much has been sold without the United States; and how much is now held by the Bank. April 15, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee of Finance of the Senate, in relation to the application of the Board of Directors to the Congress, for permission to issue bills and notes by other persons than the President and Cashier of that bank. April 9, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, April 6, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Smith P. Slocum, of Pawtuxet in the State of Rhode Island... In Senate of the United States, April 14, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Smith, attorney for Elisha Allen, report: The petitioner asks, on behalf of his principal, who was an ensign in a brigade of militia in the service of the United States during the late war, in which he acted as deputy wagon master... In Senate of the United States, April 1, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel F. Hooker, report: That the petitioner was owner of a garden and certain lots in the village... In Senate of the United States, April 10, 1818. The committee, to whom was referred the resolution authorizing a subscription for five hundred copies of Statistical Annals, proposed to be published by Adam Seybert, and the purchase of a certain number of copies of a Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States, by Timothy Pitkin, beg leave to report... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, containing a list of the names of the several agents of Indian Affairs and of the agents of Indian trading houses, with the pay and emoluments of the agents respectively. April 10, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, March 20, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John G. Bogert, of the City of New York, report: That it appears by the memorial of the petitioner, that in the year 1805, sundry judgments, to a considerable amount, were obtained in favor of the United States... In Senate of the United States, March 26, 1818. The Committee of Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of Shubael Conout, of the Town of Detroit, report... In Senate of the United States, March 25, 1818. The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures have considered the petition of Richard H. Wilcocks, which was referred to them by the Senate, and they submit the following report... In Senate of the United States, March 24, 1818. The Committee of the Senate on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Philadelphia, asking the interposition of Congress in behalf of Richard W. Meade, an American citizen unjustly and wantonly confined in a dungeon in Spain by the authority of that government, have given to the subject the deliberation its importance deserved, and beg leave to submit the following report... In the Senate of the United States, March 24, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Alexander Levie, report: That your committee have examined the case of the petitioner. He states that he is poor, and prays to be placed on the pension list... In Senate of the United States, March 26, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Randolph, report: That during the late war, the petitioner alleges he furnished rations to the troops of the United States... In Senate of the United States, March 16, 1818. Mr. Storer submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Secretary of War be instructed to procure copies of the existing militia laws... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate "to cause to be laid before them a list of all the pensioners of the United States, the sum annually paid to each, and the states or territories in which the said pensioners are respectively paid." March 28, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, March 25, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eli Hart, report... In Senate of the United States, March 25, 1818. Read and passed to a second reading. Resolution directing the Secretary for the Department of State to prepare an index to the acts and resolutions of Congress... In Senate of the United States, March 25, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Patten, report... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement of the proceedings which may have been had under the act of Congress passed on the 3rd of March, 1817, entitled "An Act To Set Apart and Dispose of Certain Public Lands, for the Encouragement and Cultivation of the Vine and Olive." March 16, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, March 23, 1818. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate instructing them to inquire into the expediency of "extending the provisions of the law prescribing the mode in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings in each state shall be authenticated, so as to take effect in every other state..." In Senate of the United States, March 30, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of certain citizens, inhabitants of Knox County, in the State of Indiana... In Senate of the United States, March 27, 1818. Mr. Troup submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of changing the post route between Midgeville and Darien... In Senate of the United States, March 31, 1818. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petitions of William P. Farrand and others, importing merchants of Philadelphia... In Senate of the United States, March 31, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that in addition to the harbors and waters ordered to be surveyed by a resolution of the 18th of this month... In Senate of the United States, April 1, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ann Welsh, report: That the petitioner states she is the sole executrix of her brother... In Senate of the United States, April 14, 1818. Mr. Horsey submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury procure, and lay before the Senate of the United States, immediately after the next session of Congress, a statement showing what sum was actually paid by the subscribers, on account of the capital stock of the Bank of the United States... In Senate of the United States, April 4, 1814. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Barbour asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized, to subscribe for and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred copies of the edition of Statistical Annals... In Senate of the United States, March 11, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James Moore, make report: That the petitioner appears to have been actually employed in different services during the whole of the Revolutionary War... |
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements relating to the internal duties and direct tax; and an abstract of the official emoluments and expenditures attending the collection of the same. December 5, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report on the state of the finances; prepared in obedience to the "Act Supplementary to an Act To Establish the Treasury Department." December 8, 1817. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Fifteenth Congress. December 2, 1817. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Letter from his Excellency David Holmes, Governor of the State of Mississippi, transmitting a copy of the constitution and form of government of the said state. December 4, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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Resolutions offered by Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, and Mr. Walker, of North Carolina. December 9, 1817. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on Monday next. Report of the select committee, appointed on the 16th ultimo, to inquire into the expediency of altering the flag of the United States. January 6, 1818. Accompanied with a bill to alter the flag of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the twelfth instant, of the members of the present Congress who have held offices since the fourth of March, last. December 29, 1817. Referred to the Committee of Elections. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an account of moneys transferred during the recess of Congress, from one specific appropriation to another, by authority of the President of the United States. January 5, 1818. Referred to the Committee on Public Expenditure. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, on the petition of Gabriel Winter and others, accompanying a bill "Confirming Certain Lands in the County of Arkansas, in the Missouri Territory, to the Heirs of Elisha Winter, and to the Heirs of William Winter." December 30, 1817. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the case of John I. Pattison. December 18, 1817. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on 1st January next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating his reason for not transferring the public moneys, deposited in certain state and other local banks, to the Bank of the United States. December 12, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Secretary of War, of the number of warrants for military bounty land, issued to soldiers who served during the late war, and the quantity of land included in such warrants. December 12, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, accompanying a bill to abolish the internal duties. December 9, 1817. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report in the case of Winslow and Henry Lewis. December 15, 1817. Read, and, with a bill for their relief, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Revisal and Unfinished Business. December 12, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of the persons who have been added to the pension list since May 28, 1813, &c. &c. January 5, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of the appropriations for the service of the year 1818. December 17, 1817. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Alexander Worster. December 12, 1817. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Wednesday next. December 29, 1817. Passed through Committee of the Whole with amendment, and laid on the table without concurrence. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, of the amount of receipts into the Treasury of the United States, from imports, internal taxes, and other sources of revenue, within the District of Columbia, from the assumption of the jurisdiction by Congress, in 1801. Also, a statement of registered tonnage, &c. within said district. December 30, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, communicating, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the eleventh inst. a report of the present strength of the Army of the United States; its distribution among the several military posts; and its competency to defend the several fortifications &c. &c. December 22, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Elections, in the case of Elias Earle. January 5, 1818. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of John Anderson, with a bill for his relief. December 31, 1817. Committed, with the bill, to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, accompanied with a report of the outstanding loan office certificates, Army certificates, and indents of interest, that appear on the books of the Treasury. January 2, 1818. Accompanying "A Bill To Authorize the Payment of Certain Loan Office Certificates." Report of the Committe [sic] of Ways and Means, on the petition of Purley Keyes, with a bill for the relief of Purley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks. January 2, 1818. Committed, with the bill, to the Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Reports from the War Department, made to the House of Representatives on the fourteenth March, 1800, and fourth of February, 1803, respecting claims against the United States for services of the militia of Georgia, in the years 1793 and 1794. January 2, 1818. