to the chaplain, 556.

Petitions, to lie on the table, 8.

President United States, proclamation of, calling an extra
meeting of Congress, 2.

message of, at opening of session, communicated, 3.
pro tempore of the Senate elected, 551.

Public stores, (see Goods and merchandise.)
Public dues, notice of bill designating the funds to be re-
ceived in payments of, 49; bill introduced, 77.

Quorum, House notified of a, 2.

of the House announced, 3.

Revenues of the Government, funds receivable in payment
of. (see Public dues.)

Roane, Mr., credentials of, presented, 2.

Rules, standing, amended, 5.

the prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors at
the Capitol, made a standing, 50.

joint, suspended, 552.

Secretary of the Senate, elected, 7.

Senators, list of, 2.

Sergeant-at-arms, elected, 2.

Slavery. (See Abolition.)

Slicer, Rev. Mr., elected chaplain, 7.

Spirituous liquors, resolution forbidding the sale, or ex-

hibition of, at the Capitol, 50.

State Papers, resolution to supply members with Gales &
Seaton's, considered and adopted, 552.

Strange, Mr., credentials of, presented, 2.

Sub-Treasury. (See Duties, additional.)

Texas, petitions against annexation of, presented, 160,
406, 533.
Treasury notes, bill authorizing the issue of, reported, 9,
considered, 45 to 49; postponed, 49; again taken
up, 50; amendments proposed, 66, 67, 75; or-
dered to a third reading, 75; passed, 77.
Treasury notes, bill authorizing an issue of, received from
the House, 517; read twice and referred 518,
reported 520; amendment proposed 520; nega.
tived 522; passed 522.

Vice President retires from the chair of the Senate, 551.
Vicksburg, port of entry at, 104.

Wyer, Edward, elected door-keeper, 2.

Warehouse bill. (See Goods and merchandise.)
Yeas and nays on amendment to bill to postpone payment
of fourth instalment to States, 30, 31; on en-
grossing the bill, 31; on passage, 45.
on postponing Treasury note bill, 49.
on amendment to Treasury note bill, 75.
on third reading of Treasury note bill, 75.
on postponing sub-Treasury bill, 269; on passage,
511.

on resolution in relation to the expediency of es-
tablishing a national bank, 271, 282.

on amendment of House to deposite bill, 422.
on amendment to attorneys' fee bill, 515.
on recommitment, 516.

on postponing warehouse bill, 519, 525.
on amendment to same, 519.

on third reading of same, 525.

on amendment to Treasury note bill from the
House, 522.

on passage of same, 522.

Allen, Mr., on national bank, 278.

Bayard, Mr., on sub-Treasury bill, 423.

on warehouse bill, 524.

Benton, Mr., on Treasury note bill, 48, 66, 520, 521.
on sub-Treasury bill, 188, 310, 497.

on national bank, 280, 281.

on District banks, 526.

on bankrupt law, 533.

Black, Mr., on petitions for national bank, 281.

Brown, Mr., on fourth instalment bill, 36.

on sub-Treasury bill, 406.

Buchanan, Mr., on the business to be acted on during the
session, 8.

on printing President's message, 3.

on fourth instalment bill, 26, 29, 30.

on bill to deposite merchandise in public stores, 77.
on sub-Treasury bill, 351, 492, 496.

on adjournment, 469.

on attorneys' fee bill, 498, 513, 515.

on warehouse bill, 516, 522, 524.

on District banks, 529, 530.

on bill claims on deposite banks, 555.
on Indian hostility bill, 553.

Calhoun, Mr., on fourth instalment bill, 7, 10, 14, 29, 34.
on Treasury note bill, 47, 48, 49, 50, 75, 518.

on sub-Treasury bill, 184, 186, 187, 188, 243
250, 326, 437, 440, 469.

on national bank, 271, 275.

on warehouse bill, 516, 517, 518, 519, 524.

on attorneys' fee bill, 514.

Clay, Mr, of Alabama, on restoring jurisdiction to district

courts, 8, 9.

on Treasury note bill, 47.

on sub-Treasury bill, 501, 511.

Con.mittee to wait upon the President and inform him of
a quorum, 566; report of, 566.

Committees, standing, announced, 584; motion to release
the, from the consideration of petitions, 592;
agreed to, 602.

Contested election, (see Mississippi.)

