OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE UNITED STATES:

BEING

THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS;

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 4, 1843,

IN THE SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:
PRINTED BY BLAIR AND RIVES.

1844.

JOURNAL

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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in the sixtyeighth year of the Independence of the said States, being the First Session of the TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of Government of the United States.'

On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, the following named members of the House of Representatives appeared and took their seats, viz: From the State of

Joshua Herrick,

Robert P. Dunlap, MAINE - - -

Luther Severance, (Hannibal Hamlin. Edmund Burke,

John R. Reding,
New HAMPSHIRE

Moses Norris, jr.,
(John P. Hale.
Robert C. Winthrop,
Daniel P. King,

William Parmenter,
MASSACHUSETTS

Charles Hudson,
John Quincy Adams,
Henry Williams,
(Joseph Grinnell.

SHenry Y. Cranston,
RHODE ISLAND ·

Elisha R. Potter.

Thomas H. Seymour,

j John Stewart, CONNECTICUT .

George S. Catlin,
Samuel Simons.
Solomon Foot,

| Jacob Collamer, VERMONT

George P. Marsh,
(Paul Dillingham, jr.

' Selah B. Strong, NEW YORK

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Henry C. Murphy,

From the State of

rJ. Phillips Phenix,
William B. Maclay,
Moses G. Leonard,
Hamilton Fish,
Joseph H. Anderson,
Richard D. Davis,

James G. Clinton,
ПАТИЯ

Jeremiah Russell,
Zadock Pratt,
David L. Seymour,

Daniel D. Barnard,
'ETA

Charles Rogers,

Lemuel Stetson,
iden 20 ad Chesselden Ellis,

Charles S. Benton,
New YORK_(Continued) bab j Preston King,
NEW YORK (commea)

Orville Hungerford,
ambil Samuel Beardsley,

Jeremiah E. Cary, mi2003 o yd Smith M. Purdy, MEBLE B

| Orville Robinson,
Todo Horace Wheaton,

George Rathbun,
| Amasa Dana,
Byram Green,
Thomas J. Patterson,

Charles H. Carroll,
melodia

| William S. Hubbell, all but Asher Tyler, ball

William A. Moseley, 1 200 | Albert Smith,

H a Washington Hunt.
T

o do Lucius Q. C. Elmer,

George Sykes, New JERSEY

Isaac G. Farlee, moabranu Littleton Kirkpatrick, Donad William Wright. 2

CEdward J. Morris, onha qello

Joseph R. Ingersoll, M Y W John T. Smith, 01109

Charles J. Ingersoll, ved at Jacob S. Yost, de

Michael H. Jenks, . By Abraham R. McIlvaine, PENNSYLVANIA Sn ow Jeremiah Brown,

on John Ritter,
Toma do Richard Brodhead,

Benjamin A. Bidlack, dignillid Almon H. Read,

Henry Frick,

Alexander Ramsey, dia

(Henry Nes,

From the State of

James Black,
James Irvin,
Henry D. Foster,

John Dickey,
PENNSYLVANIA—(Continued) .

William Wilkins,
Samuel Hays,
Charles M. Read,

(Joseph Buffington. DELAWARE

George B. Rodney.
Archibald Atkinson,
George C. Dromgoole,
Walter Coles,
Edmund W. Hubard,
Thomas W. Gilmer,

John W. Jones,
VIRGINIA

Henry A. Wise,
Willoughby Newton,
Samuel Chilton,
William Lucas,
William Taylor,
Augustus A. Chapman,
| George W. Hopkins,
| Lewis Steenrod.

Thomas L. Clingman,
Daniel M. Barringer,
David S. Reid,

Edmund Deberry,
NORTH CAROLINA

Romulus M. Saunders,
James J. McKay,
Archibald H. Arrington,
(Kenneth Rayner.
James A. Black,
Richard F. Simpson,

Joseph A. Woodward, SOUTH CAROLINA

John Campbell,
Isaac E. Holmes,
(R. Barnwell Rhett.
Hugh A. Haralson,

Absalom H. Chappell, GEORGIA

John H. Lumpkin,
Howell Cobb,
William H. Stiles.
rLinn Boyd,
Willis Green,
George A. Caldwell,

James Stone,
KENTUCKY

John White,
William P. Thomasson,
Garrett Davis,

Richard French,
| John W. Tibbatts.