Ordered, That so much of said memorial as relates to post routes be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and that so much as relates to ports of entry be referred to the Committee on Com

merce.

On motion of Mr. Thomas, of Louisiana,

Ordered, That the petition of Simon Rodriguez, presented January 10, 1831, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Vance presented a petition of Nancy Stewart, daughter of Blue Jacket, one of the principal chiefs of the Shawnee tribe of Indians, lately residing in the State of Ohio, praying that her title to certain lands granted her and her brother (deceased) by said Indians, may be confirmed.

Mr. Conner presented a petition of the heirs at law of Leonard Holly, deceased, praying that a grant of the bounty land to which said Holly was entitled as a soldier in the army in the late war with Great Britain, may be made to them.

Mr. Lyon presented a petition of Joseph Rolette, of the Territory of Michigan, praying that the balance of a land claim which he holds as assignee of the heirs of John Camp, under the act of Congress of February 21, 1823, and of which he has been deprived by mistake, may be granted to him.

Mr. Lyon also presented a petition of Robert Abbott and others, heirs at law of James Abbott, deceased, praying that a section of land may be granted to them in lieu of a like quantity to which they were entitled under the act of May 11, 1820, for regulating grants of land in said Territory.

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

Mr. Lyon presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Chippewa, in the Territory of Michigan, praying to be attached to the new territorial Government west of Lake Michigan, whenever the Territory of Michigan may be divided.

Mr. Lyon presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Brown, in the Territory of Michigan, praying that a separate territorial Government may be organized west of Lake Michigan, that pre-emption rights may be granted to settlers on public lands within the same, and that two additional land offices may be established in the county.

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

Mr. Richard M. Johnson presented a petition of John Casey, praying for a pension; which petition was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Mr. Graham presented resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, requesting "Congress to adopt the necessary measures to render the militia discipline of the United States less burdensome in its character, and more efficient in its organization;" which resolutions were referred to the select committee appointed on the resolutions of the State of New Hampshire, in relation to the militia. On motion of Mr. Bynum,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a semi-weekly post route, commencing at Winton, in the county of Hertford, running

through Pitch Landing, in the county of Hertford, Colerain, and Windsor, in the county of Berlin, through Williamson, in the county of Mortin, to Tarborough, in the county of Edgecomb, in the State of North Carolina.

On motion of Mr. Marshall,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims he instructed to inquire into the propriety of authorizing, by law, the payment to the representatives of William Boyce of such sum as may appear to be justly due and payable on account of his services as a lieutenant in the revolutionary army.

On motion of Mr. Davis, of Kentucky,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the pension roll the name of John Young.

Mr. Beaty moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid upon the table, viz.

Resolved, That the Postmaster General be instructed to furnish the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads with the entire correspondence and proofs furnished the department by Elisha Smith, of Mount Vernon, Rockcastle county, Kentucky, in relation to post route No. 1,757, in the aforesaid State.

On motion of Mr. Dunlap,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Huntington, in the county of Carroll, State of Tennessee, by Pleasant Exchange and Lexington, in Henderson county, to Purdy, in McVairy county, in the same State; and also of establishing a post route from Jackson, Madison county, Tennessee, to Purdy, in said State.

On motion of Mr. Dickinson,

Resolved, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to Heartwell Miles, a soldier of the late war.

On motion of Mr. Dickinson,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims inquire into the expediency of making compensation to the heirs of Guilford Dudley, for loss of property sustained, and services rendered by him in the revolutionary war.

Mr. Patterson moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid upon the table, viz.

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to inform this House whether there has been a survey and location of a road running southwardly from Lower Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, to the boundary line established by the treaty of Greenville, pursuant to the act of Congress of the 12th December, 1811; and, if such location has been made, that he communicate the plats, draughts, reports, and other documents concerning the same, together with such other information respecting the survey and location of said road, as the files and records of the department will furnish. And also that he report to this House whether the sum of six thousand dollars appropriated by the act aforesaid for the survey and location of said road, and the road from the foot of the rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western line of the Connecticut Re

serve, has been expended for said objects, and what is the amount expended, if any, on the first mentioned road.

On motion of Mr. Edward D. White,

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to communicate to this House a copy of the correspondence of the department with the superintendent of the work of clearing away the raft in Red river.

On motion of Mr. Hannegan,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the erection of a lighthouse at or near Michigan city, on Lake Michigan.

On motion of Mr. Lane,

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

Mr. Ewing moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid upon the table, viz.

