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In Senate of the United States, February 22, 1823. The Committee of Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Robert F. Stockton, have had the same under consideration, and thereupon make the following report: That, from the facts set forth in the petition, and the evidence produced before the Committee, it appears that the petitioner, having command of the United States' schooner Alligator... Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports, made under an act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims, in the State of Louisiana. January 24, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 25, 1823. Mr. Noble, from the Committee on Pensions, laid before the Senate the following documents, which were read, and ordered to be printed. War Department, January 2d, 1822. Sir: In answer to your letter, making several inquiries relative to the regiment commanded by Colonel Bedel, and in relation to several other subjects connected with Revolutionary pensions... In Senate of the United States, January 10, 1823. Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Taylor, of Va., asked and obtained leave to introduce 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 election of the President and Vice President of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1823. Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, from the Military Committee, made the following report; which was read, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. The Military Committee, to whom was referred the resolution instructing them to inquire into the expediency of providing for the final settlement of the militia claims of the State of Georgia... Petition of Joseph Forrest, praying indemnification for the loss of a vessel chartered by the United States. January 8, 1823. Ordered to be printed. In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1823. Ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. The Committee of Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Stephen T. Northam and others, of Newport, Rhode Island, report: The petitioners state that, on the 19th day of June, 1815, they took out a licence for a distillery, in said Newport, for the distilling from molasses... Letter from the Governor and Council of Maryland transmitting a report of the commissioners appointed to survey the River Potomac. January 27, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, (in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate, of Dec. 12, 1822), statements exhibiting the amount in the aggregate of the goods, wares, and merchandise exported from the United States to France, and imported from thence, in each year from and after the year 1814, to the year 1820; discriminating, in the exports, between the articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, and those of foreign countries; and also, stating the national character of the vessels in which such exports and imports have been made. January 23, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1823. Mr. Van Dyke, from the Committee on Public Lands, made the following report, which was read, and ordered to be printed. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Harrison, agent for the heirs of Captain Jonathan Carver, praying for the recognition and confirmation of an Indian deed for a large tract of land... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1823. The Committee of Claims, to whom were referred the petition of James Morrison, of Kentucky, with the accompanying documents, report: That no additional evidence has been given in this case to vary it from the last session of Congress... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1823. Ordered, that the report of the Ordnance Department which accompanied the President's message of the 13th instant, on the subject of establishing a national armory on the western waters, be printed for the use of the Senate. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a memorial of the Legislative Council of Florida. February 3, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January, 23, 1823. Mr. Taylor, of Virginia, from the committee to which was referred a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as it respects the election of President and Vice President of the United States, reported the following new draft as a substitute therefor, which was read, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, January 30, 1823. Amendment proposed by Mr. Dickerson, to the resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as it respects the election of President and Vice-President of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 7, 1823. Ordered to be printed. Department of War, 6th February, 1823. Sir: I have examined the bill, which accompanied your letter of the third instant, and, in compliance with your request, have the honor to state that, in the opinion of this Department, the public interest will be promoted by the passage of this bill, or one containing similar provisions, at this time. The permanent fortifications which have been commenced since the late war, some of which are completed, will require large additional supplies... Memorial of the General Assembly of Mississippi, praying a donation of public land for the benefit of the Natchez Hospital. February 12, 1823. Ordered to be printed, together with the accompanying act, for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, February 10, 1823. Mr. Noble, from the Committee on Pensions, communicated the following letter from the Secretary of War, which was read, and ordered to be printed. War Department, February 8, 1823. Sir, I have the honor to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 6th instant, that, until the month of August, 1818, no particular account was kept of the number of applications for pensions... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, an estimate of the amount of land in the State of Georgia to which the Indian title has been extinguished by the United States, since the cession of a portion of the territory of Georgia to the United States, with a statement of the cost of such extinguishment; and also, an estimate of the amount of land within the said state to which the Indian title still remains to be extinguished, and by what tribes claimed. February 15, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 21, 1823. Ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a resolution of the 17th January, make the following report: Resolved, that the President be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, at the commencement of the next session of Congress, the plan for the fortification contemplated to be erected at St. Mary's River... In Senate of the United States, February 7, 1823. The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, with accompanying documents, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 22d February, 1822, "requesting the President of the United States to cause to be collected, and communicated to the Senate at the commencement of the next session of Congress, the best information which he may be able to obtain, relative to certain Christian Indians, and the lands, intended for their benefit, on the Muskingum, in the State of Ohio..." In Senate of the United States, February 4, 1823, Mr. Barbour, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, communicated the following act of the British Parliament, which was ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, February 17, 1823. Mr. Lowrie, from the Committee of Finance, to whom was referred the memorial of Lewis A. Petray and Just Viel, report: The memorialists state that they, on the 10th day of January, 1822, received on consignment, in the American brig Neptune's Barge, certain sugars and brandies... In Senate of the United States, February 21, 1823. Ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of making a donation of lands lying upon the waters of the Pearl River, to be appropriated under the direction of the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi, to aid in the opening and improving the navigation of said river, from the seat of government of the state to the Gulph [sic] of Mexico, beg leave to report... In Senate of the United States, February 27, 1823. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of John S. Stiles, executor, &c. of George Stiles, deceased, with the accompanying documents, report: That, while the enemy were in the Chesapeake, in September, 1814, the government of the United States caused to be sunk, at the mouth of the harbor of Baltimore, several vessels belonging to citizens of that place... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the 29th ult., in relation to loans of money from the Treasury to individuals or banking institutions since March 3, 1789. February 28, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Report of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in conformity with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th ultimo, a statement showing the number of officers & soldiers disabled in the service of the U.S. in the late war who have been placed on the pension list since the last session of Congress, &c. March 1, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, March 3, 1823. Mr. Macon, from the Committee, laid before the Senate the following: A list of accounts passed by the Committee on Accounts, 17th Congress, second session... In Senate of the United States, January 20, 1823. The Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Buel, report: That, from the petition and documents referred to them, it appears that in the spring of 1815 a suit was brought in favor of the United States against the petitioner, in the district court for the State of Vermont, for moneys received... In Senate of the United States, February 11, 1823. Ordered to be printed for use of the Senate. On the petition of Ebenezer Oliver and others, directors of an association called the "New England Mississippi Land Company," the Judiciary Committee, to whom the same was referred, report, as follows... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements shewing the commerce and navigation of the United States for the year ending the 30th September, 1822. January 18, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. |
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| Serial set 75 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the second session of the Seventeenth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1822, and in the forty-seventh year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
| Serial set 76 |
