On motion, The said bill was read the second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next. On motion of Mr. Rhea, (of Tennessee,) Resolved, That the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-road from the post-office in the Chickasaw nation, by the Chickasaw bluff, to fort Madison, in the Louisiana territory. Mr. Rhea presented a petition signed by Gilbert C. Russell, in behalf of the inhabitants of the Chickasaw bluff, and the Arkensaw, praying for the establishment of the above described post route, which was ordered to be referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads. Mr. Johnson presented a petition of the governor, judges, and secretary of the Illinois territory, praying to be permitted to locate such quantities of the land of the United States as they are required by the tenor of their respective offices to hold, upon such terms and restrictions as Congress may deem proper to prescribe.. Mr. Morrow presented several petitions of sundry inhabitants of the state of Ohio, to the same effect with a petition of sundry other inhabitants of the said state, presented on the twenty-seventh of December last. Ordered, That the said petitions be severally refer red to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Morrow presented several petitions of sundry inhabitants of the state of Ohio, praying for the establishment of a post-route from Zanesville, through Newark, Granville, Worthington, Urbanna, and Troy, to Greenville in said state. Ordered, That the said petitions be severally referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Postroads. A motion was made by Mr. Love, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution : Resolved, That the United States, by virtue of their sovereign authority, claim and have the sole right to the batture situate below high water mark in the river Mississippi, in front of the suburb St. Mary, in the city of New Orleans. The said resolution was read, and referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom is committed the resolutions proposed by Mr. Sheffey, relative to the said batture. On a motion made, and leave given by the House, Mr. Bassett, from the committee on the naval establishment of the United States, to whom was referred several petitions of the officers of the navy, presented a bill in relation to the pensions and rations of the officers of the navy, which was received and read the first time. On motion, The said bill was read the second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next. An engrossed bill to extend the time for locating Virginia military warrants, and for returning surveys thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War, was read the third time. Resolved, That the same do pass, and that the title be, "An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and for returning the surveys thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War." Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate, and desire their concur rence. On motion of Mr. Newton, Ordered, That the unfinished business of yesterday do lie on the table. The House, according to the order of the day, resolved its: If into a committee of the whole House, on the bill authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Bassett reported, that the committee had, according to order, again had the said bill under consideration, and made an amendment thereto. The House resumed the consideration of the bill to prevent the issuing of sea letters, except to certain vessels, and the same being amended at the Clerk's table, A motion was made by Mr. Dana, and seconded, further to amend the same, by inserting, after the word "registered," in the seventh line, the following: "or to ships or vessels built within the United States, and arriving within some of the ports thereof before the first day of May next." And the question being taken thereon, Yeas 56. It was determined in the negative, Nays 61. The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are William Anderson, David Bard, Burwell Bassett, William W. Bibb, William A. Burwell, William Crawford, Henry Crist, John Dawson, Joseph Desha, Gideon Gardner, David S. Garland, Thomas Gholdson, junior, Edwin Gray, Benjamin Howard, Jacob Hufty, Richard M. Johnson, Walter Jones, Thomas Kenan, William Kennedy, John Love, Aaron Lyle, Robert Marion, Samuel M'Kee, Peter B. Porter, John Rea, (Pennsylvania) John Roane, John Smilie, Henry Southard, Richard Stanford, John Taylor, George M. Troup, Archibald Van Horn, Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read the third time, to-morrow. The House procceded to consider the amendment of the committee of the whole House, to the bill au thorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States, and the same being read, was, on the question put thereon, concurred in by the House. Ordered, That the farther consideration of the said bill be postponed until to-morrow. The several orders of the day were farther postponed until to-morrow. And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock. THURSDAY, February 8, 1810. A motion was made by Mr. Livingston, and seconded, that the House do now adjourn, And the question being taken thereon, It was determined in the negative, Yeas 4. Nay's 83. The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Edward St. Loe Livermore, Nathaniel Macon, John Rhea, (Tennessee) John Ross. |