PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

PRINTED BY ORDER OF

THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS,

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 7, 1835,

AND IN THE SIXTIETH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

Containing Documents from No. 1 to No. 15.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY GALES & SEATON.

1836.

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INDEX

TO

DOCUMENTS

PRINTED

BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

DURING THE

FIRST SESSION TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS-1835-36.

A.

Abolition or incendiary publications. From the President
relative to the propriety of preventing the carriage
by mail of
Abolition of slavery. Report of the Legislature of Vir-
ginia adverse to the movements made for the
Abolitionists to excite insurrection among the negroes by
circulating their doctrines. Report of a select
committee on so much of the President's message
as relates to attempts of the
Abolitionists, &c.

Memorial of Alabama against the

measures of the

Academy. (See Military Academy.)
Africa. Petition of citizens of Dauphin county, Penn-
sylvania, for the removal of free negroes and man-
umitted slaves to

Alabama against the measures of the abolitionists, and
against interfering with the subject of slavery in the
District of Columbia. Memorial of the Legisla-

ture of

Alabama adverse to the distribution of the proceeds of the
public lands among the States, and that settlers on
Indian
reservations locate pre-emption rights on
other lands. Memorial of the Legislature of
Alabama that the judiciary system be amended so that the
circuit court be extended to all the States. Me-
morial of the Legislature of

Alabama against allowing reservations to Indians by trea-

ty, &c. Memorial of the Legislature of -