Richardson, James W. Ripley, William C. Rives. William Russell, Lemuel Sawyer, John Sergeant, Augustine H Shepperd, Thos. Sinnickson, John Sloane, Oliver H. Smith. Peleg Sprague. William Stanberry, Andrew Stewart. John G. Stower, James Strong. Samuel Swann, Benjamin Swift, Joel B. Sutherland, John Taliaferro, John W. Taylor, Phineas L. Tracy, James Trezvant, Ebenezer Tucker, Joseph Vance, Stephen Van Rensselaer, John Varnum, Gulian C. Verplanck, Samuel F. Vinton, Aaron Ward, John C. Weems, Thomas Whipple, Jr., Elisha Whittlesey, James Wilson, Ephraim K. Wilson, Joseph F. Wingate, Silas Wood, John Woods, David Woodcock, George Wolf, John C. Wright.-117.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, Willis Alston, William Armstrong, John S. Barbour, Philip P. Barbour, Burwell Bassett, John Bell, William L. Brent, James Buchanan, Richard A. Buckner, Samuel P. Carson, John Chambers. Thomas Chilton, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Jobn C. Clark, Henry W. Conner. David Crockett, Henry Daniel, Thomas Davenport, Robert Desha, Joseph Duncan Jonas Earll, Jr., John Floyd, of Georgia. Tomlinson Fort, Joseph Fry, Nathaniel Garrow, George R. Gilmer, Henry H. Gurley, John Hollock, Jr., Thomas H. Hall, Charles E. Haynes, Thomas Hinds, Richard Keese, Adam King, George Kremer, Joseph Lawrence, Joseph Lecompte, Pryor Lea, Robert P. Letcher, Wilson Lumpkin, Chittenden Lyon, John H. Marable, William D. Martin, William McCoy, George McDuffie, Robert McHatton, Samuel McKean, John McKee, Charles F. Mercer, John Mitchell, Thomas R. Mitchell, James C. Mitchell, Thomas P. Moore, Gabriel Moore, William T. Nuckolls, James K. Polk, John Roane. Michael C. Sprigg, James S. Stevenson, John B. Sterigere, Thomas Taber, Wiley Thompson, Starling Tucker, Daniel Turner, Charles A. Wickliffe, Richard H. Wilde, Lewis Williams, John J. Wood, Silas Wright, Jr., Joel Yancey.-71.

Ordered, That said bill be read the third time to-morrow.
And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1828.

Mr. Wingate presented a petition of inhabitants of the towns on the Sheepscot river and bay, in the State of Maine, praying for the erection of a light-house on a point at the mouth of said river.

Mr. Gorham presented a memorial of merchants of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, in relation to the subject of cash payments for duties, custom-house fees, and tonnage duty.

Ordered, That said petition and memorial be referred to the Committee on Commerce,

Mr. Van Rensselaer presented a petition of Sabra Backus, widow of the late Col. E. Backus, praying for a pension.

Mr. John S. Barbour presented a memorial of William R. Withers, of the State of Virginia, complaining that he has been rated as an ensign, and placed as such on the list of those who have obtained the benefits of the act of the last session of Congress for the relief of Revolutionary officers and soldiers, instead of a lieutenant, which he claims to have been his true rank; and praying relief.

Mr. Findlay presented a petition of Hugh Mulloy, a soldier of the Revolution, praying for a pension.

Ordered, That these petitions and memorial be referred to the Committee on Military Pensions.

Mr. De Graff presented a memorial of inhabitants of the city and county of Schenectady, in the State of New York, for the abolition of the practice of transporting the mails on the Sabbath day; which memorial was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

Mr. Sergeant presented a memorial of merchants, traders, and other inhabitauts, of the city of Philadelphia, praying for the imposition of duties on certain sales at auction.

Mr. Archer presented a similar memorial from merchants, traders, and other inhabitants, of Petersburg. in the State of Virginia.

Ordered, That these memorials be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Smith, of Indiana,

Ordered, That the petition of Frances Felix. presented on the 10th January, 1828, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Wing presented a petition of Timothy S. Smith, of the Territory of Michigan, praying compensation for property destroyed on the Niagara frontier, in the late war with Great Britain; which petition was referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Wing presented a petition of inhabitants of the Territory of Michigan, praying that a township of land may be granted to that Territory, to raise a fund for the support of the poor; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Wing presented a petition of James Burnett, of the Territory of Michigan, praying that a tract of land on which he has long resided. and made valuable improvements, and which is included within the bounds of a tract lately ceded by the Pattawatima Indians, may be granted to him; which petition was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Mr. Wing also presented a memorial of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, praying that the legislative power of that Terriritory may, hereafter, be vested in a Governor, a Legislative Council, and a House of Representatives; which memorial was referred to the Committee on the 'Territories.

Mr. Miller presented a petition of John W. Rathbone, a scaman, disabled in the service of the United States, praying for a pension; which petition was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Nathaniel B. Wood, accompanied by a bill [No. 318] for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Ordered, That the Committee of Claims be discharged from the consideration of the petition of Francis Zock, and that it lie on the table.

Ordered, That the Committee on Military Affairs, who were, on the 11th instant, instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing that spirituous liquors shall not be furnished to soldiers, &c., be discharged from the further consideration of the subject, and that it lie on the table.

Mr. McDuffie, from the Committee of Ways and Means, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Benjamin Wells; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Verplanck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to this House, if it be not, in his judgment, incompatible with the public interest, the information in relation to intended frauds upon the revenue, which has rendered necessary the stationing additional troops on the Niagara frontier; and, also, any other evidence in possession of the Government, which may make the employment of a regular armed force necessary for the enforcement of the revenue laws.

