eight months, to be counted from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof, we, the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of the Republic of Colombia, have signed and sealed these presents. Done in the City of Bogota, on the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, and the fourteenth of that of the Republic of Colombia. [L. S.] RICHARD C. ANDERSON, Jr. [L. S.] PEDRO GUAL. Estados Unidos de America, con consejo, y consentimiento del Senado de los mismos; y las ratificaciones serán cangeadas en la Ciudad de Washington dentro de ocho meses contados desde este dia, ó antes si fuese posible. En fe de lo cual nosotros los Plenipotenciarios de la Republica de Colombia, y de los Estados Unidos de America hemos firmado y sellado las presentes. Dadas en la Ciuda de Bogota el dia tres de Octubre del año del Señor mil ocho cientos veinticua. tro, decimo cuarto de la independencia de la Republica de Colombia y cuadragesimo nono de la de los Estados Unidos de America. PEDRO GUAL, RICHARD C. ANDERSON, jr. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washington, on the twenty-seventh day of the present month, by DANIEL BRENT, Chief Clerk of the Department of State, and JosE MARIA SALAZAR, LL.D. Fiscal of the High Court of Justice of the Republic of Colombia, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary thereof near the Government of the United States of America, on the part of their respective Governments: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, President of the United States, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-ninth. [L. s.] By the President: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. H. CLAY, Secretary of State. CLARK M PHERIN. IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, DECEMBER 20, 1825. MR. NOBLE, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was re-committed the Bill for the relief of Clark M Pherin," and the documents belonging to the same, REPORTED The same without amendment, and, in the opinion of the Committee, the bill ought to pass. In support of the opinion of the Committee, the following evidence is referred to, marked A, B, and C, and that the injury which Mr. M Pherin sustained was incurred while in the line of his duty. A. I certify that Clark M Pherrin, a sergeant in the company of Brevet Major Bradley, and of which I now have the command, did absent himself on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and was absent for eighteen days, when he was found buried in a hay-stack, about half a mile from Fort Howard, and brought in by a Frenchman, with both his legs severely frosted, and in a state of starvation. At the time he was taken, he, from his resistance to the attempts to bring him home, and from his general conduct, evinced great derangement of mind, so much so, as from these circumstances, and from his own narration of the causes of his absenting himself, I am fully persuaded that he must have been insane at the time he left the Fort, and did endeavor to destroy himself. During his absence he was reported and mustered as a deserter, in consequence of which, his pay has been stopped from the 8th of March, 1824, (the date of his enlistment,) until the 5th of January, 1825. Given at Fort Howard, Green Bay, this 10th day of September, 1825. T. J. HARRISON, 1st Lieut. sd Reg. U. S. Inf. Com. B. Company. B. To all whom it may concern: Know ye, that Clark McPherrin. a private of Captain and Brevet Major H. Bradley's company, third regiment of infantry, who was enlisted the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, to serve five years, is hereby honorably discharged from the army of the United States, by reason of surgeon's certificate. Said Clark McPherrin was born in Westmoreland, in the state of Pennsylvania, is twenty-four years of age, five feet ten and a half inches high, light complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a tanner. Given at Fort Howard, Green Bay, this tenth day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-five. D. BAKER, Major Commanding 3d Infantry. It is hereby certified that the within named soldier, from having lost both his legs by amputation, in consequence of frost, is considered as totally disqualified to perform the duties of a soldier. W. V. WHEATON, Surg. U. S. Inf. C. WASHINGTON, 9th December, 1825. DEAR SIR: The disability of Clark McPherrin consists in the loss of both his legs; they were amputated about four inches below the knee, of course he is almost helpless. He is of the most correct moral deportment, and before this dreadful misfortune, was a young man of much promise. He is without property, and the trade of a tanner, which he learned, is now of no use to him. I sincerely hope his case may receive the favorable decision of Congress: With great respect, I am your obedient servant, General JAMES NOBLE. MEMORIAL OF William King, of Alabama, COMPLAINING THAT THE RANK OF COLONEL IN THE ARMY HAS BEEN UNJUSTLY WITHHELD FROM HIM, AND PRAYING THAT SAME MAY BE RESTORED TO HIM, &c. DECEMBER 19, 1825. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. WASHINGTON: PRINTED BY GALES & SEATON. |