The question was then taken, will the House agree to the said resolution?

Yeas........ 70.

And determined in the negative, {X100.

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

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Mr. Abbot,

Mr. Johnson, Vir.

Mr. Schuyler,

Bloomfield,

Mercer,

Spencer,

Burwell,

Mills,

Stewart, N. C.

Cobb,

Colston,

Moseley,

Cook,

Jer. Nelson,

Strong,

Stewart, Md.

Crawford,

Culbreth,

Ogden,

Cushman,

Pawling,

Edwards,

Pegram,

Ellicott,

Pindall,

Fuller,

Pitkin,

Gilbert,

Pleasants,

Harrison,

Reed,

Herbert,

Rice,

Hopkinson,

Robertson,

Huntington,

Ruggles,

Irving, N. Í.

The Speaker laid before the House, a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting the information required by the resolution of 20th of April last, requiring him to report to Congress, at their next (present) session, "what further improvement it may be practicable to make in the tariff of duties upon imported goods, wares and merchandise, by charging specific duties upon articles which are now charged with duties advalorem;" which letter was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, from the Joint committee for Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined enrolled bills, of the following titles, to wit:

An act to authorize the President and Managers of the Rockville and Washington Turnpike Company, of the state of Maryland, to extend and make a turnpike road to or from the boundary of the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, through the said District, to the line thereof; and,

An act to authorize the election of a delegate from the Michigan territory, to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of said territory; and had found the same to be truly enrolled; when,

The Speaker signed the said bills.

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

TUESDAY, February 9, 1819.

Mr. Mason, of Massachusetts, presented a petition of sundry manufacturers and venders of American manufactured paper, praying that paper imported into the United States, may be charged with a specific instead of an advalorem duty.

Mr. Sergeant presented a petition of Henry Probasco, praying to be released from his liability as the surety in a bond given by a certain John C. Jones, to secure the payment of duties imported by said Jones, into the port of Philadelphia, in the year 1806.

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

Mr. Mason, of Massachusetts, also presented a memorial of sundry inhabitants of Boston and its vicinity, stockholders in the Bank of the United States, upon the subject of the concerns of the said bank; which memorial was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Terry presented a printed copy of a "report of the committee of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruc tion of Deaf and Dumb Persons, made the 1st June 1817;" which was referred to the Select committee appointed on the memorial of the President and Directors of the said Asylum.

Mr. Spencer presented a petition of Abraham Forbes, who states that at the commencement of the late war with Great Britain, he was residing in Canada, and was possessed of a considerable real and personal property, all of which he abandoned and returned to the United States, and that he served through the said war, in various capacities, in the army of the United States, for which he has not been compensated; that the property of which he was possessed in Canada, has been confiscated, and that he is now entirely destitute of a support for himself and family, and praying such relief in the premises, as Congress may think just and reasonable.

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

Mr. Bloomfield presented petitions of sundry inhabitants of the state of New Jersey, praying that persons illegally imported into the United States, may not be sold as slaves; which was referred to the committee of the whole, to which is committed the bill supplementary to the several acts prohibiting the importation of slaves.

Mr. Herbert presented a petition of the President and Directors of the Bank of Potomac, in Alexandria, praying for an extension of their charter, for such length of time as Congress may deem proper.

Mr. Herbert, also presented a memorial of the President and Directors of the Columbian Institute, praying that the President of

the United States, may be authorized to invest the said Institute with as much of the public reservations within the City of Washington, not exceeding five acres, as by him shall be deemed proper, for the purpose of erecting thereon, a hall and other buildings and improvements, necessary for their accommodation.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Herbert, also presented a petition of Alexander Moore, register of wills, for the county of Alexandria, and of James H. Blake, register of wills, for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, praying for the increase of their fees of office; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Simkins presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of South Carolina, praying for the establishment of a post route.

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

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the territory of Michigan and late soldiers in the army of the United States, praying to be permitted to surrender the patents for lands, lying within the state of Illinois, granted to them for their services as soldiers aforesaid, and that patents may be granted to them for lands lying within the territory of Michigan; which petition was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Smith, of Maryland, from the committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill for the relief of Bartlett Still; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole, to-morrow.

Mr. Hugh Nelson, from the committee on the Judiciary, reparted a bill to authorize the Secretary of War, to convey a lot or parcel of land belonging to the United States, lying in Jefferson county, in the state of Virginia; which was read the first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, to-morrow.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill for the relief of Isaac Minis, and others; which was read the first and second time, and ordered to been grossed and read a third time, to-morrow.

The Speaker laid before the House, a letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a statement of the names of the Clerks employed in his Department, in the year 1818, with the salary paid to each; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Ordered, That the committee on Military Affairs, be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Nathan W. Cartis, and that leave be given to withdraw the same.

On motion of Mr. Hugh Nelson,

Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciary, inquire into the expediency of providing by law, for vesting in the President of the United States, a power to demand from the Executives of the

respective States, fugitives, who having committed offences against society, within the District of Columbia, or other territory, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, may have sought an asylum in any of the states of this Union; as also, power and authority to comply with the demand made by any of the Executives of the United States, for the delivery of fugtives, who, having committed offences against the laws of such state, may have sought an asylum in the said District of Columbia, or in any other territory over which the jurisdiction of the United States may extend."

On motion of Mr. Spencer,

Resolved, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be instructed to inquire into the propriety of placing on the pension list, doctor Nathaniel Willson, and Dorothea Hopkins widow of the late colonel Caleb Hopkins.

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

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of this House, of the following titles, to wit: "An act for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker;" and "An act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia," with amendments to the latter. They have also passed bills of the following titles, to wit: " An act for the relief of Samuel Ward;" "An act, supplementary to the act, entitled an act further to amend the charter of the City of Washington;" "An act for the relief of John B. Timberlake;" and "An act for the relief of John A. Dix;" in which amendments and bills, they ask the concurrence of this House. And then be withdrew.

On motion of Mr. Williams, of North Carolina,

The House took up and proceeded to consider the resolution submitted by him on the 11th of December, 1818, instructing the committee on Military Affairs, to inquire into the expediency of reducing the army; and the said resolution being read, was agread to by the House.

Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, submitted the following rosolution: Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill to repeal the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States;" Approved April 10th,

1816.

The said resolution was read, and committed to the committee of the whole, on the state of the Union.

The House took up and proceeded to consider the resolution submitted by Mr. Spencer, on the 1st inst. and the resolution submitted by Mr. Trimble, on the 19th ultimo, both in relation to the Bank of the United States; and the said resolutions being read, were severally committed to the committee of the whole, on the state of the Union.

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