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Mr. Campbell P. White presented a petition of William A. Spencer, a master commandant of the navy of the United States, praying that the discount which he was compelled to pay on Treasury notes, placed in his hands for public purposes, and by him disbursed in the year 1815, amounting to $169, may be allowed on the settlement of his accounts at the Navy Department; which petition was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Wardwell presented a petition of Aaron Hubbell, of the State of New York, praying to be paid the balance of pay, as, also, for a grant of the bounty land, to which he conceives himself entitled as a Canadian volunteer in the army of the United States in the late war with Great: Britain; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Heman Allen presented a memorial of inhabitants and freeholders. of the county of Wayne, in the Territory of Michigan, remonstrating against any change in the route of the national road as located between the city of Detroit and the mouth of Grand river.

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Mr. Clark, of New York, presented a petition of inhabitants of the State of New York, praying that a ship canal may be constructed around the falls of Niagara.

Ordered, That the said memorial and petition be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

f Mr. Hiland Hall presented a remonstrance of citizens of the State of Vermont, against a renewal of the patent, heretofore granted Silas Hawes, for an improvement in the carpenter's square, and of the tools and instruments used in the manufacture of said square.

Mr. Selden presented a memorial of merchants and dealers in the city of New York, setting forth the sudden, unexpected, and great change which the memorialists allege has lately taken place in the money market, the inland exchanges, and all the commercial transactions of the country, and their apprehension of such further derangement as to cause, unless. prevented by the interference of Congress, still greater embarrassments and distress, and ascribing those difficulties, principally, if not exclusively, to the removal of the public deposites from the Bank of the United States to certain State banks, and praying that the said deposites may be restored to the Bank of the United States; and, also, with a view to preserve a sound, secure, and stable paper currency, they further pray that the charter of the Bank of the United States may be renewed, or another bank be chartered, the charter to take effect upon the expiration of the charter of the present Bank.

The memorial being read,

A motion was made by Mr. Selden that it be referred to a select committee.

And, after debate,

A motion was made by Mr. Wilde to amend the motion to refer it to a select committee, by adding the following instructions, viz.

"To inquire into the allegations therein contained, the truth of the recent complaints of general pecuniary distress and loss of credit, and the alleged derangement of the currency and commercial exchanges; and, if the same shall appear to them to be well founded, to report to this House their opinion touching the character and causes of the said evils, and the

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appropriate and effectual remedies, together with the evidence on which such opinion is founded, with leave to take testimony viva voce or by deposition, to send for persons and papers, and to report by bill or otherwise.

A motion was then made by Mr. Polk that the said memorial be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means; which motion took precedence of the motion to refer to a select committee.

And, after further debate,

The question was put on the motion made by Mr. Polk that the memorial be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

And passed in the affirmative,

Yeas, Nays,

113,

97.

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Mr. John Adams

William Allen

William Baylies

James M. H. Beale

Benning M. Bean
Samuel Beardsley
Andrew Beaumont
John Bell
James Blair
John Blair

Abraham Bockee

Charles Bodle

Ratliff Boon

John W. Brown

Samuel Bunch

Robert Burns

Churchil! C. Cambreleng

John Carr
Zadok Casey
John Chaney
Joseph W. Chinn
Samuel Clark
Clement C. Clay
John Coffee
Henry W. Connor
John Cramer
Rowland Day
Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
William C. Dunlap
John Ewing
John B. Forester
Samuel Fowler
William K. Fuller
John Galbraith
Ransom H. Gillet
Joseph Hall

Thomas H. Hall Those who voted in Mr. John Quincy Adams

Heman Allen

John J. Allen Chilton Allan William S. Archer William H. Ashley Noyes Barber

Charles A. Barnitz

Mr. Nicoll Halsey

Thomas L. Hamer
Joseph M. Harper
Samuel S. Harrison
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
Joseph Henderson
Edward Howell
Henry Hubbard
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
Leonard Jarvis
Richard M. Johnson
Noadiah Johnson
Cave Johnson
Seaborn Jones
Benjamin Jones
Edward Kavanagh
George L. Kinnard
Amos Lane

Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte

Cornelius W. Lawrence

Luke Lea

Thomas Lee
Humphrey H. Leavitt
Edward Lucas
Robert T. Lytle
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann
Samuel W. Mardis
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay
Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Charles McVean
Jesse Miller
Robert Mitchell

the negative, are,

Mr. Daniel L. Barringer

Isaac C. Bates
Martin Beaty
James M. Bell
Horace Binney
Thomas T. Bouldin
George N. Briggs
John Bull

Mr. Henry A. Muhlenberg
John Murphy
Gayton P. Osgood
Sherman Page
Gorham Parks
James Parker
William Patterson
Dutee J. Pearce
Balie Peyton
Franklin Pierce
Job Pierson

Franklin E. Plummer

James K. Polk

Patrick H. Pope

Robert Ramsay

Ferdinand S. Schenck

William Schley

William N. Shinn
Charles Slade

Francis O. J. Smith
Jesse Speight
James Standifer
Joel B. Sutherland
William Taylor
Francis Thomas
John Thomson
James Turner
Joel Turrill
Aaron Vanderpoel
Isaac B. Van Houten
David D. Wagener
Aaron Ward
Daniel Wardwell
James M. Wayne
Taylor Webster
Reuben Whallon
Campbell P. White

