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

The House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Gholson reported sundry bills, to wit:

No. 181. A bill making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year 1834, without amendment.

No. 486. A bill for the reappropriation of an unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the payment of the Georgia militia claims for the years 1792, 1793, and 1794, without amendment.

No. 518. A bill making additional appropriations for the armory at Harper's Ferry, for the year 1834, without amendment.

No. 240. A bill making appropriations for building light-houses, lightboats, beacons, and monuments, for the year 1834, with amendments. No. 238. A bill making appropriations for the Military Academy for the year 1834, with amendments.

No. 313. A bill concerning the gold and silver coins of the United States, and for other purposes, without amendment.

No. 312. A bill regulating the value of certain foreign gold coins within the United States, without amendment.

It was then

Ordered, That the bill (No. 486) for the reappropriation of an unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the payment of the Georgia militia claims for the years 1792, 1793, and 1794, and the bill (No. 518) making additional appropriations for the armory at Harper's Ferry, for the year 1834, be engrossed, and severally read a third time to-day.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of this House of the fol'lowing titles, viz.

No. 51. An act for the relief of the widow and children of George Ludlum, deceased.

No. 55. An act for the relief of Lucy Loomis.

No. 105. An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Doctor John Berrien.

The Senate have also passed bills of the following titles, viz.

No. 76. An act to create two additional land districts in the State of Illinois, and two land districts north of said State, in the territory now attached to Michigan, which lies between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river;

No. 102. An act for the relief of General James Taylor, late quartermaster general and district paymaster in the army of the United States; No. 103. An act to remunerate Stephen C. Phillips for the support and transportation of shipwrecked American seamen ;

No. 104. An act for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald;

No. 105. An act for the relief of James Fife, a Creek Indian;

No. 107. An act for the relief of William A. Duer, John Duer, and Beverly Robinson, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander, deceased; No. 108. An act for the relief of the legal representatives of James P. Hainesworth, deceased;

No. 117. An act confirming certain land claims in the district of St. Stephen's, in Alabama;

No. 125. An act for the repair of Mars hill military road, in the State of Maine;

No. 146. An act for the relief of Andrew Armstrong;

in which last mentioned bills I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew.

Engrossed bills, of the following titles, viz.

No. 486. An act for the reappropriation of an unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the payment of the Georgia militia claims for the years 1792, 1793, and 1794;

No. 518. An act making additional appropriations for the armory at Harper's Ferry, for the year 1834;

were severally read the third time, and passed.

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

And then the House adjourned until Monday next, 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1834.

On motion of Mr. John Quincy Adams,

Ordered, That the case of Charles Yancey be recommitted to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

A motion was made by Mr. Polk that the rules of the House prescribing the order of business be suspended, so as to enable the House, at half past one o'clock to-day, to proceed to the consideration of such bills as have been reported from Committees of the Whole House; and that the House do, at that hour, proceed to the consideration of said bills. And the question being put to agree to this motion,

It passed in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Polk,

A call of the House was ordered; and the roll being called over twice, 161 members answered to their names, viz.

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Mr. John Carr
Zadok Casey
George Chambers
John Chaney
Thomas Chilton
Rufus Choate
William Clark
Clement C. Clay
William K. Clowney
Henry W. Connor
Thomas Corwin
Richard Coulter
John Cramer
David Crockett
Edward Darlington
Warren R. Davis
Thomas Davenport
Rowland Day
Edmund Deberry
Benjamin F. Deming
Harmar Denny
John Dickson
Philemon Dickerson
David W. Dickinson
Joseph Duncan

Mr. William C. Dunlap

William W. Ellsworth
George Evans
Edward Everett

Horace Everett

Millard Fillmore

Thomas F. Foster
William K. Fuller
John H. Fulton
Roger L. Gamble
Rice Garland
Benjamin Gorham
James Graham
George Grennell, jr.
Hiland Hall
Nicoll Halsey

