Wilmington, N. C. W. C. Bettencourt.

Steubenv'lle, Ohio, W. O'Neal.

II. CONGRESS.

THE Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble at least once every year, on the 1st Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law.

The Senate is composed of two members from each State; and of course, the regular number is now 56. They are chosen by the legislatures of the several States, for the term of six years, one third of them being elected biennially.

The Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.

The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people, for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different States, according to population. The 29th Congress is chosen according to the act of Congress of 1842, the ratio being "one Representative for every 70,680 persons in each State, and one additional Representative for each State having a fraction greater than one moiety of the said ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States." The law of 1842 also requires, that the Representatives of each State "shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous territory equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one Representative." The present number is 226 Representatives, and 2 Delegates.

Since the 4th of March, 1817, the compensation of each member of the Senate and House of Representatives has been $8 a day, during the period of his attendance in Congress, without deduction in case of sickness; and $8 for every twenty miles' travel, in the usual road, in going to and returning from the seat of government. The compensation of the President of the Senate pro tempore, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is $16 a day.

TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. THE SENATE.

GEORGE M. DALLAS, Pennsylvania, PRESIDENT.
[The figures denote the expiration of the terms of the Senators.]

Rhode Island.

Albert C. Greene, Providence,
J. F. Simmons, Providence,

Connecticut.

John M. Niles, Hartford,
J. W. Huntington, Norwich,
New York.

John A. Dix, Albany,

Mississippi.

1851 Jesse Speight, Plymouth, 1851
1847 Jos. W. Chalmers, Holly Spring, 1847
Louisiana.

1849 Henry Johnson,
New River, 1849
1851 Alex. Barrow, Baton Rouge, 1847
Arkansas.

1849 A. H. Sevier,

Lake Port, 1849 Dan. S. Dickinson, Binghampton, 1851 Chester Ashley, Little Rock,

New Jersey.

Wm. L. Dayton, Trenton,
Jacob W. Miller, Morristown,

Pennsylvania.

Simon Cameron, Middletown,
Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown,

Delaware.

Tennessee.

1851 Spencer Jarnigan, Athens,
1847 Hopk. L. Turney, Winchester,

1847

1847

1851

John M. Clayton, Newcastle,
Thomas Clayton, Newcastle.

W. P. Mangum, Red Mountain, 1847 James Semple,

South Carolina.

1849 David Levy Yulee, St. Augustine, 1851 1847 J. D. Westcott, Jr., Tallahassee, 1849 Texas.

1849 Samuel Houston,

Lowndesboro', 1847 Thomas J. Rusk,

Officers of the Senate.

1847

1851

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 29TH CONGRESS,

which will expire on the 3d of March, 1847.

JOHN W. DAVIS, of Indiana, SPEAKER.

[The numbers attached to the names show the Districts in each State from which the members were chosen. When no numbers are given, they were chosen by general ticket.]