Mr. Crawford presented a petition of James Erwin, of the State of Pennsylvania, praying to be paid the amount of a certificate of revolutionary debt, which certificate he lost or mislaid in the year 1792; which petition was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Creighton presented a petition of John Poe, of the State of Ohio, praying to be paid for his services as a soldier in the army of the revolution; which petition was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. On motion of Mr. Irvin, Ordered, That the case of the heirs of James Reynolds, presented April 30, 1832, be referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Crane presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Preble, in the State of Ohio, praying for the establishment of a post route;_ which petition was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Ashley presented a petition of Isidore Moore, of the State of Missouri, praying that the act for his relief, passed May 26, 1830, may be amended so as to give him good land fit for cultivation; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Mr. Wing presented a petition of William Bown, of the Territory of Michigan, praying for a grant of public land as an indemnity for property lost by him in Canada, in which province he resided in the commencement of the late war; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. On motion of Mr. Richard M. Johnson, it was Ordered, That five thousand copies be printed of the bill reported to this House at the last session of Congress (No. 279) to abolish imprisonment for debt, together with the report which accompanied the same. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an abstract of contingent expenses of the navy, from the first day of October, 1831, to the 30th day of September, 1832; which letter and statement were laid on the table. The Speaker laid before the House a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in further compliance with the resolution of the House of the 25th February, 1832, requiring him to report such further imformation on the subject of the live oak lands in Florida as he may be furnished with by the agents, or others who may be employed in the service, with his views of the best means of preserving the naval timber growing on the public lands; or, if he deem it necessary, that he lay before the House a plan or system which he may think best calculated to secure to the nation an adequate supply of this material either by cultivation or the purchase of lands now containing such supply; which report was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. On motion of Mr. Jarvis, Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Buildings be instructed to inquire into the expediency of substituting, with the consent of the Corporation of Washington, an equivalent, in money, for the grant made that city during the last session of Congress, of a large part of the mall in front of the Capitol and President's House. On motion of Mr. Pearce, Resolved, That that the Committee on Invalid Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing the name of Zebulon Wade, a citizen of the State of Rhode Island, on the invalid pension list. On motion of Mr. McKennan, Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the repair of so much of the Cumberland road as lies between the Pennsylvania line and the Ohio river. On motion of Mr. Allen, of Virginia, Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be in structed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route leading from the town of Winchester, in Frederick county, Virginia, by Zane's id iron works, to Columbia furnace, in Shenandoah county, and from thence by Terleytown, in Rockingham county, to Miller's iron works, in Augusta county. On motion of Mr. Wilde, Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be directed to inquire into the expediency of extending to the heirs of Robert Forsythe, a major in the first legion of the forces of the Commonwealth of Virginia, during the revolutionary war, the benefits of the act of the last session of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia," approved the fifth of July last. On motion of Mr. Vinton, Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the sale of sections numbered 29 in the several townships in the Ohio Company and John Cleves Symmes's purchases, reserved for the support of religion. On motion of Mr. Kennon, Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be directed to inquire into the expediency of removing the office of Receiver of Public Moneys, and Register of the Land Office, at Marietta, in Ohio, to Woodfold, in Monroe county, in said State. On motion of Mr. Duncan, Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the justice, on condition of actual settlement, of permitting the owners of any land not exceeding 320 acres, granted as bounty to the soldiers of the late war, which land may be unfit for cultivation, to relinquish it to the United States, and to enter an equal quantity of any of the public lands subject to entry at private sale, in the State of Illinois. On motion of Mr. Wing, Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of connecting the waters of La Plaisance Bay with the River Rasin, in the Territory of Michigan, agreeably to the report of the War Department of the 24th of January last. On motion of Mr. Sevier, Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Governor of Arkansas to se... twenty sections of the land selected for the use of a seminary of learning in the Territory of Arkansas, and that the proceeds thereof be appropriated to building a suitable house for said seminary. Mr. White, of Florida, moved the following resolution, which was read, and laid on the table, viz. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform this House what causes have prevented the survey of the private confirmed land claims in Florida, and whether any errors were made in the surveys in West Florida, which caused their return to the Surveyor General, and whether any instructions were given for the re-survey, or proceedings instituted against the deputies, and whether the United States have been or are to be charged with the re-survey out of the public Treasury; and that he communicate the instructions given to the Surveyor General on the subject of the survey of the private claims. Ordered, That the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the report of the Committee of Claims on the petition of Peregrine Gardner, be discharged, and that the said petition be recommitted to the Committee of Claims. Ordered, That the undermentioned bills do lie on the table, viz. No. 188. Granting pensions to Daniel Felton and Samuel Frothingham; No. 189. Granting pensions to Leonard Houston and John D. Howard; No. 190. Granting pensions to John Vineyard, William Howell, Abner Peebles, Jabez Hawes, Jabez Winchester, and Rufus Gibbs; No. 192. For the relief of John Fogg; No. 193. Granting pensions to Cornelius Lambert, Abraham Hitchcock, Elnathan Weed, Moses Higgins, Abijah Holmes, William Jackson, Simeon Chace, and Richard Clarke. No. 194. Granting pensions to Winthrop Davis, Simeon Bullock, Nelson Miller, Oliver May, Jonathan Pearce, and Joshua Crosby; No. 202. Granting pensions to James Richmond and Abner Smith. