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INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

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debate on the Senate's amendments to the General and Naval, 617, 618.

for Fortifications, debate on the Senate's amendments to the, 667 to 670.

debate on Senate's amendments to the additional military, 670, 671.

Appropriation for the Military Service, bill amended and ordered to a third reading, 411.

motion to establish a school of practice for Light Artillery, 518; negatived, 519; motion renewed and negatived, 521.

motion to establish a Fort at Beaufort, N. C.; negatived, 519.

motion to reduce the appropriation for the Indian Department, 520; negatived, 521.

bill read a third time, and laid on the table, 521,

motion to recommit, 536. debate thereon, 536 to 546.

bill passed, 546.

522

for the support of the Navy, amended and ordered to a third reading, 411.

Bankrupt Law, remarks on the necessity of a general,
740 to 742
Canal Boats, communication from the Treasury Depart-
ment relative to Tonnage Duties on, 8.
communication from the Governor of New York, 8
referred to Committee on Commerce, 8.
debate on bill concerning, 628, 629.
amendment, 628.

bill ordered to a third reading, 629.
debate on the third reading of, 629, 630.
motion to recommit, 629; negatived, 630.
bill laid on the table, 630.

Chesapeake and Ohio. See Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal.

Chesapeake and Delaware. See Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal.

Illinois. See Illinois Canal.
Champlain. See Lake Champlain.
Cherokees, call for information on the treaty of 1804
with the, 7.

enumeration of former treaties with the, 7. debate on the treaty of 1804 with the, 536 to 546 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, debate on the bill for subscribing to the stock of the, 216.

history and importance of the, 216 to 223.
bill ordered to a third reading, 224.

read a third time, 274.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, motion to refer the bill to a committee of the whole; debate thereon, 487. bill laid on the table, 487.

debate resumed, 516.

motion to commit negatived, 516; renewed, 517; adopted, 518.

debate on the bill declaring the assent of Con. gress to the act of Virginia relative to the, 590 bill ordered to a third reading, 590.

sundry amendments to, and debate thereon, 681 to

bill ordered to a third reading, 683.
read a third time and passed, 687.
title altered, 687..

Claims, Georgia. See Georgia Militia Claims.

683

Massachusetts. See Massachusetts Militia Claims,
Virginia. See Virginia Claims.

Columbia (or Oregon) river, debate on the bill for occu-
pying the mouth of the, 13 to 26.
amendment offered, 26.

motion to refer the bill to the committee on that
part of the President's Message which refers
to this subject, 26; negatived, 28.

bill amended and reported to the House, 36.
other amendments proposed, 36.

fifth section, relative to a Territorial Government
stricken out, 38.

motion to strike out the third section, offering land to settlers, 39.

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bill amended, 150.

abstract of the original bill, 152.

amendments proposed, 154 to 158, 188, 338 to 340, 348, 355, 365.

proposed modification of the bill, 165. debate thereon, 165 to 168.

bill reported as amended, 168. postponed, 189.

resumed, 335.

motion to recommit to the Judiciary Committee,

335; withdrawn, 348.

debate thereon, 335 to 341.

of, 438 to 440.

Fortifications in North Carolina. See Appropriation Bill.

Crimes against the United States, debate on the amend- [ Florida Judges, resolution for inquiring into the conduct ment exempting arson from punishment by death, 348 to 355; negatived, 355. debate on the amendment to punish forgery by imprisonment, 363 to 365; negatived, 365. bill ordered to a third reading, 365.

resolution requesting the President of the United States to report thereon, 734, 735. Cumberland River, resolution on improving the Navigation of the, 212.

resolution laid on the table, 215.

Cumberland Road, debate on the bill for the continuation
of the, 189 to 193.

proposed substitute for the bill, 193.
debate thereon, 194 to 198.

motion to strike out that part which pledges the
two per cent. fund, 198; negatived, 199.
motion to fill the blank with $200,000; negatived,

199
to fill the blank with $150,000, debate thereon,
199 to 212 231 to 239.

motion adopted and bill reported, 239.
other amendments proposed and negatived, 240

vote on last amendment reconsidered, 245.
amendment adopted, 245.

debate continued, 245 to 261.

bill ordered to a third reading, 261.

bill read a third time and passed, 334.

Debenture. See Warehousing System.

to 242

Deposites in Public Stores, bill to extend the right of, 621; ordered to a third reading, 622.

read a third time, 633.

debate thereon, 633 to 636, 645.

bill laid on the table, 645.

