The question was then put to agree to the residue of the said amendment: Yeas...............75, And passed in the affirmative, {.......... The yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, then moved that the House reconsider the vote last taken on the said amendment. And on the question, will the House reconsider the said vote? It was determined in the negative, { Yeas..........77, The yeas and nays being required by one fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are On motion of Mr. Lowndes, The said bill was then ordered to lie on the table. The House took up and proceeded to consider the amendments reported from the committee of the whole, to the 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, an an equal footing with the original states;" and the said amendments being read, were concurred in by the House, with the exception of one, which was rejected. The said bill was then further amended, and the amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill read a third time, to-mor row. The House resolved itself into the committee of the whole, on the state of the Union; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Hugh Nelson reported that the committee had had the state of the Union under consideration and come to no resolution thereon. And then the House adjourned. FRIDAY, February 19, 1819. Mr. Comstock presented a petition of Elisha Ensign, praying compensation for his property destroyed by the British forces, upon their invasion of the Niagara frontier, in the month of December, 1813, the said property being at the time of destruction, in the occupancy of the army of the United States. Mr. Poindexter presented a petition of Andrew Montgomery, praying compensation for the service of a negro boy, whom he took as a waiter in the army, and who was captured by the hostile Creeks, in the late war, and remained out of his possession upwards of two years. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Claims. Mr. Pleasants presented a petition of Erastus Loomis, late an officer of marines, praying to be placed on the list of naval pension. ers, in consequence of wounds received in the battle on lake Champlain, between the American and British fleets, on the 11th of September, 1814; which petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Poindexter presented a petition of the General Assembly of the state of Mississippi, praying that provision may be made for quieting the claims to land in that part of said state, formerly comprised within the province of West Florida, derived from the British government, so far as the said grants interfere with those derived from the Spanish government; which said petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Little, from the Joint committee upon the subject of the Public printing, made a report; which was read and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, from the committee of Claims, to which was referred, bills of the Senate, of the following titles, to wit: An act for the relief of David Henley;" and "An act for the relief of James H. Clarke," reported the said bills without amendment. Ordered, That the said bills, respectively, be committed to a committee of the whole, to-morrow. The House took up and proceeded to consider the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act supplementary to the acts concerning the coasting trade;" whereupon, Mr. Mills moved that the said bill be postponed indefinitely; when, Mr. Colston moved that the said bill lie on the table, which latter motion was rejected. And the question was then taken, shall the said bill be postponed indefinitely? And determined in the negative. The question then recurred on the amendment moved to the said |