Mr. Corwin presented a petition of the inhabitants of the county of Clinton, in the State of Ohio;

Mr. Spangler presented a petition of the inhabitants of the counties of Coshocton, Holmes, and Richland, in the State of Ohio;

Mr. Plummer presented a petition of inhabitants residing in the Choctaw nation, in the State of Mississippi;

praying, severally, for the establishment of certain post routes therein designated and described.

Mr. Plummer presented a resolution of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, instructing their Senators and requesting their Representatives in Congress to use their best endeavors to cause the post office at Jackson, in Hinds county, to be made a distributing post office.

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

The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Barber: The petition of Ann Halliday, administratrix of Thomas Halliday, presented December 15, 1831.

By Mr. Hiester: The petition of Jacob B. Gilbert, presented December 29, 1831.

By Mr. Heath: The petition of Tobias E. Stansbury and William Stansbury, presented December 11, 1832.

By Mr. Heath: The petition of Richard Frisby, presented February 16, 1824.

Mr. McIntire presented a petition of Peter Dickson, of the State of Maine, asking compensation for a stone wall and soil taken from his land for the construction of a battery on the bank of the Piscataqua river, during the late war.

Mr. Barber presented a petition of Robert and Caroline Brooks, praying indemnity for houses burnt by the enemy during the late war, in consequence of being occupied by a detachinent of the militia in the public service.

Mr. Elisha Whittlesey presented a petition of George Reynolds, praying to be remunerated for losses sustained during the late war, by the confiscation of his land in Canada, and loss of personal property.

Mr. Bell presented documents in support of claims of James K. McDaniel, Samuel Robertson, Berryman Norman, Josiah Renshaw, Elisha Renshaw, James Auberry, William W. Garrett, James Alexander, Griffith Rutherford, Hardy W. Crawford, Archibald Robertson, Amos Lendon, Beverly Dodson, Stephen Chapman, James Crawford, Lewis Fletcher, Wiley B. Johnson, James Stoops, James Blanks, William Joslin, John McClelland, George E. Harriss, Richard Graves, Joseph Gammell, Robert Scott, John Harding, Isaac Tittell, Larkin Baker, John McGill, Elias R. Walker, two cases, Josiah Lomax, Isaac Lowe, William Cooper, Mears Warner, Captain Josiah Hanna, A. N. Clardy, James F. Wade, John Goodman, Thomas Marsh, Thomas Everett, William Wall, William McGuire, Adam Elliott, Robert Bradford, Gover Cox, Thomas Alders, Auderley Harrison, two cases, Voluntine Hoover, Alexander Dickson, Levi Dodson, Samuel Winters, Samuel L. Teater, John B. Perkins, two cases, Charles C. Trabue, or Trauleue, Lewis Dacus, Samuel Davidson, Nathan Rogers, Dudley Corley, William H. Patton, William Harriss, two cases, Frances Alexander, Peyton R. Tunsdale, Dan

iel Marshell, David P. Hanniss, John H. Gibson, William S. Miller, John Betts, Andrew Clarke, for payment for horses and equipage lost in the Seminole campaign in 1818.

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

On motion of Mr. Dunlap,

Ordered, That the petition of Bernard M. Patterson, presented December 31, 1829, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Corwin,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the propriety of granting compensation to Captain John Spencer, for a horse lost in the military service of the United States during the late war, and that his papers on that subject be referred to said committee.

On motion of Mr. Evans,

Ordered, That the petition of Daniel Palmer, presented December 11, 1832, be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Mr. Harper, of New Hampshire, presented a petition of Abijah Ring, of the State of New Hampshire, praying to be paid the arrears of pension to which he conceives himself entitled.

Mr. Foot presented a petition of Ransom Mix, of the State of Connecticut, praying to be allowed the increase of pension to which he considers he is entitled.

