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THE

HISTORICAL REGISTER

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

PART I.

FOR 1814.

EDITED BY

T. H. PALMER.

VOL. III.

PHILADELPHIA,

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. PALMER,

NO. 201, CHESNUT STREET.

1814.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.-§ 1. Meeting of congress. 2. President's message. 3.

Confidential message. 4. The embargo. 5. Mr. King's resolutions.

7. Exemption in favour of

6. Indulgence to embargoed coasters.

Nantucket. 8. Motions for suspension and repeal of the embargo. 9.

Repeal of the restrictive system recommended by the president. 10.

Report of the committee of foreign relations. 11. Debate on the re-

13. Exportation

peal of the restrictive system. 12. Double duties.

of specie. 14. British licenses. 15. Cuffee's memorial

CHAPTER II.-§ 1. Bill for encouraging enlistments. 2. Debate on

its passage.

3. Increase and organization of the army. 4. The mi-

litia. 5. Augmentation of the marine corps. 6. Officers in the flo-

tilla. 7. Additional navy pay. 8. Bounty for prisoners. 9. Navy and

privateer pensions. 10. Purchase of the squadron captured on lake

Erie. 11. Tribute to valour. 12. Increase of the navy. 13. Steam

frigates

CHAPTER III.-§ 1. Treasury report. 2. Eppes' introductory speech

on the loan bill. 3. Pitkin's reply. 4. Arrangement of the debate

on the loan bill. 5. Finances of the union. 6. Causes of the war,

and justice of its continuance. 7. Naturalization and allegiance. 8.

Offensive and defensive war. 9. Rights and duties of opposition. 10.

Treasury note bill

CHAPTER IV.-§ 1. Deficit in the revenue. 2. National bank. 3. New

taxes. 4. National bank postponed. 5. Assumption of the direct

tax. 6. Duty on distilled spirits. 7. Licenses to retailers. 8. Duty

on sales at auction. 9. Compromise of the Yazoo claims. 10. Loui-

siana land claims. 11. Liquidation of Florida claims. 12. Extension

of credit to land purchasers. 13. Organization of New York district

15. Allowance to

court. 14. Payment of money into the courts.

marshals and district attorneys. 16. Alteration of the judicial sys-

17. Residence of the attorney-general. 18. Regulation of the

post-office. 19. Trophies of war

CHAPTER V.-§ 1. Enquiry into the failure of the campaign. 2. Re-

port of the secretary of war. 3. Motion for a committee of enquiry.

4. Enquiry respecting retaliation. 5. Report of the secretary of

state. 6. Resolution respecting the vacancy in the treasury depart-

ment. 7. Vacancies in the departments. 8. Gore's resolutions.__9.

Amendments to the constitution. 10. Hanson's resolutions.

berts' resolutions. 12. Webster's resolutions

CHAPTER VI.-§ 1. Rejection of the Russian mediation. 2. Motion for

papers relative to it. 3. Abstract of those documents. 4. Motion for

a suspension of military operations. 5. Resignation of the speaker.

6. Relations with France. 7. Organization of the navy department.

8. Appropriations. 9. Adjournment of congress

tem.

Message from the president of the United States to both houses of con-
gress at the commencement of the second session of the 13th con-

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