sentative from that state, in the Congress of the United States; which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Cutts, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker The Senate have passed the bill entitled "An act to incorporate the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria," with amendments, in which amendments they ask the concurrence of this House. They have postponed until the 1st Monday in July next, the bill entitled "An act for the relief of Noah Miller."

And then he withdrew.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of crontracts made at the Post Office Department during the year 1817, on behalf of the United States; which was ordered to lie on the table.

The Speaker also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual statements of miscellaneous claims paid during the year 1817, of contracts made at the Treasury in the same year, on behalf of the United States, and of payments by collectors, in 1815 and 1816, in relation to the revenue, and to the temporary relief of sick and disabled seamen, which was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Lowndes, from the committee of Ways and Means, to whom was referred the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill, entitled "An act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year 1818," made a report thereon which was read, and, together with the said amendments, committed to a committee of the whole, to-day.

Ordered, That the several orders of the day which precede the order on the said report and amendments, be postponed until to-morrow.

The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the said report and amendments; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Bassett reported the agreement of the committee of the whole to the report of the committee of Ways and Means.

The first amendment proposed by the Senate, and to which the committee of Ways and Means reported their disagreement, is as follows:

For additional pay, rations and forage, to officers having brevet commissions, when commanding separate posts, districts, or detach ments requiring them to act in their brevet rank, 20,000 dollars.

And on the question to concur with the committee of Ways and Means, and with the committee of the whole, in their disagreement thereto;

It passed in the affirmative.

Yeas.....................125,

........ 32.

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

Mr. Kinsey,

Mr. Orr,

Palmer,

Parrott,

Peter,

Pindall,

Mr. Poindexter,
Robertson, Lou.
Seybert,
Alex. Smyth,
Spencer,

The residue of the amendments proposed by the Senate to the said bill, were then concurred in by the House, with amendments to the third.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
And then the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, February 5, 1818.

Mr. Silsbee presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts, praying that the duties on imported bar iron may not be increased.

Mr. Folger presented a petition of Oliver Crosby, Moses Cromwell, and Jeremiah Crowell, owners of a fishing vessel called the Oliver Cromwell, stating that whilst the said vessel was employed on a fishing voyage, she was captured by a British cruiser, and carried into Halifax, where she was released, upon the payment of costs and charges, by which capture they were unable to employ their said vessel for the time requisite to obtain the bounty allowed on a fishing voyage, and praying to be allowed the said bounty.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

Mr. Whitman presented a petition of Daniel Pettibone, Ezekiel Chapman, and Nicholls, praying that the Secretary of State may be authorized to renew to them a patent right for welding cast steel with iron, including some new and further inventions relative thereto; which was referred to a select committee; and,

Mr. Whitman, Mr. Folger, and Mr. Kinsey, were appointed the said committee.

Mr. Sherwood presented a petition of Stephen Betts, a captain in the revolutionary army, praying for a pension.

Mr. Bennett presented a petition of David Bowers, also praying for a pension.

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

On motion of Mr. Southard,

Ordered, That the petition of Charles Croxall, presented on the 21st of February, 1816, be also referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Hubbard presented a petition of Thomas W. Phelps, Warren Colton, and Enoch M. Granger, praying to be exonerated from the payment of a bond given to secure the duties on a distillery, the property of a certain Samuel Blakeslee, as the said Blakeslee has

become insolvent, and the petitioners are wholly unable to pay the said bond.

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

Mr. Robertson, of Kentucky, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the territory of Illinois, praying that the titles of some of them to lands in said territory, may be confirmed, and that grants of land may be made to others in consderation of their services as volunteers, in the expedition commanded by general George Rogers Clark, against the British and Indians, in the western country, in the revolutionary war.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Hitchcock presented a petition of Eli Danforth, praying compensation for his property destroyed by the Indians in the late war with Great Britain.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee appointed on the petition of sundry inhabitants on the river Raisin, in the territory of Michigan.

Mr. Poindexter presented a petition of Sylviant Mottus, a petition of Marie Jeane Dupont, a petition of Louis Dolives and Louisa, his wife, Francis Gerard and Margueritte, his wife, Joseph Krabs, and Eleanor, his wife, and of Peter Gillchrist and Marie, his wife, heirs of Matthew Leflaux, a petition of Regis Duret and others, heirs of Louis Duret, deceased, a petition of Josiah Carney, a petition of James Innerarity and others, heirs of Peter Trouillet, deceased, a petition of John Baker and others, heirs of John Baker, deceased, respectively praying that their titles to lands in the ter-ritory of Alabama, may be confirmed.

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

On motion of Mr. J. S. Smith,

Ordered, That leave be given to withdraw the petition and documents of Jacob Greer.

Mr. Rhea, from the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Samuel Tucker, which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Williams, from the committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Frederick Falley, which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.

Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciary be directed to inquire into the expediency of altering the time of holding the district court, now by law holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the last Tuesday of May, annually, to the first Tuesday in June, annually.

On motion of Mr. New,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Newburg, in Kentucky, by Ervingsville and Sevells, to Clarksville, in Tennessee.

On motion of Mr. Jones,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Pikeville, in Bledsoe county, in the state of Tennessee, to the seat of justice in Marion county, and from thence to Winchester, in the county of Franklin.

The amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill, entitled "An act to incorporate the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria," were read and referred to the committee for the District of Columbia.

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill for the relief of major general Arthur St. Clair; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Desha reported the same with an amendment, which was read, and is as follows:

sert:

Strike out all of the said bill after the enacting clause, and in

"That the Seecretary of the Department of War, be, and he is hereby directed to place major general Arthur St. Clair on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, at the rate of sixty dollars a month, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1817.

"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pension aforesaid, shall be paid at the Treasury of the United States, or in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the list of pensioners, at the option of the said pensioner."

A motion was made by Mr. Tayfor to amend the said amendment by striking out the word sixty, and inserting the word fifty. And the question being taken thereon,

It was determined in negative,

Yeas.......................73,

{Nays 78.

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

Those who voted in the affirmative, are