Edward A. Hannegan

Gideon Hard

Benjamin Hardin
Joseph M. Harper
James Harper
Samuel S. Harrison
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
Albert G. Hawes

Mr. James P. Heath
Joseph Henderson
William Hiester
Henry Hubbard

Jabez W. Huntington
Abel Huntington
William M. Inge
William Jackson

Leonard Jarvis

William Cost Johnson
Noadiah Johnson

Seaborn Jones

Benjamin Jones
Edward Kavanagh
George L. Kinnard
Amos Lane
Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte
Thomas Lee
Humphrey H. Leavitt
Dixon H. Lewis
Levi Lincoln
James Love
George Loyall
Chittenden Lyon
Robert T. Lytle

Abijah Mann, jr.
Joel K. Mann

Henry C. Martindale

Mr. Thomas A. Marshall

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Samuel W. Mardis
Moses Mason, jr.
Jonathan McCarty
William McComas
Rufus McIntire
James J. McKay

Thomas M. T. McKennan

John McKinley

Jeremiah McLene

Charles McVean
Jesse Miller

John J. Milligan
Henry Mitchell
Robert Mitchell

Samuel McDowell Moore
Henry A. Muhlenberg
John Murphy
Gayton P. Osgood
Sherman Page
James Parker
John M. Patton
Dutee J. Pearce
Franklin Pierce
Job Pierson

Mr. Ferdinand S. Schenck

Dudley Selden
William Skade
Jonathan Sloane
Jesse Speight
John N. Steele
John T. Stoddert

Joel B. Sutherland
William P. Taylor
Francis Thomas
Philemon Thomas
John Thomson
Christopher Tompkins
James Turner
Joel Turrill
Joseph Vance
Aaron Vanderpoel
Isaac B. Van Houten
Samuel F. Vinton
Daniel Wardwell
John G. Watmough
James M. Wayne
Reuben Whallon
Edward D. White
Frederick Whittlesey

Henry L. Pinckney

Elisha Whittlesey

James K. Polk

David Potts, jr.

s in hobert Ramsay

Edgar C. Wilson
Ebenezer Young

Further proceedings in the call were then dispensed with.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the memorial of inhabitants of the county of Wayne, in the State of Indiana, in favor of a restoration of the deposite of the public money to the Bank of the United States, and of a recharter of said Bank, presented by Mr. McCarty on the 19th of May `ultimo.

And, after debate on the said memorial,

Mr. McCarty moved that it be printed, with the names, and that it be referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (No. 443) to regulate the deposite of the money of the United States in certain local banks; but, before the question was taken on this motion,

Mr. Grennell moved that the said memorial do lie on the table, and be printed; which motion was agreed to.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the memorial of inhabitants of the county of Franklin, in the State of Massachusetts, in favor of a restoration of the deposite of the public money to the Bank of the United States, and of a renewal of the charter of said Bank, presented by Mr. Grennell on the 26th of May ultimo.

And, after debate, the said memorial was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, on the subject of the removal of the deposite of the public money from the Bank of the United States, and the establishment of a National Bank, presented by Mr. Burges on the 26th of May ultimo.

And, after debate, the hour of half past one o'clock P. M. arrived, and the further consideration of the said resolutions was postponed until Monday next.

Bills of the Senate, of the following titles, viz.

No. 76. An act to create two additional land districts in the State of Illinois, and two new land districts north of said State, in the territory now attached to Michigan, which lies between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river;

No. 102. An act for the relief of James Taylor, late quartermaster general and district paymaster in the army of the United States;

No. 103. An act to remunerate Stephen C. Phillips for the support and transportation of shipwrecked American seamen;

No. 104. An act for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald;

No. 105. An act for the relief of James Fife, a Creek Indian;

No. 107. An act for the relief of Wm. A. Duer, John Duer, and Beverly Robinson, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander, deceased; No. 117. An act confirming certain land claims in the district of St. Stephen's, in Alabama;

No. 125. An act for the repair of Mars hill military road, in the State of Maine ;

No. 146. An act for the relief of Andrew Armstrong;

were severally read the first and second time, and referred

No. 76. To the Committee on the Public Lands.