Currency, (see District of Columbia.)

Defaulters' accounts, resolution asking information in re-
lation to, 628.

Deposites with the States. (See Fourth Instalment.)
Deposite banks, bill adjusting the remaining claims on the
late, introduced and referred to Committee of the
Whole, 621,

similar bill from the Senate, taken up, 1402.
motion to strike out enacting clause and insert a
substitute, 1402; other amendments proposed,
1403, 1404; debited, 1406 to 1443; again taken
up, 1686 to 1711; amendment proposed, and
agreed to, 1717; bill passed, 1717; amendments
of the Senaie considered, 1719 to 1723; motion
to lay bill and amendments on the table, nega-
tived, 1724; amendment of the Senate concur-
red in, 1724.

District banks, bill to revoke the charters of, introduced, 628,
District of Columbia, bill to restrain the circulation of small

notes in the, taken up, considered, and ordered
to lie on the table, 1541.

Doorkeepers to the House appointed, 566.
Dorsey, Roderick, appointed Sergeant-at-arms, 566.
Duty bonds, bill authorizing postponement of payment of,
introduced, 614; referred to the Committee of
Ways and Means, 615; similar bill from the Sen-
ate taken up, 1397; amendments proposed and
adopted, and the bill reported to the House,
1398; taken up and various amendments pro-
posed, 1398 to 1401; bill read a third time and
passed, 1401.

Duties, additional, bill imposing, on public officers, intro-
duced 619; referred to Committee of the Whole,
substitute proposed by Mr. Garland, of Virginia,
630. (See infra.)

additional, bill (from the Senate) imposing, on pub-
lic officers, taken up, and referred to same Com-
mittee of the Whole as House bill, 1258; again
taken up and debated, 1380 to 1397; motion to
strike out enacting clause and insert substitute,
1397; bill laid aside, 1397; again taken up,
1444 to 1535; amendment rejected, 15:35; sub-
stitute proposed, 1535; debated, 1541 to 1681;
substitute rejected, 1681; bill reported to House,
1681; motion to lie on the table, 1683, carried,
1685; motion to reconsider negatived, 1685;
amendments proposed to, and laid on the table,
1728, 1729.

bill to remit the, on certain goods destroyed by fire
in the city of New York, taken up, 1716.
motion to go into committee on, lost, 1718,
1719.

Election. (See Mississippi.)

Express mail postage, joint resolution for paying in ad-
vance, read first and second time, 1378; passed,
and returned to Senate, 1379.

Extra pay to officers of the House, 1681.

Fees. (See Attorneys' Fees.)

Finances, report of Secretary of Treasury on, 567.

10,000 copies to be printed, 567.

resolution to purchase 300 copies reports on the,
1725; laid on the table, 1728.
estimate of the state of, 632, 646.

Florida war, resolution of inquiry into the manner of pros-
ecuting the, proposed, 640, 665, 699, 737, 764,
1289, 1323, 1404, 1443, 1681.

Florida campaigns. (See Volunteers.)

Fourth instalment of deposites with the States, bill to post-
pone the, reported, 602.

bill (Senate) to postpone the, read twice and com-
mitted, 627; reported, 628; taken up, 631; sub-
stitute proposed, 631; debated, 631 to 639; sub-
stitute withdrawn, 640; bill debated, 640 to
664, 668 to 697, 706 to 737, 740 to 764, 772
to 798, 803 to 915, 938 to 992, 999 to 1061,
1066 to 1103; bill ordered to a third reading,
1104; motion to reconsider, 1104; debated, 1115
to 1135; question taken on reconsideration, and
decided in the affirmative, 1136; amendments
proposed and debated, 1136; amendment nega-
tived, 1143; motion to lay bill on the table,
1144; motion to recommit bill and amendments
with instructions, 1144; negatived, 1147; pro-
posed amendment adopted, 1148; bill ordered to
a third reading, 1149; motion to postpone fur-
ther consideration, 1149; bill passed, 1151.
France, petitions for claims on, prior to 1800, presented,

693.

Franklin, Walter S., elected clerk of the House, 566.
Gholson, Mr., declared entitled to his seat, 1217.
Gregory, Sherlock S., memorial of, presented, 614.
Hall of the House, proposition to alter the, 1728.
Hunter, Mr., appointed doorkeeper to the House, 566.
Indian hostilities, bill making additional appropriation for
suppressing, introduced, 628.

