of Pittston, in the State of Maine, the balance remaining unpaid for boats and other supplies furnished in the war of the revolution, under the direction of the Commander-in-Chief.

On motion of Mr. McIntire,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the claims of Stephen Porter, deceased, an assistant commissary in the army of the revolution, and report what sum, if any, is due to his representatives.

On motion of Mr. Burges,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be directed to inquire into the expediency and justice of providing, by law, that the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be issued to Nancy Dayton, of Newport, in the State of Rhode Island, widow and personal representative of John Dayton, late of said Newport, a captain in the service of the United States, in the revolutonary war, certificates in lieu of final settlement and other certificates received by the said John while in full life, in consideration of his services aforesaid, but by him lost.

On motion of Mr. Pearce,

Resolved, That the report made by the Committee on Public Lands, at the last session of the 21st Congress, and the bill accompanying the same, giving to the officers of the late war a portion of the public lands, be printed.

Wr. Cambreleng moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to communicate to this House the correspondence with the President of the Bank of the United States, and the documents furnished by the latter relative to the arrangement made in Europe, on the part of the bank, for the postponement of the payment of the three per cent. stock of the United States.

On motion of Mr. Bergen,

Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of constructing a dry dock, for the use of the United States' navy, at Brooklyn, New York.

On motion of Mr. Jewett,

Resolved, That the report of the Committee of Claims, made at the last session, on the petition of David M. Lewis, together with the documents accompanying said petition, be printed.

On motion of Mr. Taylor,

Ordered, That this House will to-morrow, at half past twelve o'clock, proceed to the election of a chaplain on its part.

On motion of Mr. Bates Cooke,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims inquire into the expediency of making compensation to George C. Barton, for apprehending and delivering at Fort Niagara, three deserters from the army of the United States.

On motion of Mr. Verplanck,

Resolved, That the memorial and documents presented at the last session on behalf of the heirs of the late Commodore Paul Jones, be again referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

On motion of Mr. Ihrie,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to John H. Genther, a soldier of the revolutionary war.

On motion of Mr. Banks,

Resolved, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, that Josiah Westlake, an invalid pensioner, shall be paid, in addition to what he has received, at the rate of four dollars per month, from the fourth of March, 1824, to the fourth of September, 1831.

On motion of Mr. Isacks,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of relieving the President of the United States from signing patents issued for public lands, and of causing the same to be signed by some other officer of the Government.

On motion of Mr. Polk,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Franklin, Tennessee, by the way of Snow Creek post office and True's store, to the town of Williamsport, in Maury county, Tennessee.

On motion of Mr. Leavitt,

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of refunding to James Maley a sum erroneously paid by him to the marshal of the district of Ohio, in the purchase of certain real estate sold by said marshal upon an execution issued at the suit of the United States.

On motion of Mr. Boon,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reducing and graduating the price of such of the public lands of the United States as shall or may have been five years subject to sale at private entry; and, also, to inquire into the expediency of surrendering the refuse public lands, after a given period, to the States respectively in which they are situated.

On motion of Mr. Duncan,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of constructing a harbor at Chicago, on Lake Michigan, in Illinois.

Mr. Clay submitted the following resolutions, viz.

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reducing the price of such portions of the public lands as have been offered at public sale, and have remained unsold for the period of five years and upwards.

Resolved, further, That said committee inquire into the expediency of relinquishing to the respective States in which they are situated, such portions of the public lands as may have been offered at public sale, and, being subject to private entry, have remained enrolled for the period of ten years.

These resolutions being read,

A motion was made by Mr. Williams that the consideration thereof be

postponed until Monday next.

And the question being put,

It passed in the affirmative,

Yeas,

Nays,

83.

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

Those who voted in the affirmative are.

Mr. John Q. Adams

Heman Allen

Mr. Robert Alison

William Armstrong

Mr. Thomas D. Arnold
William Babcock

Mr. John Banks

Noyes Barber
Daniel L. Barringer
Gamaliel H. Barstow

Isaac C. Bates
James Blair
John Branch

George N. Briggs
George Burd
Tristam Burges
William Cahoon
Rufus Choate
John A Collier
Lewis Condict
Silas Condit
Eleutheros Cooke
Bates Cooke
Richard M. Cooper
Thomas Corwin
Joseph H. Crane
Thomas H. Crawford
William Creighton, jr.
Henry Daniel

Henry A. S. Dearborn

Harmar Denny

Lewis Dewart

John Dickson

William W. Ellsworth

Mr. George Evans
Joshua Evans
Edward Everett
Horace Everett

George Grennell, jr.
William Heister
James L. Hodges
Thomas H. Hughes
Jabez W. Huntington
Peter Ihrie, jr.
Ralph I. Ingersoll
Leonard Jarvis
Daniel Jenifer
Edward Kavanagh
Thomas A. Marshall
Lewis Maxwell
Robert McCoy
Rufus McIntire