House refuses to take up the bill, 696.

Detroit to Chicago, remarks on the bill for opening a

from, 374, 375.

road

bill as amended ordered to a third reading, 375 District of Columbia, resolution relative to the jails of the, 59.

remarks on the Penitentiary System, and on the
jail of Washington, 60.

Drawback, bill authorizing the completion of entries for,

560

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Edwards, Mr. transactions of the committee of last session on the memorial of, 56 to 59.

Election of President, report of the committee appointed
to prepare rules for the, 361 to 363.

debate on striking out the clause from the third
rule for clearing the galleries, 420 to 434, 444
to 461, 490 to 508.

rules read; debate thereon 509 to 515.

sundry amendments, 509, 510, 511.

rules adopted, 515.

report of Joint Committee, 516.

order relative to the reception of the Senate, 522
return of electoral votes, 526.

J. C. Calhoun declared duly elected as Vice Pre-
sident, 526.

House proceeds to the election of President, 526
names and report of tellers, 526, 527.

General Appropriation Bill. See Appropriation.
Georgia Militia Claims, committee discharged from fur-
ther consideration of the report on. 75.
motion to recommit with instructions, 75.
debate thereon, 75 to 82, 564 to 582, 594 to 603
report laid on the table, 82.

concurred in, 616.

Ghent, Treaty of, in reference to the occupation of the
Columbia river, 39, 40.

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Kentucky Occupying Claimant Laws, remarks on the, 366 to 263 Kremer, Mr. letter of, to the Committee for investigating the charges against the Speaker, 522 to 525 Lafayette, General, a committee appointed to receive him, 1.

J. Q. Adams elected President of the United
States, 527.

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report thereon, 2.

his reception by the House, 3.
Speaker's Address to, 3.

his reply, 4.

bill making provision for, reported, 34. debate thereon, 34, 35, 45 to 51, 51 to 55. amendments proposed, 35.

bill laid on the table, 35.

bill from the Senate on the same subject, read a first time, and laid on the table, 44.

motion to appoint a Committee to state his sccounts, 45.

motion to recommit the bill, 45.

motion to postpone it indefinitely, 45.

motion to lay the bill on the table; negatived, 51 motions to recommit, and to lessen the appre priation; negatived, 55.

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INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Land erroneously sold by the United States; bill autho- | Piracy Bill, all after the first section stricken out, 728. rizing repayment for; passed, 6.

in Ohio, bill to authorize the sale of; passed, 6. sold by the United States, cause of conflicting to claims, 616, 617.

bill for quieting, ordered to a third reading, 617.

Maison Rouge, resolution concerning the claims of the representatives of; postponed, 43, 44.

resolution modified; amended; adopted, 68. bill read a third time and passed, 683. Massachusetts Militia Claims, motion to take up the bill providing for; negatived, 616. message relative to, 645.

debate on referring it to the military cominittee, 645, 646; referred, 646.

committee discharged from the further consideration of, 735.

Maston S. Clarke, resolution for the relief of, 536. Message (from P. U. S.) at the commencement of the session. See Appendix, p. 2.

relative to the President accounts, 150.
on the conduct of Officers of the Navy, 164.
on the preservation of the Indians, 371, 372.
on preventing contagious diseases, 623.
transmitting copies of the correspondence with
the French Government, 623.

relative to the Massachusetts Claims, 645. Military Appropriations. See Appropriations.

Lands, resolution on the expediency of exempting the original claimants from taxation for, 69; adopted, 70.

debate thereon, 69, 70.

Missouri, bill reported for marking out a road to Mexico, from, 735.

bill laid on the table, 735; passed, 737.

Naval School, resolution on establishing a, 112.
resolution laid on the table, 113.

amendment offered; withdrawn, 127.
resolution negatived, 128.

Navy, motion to take up the bill for building ten additional Sloops of War; negatived, 6.

[N. B. The same proposition was afterwards incorporated in the bill from the Senate for the Suppression of Piracy, and passed. See Piracy.] Navy, message on the conduct of officers of the, 164. appropriations for the. See Appropriations. Niagara Sufferers. See Property lost.

Ohio Canals, resolution on the subject of granting to the State the United States' lands intersected by the, 590

Lands. See Lands in Ohio.

Order; decisions of. See Speaker.

Oregon. See Columbia.

