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On motion of Mr. Mitchell, of Ohio,

Ordered, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the case of James Bartam, and that it be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Also, that the said committee be discharged from the consideration of the petition of James Corbin, and that the said petition do lie on the table.

Mr. Mitchell, of Ohio, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported a bill (No. 287) for the relief of Thomas Ball; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Polk, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill (No. 288) for the relief of Richard Hargrave Lee; 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 South Carolina, by leave,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing a suitable building, in the city of Charleston, in which to hold the federal courts for the district of South Carolina, and of allowing a salary to the district attorney.

On motion of Mr. Briggs, by leave,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be directed to inquire into the expediency of extending to parties in suits commenced in the circuit courts of the United States, where rights claimed under patents issued under the laws of the United States shall come in question, the right to a writ of error or an appeal, when the amount in controversy or the judgment rendered in said courts shall exceed five hundred dollars. Ön motion of Mr. Mason, of Virginia,

Ordered, That the memorial of Commodore James Barron respecting the renewal of a patent, be referred to the Select Committee on Patents. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, by leave, presented a petition of James Bain, praying for a pension; which petition was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Mr. Beale, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the case of James Brasfield; which was read, and laid on the table.

The Speaker laid before the House a report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, containing an exhibition of the measures which have been authorized by the board subsequently to the report of the board of the 7th of February, 1833, as far as the same have been completed; which report was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Watmough, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was recommitted the bill (No. 210) concerning naval pensions and the navy pension fund, reported an amendatory bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Polk, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was referred the bill from the Senate (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," reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. Hubbard,

Ordered, That the letter from the Secretary of War, accompanied by an abstract of the latest returns of the militia of the United States, received by this House yesterday, be referred to the committee appointed on the resolutions of the State of New Hampshire relative to the organization of the militia.

The House resumed the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Chilton on the 27th of December, 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 was further suspended until to-morrow.

The House resumed the consideration of the bill (No. 6) entitled "An act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year 1834."

The question recurred on the motion made by Mr. McIntire on the 31st of January ultimo, that the House do reconsider the vote of the 30th of January, refusing to concur with the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union in its agreement to the report and modifications of the managers appointed to conduct the conference on the disagreeing vote of the two Houses on the subject-matter of the second amendment of the Senate to the said bill.

And the question being put, Will the House reconsider the said vote?

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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 Adams

Heman Allen

James M. H. Beale

Benning M. Bean

Samuel Beardsley

John Bell

James Blair
John Blair

Abraham Bockee

Charles Bodle

Ratliff Boon

John W. Brown
Samuel Bunch

Robert Burns

Churchill C. Cambreleng
Richard B. Carmichael

John Carr

Joseph W. Chinn

Samuel Clark

Clement C. Clay John Cramer Rowland Day Edmund Deberry Littleton P. Dennis Philemon Dickerson William C. Dunlap Edward Everett Horace Everett John B. Forester Thomas F. Foster Samuel Fowler

Mr. Philo C. Fuller
William K. Fuller
John H. Fulton
John Galbraith
Ransom H. Gillet
Benjamin Gorham
Joseph Hall

Thomas H. Hall
Nicoll Halsey
Joseph M. Harper
James 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
Seaborn Jones
Benjamin Jones
Edward Kavanagh
Henry King
Amos Lane
Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte

Cornelius W. Lawrence
Luke Lea

Mr. Thomas Lee

Humphrey H. Leavitt
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann
Samuel W. Mardis
John Y. Mason
Moses Mason, jr.
Rufus McIntire
Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Jeremiah McLene
Charles McVean

Henry Mitchell

Robert Mitchell
Samuel McDowell Moore
John Murphy
Gayton P. Osgood
Sherman Page
Gorham Parks
William Patterson

Dutee J. Pearce

Job Pierson

James K. Polk

Patrick H. Pope

Ferdinand S. Schenck

William N. Shinn

David Spangler
Jesse Speight
James Standifer
John T. Stoddert
Joel B. Sutherland

Mr. William Tavlor
Philemon Thomas
John Thomson
Joel Turrill

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James M. Belleg
Horace Binney, II
Thomas T. Bouldin
George N. Briggs
John Bull

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Benjamin F. Deming

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John Dickson
David W. Dickinson'
Joseph Duncan
George Evans
John Ewing
John M. Felder:
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
Roger L Gamble
James H. Gholson
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William F. Gordon
James Graham
William J. Grayson!
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John K. Griffingofol,
Hiland Hallam,
Thomas L. Hamer
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Albert G. Hawes
Abner Hazeltine
William Hiester
Jabez W. Huntington
William Cost Johnson
Cave Johnson mol
George L. Kinnard,
Dixon H. LewisonT
James Lovell be
Edward Lucas ar
Robert T. Lytle
Henry C. Martindale
Thomas A. Marahall
William McComas
James. J. McKay 2
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David D. Wageneri
John G. Watmough
James M. Wayne A.
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Reuben Whallonnal,
Edward D. White
Frederick Whittlesey
Elisha Whittlesey..!
Richard H. Wilde
Lewis Williamson 2

