Northampton, through the towns of Sunderland and Montague, to Northfield in the State of Massachusetts.

On motion of Mr. McLean,

Resolved, That the committee on the PostOffice and the Post-Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-route fom Union Court-House, Kentucky, to Hopkinsville, by Bellville and Madisonville.

Mr. Thomas submitted the following resolution, which was read and rejected.

Resolved, that the committee on Roads and Canals, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating twenty thousand dollars for the improvement of the navigation of the Muscle Shoals, in the Mississippi Territory.

The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill to amend the act "authorizing the payment for property, lost, captured, or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes," passed the 9th day of April, 1816; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Condict reported, that the committee had made some progress therein, and directed him to ask leave to sit again.

Ordered, That the committee of the whole House have leave to sit again on the said bill. Ordered, That when the House adjourns it will adjourn to meet again on Monday next And then the House adjorned.

MONDAY, December 30, 1816.

Another member, to wit, from the State of NewHampshire, Bradbury Cilley, appeared and took

his seat.

On motion of Mr. Ward, of Mass.

Ordered, That the petition of William Osborne, presented on the 31st of May, 1813, be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Gold presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the towns of Verona and Westmoreland, in the State of New-York, praying for the estab lishment of a post-route.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. On motion of Mr. Wilkin,

Ordered, That the petition of Jeremiah M Cready and Jonathan Brooks, presented on the 25th of April, 1816, be referred to the committee of Claims.

Mr. Wright presented a petition of Mary Bruff, widow of Thomas' Bruff, deceased, setting forth that during the late war her husband invented and set at work, within the navy yard in the city of Washington, a machine for manufacturing leaden bullets, buck shot, &c. which was destroyed at the burning of that yard, in August, 1814, and praying compensation therefor.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Scott,

Ordered, That the petition of Joseph Hertick, presented on the 17th of February, 1815, be referred to the same committee.

Mr. Condict presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of bar iron, praying the duties imposed on foreign iron, imported into the United States, may be so increased as will enable the manufacturers in this country to continue their business.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures. Mr. Fletcher presented a petition of Edward

Stiver, praying for a pension, which was referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

The Speaker presented a petition of the legislature of the Mississippi Territory, praying that the said Territory may be erected into a State Government, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.

Mr. Lattimore presented a petition, a copy of that last presented by the Speaker.

Mr. Lattimore also presented a petition from sundry members of the legislature of the said Territory, praying that the Territory may be divided into two equal parts, and that the western section may be erected into a State Government, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of the whole House, on the bill to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union.

The Speaker presented a petition of John Adams, late contractor for making a part of the Cumberland road, praying for an additional allowance of 3,360 dollars in the settlement of his accounts for making said road, that sum having been awarded to him, by competent judges, in addition to the sum stipulated in the contract.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Roads and Canals.

Mr. Creighton presented a petition of Uriah Barber, William Kendall, Henry Richart, and John Clegman, praying to be permitted to change the locations of lands purchased of the United States; having, through a mistake in marking the

corners of their tracts, located lands different from those they originally intended to purchase.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committce on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Scott, presented sundry resolutions adopted by the legislature of the Territory of Missouri, requesting Congress to adopt some more enlarged and liberal principle respecting the confirmation of land titles in said Territory-to extend the time allowed for recording land titles-to establish two additional land offices for the sale of public lands, and that the right of pre-emption in the purchase of public lands in said Territory may be extended.

Ordered, That the said resolutions, together with the resolutions of the legislature of the Territory aforesaid, presented on the 17th January, 1816, be referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

Ordered, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Thomas Newell.

Mr. Chappell, from the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, made reports on the petitions of John Hoff, Daniel Jones, Jacob Germand, and Lambert Robinson, which were read, and the resolutions therein contained were severally concurred in by the House, as follows:

Resolved, That the application of John Hoff is unreasonable and ought to be rejected.

Resolved, That the prayer of the petition of Captain Daniel Jones is unsupported and ought to be rejected.

Resolved, That the prayer of the petition of Jacob Germand is unsupported, unreasonable, and ought not to be granted.

Resolved, That the prayer of the petition of Lambert Robinson is unreasonable, and ought not to be granted.

Mr. Chappell also made a report on the petition of David Davidson, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Condict, from the committee of Revisal and Unfinished Business, made a report, in part, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Tucker, from the committee for the District of Columbia, reported a bill to incorporate the subscribers to a bank in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, by the name and style of "The Franklin Bank of Alexandria,” and for other purposes; which was read the first and second tine, and committed to the committee of the whole on the bill to incorporate the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Georgetown.

Mr. Pleasants, from the committee on Naval Affairs, made a report on the petition of Thomas I. Allen, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Calhoun,

Resolved, That the committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expedicncy of repealing so much of an act, entitled, “An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War,. and Navy Departments," passed the 3d of March, 1809, as authorizes the President of the United States to transfer appropriations.

On motion of Mr. Lattimore,

Resolved, That the committec on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the pension list Robert J. Lowry, first lieutenant in the Amite troop of Mississippi dragoons.