rendered by him, as principal artillery and ordnance officer, in the Northwestern Army, commanded by General Harrison, in the late war with Great Britain; which petition was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Wittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavora ble report on the petition of Enos Terry; which was read, and laid on the table.

Mr. Sloan, from the Committee of Elections, to which was referred the petition of sundry inhabitants of the district of Norfolk, in the state of Massachusetts, made a report, in part, thereon; which was read: Whereupon, it was

Resolved, That the Committee of Elections be instructed to procure such testimony as they may think proper, in relation to the facts set forth in the petitions of the inhabitants of the district of Norfolk, in the state of Massachusetts, against the right of John Bailey, Esq. to a seat in this House; and that the said committee be authorized to send for persons and papers.

Ordered, That the report of the Secretary of State, of the 24th instant, in relation to seamen provided for in the hospital at Liverpool, in England, be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

On motion of Mr. White,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of discontinuing the mail route, leading from Shelbyville to New Castle, in Kentucky, and to direct the mail to be conveyed from Frankfort to New Castle, twice in each week.

On motion of Mr. Wayne,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of fixing, by law, the nett amount of annual income which shall disqualify any applicant from being placed on the pension list, under the acts of March 18th, 1818, and May 1st, 1820.

Mr. Rankin laid the following resolution on the table, for consideration on to-morrow, viz.

Resolved, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be directed to inform this House if the situation of his office, and the public interest, requires an additional number of clerks to be employed therein; and if so, what number, and for what length of time their services will be required.

Engrossed bills, of the following titles, viz.

An act further extending the term of half-pay pensions to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who died in the public service;

An act for the relief of Brintnel Robbins; and

An act for the relief of Loudon Case;

Were, respectively, read a third time, and passed.

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

An engrossed bill, entitled "An act for the relief of Jacob Shaffer,” was read the third time; and, being on its passage,

Mr. Taylor moved that the said bill be recommitted to the Committee of Private Land Claims, with instructions to inquire into the expediency of so amending the same as to provide for the allowance of bounty land to the non-commissioned officers and privates of the United States' army, and to their representatives, who enlisted for five years or during the war, and were honorably discharged previous to the expiration of the respective terms of their enlistment.

And, on the question, Shall the said bill be recommitted as aforesaid?

It was determined in the negative.

A motion was made by Mr. Livermore, that the said bill do lie on the table; which was decided in the negative.

The question was then taken, Shall the said bill pass?

And passed in the negative, {Xeas

79.

85.

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

Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Ordered, That, when the House adjourns, it will adjourn to meet

again on Monday next.

And then the House adjourned.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1823.

Mr. Kidder presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Penobscot, in the state of Maine.

Mr. Longfellow presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of Maine;

Mr. Ten Eyck presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Oswego, in the state of New York;

Mr. Litchfield presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Tompkins, Cortland, and Onondaga, in the state of NewYork; respectively praying for the establishment of post routes.

Mr. Findlay presented a petition of John Heck, of the state of Pennsylvania, praying to be exonerated from his responsibility as the surety of a certain Nicholas Krail, as a postmaster in Shippensburg, in that state, for the reasons set forth in his petition.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

Mr. O'Brien presented petitions from the inhabitants of the towns

of Orland, Prospect, and Frankfort, in the state of Maine, praying for the establishment of a new collection district for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, on the waters of Penobscot river; which petitions were referred to the Committee on Commerce.

On motion of Mr. Tomlinson,

Ordered, That the petition of Abel Turney, heretofore presented on the 3d of February, 1820, be referred to the Committee on Pen sions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Morgan presented a memorial of a committee appointed at a numerous and respectable meeting of the citizens of New York, assembled to take into consideration the situation of the Greeks, praying Congress, at a convenient and proper season, to recognize the independence of the Greek nation, now engaged in arms in the maintenance of their independence against the power of the Ottoman or Turkish empire; which memorial was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Storrs presented a petition of Robert S. Foreman, praying for a grant of the bounty in land to which he conceives himself entitled, in virtue of his services as a soldier in the army in the late war with Great Britain.

Mr. Kremer presented a petition of Alexander Watts, of the state of Pennsylvania, also praying for a grant of the bounty in land to which he is entitled, for his services as a soldier in the late war, which is withheld because of the loss of his discharge, which discharge was placed by him in the hands of Jared Erwin, then a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the state of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of procuring the grant of the said land.

Mr. Owen presented a memorial of Samuel H. Garrow, of the state of Alabama, praying that the right of pre-emption in the purchase of four tracts of land, therein described, may be extended to him, having settled and improved the same, under a purchase from a former owner.

Mr. Owen also presented a petition of John W. C. Fleming, of the state of Alabama, praying that his title to a lot of ground, lying within the city of Mobile, may be confirmed.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Cambreleng presented a petition of Sarah O'Conner, widow of Nicholas O'Conner, deceased, late a sailing master in the Navy of the United States, praying to be placed on the list of Navy Pensioners; which petition was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Condict presented a petition of Oliver Hull and others, cultivators of the castor bean, and manufacturers of the castor oil, extracted from the same, praying that additional duties be imposed on foreign castor oil, upon the importation thereof into the United States; which petition was referred to the Committee on Manufac

tures.

Mr. M'Kim presented a memorial of sundry underwriters and merchants of the city of Baltimore, praying for the aid of the Govern

ment of the United States, in their endeavors to procure redress for their ships and merchandise, seized in certain ports of Europe, under edicts issued by the Government of France; which memorial was laid on the table.

Petitions from persons under mentioned, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee of Claims, viz. By Mr. Poinsett, the petition of Oliver Goldsmith and Anthony Rodericks, presented on the 20th December, 1821.

By Mr. Francis Johnson, the petition of Reuben Ewing and others, sureties of William Whitsett, presented on the 17th February, 1823. By Mr. Gazlay, the petition of Benjamin Smith, presented on the 18th of February, 1814.

Mr. McDuffie presented a petition of Sarah Shillito, of the state of South Carolina, praying compensation for a house destroyed by fire while occupied as barracks by troops of the United States; which petition was referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Moore, of Alabama, presented a petition of Curtis Lewis, praying that the district judge of the district of Alabama may be directed to deliver up to the Executive of the state of Alabama, certain negro slaves captured by him, while commander of a revenue cutter of the United States, in the year 1818; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Ordered, That the Committee of Claims be discharged from the consideration of the petitions of Majors Henderson and Auge Delaperriere, and that they be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Joseph S. M.Pherson; which was read, and the resolution therein recommended was adopted, viz.

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted. Mr. Whittlesey, from the same Committee, made a report on the petition of John M'Lean; which was read, and the resolution therein recommended was concurred in by the House, viz.

Resolved, That the said claim, nor any part thereof, ought to be paid.

Mr. Whittlesey also reported a bill for the relief of William T. Nimmo, which was read the first and second time, and committed to committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the codsideration of the petition of sundry inhabitants of the territory of Michigan, referred on the 10th instant, and that the same be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

The resolution submitted by Mr Rankin on the 26th instant, was taken up, read, considered, and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Hogeboom submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire whether any, and, if any, what, further provision ought to be made by law, relative to the Military Academy at West Point. The said resolution was read, and disagreed to by the House.