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Ebenezer Young -÷L

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Mr. Warren R. Davis

Edmund Deberry
Benjamin F. Deming
Harmar Denny
Littleton P. Dennis
John Dickson
Joseph Duncan
George Evans
Edward Everett
Horace Everett
John Ewing
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
John H. Fulton
John Galbraith
Roger L. Gamble
James H. Gholson
William F. Gordon
Benjamin Gorham
William J. Grayson
George Grennell, jr.
Hiland Hall

Edward A. Hannegan
Benjamin Hardin
Abner Hazeltine

Joseph Henderson

William Hiester

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Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. John Adams

John J. Allen

William Allen

Benning M. Bean

Samuel Beardsley
Andrew Beaumont
John Bell
James Blair

Abraham Bockee
Charles Bodle
Ratliff Boon
John W. Brown
Samuel Bunch

Robert Burns

Jesse A. Bynum

Richard B. Carmichael John Carr

Nathaniel H. Claiborne

Samuel Clark
Clement C. Clay
John Coffee

Henry W. Connor
John Cramer

Amos Davis

Thomas Davenport
Rowland Day
Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
William C. Dunlap
John M. Felder
John B. Forester
Thomas F. Foster
Samuel Fowler
Philo C. Fuller

William K. Fuller

Mr. Ransom H. Gillet
George R. Gilmer
James Graliam
John K. Griffin
Joseph Hall
Thomas H. Hall
Nicoll Halsey
Thomas L. Hamer
Gideon Hard
Joseph M. Harper
James Harper
Samuel S. Harrison
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
Albert G. Hawes
Henry Hubbard
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
Noadiah Johnson
Cave Johnson
Seaborn Jones
Benjamin Jones
Edward Kavanagh
George L. Kinnard
Amos Lane
Gerrit Y. Lansing
Luke Lea
Thomas Lee
Chittenden Lyon
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann

Samuel W. Mardis
Moses Mason, jr.

Rufus McIntire

James J. McKay

Mr. David Potts, jr.
John Reed

Dudley Selden
William B. Shepard
Augustine H. Shepperd
William Slade
Jonathan Sloane
Joel B. Sutherland

William Taylor
William P. Taylor

Philemon Thomas

Christopher Tompkins
Samuel Tweedy
Joseph Vance
Aaron Vanderpoel
Samuel F. Vinton
John G. Watmough
Taylor Webster
Reuben Whallon
Edward D. White
Frederick Whittlesey
Elisha Whittlesey
Richard H. Wilde
Lewis Williams
Edgar C. Wilson
Henry H. Wise
Ebenezer Young

Mr. Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Jeremiah McLene
Charles McVean
Henry Mitchell
Robert Mitchell
Henry A. Muhlenberg.
Gayton P. Osgood
Sherman Page
Gorham Parks
Balie Peyton
Franklin Pierce
Job Pierson
James K. Polk
Robert Ramsay

Abraham Rencher

Ferdinand S. Schenck

William Schley

William N. Shinn

Charles Slade

Francis O. J. Smith
Jesse Speight
James Standifer
John T. Stoddert
Francis Thomas
John Thomson
James Turner
Joel Turrill
Isaac B. Van Houten
David D. Wagener
Aaron Ward
Daniel Wardwell
James M. Wayne
Campbell P. White

And so the House receded from its disagreement to the said amend

ment, and the bill was finally passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Engrossed bills, of the following titles, viz.

No. 88. An act for the relief of James B. Folsom;

No. 89. An act for the relief of Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre ;

No. 93. An act for the relief of George Elliot;

No. 97. An act for the relief of James L. Stokes;

No. 99. An act for the relief of Amos W. Brown;

No. 98. An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Taylor, deceased;

No. 100. An act for the relief of John Winslett;

No. 102. An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Christian Ish, deceased;

No. 103. An act for the relief of Robert Reynolds;

No. 106. An act for the relief of Atwater and Daggett, owners of the Big Hannah;

No. 107. An act to refund the tonnage duty on the brig Liberator; No. 272. An act for the relief of John Allen;

No. 42. An act granting pensions to several persons therein named ; were severally read the third time, and passed.

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

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 167) in reference to pre-emption rights in the southeastern district of Louisiana; when it was

Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 191) to provide for the location of certain land claims in the Territory of Arkansas when it was

Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 64) for the relief of Arnold Henry Dohrman.

A motion was made by Mr. Bell, of Ohio, to amend the said bill.
And pending the question thereon,

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

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1834.

Mr. Adams, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on the petition of Abijah Ring, accompanied by a bill (No. 289) for his relief; 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 memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, praying that in cases in which section No. 16 shall prove unfit for cultivation, another section may be granted to the inhabitants of the township, for the benefit of common schools; which memorial was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Mardis, by leave, presented a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, praying that an agency for the payment of pensions may be established at the town of Decatur, in said State; which memorial was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Mr. Mardis, by leave, presented a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, praying to be permitted to sell the "remnant"

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