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of April, 1803, between the United States and the French republic, and for other purposes," and the act of the 13th February, 1807, entitled "An act to annex certain shores and waters to the district of Mississippi, and to authorize the building of a custom-house at New Orleans," as to constitute the city of Natchez, in the State of Mississippi, a port of entry, on an equal footing with the other ports of the United States, and to form the shores and waters of said city into a separate district, to be called "the Natchez district."

On motion of Mr. Plummer,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting unto Zachariah Dixon, of the county of Amite, Mississippi, a pre-emption right to purchase at the minimum price fractional section No. 40, in township No. 2 of range No. 2, or any part thereof, according to the legal divisional and subdivisional lines. Mr. Foot moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid upon the table, viz.

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to revise the rules and orders of this House, and propose such alterations and amendments as may be deemed necessary to the despatch of the business before the House.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Chilton on the 27th of December ultimo, proposing to grant pensions to persons engaged in wars against the Indians; and, after further debate thereon, the hour elapsed, and the debate was suspended until to-morrow; and

The House resumed the consideration of the motion made by Mr. Polk on the 17th of December ultimo, that the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the removal of the deposites of public money from the Bank of the United States and its branches to certain State banks, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

The question recurred on the instructions moved by Mr. McDuffie on the 17th of December, and the amendment to the said instructions, moved by Mr. Jones, of Georgia, on the 14th instant.

And, after further debate thereon,

The House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1834.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the message from the Senate informing the House that the Senate have adhered to their second amendment to the bill (No. 36) entitled "An act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year 1834."

A motion was made by Mr. Polk that the House do insist on its disagreement to the said amendment, and ask a conference of the Senate on the subject-matter thereof.

A motion was then made by Mr. Foot that the House do recede from its disagreement to the said amendment; which motion taking precedence of that made to insist and ask a conference,

The question was put, that the House do agree thereto,

And was decided in the negative, {Nays,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Mr. John Quincy Adams
Heman Allen

Chilton Allan

William H. Ashley
John Banks
Noyes Barber
Charles A. Barnitz

Daniel L. Barringer

Isaac C. Bates
William Baylies
Martin Beaty
James M. Bell
Horace Binney
Thomas T. Bouldin
George N. Briggs
Tristam Burges
Harry Cage
George Chambers
Thomas Chilton
Rufus Choate
William Clark
Thomas Corwin
Richard Coulter
Joseph H. Crane
David Crockett
Edward Darlington
Warren R. Davis
Edmund Deberry
Benjamin F. Deming

Mr. Harmar Denny

Littleton P. Dennis
John Dickson
George Evans
Edward Everett
Horace Everett
John Ewing
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
John H. Fulton
Roger L. Gamble
James H. Gholson
Benjamin Gorham
William J. Grayson
George Grennell, jr.
Hiland Hall
Gideon Hard
Benjamin Hardin
Abner Hazeltine
William Hiester
Edward Howell
Jabez W. Huntington
William Cost Johnson
Henry King
John Laporte

Cornelius W. Lawrence
George W. Lay

Dixon H. Lewis
James Love

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. John Adams

John J. Allen
William Allen
William S. Archer
James M. H. Beale
Benning M. Bean
Samuel Beardsley
John Bell
James Blair
John Blair

Abraham Bockee.
Charles Bodle

Ratliff Boon

John W. Brown

John Bull

Samuel Bunch

Robert Burns

Jesse A. Bynum

Churchill C. Cambreleng
Richard B. Carmichael

John Carr

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Mr. Rowland Day

Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
Joseph Duncan
William C. Dunlap
John M. Felder
John B. Forester
Thomas F. Foster
Samuel Fowler
Philo C. Fuller
William K. Fuller
John Galbraith
Ransom H. Gillet
George R. Gilmer
William F. Gordon
James Graham
John K. Griffin
Joseph Hall
Thomas H. Hall
Nicoll Halsey
Thomas L. Hamer
Joseph M. Harper
James Harper
Samuel S. Harrison
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
James P. Heath
Joseph Henderson
Henry Hubbard
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
Leonard Jarvis
Richard M. Johnson
Noadiah Johnson

Mr. Henry C. Martindale
Thomas A. Marshall

George McDuffie

Thomas M. T. McKennan
John J. Milligan

Samuel McDowell Moore

John Murphy

James Parker

Henry L. Pinckney
David Potts, jr.

John Reed

William B. Shepard

William Slade

Charles Slade
Jonathan Sloane
David Spangler

Christopher Tompkins
Samuel Tweedy
Joseph Vance
Samuel F. Vinton
John G. Watmough
Taylor Webster
Edward D. White
Frederick Whittlesey
Elisha Whittlesey
Lewis Williams
Edgar C. Wilson
Henry A. Wise
Ebenezer Young

Mr. Cave Johnson

Seaborn Jones
Benjamin Jones
Edward Kavanagh
George L. Kinnard
Amos Lane

Gerrit Y. Lansing
Humphrey H. Leavitt
George Loyall
Chittenden Lyon
Robert T. Lytle
Abijah Mann, jr.
Samuel W. Mardis
John Y. Mason
Moses Mason, jr.
William McComas
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay
Isaac McKim
Charles McVean
Jesse Miller
Robert Mitchell
Henry A. Muhlenberg
Gayton P. Osgood
Sherman Page
Gorham Parks
John M. Patton
William Patterson
Dutee J. Pearce
Franklin Pierce
Job Pierson

Franklin E. Plummer
James K. Polk

Patrick H. Pope

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William N. Shinn

Francis O. J. Smith

Jesse Speight

James Turner
Joel Turrill

The question then recurred on the motion made by Mr. Polk that the House do insist on its disagreement to the said amendment, and ask a conference with the Senate on the subject-matter thereof.

