of the Treasury, in relation to the removal of the deposite of the 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.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1834.

Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Jeremiah Axton; which report was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Bates, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made a verbal report on the petition of the heirs of William Vawters, "as wholly inadmissible." The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Carr,

Ordered, That the Committee on Private Land Claims be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of inhabitants of the Territory of Florida, relative to land claims, and that the said petition do lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Beale,

Ordered, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Eunice Clark, and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Beale, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Samuel Shorey; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Beale, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Elias Carpenter; which was read, and laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Chilton,

Ordered, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of David W. Hawley, and that it lie on the table; also, from the further consideration of the petition of Edward Sanford, and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Mr. Chilton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Henry Sikes; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Chilton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Sergeant; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Chaney, from the Committee on Invalid pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Benjamin Denslow; which report was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Young, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made a report on the petition of the legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot, accompanied by a bill (No. 232) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. John Adams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on the petition of Samuel Hunt, accompanied by a bill (No. 233) for his 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. Mitchell, of Ohio,

Ordered, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petitions of Thomas Gilbert, Christian Ahl, Rufus Parker, and Swain Seaward, and that the said petitions do lie on the table.

Mr. Young, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Abigail Brink'; which was read, and laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Harper, of New Hampshire,

Ordered, That the Committee on Commerce be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of inhabitants of the town of Dover, in the State of New Hampshire, for the improvement of the navigation of Cocheco river, and that it be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

On motion of Mr. Deming,

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Henry Hallowell, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. Galbraith, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of Samuel Vail, accompanied by a bill (No. 234) confirming the title of the said Samuel Vail to a certain tract of land in the parish of East Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (No. 68) for the relief of Isidore Moore.

Mr. Sutherland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill (No. 235) for the relief of Marcus Quincy and William Gorham, of Portland; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. John Reed, by leave, presented a petition of Winslow L. Thacher, of Yarmouth, in the State of Massachusetts, owner of a fishing vessel which was lost at sea while engaged on a fishing voyage, praying to be allowed the bounty to which he would have been entitled if said vessel had completed her voyage and returned to port; which petition was referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Mr. McKennan, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined an enrolled bill (No. 110) entitled "An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year 1834," and found the same to be truly enrolled; when

The Speaker signed the said bill.

Mr. Chinn, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, to which was committed 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," " reported the same without amendment. The said bill was then ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Postmaster Gene

ral, transmitting, in pursuance of an order of the House of Representatives of March 1, 1825, a statement of the nett amount of postage accruing at each post office, in each State and Territory of the United States, for one year ending March 31, 1833, and showing the nett amount accruing in each State and Territory; which letter was read, and laid on the table; and a motion was made by Mr. Connor that 2,000 copies thereof be printed; which motion was also laid on the table.

The joint resolution from the Senate (No. 4) providing for the purchase of ten copies of the Laws of the United States for the Library, was read the first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Library of Congress.

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

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of this House, of the following titles, viz.

No. 8. An act for the relief of George H. Jennings;

No. 9. An act for the relief of James H. Brewer;

No. 13. An act for the relief of Richard Bagnall, executor of James B. Vaughan ;

No. 16. An act for the relief of Edward Willett;

No. 20. An act for the relief of Russell Hunt, David Hunt, and Amos Hunt;

No. 15. An act for the relief of Peregrine Gardner; with an amendment to the last mentioned bill, in which amendment I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. The Senate have granted the conference asked by this House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the second amendment of the Senate to the bill (No. 36) entitled "An act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year 1834," and have appointed managers to conduct the said conference on their part.

On motion of Mr. Sutherland,

A member of the Committee on Commerce was ordered to be appointed in the place of Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, who has resigned his seat in this House; and

Mr. Pearce, of Rhode Island, was appointed.

Leave being given, sundry resolutions were moved, viz.

On motion of Mr. Sevier,

Resolved, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of changing the location of the office of superintendent of Indian affairs from St. Louis, in Missouri, to Arkansas; and that said committee be instructed to inquire of the Secretary of War into the expediency of making the change in the location of said office.

On motion of Mr. McCarty,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of Philip C. Hayle, of Indiana, a soldier of the revolution, upon the pension roll.

On motion of Mr. Thomson, of Ohio,

1. Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Carrollton, in the county of Carroll, by Minerva, to Uniontown, in Stark county, Ohio.

2. Resolved, That the same committee inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Cope's mills, by Strain's mills, to Gorton, in Carroll county.

3. Resolved, That the same committee inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from New Lisbon, Columbiana county, in the State of Ohio, by Clarkson, Mail's cross roads, to Beavertown, in the State of Pennsylvania.

4. Resolved, That the same committee inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Canton, Stark county, by Sandy and Georgetown, to Salem, in Columbiana county, Ohio.

5. Resolved, That the same committee inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Petersburg, through Beaver township, Green village, and New Albany, to Salem, Columbiana county, in the State of Ohio.

On motion of Mr. Mitchell, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making compensation to certain contractors for work done on the Cumberland road west of Zanesville, in the State of Ohio. On motion of Mr. Horace Everett,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of Joseph Parker, a soldier of the revolution, on the pension list.

On motion of Mr. Plummer,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending to the heirs and legal representatives of Edward Jones, late of the county of Amite, in the State of Mississippi, deceased, the provisions of the act of Congress, passed March 21, 1828, entitled "An act to revise and continue in force the several acts making provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands," and of making the relinquishment of the west half of the northwest quarter of section No. 13, of township No. 3, in range 3 east, in the land district west of Pearl river, made by Samuel B. Marsh, administrator of said Jones, of the same effect and validity as if the said relinquishment had been executed prior to the 4th of July, 1829.

On motion of Mr. Wise,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Buildings be instructed to inquire into the propriety and expediency of employing American artists to execute four national paintings appropriate to fill the vacant niches in the rotundo of the Capitol, corresponding to those executed by Trumbull. The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 42) granting pensions to several persons therein named.

A motion was made by Mr. Connor that the said bill be again recommitted to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, with instructions to amend the same, by striking out so much thereof as provides for granting a pension to Leslie Combs, of Lexington, in the State of Kentucky. And on the question, that the House do agree to this motion,

It passed in the affirmative, {eas,

124,

66.

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

Those who voted in the affirmative, are,