of Rush, Henrietta, Brighton, and the village of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, and state of New York; also, a petition of sundry other inhabitants of the towns of Rush and Henrietta, aforesaid;

Mr. Taylor presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the towns of White Creek, Saratoga, Milton, Galway, Greenwich, and Easton, in the counties of Saratoga and Washington, in the state of New York; Mr. Blair presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Green and Hawkins, in the state of Tennessee;

praying, respectively, for the establishment of post routes.

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

Mr. Kidder presented a petition of John Blake, of the state of Maine, an officer in the Revolutionary army, praying for a pension, or some other compensation, for meritorious services rendered in the capacity aforesaid.

Mr. Cushman presented a petition of J. Wadsworth, of the state of Maine;

Mr. Martindale presented a petition of Moses Smith, of the state of New York;

Mr. Litchfield presented a petition of Origen Eaton, of the state of New York;

praying, respectively, for an increase of their pensions.

Mr. Alexander, of Virginia, presented a petition of Matthew Hairfield, on behalf of himself and the other heirs of James Hairfield, deceased, praying for a grant of the land due for the services of the deceased, as a soldier in the army of the Revolution.

Mr. Sanford presented a petition of Pugh Cannon, of the state of Tennessee, praying for a grant of a small tract of land therein described, as a compensation for various military services rendered in the Revolutionary war.

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

On motion of Mr. Alexander Smyth,

Ordered, That the petition of Francis Preston, heretofore presented on the 12th of December, 1808, be referred to the same committee. Mr. Hobart presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Middleborough, in the county of Plymouth, in Massachusetts;

Mr. Ellis presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Luzerne, in the state of Pennsylvania;

praying, respectively, that additional duties may be imposed on iron, and certain manufactures thereof, upon their importation into the United States.

Mr. Rich presented a memorial of farmers, manufacturers, and mechanics, in Bennington, and its vicinity, in the state of Vermont; Mr. Allison presented a memorial of sundry inhabitants of the county of Alleghany, in the state of Pennsylvania;

Mr. Forward presented a memorial of sundry other inhabitants of the said county of Alleghany;

Mr. Breck presented a memorial of sundry inhabitants of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania;

Mr. M'Lane of Delaware, presented a memorial of sundry inhabitants of the county of Newcastle, in that state;

praying, respectively, that such measures may be adopted as will af ford sufficient encouragement and protection to the manufacturing interest of the country.

Mr. Test presented a resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, in favor of granting further protection to domestic manufactures.

Mr. Breck presented a petition and remonstrance of sundry manufacturers of twine in the city of Philadelphia, praying that additional duties may be imposed on twine, upon the importation thereof into the United States.

Mr. Hemphill presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of woollen goods, residing in Germantown and its vicinity, in the state of Pennsylvania, praying that no additional duty may be imposed on raw wool, and that additional duties be imposed on woollen goods which may be imported into the United States.

Ordered, That the said memorials and petitions be referred to the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union, to which is committed the bill to amend the several acts imposing duties on imports.

Mr. Reed presented a petition of Benjamin Hallet, Oliver Holmes, James Lovell, David Crocker, and Ebenezer Bacon, late owners of the schooner Hallet, stating that, while said vessel was engaged in a codfishing voyage, she was captured by a British cruiser, and condemned, and praying to be allowed the same drawback of duty on the salt which was taken out in said vessel, as if she had returned with her cargo to the United States.

Mr. Newton presented a petition of John Barnes, Collector of the customs for the port of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, praying for an augmentation of his compensation.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Mr. Cambreleng presented a memorial of the auctioneers of the city of New York, praying that duties may not be laid on sales at auction; Mr. Taylor presented a memorial of sundry merchants, traders, and other citizens of Rochester, in the state of New York, praying that duties may be imposed on certain sales at auction;

Mr. Hemphill presented a memorial of the auctioneers of the city of Philadelphia, praying that auctions may be left upon their present footing;

Mr. M'Lane, of Delaware, presented a memorial of merchants, traders, and other citizens of the borough of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware;

Mr. Andrew Stevenson presented a memorial of merchants, traders, and other citizens of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia; praying, respectively, that duties may be imposed on certain sales at auction, therein described.

Ordered, That the said memorials be referred to the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union, to which is committed the bill laying duties on sales at auction.

Mr. Cambreleng presented a petition of Enoch Hidden, of the city of New York, praying to be employed in making a large number of Cannon locks for the naval service of the United States, having been induced to purchase materials and machinery, and to prepare himself fer making said locks, in consequence of verbal agreement with Commodore Decatur, now deceased, when a naval commissioner of the United States;

Mr. Cambreleng presented a petition of John R. Carter, a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, praying to be allowed, in the setticment of his account, as a recruiting officer in the late war with Great Britain, for discounts which he was compelled to pay on Treasury notes, and other depreciated money furnished him by the Government. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Sharpe presented a petition of William Eaton, of the city of New York, stating that Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris stand indebted to him in the sum of five thousand dollars, arising out of their contract to build the fort, &c. at Dauphin Island, and praying that provision may be made for paying him that sum, in any act which may be passed for the settlement of the claims of the said Farrow and Harris; which petition was laid on the table.