Resolved, That the schedule of lands within five miles of the surveyed line of the Wabash and Erie canal, (and bordering on the Maumee river, from the State line of Indiana eastwardly, as far as the towns of Maumee and Perrysburg, in the State of Ohio,) sold by authority of a proclamation of the President of the United States, regardless of the act of Congress previously sanctioned, donating the same to the State of Indiana upon certain accepted conditions, (which schedule is herewith presented,) be referred to the select committee on the Wabash and Erie canal lands.

On motion of Mr. Plummer,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the payment of office rent to the registers and receivers of land offices, and to provide for the better preservation of the records, books, papers, &c.

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act entitled "An act supplemental to the several laws for the sale of public lands," passed April 5, 1832, as provides that "no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half-quarter section of land in quarter-quarter sections, or tracts of forty acres, and in no case unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of his improvement." Also into the expediency of repealing so much of said act as requires the person applying, to make an entry under its provisions, to file an affidavit before making the purchase; and also into the expediency of extending the right of pre-emption to a small quantity of land to all actual settlers and housekeepers, for the term of six or twelve months.

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire what States have received donations of land from the General Government, for the purpose of making roads, bridges, canals, and improving watercourses; the quantity of land received by each State; and into the expediency of granting to such of the new States as have received no portion of the public domain for such purposes, a quantity of land equal to that granted to the other States, to be applied, under the direction of the Legislatures thereof, to objects of internal improvements within their respective limits.

And be it further resolved, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the purpose of aiding the Choctaw nation of Indians in establishing a printing press in the country to which they have recently emigrated, west of the Mississippi river.

And be it further resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Columbus, by way of Plymouth, Mayhew, and Oakachickima, to Troy, in Mississippi.

On motion of Mr. Cage,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the compensation of the collector of the port of Pearlington, in the district of Pearl river, in the State of Mississippi.

Ôn motion of Mr. Casey,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a land office at Charleston, in Illinois.

On motion of Mr. Duncan,

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating a sufficient sum to complete the harbor at Chicago, within the year 1834.

Resolved, That the same committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the appropriation heretofore made for removing the obstruction in the channel of the Mississippi river, at the rapids of the Demoin and Rock rivers, with a view to the speedy completion of that object.

And be it further resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the justice and expediency of granting 320 acres of land to the widow and heirs of each person killed by the Indians on the frontier of Illinois and Michigan, in 1832.

On motion of Mr. Bull,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for improving the navigation of the Missouri river, and that of the Mississippi river, above the mouth of the Ohio river.

On motion of Mr. Lyon, of Michigan,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Territories be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan to extend their present session to ninety days, and that the accompanying letter on this subject from the President of the Council be referred to said committee.

On motion of Mr. Sevier,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for coercing those entitled to military land in Arkansas to draw their patents for the same.

On motion of Mr. Ashley,

Resolved, That the Committee on Private Land Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting a patent to Daniel Kincaid, for a tract of land confirmed, but not embraced in the report of the commissioners appointed to examine and adjust private land claims in Missouri.

On motion of Mr. White, of Florida,

Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of deepening the bar of Pensacola bay, according to the report of the engineers of the United States, and that of the Secretary of the Navy.

Mr. White, of Florida, moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid upon the table, viz.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to this House the causes which have suspended the issuing of patents upon pre-emption claims in Florida, in whose favor the courts of the Territory have decided under the laws of the United States.

Mr. Mason moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid upon the table, viz.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to communicate to this House the names of the officers of the revolutionary army, to whom, or whose heirs, commutation pay has been made by the United States for their services in the war of the revolution, and the names of the persons to whom the payments have been made, and the sums respectively paid.

On motion of Mr. McCarty,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making Michigan city, in Indiana, a port of entry. On motion of Mr. Carr,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the payment of the horses which belonged to individuals of Captain Bigger's and other companies of United States mounted rangers, which were stolen by the Indians, died, or otherwise lost by unavoidable accidents whilst in the service in the late war with Great Britain; also into the expediency of providing by law for the payment of the horses which belonged to individuals of the late six companies of United States mounted rangers organized for the protection of the Northwestern frontier, which were stolen by the Indians, died, or otherwise lost by unavoidable accidents whilst in the service of the United States.

Mr. Elisha Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Francis Lasslle and others, Michigan volunteers, accompanied by a bill (No. 236) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House

to-morrow.

Mr. Elisha Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Samuel Butler, accompanied by a bill (No. 237) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Elisha Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made unfavorable reports on the cases of William Baker, Alphonso Wetmore, and George Gale; which reports were ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Binney, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill (No. 238) making appropriations for the Military Academy of the United States for the year 1834; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the