Resolved, That the title be" An act for the relief of Amy Dardin, widow and personal representative of David Dardin, deceased.” Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate and desire their concur. rence. The House resumed the consideration of the bill for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton, and no other aniendment being proposed, The question was stated, shall the said bill be engrossed and read a third time? And the same being taken, It was resolved in the affirmative, Yeas 63. Nays 54. The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Burwell Bassett, Daniel Blaisdell, James Breckenridge, John Campbell. John C. Chamberlain, John Davenport, junior, James Emott, Jonathan Fisk, Nathanie! A. Haven, Daniel leister, Richard Jackson, junior, Herman Knickerbacker, Edward St Loe Livermore, Vincent Matthews, Archibald Bryde, Pleasant M. Miller, James Wilson. John Clopton, James Cochran, James Cox, William Crawford, Joseph Desha, William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Gideon Gardner, David S. Garland, Peterson Goodwyn, James Holland, Jacob Hufty, William Kennedy, Aaron Lyle, Nathaniel Macon, Robert Marion, Alexander M'Kim, Nicholas R. Moore, Thomas Moore, Thomas Newbold, John Porter, John Rea, (Pennsylvania John Roane, Thomas Sammons, Richard Stanford, Charles Turner, junior, Robert Weakley, Robert Whitehill, Richard Winn, Robert Witherspoon. The said bill being then brought in engrossed, was read the third time. And on the question that the same do pass, It was resolved in the affirmative, Yeas 63. Nays 53. The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are John Ross, James Stephenson, Nicholas Van Dyke, Laban Wheaton, Ezekiel Whitman, James Wilson. Those who voted in the negative, are Lemuel J. Alston, Willis Alston, junior, William Anderson, Ezekiel Bacon, William A. Burwell, John Clopton, James Cochran, James Cox, William Crawford, Joseph Desha, William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Gideon Gardner, David S. Garland, Peterson Goodwyn, James Holland, Jacob Hufty, William Kennedy, Aaron Lyle. Nathaniel Macon, Robert Marion, Alexander M'Kim, Nicholas R. Moore, John Rea, (Pennsylvania) Ebenezer Sage, Thomas Sammons, Lemuel Sawyer, Ebenezer Seaver, Resolved, That the title be, "An act for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton." Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate, and desire their con currence. The House resumed the consideration of the bill authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States. And debate arising thereon, An adjournment was called for: On which, The several orders of the day were farther postponed until Monday next. And the House adjourned until Monday morning, eleven o'clock. MONDAY, March 19, 1810. Ordered, That Mr. Ross have leave to be absent from the service of this House from the twenty fifth instant, for the remainder of the session. Mr. Turner presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Bangor, in the district of Maine, praying that the said town may be established as a port of delivery. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. Mr. Anderson presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Mifflin and Franklin counties, in the state of Pennsylvania, praying for the establishment of a post-route from Mifflin town through Waterford and Concord to Fannetsburg. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads. Mr. J. C. Chamberlain, from the committee ap. pointed on the twenty-seventh of January last, on the petition of Luke M. Laighton, made a report thereon, which was read and the resoiution therein contained, concurred in by the House, as follows: |