Indian hostility bill from the Senate, read twice and com-
mitted, 999.

Jefferson's Manual, 2,000 copies ordered to be printed, 628.
Mails, (see Express)

Meeting of the House, hour of, fixed, 628, 1718.
Members, list of, 558.

Merchants' bonds, (see Duty bonds.)
Merchandise, bill to authorize, to be deposited in public
stores, introduced, 628.

Message of the President of the United States, at opening
of session, 566; debate on the printing 567.
Mexico and Texas, resolution calling for correspondence
between the United States and, 605.

motion to print extra copies of correspondence
with, 1156, 1372; agreed to, 1378.
Mississippi, concerning the rights of members from, to
their seats, 557; resolution in relation to the cit
tificate of, 629, report of committee of elections
on, 799, 994, 1061, 1104, 1175; motion to lay
on table, negatived, 1215; report agreed to, 1217.
Moneys, public, plan for the receipt, custody, and disburse-
ment of, submitted, 1728.

Mount Vernon, Indiana, petitions of citizens of, for a ns-
tional bank, presented, 697.

Massi, Joseph, petitions of executors of, for claims on
France prior to 1800, presented, 643.
National Bank, petition for establishment of, presented, 697.
report of Committee of Ways and Means on the
establishing a, 801; motion lay on the table neg-
atived, 802; again taken up 915, 993, 115%,
1165; motion to refer to Committee of the Whole,
1217, 1254; report concurred in, 1258.
Newspapers, motion to supply, adopted, 567.
New York sufferers by fire, (see Duties.)
Northeastern boundary, motion to print 5,000 extra of
President's message in relation to, 993.

Officers of the House, election of, 566.
Order, decisions of, 610, 614, 628, 676, 699, 771, 772,
798, 907, 992, 1101, 1115, 1116, 1120, 1163,
1169, 1170, 1221, 1222, 1257, 1271, 1321,
1351, 1355, 1376, 1379, 1684, 1685, 1696,
1707, 1719, 1722, 1723.

Pay of members in specie, resolution of inquiry in relation
to, 583, 585, to 592.

Pay of members, memorial to reduce the, presented, 619.

Pay, extra, to officers of the House, 1681.

Petitions, decisions of Speaker in relation to the call for, 603.
Polk, James K., elected speaker of the House, 566.
President of the U. S., message from, at opening of ses-
sion, 566; debate on the printing of, 567.
Printer to the House, balloted for, 568, 572, 579; elect-
ed, 582.

Privileged persons, seats for, on the floor of the Hall, 798.
Public expenditures, letter from the Secretary of the Trea-
sury in relation to, 621.

Public stores. (See Merchandise.)

Public funds. (See Defaulters' Accounts.)

Public revenue, substitute of Mr. Garland for the plan sub-
mitted by Committee of Ways and Means, 630.
Public moneys, plan for the receipt, custody, and disburse-
ment of, submitted, 1728.

Quorum, committee, joint, to inform the President of
the United States of a, 5€6.

Recess proposed and carried 1101, 1102.
Retrenchment and reform, memorial for, presented, 619.
Rules, standing, and orders, motion to adopt, 566.

propositions to amend and refer to a committee, 582,
583; committee reported, and amendments adopt-
ed, 615, 623; 2,000 ordered to be printed, 628.
additional proposed and adopted, 1355.
Rules, suspension of, for transmission of bills, 1715.
Seminole war. (See Appropriations.)
Sergeant-at-arms appointed, 266.
Speaker of the House elected, 566.

casting vote of, on main question, inexpediency
of a national bank, 1257; on previous question,
treasury note bill, 1322

Specie payments to members, resolution calling for infor-
mation in relation to, 583; amendment proposed
to, 583; taken up and adopted, 585 to 592; re-
port of Secretary of Treasury on, motion to refer
to Committee of Ways and means, negatived 992
Standefer, Mr., death of, announced, 583.
Sub-Treasury. (See Duties additional.)
Sub-treasuries, letter from Secretary of Treasury, in rela-
tion to, 1164.