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditure and application of moneys drawn from the Treasury by the Secretary of War, from the first October, 1816, to the thirtieth of September, 1817; and of unexpended balances of former appropriations, on first October, 1816. January 5, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of a select committee appointed to inquire into the claims of certain detachments of the militia of Georgia, during the years 1793 and 1794. December 22, 1817. Accompanying a bill authorizing the payment of certain militia claims of the State of Georgia. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the subject of increasing the price at which the lands of the United States shall hereafter be sold. January 5, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Memorial of the Mississippi Convention, praying an extension of the limits of that state. December 17, 1817. Read, and referred to Mr. Poindexter, Mr. Speed, Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, Mr. Claiborne, and Mr. Cobb. Report, in part, of the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to roads, canals, and seminaries of learning. December 15, 1817. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next. Petition from the citizens of the Counties of Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Mobile, and Baldwin, in the Alabama Territory. October, 1817. December 30, 1817. Referred to the select committee, appointed on the 17th instant, on a memorial of the Mississippi Convention, relating to an extension of the limits of that state. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed to inquire whether any, and if any, what legal provisions are necessary to prescribe the effect which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each state shall have in the courts of every other state. December 23, 1817. Accompanied with "A Bill To Prescribe the Effect which Certain Records and Judicial Proceedings of the Courts of Each State Shall Have in Every Other State, and in the Courts of the United States." Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Andrew J. Villard. January 2, 1818. Read and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of the officers who held brevet rank in the Army of the United States at the close of the late war; and a list of all the officers of the present Army of the United States who now hold brevets higher than their lineal rank, &c. December 29, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Elections, on the petition of C. Hammond, contesting the seat of Samuel Herrick. January 5, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Wednesday next. Report of the Secretary of War, "prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the seventeenth ultimo," of the amount of pensions which have been granted to the widows and orphans of deceased officers and soldiers of the late war, with the number of each grade of officers, &c. January 5, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information of the proceeding of certain persons who took possession of Amelia Island and of Galvezton [sic], during the summer of the present year, and made establishments there. December 15, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Petition and documents of Gabriel Winter. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. |
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Report of the committee to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to the introduction of slaves from Amelia Island. January 10, 1818. Accompanied with a bill supplementary to the act, to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States; passed 2d March, 1807 Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, containing observations on the appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the years 1817, and 1818. January 14, 1818. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, on the bill making appropriations for the payment of the arrearages which have been incurred for the support of the military establishment of the United States, previous to 1st January, 1817. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of ninth Dec. last, information of the roads made, or in progress, under the authority of the Executive of the United States; the states and territories through which they pass, or are intended to pass; the periods when they were ordered to be made, and how far they have extended. January 23, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the case of John Bate. December 24, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. December 24, 1817. Referred to the Committee of Claims. January 6, 1818. Bill reported with amendments, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements of names of the clerks employed in the Navy Department, and office of the Commissioners of the Navy, and the compensation allowed to each. January 7, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Edmund Brooke. December 23, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. January 7, 1818. Considered, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of contracts made by the Commissioners of the Navy during the year 1817. January 7, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information of the troops of the United States having taken possession of Amelia Island, in East Florida. January 13, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the committee on so much of the public accounts and expenditures as relate to the War Department, on the case of Col. Elias Earle. January 9, 1818. Read and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to the militia. January 9, 1818. Accompanied with a bill to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, &c. &c. 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 the 1st of January, 1817, to the 1st of January, 1818. January 13, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting sundry documents in relation to the claim of the representatives of Caron de Beaumarchais. January 16, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the petition of George Pearson, accompanied with a bill for his relief. January 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of Joseph Thorn accompanied with a bill for his relief. January 14, 1818. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of Mary Graeff. January 14, 1818. Read, concurred in, petition rejected. January 15, 1818. Reconsidered, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the twenty-second instant, copies of the proceedings of the court martial ordered by Commodore Isaac Chauncey, on the Mediterranean station, for the trial of Captain Oliver H. Perry; also, for the trial of Captain John Heath of the Marine Corps. January 30, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the committee to which was referred so much of the President's message, as relates to Indian affairs, accompanied with a bill for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, &c. &c. Made January 22d, 1818, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of such measures as may be necessary for the more effectual execution of the laws for the collection of the duties on imported goods, wares, and merchandise; prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th of February, 1817. January 20, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting sundry statements, in relation to the Navy Pension Fund. January 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the names of the clerks employed in that Department, and the salaries given to each. January 27, 1818. Read, and referred to the committee appointed on the 23d instant, to inquire what alterations are necessary to be made in the "Act To Regulate and Fix the Compensation of Clerks," &c. &c. Report of the Committee on Public Buildings, &c. accompanied with a bill to provide for additional buildings for the accommodation of the several executive departments. January 26, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the exports of the produce and manufactures of the United States, and of the produce and manufactures of foreign countries, from the 1st October, 1816, to 30th September, 1817. January 19, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of contracts made in the year 1817 for supplying the Army of the United States with rations; and the contracts made during the same year, by the Ordnance Department, and the Commissary General of Purchases. January 26, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the case of Henry Williams. January 23, 1818. Read, agreed to, petition rejected. January 26, 1818. Recommitted to the Committee of Claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual statement of the district tonnage of the United States, on the thirty-first December, 1816; with a letter from the Register of the Treasury, explanatory of the same. January 16, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the twenty-third Dec. last, information relative to the detention in confinement of Richard W. Meade. January 30, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Major Loring Austin, accompanied with a bill for his relief. January 23, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting sundry statements in relation to Navy hospitals. January 20, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Benjamin Berry, accompanied with a bill for his relief. February 2, 1818. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the merchants, traders, and manufacturers of Baltimore. January 6, 1818. Referred to the Committee on Manufacturers. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Thomas Miller and Stephen Baker, accompanied with a bill for their relief. February 2, 1818. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the expenditure and application of the moneys drawn from the Treasury on account of the Navy, from first of October, 1816, to thirtieth of September, 1817; and of the unexpended balances of former appropriations remaining in the Treasury, on the 1st Oct., 1816. January 7, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. |
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Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting information relative to the claims of the State of Massachusetts for payment of the expenses of the militia, ordered out by the executive authority of the state, during the late war. February 20, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Major John Whistler. February 6, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the names of the clerks in the Treasury Department and the compensation allowed to each, for services rendered during the year 1817. February 2, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements showing the names of the several persons to whom land warrants have been issued, and extra pay allowed, subsequent to the 3d March, 1817, under the act granting bounties in lands, and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers, and the act supplementary thereto; with the names of agents or attorneys to whom land warrants were delivered, and money paid, &c. &c. February 3, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of Jonathan Amory, Junior. Made, February 3, 1818, and, with a bill for his relief, &c. committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Message from the President of the United States, upon the subject of the furniture necessary for the President's house, &c. February 10, 1818. Read, and referred to the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to public buildings, and additional executive offices. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of Nathaniel Goddard, and others, formerly owners of the ship Ariadne and her cargo, accompanied with a bill for the relief of the owners of the ship Ariadne, &c. &c. February 10, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of John Wilmot accompanied with a bill for his relief. February 11, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of the accounts of General Arthur St. Clair. February 9, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report relative to Captain Bigger's rangers. February 10, 1818. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of War, on the subject of a call of the House of Representatives United States, for information relative to the claim of Massachusetts for expenses incurred in calling out the militia of that state during the late war. February 6, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the committee to whom was referred that part of the President's message which relates to the commercial intercourse of the U. States with the British West India islands and North American colonies, and also on the petition of sundry inhabitants of different parts of the District of Maine, on the same subject. February 9, 1818. Accompanied with a bill supplementary to the "Act Regulating Duties on Imports and Tonnage," passed 27th April, 1816. Letter from the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, transmitting pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d Inst., copies of the original deed of conveyance to the trustees of the United States, for the ground in the City of Washington; and copies of the correspondence in relation to the location of the public offices on the President's Square. February 10, 1818. Read, and referred to the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to public buildings and additional executive offices. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the case of Samuel Hughes. February 3, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting two statements from the General Land Office, showing the quantity of land in each district in the which the public lands have been exposed to sale, the quantity which has been sold, and the quantity which remains for sale; and the emoluments of the receivers and registers of the land offices for four years preceding the 1st day of October, 1817. February 2, 1818. Read, and committed to the Committee on Public Lands. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petitions of Daniel Manley, and Taylor and Walker. February 3, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of monies paid at the Treasury during the year 1817, for miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for; and a statement of contracts for supplies during the same year, by the Treasury Department; also, the purchases or payments made for supplies by the collectors for Customs, during the year 1811, in relation to the revenue, and to the temporary relief of sick and disabled seamen. February 4, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Elections, in the case of George Mumford, one of the representatives of the State of North Carolina. February 6, 1818. Read and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which was committed the report of the Committee of Elections, in the case of Samuel Herrick. Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. February 9, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, passed at the last session, a report of the number and conditions of the contracts which have been made for the supply of arms for the United States since the adoption of the Constitution, &c. &c &c. February 11, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. Mumford's communication to the Committee of Elections. February 6, 1818. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which was this day committed the report of the Committee of Elections, in the case of George Mumford. Report of the committee appointed on the part of the House of Representatives, to confer with a committee of the Senate, on the subject of the disagreeing votes of the two Houses, on the amendment of the Senate, to the bill making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year 1818. February 12, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the select committee, to whom was referred the petitions of Andrew Jackson, of Thomas Carr, and of George W. Sevier, accompanied with a bill, for the benefit of Thomas Carr, and others. Made, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the Director of the Mint, of assays made of several species of foreign gold and silver coins, pursuant to the act of April 29, 1816. February 12, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of contracts, made by the Post Office Department during the year 1817. February 4, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information of the number of states which have ratified the Thirteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, proposed at the second session of the Eleventh Congress, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 31st December last. February 6, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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Petition of Clamorgan's representatives. January 15, 1818. Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. February 11, 1818. Bill reported, No. 83. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the petition of sundry inhabitants of the Illinois Territory, accompanied with a bill confirming certain claims to lands in the Illinois Territory. Made 24th February, 1818, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers, accompanied with a bill for their relief. January 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Henry King. January 23, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Military Committee, accompanying a bill for the relief of Wm. B. Lewis. February 24, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the correspondence with the government of Spain, upon the subject of the blockade of the ports of Santa Fe, &c. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of sixth inst. February 17, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a return of the arms and military stores furnished to the respective states, under the provisions of the law of one thousand eight hundred and twelve. February 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letters from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, relative to the estimate of appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States for the year 1818. February 13, 1818. Laid before the House of Representatives by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the quantity of iron bars, bolts, pigs, &c. &c. annually imported into the United States, from first May, 1812, to the first May, 1817, and the country from whence imported. February 24, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Madame Poidevin, with a bill for her relief. February 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury, of balances on the books of the Register of the Treasury, which appear to have been due more than three years prior to the thirtieth of September last, or remained unsettled that day. February 25, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the petition of the inhabitants of the Village of Prairie du Chien, accompanied with "A Bill for the Relief of the Inhabitants of Prairie du Chien." February 25, 1818. Made, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, of the petition of Benjamin Poole, accompanied with a bill for his relief. February 25, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Capt. Archibald W. Hamilton. March 2, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on petitions of Irish emigrant associations of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Pittsburg. February 25, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Petition of Noah Brown, Frederick Jenkins, Rensselaer Havens, in behalf of officers and crew of [the] brig Warrior. January 27, 1818. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. February 19, 1818. Committee of Ways and Means discharged, and inferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. February 28, 1818. Report against, and committeed [i.e., committed] to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Lawrence [i.e., Laurence] Muse and William Gordan. February 25, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of the expenditure and application of such sums of money as have been made at the late offices of the Accountant, and Additional Accountant, of the War Department, and at the offices of the Second and Third Auditors of the Treasury, for the military establishment for the year 1817. February 19, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of moneys paid at the Treasury for defraying the expenses of the commissioners under the 4th, 6th, and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. February 19, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a report, in part, of balances on the books of the Treasury, which appear to have been due more than three years prior to the 30th of September, 1817, or to have remained unsettled on that day. February 12, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from John Q. Adams, Secretary of State, to Thomas Newton, accompanying a bill to authorize the apprehension of foreign seamen deserting the vessel to which they belong. February 24, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. Report of the select committee, to which was referred the message from the President of the United States, at the present session, in relation to the claim of the representative of the late Caron de Beaumarchais, and containing sundry letters and documents upon the subject of the said claim, together with a report of the Committee of Claims of the 10th March, 1806, and a report of a select committee of the 15th March, 1814, upon the same claim. February 24, 1818. Read, and together with a bill for the relief of the said representative, committed to a Committee of the Whole, to-morrow. Reports of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, upon the subject of domestic manufactures, made to the House of Representatives of the United States, at the first session of the Fourteenth Congress. February 13, 1818. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of communications from the minister of Great Britain, relating to the duties upon iron in bars and bolts, imported from that kingdom, into the United States. February 17, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of John Haile. February 24, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the accounts of General Arthur St. Clair. February 13, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, on the petition of Noah Brown and others. February 28, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. |