Mr. Hayden presented a petition of Peter Halloway, praying to be allowed some pecuniary reward for his invention of the shears used in cutting lath and shingle nails in the war of the Revolution, which invention he permitted to go into general and unrestrained use, without securing to himself any exclusive privilege in the same;

Mr. Kremer presented a petition of John Baldy, of the state of Pennsylvania, a captain in the army in the late war with Great Britain, praying to be allowed the discount paid by him on a Treasury note for $1000, forwarded to him to pay the bounties of men recruited for the army;

Mr. Ellis presented a petition of Amelia Hegins, widow and administratrix of Charles Hegins, deceased, praying to be paid the sum of two thousand dollars, due her late husband, which was paid to a certain Jared Irwin, then a member of the House of Representatives from the state of Pennsylvania, under authority aud circumstances not warranted as sufficient to legalize said payment, in the opinion of the petitioner;

Mr. M Kim presented a petition of Richard Frisby, of the state of Maryland, praying compensation for his buildings, and other property, at a place called "Fairlee," which were destroyed by the British forces, in the late war, because the premises were occupied by militia in the service of the United States.

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

The under mentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and, also, referred to the Committee of Claims, viz:

By Mr. M.Lane, of Delaware, the petition of Richard Mansfield, presented on the 29th December, 1817;

By Mr. Neale, the petition of John Chalmers, jun. presented on the 24th January, 1817;

By Mr. Richard, of Michigan, the petition of John Meldrum, presented on the 1st of April, 1820.

Mr. Plumer, of New Hampshire, presented a petition of Abraham Morrill, in that state, praying to be indemnified for losses sustained, in consequence of the Government's failing to comply with its stipulation of payment upon delivery of a quantity of clothing, which he contracted to deliver, and did actually deliver, for the use of the army of the United States, in the late war with Great Britain;

Mr. Rankin presented a petition of William Cocke, of the state of Mississippi, praying for a grant of 640 acres of land, as a compensation for extraordinary services rendered in the Army of the United States. in the late war with Great Britain.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. M.Kean and Mr. Ellis, respectively, presented petitions of sundry inhabitants of the county of Lycoming, in the state of Pennsylvania, praying that the court contemplated to be established by the bill now pending before this House, to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts, may be holden in the town of Williamsport, in said county; which petitions were referred to the Committee of the whole House to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Kent presented a petition of Daniel Renner, of the District of Columbia, praying to be allowed an additional sum, by way of compensation for a ropewalk and contents, belonging to Renner and Heath, destroyed by the British forces while in Washington, because said ropewalk was employed in manufacturing cordage for the Go. vernment of the United States;

Mr. Mercer presented a petition of sundry landholders, merchants, and millers, in Jefferson county, in the state of Virginia, praying that certain alterations, therein specified, may be made in the laws relating to the inspection of flour, in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.

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

Mr. M.Kim presented a memorial of John Stone, of Baltimore county, in the state of Maryland, praying to be paid the sum of $144, which was received in 1814, by the Commissary General of prisoners, ON account of the memorialist, and by said commissary forwarded to him by mail, and which was never received.

Ordered, That the said memorial be referred to the Secretary of War, with instructions to report thereon.

Mr. M'Kim also presented a petition of J. and A. Nattali, of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, aliens resident in the United States, praying that an act may be passed, specially, for their naturalization, for reasons set forth in their petition; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Cobb presented a petition of Andrew Low, Robert Isaac, and James McHenry, merchants, under the firm of Andrew Low and Co. of Savannah, in the state of Georgia, praying to be released from the payment of bonds, given to secure the payment of duties on cer

tain goods, wares, and merchandise, which was destroyed at the great fire at Savannah, in January, 1820.

Mr. Prince presented a resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, asking that an appropriation may be made by Congress, for the purpose of extinguishing the Indian title to lands in the northern part of that state.

Ordered. That the said petition and resolution be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. McLean, of Ohio, presented a petition of John Johnson, Agent for Indian Affairs in the state of Ohio, setting forth that, in a treaty concluded between the United States and certain Indian tribes, in September, 1818, a tract of land of 160 acres, in said treaty described, was reserved to the Wyandott tribe of Indians, and that, owing to error on the part of the officers of the United States, said tract has been sold and patented to an individual-that said Indians are willing to take another tract of land of equal quantity, which the petitioner describes, in lieu thereof; and praying that provision may be made for the conveyance thereof.

Mr. Conway presented a petition of Morgan Magness, of the territory of Arkansas, praying permission to enter, at the lowest price, a tract of unappropriated land in said territory, for reasons set forth in his petition.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Prince presented a petition of Jonathan Goss, of the state of Indiana, praying for a grant of a small tract of unappropriated public land, as a compensation for services rendered as a soldier in the Revolutionary army; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Livingston presented a petition of sundry aliens residing in the state of Louisiana, praying that the laws upon the subject of naturalization may be amended, to the end that greater facilities may be afforded to foreigners intending to become citizens of the United States; which petition was referred to a select committee, and

Mr. Livingston, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Dwight, Mr. Gurley, Mr. Durfee, and Mr. Breck, were appointed said committee. Mr. Webster presented a memorial of William Gray, Jonathan Amory, Thomas C. Amory & Co. Lemuel Pope, Jr. and John Gray, merchants and underwriters, of Boston, Massachusetts, in relation to the seizure and confiscation, by the French government, of the vessels and cargoes of the memorialists, at St. Sebastians, and other ports in the north of Spain, in the years 1809 and 1810.

Ordered, That the said memorial be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Ordered, That the petition of Archibald Gracie, the petition of Daniel Henshaw, the petition of William and Nathaniel Hooper, the petitions of sundry merchants and underwriters, and insurance companies, of Salem, Gloucester, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, upon the subject of the spoliations committted on the commerce of the United States, by authority of the French government, presented to this