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into the expediency of changing the present custom-house regulations, in relation to mortgages of vessels, so as to require the collectors of the several ports to have recorded in the respective custom-houses such pers relating to vessels as may be deemed necessary to remedy any defect that now exists, and to guard purchasers from future impositions, should they be attempted.

On motion of Mr. Wilde,

Resolved, That the Clerk of this House do cause to be arranged and digested the returns of the different State banks for the last year, so far as the same may be attainable, and that they, together with the abstracts and estimates herewith submitted, after the additions and calculations thereof are verified, under the direction of the said Clerk, shall be printed for the use of Congress.

On motion of Mr. Bynum,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making, by law, the port of Williamston, in the State of North Carolina, a port of entry, and to provide by statute for the appointment of an inspector thereof.

On motion of Mr. Grennell,

Resolved, That the resolutions adopted by the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1831, in favor of the passage of a law by Congress for the more perfect organization of the militia of the several States, be referred to the Committee on the Militia; and that the said committee be directed to inquire into the expediency of exempting from the performance of militia service as soldiers, in time of peace, all persons under twentyone and over thirty-five years of age.

On motion of Mr. Osgood,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of erecting a pier to extend from Badger's rocks to Salisbury head, near the mouth of Merrimack river, in the State of Massachusetts.

On motion of Mr. Day,

Resolved, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the names of William Baden and James Harrington on the roll of invalid pensioners.

On motion of Mr. Martindale,

Resolved, That the Committee for the District of Columbia be instructed to inquire and report to this House whether any, and if any, what provision ought to be made by law for cleansing and keeping clean the PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.

Mr. Miller moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz.

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting pensions to the widows of such deceased soldiers of the revolution as would, if living, be entitled to the benefits of the act of 1832, provided they were the wives of the said soldiers at any time they were in service; and, also, to inquire into the expediency of granting the benefits of the said act to those who were engaged in the wagon service during the revolution.

On motion of Mr. Denny,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to in

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quire into the expediency of making an appropriation to aid in the erection of suitable buildings in Pittsburg for the accommodation of the United States court in and for the western district of Pennsylvania.

On motion of Mr. Beaumont,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from the borough of Wilkesbarre, by the way of the State road, to Conyngham, and thence to Tamaqua, in Pennsylvania.

On motion of Mr. Burd,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a national armory in the ' counties of Bedford, Cambria, Huntington, Centre, or Mifflin, in Pennsylvania, as to said committee may appear best.

On motion of Mr. Watmough,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be directed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the erection of a public hospital at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

On motion of Mr. John J. Allen,

1. Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Wright's mills, in Jackson county, Virginia, by the way of Muse's Bottom, and up the Ohio river, to Belleville, in Wood county, Virginia.

2. Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Hereford's ferry, in Mason county, Virginia, to Jackson courthouse, in the State of Ohio, passing through the Sims' Creek settle

ment.

3. Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Everton, in the county of Lewis, by the way of the mouth of Leading creek, and Stewart's creek, to Charlestown, in the county of Kanawha, Virginia.

4. Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Huttonsville, in Randolph county, Virginia, by the way of Cloverlick, to Huntersville, in Pocahontas county, Virginia.

On motion of Mr. Wilson,

Resolved, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending for a further term of five years, the half pay pensions heretofore granted by the act of the 16th of April, 1816, to the widows of persons killed, or who died in the land service of the United States during the late war.

On motion of Mr. Mercer,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting by law the sale of lottery tickets within the District of Columbia.

On motion of Mr. Speight,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from the town of Newbern to the house of James Riggs, on Bay river, in the county of Rowan.

On motion of Mr. Barringer,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Hillsborough, by Mount Willing, Rock creek, Long's mills, to Asheborough, in Randolph county, North Carolina.

On motion of Mr. Connor,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing, agreeably to a resolution of the Congress of 1781, the appropriation of five hundred dollars for the erection of a monument to the memory of Brigadier General Davidson, of North Carolina.

On motion of Mr. Deberry,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the pension act of the 7th June, 1832, as to provide for such persons as were employed as artisans while in the militia or regular service of the United States. Mr. Warren R. Davis moved the following resolutions, viz.

1. Resolved, That the powers of the Executive Department of the Federal Government have been increased beyond the authority of the constitution.

2. Resolved, That the powers of the Executive Department of the Federal Government are increasing, and ought to be diminished.

