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

Mr. Kent, presented a petition of the manufacturers of bar iron, in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties, in the State of New-York, praying that additional duties may be imposed on that article imported into the United States.

Mr. Savage, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of St. Lawrence, aforesaid, praying that the county of Franklin, may be attached to the collection district of Oswegatchie, and that Alexander Richards, the collector of the customs for the said district, may be removed from office, and a certain John Scott, appointed in his place.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures. On motion of Mr. Reed,

Ordered, That the petition of Seth Nickerson, and others, presented on the 1st of April, 1816, be referred to the same committee.

Mr. Clayton, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the United States, expressive of their satisfaction at the recommendation to Congress, by the President of the United States, of the subject of an uniformity in weights and measures, and praying that this important subject may not be suffered to languish, but that it may be carried into effect with as much expedition as its nature will admit, and as its value and merits to the people of the present and future generations require.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee upon the subject of Weights and

Measures.

Mr. Tate, presented a petition of Robert Mitchill, praying for a pension, which was referred to

the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Smith, of Va. presented a petition of Henry Steed, late a captain of militia in the service of the United States, praying to be allowed and paid the amount of his expenditure, for five days subsistence of the company under his command.

Mr. McCoy presesented a petition of Moses McClintie, late a lieutenant of militia in the service of the United States, praying to be allowed his pay, while sick and on furlough.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Secretary of War.

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

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill for the admission of the western part of the said Territory into the Union, as a State.

Mr. Lattimore, presented a petition of the trustees of Jefferson college, in the Mississippi Territory, praying to be permitted to sell a part of the lands belonging to said college, for the purpose of investing the proceeds thereof in United States, or Bank stock.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Clarke, of N. C. from the committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of Peter Snyder, which was read and the resolution therein contained was concurred in by the House as follows:

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted.

On motion of Mr. Findley,

Resolved, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the pensions of Barnabas M'Guire, and Thomas May, soldiers of the revolutionary war, whose wounds have become worse and their debility increased by age. On motion of Mr. Lyon,

Resolved, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Clains, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the payment to the present holder, the amount of a loan-office certificate No. 9,948, signed by Samuel Hillegas, and countersigned by J. Lawrence, and bearing date January 10th, 1780, which certificate has never been paid.

On motion of Mr. Thomas,

Resolved, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be instructed to inquire into the propriety of placing Jesse M'Annally, of Tennessee, on the pension roll.

On motion of Mr. Reynolds,

Resolved, That the committee on the Public Lands, be instructed to inquire into the expediency and policy of amending the act entitled, "An act relating to settlers on the lands of the United States," so that all settlers on public lands who have not leased from the United States, shall remain thereon in peaceable possession one year, from the expiration of the existing law; and also, to inquire into the policy of extending the provisions of said act, to all those who have settled down on the land lately ceded by the Chickasaws north of Tennessee river.

On motion of Mr. Little,

Resolved, That the committe on Military Affairs, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing to all non-commissioned officers and privates, who enlisted for and during the late war, and who served until the end thereof, or who died or were killed previously to obtaining an honourable discharge, their balance of pay and bounty in land, and who, from the causes aforesaid, and various others, did not receive regular discharges, whereby they were deemed to have forfeited said pay and bounty.

The House proceeded to consider the bill to amend the "Act authorizing the payment for properly lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes."

The question was stated that it be engrossed and read a third time: When

A motion was made by Mr. Clark, of N. Y. to strike out that part of the first section thereof, which proposes to repeal the ninth and tenth sections of the act, of which the same is amendatory. A division of the question on this motion was called for.

And on the question." Shall that part of the bill be stricken out, which proposes to repeal the ninth section of the act aforesaid ?"

Yeas..........74.

It passed in the affirmative, Nays 67.

The yeas and nays being required by one fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Mr. Adgate,

Archer,

Atherton,

Mr. Avery,

Baker,

Betts,