Mr. C. Allen presented a petition of Elkana Hendley, of the State of Kentucky, praying to be paid the arrears of pension to which he thinks he is entitled, and also praying for an increase of pension from the time of his disability.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Mr. Pierce, of New Hampshire, presented a petition of William Rich, praying compensation for services rendered the collector of the customs for the district of Vermont, in the year 1830, in detecting smugglers of foreign merchandise.

Mr. Hazeltine presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Chatauque, in the State of New York, praying that money may be appropriated sufficient to construct a capacious harbor at Portland, on Lake Erie.

Mr. Vanderpoel presented a petition of Volkert Witbeck, of the county of Columbia, in the State of New York, praying to be paid for property destroyed by a flood, while he was the keeper of the light-house on the flats or drowned lands on Hudson river, in the State of New York.

Mr. Selden presented a petition of masters and owners of vessels navigating the Hudson river, in the State of New York, praying that a light-house may be erected on Esopus meadows, on the said river.

Mr. Denny presented a petition of Edward Jones, surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of Pittsburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying to be allowed additional compensation.

Mr. Stoddert presented a petition of merchants of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, praying that a pier or wharf may be erected at Cedar point, on the river Potomac, for the safety of vessels navigating said river.

Mr. Lytle presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of San

dusky, in the State of Ohio, praying that an appropriation may be made for the improvement of the navigation at the mouth of Portage river.

Mr. Plummer presented certain documents in relation to the appointment of a collector of the customs at Natchez, in the State of Mississippi. Ordered, That the said petitions and documents be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, viz.

By Mr. Reed: The petition of inhabitants of Nantucket, who are owners and pilots of vessels, for buoys in the Swash and on Tuckanuck shoals, presented March 7, 1832.

By Mr. Fillmore: The petition of Richard Hargrave Lee, presented March 19, 1832.

By Mr. Fillmore: The petition of Lucius Storrs, Palma Cleveland, Joseph Sill, Benjamin Cayrl, and John Firman, sureties of Myndert M. Dox, presented January 23, 1832.

By Mr. Sutherland: The petition of James Marsh, presented January 24, 1831.

Mr. Loyall presented a petition of Humphrey B. Gwathmey, of the firm of Rey and Gwathmey, merchants, of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, praying to be paid the drawback to which he conceives himself entitled, by reason of the re-exportation of a quantity of Carthagena cotton; which petition was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Harper presented a memorial of sundry officers of the army in the late war between the United States and Great Britain, praying that bounty land may be granted to the officers of said army; which memorial was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Edward Everett presented a petition of Timothy L.. Jennison, of the State of Massachusetts, administrator of Nathan Gilbert, deceased, praying that a warrant for the bounty in land to which the said Gilbert was entitled as a soldier in the army of the United States in the late war with Great Britain, may be issued to him; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Edward D. White presented a communication to him from the Commissioner of the General Land Office in relation to certain pre-emption rights to land in Louisiana; which communication was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

On motion of Mr. Archer,

Ordered, That the petition of the representatives of Philip Renaut, presented February 6, 1826, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Baylies presented a petition of Rebecca Sampson, of the State of Massachusetts, praying for the renewal of a military bounty land warrant, which has been lost or destroyed.

Mr. Huntington, of Connecticut, presented a petition of the heirs of Doctor Philip Turner, praying to be allowed and paid interest on the commutation of half pay for life, heretofore allowed their father for his revolutionary services.

Mr. Mann, of New York, presented a petition of John Shell, heretofore presented on the 9th of April, 1832, praying to be reimbursed expenses incurred in consequence of wounds received in the service of the United States.

Mr. McVean presented a petition of Ralph Schenck, praying to be compensated for the loss of horses in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Denny presented a petition of the heirs of John Peairs, praying to be compensated for supplies furnished the troops of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Mr. McKennan presented a petition of the heirs of Thomas Gordon, heretofore presented on the 4th of January, 1832, praying to be paid the amount due for the services of said Gordon in the army of the revolution.