Thomas M. T. McKennan
Charles F. Mercer

John J. Milligan
Henry A. Muhlenberg
Jeremiah Nelson
Thomas Newton
Dutee J. Pearce
Edmund H. Pendleton
Nathaniel Pitcher
David Potts, jr.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. Mark Alexander

Robert Allen

John Anderson
William S. Archer

Wiliam H Ashley
John S. Barbour
Robert W Barnwell
James Bates

John Bell
John T. Bergen
John Blair

Rathff Boom

Joseph Bouck

John Brodhead

John C. Brodhead
Churchili C. Cambreleng
John Carr

Thomas Chandler

Nathaniel H. Claiborne

Mr. Thomas F. Foster
Nathan Gaither
John Gilmore

William F. Gordon
John K Griffin
Thomas H Hall
Wilham Hall
Joseph Hammons
Joseph M. Harper
Albert G. Hawes
Micajah T. Hawkins
Michael Hoffman
Cornelius Holland
Henry Horn
William W. Irvin
Jacob C. Isacks
Freeborn G. Jewett
Richard M. Johnson
Cave Johnson
William Kennon
Adam King
John King
Garret Y. Lansing
Humphrey H Leavitt
Joseph Lecompte
James Lent
Dixon H. Lewis
Chittenden Lyon

Mr. John Reed

Abraham Rencher
Erastus Root
William Russell
Benedict I. Semmes
William B. Shepard
William Slade
Samuel A. Smith
Isaac Southard
William Stanbery
Andrew Stewart
William L. Storrs
Joel B. Sutherland
John W. Taylor
Philemon Thomas
Christopher Tompkins
Phineas L. Tracy
Joseph Vance
Samuel F. Vintorn
George C. Washington
John G. Watmough
Samuel J. Wilkin
Grattan H. Wheeler
Elisha Whittlesey
Frederick Whittlesey
Lewis Williams
Ebenezer Young-

Mr. Joel K. Mann

Samuel W. Mardis
John Y. Mason
Jonathan McCarty
William McCoy
James McKay
Daniel Newnan
John M. Patton
Job Pierson
Franklin E. Plummer
James K. Polk
Edward C. Reed
Augustin H. Shepperd
Nathan Soule
Jesse Speight
James Standefer
Pnilander Stevens
Wiley Thompson
John Thomson
Guhan C. Verplanck
Daniel Wardwell
James M. Wayne
John W. Weeks
Campbell P. White
Charles A. Wickliffe
Richard H. Wilde

John T. H. Worthington.

A motion was then made by Mr. Heister, that the House do reconsider the vote of this day, by which the resolution submitted by Mr. Boon, instructing the Committee on the Public Lands to inquire into the expediency of reducing and graduating the price of certain public lands, and of surrender. ing the refuse lands to the States respectively in which they are situated, was adopted.

And, on the question, Will the House reconsider the said vote?

It passed in the affirmative,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Mr. John Dickson

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Mr. Philander Stephens
Philemon Thomas
Wiley Thompson
John Thomson

It was then

Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck
Aaron Ward
Daniel Wardwell
James M. Wayne

Mr. John W. Weeks

Campbell P. White
Richard H. Wilde
John T. H. Worthington.

Ordered, 'That the consideration of the said resolution be postponed until Monday next.

Mr. Mardis submitted the following resolutions, viz.

Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting to the settlers on the public lands of the United States a right of pre-emption to their respective improvements.

And be it further resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands inquire into the expediency of permitting the citizens of the several townships in the United States, entitled to section sixteen for the purpose of schools, where the same is sterile and valueless, to surrender such section to the United States, and select from the unsold lands within the limits of the State where the section surrendered may be, another in lieu thereof. The said resolutions were read, and the consideration thereof postponed until Monday next.

Mr. Stewart presented a petition of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying Congress to subscribe for stock in the western section of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to the amount of one million of dollars.

Mr. Marshall presented a petition of inhabitants of Kentucky, praying that provision may be made for improving the navigation of the falls of the river opposite the city of Louisville, in said State.

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

On motion of Mr. Joseph M. White,

Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of Appalachicola, in the Territory of Florida, presented February 10, 1832, be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

Mr. Clay presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Madison, in the State of Alabama, praying for the establishment of a post route; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have elected the Reverend Charles Constantine Pise a Chaplain to Congress, on their part, during the present session.

The Speaker laid before the House a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that, subsequently to his annual report on the state of the finances, he has received the report of the agent selected to make the inspection into the accounts of the Bank of the United States therein referred to; which report he transmits to the House, together with a copy of the instructions under which the examination was made; which communication and accompanying documents were laid on the table, and the usual number ordered to be printed.

A motion was made by Mr. Wickliffe that ten thousand additional copies of said communication and accompanying documents be printed for the use of the members of the House; which motion lies one day on the table under the rule.

A motion was then made by Mr. Wickliffe, that the rule which requires said motion to lie on the table one day be suspended, for the purpose of enabling the House to consider his said motion.

And, on the question, Shall the rule be suspended?