And the said question being divided,

It was put on so much thereof as proposes to insist on the disagreement to the said amendment,

And decided in the negative.

The question was then put on the second member of the said motion, viz. that the House ask a conference with the Senate on the subjectmatter of the said amendment,

And passed in the affirmative.

Ordered, That five managers be appointed to conduct the said conference on the part of this House. And

Mr. Polk, Mr. Everett, of Massachusetts, Mr. Clay, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Beardsley were appointed the said managers.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate with these proceedings. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements exhibiting the names, stations, and pay of all persons employed in the Indian Department, called for by the House on the 27th of December ultimo, and containing the views of the Department of War "upon the subject of the discontinuance of any of the existing agencies at the present moment;" which letter was read, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill from the Senate (No. 48) entitled "An act further to continue in force An act to authorize the extension, construction, and use of a lateral branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad into and within the District of Columbia ;'" when, On motion of Mr. Chinn,

The said bill was recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill from the Senate (No. 44) for the relief of John Hurtell; when it was

Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time to-day.
Engrossed bills, of the following titles, viz.

No. 47. An act making certain allowances and granting certain arrearages to the captains and subalterns of the corps of marines;

No. 49. An act further to extend the term of certain pensions charged on the privateer pension fund;

No. 134. An act to authorize the Secretary of War to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur, in the State of Alabama, and to provide for the paying of certain pensioners in the said town of Decatur;

No. 225. An act for the relief of Asa Hartfield, his assignee or legal representative;

were, severally, read the third time, and passed.

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

An engrossed bill (No. 109) entitled "An act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year 1834," was read the third time; when

A motion was made by Mr. Horace Everett that the said bill be committed to the Committee on Indian Affairs. It was then,

On motion of Mr. Clay,

Ordered, That the further consideration of the said bill be postponed until to-morrow.

The bill from the Senate (No. 44) entitled "An act for the relief of John Hurtell," was read the third time, and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 42) entitled "An act granting pensions to several persons therein named." And, after debate thereon, the further consideration of the said bill was postponed until Friday next.

And the House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1834.

Mr. Elisha Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made unfavorable reports on the cases of Abraham Forbes and Sarah Harford; which reports were ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Grennell, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Robert C. Jennings, accompanied by a bill (No. 227) to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased;" which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Turrill, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of George Hood; which report was -laid on the table.

Mr. Baylies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Peairs; which report was laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Tompkins,

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the consideration of the case of Matthew Robinson, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. Mardis, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported a bill (No. 228) for the relief of Robert Haile; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Mardis, by leave, presented a petition of inhabitants of the State of Alabama, settlers on public lands ceded to the United States in the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek, concluded with the Choctaw Indians, praying that the right of pre-emption may be granted to them in the purchase of the lands upon which they have settled; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Bell, of Ohio, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions,

made an unfavorable report on the petition of Jesse Putnam; which report was laid on the table.

Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the case of the heirs at law of Evan Edwards, accompanied by a bill (No. 229) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to

morrow.

On motion of Horace Everett,

Ordered, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from the consideration of the case of Thomas Murray, junior, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. Cage, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of the heirs and legal representatives of William Graham, accompanied by a bill (No. 230) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Harper, of New Hampshire, from the Committee on Commerce, made a report on the petition of Samuel S. Lord and others, accompanied by a bill (No. 231) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to

morrow.

On motion of Mr. Leavitt,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Alexis Cattey, and that the said petition do lie on the table.

Mr. Hubbard, from the select committee appointed on the resolutions of New Hampshire in relation to the organization of the militia, reported the following resolution, viz.

Resolved, That the "report of the board of officers relative to the militia," a document from the War Department, accompanying the President's message to Congress at the commencement of the second session of the nineteenth Congress, be printed for the use of the House. The said resolution was read, and agreed to by the House.

On motion of Mr. Love,

Ordered, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of inhabitants of Cote Sans Dessein, in the State of Missouri, and that the said petition do lie on the table.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate, have passed the bill (No. 110) entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1834." The Senate have passed a joint resolution (No. 4) "providing for the purchase of ten copies of the Laws of the United States for the Library;" in which resolution I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Chilton on the 27th of December ultimo, proposing to grant pensions to certain persons engaged in wars against the Indians.

And, after further debate thereon, the hour elapsed, and the debate was suspended until to-morrow.

The House then resumed the consideration of the motion made by Mr. Polk on the 17th of December ultimo, that the report of the Secretary

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