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Mr. Smith, of Maine, presented a petition of the Portland Marine Society, commanders of steamboats and other packets, and others interested in the navigation of Portland, in the State of Maine, praying that a bell may be placed on Cape Elizabeth, near the eastern light-house.

Mr. Selden presented a petition of merchants and owners of vessels, residing in the city of New York, praying that an appropriation may be made for removing the obstruction to navigation in Hudson river, commonly called "the Overslaugh."

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Com

merce.

The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, viz.

By Mr. Hazeltine: The petition of inhabitants of the counties of Erie and Chatauque, in the State of New York, for an improvement of the harbor of Portland, on Lake Erie, presented February 22, 1830.

By Mr. Hazeltine: The petition of inhabitants of the counties of Chatauque and Cattaraugus, in the State of New York, for the improvement of Silver Creek harbor, presented February 1, 1830, February 6, 1832, and March 19, 1832.

By Mr. Ashley: The petition of the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of St. Louis, for the erection of a hospital, presented March 2, 1830.

Mr. Edward Everett presented a memorial, of Robert Fulton, in behalf of himself and the other heirs of Robert Fulton, deceased, praying to be indemnified for losses sustained by their father, in consequence of the impressment into the public service at Pittsburg, in the year 1814, of the steamboat Vesuvius.

Mr. Page presented a petition of John Haight, of the State of New York, praying to be paid for property of which he was robbed by the enemy, upon his being taken prisoner at the battle of Queenstown, in the late war with Great Britain.

Mr. Darlington presented a petition of Samuel Lewis, junior, praying compensation for the services of his son as a temporary clerk in the War Department.

Mr. Mercer presented a petition of Charles J. Catlett, of the State of Virginia, praying to be paid for property plundered and carried off by the British forces from Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, during the late war.

Mr. Mercer presented a petition of Gaetano Carusi, praying Congress to provide for the fulfilment of a contract entered into with him by certain naval officers, by furnishing him with the means of returning to Italy, the place of his nativity.

Mr. Lyon, of Michigan, presented a petition of Medart Couture, of Michigan, praying to be paid for a horse and saddle taken by the British and Indians at the surrender of Detroit, in the late war.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee of Claims, viz.

By Mr. Page: The petition of Jerah Fenner, presented the 8th January, 1833.

By Mr. Loyall: The petition of Teakle Savage, of the State of Virgi

nia, administrator of Bolitha Laws, deceased, presented the 3d January, 1833.

By Mr. Cave Johnson: The petition of Reuben M. Bullard, presented the 18th December, 1832.

By Mr. E. Whittlesey, of Ohio: The petition of Virginia Franzoni, guardian of the children of Francis Gardella, and administratrix of her father, Franzoni, presented December 23, 1831.

By Mr. Thomas, of Louisiana: The petition of William Jennison, presented the 28th May, 1832.

The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, viz.

By Mr. Foot: The petition of Benjamin Goodrich, presented the 9th January, 1832.

By Mr. Day: The petition of William Slocum, presented January 30, 1832.

By Mr. McVean: The petition of Jacob Snell, presented 11th February, 1833.

By Mr. Ward: The petition of Martin Parker, presented 16th December, 1829.

Mr. Page presented a petition of Content M. Fitch, widow of Lieutenant Benjamin Fitch, praying to be allowed arrearages of pension to which she conceives her late husband was entitled.

Mr. Page presented a petition of Benjamin Donslow, a soldier of the revolution, praying for an increase of the pension he now receives. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

On motion of Mr. Ward,

Ordered, That the petition of Major Leonard Bleecker, heretofore presented on the 4th of January, 1833, be again referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

The Speaker presented a memorial of Henry D. Gilpin, John T. Sulliyan and Peter Wager, of Pennsylvania, and Hugh McElderry, of Maryland, directors of the Bank of the United States, appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in relation to the manner in which they have discharged the trust confided to them, and in relation to the manner in which the affairs of the Bank have been conducted since their appointment.

A motion was made by Mr. Polk that the said memorial be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means; when

A motion was made by Mr. Watmough that the said memorial be com-mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, which took precedence of the motion to refer to the Committee of Ways and Means.

A motion was then made by Mr. Archer that the said memorial do lie on the table, and that it be printed.

The question on this motion being divided,

It was put on so much as proposed to lay the memorial on the table,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

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Mr. Thomas Davenport

Edmund Deberry

Benjamin F. Deming
Harmar Denny
Littleton P. Dennis
John Dickson
Joseph Duncan
William W. Ellsworth
George Evans
Edward Everett
Horace Everett
John Ewing
John M. Felder
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
Thomas F. Foster
Samuel Fowler
Philo C. Fuller
John H. Fulton
Roger L. Gamble
James H. Gholson
George R. Gilmer
William F. Gordon
Benjamin Gorham
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

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. John Adams

Heman Allen

John J. Allen
William Allen
Joseph B. Anthony
William Baylies
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
John Carr
Zadok Casey
John Chaney

Joseph W. Chinn

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Mr. John Cramer

Rowland Day
Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
William C. Dunlap
John B. Forester
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
Noadiah Johnson

Cave Johnson

Mr. Seaborn Jones
George W. Lay
Thomas Lee

Dixon H. Lewis

James Love

Henry C. Martindale

Thomas A. Marshall

John Y. Mason

Thomas M. T. McKennan
Charles F. Mercer
John J. Milligan
John M. Patton
Henry L. Pinckney
David Potts, jr.
John Reed