Letter from the Postmaster General, in relation to the state and condition of the Cumberland Road. (Made in pursuance to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 31st ult.) January 7, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report and statements in relation to a loan formerly made to certain commissioners of the City of Washington; prepared in obedience to a resolution of the seventh instant. January 13, 1823. Read, and referred to the committee appointed to make certain inquires in relation to the disposal of the public lots in the City of Washington. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, accompanied by an exhibit shewing the number of officers of each grade necessary to command the vessels of the Navy. January 13, 1823, Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the number of officers and messengers retained in the War Department. Made in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of 16 April, 1822. December 3, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Seventeenth Congress. December 3, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a plan of the naval peace establishment of the Navy of the United States, and also of the Marine Corps. (Made in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th of March last.) December 10, 1822. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, on the subject of piracies committed on the seamen and commerce of the United States in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. December 10, 1822. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings. Made in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the 28th of January, 1818. December 10, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual report of the state of the finances. December 24, 1822. 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. viz: United States stock held to the credit of the fund; bank stock do.; warrants drawn on the fund; Treasurer's account; list of pensioners. January 10, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting reports of the number of clerks, &c. in the Navy Department, and in the office of the Navy Commissioners, during the year 1822. January 9, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Commissioners of Naval Hospitals, shewing the state of the Naval Hospital Fund, &c. &c. Made in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 20th December last. January 9, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, (in obedience to a resolution of the Senate, of the 2d February, 1821), information in relation to the claims of John H. Piatt. January 3, 1823. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of expenditures, under the head of contingent expenses, from 1st October, 1821, to 30th September, 1822, as settled at the Office of the Fourth Auditor. January 7, 1823. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. January 13, 1823. Committee discharged from consideration, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 19th Dec. last, in relation to the laws which have been made by the Governor and Legislative Council of Florida. January 6, 1823. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. January 7, 1823. Committee discharged, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the results of assays made at the Mint of the United States, on the several species of foreign coins, current, by law, in the U. States. December 24, 1822. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of all the moneys drawn from the Treasury on account of the Naval Service from the 1st October, 1821, to 30th June, 1822, &c. January 7, 1823. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. January 13, 1823. Committee discharged from consideration, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement exhibiting the names of the clerks employed in the Treasury Department; and the compensation received by each during the year 1822. January 15, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland. January 3, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement shewing the names of surgeons and surgeons' mates of the Navy of the United States now on duty; their respective stations, annual compensation, &c. Rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant. January 16, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Memorial of the inhabitants of East Florida, convened in the City of St. Augustine. January 8, 1823. Read, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of sundry merchants of Boston upon the subject of the revenue laws. December 23, 1822. Read, and referred to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of the officers & messengers retained in the Navy Department, &c. (Made in pursuance of resolutions of the House of Representatives, of the 16th April and 7th May last.) December 3, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report of the number of officers and messengers retained in the Department of State. Made in obedience to resolutions of the House of Representatives, of the 16th of April, and 7th of May last. December 3, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, (in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of April, 1822), a report of the officers and messengers retained in the Treasury Department &c &c. December 3, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. list of reports to be made to the House of Representatives at the 2d session of the 17th Congress by the executive departments; prepared, in obedience to a standing order of the House of Representatives, by Samuel Burch, chief Clerk in the office of said House. December 2, 1822. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of the number of officers and messengers retained in the Post Office Department. In pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 16th April last. December 3, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. |
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| Serial set 77 | Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of accounts which have remained unsettled three years prior to the 30th September, 1822; a list of such officers as have failed to settle their accounts within the year, or have balances unaccounted for, advanced one year prior to 30th September, 1822, and an abstract of moneys, prior to the 3d of March, 1809, on the books of the late Accountant of the War Department, and which remained to be accounted for on the books of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, on the 30th September, 1822. December 30, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. | 1 |
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Message from the President of the United States, upon the subject of Commodore Rodgers' marine rail-way, or inclined plane. January 27, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in relation to the fortifying of Thompson's Island, usually called Key West, &c. &c. January 20, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Message from the President of the United States, communicating the letter of Mr. Prevost, and other documents, relating to an establishment made at the mouth of Columbia River. January 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, transmitting an estimate of appropriations necessary for the service of the year 1823. January 16, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Letter from the Third Auditor of the Treasury, to the Secretary of War, accompanied with a statement exhibiting the payments made in each year to officers of the Army, on account of transportation, since the last reduction of the Army, &c. January 23, 1823. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of moneys arising from the sale of public lands in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, and Missouri, which have been paid to said states, or is due to each; appropriated by law for the opening roads and canals within the same. January 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of payments made at the Treasury, for the discharge of miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for during the year 1822; a statement of contracts and purchases made by collectors for the Revenue Service during the year 1821; a statement of contracts made in relation to oil, light-houses, beacons, buoys, stakeages, &c. &c., and a statement of expenditures on account of sick and disabled seamen for the year 1821. January 29, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Board of Engineers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, made in the year 1821. January 22, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Washington Canal Company, of their receipts and expenditures during the year 1822. February 3, 1823. Ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual statement of the district tonnage of the United States, on the 31st December, 1821. January 23, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of drawbacks on goods exported in 1819, 1820, and 1821, compared with the duties on the same goods, &c. January 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1822. January 25, 1822. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of persons to whom patents have been granted for any new and useful invention during the year 1822. January 22, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of Maj. Gen. Alex. Macomb, Chief Engineer, to the Secretary of War, in relation to the nature and extent of the work done and the materials delivered at the several fortifications, viz: Forts Delaware, Washington, Monroe, Calhoun and Rigolets, under the appropriation for the year 1822. January 23, 1823. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting sundry documents and correspondences in relation to the Indians of Florida. January 30, 1823. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Memorial of the manufacturers of cordage, of the City and County of Philadelphia. January 30, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, to which is committed the bill for more effectual encouragement of certain domestic manufactures. Letter from the Governor and Council of Maryland, transmitting a report of the commissioners appointed to survey the River Potomac. January 28, 1823. Ordered to lie upon the table. Act passed by the Legislative Council of Florida, entitled "An Act To Raise a Revenue in the Territory of Florida." February 3, 1823. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives, and to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Major General Jacob Brown upon the subject of the military road leading from Plattsburg to Sackett's Harbour. January 22, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting (pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 24th inst.) information in relation to the operation of the seventh section of the "Act Supplementary to an Act To Regulate the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage," passed 20th April, 1818; and in relation to the abolition of certain ports of entry, &c. January 31, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a memorial of the Legislative Council of Florida. February 3, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the Comptroller, in relation to fines assessed upon citizens of the State of Virginia for non-performance of militia duty during the late war with Great Britain, &c. January 25, 1823. Read, and referred to a select committee. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of the names of the clerks employed in the War Department during the year 1822, and the compensation allowed to each. January 22, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a "Convention of Navigation and Commerce," between the United States and France, as concluded and signed at Washington, 24th June, 1822. February 20, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of a convention concluded at St. Petersburg, the 12th day of July, 1822, under the mediation of the Emperor of all the Russias, between the United States of America and his Britannic Majesty. January 25, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means |