No. 102. To the Committee of Claims.

No. 103. To the Committee on Commerce.

No. 104. To the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
No. 105. To the Committee on Indian Affairs.

No. 107. To the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.
No. 117. To the Committee on the Public Lands.
No. 125. To the Committee on Roads and Canals.

No. 146. To the Committee on Naval Affairs.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary : Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills and a resolution of this House of the following titles, viz.

No. 1. An act granting pensions to certain persons therein named, with amendments.

No. 25. An act for the relief of Francis Barnes.

No. 28. An act for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased. No. 330. An act to extend the time allowed for the discharge of the duties of the commission for carrying into effect the convention with France.

No. 435. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to carry into effect the convention between the United States and his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the 14th day of October, 1832."

No. 6. Resolution providing for the distribution of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, from the peace of 1783 to the 4th of March, 1789.

And then he withdrew.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill from the Senate (No. 79) entitled "An act for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road."

The third section of the said bill was read as follows:

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the entire completion of

repairs of the Cumberland road east of the Ohio river, and other needful improvements on said road, to carry into effect the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road," passed the 4th day of April, 1831, and of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, entitled "An act for the preservation and repair of that part of the United States road within the limits of the State of Maryland," passed the 23d day of January, 1832; also, an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An act concerning the Cumberland road," passed February the 7th, 1832; the sum of six hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and thirty dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; the money to be drawn out of the Treasury in such sums and at such times as may be required for the performance of the work.

A motion was made by Mr. Polk to amend the said section by striking out "six hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and thirty dollars,' and inserting in lieu thereof "three hundred thousand dollars."

And, after debate, a motion was made by Mr. Jones, of Georgia, that the said bill do lie on the table.

And the question being put,

Yeas,

It was decided in the negative, Nays,

58,

132.

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

Mr. Daniel L. Barringer

Benning M. Bean
Samuel Bunch

Jesse A. Bynum
Robert B. Campbell
Clement C. Clay
Augustine S. Clayton
William K. Clowney
John Coffee
Henry W. Connor
John Cramer
Warren R. Davis
Thomas Davenport
Edmund Deberry
David W. Dickinson
John M. Felder
Thomas F. Foster
Samuel Fowler

William K. Fuller

Roger L. Gamble

Mr. James H. Gholson
George R. Gilmer
William F. Gordon
James Graham
William J. Grayson
John K. Griffin
Joseph Hall
Benjamin Hardin
Joseph M. Harper
Samuel G. Hathaway
Micajah T. Hawkins
Albert G. Hawes
Henry Hubbard

William M. Inge
Leonard Jarvis
Noadiah Johnson
Seaborn Jones

Edward Kavanagh
Luke Lea

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. John Quincy Adams

Heman Allen

John Adams

John J. Allen

William Allen

Joseph B. Anthony

William H. Ashley..
John Banks
Noyes Barber
William Baylies
Samuel Beardsley
Martin Beaty
Andrew Beaumont-

Mr. James M. Bell

Horace Binney
John Blair
Abraham Bockee
Ratliff Boon

George N. Briggs
John W. Brown
John Bull

George Burd

Richard B. Carmichael

John Carr

Zadok Casey
George Chambers.

Mr. Dixon H. Lewis
George Loyall
Abijah Mann, jr.
Moses Mason, jr.
James J. McKay
Charles McVean
Gorham Parks
John M. Patton
Balie Peyton
Franklin Pierce
James K. Polk
Robert Ramsay
Abraham Rencher
William Schley
Francis O. J. Smith
William P. Taylor
Campbell P. White
Lewis Williams
Henry A. Wise®

Mr. John Chaney

Thomas Chilton
Rufus Choate
Samuel Clark
William Clark

Thomas Corwin

Richard Coulter

David Crockett

Edward Darlington
Rowland Day
Benjamin F. Deming

Harmar Denny

John Dickson

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