Mr. George Burd

Harry Cage

Richard B. Carmichael

George Chambers

Thomas Chilton

Rufus Choate

Nathaniel H. Claiborne

William Clark

Augustine S. Clayton
William K. Clowney
Thomas Corwin
Richard Coulter
Joseph H. Crane
David Crockett
Edward Darlington
Warren R. Davis
Amos Davis
Thomas Davenport
Edmund Deberry
Benjamin F. Deming
Harmar Denny
Littleton P. Dennis
John Dickson
Joseph Duncan
George Evans
Edward Everett
Horace Everett
John M. Felder
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
Thomas F. Foster
John H. Fulton

Roger L. Gamble

Mr. James H. Gholson
George R. Gilmer
William F. Gordon
Benjamin Gorham
James Graham
George Grennell, jr.
John K. Griffin
Hiland Hall
Gideon Hard
Benjamin Hardin
James Harper
Abner Hazeltine
James P. Heath
William Hiester
Jabez W. Huntington
William Cost Johnson
Henry King

Dixon H. Lewis

Henry C. Martindale

Thomas A. Marshall

John Y. Mason

William McComas

Thomas M. T. McKennan

John J. Milligan

Mr. Samuel McDowell Moore
John M. Patton
David Potts, jr.

John Reed

Abraham Rencher
Dudley Selden

Augustine H. Shepperd
William Slade
Jonathan Sloane
David Spangler

John T. Stoddert
William P. Taylor

Christopher Tompkins
Samuel Tweedy

Joseph Vance
Samuel F. Vinton
John G. Watmough
Edward D. White
Frederick Whittlesey

Elisha Whittlesey

Richard H. Wilde

Edgar C. Wilson
Henry A. Wise
Ebenezer Young

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

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1834.

On motion of Mr. Clay,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi relative to grants of land for schools, referred on the 27th January, 1834, and that the memorial do lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Clay, by direction of the Committee on the Public Lands, it was

Ordered, That the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (No. 96) granting an additional quantity of land for the satisfaction of revolutionary bounty land warrants, be discharged, and that the said bill be recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Bell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, which was instructed, on the 20th of January ultimo, to inquire into the expediency of providing for running and marking the boundary line between the State of Georgia and the Territory of Florida, reported a bill (No. 270) supplementary to the act entitled "An act to authorize the President of the United States to run and mark a line dividing the Territory of Florida from the State of Georgia," passed the 4th day of May, 1826; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Bell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill (No. 271) for the relief of Theodore Owens; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Bell, of Tennessee,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Justus Hubbard, and that the said petition do lie on the table.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Military Affairs, made an unfavorable report on the case of Joshua Ammons; which report was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Boon, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported a bill (No. 272) for the relief of John Allen; which bill was read the first and second time. A motion being made that the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow,

A motion was made by Mr. Evans that the said bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow; which motion being disagreed to by the House, it was

Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to

morrow.

Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of the representative of Thomas Clemmons, accompanied by a bill (No. 273) for the relief of the said representative; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Rencher, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, to which was referred, on the 13th of January ultimo, a memorial of inhabitants of the Territory of Florida, reported a bill (No. 274) authorizing a road to be cut from the northern boundary of the Territory of Florida to the town of Appalachicola, in said Territory; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Adams, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on the memorial of Colonel William Lawrence, accompanied by a bill (No. 275) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to

morrow.

Mr. McIntire, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the memorial of Sarah Clementson; which report was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Binney, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill (No. 276) for the relief of S. Morris Waln and Henry Percival; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. McKennan, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported a bill (No. 277) to incorporate the Georgetown Savings Institution; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Dickinson,

Ordered, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the cases of Allen Carr and the heirs of Nicholas Boilvin, and that the said cases do lie on the table.

Mr. Fowler, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the case of Isaac Barker, accompanied by a bill (No. 278) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Blair, of Tennessee, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported a bill (No. 279) to mark and open a road from Columbia to Little Rock, in the Territory of Arkansas; which bill was read the first

and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Blair, of Tennessee,

Ordered, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be discharged from the further consideration of the memorials and other papers to that committee referred in relation to the construction of a road from Portsmouth, in Ohio, to the south side of Lynnvill mountain, in North Carolina, and that the said memorials and other papers do lie on the table.

Mr. Harper, of New Hampshire, from the Committee on Commerce, made a report on the petition of Winslow L. Thacher and others, accompanied by a bill (No. 280) 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. Lea, of Tennessee,

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the cases of Job Benton and Joseph Seal, and that the said cases do lie on the table.

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. 4. An act for the relief of Benjamin Sherfey.

No. 26. An act for the relief of Joseph M. Harper.

The Senate have passed a bill (No. 73) entitled "An act to authorize Gassaway B. Lamar to import an iron steamboat in detached parts, with the necessary machinery, tools, and working utensils therefor, into the United States free from duty, and to provide for the remission of the same;" in which bill I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew.

The House resumed 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.

The question recurred on the amendment proposed by Mr. Bouldin; ; and, after further debate thereon, the hour elapsed, and the debate on the said motion was again suspended until to-morrow.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy for each member of the House, of the register of all officers, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, on the 30th of September, 1833; which letter was read, and laid on the table, and the register delivered to the members of the House. A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Donelson, his private Secretary, which is as follows, viz.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I deem it my duty to communicate to Congress the recent conduct of the Bank of the United States in refusing to deliver the books, papers, and funds in its possession relating to the execution of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution." The correspondence reported by the Secretary of War, and herewith transmitted, will show the ground assumed by the Bank to justify its refusal to make the transfer directed by the War Department. It does not

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