OF

MONDAY, November 16, 1818. The second session of the Fifteenth Congress commenced this day at the City of Washington, conformably to the act passed the 18th of April, 1818, entitled "An act fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress ;" and the Senate assembled.

PRESENT:

DAVID L. MORRIL, from the State of New Hampshire.

PRENTISS MELLEN, from Massachusetts. JAMES BURRILL, junior, from Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

ISAAC TICHENOR and WILLIAM A. PALMER, from Vermont.

DAVID DAGGETT, from Connecticut. RUFUS KING and NATHAN SANFORD, from New York.

MAHLON DICKERSON and JAMES J. WILSON, from New Jersey.

ABNER LACOCK and JONATHAN ROBERTS, from Pennsylvania.

ROBERT H. GOLDSBOROUGH, from Maryland. JAMES BARBOUR and JOHN W. EPPES, from Virginia.

NATHANIEL MACON, from North Carolina. JOHN GAILLARD and WILLIAM SMITH, from South Carolina.

JOHN WILLIAMS and JOHN HENRY EATON, from Tennessee.

BENJAMIN RUGGLES, from Ohio.

ELIGIUS FROMENTIN and HENRY JOHNSON, from Louisiana.

JAMES NOBLE and WALLER TAYLOR, from Indiana.

WALTER LEAKE and THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, from Mississippi.

JOHN GAILLARD, President pro tempore, resumed the Chair.

sioned by the resignation of James Fisk; and JOHN HENRY EATON, appointed a Senator by the Executive of the State of Tennessee, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of George W. Campbell, respectively produced their credentials, were qualified, and took their seats in the Senate.

A quorum being present, a message was sent to the House of Representatives, notifying that body of the fact.

A committee was appointed, jointly with a committee to be appointed by the other House, for the purpose of waiting on the President of the United States, to inform him that the two Houses were organized, &c. Messrs. MACON and DAGGETT, were appointed of the committee on the part of the Senate.

A Committee of Engrossed Bills was appointed, consisting of Messrs. RUGGLES, DICKERSON, and MORRIL.

A Committee of Accounts was appointed, consisting of Messrs. LACOCK, DAGGETT, and Dick

ERSON.

Mr. MORRIL offered a resolution for appointing a joint Library Committee, and Mr. WILSON a resolution for appointing a Chaplain to each House; both of which resolutions received their first readings; and, after adopting the usual rule respecting newspapers, the Senate adjourned.

TUESDAY, November 17.

JEREMIAH MORROW, from the State of Ohio; and ALEXANDER C. HANSON, from the State of Maryland, attended this day.

The resolution for the appointment of Chaplains to Congress, was read the second time, considered as in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House without amendment, read the third time by unanimous consent, and passed.

Mr. MACON reported, from the joint committee, that they had waited on the President of the United States, and that the President of the United States informed the committee, that he would make a communication to the two Houses this