3. Resolved, That the patronage of the President of the United States has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

On motion of Mr. Gamble,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of changing the mail route from Savannah to Augusta, so as to make it pass through Waynesborough, in Burke county.

On motion of Mr. Tompkins,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Franklin, in the county of Simpson, in the State of Kentucky, to Scottsville, in the county of Allen, in said State.

On motion of Mr. Richard M. Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the law which authorizes scrip or land bounty, so as to provide for claims granted for revolutionary services, and located, surveyed, and patented in the State of Kentucky, and which claims have been taken by prior or better claims by the judgment of the highest judicial tribunal in that State, according to the construction put upon the original law by the Secretary of the Treasury, which embraced those claims.

On motion of Mr. Richard M. Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing that law which requires two witnesses to establish a pension for wounds received during the revolutionary war, placing all such cases upon proof satisfactory to the Secretary of War, as in other cases.

On motion of Mr. Richard M. Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee for the District of Columbia be in

structed to inquire into the expediency of abolishing imprisonment for debt within this District, and particularly as respects small sums under fifty dollars, and as it respects all females.

On motion of Mr. Chittenden Lyon,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing an agency for paying pensioners south of Green river, in Kentucky.

On motion of Mr. Hardin,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of putting Joseph Brown, of Bullitt county, in the State of Kentucky, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that the documents in support of his claim be referred to said committee.

On motion of Mr. Hardin,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions inquire into the expediency of placing Henry Shauntee, of Kentucky, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that the papers evidencing the said Shauntee's claim be referred to the same committee.

Mr. Chilton moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz.

Resolved, That, in view of the general distress of the people of the United States, and that commercial embarrassment which is carrying ruin to the doors of the agricultural portion of our citizens, the President of the United States be respectfully requested to submit to this House a plan for "a Bank of the United States, competent to all the duties which may be required by the Government, and which may be so organized as not to infringe on our own delegated powers, or the reserved rights of the States, and, comprising all the advantages, may not be subject to the objections to which the present Bank of the United States is liable in his judgment."

On motion of Mr. Crockett,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Totten's Wells, in Obion county, by Seth Bedford's, to Troy, in Tennessee.

On motion of Mr. Cave Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the propriety of making a further and additional appropriation for removing the obstructions from the Cumberland river.

On motion of Mr. Cave Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Clarksville, in the State of Tennessee, to Cadiz, in the county of Trigg, in the State of Kentucky.

On motion of Mr. Dickinson, of Tennessee,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be directed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Readyville, in the county of Rutherford, and State of Tennessee, by way of Brown's gap, to Beach grove, in Bedford county.

On motion of Mr. Dickinson, of Tennessee,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into

the expediency of making compensation to George Brandon and Stephen White, citizens of Tennessee, for property lost during the late war.

On motion of Mr. Elisha Whittlesey,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making further provision, by law, to compensate the collectors of the customs for their services at the ports on Lake Erie, and to equalize their pay.

On motion of Mr. Vinton,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of revising the laws for granting copyrights to authors, so far as relates to the reports of judicial decisions of the courts of the United States and of the several States; and of distributing the reports of the judicial decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States along with the acts of Congress, wherever the latter are required, by law, to be annually sent.

On motion of Mr. Pinckney,

Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a naval depot at Charleston, in South Carolina.

On motion of Mr. Pinckney,

Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the abolition of the use of ardent spirits in the navy.

On motion of Mr. Leavitt,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing a survey of a northwestern national road from Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, upon the most eligible route to some point on the Maumee bay, or its vicinity.

Ön motion of Mr. Leavitt,

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 St. Clairsville, in the county of Belmont, by way of Uniontown, Flushing, Moorefield, Freeport, and Westchester, to Port Washington, on the Ohio canal, in the State of Ohio.

2. Resolved, That the said committee be also instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Knoxville, in the county of Jefferson, to the Tunnel hill, in said county.

On motion of Mr. Bell, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Barnesville, through Senecaville, to Zanesville, in Ohio.

On motion of Mr. Patterson,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Sandusky city, in Huron county, by York cross roads, Seneca reservation, Tiffin, and Risdon, to Findlay, the seat of justice of Hancock county, in the State of Ohio.

On motion of Mr. Mitchell, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a national armory on the waters of the Muskingum, in the State of Ohio.