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements shewing the commerce and navigation of the United States for the year ending the 30th September, 1822. January 18, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the amount received annually under the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen since its passage; as, also, the amount expended. February 3, 1823. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the appropriations for his Department for the year 1822, with the amount expended under each head, and the balance remaining in the Treasury at the end of the year. February 3, 1823. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report upon the subject of contracts made by the several surveyors general of the public lands, for services performed since the first day of Jan., 1819. Made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, of the 17th January last. February 11, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. February 5, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the annual statements of the appropriations and expenditures of the Navy Department for the year 1822. February 6, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information in relation to the unlawful expedition fitted out from the ports of the United States against the Spanish Island of Porto Rico. February 4, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. February 6, 1823. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a resolution of the Legislature, and an extract of a letter from the Governor of Georgia, and a memorial of the Legislature of the State of Missouri, relative to the extinguishment of the Indian title to land within the said states. February 7, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of all contracts made by the War Department during the year 1822. February 6, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Document accompanying the Bill No. 286, respecting claims and titles to land in Florida. February 10, 1823. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a list of newspapers and periodical works, with a catalogue of the books purchased for the use of the Navy Department, for the last six years; and a similar list and catalogue for the office of the Commissioners of the Navy. Rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 20th inst. February 4, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee on the Public Lands, with a statement of the compensation of the registers and receivers of the land offices for three years therein mentioned. February 10, 1823. Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, (pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of 9th Jan. last), a statement of outstanding Custom house bonds on the 1st October, 1822; a statement of bonds taken for duties on merchandise, and debentures issued for drawback, from 1st January, 1821, to 30th September, 1822; a statement of the nett amount of revenue on merchandise, tonnage, &c. of payment into the Treasury, and expenses of collection of the same, on 31st December of the years 1816, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 1821; and a statement of the whole amount of the unexpended balance of the sinking fund, distinguishing each year since 1817. February 8, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of the clerks employed in his office during the year 1822, and the salary allowed to each. February 6, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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Message from the President of the United States, transmitting (pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 22d ult.) the correspondence between the government of the United States and Great Britain, relating to the negotiation of the convention of the 20th October, 1818. February 15, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State, in relation to the changes in the commercial regulations of the different foreign nations with which the United States have intercourse. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the expenditures at the national armories and of the arms made and repaired therein during the year 1822. February 15, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, transmitting a statement of the Register, exhibiting the contingent expenses of the several land offices, as the same have been settled at the Treasury of the United States. February 20, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, reports of the newspapers, journals and other periodical publications, charts, and instruments, maps, and prints, taken at the public expense in the War Department; also, a catalogue of the books which have been purchased on public account within the last six years. February 11, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of the accounts of superintendents and agents for Indian affairs, prepared in pursuance of the 3d section of the act of 5th May, 1822, to amend the act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers. February 19, 1823. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on so much of the memorial of the Legislature of Alabama as relating to the sale of the public lands in the Counties of Jackson and Decatur, in that state. Referred to him by the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 3d of February, instant. February 15, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Memorial of sundry citizens of West Florida. February 19, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill to amend the Act for the Establishment of a Territorial Government in Florida. Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the appropriation for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia for the year 1822; also, a statement of existing engagements for supplying arms, &c. under the law for "Arming the Whole of the Militia of the United States"; with an estimate of the amount required by each, during the year 1823. February 18, 1823. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the expenditures in laying out and making the Cumberland Road. February 20, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information in relation to expenditures on the Ordnance Department, the quantity and description of arms now belonging to the United States, as required by the resolution of the 17th of December last. February 17, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report and statement respecting the appropriations for fortifications in the years 1820, 1821, & 1822, as required by the resolution adopted on the 6th inst. February 17, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Memorial of sundry masters of American vessels, lying in the port of Charleston, S.C. February 19, 1823. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting statements shewing the books, charts, periodical publications, instruments, measures, &c. &c. purchased by the Department of State, at the public expense, during the last six years. February 21, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by resolutions of the House of Representatives, in relation to the security obtained by the government in the year 1821 from the Bank of Vincennes, for the public deposites in the said bank, &c. &c. &c. February 24, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter of Col. Bomford, on ordnance duty, to the Secretary of War, relative to the number of arms required annually to supply the militia of the west. February 24, 1823. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the committee appointed further to investigate the suppression in the printing of certain public documents in relation to the western banks. February 26, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, (pursuant to a resolution of the 11th instant), a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to prize agents. February 24, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. |