Pea Patch, inquiry relative to; answered, 520.
Penal Code. Se Crimes against the United States.
Penitentiaries, National, resolution to inquire into the ex-
pediency of establishing, 151.

Pennsylvania District Courts, debate on a motion to
amend the law relative to, 558.
amendment proposed; debate thereon, 559, 560.
laid on the table, 560.

Pensacola, bill for completing the road to St. Augustine from; ordered to a third reading, 547

bill for establishing a Navy Yard at; amended, passed, and sent to the Senate, 738

Piracy, bill twice read, for the suppression of, 169. sundry resolutions relative to, 487, 488. debate thereon, 490.

mode of conducting it in Cuba, 489.

bill from the Senate for the suppression of; read
by sections, 714, 715
debate thereon, 715 to 728,

motion to reduce the number of sloops of war; debate thereon, 729 to 731.

motion carried in committee, 731.

motion negatived by the House, and bill ordered to a third reading, 782.

debate on the third reading, 732 to 734.

bill passed and sent to the Senate; title altered, 734 Postmaster General, resolution requiring from him an annual statement of the amount of postage, 734 Post Office Department, bill for regulating the; ordered to a third reading, 373.

President Elect, letter from the, 546, 547.
Presidential Election. See Election of President.
President's Accounts, message relative to, 150.

motion to refer to a Select Committee, 170.
motion to divide it, and refer his private accounts
to the committee of claims, 170; negatived,

179

debate thereon, 170 to 179. motion to refer it to a select committee, with instructions, 179; adopted, 186.

debate thereon, 179 to 196.

a committee of seven appointed, 186. Prevost, General, remarks on his proclamation respecting the Niagara Frontier, 107, 132, 142, 143. Property lost or destroyed during the war; amendment offered to the bill authorizing payment for, 9. debate thereon, 9, 10.

sketch of the amendatory act of 1817, 61.
debate on the principle of the bill, 61 to 66.
motion to strike out the enacting clause, 70.

debate thereon, 70 to 74; 82 to 90; 101 to 109;
113 to 114.

motion withdrawn, 115.

sundry amendments, and debate thereon, 115, 125, 135, 137, 138, 141, 145, 146.

call on the Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to, 137.

bill as amended, 149, 150.

bill ordered to a third reading, 152.

resolution, requiring information of the amount

paid, and how appropriated, 169.

bill read a third time, 262.

debate on its passage, 262 to 274.
bill passed, 274.

Public Lands, resolution to empower certain states to

tax, 696.

money in the hands of Clerks of Courts, &c. bill for the security of; passed, 737.

officers, bill to secure the accountability of; recommitted, 737.

bill resumed in committee, 737. third section stricken out, 737.

bill laid on the table, 738.

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St. Lawrence, resolution relative to the correspondence with Great Britain on the navigation of the, 735 St. Mary's River, debate on the bill for surveying a road to Tampa Bay from, 547.

bill ordered to a third reading, 547.

Speaker, vote of thanks to the, 739. his reply, 739, 740.

Spirits, bill authorizing the importation of foreign distilled, 686.

bill laid on the table, 687.

Slave Trade, resolution for printing the report of the Supreme Court, resolutions for regulating the jurisdic committee on the, 625.

debate thereon, 625 to 628; adopted, 628. resolution recommending negotiations for the abolition of the, 697; rejected, 736.

on the same subject, deprecating the exposure of our vessels to be searched, 739.

Sloops of War. See Navy.

Smith, J. L. See Florida Judges.

tion of the, 365, 366.

debate thereon; deferred, 366 to 370

Territorial Governments, resolution on legislative provision for the administration of justice in, 164. land taxes, resolution on regulating sales for nonpayment of, 186.

Snow, Elisha, jun. bill for the relief of; ordered to a Unclaimed Stock Dividends, debate on resolution rela

third reading, 630.

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appeal to the House, 440, 441.

debate thereon, 441, to 444; 463 to 486.

479

tive to holders of 591, to 593. resolution laid on the table, 593.

Virginia Claims for advances during the late war; referred to the Committee of Claims, 12, 13. debate on bill for payment of interest due on, 630

amendment; negatived; renewed, 630.
bill ordered to a third reading, 667.

to 667

Warehousing System, resolution calling for information on the; laid on the table, 713, 714, resolution adopted, 735.

Western Armory, resolution on the location of a; laid on the table, 687. Western National Road.

