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An act for the relief of Lois Mattison, of the county of Jefferson, State of New York.

An act for the relief of Captain John Patton.

An act for the relief of Solomon Russell, of the county of Somerset, in the State of Maine.

An act for the relief of James Gee.

An act for the relief of William Pool.

An act for the relief of Charles W. Bingley, of Charleston, South Carolina.

An act for the relief of William Moss.

An act for the relief of Richard Hargrave Lee.

An act for the relief of Margaret Gwinnup, of Hamilton county, Ohio.
An act for the relief of Leah Gray.

An act for the relief of Mary Campbell, widow of John Campbell.
An act for the relief of Lewis Laing.

An act for the relief of William Gump.

An act for the relief of John Carr, John Batty, and Samuel Stevenson, seamen on board the whaleship Margaret.

An act for the relief of John McAllister.
An act for the relief of James Journey.

An act for the relief of Jose Carxillo.

An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Richard C. Allen, deceased.

An act for the relief of Patrick Masterson.

An act for the relief of Mary Phelps, of the county of Genesee, State of New York.

An act for the relief of Surranus Cobb.

An act for the relief of Elizabeth Betts, of the city of New York.

An act for the relief of Mary Segar, of Jefferson county, State of New York.

An act for the relief of Justin Jacobs.

An act granting a pension to Daniel Pratt.

An act for the relief of John Campbell, of Garland, in the State of Maine. An act granting a pension to Joseph Dusseau.

An act granting a pension to Abraham Ansman.

An act for the relief of Griffin Kelly.

An act for the relief of Benjamin Allen.

An act for the relief of Aquilla Goodwin.

An act for the relief of John Milsted, of Escambia county, Florida.
An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Ruddle.

An act for the relief of the owners of the ship Herald, of Baltimore.

An act for the relief of William B. Lang.

An act for the relief of Amos Hunting.

Joint resolution in relation to the issuing of grants of certain lands in Louisiana.

Joint resolution for the relief of Putney and Riddle.

Joint resolution for the relief of Peter Gorman.

Joint resolution declaratory of the act passed 23d August, 1842, entitled "An act for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.

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Joint resolution for the relief of Lewis G. De Russey, late a paymaster of the army of the United States.

Joint resolution to correct a clerical error in the act approved June 6,

1846, "for the relief of the legal representatives of George Duval, a Cherokee Indian."

Joint resolution for the relief of Sheldon B. Hayes.

Joint resolution for the relief of John B. Denton and Curtis Humphreys. Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to adjudicate the claims of the Su-quah-natch-ah and other clans of Choctaw Indians whose cases were left undetermined by the commissioners, for the want of the township maps.

Joint resolution for the relief of Seth M. Leavenworth.

EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS

OF

THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

FROM WHICH

The injunction of secrecy has been removed during the 1st session 29th Congress, 1845-6.

Message and documents relating to a convention with Russia.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1846.

Mr. Haywood submitted the following resolution, which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the injunction of secrecy be removed from the message of the President of the United States of the 13th December, 1824, communicating to the Senate the convention between the United States of America and Russia, concluded at St. Petersburg the 5th (17th) April, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same, which accompanied the said message.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1824.

The following written message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Mosher, his secretary:

To the President of the Senate of the United States, pro tempore:

I transmit to the Senate the convention signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of H. I. M. the Emperor of Russia, at St. Petersburg, on the 5th (17th) of April last, referred to in my message to both houses of Congress, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same, for the constitutional consideration of the Senate, with regard to its ratification.

WASHINGTON, December 13, 1824.

JAMES MONROE.

Proceedings in relation to the treaty with the Cherokee Indians of the 29th December, 1835, from which the injunction of secrecy has been removed.

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1835.

Mr. White, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred that part of the President's message relating to Indian affairs, and also

*NOTE.-Only such parts of the matter from which the injunction of secrecy may have been removed, as may be found in the Executive Journal, are inserted in this appendix; the documents are therefore excluded.

the memorials of John Ross and others, and John Ridge and others, submitted the following report:

The subject of the relations between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, and the actual condition in which those Indians are now placed, gives rise to many painful reflections, and is one full of difficulties. The committee has thought it would more promote the public interest by devising some plan which would furnish a reasonable prospect of putting an end to these difficulties, than by discussing questions of doubt, and calculated to excite feelings unfriendly to the interests of both parties. The committee has good reasons to believe, that if the President of the United States will continue a negotiation with them in a spirit of just liberality, it will in a short time terminate in a cession of the whole country now claimed by them east of the Mississippi, and be the means of removing them from where they now live, and thus put an end to a dispute which threatens serious conflicts not only between citizens of the United States and the Indians, but between the Indians themselves.

Your committee believes that the Senate can encourage and aid the President in such a negotiation, by offering its advice as to the terms upon which a treaty ought to be concluded.

When your committee come to fix, in their own minds, the sum which ought to be offered for the country now occupied and claimed by the Cherokees, it is believed the condition in which these people are placed ought to be considered, their great reluctance to dispose of the country, the inconvenience to which a removal will necessarily subject them, as well as the intrinsic value of the country itself; and that the United States owe it to their own character to offer no sum which will not be an adequate consideration.

With this short view of this important subject, the committee offer for the adoption of the Senate the following resolution:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, advised and requested, as soon as conveniently may be, to negotiate with the Cherokee Indians for a cession of all the lands now occupied and claimed by them east of the river Mississippi; and that he agree to pay them, in consideration therefor, any sum which, in his opinion, is just, not exceeding the sum of dollars.

The report was read.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1835.

The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs, the 2d instant, in relation to the Cherokee Indians.

On motion by Mr. Knight,

The resolution was amended by striking out all after the word resolved, and inserting, That, in the opinion of the Senate, a sum, not exceeding millions of dollars, should be paid to the Cherokee Indians for all their lands and possessions east of the Mississippi river. The blank in the resolution having been filled with the word "five," On the question to agree to the resolution thus amended,

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On motion by Mr. Poindexter,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Brown, Buchanan, Clay, Clayton, Cuthbert, Frelinghuysen, Goldsborough, Grundy, Hendricks, Kane, Kent, King, of Alabama, King, of Georgia, Knight, Linn, Moore, Naudain, Porter, Prentiss, Robbins, Shepley, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Swift, Tallmadge, Tipton, Tyler, White, Wright.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Messrs. Benton, Black, Calhoun, Ewing, Hill, Leigh, Mangum, Morris, Poindexter, Robinson, Waggaman.

So it was

Resolved, That, in the opinion of the Senate, a sum, not exceeding five millions of dollars, should be paid to the Cherokee Indians for all their lands and possessions east of the Mississippi river.

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1836.

The following message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Donelson, his secretary:

To the Senate:

I submit to the Senate, for their advice and consent, as to the ratification of the same, the treaty, and the supplement to it, recently concluded with the Cherokee Indians.

The papers referred to in the accompanying communication from the Secretary of War, as necessary to a full view of the whole subject, are also herewith submitted.

WASHINGTON, March 5, 1836.

The message and treaty were read.

ANDREW JACKSON.

Ordered, That the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, and the accompanying documents, be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1836.

Mr. Clay presented a memorial and protest of the Cherokee nation; also a memorial of a large number of individuals of the Cherokee nation; severally in opposition to the ratification of the Indian treaty communicated to the Senate the 7th instant.

The memorials were severally read, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and, with the accompanying papers, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.

· MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1836.

On motion by Mr. Clay,

Ordered, That the memorial of the Cherokee nation, presented the 2d March, 1834, with the accompanying documents, be printed for the use of the Senate; and that one hundred additional copies of the treaty with the

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