Texas. (See Mexico.)
Texas, resolution calling for correspondence in relation to

the annexation of, to the United States, 606;
motion to lay on the table negatived, 610; reso-
lution adopted, 614.

motion to print extra copies of correspondence with,
1356, 1372; agreed to, 1278.

memorials against the annexation of, presented,
618, 628, 639, 699, 764, 915, 1355.
resolution proposed, declaring it unconstitutional to
annex any foreign independent State to the Union,
628, 639, laid on the table, 639.

Treasury, report of Secretary of, on the finances, 567.
notes, bill to authorize the issuing of, introduced,
603; taken up, 1153; Senate's bill moved as an
amendment to, 1154; amendment modified, 1163;
debated, 1222 to 1247; amendment negatived,
1248; proposed amendments proposed, 1248 to
1254; bill reported to House, 1254; again taken
up, 1259; amendment proposed, 1259; rejected,
1279; further amendments proposed, 1279; again
taken up, 1300; amendment adopted, 1322; fur-
ther amendment proposed, 1322, 1326, motion
to strike out the enacting clause, 1343; with-
drawn, 1349; further amended, 1349; amend-
ment rejected, 1350; other amendments propos-
ed, 1350, 1351; motion to reconsider an amend-
ment negatived, 1352; amendinent rejected, 1354;
other amendments proposed, 1355, 1359, 1360,
1366; negatived, 1367, 1368; further amend-
ments offered, 1368, 1369, 1370; negatived,
1371; ordered to a third reading and passed, 1372,

Treasury, letter from the Secretary of, in relation to public
expenditures, 631.

estimate of the State of, 632, 646.

statement of assets and liabilities of the, 1153.
notes, motion calling for correspondence with banks,
corporations, &c., in relation to, 1151.

notes, bill from the Senate to authorize the issuing
of, taken up, 1152; motion to pass it by and
take up the House bill, agreed to, 1153; motion
to incorporate provisions of, with House bill,
1154 to 1163, 1222 to 1247; amendment nega-
tived, 1248; further amendments proposed, 1248
to 1254; bill reported to the House, 1254; again
taken up and amendment proposed, 1259; re-
jected, 1279; further amendment proposed, 1279,
again taken up, 1300; amendment adopted 1322;
further amendment proposed, 1322, 1326; mo-
tion to strike out the enacting clause, 1343;
withdrawn, 1349; further amended, 1349; amend-
ment rejected, 1350; other amendments propos-
ed, 1350, 1551; motion to reconsider an amend-
ment negatived, 1352; amendment rejected,
1354; other amendments proposed, 1355, 1359,
1360, 1366; negatived, 1367, 1368; further
amendments offered, 1368, 1369, 1370; negatived,
1371; ordered to a third reading and passed, 1372.
letter from the Secretary of, in relation to sub trea-
suries, 1164.

reports upon the finances; resolution to purchase
300 copies, 1725; laid on the table, 1728.
Tuston, Rev. Mr., elected Chaplain, 602.
Volunteers and others, bill to amend act making provision
for the remuneration of, for horses lost, &c.,
taken up, 1538.

report of committee upon, 1538; amendments to
the bill proposed, 1540, 1541; read a third time

and passed, 1541.

Wheat, resolution in relation to the import of, 639, 640.
Williams, Mr., of N. C., proposed to act as chairman
till the House is organized, 562.

Yeas and nays on resolution to suspend further balloting
for public printer, 581.

on resolution calling for correspondence with Tex-
as, 609.

on amending rules, 617, 623, 625.

on laying on table, report Committee of Ways and
Means, on establishing a national bank, 802.
on referring report of Secretary of Treasury on specie

payments to Committee of Ways and Means, 992.
on putting main question on fourth instalment bill,
1103.

on third reading of same, 1104.
on reconsidering same, 1136.
on amendments to same, 1144.
on recommitting the bill, 1147.
on amendment to same, 1148.
on third reading of same, 1149.

on amending resolution for adjournment, 1173.
on passage of same, 1174.

on laying on table, report Committee of Elections
on Mississippi election, 1216.
on adoption of report, 1217.

on main question declaring a national bank inex-
pedient, 1257.

on adopting report of committee, 1258.
on amendments to Treasury note bill, 1322,
1354, 1367, 1368, 1369, 1370, 1371.
on reconsidering amendment to same, 1352.
on ordering same to a third reading, 1372.
on laying sub-Treasury bill on the table, 1685.
on motion to reconsider same, 1685.

on Senate's amendment to deposite bank adjust-
ment bill, 1724.