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on bills of the following titles, viz. No. 175. For the relief of the heirs of Jean Baptiste Saucier; No. 176. For the relief of Eugene Borel; No. 552. For the relief of Sylvester Havens; No. 180. For the relief of Daniel Johnson; No. 181. For the relief of Joseph Eaton, an assistant surgeon in the army of the United States; No. 183. For the relief of Frederick Raymer; No. 185. For the relief of Joel Wright; No. 186. For the relief of Thomas Triplett; and, after some time spent in Committee of the Whole House, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Letcher reported the said bills without amend ment. Ordered, That the said bills be engrossed, and severally read a third time on Monday next. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on bills of the following titles, viz. No. 196. For the relief of Joseph Du Commun; No. 197. For the relief of Russell Hotchkiss and others, owners of the brig Stranger; No. 199. For the relief of Joseph P. Creecy and others. No 199. For the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and Jean Baptiste Beaugrand; No. 200. For the relief of John Thomas and Peter Foster; No. 201. For the relief of the children of Charles Combes and Marguerite Laviolet, his wife; No. 203. For the relief of Chastelain and Ponvert; No. 204. For the relief of Riddle, Becktel, and Headington; No. 205. For the relief of Robert Eaton, No. 211. For the relief of Samuel Dauphin, admininistrator of John Dau. phin; No. 215. In aid of an act for the relief of James Barnett; No. 216. For the relief of James Brownlee; No. 218. For the relief of the legal representatives of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased; No. 219. For the relief of the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased; and after some time spent in Committee of the Whole House, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Ward reported the said bills, with amendments to those numbered 203, 204, and 216. The amendments to bills numbered 203 and 216, were concurred in by the House, and all of said bills, except the bill No. 204, were then ordered to be engrossed, and severally read a third time on Monday next. The House then proceeded to the consideration of the amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole House, to the bill (No. 204) for the relief of Riddle, Becktel, and Headington. And, pending the question to concur in the said amendment, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1832. Two other members, viz. from Virginia, Thomas T. Bouldin; and from South Carolina, Thomas R. Mitchell; appeared, and took their seats. The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, viz. By Mr. Noyes Barber: The petition of James Freeman, presented March 12, 1832. By Mr. Noyes Barber: The petition of Eunice Clark, presented January 5, 1830. Mr. Pierson presented a petition of Ephraim Whittaker, of the State of New York, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which he was entitled as a captain in the army of the revolution. Mr. Clay presented a petition of John M. Taylor, son and administrator of John Taylor, late of the State of Virginia, deceased, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay to which the deceased was entitled as an officer of the army of the revolution. Mr. Hogan presented a petition of the heirs of Amable Monty, of the State of New York, praying payment for supplies furnished to the army of the revolution. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Heman Allen presented a petition of Charles Benns, of the State of Vermont, praying to be paid the value of certain property unlawfully seized by custom-house officers, and condemned and sold while the petitioner was laboring under severe sickness and mental derangement, and, consequently, unable to attend to his concerns; which petition was referred to the Committee of Claims. The undermentioned petitions, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee of Claims, viz. By Mr. Noyes Barber: The petition of Henry Kilbourn, presented March 8, 1830. By Mr. Banks: The petition of Jonathan Davis, presented March 19, 1832. On motion of Mr. Polk, Ordered, That the petition of Stephen Pleasonton, presented December 14, 1830, be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Milligan presented a petition of Peter Jacquett, of the State of Delaware, an officer of the revolutionary army, praying to be paid the sum of $168 50 due him on account of services in the capacity aforesaid; which petition was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. On motion of Mr. Wardwell, Ordered, That the petition of David Kilbourn, presented January 25, 1830, be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Hogan presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Franklin, in the State of New York, praying for the establishment of a post route; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, On motion of Mr. Wing, Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of the State of Ohio, and Territory of Michigan, presented December 28, 1831, be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. On motion of Mr. Wing, Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of the counties of Monroe, and Lenawee, in the Territory of Michigan, presented December 28, 1831, be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. On motion of Mr. Wing, Ordered, That a petition of inhabitants of the counties of Monroe and Lewanee, in the Territory of Michigan, respecting a road from Port Lawrence to Adrian, presented January 23, 1832, be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. On motion of Mr. Wing, Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of the county of Washtenaw, in the Territory of Michigan, respecting a road from Sheldons to St Joseph, presented December, 1831, and the petition of inhabitants of Jacksonburg, in the Territory of Michigan, respecting a road from a point on the Chicago road to the mouth of the St. Josephs, presented January 30, 1832, be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. On motion of Mr. Wing, Ordered, That petition of inhabitants of the Territory of Michigan, presented April 17, 1832, relative to surveys and improvements, be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. Mr. McKennan presented a petition of inhabitants of the county of Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying that a nationai road may be constructed from the town of Washington, in said county, by Georgetown, in Beaver county, to Lake Erie. Mr. Vinton presented a petition of owners, masters, and consignees, of steam and other boats navigating the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and other rivers connected therewith, praying Congress to purchase the Louisville and Portland canal. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. On motion of Mr. Hogan, Ordered, That the petition of inhabitants of the State of New York, residing on the borders of Lake Champlain, for a pier or breakwater at Port Kent, presented December 20, 1831, be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. On motion of Mr. Hogan, Ordered, That the several petitions of inhabitants of the State of New York, residing on the borders of Lake Champlain, for a breakwater at Cham |