On motion of Mr. Herbert, Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury, be instructed to report to this House, a statement of the debts, credits, and funds of all the banks in the District of Columbia, not embraced in the term of the resolution of this House, passed on the 7th inst. On motion of Mr. Williams, of Connecticut, Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route, from Lebanon, in Connecticut, through Windham and Hampton, to the town of Woodstock in said state. On motion of Mr. Folger, Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the compensation allowed to the postmaster at Nantucket. On motion of Mr. Mills, Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Talley's Cross Roads, in Chester, through Norwich and Westhampton to Northampton, in Massachusetts. On motion of Mr. Fuller, Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of discontinuing the post road from Medford to South Reading, in the state of Massachusetts. On motion of Mr. Ervin, of South Carolina, Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the compensation of the postmaster in Georgetown, in the state of South Carolina. Ordered, That the petition of Richard Bland Lee, late Commissioner of Claims, presented on the 18th of April, 1818, be referred to the committee of Claims. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the annual report of the Commissioners of the Navy Pension Fund, with sundry statements, in relation thereto; which was ordered to lie on the table. The Speaker also laid before the House, another letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting sundry papers, being copies of letters and extracts of letters, to commanding naval officers, which contain all the instructions which have issued from the Naval Department, in pursuance of the act of Congress, prohibiting the importation of slaves, passed on the 2d day of March, 1807, communicated in obedience to a resolution of this House, of the 4th instant; which was ordered to lie on the table. An engrossed bill, entitled "An act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year 1819, was read the third time. And on the question shall it pass? Yeas............107 It passed in the affirmative, {Nay57 The yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are Mr. Abbot, Anderson, Penn. Mr. Hostetter, Porter, Anderson, Ken. Baldwin, Barber, Ohio, Bateman, Mr. Pindall, Hubbard, Hunter, Quarles, Rich, Kinsey, Kirtland, Lawyer, Boss, Lincoln, Butler, N. H. Linn, Butler, Lou. Little, Campbell, Livermore, Claggett, Crawford, Cushman, Lownds, M'Lane, Del. Mason, Mass. Miller, Schuyler, Sergeant, Settle, Mercer, Middleton, Robert Moore, Hall, Del. Hall, N. C. Saml. Moore, Terrell, Morton, Terry, Harrison, Murray, Trimble, Hasbrouck, Nesbitt, Tucker, Vir. Hendricks, Newton, Herbert, Ogden, Herkimer, Ogle, Walker, Ken. Herrick, Palmer, Hiester, Parrott, Hitchcock, Patterson, Holmes, Pawling, Whiteside, Wilkin, Hopkinson, Peter, Ordered, That the title be as aforesaid, and that the Clerk carry the said bill to the Senate, and ask their concurrence therein. The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill respecting the military establishment of the United States; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Pitkin reported the same with an amendment, to strike out the first section thereof. Ordered, That the said bill lie on the table. Ordered, That the several orders of the day, which precede the bill for the relief of Adam Kinsley and Thomas French, be postponed until to-morrow. And the House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill for the relief of the said Adam Kinsley and Thomas French; and on the report of the committee of Claims, on the petition of Charles S. Leonard; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Hugh Nelson, reported the said bill with an amendment, embracing the case of the said Leonard; which was read and concurred in by the House; and the said bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow. The Speaker laid before the House, a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the debts, credits, and funds of the banks of the District of Columbia, incorporated by the act of 3d March, 1817, rendered in obedience to a resolution of this House of the 7th instant; which was ordered to lie on the table. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Cutts, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Alabama territory, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states;" in which they ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew, And then the House adjourned. WEDNESDAY, January 13, 1819. Mr. Whitman, presented a petition of sundry inbabitants of the District of Maine, praying for the erection of a light house, on Baker's island in the said district. Mr. Hitchcock, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of Ohio, praying for the erection of a light house, near Cleveland harbor, on lake Erie. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures. Mr. Fuller, presented a petition of Asa Howe, Mr. McLane, of Delaware, presented a petition of John Bennett, Mr. Orr, presented a petition of William Kennedy; respectively praying for pensions. Mr. Williams, of New York, presented a petition of John Miller, praying for arrearages of pension. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims. M. Fuller, presented a petition of Joseph S. Read, postmaster in Cambridge, in the state of Massachusetts, praying for additional compensation. Mr. Crafts, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the states of New Hampshire and Vermont. Mr. Williams, of New York, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Otsego, in the state of New York; 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. Williams, of New York, also presented a petition of Thomas Fancher, a soldier in the revolutionary army, praying for a pension. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Mr. Irving, of New York, presented documents, in support of the petition of general Robert Swartwout; which were committed to the committee of the whole, on the bill for his relief. Mr. Sergeant, presented a petition of Joseph E. Bloomfield, on behalf of Richard S. Hackley, stating that the said Hackley, while acting as consul of the United States, at Cadiz, in Spain, seized and detained, under orders from the charge des affairs of the United States, in Spain, the American ship Vigilant; and praying a reimbursement of the moneys expended by him, in consequence thereof, amounting to upwards of six thousand dollars; which was refer red to a select committee; and, Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Irving, and Mr. Morton, were appointed the said committee. Mr. M.Lane, of Delaware. presented sundry statements and papers, in relation to the concerns of the Chesapeake and Delaware A Canal Company; which were committed to the committee of the whole, on the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe for stock, in the said company, on behalf of the United States. Mr. Middleton, presented a petition of Archibald B. Lord, Hugh Delany, John Anderson, and Edward Marriner, in behalf of themselves and others, composing the crew of the United States late cutter Boxer, praying to be allowed an additional part of the proceeds of the brig Diana, seized by said cutter and condemned for a violation of the nonintercourse acts, in the late war, with Great Bri tain. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Marr, presented a petition of Mildred Melton, widow of Jacob Melton, who died in the military service of the United States, praying for a continuance of the pension heretofore granted to her. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Hitchcock, presented petitions from sundry inhabitants of the state of Ohio, praying that further time may be allowed. to complete the payments for lands, sold prior to the 1st day of Janu ary, 1816. Mr. Hitchcock, also presented a petition of William Grimes, praying to be permitted to change his entry of a tract of land, purchased of the United States, having through a mistake, entered a tract different from that which he intended to enter, and on which he is actually located. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Rhea, from the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, made reports on the petitions of Alpheus Colton, and John Gregg; which were read, and the resolutions therein contained were concurred in by the House, as follows: Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioners respectively, ought not to be granted. Mr. Rhea, also reported a bill to provide for the payment of the pensions of persons under guardianship, to their guardians; which was read the first and second time, and ordered to lie on the table. Ordered, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be discharged from the further consideration of the petitions of Ebenezer Horn and Phoebe Stuart, and that the former be refer red to the committee on Revolutionary Pensions, and the latter to a select committee; and, Mr. Jones, Mr. Ball, and Mr. Marr, were appointed the said committee. Mr. Robertson, from the committee on Private Land Claims, |