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Mr. Nicoll Halsey

Thomas L. Hamer
Edward A. Hannegan
Joseph M. Harper
Samuel S. Harrison
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
Albert G. Hawes
Joseph Henderson

William Hiester
Edward Howell

Henry Hubbard
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
Leonard Jarvis
Richard M. Johnson
Noadiah Johnson
Cave Johnson
Seaborn Jones

Benjamin Jones
Edward Kavanagh
Henry King
George L. Kinnard
Amos Lane

Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte

Cornelius W. Lawrence

George W. Lay

Luke Lea

Humphrey H. Leavitt

James Love

George Loyall

Mr. Edward Lucas
Chittenden Lyon
Robert T. Lytle
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann
Samuel W. Mardis
John Y. Mason
Moses Mason, jr.
Jonathan McCarty
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay
Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Jeremiah McLene
Charles McVean
Jesse Miller
Henry Mitchell
Robert Mitchell

Henry A. Muhlenberg
John Murphy
Gayton P. Osgood
Sherman Page

Gorham Parks
James Parker
John M. Patton
William Patterson
Dutee J. Pearce
Balie Peyton
Franklin Pierce

Job Pierson

Franklin E. Plummer

Mr. James K. Polk
Patrick H. Pope

Robert Ramsay
Abraham Rencher
Ferdinand S. Schenck
William Schley

Augustine H. Shepperd
William N. Shinn
Charles Slade
Francis O. J. Smith
Jesse Speight
James Standifer
John T. Stoddert
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
Elisha Whittlesey
Richard H. Wilde

Henry A. Wise

The previous question was then put, viz. Shall the main question be

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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

William Allen

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

Jesse A. Bynum Churchill C. Cambreleng Richard B. Carmichael

John Carr

Zadok Casey

John Chaney
Samuel Clark
Clement C. Clay
John Coffee

Henry W. Connor
John Cramer
Rowland Day

Mr. Philemon Dickerson

David W. Dickinson
William C. Dunlap ·
John B. Forester
Samuel Fowler
William K. Fuller
John Galbraith
Ransom H. Gillet
Joseph Hall

Thomas H. Hall
Nicoll Halsey
Thomas L. Hamer
Edward A. Hannegan
Joseph M. Harper
Samuel S. Harrison
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
Albert G. Hawes
Joseph Henderson
Edward Howell
Henry Hubbard
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
Leonard Jarvis
Richard M. Johnson
Noadiah Johnson
Cave Johnson

Mr. Benjamin Jones

Edward Kavanagh
George L. Kinnard
Amos Lane
Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte

Cornelius W. Lawrence

Luke Lea

Humphrey H. Leavitt

Edward Lucas
Chittenden Lyon
Robert T. Lytle
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann
Samuel W. Mardis
Moses Mason, jr.
Jonathan McCarty
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay
Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Jeremiah McLene
Charles McVean
Jesse Miller

Henry Mitchell

Robert Mitchell
Henry A. Muhlenberg

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Mr. Littleton P. Dennis
John Dickson
Joseph Duncan
George Evans
Edward Everett
Horace Everett
John Ewing
John M. Felder
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
Thomas F. Foster

Philo C. Fuller

John H. Fulton
Roger L. Gamble
James H. Gholson
George R. Gilmer
William F. Gordon
Benjamin Gorham
James Graham
William J. Grayson,
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
Seaborn Jones
Henry King
George W. Lay
Dixon H. Lewis
James Love

George Loyall

Mr. 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. Henry C. Martindale
Thomas A. Marshall

John Y. Mason

William McComas

George McDuffie

Thomas M. T. McKennan

Charles F. Mercer

John J. Milligan

Samuel McDowell Moore

John M. Patton

Henry L. Pinckney

Franklin E. Plummer

David Potts, jr.
Robert Ramsay
John Reed

Abraham Rencher

Dudley Selden

William B. Shepard

Augustine H. Shepperd

William Slade

Jonathan Sloane

David Spangler
William P. Taylor
Philemon Thomas
Christopher Tompkins

Samuel Tweedy
Joseph Vance
Samuel F. Vinton
John G. Watmough
Edward D. White
Frederick Whittlesey
Elisha Whittlesey
Richard H. Wilde
Lewis Williams
Edgar C. Wilson
Henry A. Wise
Ebenezer Young

The main question was then put, Shall the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the removal of the deposite of the public funds from the Bank of the United States and its branches to certain State banks, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means?

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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

William Allen

William Baylies

James M. H. Beale

Mr. Benning M. Bean

Samuel Beardsley
Andrew Beaumont
John Bell

Mr. James Blair

John Blair
Abraham Bockee
Charles Bodle

Mr. Ratliff Boon

John W. Brown
Samuel Bunch
Robert Burns

Jesse A. Bynum
Churchill C. Cambreleng
Richard B. Carmichael
John Carr

Zadok Casey

John Chaney

Joseph W. Chinn
Samuel Clark
Clement C. Clay
John Coffee
Henry W. Connor
Richard Coulter
John Cramer
Thomas Davenport
Rowland Day
Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
William C. Dunlap
John Ewing
John B. Forester
Samuel Fowler
William K. Fuller
John Galbraith
James H. Gholson
Ransom H. Gillet
George R. Gilmer
Joseph Hall
Thomas H. Hall
Nicoll Halsey