The resolution submitted by Mr. White, yesterday, and laid on the table, was read, considered, and agreed to by the House.

On motion of Mr. Wickliffe,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, that, in any cause deaded by the Supreme Court of the United States, in which shall be drawn in question the validity of any part of the Constitution of a State, or of an act passed by the Legislature of a State, a greater number of Justices than a a majority shall concur in pronouncing such part of the said Constitution or act to be invalid; and that, without such concurrence, the part of the Constitution, or act of the Legislature, as the case may be, so drawn in question, shall not be deemed or holden invalid.

On motion of Mr. Wright, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of compensating Jacob Holmes, of Ohio, for his sacrifices and sufferings while employed as a ranger or spy, in the service of the United States, on the northwestern frontier.

Resolved, That the said committee be further instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the provisions of the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, so as to embrace those persons employed on the frontier as rangers or spies, although engaged for a shorter period than three years at any one time; or of placing those persons on the footing of Revolutionary pensioners.

On motion of Mr. Kremer,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying unto Joseph Britton the amount of bis pension, from the time he was struck from the pension roll, until the the time of his restoration to the same.

On motion of Mr. Lecompte,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of John Waldon, a soldier of the Revolution, on the pension roll.

On motion of Mr. Baldwin,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of Gad Page, a Revolutionary soldier, on the pension list.

On motion of Mr. Isacks,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the laws in regard to the issuing of warrants for military land bounties beyond the period to which they are now limited.

On moton of Mr. Wright, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of laying out, opening, and constructing a road from the western termination of the Blackswamp road, by the way of

Wooster, New Philadelphia, and Steubenville, in Ohio, to the Cumberland road at Washington, in Pennsylvania; and also into the expediency of aiding the construction of said road by grant of land or otherwise. On motion of Mr. Russell,

Resolved. That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying the fees of all witnesses summoned by the authority of the United States' Court, in criminal prosecutions.

On motion of Mr. Miller,

Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be directed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation in favor of the Naval Hospital Fund, of the amount due to the said fund from the Treasury of the United States, for the purpose of effecting the objects contemplated by the act establishing Navy Hospitals."

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On motion of Mr. Wing,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for compensating John Baptiste Jerome, for a barn and other buildings destroyed on the river Raisin, during the late war.

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

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to communicate to this House any information he may have in his possession, relative to the claim of Gabriel Godfroy. and John Batiste Beaugraud, to 225 acres of land, at or near the line, between the State of Ohio and the 'Territory of Michigan.

Mr. Ward moved the following resolution :

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be directed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the annual appropriation for the supply of ordnance for the fortifications of the United States.

And the question being put, to agree to this resolution,

It was decided in the negative.

Mr. Owen moved the following resolution :

Resolved, That the letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the chief engineer on the subject of a communication between the Hiwassee and Conesauga rivers, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands; and that said committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of setting apart a portion of the public lands in the State of Alabama, to aid in executing such canal, as may be deemed expedient for accomplishing the object of said report.

This resolution being read,

A motion was made by Mr. Vinton to amend the same, by striking out "Committee on the Public Lands." and inserting "Committee on Roads and Canals;" which being disagreed to by the House,

The resolution was agreed to by the House as proposed by Mr. Owen. The resolutions, submitted by Mr. Hall yesterday, in relation to the powers of the General Government on the subject of internal improvements, were read the second time,

And a motion was made that they be committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; which motion being disagreed to by the House,

A motion was made by Mr. Bartlett, that the said resolutions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; which motion being also disa greed to, it was

On motion of Mr. Hunt,

Ordered, That the said resolutions do lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Sprigg,

Ordered, That the letter from the Secretary of War, communicated to the House on the 23d of January last, containing information in relation to the accounts of the superintendent of the armory at Harper's Ferry, and to supplies furnished said armory, be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

On motion of Mr. Verplanck,

Ordered, That the report of the Secretary of the Navy, on the claim of Henry Eckford, be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

An engrosssed bill, [No. 47,] entitled An act, allowing an additional drawback on sugar refined in the United States, and exported therefrom," was read the third time, and passed.

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

And then the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1828.

Mr. Phelps presented memorials from inhabitants of the city of Hartford, and the town of Wethersfield, in the State of Connecticut, praying that the mails may not be transported on the Sabbath day, which memorials were referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

On motion of Mr. Ramsey,

Ordered, That the petition of John Kline, presented on the 18th February, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Military Pensions.

Mr. Crockett presented a petition of Caleb Mason, of the State of Tennessee, praying for a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Military Pensions.

On motion of Mr. Polk,

Ordered, That the petition of David Dodd, presented on the 19th December, 1827, and Aaron McWhorter, presented on the 24th March, 1828, be referred to the Committee on Military Pensions.

Mr. Newton presented a petition of J. B. Cooper, a captain of cavalry in the late war with Great Britain, praying payment for property destroyed by the British forces, by reason of its being occupied as an outpost for cavalry; which petition was referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Barney presented a memorial of merchants, traders, and other inhabitants of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, (among them Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, the only surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776,) praying for the imposition of a duty on certain sales at auction.

Mr. Alexander presented a similar memorial from inhabitants of the city of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.

Ordered, That these memorials be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Russell presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Ross, in the State of Ohio, praying for the construction of a national road from Zanesville, in Ohio, to some suitable point in the State of Alabama; which petition was referred: o the Committee on Roads and Canals.

Mr. Gurley presen ed a petition of Robert Layton, of the State of Lou