Mr. Milligan presented a petition of William Woodcock, praying to be compensated for service rendered the United States during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Milligan presented a petition of Henry Baily, praying to be paid for his services as soldier in the army of the revolution.

Mr. Loyall presented a petition of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel John Cropper, praying that they may be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which they conceive the said Cropper was entitled as an officer in the army of the revolutionary war.

Mr. Loyall presented a petition of John Cowper, executor of Warren Ashley, praying to be allowed and paid the commutation of half pay for life to which the said Cowper was entitled as an officer in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Loyall presented a petition of John W. Collins and his wife, heirs of the reverend John Braidfoot, praying to be allowed the seven years' half pay promised by the resolution of Congress of 24th August, 1780, to the widows and children of officers killed or dying in service.

Mr. Loyall presented a petition of Nancy Hoggard, heir of Major William Grymes, of the revolutionary army, praying to be allowed the seven years' half pay promised by the resolution of Congress of 24th August, 1780, to the widows and children of officers killed or dying in service.

Mr. Watmough presented a petition of Mary Fanning Hibbs and others, heirs of Joshua Fanning, a lieutenant in the navy of the United States during the revolution, praying to be paid the seven years' half pay promised by the resolution of Congress of 24th of August, 1780, to the widows and children of officers killed or dying in service.

Mr. Allen, of Virginia, presented a petition of the heirs of Joseph Israel, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which said Israel was entitled as an officer in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Mercer presented a petition of the representatives of Charles M. Thruston, an officer in the army of the revolution, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which he was entitled as an officer in said army.

Mr. Gholson presented a petition of the heirs of Richard Kennon, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which they conceive he was entitled as an officer in the continental army of the revolution.

Mr. Davenport presented a petition of the heirs of Thomas Thweatt, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life to which he was entitled as an officer in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Davenport presented a petition of Isaac White, heir of Captain Tarpley White and Lieutenant John White, officers in the army of the revolution, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life to which they were entitled.

Mr. Patton presented a petition of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel William Fontain, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which they conceive he was entitled as an officer in the continental army during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Wise presented a petition of Samuel Waples, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life to which he is entitled as an officer in the continental army during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Wilson presented a petition of Abdiel McLure, praying to be paid for his services and losses, while an officer in the army of the revolution. Mr. Clayton presented a petition of Richard Paulett, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which he believes he is entitled as an officer in the continental army of the revolution.

Mr. Pope presented a petition of the heirs of Lieutenant Thomas Pearson, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay for life to which he was entitled as an officer in the army of the revolutionary war.

Mr. Pope presented a petition of the heirs of Richard Taylor, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life to which he was entitled as an officer in the army of the revolution.

Mr. Allen, of Kentucky, presented a petition of Isaac Wingate and James M. Bradford, a committee of Hedgeman Triplett, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life to which the said Triplett is entitled for his services as an officer in the army of the revolution.

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

Mr. Osgood presented a petition of Henry Hallowell, praying for arrears of pension.

Mr. Ward presented a petition of Charles Crafts, praying to be allowed a pension for his revolutionary services.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

On motion of Mr. White, of Florida,

Ordered, That the petition of Thomas Reynolds, presented January 23, 1832, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Lyon, of Michigan, presented a petition of Henry Conner, of the Territory of Michigan, praying that a certain quantity of land may be granted to him to make up, with the quantity already received, the number of acres to which he is entitled by the act of May 11, 1820; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. White, of Florida, presented sundry presentments of the Grand Jury for the counties of Mosqueto and St. John's, in the Territory of Florida, respecting the improvement of the said counties by roads and canals, and in relation to the terms of the courts held in said counties; which presentments were referred to the Committee on the Territories. Mr. Mardis presented a petition of Talassee Fixico, and Zemma, his wife, Creek Indians, stating that they have sold to George and Jesse Taylor a tract of land reserved to them by treaty, and praying that the said sale may be ratified, and the land confirmed to the said George and Jesse Taylor.