Mr. Allen, of Massachusetts, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Amherst, in the state of Massachusetts.

Mr. Walker, of North Carolina, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Buncombe county in North Carolina, respectively praying for the establishment of post routes.

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

Mr. Wendover presented a petition of Samuel Russel, praying compensation for his services as an issuing commissary during the late war with Great Britain.

Order, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Spencer presented a petition of Elbert Herring, stating that he is now confined in prison in the city of New York, on judg ments obtained against him at the suit of the United States, as the surety on certain revenue bonds; that the Secretary of the Treasury has directed his discharge upon the payment of costs, and that he is wholly unable to pay the same, and praying to be discharged from his said imprisonment without the payment of the said costs.

Mr. Speaker presented a petition of Peter Hirigoyen, stating that he is the inventor of a new distilling apparatus, and that he is unable to obtain a patent therefor, in consequence of his being an alien, and praying that an act may be passed directing the proper officer to grant him a patent for his said invention.

Ordered that the said petitions be referred to the committee on the Judiciary.

On motion of Mr. Herbert,

Ordered, That the petition of the members of the congregation of the Rock Rreek Church, presented on the 4th Jauary, 1817, be referred to the committee for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, presented a petition of B. and P. Jourdan, and a petition of madam Rosalie P. Deslonde, widow of George Deslonde, deceased, respectively praying compensation for the use and destruction of, and damages sustained by, their property by the American army during the military operations in the neighborhood of New Orleans, near the close of the late war with Great Britain.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Claims.

Ordered, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be discharged from a further consideration of the petitions of Harry Blodget, Edmund Foster, and William Silence, and that they be referred to the Secretary of War, and that the said committee be also discharged from the petition of John Nutter, and that leave be given to withdraw the same.

Ordered, That the committee on Naval Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Samuel B. Brooke, and that it be referred to the Secretary of the Navy.

Ordered. That John Thompson have leave to withdraw his pe tition and documents.

The House proceeded to consider the amendment proposed yesterday by Mr. Bassett, to the standing rules and orders of the House, and the same being modified to read as follows:

"Every subject, which, by leave of the House, shall be made the special order of the day for any particular day, (and which shall in all cases be decided without debate,) shall, on that day, have precedence of all other orders of the day, except the unfinished business of the preceding day."

The question was taken to agree thereto;

And was determined in the negative.

Engrossed bills of the following titles, to wit:

An act making appropriations for the payment of the arrearages which have been incurred for the support of the military establishment previous to the 1st January, 1817; and,

An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, for the year 1818, were several- ly read the third time and passed.

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

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill to prescribe the effect which certain records and judicial proceedings of the courts of each state shall have in every other state, and in the courts of the United States; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Smith, of Maryland reported the same with amendments.

The House proceded to consider the amendments; when,

A motion was made by Mr. Forsyth, that the said bill be postponed indefinitely;

And the question being taken thereon;

It passed in the affirmative.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Cutts, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed the bill, entitled "An act making further provision for repairing the public buildings;" and they have passed" A resolution directing the publication and distribution of the journal, and proceedings of the convention which formed the present Constitution of the United States;" in which resolution they ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew. And then the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, January 22, 1818.

On motion of Mr. Claggett.

Ordered, That the petition of Benjamin Pool, presented on the 1st of March, 1817, be referred to the committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Orr presented a petition of Samuel Gillchrist, praying for a pension.

Mr. Lawyer presented a petition of Joseph S. Van Driesen, praying for an increase of the pension heretofore granted to him.

Mr. Hogg presented a petition of William Moore, also praying for a pension.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Spencer presented a petition of Ralph M. Pomeroy, praying compensation for damages committed on his property in the town of Buffalo, in the state of New York, by a party of soldiers of the army of the United States, who assembled in a riotous and tumultuous manner for that purpose.

Mr. Hogg presented a petition of Basil Shaw, praying to be paid for a negro servant, who was killed in the battle of the 8th January, 1815, between the American and British armies near New Orleans.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Taylor.

Ordered, That the petition of Hannah Weed, presented on the 22d of December, 1815, be also referred to the committee of Claims.

Mr. Seybert presented a petition of sundry importing merchants of the city of Philadelphia, stating, that during the winter months they are unable to import goods into the said city in consequence of the river Delaware being closed by ice, and praying that they may be permitted to import their goods into either of the neighboring ports of New York or Baltimore, and give their bonds for the duties to the collector in Philadelphia.

Mr. Tyler presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Richmond in Virginia, pew-holders in, and subscribers to, the Monumental Church in that city, praying that the duties imposed on an organ, imported from England for the said Church may be remitted.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants, postmasters of Susquehannah county, in the state of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Hitchcock presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Worcester in Wayne county, in the state of Ohio, respectively praying for the establishment of post routes.

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

Mr. Blount presented a petition of the third convention of the Manumission Society of Tennessee, praying that some measures may be adopted to ameliorate the condition of the slave population of the United States.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee appointed on the petition of the representatives of the annual meeting of the society of Friends, in Baltimore.

Mr. Lowndes, from the committee of Ways and Means, made reports on the petitions of John Barr and Joseph Landon, which

The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the report of the commmittee of Claims upon the case of John I. Pattison, reported to this House by the Commissioner of Claims, on the 10th ultimo, and on the reports of the same committee on the cases of John Ireland, John Manning, John G. Mackall, and of the Levy Court of Calvert county, in the state of Maryland, all of which were also reported to this House by the said Commissioner, on the said 10th ultimo; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Pleasants reported the agreement of the committee of the whole, to the resolutions submitted by the commit

tee of Claims in all the cases, except that of the Levy Court of Calvert county, on which he was directed to ask leave for the committee to set again.

Ordered, That the committee of the whole have leave to sit again on the case of the said Levy Court of Calvert county.

The House proceeded to consider the report of the committee of the whole, and the resolutions submitted by the committee of Claims, to which the said committee of the whole reported their agreement, were read, and the first thereof concurred in, to wit:

Resolved, That the application of John I. Pattison. to the Commissioner of Claims, and submitted by him to the House, be rejected. Ordered, That the residue of the said report from the committee of the whole, be laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Holmes, of Massachusetts,

Ordered, That when the House adjourns, it adjourn to meet again on Monday next.

And then the House adjourned.

MONDAY, January 26, 1818.

Two other members, to wit: from Massachusetts, John Wilson, and from North Carolina, James Stewart, appeared, produced their credentials and took their seats, the oath to support the Constitution of the United States, being first administered to them by Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Parrott presented a petition of Robert B. Wilkins, praying for an increase of the pension heretofore granted to him.

Mr. Ogle presented a petition of George Bumgardner, praying for a pension.

Mr. Colston presented a petition of John Ager and others, heirs of Robert Ager, deceased, a soldier in the revolutionary army, praying to be paid the amount of pay due for the services of the deceased, as also for a grant of the land to which he was entitled for his services in the capacity aforesaid.

Ordered, That the said petitions he referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

On motion of Mr. Hopkinson,

Ordered, That the petition of Caleb and William Dobbins, and Sarah Whiteside, presented on the 13th day of February, 1817, be also referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Rice presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of cotton and woollen goods, in Kennebec county, in the state of Massachusetts, praying that the duties now payable on imported cotton and woollen goods may be made permanent, and that further provisions may be adopted to ensure the collection of the said duties.

Mr. Bassett presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of iron in the state of Maryland, praying that additional duties may be imposed on bar, pig, and cast iron, imported into the United States.