taining to the office for which said salary shall be received." This amendment was disagreed to by the House. And the House then concurred with the committee of the whole, in their agreement to the said proviso. The question was then stated to concur with the committee of the whole in striking out the following words, in lines 314 and 315: "also, for two years salary of the Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid;" and inserting, between the words Madrid and Stockholm, the following: "from the 3d March to the 4th November, 1823, and also for the Charge des Affaires at." When Mr. Gazlay moved to amend the said item, by striking out the words "Madrid and Lisbon," in line $13;" and then The House adjourned. MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1824. Mr. O'Brien presented a petition of Paul Dudley Sargent, of the state of Maine, praying to be restored to the roll of Revolutionary pensioners, from which he has been stricken, in consequence of the estimated value of his property. Mr. Herrick presented a petition of John White, a Revolutionary pensioner, praying to be allowed arrearages of pensions. Mr. Craig presented a petition of Jonas Rumsey, of the state of New York, praying to be placed on the roll of Revolutionary pensioners. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Mr. Tomlinson presented a petition of sundry owners and masters of vessels, in the state of Connecticut, praying that buoys may be placed on a reef of rocks in Long Island Sound, called the "Hen and Chickens." Mr. McLane, of Delaware, presented a memorial of the Commissioners of the town of Newcastle, in that state, praying for the aid of the General Government in erecting additional piers in the harbor of said town. Ordered, That the said petition and memorial be referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Cushman presented a memorial of Peter Thacher Vose, praying for the aid and patronage of Congress in the publication of the third edition of State Papers, originally published by Thomas B.. Wait; which memorial was referred to the Joint Committee on the Library. On motion of Mr. Buck, Ordered, That the petition of Moses Cadwell, heretofore presented on the 15th of December, 1819, be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Fuller presented a petition of Joseph Bemis, guardian of Albert G. Bemis, a minor, heir of Henry S. Bemis, a soldier in the late war, praying to be allowed to commute the bounty land to which the said minor is entitled, in virtue of the services of his father, for five years half pay of a soldier: which petition was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Mallary presented a petition of Emanuel J. West, in the state of Illinois, praying for the pre-emption right in the purchase of a tract of land in the territory of Arkansas, on the terms and conditions mentioned in the said petition, to be used for the cultivation of the vine; which was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Cady presented a petition of John McIntire, Lemuel Wilcox, and James Stewart, of the state of New York, praying to be reimbursed for losses sustained in a contract entered into by the petitioners, to erect fortifications at Niagara, for reasons set forth in the petition. Mr. Alexander, of Virginia, presented a petition of William Delany, of that state, stating that, having lodged information with the proper officer, against certain persons committing frauds on the government of the United States, he was recognized to appear as a witness against the criminals, and praying payment for the time he was detained under the recognizance. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims. On motion of Mr. Owen, Ordered, That the petitions of Colonel Samuel Dale, heretofore presented to this House, and the petitions of Jack F. Ross, presented on the 20th of January, 1820, be referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Cady presented a petition of Thomas Burke, of New York, a soldier in the army in the late war, praying for a pension. Mr. Adams presented a petition of Herman Fisher, of the state of New York, praying for an increase of his pension. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Cady presented a petition of Garret Putnam, of the state of New York, administrator on the estate of Abraham Garrison, praying payment for two loan-office certificates, issued during the Revolutionary war; which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Markley presented a memorial of sundry inhabitants of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania; Mr. Markley also presented a memorial of sundry farmers of the state of Pennsylvania; Mr. Miller presented a memorial of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of American Manufactures; praying, respectively, that such a revision of the tariff of duties on imports may be made, as will afford efficient protection and encouragement of the manufactures of the country. Mr. Thompson, of Georgia, presented a memorial of the citizens of Jackson county, in that state, remonstrating against the alteration of the tariff, as proposed in the memorials before-mentioned. Ordered, That the said memorials be committed to the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union, to which is committed the bill to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports. Mr. McKean presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Tioga, in the state of Pennsylvania, praying that the Court contemplated to be established by the bill now pending in this House, to alter the judicial districts of Pennsylvania, may be holden in the town of Williamsport; which was committed to the committee of the whole House, to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Marvin presented a petition of inhabitants of the Niagara frontier, praying compensation for losses sustained in the late war with Great Britain; which was referred to the select committee appointed on the 8th instant, upon the subject to which the said petition relates. Mr. Little presented a petition of John Revere, in the city of Baltimore, agent for supplying the army with vaccine matter, praying that the privilege of franking may be extended to him in his official character; which petition was referred to the committee of the whole, to which is committed the bill concerning vaccination. Mr. Hayward presented a petition of inhabitants of Kent Island, in Queen Anne county, in Maryland; Mr. McDuffie presented a petition of inhabitants of Abbeville district, in the state of South Carolina; praying, respectively, for the establishment of post routes. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, presented a petition of Moses Shepard, of the state of Virginia, praying to be allowed additional compensation for work done, and materials furnished, on the Cumberland road; which was referred to the Committee appointed on so much of the President's Message as relates to said road. Mr. McLean, of Ohio, presented a petition of Eliab Fobes, of that state, stating that a patent has been granted to him for land to which he was entitled as a soldier in the army in the late war, in the name of John Wilkinson; and praying that he may be authorized to make a conveyance of said land in his proper name. Mr. Rankin presented a petition of Moses Foster, jun. of the state of Mississippi, a member of the Choctaw tribe of Indians, praying that his title to a tract of land, to which he conceives himself entitled, under the treaty with the said tribe, concluded on the 18th of October, 1820, may be confirmed. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Mr. Fuller presented a petition of Sarah Drew, widow of John Drew, late a sailing-master in the navy of the United States, praying to be placed on the list of navy pensioners; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Ordered, That the petition of William Biggs be recommitted to the Committee on the Public Lands, with additional documents presented this day by Mr. Cook. Ordered, That the petition of Thomas Collins be recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, with additional documents, presented this day by Mr. Stewart. Mr. McLane, of Delaware, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill authorizing the employment of additional clerks and certain messengers and assistants, and other persons, in the several departments; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Mr. McLane, from the same committee, made a report on the petition of Mary H. Hawkins, accompanied by a bill for her relief; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Mr. McLane also made an unfavorable report on the petition of Samuel Haley and others; which was laid on the table. Mr. Webster, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to change the terms of the District Court of the United States for the Kentucky district," reported the same without amendment. Ordered, That the said bill be read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Little, from the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Samuel Mc Connell; which was laid on the table. Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Thomas L. Ogden and others, accompanied by a bill for their relief; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-mor row. Mr. Williams, from the same committee, made an unfavorable report on the case of Luther Chapin; which was laid on the table. On motion of Mr. Cook, Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing Matthew Duncan to change his location of the southwest quarter of section No. 22, in township No. 9, south of range No. 4 west, to some other quarter section, it having been located through mistake. Mr. Breck moved the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to report to this House whether any law exists in contravention of the provisions of the convention of the 3d of July, 1815, made between this country and Great Britain; also, to inquire into the expediency of countervailing, by law, any duties on American tonnage, which Great Britain may lay thereon, contrary to the stipulations contained in the aforesaid convention. The said resolution was read, and laid on the table. On motion of Mr. Gurley, Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for removing the obstructions to the navigation of the river Iberville, in the state of Louisiana, placed in said river during the late war, by order of the commanding general of the southern division of the army of the United States. On motion of Mr. Jennings, Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of aiding the state of Indiana to open a canal at the Falls of the Ohio, in conformity to an act of the General Assembly of said state, approved January 31st, 1824. On motion of Mr. Cocke, Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire and report whether any arrangements can be made by which the letters, addressed to the members of Congress, while in session, can be delivered at an earlier hour, and at less expense; and whether the privilege, given to members of Congress, to frank letters, ought not to be extended. On motion of Mr. Owen, Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so altering the post routes to Henry, Pike, and Covington Court Houses, in Alabama, as to establish the most practicable routes from the main mail route through the Creek nation of Indians, to the abovenamed places; and further, to inquire into the expediency of establishing the most direct practicable route from Mobile to New Orleans. Mr. Rankin laid the following resolution on the table for consideration on to-morrow, viz: Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to inform this House if any of the Commissioners, appointed for the examination of titles and claims to land in the territory of Florida, have received, in advance, any part of the compensation, allowed by law, for the performance of the duties required of them, previously to the performance of those duties, or without having performed any service for such advance; and, if any such advances have been made, that he be requested to state, under the provisions of what law they were so made, with the amount, the time when, and to whom advanced; but, if advanced without any law authorizing the same, that a copy of any order or authority, if any there be, by virtue of which any sum of money may have been drawn from the Treasury of the United States, be furnished this House. On motion of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from the town of Petersburg, in Virginia, to the town of Danville, in the same state. Mr. Owen moved the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the salary of the District Judge of the District of Alabama. The said resolution was read, and disagreed to by the House. Resolved, That the Committee on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing for the sale of the public lots and public lands belonging to the United States, in the District of Columbia, and that the proceeds be appropriated to |