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Report of the committee on the subject of the Cumberland Road. March 11, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Documents referred to in the report of the committee, March, 1818... Message from the President of the United States, accompanying copies of the decision and declaration of the commissioners under the fourth article of the Treaty of Ghent. March 2, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the petition of Captain Samuel C. Reid, accompanied with a bill authorizing a sum of money to [be] distributed among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig the General Armstrong. March 4, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, upon the subject of the application of the funds of the district court of the District of New York. March 5, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th ultimo, a copy of the proceedings of a court martial ordered by Commodore Isaac Chauncey, at the instance of Midshipman Marston, for the trial of Captain John Orde Creighton; and also of the memorial of sundry midshipmen and other officers of the Mediterranean Squadron, emanating from the proceedings of the said court martial. March 4, 1818. Read, and committeed [i.e., committed] to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in conformity to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th Jan. last, sundry papers in relation to the claim of the merchants of the United States, for their property seized and confiscated under the authority of the King of Naples. March 2, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th Feb., 1817, requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the House of Representatives, at the next session "whether any, and if any, what, alterations or modifications are required to be made in the several acts, fixing the emoluments of collectors of the Customs, naval officers, and surveyors." March 2, 1818. Referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual statement of the emoluments and expenditures of the officers employed in the collection of the Customs for the year 1817. March 7, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of John Porter. March 2, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of William Henderson. March 6, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Capt. Giles Kellogg and the company under his command. March 3, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Resolution submitted by Mr. Taylor. March 10, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from Josiah Meigs, esquire, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, upon the subject of compensation of the receivers and registers of the land offices. March 9, 1818. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, with a bill for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of land offices. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways & Means, upon the subject of extending the time for the redemption of lands sold for direct taxes, &c. Accompanying "A Bill Supplementary to the Several Acts Relative to Direct Taxes and Internal Duties." March 5, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Doctor Mottrom Ball, accompanied with a bill for his relief. March 10, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, who were instructed by a resolution of the House of Representatives to inquire into the expediency of repealing the law laying a duty on imported salt. March 3, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Captain Cowan's petition. December 29, 1817. Referred to the Committee of Claims. March 2, 1818. Report against. Committed to the Whole House on Thursday next. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Gov. of South Carolina, and extracts from the journal of the proceedings of the legislature of that state, relative to the Thirteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. March 2, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Capt. John Cowen [i.e., Cowan]. March 2, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next. Statement of William Lee, esquire, agent for procuring furniture for [the] President's house, accompanying a bill making appropriations for the public buildings, and for furnishing the Capitol and President's house. March 9, 1818. Read and committed with the bill to the Committee of the Whole House, on the "Bill To Provide for Erecting Additional Buildings for the Accommodation of the Several Executive Departments." Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of Thomas Griffin, accompanied with a bill directing payment of certain bills drawn by Gen. Armstrong in favor of Thomas [i.e., William] Morgan. March 10, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the select committee to whom was referred a resolution relating to the claim of Massachusetts for expenditures of their militia, for services during the late war. March 10, 1818. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Tobias E. Stansbury, Jun. and William Stansbury. March 2, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the names of persons who have received public money for paying the troops in service during the late war, and who have failed to render their accounts. Made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of 18th February, 1818. March 2, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the correspondence between the Department of State and the Spanish minister residing here, showing the present state of the relations between the two governments. March 14, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
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Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, to whom was referred a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4 ult. instructing them to inquire into the legality of transfers of public debt made to the Bank of the United States by individuals, to secure the payment of loans made to them. March 12, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Samuel Burr, accompanied with a bill for his relief. March 20, 1818. Read, and committed with the bill to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways & Means, accompanied with an estimate of additional appropriations for the year 1818, and a bill supplementary to the several acts making appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. April 11, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. Report of the Secretary of State, to whom it was referred, on the 20th February last, the petition of Jonathan Elliot soliciting the patronage of Congress for the publication of a collection of domestic documents, &c. April 4, 1818. Read and ordered to lie on the table. Papers and documents, in the case of the claim of the heiress of the Caron de Beaumarchais, ordered to be printed, by the House of Representatives, February, 1818. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the sixth ulto, a statement of balances now due, respectively, from such persons, now, or heretofore, acting in the Quartermasters and Paymaster's departments, whose accounts have not been settled for the period of more than one year, previous to the twenty-seventh of December last. March 12, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, accompanying a bill providing for the deposite of wine and distilled spirits in public warehouses. March 12, 1818. Read, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information relative to the renewal and extensions of the commercial treaty already existing between the United States and the government of the Netherlands. March 20, 1818. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of John Delafield, accompanied with a bill for his relief. March 20, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Ebenezer Stevens and others, accompanied with a bill for their relief. March 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in relation to the war with the Seminoles, and the measures which have been adopted by the government in consequence thereof. March 25, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th ult. instructing said Committee to inquire into the expediency of establishing the residence of a consul at Mogadore, in the Empire of Morocco. March 23, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Roads and Canals. March 30, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Resolution respecting the distribution of certain documents. March 19, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Renner and Heath, accompanied with a bill for relief. March 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of David Gelston and Peter A. Shenck [i.e., Schenck], for relief against damages recovered against them on account of the seizure of the ship American Eagle, belonging to Gould Hoyt, and Co. March 21, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the petition of Jarius Loomis and James Bassett; accompanied with a bill authorizing the payment of a sum of money to the officers and crews of gun boats No. 149 and 154. March 24, 1818. Read twice and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, upon the subject of allowing a drawback on refined sugars exported from the United States, and upon the exportation of spirits distilled from foreign materials. March 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Kinsley & French, accompanied with a bill for their relief. March 14, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of fifth Dec. last, information in relation to the independence and political condition of the provinces of Spanish America. March 25, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th Dec. last, a statement of the tonnage of vessels entered into the United States from 1st January, 1815, to 31st December, 1816; of the tonnage of American and British vessels employed in trade between the United States and the British possessions in Europe during the year 1816, &c. &c. March 20, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Report of the select committee appointed on the 17th December, upon the subject of claims of the officers and soldiers of Virginia, for bounty land for Revolutionary services, accompanied with a bill making appropriations for the purpose of extinguishing Indian claims. March 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the bill from the Senate, "To Extend the Term for Locating Virginia Military Land Warrants," &c. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the 4th Auditor of the Treasury of the balances on his books which appear to have been due more than three years prior to the 30th of September last. March 14, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, information, not heretofore communicated, relating to the occupation of Amelia Island. March 26, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the select committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, instructed by a resolution of the House of 16th January last to inquire whether any and what clerks or other officers in either of the departments, or in any office at the seat of government, have conducted themselves improperly in their official duties. March 30, 1818. Resolutions concurred in and committee appointed to bring in a bill in conformity therewith. Memorial of Daniel Parker, Adjutant and Inspector General. April 4, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Naval Committee, on the resolution to inquire into the laws governing the Navy, &c. April 1, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the select committee, appointed on the 12th February last, upon the subject of the confinement, in prison, of Richard W. Meade. April 4, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the joint committee appointed to inquire and report what business was necessary to be acted upon before the close of the present session of Congress. April 4, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Acts of Parliament of the 27th June, 1805, and the 30th June, 1808. April 4, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. Communications to a committee of the House of Representatives, in relation to the duties of government clerks. April 13, 1818. Ordered to be printed. Report in part, of the Committee of Public Buildings. April 4, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on the bill making appropriations for the public buildings, and for furnishing the Capitol and President's house. Report of the committee upon the expenses under the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. April 11, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, accompanied with statements of the sums awarded by the Commissioner of Claims, under the act "Authorizing Payment for Property Lost, Captured, or Destroyed, by the Enemy, While in the Military Service of the United States," passed 9th April, 1816, and an amendatory act, passed 3d March, 1817, &c. &c. &c. February 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. February 24, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee of Claims. Report of the select committee, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Thompson, and petition of John Dailey, accompanied with a bill for their relief. April 6, 1818. Read, and committed with the bill, to the Committee of the Whole, on the bill for the relief of Miller and Baker. Report of the Committee on the Expenditures of the Public Buildings. April 3, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on one hundred and fifty-eight cases of claims for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy during the late war, on the Niagara Frontier, accompanied with "A Bill for the Relief of the Sufferers on the Niagara Frontier." March 27, 1818. Committed with a bill to the Committee of the Whole House on the bill for the relief of Miller & Baker. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Samuel F. Hooker, accompanied with a bill for his relief. March 18, 1818. Read, and committed with the bill to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Letter from Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, to the Chairman of the Committee on the Public Buildings. March 21, 1818. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on the Public Buildings, and ordered laid upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th Jan. last, statements in relation to expenses of general courts martial, from August 1, 1812. March 26, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Thaddeus Mayhew, accompanied with a bill for his relief. March 13, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the select committee, appointed on the 16th instant, on the petition of Gales & Seaton, accompanied with a bill authorizing a subscription to the history of Congress. March 30, 1818. Read twice, and committed, with a bill, to a Committee of the Whole House on the bill to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of unproductive post roads for the year 1817. March 30, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Petition and documents in the case of Mons. Poirey. January 14, 1818. Referred to the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims. March 28, 1818. Bill reported making provision for the claim of M. Poirey. |