Dudley Selden
William B. Shepard
Augustine H. Shepperd
William Slade
Jonathan Sloane
David Spangler
Andrew Stewart
William P. Taylor
Philemon Thomas
Christopher Tompkins
Samuel Tweedy
Joseph Vance
Samuel F. Vinton
John G. Watmough
Frederick Whittlesey
Elisha Whittlesey
Richard H. Wilde
Lewis Williams
Edgar C. Wilson
Ebenezer Young

Mr. 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
Joel K. Mann
Samuel W. Mardis
William McComas
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay
Isaac McKim
John McKinley
Jeremiah McLene
Charles McVean

Jesse Miller

Robert Mitchell

Samuel McDowell Moore

Henry A. Muhlenberg

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Aaron Ward
Daniel Wardwell
Taylor Webster
Reuben Whallon
Campbell P. White
Henry A. Wise

The question was then put on so much of Mr. Archer's motion as proposed that the said memorial be printed,

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

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Heman Allen

John J. Allen

Chilton Allan

William Allen

Joseph B. Anthony
William S. Archer
William H. Ashley
John Banks
Noyes Barber

Charles A. Barnitz
Daniel L. Barringer
Isaac C. Bates
William Baylies
James M. H. Beale
Benning M. Bean
Samuel Beardsley
Martin Beaty
John Bell
James M. Bell
Horace Binney
James Blair
John Blair
Abraham Bockee
Charles Bodle
Ratliff Boon
Thomas T. Bouldin
George N. Briggs
John W. Brown
Henry A. Bullard
John Bull
Samuel Bunch
George Burd
Tristam Burges
Robert Burns
Jesse A. Bynum
Harry Cage

Churchill C. Cambreleng
Richard B. Carmichael

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Mr. Rufus Choate
Nathaniel H. Claiborne
Samuel Clark
William Clark
Clement C. Clay
Augustine S. Clayton
William K. Clowney
John Coffee
Henry W. Connor
Richard Coulter
John Cramer
Joseph H. Crane
David Crockett
Edward Darlington
John Davis
Amos Davis

Thomas Davenport
Rowland Day
Edmund Deberry
Benjamin F. Deming
Harmar Denny
Littleton P. Dennis
John Dickson
Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
Joseph Duncan
William C. Dunlap
William W. Ellsworth
George Evans

Edward Everett
Horace Everett

John Ewing
John M. Felder
Millard Fillmore
Samuel A. Foot
John B. Forester
Thomas F. Foster
Samuel Fowler
Philo C. Fuller
William K. Fuller
John H. Fulton
John Galbraith
Roger L. Gamble
James H. Gholson
Ransom H. Gillet
George R. Gilmer

Mr. William F. Gordon Benjamin Gorham James Graham William J. Grayson George Grennell, jr.. John K. Griffin Hiland Hall

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Thomas H. Hall

Nicoll Halsey

Thomas L. Hamer

Edward A. Hannegan

Gideon Hard

Benjamin Hardin

Joseph M. Harper

James Harper
Samuel S. Harrison

Samuel G. Hathaway

Albert G. Hawes
Abner Hazeltine

James P. Heath
William Hiester
Joseph Henderson
Edward Howell
Henry Hubbard
Jabez W. Huntington
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
Leonard Jarvis

William Cost Johnson
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
Thomas Lee

Dixon H. Lewis

Mr. James Love
George Loyall
Edward Lucas
Chittenden Lyon
Robert T. Lytle
Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann
Henry C. Martindale
Thomas A. Marshall
Samuel W. Mardis
John Y. Mason
Jonathan McCarty
William McComas
George McDuffie

Rufus McIntire

James J. McKay

Thomas M. T. McKennan

Isaac McKim

John McKinley

Jeremiah McLene

Charles McVean

Charles F. Mercer

Jesse Miller

John J. Milligan
Robert Mitchell

Samuel McDowell Moore

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Mr. Sherman Page

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

Henry L. Pinckney
James K. Polk
Patrick H. Pope
David Potts, jr.
Robert Ramsay
John Reed
Abraham Rencher
Frederick S. Schenck
William Schley
Dudley Selden
William B. Shepard
Augustine H. Shepperd
William N. Shinn
William Slade

Charles Slade

Jonathan Sloane

Francis O. J. Smith

David Spangler

Jesse Speight

James Standifer

Mr. Andrew Stewart

John T. Stoddert
Joel B. Sutherland
William Taylor
William P. Taylor
Francis Thomas
Philemon Thomas
John Thomson
Christopher Tompkins
James Turner
Joel Turrill
Samuel Tweedy
Aaron Vanderpoel
Isaac Van Houten
Samuel F. Vinton
David D. Wagener
Aaron Ward
Daniel Wardwell
John G. Watmough
James M. Wayne
Taylor Webster
Reuben Whallon
Campbell P. White
Elisha Whittlesey
Richard H. Wilde
Lewis Williams
Edgar C. Wilson
Henry A. Wise
Ebenezer Young

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. William C. Dunlap

Joseph Hall

Mr. Micajah T. Hawkins

Mr. Joseph Vance

The question then recurred on the motion made by Mr. Watmough that the said memorial be committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,

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

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