See Cumberland Road.

motion to refer it and the accompanying docu- Wrecks on the coast of Florida, bill concerning, order

ment to a committee of nine, 441.

motion to postpone; negatived, 479.

motion to postpone indefinitely, 479 to 483; negatived, 485.

motion to refer to a select committee, 482; adopted, 486.

a committee of seven appointed, 486.

report of the committee, 522.

letter of Mr. Kremer, relative to, 522 to 525. decision on renewing an argument in the House in reply to one used in committee of the whole, 510.

ed to a third reading, 697.

Yeas and Nays on the bill making provision for General Lafayette, 55.

for the relief of the Niagara sufferers, 145, 274
for subscribing to the Delaware and Chesapeake
Canal, 223, 333.

for extending the Cumberland Road, 261, 334
on the Speaker's Appeal to the House, 484, 486
on the bill relative to the Virginia Claims, 667.
to incorporate the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, 687.

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Lafayette, Gen. resolution of the General Assembly of | Piracy, report of the Committee of Foreign Relations in Indiana in refererce to, 82.

Laws. See Acts.

Letters from Mr. Rush to Mr. Adams, 8 to 12; 18, 23, 24.

Mr. Huskisson to Mr. Rush, 18.
Mr. Canning to Mr. Addington, 18.
Mr. Addington to Mr. Adams, 21, 26.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Rush, 22, 25.
Mr. Canning to Mr. Rush, 24.
Mr. Rush to Mr. Canning, 25.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Addington, 27.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Sheldon, 41.
Count de Menou to Mr. Adams, 42.
Mr. Adams to Count de Menou, 42.
Mr. Sheldon to Mr. Adams, 42.

Mr. Sheldon to Viscount Chateaubriand, 43.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Brown, 43, to 45.

Mr. Brown to Mr. Adams, 43, 44, 45, 46.
Mr. Brown to M. de Chateaubriand, 44.
Vt. de Chateaubriand to Mr. Brown, 44.
Mr. Brown to Baron de Damas, 46.

Comptroller of the Treasury on Canal Boats, 47, 48
Mr. Z. Bermudez to Mr. Nelson, 51.

Mr. Everett to Mr. Adams, 66, 70, 71, 72.
Mr. Everett to Baron de Nagell, 67, 68, 70.
Baron de Nagell to Mr. Everett, 67.

Mr. Adams to Mr. Everett, 69.

Mr. Everett to the Chevalier Reinhold, 72.
Mr. Reinhold to Mr. Everett, 72.

the H. of R. on, 49 to 51.

letter from Mr. Z. Bermudez, to Mr. Nelson on,

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Reinhold, Mr. letter to Mr. Everett from, 72.

Reports of committee of the H. of R. on the Slave Trade,
20, 21; 73 to 75

the Secretary of War, 27 to 30.
Maj. Gen. Brown, 30, 31.

from the Engineer Department, 31, to 33.

of the Secretary of the Navy, 33 to 35.
of the Postmaster General, 35 to 36.

of the Postmaster General,on a post route from
New Orleans, 36, 37.

of the Secretary of the Treasury, annual, 37 to 41 of committees on Piracy. See Piracy.

of the Navy Department, 52 to 56.

of War, on the Indians, 57 to 59.

from the Office of Indian Affairs, 59 to 63.

of the Committee of Ways and Means on the PubIc Debt, 72, 73.

of the Committee on Roads and Canals, 75 to 81. Roads and Canals, report on, 75 to 81.

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, Rush, Mr. letters to Mr. Adams from, 8 to 12, 18, 23, 24,

list of, 1.

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Mr. Canning, 25.
Russia, convention with, 65, 66.

Senate, proceedings of the, on the convention with G.
Secretary of State. See Adams, Mr.
Sheldon, Mr. letter to Mr. Adams from, 42.
Britain, 17, 19, 21, 22.
to Viscount de Chateaubriand, 43.

Slave Trade, convention between the United States and
Great Britain for the suppression of the, 12 to 14
British counter projet, 14 to 16.

proceedings of the Senate thereon, 17, 19, 21, 22
messages relative to the, 18, 19, 20.
British act for the suppression of the, 18, 19.
reports of committees of the H. of R. on the, 20,
21; 73 to 75

Treasury Department, annual report from the, 37.
War Department, reports from the, 27, 57.

Piracy, report of the Committee of Naval Affairs in the Yeas and Nays in the Senate on the convention for sup

H. of R. on, 48, 49.

pressing the Slave Trade, 21, 22.

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