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements showing the operations of the Mint of the United States during the year 1822. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances on the books of receipts and expenditures which have been due more than three years prior to the 30th September last; also, a list of balances standing on the books of the revenue, unsettled by the collectors of the Customs, during the period before mentioned. December 9, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances on account of the late internal revenue on the books of the Register, which have been due and unsettled more than three years prior to 30th September, 1822. December 18, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting the return of American seamen as registered in the several collection districts in the three first quarters of the year 1822. February 3, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the contracts made by the Commissioners of the Navy during the year 1822. February 4, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting (pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th ult.) statements shewing the newspapers, journals, charts, instruments, maps, &c. which are taken in the Treasury Department at the public expense; also, a catalogue of the books which have been procured for the use of said Department during the last six years. February 25, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in relation to the operations of the several land offices under the provisions of the act of 2d March, 1821, for the relief of purchasers of the public lands prior to 1st July, 1820; rendered in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of 29th December last. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports of the incorporated banks in the District of Columbia, shewing the state of their affairs on the 31st December, 1822. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State, in relation to the transactions of the commissioners under the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. Also, the measures which have been taken under the fourth article of the treaty with Spain, of February 22, 1819, for fixing the boundary line described in the third article of the last mentioned treaty. March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in relation to the illegal blockade of the ports of the Spanish Main, and of vessels of the United States captured by privateers fitted out in Porto Rico and other Spanish islands, &c. March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement showing what sums of money have been charged or retained by registers and receivers of public moneys since twentieth April, 1818, for clerk hire, office rent, &c. not usually allowed. Also, a statement of emoluments to receivers and registers during the years 1819, 1820, and 1821. March 3, 1823. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a supplementary return to the digest of the accounts of the manufacturing establishments and their manufactures. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Additional papers communicated by the President of the United States, to the correspondence between the government of the United States and Great Britain, relating to the negotiation of the Convention of the 20th October, 1818, (pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 22d ult.). March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table |
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Message from the President of the United States, transmitting statements from the Treasury Department, shewing the amount of moneys advanced to agents, contractors, &c. since 1st Jan., 1817, which have not been accounted for, and the amount of loss sustained in each case, the securities taken, and the names of the sureties. February 20, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of accounts which have remained unsettled on the books of the Second Auditor more than three years prior to 30th September, 1822; also, a list of officers who have failed to settle their accounts, in the office of the said Auditor, for advances made within the year terminating on the 30th Sept., 1821. December 27, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances on account of the old internal revenue and direct tax; a list of balances on account of the late direct tax; a list of balances due from receivers of public moneys for land sold; and a list of officers who have omitted to render their accounts within the year ending the 30th Sept., 1822. January 25, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances standing on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, which have remained unsettled more than three years prior to 30th September last. January 31, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information called for by the resolution of the 24th ultimo, of the number of persons, and the amount due from each, whose compensation hath been withheld, in pursuance of the law, prohibiting payment to persons in arrear to the government. February 26, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement showing the contracts made for carrying the mails of the U. States in the year 1822. March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report, made in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 2d of March, 1819, entitled "An Act Regulating Passenger Ships and Vessels." January 9, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, transmitting the general account of his office from 1st July, 1821, to 30th June, 1822; also, the War and Navy accounts from 1st October, 1821, to 30th June, 1822. February 14, 1823. Ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of unproductive post roads for the year 1822. February 17, 1823. Read , and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a return of the militia of the U.S. with an account of the arms, accoutrements, ammunition, &c. February 25, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements shewing the amount of money standing to the credit of the U. States at the end of every quarter since 1st January, 1817, in every bank in which the public moneys have been deposited; the transfer of public funds from one bank to another, with the reasons therefor; together with statements in detail in relation to unavailable funds. Rendered, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of 8th May, 1822. March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of official emoluments and expenditures of the officers of the Customs of the United States, pursuant to the act of March 2, 1799. March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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| Serial set 84 | Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of War of the expenses of the Ordnance Department, for the years 1817, 18, 19, 20, 21, and part of 1822, &c., &c. January 6, 1823. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. | 1 |
| Serial set 85-1 | Statement of the contingent expenses of the Ordnance Department, for the years 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, & 1821. Part II. | 1 |
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Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Archibald S. Bulloch and others. February 28, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 11, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petitions of John Anderson, Francis Navarre, and Francis Robert. January 17, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed, by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Septa Fillmore. March 4, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 6, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Samuel Wharton. December 23, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of Woodson Wren. December 20, 1822. Read, and with an accompanying bill for his relief, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, (instructed, by a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 23d December last), to inquire "whether the Army had been reduced according to the provisions of the act entitled 'An Act To Reduce and Fix the Military Peace Establishment of the United States,'" passed 2d March, 1821. April 2, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the petition of Alexander Mactier, George W. Dashiell, and Archibald Stewart, of Baltimore. January 31, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the case of Ruamah Williams. December 16, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. February 13, 1822. Again referred to the Committee on Pensions, &c. February 19, 1822. Reported again and committed. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Alvin Bronson. February 15, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. February 16, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Nathan Ford. March 20, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 25, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the select committee appointed on the 17th ultimo, to consider of certain treaties with the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and the Articles of Agreement and Cession entered into on the 24th April, 1802, between the United States and the State of Georgia; accompanied with resolutions making appropriations for carrying into effect the Articles of Agreement and Cession entered into between the United States and the State of Georgia on the 24th of April, 1802, and for other purposes. January 7, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next. December 10, 1822. Taken up in Committee of the Whole, progress reported, and ordered to be reprinted. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Caze and Richaud. February 22, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 6, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Re-printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Gad Pierce. January 21, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of James P. Smith, representative of Ambrose D. Smith. March 4, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 26, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, in the case of Jonathan S. Smith. March 21, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 25, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Allen R. Moore. January 11, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Marinus W. Gilbert. February 14, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, in the case of Thomas Kemp. February 19, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Re-printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the petition of Peter S. Chazotte and others, in behalf of the American Coffee Land Association. February 20, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Henry B. Brevoort. February 7, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. May 28, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-day. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Morgan Brown. January 30, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Joseph Wheaton. December 19, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. January 3, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of William Johnston. January 29, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. February 16, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole on Bill No. 61, for the relief of Charles A. Swearingen. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Jean B. Jerome and others. January 25, 1822. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill for the relief of James May and the representatives of Wm. Macomb. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of Peter Mills. February 14, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. May 8, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole to-day. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the memorial of Charles Townsend. January 3, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report in the case of John Thomas and Co. by the Committee of Claims. February 15, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. February 18, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Report, and letter of the Third Auditor, printed by order of the House of Representatives. December 12, 1822. Re-printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, in the case of Richard G. Morris. January 29, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 4, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of George Winthrop Fox. December 26, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. February 6, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Frederick Halsey. March 4, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 6, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of the administrators of Zachariah Schoonmaker. March 29, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. May 8, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole to-day. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer. March 19, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. April 12, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report in the cases of Hoel Lawrence, Frederick White, and of Thaddeus Clark, and others, by the Committee of Claims. February 25, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 11, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the select committee to which was referred, on the 26th of December last, the report of the Secretary of State upon the subject of weights and measures. March 11, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Enos Terry. February 22, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 19, 1822. Again referred to the Committee of Claims. March 27, 1822. Committee of Claims again report as follows, which was committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, to which was recommitted the report of the 15th January, 1822, in the case of Eli Hart. February 11, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Eli Hart. January 21, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of the Levy Court of Calvert County. February 6, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Re-printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of S. Henderson. April 10, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, in the case of Thomas Eames. April 27, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Heman B. Potter. January 23, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of David Taylor. December 20, 1821. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of William Drakeford. April 27, 1822. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the report of the Committee of Claims in the case of Nathaniel Childers. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the petition of Jacob Schieffelin and Henry Schieffelin. April 8, 1822. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of William G. and Benjamin Roberts. March 4, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. March 6, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House. December 12, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of John Jenkins. December 17, 1822. Read, and, with a bill for the relief of John Jenkins, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, in the case of James Wood. January 25, 1822. Read and concurred in; petition rejected. January 28, 1822. Reconsidered, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Commerce, to which was referred so much of the President's message as concerns the commercial intercourse of the United States with foreign nations. March 15, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Brigadier Gen. T. Glascock. March 29, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. December 20, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on Roads and Canals, to which was referred a report of a select committee made 12th May, 1820, relative to carrying into effect the Treaty of Brownstown of 25th November, 1808, accompanied with "A Bill for Laying Out and Making a Road from the Lower Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the Connecticut Western Reserve, in the State of Ohio," &c. March 8, 1822. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Dec. 19, 1822. Ordered to be re-printed. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the bill from the Senate for the relief of Samuel H. Walley and Henry G. Foster. December 27, 1822. Read, and with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Military Committee on the Georgia militia claim. March 26, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. December 20, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, upon the subject of admitting aliens to the right of citizenship who resided within the United States one year preceding the declaration of the late war with Great Britain. March 13, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. December 12, 1822. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of the heirs of William T. Nimmo, with a bill for their relief. December 18, 1822. Read, and, with a bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the case of Joseph Sills. January 23, 1822. Committed to the Committee of the Whole to which is committed the report in the case of Heman B. Potter. December 12, 1822. 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Report of the Committee on the Public Buildings, in the case of Thomas Davis and Mary Davis, heirs of Solomon Davis, deceased. February 5, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Second Committee of Investigation on the Suppression of Certain Parts of a Document. Statement submitted by Mr. Cambreleng. January 29, 1823. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. An estimate of duties on certain articles, as proposed in the bill reported by the Committee of Manufactures, and a comparison with existing duties. Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the execution of the act of last session abolishing the Indian trading establishments. March 1, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to which was referred an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed the 5th of August, 1822, with a resolution instructing said committee to inquire whether the said act violates any right of the United States. February 21, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Resolution submitted by Mr. Mercer. February 10, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to enter upon, and to prosecute, from time to time, such negotiations with the several maritime powers of Europe and America as he may deem expedient for the effectual abolition of the African slave trade.... Report of the Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings. February 18, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Resolution submitted by Mr. Colden. December 11, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie (one day) on the table. Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to lay before this House such information as he may possess with regard to any hostile expedition... Resolutions submitted by Mr. Cannon. December 10, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant, instructing said Committee to inquire into the expediency of allowing to the mother of the late Lieutenant William H. Allen a pension, &c. December 31, 1822. Read, and with a bill for the relief of the mother, &c., of Lieutenant Allen, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Resolution submitted by Mr. Woodson. January 2, 1823. Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Whereas it is the duty of the representatives of this nation to promote, to the extent of their zeal and abilities, the best interest, the highest destinies of their country: And, it is believed, that nothing would contribute more essentially to the accomplishment of those great objects, than internal improvements... Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of John G. Bogert. March 27, 1822. Ordered to lie on the table. December 23, 1822. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Resolution submitted by Mr. Tattnall. December 17, 1822. Read, and ordered to be printed. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that so much of the several treaties made between the United States and the Creek and Cherokee Indians... Motion of Mr. Ingham for information from the Secretary of the Treasury concerning Custom house bonds and sinking fund. January 8, 1823. To lie one day. Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of George B.R. Gove with a bill for his relief. December 31, 1822. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs in the case of Penelope Denny. January 13, 1823. Accompanied by a bill for the relief of Penelope Denny. Resolution submitted by Mr. Alexander Smyth. January 6, 1823. Ordered to lie on the table one day. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States, be proposed to the legislatures of the several states... Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the subject of an extinguishment of the Indian title to certain land within the State of Georgia, accompanied with a bill for the accomplishment of the same. January 6, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Resolution submitted by Mr. Jennings. December 13, 1822. Rejected. December 16, 1822. Vote rejecting re-considered, and resolution ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, on a letter and documents referred to said Committee, presented by Edwin Lewis, complaining on the conduct of Judge Tate. January 28, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table Report of the select committee, to which was referred the message of the President of the United States, in relation to the claim of the heirs of the late Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, accompanied with a bill relative to the heirs of the said Beaumarchais. January 28, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, of additional information on the subject of loans of gunpowder and lead by officers of the United States to individuals, obtained since their report of last session of Congress. January 21, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, in John Burgin's case, accompanied with a "Bill for the Discharge of John Burgin from Imprisonment." January 29, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the petition of Alexander Macomb. January 28, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the petition of Julia Lawrence, the widow of the late Captain James Lawrence. January 21, 1823. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill for the relief of Penelope Denney. Report of the select committee, appointed on 21st January, upon the subject of a letter of Messrs. Gales and Seaton. January 30, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Resolutions submitted by Mr. Jennings. January 30, 1823. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Resolution submitted by Mr. Sterling, of New York. January 20, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on Public Lands, on the petition of William Wilson and al. January 28, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Comparative statement of present duties and those proposed in the bill before the House of Representatives. No. 222. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the petition of Sarah Perry, mother of the late Oliver H. Perry, accompanied with a bill for her relief. January 21, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of Joseph Vidal, accompanied with a bill for the relief of the representatives of Jacintha Vidal, Thomas Thompson, and Margaret Thompson. January 31, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, in the case of James H. Clark, with a bill. January 22, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill for the relief of James Ross. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, accompanying the bill to fix the naval peace establishment. January 20, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in the case of David M'Caleb. January 28, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the select committee appointed on the 13th ult. in relation to the expediency of receiving certain foreign coins in payments at the Treasury; accompanied with a bill making the gold coins of Great Britain, France, &c. receivable in payments on account of public lands. February 6, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, upon the President's message in relation to the marine railway, or inclined plane. February 12, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year 1823. Report of the select committee, appointed on the 13th ultimo, to inquire into the expediency of continuing in force for a further time the acts regulating, within the United States, the currency of certain foreign coins; accompanied with a bill for that purpose. February 5, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, in relation to the extinguishment of the Indian title to lands, the right of soil in which is claimed by an individual state or states. February 13, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Private Land Claims, on the petition of William Kendall, accompanied with a bill for his relief. February 6, 1823. Read, and, with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on the Public Buildings, upon the subject of alterations necessary to be made in the hall of the House of Representatives for the accommodation of the Eighteenth Congress. February 13, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on the Expenditures of the Department of State on the Patent Office. February 7, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of a select committee, appointed to inquire whether any legislative provision is necessary for the settlement of the accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, accompanied with a bill for that purpose. February 8, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on the Public Buildings, accompanying "A Bill Making Appropriations for the Public Buildings." February 14, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the petition of the corporation of the Church of St. Anne, in Detroit, Michigan, accompanied with a bill. February 7, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on a proposition to apportion the midshipmen among the several states. February 17, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the select committee, upon the subject of prolonging the continuance of the Mint of the United States at the City of Philadelphia; accompanied with a bill for the accomplishment of that object. February 4, 1823. Read, and, with the bill, committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on the subject of Navy hospitals. February 3, 1823. Accompanied by a bill, which was twice read and committed. Report of the Committee on Commerce, to which was referred the bill from the Senate for the relief of Alexander Humphrey and Sylvester Humphrey. February 4, 1823. Read, and, with the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to the Indians in Florida. February 21, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, in the case of Amasa Stetson. February 21, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, upon the subject of increasing the appropriation for arming the militia. February 21, 1823. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, on certain resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Alabama, in relation to a tonnage duty in the ports of Mobile and Blakely, for the benefit of sick and disabled seamen. February 24, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, on the subject of the fortifications at Mobile Point and Dauphin Island. February 25, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, upon the subject of alterations in the organization of the courts of the United States, and also upon the petition of the State of Indiana upon the same subject. March 3, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Memorial of John Wheelwright. December 16, 1823. Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Jan. 3, 1823. Bill reported, No. 213. Report of the select committee, to which was referred on the 3d February last the petition of the representatives of John H. Piatt, deceased. March 3, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the report of a select committee of the 7th February, 1821, in relation to loans of lead and gunpowder to certain individuals by officers of the government. May 7, 1822, Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Holden W. Prout. February 3, 1823. Ordered to lie on the table. Report of the Military Committee, on the bill from the Senate for the relief of James Morrison. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Report of the select committee, to which was referred the memorials of several banking institutions and insurance companies in the State of South Carolina, and a memorial of the Bank of the United States, in relation to an amendment of their charter, &c. February 27, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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| Serial set 88 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the first session of the Eighteenth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 1, 1823, and in the forty-eighth year of the independence of said United States. | 1 |
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In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1824. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Amasa Stetson of Boston, reported: That the petitioner was appointed a deputy commissary general of purchases, at the commencement of the late war... In Senate of the United States, December 22, 1823. The Committee of Claims, to which was referred the petition of Hanson Kelly, of Wilmington, North Carolina, report: That Beverly Daniel, marshal of the State of North Carolina, in the month of May, 1814, entered into a contract with the petitioner, to furnish all the rations... Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information respecting the original amount of a judgment lately obtained by the United States, in the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, against Colonel William Duane; and what credits have been allowed to the defendant since the date of the judgment, the dates of such credits, by whom given, and under what authority. (In obedience to a resolution of the Senate, of 1st March, 1823.) December 3, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with a plan for a peace establishment of the Navy of the United States. February 3, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Eighteenth Congress. December 2, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanied with a statement of the number of Revolutionary pensioners in each state at this time on the list, and the amount of money received or receivable in each state on account of Revolutionary pensioners. (Furnished in obedience to a resolution of the Senate, of the 1st March last.) December 2, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the amount of interest received or receivable in each state on the public debt; the amount of dividends paid or payable in each state, by the Bank of the United States; all in reference to the year 1823; and the amount of duties on tonnage and imports received during the year ending on the 30th September next; and the amount of the direct taxes still due and unpaid in each state of the United States. December 3, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, December 16, 1823. Ordered, that the resolutions of the last and present session, proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States, be printed for the use of the Senate... In Senate of the United States, December 31, 1823. Mr. Barbour, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Henderson on behalf of himself and family, the legal representatives of the late Lt. Col. John Laurens, of South Carolina, submitted the following report... In Senate of the United States, December 30, 1823. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to which was referred the petition of Frederick W. Smith, a lieutenant in the Navy, made the following report: The petitioner states that, in the spring of the year 1815, while he was employed in recruiting men for the sloop of war Ontario... In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1824. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holmes, of Maine, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Josiah Hook, jun., collector of the District of Castine, praying relief from a judgment recovered against him in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, by Josiah Hoit, reported... Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances. January 2, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 7, 1824. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to which was referred the petition of Charles B. Davis, of the City of Washington, made the following report: That the petitioner states that on the removal of the seat of government from Philadelphia to Washington, four buildings were erected at the public expense, as dwellings for the messengers, contiguous to the Treasury... In Senate of the United States, January 12, 1824. Mr. Jackson, from the Military Committee, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Williamson and others, officers engaged in the campaign against the Seminole Indians in the winter of 1818, made the following report: That they have examined the act of the 4th of May, 1822... Documents communicated by the Committee on Naval Affairs, in relation to building an additional number of sloops of war. January 13, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Report of the Secretary of War, in relation to a military road from St. Philip to the English Turn. Made in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate. January 13, 1824. Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1824. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Finance, to which was referred the memorial of the President and directors of the Merchants' Bank of Newport, Rhode Island, made the following report... In Senate of the United States, January 19, 1824. Mr. Mills, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the petition of Richard O'Brien, submitted the following report: That the petitioner prays an allowance for losses sustained, expenses incurred, and services rendered the United States, as consul general at Algiers... Document accompanying a bill for the relief of James Johnson. January 20, 1824. Printed for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, January 30, 1824. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Wilson praying a proportion of the proceeds of a vessel... In Senate of the United States, February 3, 1824. Mr. Bell, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, reported: The petitioners state that their father, the late Colonel Robert H. Harrison, entered the military service of the United States... In Senate of the United States, January 23, 1824. Mr. Jackson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the report of the Secretary of War respecting a military road... In Senate of the United States, January 24, 1820 [i.e., 1824]. Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Banister Stone, submitted the following report: That the petitioner prays to be released from the obligation of a contract entered into by him, as the security of Adam Carruth, in the year 1816, by which said Carruth was bound to deliver to the government ten thousand stand of small arms... In Senate of the United States, January 30, 1824. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a bill for the relief of James Johnson, reported: That Col. Richard M. Johnson commanded, during the late war with Great Britain, a regiment of mounted infantry... In Senate of the United States, February 2, 1824. Mr. Lloyd, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred a resolution relative to the Privateer Pension Fund... In Senate of the United States, February 22, 1824. Mr. Barton, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Andrew Henshaw, with the accompanying documents, have had the same under consideration, and report: That the petitioner claims of the United States $930.82 for surveying performed by him, as a deputy of the late Thomas Freeman, surveyor of the United States' lands south of Tennessee... In Senate of the United States, January 2, 1824. Read, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina... Memorial of Samuel Slater and others, a committee appointed by the manufacturers of cotton; and others interested in the manufacture of that article, in the State of Rhode Island, &c. January 6, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, January 22, 1824. Mr. Bell, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Rezin Rawlings and John Locke, executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Rawlings, deceased, reported: That the petitioners represent that their testator, Daniel Rawlings, contracted with the agents of the government of the United States, during the war with the Creek Indians... Report of the Secretary of the Senate, of the expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate during the year 1822. (Made in obedience to a resolution of March 1, 1823.) December 2, 1823. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. |
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Report in Senate of the United States, February 17, 1824. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Obadiah Jones, receiver of public money at Huntsville, Alabama, respectively reported: That the petition presents the following facts, which are proved by the depositions and documents accompanying it, to wit: That, in the night of the 14th February, 1822, the weather being rainy and boisterous, a Negro man, called Squire, entered the chamber of the petitioner, and took from his pocket seventeen hundred dollars of land office money... In Senate of the United States, February 10, 1824. Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Oliver and others, directors of a corporation called the New-England Mississippi Land Company, &c. reported as follows: 1st. That, by the articles of agreement and cession of the 24th of April, 1802, between the United States and the State of Georgia... Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, remonstrating against the passage of the Bill To Amend the Several Acts for Imposing Duties on Imports. February 9, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 12, 1824. Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Alfred Moore and Sterling Orgain, reported: That the claim amounts to $120 for the work and labor of Morris Lindsey, a blacksmith, who, under contract with the officer of the Army... In Senate of the United States, February 13, 1824. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Talbot submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so modifying and changing the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789... Report of the Secretary of State, of such articles manufactured in the United States as would be liable to duties if imported from foreign countries; as, also, the amount of capital invested in each county, respectively, with a schedule of factories incorporated by state laws, from 1800 to 1820, inclusive. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the 1st March, 1823. January 27, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 23, 1824. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of William Eaton, reported: The petitioner states that, in March, 1813, he made a contract with General Dearborn, at Albany, to bake, at Cayuga, two thousand barrels of flour into hard bread, for the use of the troops of the United States... Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, communicating information of the quantity of cordage manufactured from hemp of domestic growth which has been used in the service of the Navy since the year 1812; &c. &c. (In obedience to a resolution of the Senate, of 22d January last.) February 23, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 17, 1824. Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, on the petition of John S. Stiles, executor of George Stiles, late of the City of Baltimore, deceased, report: That the same petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, with statements exhibiting the names of pursers and Navy agents who are in arrears to the United States, &c. February 11, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 23, 1824. Mr. Smith, from the Committee of Finance, to which was referred the petition of Petray and Viel, merchants and citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, reported: That the petitioners state that they received on consignment, from St. Augustine, certain sugars and brandies... Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the commerce and navigation of the United States for the year ending on the 30th September, 1823. February 12, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting certain documents in relation to the claim of the State of Massachusetts for services rendered by the militia of that state during the late war with Great Britain. February 23, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, February 24, 1824. Mr. King, of Alabama, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of Don Harpin de la Gautrais, praying to be confirmed in their title to a tract of land situated on the west of Pearl River, in the State of Louisiana, reported... In Senate of the United States, February 23, 1824. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Finance, to which was referred the petition of Napier, Rapelye & Bennet, citizens and merchants of Charleston, South Carolina, reported: That the petitioners state, that they received a consignment of fifty boxes of sugar from St. Augustine, in the month of January, 1822, then a port of the United States... |
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In Senate of the United States, March 23, 1824. Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Col. William Duane, reported: That the claims of the petitioner may be divided into classes: 1st, claims for military works; 2d, claims suspended for want of sufficient regular vouchers and want of vouchers supposed to be lost... In Senate of the United States, February 25, 1824. Mr. M'Ilvaine, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Staniford, a captain in the Army of the United States, respectfully reported: That, from the petition, deposition, and other documents of Capt. Staniford, it appears that, in the year 1812, he was appointed an ensign in the Eleventh Regiment of United States' Infantry, and, shortly after, was appointed paymaster of said regiment... In Senate of the United States, February 26, 1824. Mr. Lloyd, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Moses Atkinson, and others, praying remuneration for losses sustained in consequence of the necessary destruction of the United States' ship Adams, during the late war, reported... In Senate of the United States, March 26, 1824. Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Hewes, having had the same under consideration, reported: It appears that, in the month of August, 1812, James Jones imported from Canada into the State of Vermont a quantity of goods... Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with statements in relation to the public lands. March 25, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, April 2, 1824. Mr. Lloyd, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Johnson, late a purser in the Navy of the United States... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting certain papers relating to the compact between the U. States & the State of Georgia, of 1802, &c. April 2, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, May 14, 1824. Mr. Benton, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the President's message communicating the memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri on the subject of Indians residing within that state, reported... Memorial of George Jones and others, praying that no addition may be made to the existing tariff. March 3, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, relative to the purchase of certain Indian Territory, &c. March 4, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, March 12, 1824. Mr. Bell, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Reuben Colburn, reported: That the petitioner states that, in the month of August, A.D. 1775, he built two hundred and twenty batteaux for the use of the Army... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a supplemental report of William Lambert, explanatory of his astronomical calculations with a view to establish the longitude of the Capitol. December 23, 1823. Read. March 12, 1824. Ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. In Senate of the United States, March 18, 1824. Mr. Benton, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicated the following documents: Senate Chamber, February 11, 1824. Sir: I am instructed, by the Committee on Indian Affairs, to inquire: 1. What would be the probable expense of moving a military post... Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information requested by a resolution of the Senate of 19th inst. of loans made by the executive, through the agency of the War Department, during the late war. Under the condition of applying the same to the defence of the state wherein the said loans were made, to what amount, and whether interest was paid by the United States for such loans. April 28, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Documents submitted by the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, in relation to the bill in addition to an act establishing Navy hospitals. April 15, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in relation to the present state of the commercial intercourse between the United States and Portugal. (In pursuance of a resolution of the Senate of the United States of the 13th ult.) May 10, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, April 24, 1824. Mr. Van Dyke, from the Select Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the memorial of the President and directors of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, reported: The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company was duly incorporated... In Senate of the United States, April 20, 1824. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Finance, to which was referred the memorial of John H. Howland, of New York, reported: That it is proved that two hundred and thirty-seven boxes of sugar... In Senate of the United States, April 27, 1824. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Finance, laid on the table the following documents, relating to the bill making appropriations for certain fortifications... In Senate of the United States, May 21, 1824. Mr. Dickerson, from the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives to whom was referred the resolution directing them to make such distribution of the rooms of the centre building of the Capitol... In Senate of the United States, April 27, 1824. Mr. Benton, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, laid on the table the following documents: Department of War, April 26, 1824. Sir: The subject of Indian depredations upon the Missouri... In Senate of the United States, April 24, 1824. Mr. Dickerson, from the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, to whom was referred the Act To Amend the Several Acts for Imposing Duties on Imports... In Senate of the United States, May 10, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. A statement exhibiting the quantity of Madeira and Lisbon wines imported into the United States... In Senate of the United States, March 18, 1824. Mr. M'Ilvaine, from the Select Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom was referred the memorial of J.L. Skinner, reported: On the 14th day of February, 1817, one George Paul entered into a contract with the government of the United States to construct and finish about twelve miles and three quarters of a mile of the Cumberland Road... In Senate of the United States, March 8, 1824. The Committee on Public Lands have had under their consideration a joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, asking consent of Congress to the revocation of that part of the compact between the United States and the State of Indiana by which all public lands sold in that state... In Senate of the United States, March 16, 1824. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Finance, to which was referred the memorial of Charles Gwynn, of Baltimore, praying that a sum of money erroneously paid by him into the Treasury may be refunded... In Senate of the United States, March 30, 1824. Mr. Barton communicated the following documents. Letter to Governor Miller, Major Bradford, and William Russell, concerning surveyor's office in Arkansas... In Senate of the United States, May 6, 1824. Mr. Barbour submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, that __ thousand copies of the act, entitled "An Act To Amend the Several Acts for Imposing Duties on Imports," which passed the House of Representatives, April 19, 1824, be printed... In Senate of the United States, April 19, 1824. Mr. Barbour, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the memorial of the trustees of the Columbian College, reported... In Senate of the United States, March 29, 1824. Mr. Dickerson, from the Joint Library Committee, reported: That they have had under consideration the following letter of the Secretary of State... Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the claim of Virginia, on account of interest paid by that state on moneys borrowed for the payment of the militia thereof for services rendered the United States. April 13, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. In Senate of the United States, April 27, 1824. Mr. Dickerson, from the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, laid the following documents on the table. In Senate of the United States, May 8, 1824. Documents relating to the bill authorizing an examination and survey of the harbor of Charleston and the coast of Florida. In Senate of the United States, March 23, 1824. Mr. Benton, from the select committee, to whom was referred the memorial from the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, reported: That the memorialists represent that the line prescribed by an act of the last session of Congress, for the western boundary of the Territory of Arkansas... Letter from the Secretary of War, with statements of expenditures on account of the Military Academy at West Point for one year preceding the 30th September last. March 5, 1824. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. |
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| Serial set 92 | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Eighteenth Congress; begun and held at the City of Washington, December 1, 1823, and in the forty-eighth year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Third Auditor, of the names of the persons whose accounts have been settled, agreeably to the provisions of the act of the 1st of March, 1823, entitled "An Act in Addition to an Act for the Prompt Settlement of Public Accounts." December 2, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Message from the President of the United States, upon the subject of the accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late governor of the State of New York. December 8, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State, upon the subject of the present condition and future prospects of the Greeks. December 31, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Memorial of a committee appointed at a public meeting of the citizens of New York, to take into consideration the situation of the Greeks. December 29, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. list of reports to be made to the House of Representatives at the first session of the Eighteenth Congress by the executive departments: prepared in obedience to a standing order of the House of Representatives. December 1, 1823. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, accompanied with sundry statements, prepared in obedience to a joint resolution of the 1st March, 1823; requiring from the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives an annual statement of the expenditures from the contingent fund of the two Houses of Congress. December 2, 1823. 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 the 1st of March last) a statement shewing the number of Revolutionary pensioners on the rolls of the several states and territories of the United States. December 2, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Eighteenth Congress. December 2, 1823. Read and referred to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an abstract of all licenses granted by superintendents of Indian trade, &c. &c. December 15, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list of balances (prepared by the Register) on the books of receipts and expenditures, which have been due and unsettled more than three years prior to 30th Sept. last. December 15, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a statement of all American seamen sent to the hospital, at the port of Liverpool, in Great Britain, under the direction of the American consul; and the amount of money received by said consul, from captains of American vessels arriving at said port from 1st September, 1821, to 31st March, 1823. December 24, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings. December 18, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings. Report of the Postmaster General, (rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 16th instant), of the number of post offices designated "distributing offices," in the several states and territories; and the duties performed by the postmasters of the same. December 24, 1823. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, praying for a general system of bankruptcy. December 31, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances. January 2, 1824. Read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Memorial of the sundry manufacturers of cordage of the City of New York. December 19, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. |
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