which he has made improvements; and praying such relief in the premises as shall appear just and proper. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Jennings also presented three petitions of sundry inhabitants of the Indiana territory, whose names are thereunto subscribed, respectively praying that the right of suffrage may be extended to every free white male inhabitant in said territory, who shall have attained to the age of twenty-one years, and shall have paid a county or territorial tax, or shall have perforined mili'ia duty, and that the people may be enabled to choose their own officers, both civil and military.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to Mr. Jennings, Mr. Stedman, Mr. Tracy, Mr. Ross, and Mr. Sheffey, with instruction to examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereon, to the House.

The order of the day was farther postponed until

to-morrow.

And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, December 13, 1809.

Mr. Quincy, from the committee appointed on the eleventh instant, to present to the President of the United States, a resolution of the same date, reported, that the committee had performed that service, and that the President expressed his disposition to comply with the request of the House, as far as it should be practicable.

Mr. Johnson, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred on the eleventh instant, the petition of William and Elias Rector, made a report thereon, which was read at the Clerk's table, and the resolution therein contained agreed to by the House, as follows:

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioners is reasonable, and ought to be granted.

Ordered, That a bill or bills be brought in pursu ant to the said resolution, and that the Committee of Claims do prepare and bring in the same.

A motion was made by Mr. Gold, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution: Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to lay before this House, such inforına. tion contained in any despatch from the American minister in London, relative to the instructions of Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and relative to any communications and conversations between the American minister and Mr. Canning, antecedent or subsequent thereto on the same subject, as may not, in the opinion of the President, be improper to be communicated.

And on the question that the House do agree to

the same,

Yeas 85.

It was resolved in the affirmative, Nays 36.

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

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Lemuel J. Alston,

Willis Alston, junior,
Burwell Bassett,

William W. Bibb,
Daniel Blaisdell,
James Breckenridge,
John Campbell,
John C. Chamberlain,
William Chamberlin,
Epaphroditus Champion,
Martin Chittenden,
Matthew Clay,
Howell Cobb,
James Cochran,

Henry Crist,

Samuel W. Dana,

John Davenport, junior,
John Dawson,
William Ely,
James Emott,
John W. Eppes,
Barent Gardenier,
Gideon Gardner,

Thomas Gholson, junior,
Charles Goldsborough,
Peterson Goodwyn,
Thomas R. Gold,

Edwin Gray,

William Hale,

Nathaniel A. Haven,

Ordered, That Mr. Gold and Mr. Key be ap pointed a committee to present the said resolution to the President of the United States.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary.

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill, entitled "An act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to Joseph Joshua Dyster;" also, a bill, entitled "An act in addition to the act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio," to which bills they desire the concurrence of this House: And then he withdrew.

Mr. Love presented a petition of the board of trustees of the institution for the education of youth in the city of Washington, signed by Samuel H. Smith, and others, their committee, praying that an act of incorporation may be passed, for the establishment of a college in the said city.

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

On motion of Mr. Johnson,

Ordered, That the petition of Robert Elwell, presented on the nineteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Roane, from the joint committee for enrolled bills, reported, that the committee had examined an enrolled bill, entitled "An act supplemental to an act, entitled "An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes," and had found the same to be truly enrolled: When,

Mr. Speaker signed the said enrolled bill. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing his annual statement of the amount of duties and drawbacks on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into, and

exported from the United States, during the years one thousand eight hundred and six, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and one thousand eight hundred and eight, which were read, and referred. to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

The bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned, to Joseph Joshua Dyster," was read the first time.

On motion,

The said bill was read the second time, and committed to Mr. Findley, Mr. Seaver, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Gray and Mr. Stanley, to consider and report thereon to the Hou se.

The bill sent from the Senate, entitled "An act in addition to the act to regulate the laying out and making a read from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio," was read the first time. On motion,

The said bill was read the second time, and referred to Mr. Morrow, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Ross and Mr. Gardenier, to consider and report thereon to the House.

On motion of Mr. Eppes,

Ordered, That the petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of Virginia, presented on the eleventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight, be referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads.

The House proceeded to consider the resolutions proposed by Mr. Van Horn, on the seventh instant, and the same being read at the Clerk's table, in the words following, to wit:

1. Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting the exportation from ports or places under the jurisdiction of the United States, of any article the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States, except in ships cr vessels owned and wholly navigated by citizens of the United States.