Thomas L. Hamer

Edward A. Hannegan
Joseph M. Harper
Samuel S. Harrison

Samuel G. Hathaway

Micajah T. Hawkins

Albert G. Hawes

Mr. 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
Henry King

George L.. Kinnard
Amos Lane
Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte

Cornelius W. Lawrence
Luke Lea
Humphrey H. Leavitt
George Loyall
Edward Lucas
Chittenden Lyon
Robert T. Lytle
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann
Samuel W. Mardis
John Y. Mason
Moses Mason, jr.
Jonathan McCarty
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay
Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Jeremiah McLene
Charles McVean
Jesse Miller
Henry Mitchell
Robert Mitchell

Henry A. Muhlenberg

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. John Quincy Adams

Heman Allen

John J. Allen

Chilton Allan

William S. Archer
William H. Ashley
John Banks
Noyes Barber

Charles A. Barnitz
Daniel L. Barringer
Isaac C. Bates
Martin Beaty
James M. Bell
Horace Binney
George N. Briggs
John Bull

George Burd

Tristam Burges

Harry Cage

George Chambers

Thomas Chilton
Rufus Choate

Nathaniel H. Claiborne
William Clark
Augustine S. Clayton

Mr. William K. Clowney

Thomas Corwin
Joseph H. Crane
David Crockett
Edward Darlington
Warren R. Davis
Amos Davis
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
Philo C. Fuller
John H. Fulton
Roger L. Gamble
William F. Gordon
Benjamin Gorham

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

Franklin E. Plummer
James K. Polk

Patrick H. Pope

Ferdinand S. Schenck

William Schley

Dudley Selden
William N. Shinn
Charles Slade
Francis O. J. Smith
Jesse Speight
James Standifer
John T. Stoddert
Joel B. Sutherland
William Taylor
William P. 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. James Graham

William J. Grayson
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
George W. Lay
Dixon H. Lewis
James Love

Henry C. Martindale
Thomas A. Marshall
William McComas

George McDuffie

Thomas M. T. McKennan

Charles F. Mercer

John J. Milligan

Samuel McDowell Moore

Henry L. Pinckney

Mr. Frederick Whittlesey
Elisha Whittlesey

Richard H. Wilde
Lewis Williams

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And so the said report was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means without the instructions moved by Mr. McDuffie, and the amendment thereto moved by Mr. Jones, which were set aside by the previous question.

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

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1834.

Mr. Foot, from the Committee on Commerce, made an unfavorable report on the petition of George Innes; which was read, and laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Muhlenberg,

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

On motion of Mr. Cave Johnson,

Ordered, That the Committee on Private Land Claims be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Corbin Griffin, and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

On motion of Mr. Bell, of Ohio,

Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the case of the reverend John Young, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. Chaney, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on the case of Amasa A. Tifft, accompanied by a bill (No. 311) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Campbell P. White, from the Committee on Coins, reported a bill (No. 312) regulating the value of certain foreign gold coins within the United States; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Campbell P. White, from the Committee on Coins, reported a bill (No. 313) concerning the gold and silver coins of the United States, and for other purposes; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Jarvis, from the Committee on the Public Buildings, to which was recommitted the resolution reported by that committee, granting to Robert Mills a compensation for his services in furnishing a plan for the recent alterations in the hall of the House of Representatives, and in superintending the execution of the same, made a report; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Dickson, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined an enrolled 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," and found the same to be truly enrolled: when the Speaker signed the said bill.

The House resumed the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Mardis on the 14th of January; when Mr. Mardis modified his said resolution to read as follows:

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to deposite the public moneys of the United States in the State banks, and also as to the expediency of defining by law all contracts hereafter to be made with the Secretary, for the safe keeping, management, and disbursement of the same.

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

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of the report and drawings of the survey of a route for a railroad from the Hudson river to the Portage summit of the Ohio canal, made by De Witt Clinton, United States civil engineer, in 1832, furnished in obedience to the order of the House of the 14th instant; which letter and report were referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 256) to provide for the settlement of certain revolutionary claims; when it was Ordered, That the further consideration of said bill be postponed until Tuesday, the 25th instant.

An engrossed bill (No. 56) entitled "An act to render permanent the present mode of supplying the army of the United States, and fixing the salary of certain clerks therein named, was read the third time; and the question was stated, Shall the bill pass? When

A motion was made by Mr. Blair, of South Carolina, that the said bill be recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs.

A motion was made by Mr. Wilde to amend the said motion by appending thereto the following, viz. "with instructions to divide the two distinct subjects contained in this bill, and to report a bill for each, inserting in both a clause limiting the continuance thereof to three years, and until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter."

And on the question to agree to these instructions,

It was decided in the negative; and

The said bill was then recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, as proposed by Mr. Blair, of South Carolina.

An engrossed bill (No. 181) entitled "An act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year 1834," was read the third time; and the question was stated, Shall the bill pass? When A motion was made by Mr. McDuffie that the said bill be recommitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. And pending the question on this motion,

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1834.

The House met pursuant to adjournment; and after the reading of the journal of the proceedings of yesterday,

On motion of Mr. Mason, of Virginia, and for the purpose of affording

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