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Propositions to amend the Constitution of the United States, submitted by Mr. Lewis. April 16, 1818. Read and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements in relation to the progress, &c. in the construction of the Cumberland Road. April 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the rules, regulations, and instructions for the naval service of the United States, prepared by the Board of Navy Commissioners. April 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the importations of goods, wares, and merchandise, in American and foreign vessels, from first October, 1815, to thirtieth September, 1816. April 15, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant, information relative to the arrest and imprisonment of certain American citizens at Santa Fe by authority of the government of Spain. April 15, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting sundry statements, prepared in obedience to the act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States. April 15, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, upon the subject of fees charged by the District Attorney of the southern district of the State of New York, in prosecutions against retailers without licenses, &c. &c. April 14, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. An act of the Parliament of Great Britain. April 14, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States. |
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In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1819. Read, and ordered to be printed. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Jacob Purkill, report: That in November, 1814, the petitioner hired a fine negro man named Arche, to a certain James Edwards... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting one from the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in the case of William King. December 21, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 14, 1819. Mr. Forsyth submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prescribing by law, the mode of quartering soldiers, during war... In Senate of the United States, November 25, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Goldsborough asked and obtained leave to introduce the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President be requested to take measures to obtain permission of the Honorable Bushrod Washington, for Congress, to cause a suitable monument to be erected over the remains of his illustrious relative... In Senate of the United States, December 30, 1818. The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Abner Greenleaf, report: That the petitioner complains, that in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, he entered into a contract with the agents of the government, for supplying certain articles in building the United States' ship Washington... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Acting Secretary of the Navy, in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate of the eighteenth April, 1818, in relation to the Navy Pension Fund. November 30, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1819. Read, and ordered to be printed. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of B. & P. Jourdan, report: That the petitioners' plantation, situated on the right bank of the Mississippi, was occupied during the campaign of 1814-15... In Senate of the United States, November 26, 1818. Mr. Macon submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the President of the United States to cause a survey to be made of the shoals of Cape Hatteras... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting sundry statements from the Bank of the Unites States, of its concerns and transactions, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the 15th April last. December 7, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of George Stone, report: That the said petitioner sets forth that he served three years in the Massachusetts line... In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Richard H. Wilde, of Georgia... In Senate of the United States, December 1, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel F. Hooker, of New York, report: That in the month of June, 1813, Mr. Hooker chartered a schooner rigged boat, called the Lady Washington... In Senate of the United States, December 4, 1818. The Committee on Pensions report on the petition of Stephen Fuller, who states, that, in consequence of a wound received... In Senate of the United States, November 18, 1818. Mr. Sanford submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands inquire into the propriety of amending the existing laws in such manner... In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Dickerson asked and obtained leave to bring in the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as it respects the choice of electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and the election of representatives in the Congress of the United States... In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Mr. Leake submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the several laws providing for the disposal of public lands... In Senate of the United States, November 24, 1818. Mr. Mellen submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire as to the expediency of establishing, by law, a circuit court of the United States... In Senate of the United States, November 26, 1818. Mr. Burrill submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to lay before the Senate copies of several documents and papers referred to in his message to Congress... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1818. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Charles Higgins, report: That in the year 1816, the petitioner entered into a contract with George Graham, then acting Secretary of War, for the supply of rations to the United States' troops stationed within the State of Pennsylvania... In Senate of the United States, December 4, 1818. Mr. Lacock submitted the following resolution for consideration: Resolved, that no paper or document shall hereafter be printed for the use of the Senate, but by special order... Message from the President of the United States, at the commencement of the second session of the Fifteenth Congress. November 17, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 4, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that a joint committee of the two Houses of Congress be appointed... In Senate of the United States, December 4, 1818, Mr. Lacock submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the message of the President and documents relative to Seminole War... In Senate of the United States, November 24, 1818. Mr. Noble submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed into the expediency of continuing in force the act, entitled "An Act To Suspend, for a Limited Time, the Sale or Forfeiture of Lands for Failure in Completing the Payment Thereon..." Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the twenty-fifth of last month, requesting to be furnished with such information as may be possessed by the Executive, touching the execution of so much of the first article of the late treaty of peace and amity between his Britannic Majesty and the United States as relates to the restitution of slaves, and which has not heretofore been communicated. December 3d, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of such offices of the Customs, with the name of their officers, salaries, emoluments, and the places where held, as it may be proper to suppress and discharge, in consequence of their unproductiveness, the inconsiderable services rendered, or of any other cause. December 3, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Mr. Sanford, from the Committee on Naval Affairs to whom the subject was referred, reported the following resolution, which was read and passed to the second reading: A resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina... In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Mr. Ruggles submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making provision by law for clothing the Army... In Senate of the United States, November 30, 1818. Mr. Sanford submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee of Finance inquire into the expediency of continuing in force the act of the 29th of April, 1816, regulating the currency of certain foreign coins... In Senate of the United States, November 30, 1818. Mr. Tichenor submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of changing the present judicial system of the United States... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to a resolution of the 24th ultimo, directing the Secretary of the Treasury "to lay before the Senate information relative to the effect of 'An Act To Suspend for a Limited Time the Sale or Forfeiture of Lands,' of the 18th of April last, upon the receipts into the Treasury, and the probable effect by continuing in force the act aforesaid for one year, with a condition that if the purchasers complete their payments on or before the expiration of the period aforesaid, interest shall only be required on the installments due from the time that they became due until paid." January 6, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the sales of public lands during the year 1817, and the three first quarters of the year 1818. December 21, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in the case of Lt. Adolphus Burghart [i.e., Burghardt]. December 21, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 17, 1818. The Committee of Finance, to whom has been referred the petition of Nathaniel Goddard, and others, formerly owners of the ship Ariadne, and her cargo... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting one from the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in the case of Capt. Frederick Brown. December 21, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 21, 1818. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Arnold, report: It is set forth by the petitioner that he was a captain in the Revolutionary Army during the whole of that war, and was, at the battle of Monmouth, wounded in the leg... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of documents referred to in his communication of the seventeenth ultimo, in relation to the Seminole War, &c. December 4, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate, containing a plan for the adjustment of the claims to land in certain districts therein mentioned. December 11, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 7, 1818. Mr. Johnson submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of passing a law authorizing the President of the United States to take provisional possession of East Florida, or of such parts of it as he may deem essential, now or hereafter, to control the Indians... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting one from the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in the case of William B. Lewis. December 21, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Read. December 3. Committed. December 15. Reported with amendments. December 16. Amendments agreed to, and made the order of the day for the first Monday in January next, and ordered to be printed, as amended, for the use of the Senate. A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as it respects the choice of electors of President and Vice Prisident [sic] of the United States, and the election of representatives in the Congress of the United States... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement giving a comparative view of the duties which accrued upon imports and tonnage, during the two first quarters of the years 1817 & 1818. December 16, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the petition of Thomas Arnold, praying payment of the commutation provided by law for the officers of the Revolutionary War. December 21, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the representatives of the Religious Society of Friends, in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, praying the adoption of measures for the civilization and improvement of the Indians. December 23, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, December 28, 1818. Mr. Goldsborough, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Forrest, of the City of Washington, report: That in the month of May, 1812, the petitioner's vessel... In Senate of the United States, January 4, 1819. The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures have considered the memorial of Nicholas Brown and Thomas P. Ives, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, which was referred to them by the Senate, and they submit the following... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied with a copy of a letter from Governor Rabun, which was not communicated on a former occasion from that Department. January 4, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report in obedience to a resolution of the 2d instant in relation to the memorial of the governors of the New York Hospital. January 5, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of Benjamin H. Latrobe, late surveyor of the public buildings, in the City of Washington, in vindication of his professional skill. January 5, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 11, 1819. Mr. Sanford submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Attorney General procure and lay before the Senate, at the commencement of their next session, accurate lists of all causes, which may be depending on the __ day of __ in the several district and circuit courts, and in the Supreme Court of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1819. Mr. Roberts, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Clark, report: The petitioner offers satisfactory evidence that he entered the military service of his country at the commencement of the Revolutionary War... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the fifth instant, requesting him to "cause to be laid before it, a statement of the effective force, now comprising the military establishment of the United States; also, a statement of the different posts and garrisons, at, and within, which troops are stationed, and the actual number of officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates, at each post and garrison respectively; also, to designate in such statement the number of artillerists, and the number of calibre of ordnance at each of the said posts and garrisons." January 12, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1819. Read, and ordered to be printed. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Alexander M'Cormick, report: That in the year 1814, when the City of Washington was taken possession of by the British... In Senate of the United States, January 21, 1819. Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following estimate, with a bill for the better organization of the Military Academy; which was read and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of John Brown, report: That the petitioner states that he was enlisted in Paris... In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. The Committee on Pensions report on the petition of Lucy Cotteneau: That the petitioner asks aid from her country... In Senate of the United States, November 19, 1818. Mr. Sanford submitted the following motions for consideration: 1. Resolved, that so much of the message of the President of the United States, as relates to foreign affairs, be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations... In Senate of the United States, December 4, 1818. The Committee of Finance, to whom has been referred the petition of John G. Brown, report: That the petitioner during the continuance of the late war between the United States and Great Britain... Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a return showing the organization and strength of the militia of states and territories; in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the seventeenth March, 1818. November 26, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, November 25, 1818. Mr. Williams of Tennessee submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the pay of the officers... In Senate of the United States, November 24, 1818. Mr. Fromentin submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, such information as he may possess, touching the execution of so much of the first article of the late treaty of peace and amity between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America... In Senate of the United States, December 3, 1818. Mr. Noble submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Jacksonburgh... In Senate of the United States, December 2, 1818. Mr. Sanford submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on Pensions inquire into the propriety of granting a pension to George Bell. |
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In Senate of the United States, February 9, 1819. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Harbaugh and Potter, report: That the petitioners allege, in their petition, that they never have been fully compensated for their services, as quartermasters, to Generals Bell's and Wadsworth's divisions of Ohio militia... In Senate of the United States, January 29, 1819. The Committee on Pensions, on the petition of Rachel Sturgis, report: The petitioner states that Captain Bently, of the United States Army, died of a fever near New Orleans, in the year 1808... In Senate of the United States, January 25, 1819. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a resolution to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting by law the exportation of the gold, silver, and copper coins, of the United States... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Treasury in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 13th of last month, requesting him "to come to be laid before it a statement, showing the measures that have been taken to collect the balances stated to be due from the several supervisors, and collectors of the old direct tax of two millions; also, a similar statement, of the balances due from the officers of the old internal revenue, and to designate in such statement the persons who have been interested in the collection of said debts, and the sums by them respectively collected, and the time when the same were collected." February 2, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Acts of Parliament of Great Britain. January 27, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 19, 1819. The joint committee, on the subject of the public printing, report: That, regarding the subject committed to them, as connected with the convenience of the members, the information of the community, the economy of time and money, and the character of the country, they have given it all the consideration which their other engagements permitted. That three different modes of procuring the printing of Congress to be executed, have undergone their discussion and deliberation... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to one from the Chairman of the Committee of Finance, respecting the coasting trade. February 5, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting documents in pursuance of the resolution of the Senate of the seventeenh [sic] instant. December 28, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1819. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Pierre Lacoste, report: That the losses for which the petitioner prays indemnity, were losses occasioned by the destruction of the British... In Senate of the United States, February 3, 1819. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Christopher Fowler, report: That in the year 1787, Samuel Fowler, father of your petitioner, received two final settlement certificates... In Senate of the United States, February 9, 1819. The Committee on the Public Lands being instructed "to inquire into the expediency of so altering the laws respecting the sale of the public lands, that from and after the __ day of __ next, credit shall not be given on such sales,"... In Senate of the United States, February 9, 1819. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Lefebre [i.e., Lefebvre], report: That the petitioner was one of those who are said to have suffered by the invasion of Louisiana, by the British, in the years 1814, 15; and he states his loss at 1667 dollars... Letter from the Postmaster General, to the Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, as to the expediency of authorizing the Postmaster General to employ an armed guard for the protection of the mails of the United States, on such mail routes as he may deem necessary. February 16, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 16, 1819. The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate of the 4th inst. instructing them to "inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Postmaster General to employ an armed guard for the protection of the mails of the United States, on such mail routes as he may deem necessary..." In Senate of the United States, February 19, 1819. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Captain Biggars' company, report: That said company entered the service of the United States, as mounted rangers, on the 29th of May, 1813, and were discharged on the 13th March, 1814, by the order of Col. William Russell, of the United States Army... In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas J. [i.e., L.] Ogden, report: That the petitioner is represented the owner of certain real estate... In Senate of the United States, January 25th, 1819. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Robert Sewall, report: That on the retreat of the American forces from Bladensburg, on the 24th August, 1814, a party of Commodore Barney's men, then a portion of that force, threw themselves into the house of the petitioner, and made an attack from said house upon the advance party of the British Army under the command of Gen. Ross... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate to "inquire into the expediency of continuing in force the act of the 29th of April, 1818, regulating the currency of certain foreign coins within the United States." January 25, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 26, 1819. The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Wm. N. Perry, and Mark Barnett, report: That the petitioners, being the legal representatives of Col. Wm. Perry, deceased, claim the right to a tract of land... In Senate of the United States, January 26, 1819. The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Wm. Bell, report: That it appears from the statement made by the petitioner that he purchased in the year 1789 a tract of land, lying in the seven ranges of townships which were surveyed and offered for sale under the ordinance of Congress... In Senate of the United States, January 28, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eli Hart, report: The petitioner was the proprietor of a house and store in the Village of Buffalo, State of New York, which, together with his merchandise and out houses, were destroyed by the enemy, in their predatory incursion into the United States, on the 30th of December, 1813... In Senate of the United States, January 28, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Cornelia Schoonmaker, widow and administratrix, and Peter Marius Groen, administrator of Zachariah Schoonmaker, deceased, late paymaster of the Second Regiment of United States Volunteer Artillery... In Senate of the United States, January 29, 1819. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the case of Peter Francisco, report: That they have examined the subject and from a number of certificates find it stated, that Peter Francisco served meritoriously... In Senate of the United States, January 29, 1819. The Committee on Pensions, on the petition of William M'Farland, report: The petitioner states, that he is now on the pension list, at the highest rate of pension allowed by law for a total disability, but alleges that it should be increased in consequence of his having received, (besides the loss of an arm), several wounds in the head, which at times produces mental derangement... In Senate of the United States, January 29, 1819. The Committee on Pensions, on the petition of Otho Stephens, report: That the petitioner asks to be placed on the pension list of the United States, in consequence of services performed in the militia service in the Revolutionary War... In Senate of the United States, February 1, 1819. Mr. Barbour submitted the following resolution, which was read, and passed to a second reading: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President of the United States be requested to employ a skilful artist to ascertain the latitude... Memorial of Noah Brown, and others, in behalf of the owners of the private armed brig Warrior, praying that they may be indemnified from loss in consequence of the mal-conduct of the late clerk of the district court of New York, to whom had been paid, by the order of that court, the proceeds of the brig Dundee, which brig had been libelled and condemned as lawful prize. February 3, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting to the Committee of Finance, an official statement of the gross amount of duties upon merchandize and tonnage which accrued during the two first quarters of the year 1817, and a like statement for the same quarters of the year 1818. February 3, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 15, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of Vincent Grant, of Buffalo, in the State of New York, report: That said Grant prays indemnity for a storehouse, (in the back part of which he resided), furniture, and merchandise, destroyed by the British in December, 1813... In Senate of the United States, March 3, 1819. Mr. Lacock from the committee appointed in pursuance of the resolution of the Senate of the 18th of December, 1818, on the subject of the Seminole War, communicated the following additional testimony, which was read; and, ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, January 28, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of David Henley, report: That the petitioner had received, about the 23d December, 1797, a considerable quantity of arms... In Senate of the United Stats [sic], January 26, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Rees Hill, report: That on the 23d of March, 1813, the Secretary of War addressed a letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania, making a requisition of one thousand militia... Documents presented by the Committee on Finance, in relation to sundry estimates of moneys required for the expenses of the War Department, and military service of the United States, for the year 1819. January 22, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1819. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin Putny [i.e., Putney], report: That the petitioner states that he served the country during the Revolutionary War, both as a common soldier and an officer... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 25th of January last requesting him "to cause to be laid before it a copy of the rules and regulations adopted for the government of the Military Academy at West Point; also, how many cadets have been admitted into the Academy; the time of the residence of each cadet at that institution; and how many of them have been appointed officers in the Army and Navy of the United States." February 5, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 28, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Gabriel Godfroy, of the Michigan Territory, report: That the petitioner was the owner of a large barn principally filled with wheat, and also a stable containing a considerable quantity of hay, timber, and other materials, situated on the River Raisin, in the Michigan Territory... In Senate of the United States, February 24, 1819. Mr. Lacock, from the committee appointed in pursuance of the resolution of the Senate of the 18th of December last, "that the message of the President, and documents relative to the Seminole War, be referred to a select committee, who shall have authority, if necessary, to send for persons and papers; that said committee inquire relative to the advance of the United States' troops into West Florida..." In Senate of the United States, February 16, 1819. Statements respecting the sale of public lands... Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a draft of a bill making appropriations to carry into effect treaties concluded with the several Indian tribes therein mentioned. February 3, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 3, 1819. The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud, report: That on the 15th of August, 1812, a part of the Army, commanded by Brigadier General Hull, in the Michigan Territory... |
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| Serial set 16 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the second session of the Fifteenth Congress, in the forty-third year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
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Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of John Cutter. December 4, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Message from the President of the United States, at the commencement of the second session of the Fifteenth Congress. November 17, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the expediency of prohibiting the emigration and settlement of the Choctaw tribe of Indians on the lands of the United States west of the Mississippi, accompanied with a bill to prohibit the Choctaw Indians from settling or hunting on the lands of the United States west of the Mississippi. December 1, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on Friday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report upon the state of the finances. November 23, 1818. Ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Edwin C. Brown. December 1, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of twentieth April, 1818, a report of the number and grade of the officers of the Army; where stationed; the number on duty; and those on furlough, with the period of furlough. November 20, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of the appropriations for the year 1819. December 2, 1818. Referred to the Committee of Way and Means. Report of the committee, to whom was referred the memorial of the President and board of managers of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States. April 18, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. November 26, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Constitution of the State of Illinois. November 16, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Secretary of War, as to the establishment of a national armory on the western waters. December 7, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House, on the bill "Authorizing the Establishment of a National Armory." Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on th [i.e., the petition] of John Clark. December 9, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of a select committee, to whom was referred sundry petitions in behalf of the surviving officers of the Revolutionary Army. December 7, 1818. Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the subject of reducing the duties on certain wines, accompanied with a bill for that purpose. December 8, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Jacob Dox, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 7, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Joseph Janey (i.e., Janney). December 8, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Simkins submitted the following resolution. December 7, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to lay before this House a statement of the sales, public and private, of public lands northwest of the Ohio... Report on the petition of Colonel de Vienne, accompanied with a bill making provision for his claim. December 11, 1818. Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the "Bill Making Provision for the Claim of M. Poiry," &c. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the Director of the Mint, of the result of several assays at that establishment, on the gold and silver coins of foreign nations, made current by the laws of the United States. December 9, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of April last, of a plan for the final adjustment and settlement of land claims in the State of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri. December 8, 1818. Read, and with a draft of a bill for said purpose, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of P.C.S. Barbour, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 4, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, accompanied with a bill for the final adjustment of land claims in the State of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri. December 4, 1818. Read, and with the bill, ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of John Rice Jones, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 14, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Samuel Q. Richardson and John Haley. November 24, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. December 8, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Colonel I. Clark, and others, accompanied with a bill for their relief. December 11, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Secretary of War, of a system providing for the abolition of the existing Indian trade establishments of the United States, and providing for the opening of the trade with the Indians to individuals, under suitable regulations. December 8, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. November 26, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings. Mr. Spencer submitted the following resolution, which was read and ordered to lie on the table. November 25, 1818. Resolved, that a committee be appointed to inspect the books and examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United States, and to report whether the provisions of its charter have been violated or not... Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of 8th April, 1818, sundry statements in relation to the Navy Pension Fund. November 23, 1818. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Documents in support of the claim of Captain Giles Kellogg and a company of volunteers under his command. November 24, 1818. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of documents referred to in his communication of the seventeenth ultimo, in relation to the Seminole War, &c. December 3, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of the correspondence between the Governor of Georgia and Maj. Gen. Jackson, on the subject of the arrest of Captain Obed Wright. December 14, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Elias Parks. December 17, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, on the petition of the heirs, &c. of Alexander Montgomery, accompanied with a bill for their relief. December 14, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Military Committee, on petition of Captain Stanton Sholes, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of lands sold northwest of the Ohio, the purchase money of which has not been fully paid, and the moneys received for said lands; also, a description of the paper which has been received, and is still receivable for the same. December 18, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of a select committee on the petition of John B.C. Lucas, and Clement Penrose, acompanied [sic] with a bill for their relief. December 15, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House, &c. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Bowie and Kurtz. December 14, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the sales of public lands in the Alabama Territory, &c. &c., in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the third instant. December 16, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information of the progress that has been made, under the act of Congress of the 3d March, 1817, entitled "An Act To Set Apart and Dispose of Certain Public Lands for the Encouragement of the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive." December 14, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri for a division of the territory, &c. December 18, 1818. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, on the bill authorizing the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, &c. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of the remainder of the documents referred to in his message of the seventeenth ult. December 15, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, transmitting information relative to the claim of Bickley and Clark. December 18, 1818. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Report in the case of Thomas Carr, and al., accompanied with a bill for the benefit of Thomas Carr and others. December 14, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Sarah Ingram. December 16, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Secretary of War, upon the subject of the reduction of the expenses of the military peace establishment of the United States; on a change in the ration established, by law; and of a system for the establishment of a commissariat for the Army. December 14, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Report of the Military Committee, in the case of Harvey Wakefield, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 16, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting sundry statements in relation to the expenditure of appropriations to reward the officers and crews of certain vessels for captures made during the late war with Great Britain. December 17, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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| Serial set 19 | Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements relative to the internal duties and direct tax. December 18, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. | 1 |
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Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of John Gooding and James Williams, accompanied with a bill for their relief. January 5, 1819. Read, and with the bill, committed to the Committee of the Whole, to-morrow Case of Thadeus Mayhew. January 6, 1819. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the commissioners appointed to examine and assess the damages occasioned by the troops of the United States, in the neighborhood of the City of New Orleans. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of December 24, 1818, of certain correspondence between the Department of War and the Governor of Georgia; and of the said Department, with General Andrew Jackson. January 4, 1819. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of John J. Johnson, Samuel Plumb, Ralph Patchen, Samuel Bouton, Hannah Debois, and Margaretta Duffield. January 5, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting reports of the proceedings which have been had under the "Act for the Gradual Increase of the Navy" prepared in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of 7th December, 1818. January 4, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of Robert Swartwout, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 28, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill for the relief of Joseph Wheaton. Report of the Committee of Claims, to whom was recommitted the bill for the relief of Thadeus Mayhew, of the State of Louisiana. December 28, 1818. Read, and ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee on Private Lands Claims, on the petition of J.B. Regnier, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 30, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the sales of public lands during the year 1817, and the three first quarters of the year 1818. December 21, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the select committee on the petition of John Wells, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 21, 1818. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Military Committee, on the petition of P. Callan, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 21, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill for the relief of Joseph Wheaton. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, relating to the military establishment of the United States. December 22, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill making appropriation for the military service of the United States for the year 1819. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of William Coffin and others, accompanied with a bill for their relief. December 22, 1818. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, with the bill. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Oliver Pollock. December 21, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the subject of the appropriation for the military service of United States for the year 1819, accompanying a bill making appropriations for the military service of the same year. December 22, 1818. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, in the cases of Hannah Ring, and of Luther Frink, accompanied with a bill for their relief. December 24, 1818. Read, and committed with the bill to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of Ezra Child, accompanied with a bill for his relief. December 28, 1818. Read twice, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Letter from the First Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of balances due the United States on the books in the office of the Second Auditor, by persons whose accounts have not been exhibited for settlement within the year, ending on the 30th September, 1818. December 22, 1818. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives, such further information in relation to our affairs with Spain as, in his opinion, is not inconsistent with the public interest to divulge. December 28, 1818. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of the instructions given to the several boards of commissioners appointed under the act of 2d March, 1805, for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the Territory of Orleans and District of Louisiana. December 28, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Attorney General, on sundry documents referred to him at the last session by the House of Representatives, in relation to the accounts of James Thomas, Quartermaster General in the Army of the United States, during the late war. December 28, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Naval Committee, on the memorial of Thomas Shields, accompanied with a bill concerning Thomas Shields and others. December 29, 1818. Read twice, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of Jasper Bennett, accompanied with a bill for the relief of Malcomb Bennett. January 4, 1819. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the memorial of Thomas Shields, accompanied with a bill authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Thomas Shields. January 4, 1819. Read, and with the bill, committed to the Committee of the Whole, to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the exports of the United States during the year ending 30th September, 1818. January 4, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list made out by the Register of the Treasury, of those persons who have rendered their accounts for settlement within the year. January 5, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, explanatory of sundry items in the estimate of appropriations for the military service for the year 1819. January 6, 1819. Laid before the House of Representatives, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting lists of the clerks employed in the Navy Department, and in the Office of the Commissioners of the Navy, during the year 1818, and the salaries paid to each. January 11, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of persons to whom patents have been granted for any useful invention, from first of January, 1818, to first of January, 1819. January 7, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the contracts made by the Navy Commissioners during the year 1818. January 11, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements of the expenditure and application of moneys drawn from the Treasury on account of the Navy for one year preceding the 30th September, 1818, and the unexpended balances of former appropriations. January 11, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred so much of the President's message of 17th November last, as relates to the proceeding of the court martial in the trial of Arbuthnott and Armbrister [i.e., Ambrister], and the conduct of the Seminole War. January 12, 1819. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the debts, credits, and funds of the banks of the District of Columbia, incorporated by the act, 3d March, 1818. January 12, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements in relation to the Navy Pension Fund. January 12, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a proclamation of a convention between the United States and Spain, together with the translation of a letter from the minister of Spain to the Secretary of State. January 5, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on the Public Buildings, accompanying "A Bill Making Appropriations for the Public Buildings, for the Purchase of a Lot of Land, and Furnishing a Supply of Water for the Use of Certain Public Buildings." January 7, 1819. Read, and, with the bill, committed to the Committee of the Whole, to-morrow. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the instructions which have been issued to Naval commanders upon the subject of the importation of slaves, made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the fourth January, instant. January 12, 1819. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the resolution concerning Navy agents, accompanying "A Bill Concerning Navy Agents." January 5, 1819. Read, and with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. |
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