Mr. Little, from the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, made unfavorable reports on the petitions of Hannah Hagan and Samuel Ward; which reports were laid on the table.

Mr. Francis Johnson, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Heck; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Sloane, from the Committee on Elections, to which was referred the memorial of John Biddle, contesting the right of Gabriel Richard to a seat in this House as the delegate from the territory of Michigan, made an unfavorable report thereon; which was ordered to lie on the table.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of the names of the persons employed as Clerks in the offices of the Navy Department, in the year 1823, with the compensation of each; which letter and list were ordered to lie on the table.

The resolutions submitted yesterday by Mr. Scott were taken up, read, and agreed to by the House.

The resolution submitted yesterday by Mr. Sandford was taken up, read, and ordered to lie on the table.

The joint resolution proposed by Mr. Mitchell, of Maryland, relative to the Marquis de Lafayette, was read the second time.

A motion was made by Mr. Condict, that the said resolution be laid on the table; which was decided in the negative.

A motion was then made by Mr. Condict, that the said resolution be referred to a select committee.

And the question thereon being taken,

It passed in the affirmative.

Mr. Condict, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Holcombe, Mr. Brent, Mr. Cuthbert, Mr. Cambreleng, and Mr. Livingston, were then appointed the said committee.

An engrossed bill, entitled "An act making a partial appropriation for the support of Government for the year 1824," was read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the title be as aforesaid, and that the Clerk do carry the said bill to the Senate and ask their concurrence therein.

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole House on the bill to procure the necessary plans, estimates, and surveys, upon the subject of roads and canals; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said bill under consideration, and made further progress therein, and directed him to ask leave to sit again.

Ordered, That the committee of the whole have leave to sit again on the said bill.

And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1824.

The Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary of War, on the memorial of the Legislature of the territory of Arkan

sas, respecting the lands occupied by the Quapau Indians, in said territory; which report was read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Rankin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to whom the subject had been referred, reported a bill to provide for the speedy extinguishment of the debt due by the purchasers of the public lands, prior to the 1st day of July, 1820; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Scott, from the same committee, made an unfavorable report on the petition of the members of the Baptist Church, in Lawrence county, in the state of Alabama; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. M'Lane, of Delaware, from the Committee of Ways and Means, made a report on the petition of Nathaniel Pearce; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Edwards, of North Carolina, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the cases of Jesse Murphy and Adam Clackner; which report was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Moore, of Alabama, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was referred, on the 12th of December ultimo, the petition of certain inhabitants of the county of Mobile, in the state of Alabama, reported a bill granting a right of pre-emption to certain actual settlers in that part of the former province of West Florida, included in the district of Jackson Court house; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Ordered, That leave be given to withdraw the petition of Andrew Jackson, of the state of New York.

On motion of Mr. Ross,

Resolved, That the petition and documents of James Smith, late Paymaster, &c. of Ohio militia, presented at the last Session of Congress, and referred to the Committee of Claims, together with a report made by said committee, be again referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Owen,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the justice and expediency of granting additional compensation to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office for the District of Jackson Court-house, in the state of Mississippi, for extra services performed by them as commissioners for the adjustment of private land claims.

On motion of Mr. Bartley,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from New Haven, in Huron county, to Tiffin, in Seneca county, in the state of Ohio.

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole

House on the bill to procure the necessary estimates, plans, and surveys, upon the subject of roads and canals; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, reported the same with an amendment; which was read, and concurred in by the House.

The question was then taken, Shall the bill be engrossed, and read a third time?

Nays

The yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the members

present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Mr. Abbot,

Mr. Plumer, Penn.

Kent,

Mr. Henry,

Adams,

Herkimer,

Beecher,

Johnson, Va.
J. T. Johnson,
F. Johnson,

Cassedy,

McDuffie,

Storrs,

Foot, Con.

Reed,

To-morrow was then assigned for the third reading of the said

bill.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting an abstract of balances remaining on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury more than three years, prior to the 30th September, 1823; which letter and list were ordered to lie on the table.

And then the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1824.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting a list rendered by the Register of the Treasury, of the balances due from, or the accounts remaining unsettled by, certain Collectors of the Old Internal Revenue, more than three years, prior to the 30th September last, and standing on his books; which letter was read, and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. M'Lane, of Delaware, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was referred the petitions of William Whitehead, John Tappan, Nathaniel W. and Charles H. Appleton, Joshua Aubin, Benjamin Hazletine, Samuel Adams, James Graham, and of

James Crawford, and others, made a report thereon, accompanied by a bill for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Hamilton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, made a report on the petition of John Thomas and Co. of Ohio, accompanied by a bill for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Samuel Smith; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Ordered, That the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims be discharged from the consideration of the petition of Captain Pollard, Blue Eyes, and Jim Robinson, Indians belonging to the Seneca tribe, and from the petition of James Wilson; and that the said petitions be referred to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill concerning invalid pensioners.

Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the consideration of the petition of Frederick Dayhoff, and that it be referred to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill to provide for the correction of errors in entries of land at the land offices of the United States; also, that the said committee be discharged from the consideration of the petitions of James Ore, and Mary Loveliss, and Mary Ann Bond; and that they be laid on the table.

Om motion of Mr. M⭑Kim,

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be directed to inquire into the expediency of reviving the first, second, third, and fourth sections of an act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, passed the 3d day of March, 1815.

Mr. Buchanan moved that the House do come to the following resolution:

Resolved, That a committee be appointed, whose duty it shall be to inquire in what manner the resolutions of Congress, passed on the 24th December, 1799, relative to the erection of a marble monument in the Capitol, at the City of Washington, to commemorate the great events of the military and political life of General George Washington, may be best accomplished; and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

The said resolution being read,

A motion was made by Mr. Gazlay that it be laid on the table; which was carried in the affirmative.

Mr. Stewart submitted the following resolution, which was read; and, on motion of the mover, laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to report a bill appropriating the annual proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and the dividends of the United States' Bank stock, commencing from the 1st January, 1823, to the purposes of internal