Public Acts of Congress. eral lead mines in the Indiana Territory, toher with as many sections contiguous to each shall be deemed necessary by the President the United States, shall be reserved for the ure disposal of the United States; and any nt which may hereafter be made for a tract land containing a lead mine, which had been covered previous to the purchase of such tract In the United States, shall be considered fraudnt and null: And the President of the United tes shall be, and is hereby, authorized to lease lead mine, which has been or may hereafter discovered in the Indiana Territory, for a term exceeding five years. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That George shall have the right of pre-emption to six dred and forty acres of land, including his provement on the river Ohio, below the former ian boundary line; the boundaries of the tract ll be designated by the register of the land ce, and the said land shall be granted to him at the same price, and on payment being made in the same manner as for other public land sold at private sale; the respective instalments of the purchase money shall become due at the same time with the payments on the first public lands sold in that district. Approved, March 3, 1807. Resolution to publish the report and chart of the survey of the coast of North Carolina. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be published the report and chart of a survey of the coast of North Carolina, made by Thomas Coles and Jonathan Price, under the act of Congress passed at the last session for that purpose. Approved, March 2, 1807. Senate Proceedings and Debates. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal-continued. the resolution reported by the committee - Page. 33 60 a bill reported, for the sale and grant of land 63 read a second time 65 further action on it postponed an amendment submitted and the bill again taken up and again postponed ordered to a third reading - read a third time, and passed 77 Constitution, Mr. Clay submitted a resolution to postponed to the next session of Congress - 87 the above resolution withdrawn by the mover report thereon of the Secretary of the a bill reported for the relief of, read, and or- ordered to a third reading - Chickasaw Indians, a bill from the House of Rep- the consideration thereof postponed to the next Contingent Fund, an account of the, transmitted 88 Cottineau, Dennis de, a petition of, read and laid 95 29 Creighton, James, a petition of, praying allowance of drawback - Crimes against the United States, a bill from the read a second time, and referred reported with amendments ordered to a third reading as amended Page. 46 90 91 99 100 103 76 90 48 49 77 31 35 93 read a third time, and passed as amended - 95 for laying out the, transmitted by the Pre- 51 54 54 amendments agreed to, and bill ordered to a read a third time, and passed as amended - read a second time, and postponed 37 ordered to a third reading - 45 Coasts of the United States, a bill from the House read a second time, and referred amendments agreed to, and bill ordered to a read a third time, and passed as amended returned with an amendment, read twice, and |