Ordered, That the committee of the whole House, have leave to sit again on the said bill. And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, January 15, 1817.

Mr. Brown, presented a petition of Christiana Ulmer, widow of Philip Ulmer, deceased, praying that the pension granted to her husband ba continued to her.

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Mr. Smith, of Md. presented a petition of Montjoy Bayly, an officer in the revolutionary army, praying for a grant of the land to which he con ceives himself entitled for his services in the capacity aforesaid.

Ordered. That the said petition be referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims

On motion of Mr. Smith, of Md.

Ordered, That the petition of Maria S. Tyson, presented on the 1st of March, 1816, be referred to the same committee.

Mr. Savage presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Warren and Washington, in the State of New-York representing their desire of emigrating to the Mississippi river, near the mouth of Demoine river, and praying to be permitted to locate one million of acres of land at ten cents per acre, and that they may be incorporated by the name of the "Demoine settle

ment,"

Mr. Powell, presented a petition of Mary Taylor, for and on behalf of the heirs and representatives of Nathaniel Taylor, deceased, stating that the said Nathaniel Taylor, in his life time, by permission of the general government, and the chiefs of the Chickasaw nation of Indians, pur

chased lands of and settled among said Indians, and erected extensive iron works and other improvements for the accommodation of the said Indians, which, as the petitioner alleges, were destroyed by fire, through the instrumentality of William Cocke, the United States agent residing in the said nation, and praying to be indemnified for the losses thereby sustained, in such manner as to Congress may appear just and proper.

Mr. Caldwell, presented a petition of George Reynolds, an officer of the revolutionary army, praying for a grant of the land to which he conceives himself entitled, for his services in the capacity aforesaid.

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

Mr Whiteside, presented a petition of John Fowler, praying for a renewal of the patent right right heretofore granted to him, for an improvement in the art of constructing bridges.

Mr. Newton, presented a petition of Copeland Parker, surveyor of the customs and inspector of the revenue for the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth, praying for an increase of compensation.

Mr. Newton, also presented a petition of Philemon Gatewood, naval officer of the said ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth, also praying for an increase of compensation.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

Mr. Thomas Wilson, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties Erie, Crawford and Venango, in Pennsylvania, praying for the establishment of a post-route.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. Johnson, of Ky. presented a petition of

M. Smith, a minister of the gospel, and resident in the province of Canada, at the commencement of the war with Great Britain, and who, from his. attachment to the United States, left that province by which he lost his real and other property, and praying for a grant of land in consideration thereof.

Mr. Johnson, also presented a petition of Philip King, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States, in which he alleges to have contracted permanent disease and debility, and praying such relief as Congress may think proper to grant.

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

On motion of Mr. Archer,

Ordered, That the petition of Mary Sears, presented on the 23d June, 1813, be referred to the same committee.

Mr. Smith, of Md. presented a petition of the sugar refiners in Baltimore, praying that the act imposing duties on refined sugar may be repealed.

Mr. Lowndes, presented a petition of John Haslett, merchant, of Charleston, South-Carolina, praying to be relieved from the forfeiture incurred by him, on account of the importation of a quantity of Spanish rum in the year 1812, which from the taste and smell has been condemned as British.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Yancey, presented a petition of the religious society of Friends, in the State of NorthCarolina, praying that Congress will adopt some measures towards colonizing the free people of colour residing within the United States, which was ordered to lie on the table.

Ordered, That Benjamin C. Bartlett, have

leave to withdraw his petition and documents presented to this House on the 12th January, 1816.

Mr. Sharp, from the committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of Gabriel Winter, which was read: When

Mr. Sharp, reported a bill confirming certain lands in the county of Arkansas, in the Missouri Territory, to the heirs of Elisha Winter, deceased, which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House tomorrow.

Ordered, That the committee of Ways and Means, be discharged from a further consideration of the petition of John Bate, and that it be referred to Mr. Johnson, of Ky. Mr. Hendricks, Mr. McKee, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Jewett, Mr Cady, and Mr. Creighton.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the acting Secretary of War, transmitting lists of the clerks employed in the various offices of the War Department, during the year 1816, with the salary allowed to each, which were ordered to lie on the table.

On the motion of Mr. Pickering, (pursuant to the notice of yesterday.)

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in "a bill further to regulate the Territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to Congress," and that Mr. Pickering, Mr. Grosvenor, and Mr. Hugh Nelson, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

On motion of Mr. Gold,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-route from Oswego Falls in the county of Oswego, to Troupsville or Sodus, in the county of Ontario, New-York.

On motion of Mr. Miller,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of changing the post-route in South-Carolina, from Camden to Lancaster.

On motion of Mr. Root,

Resolved, That the committee on Military Affairs, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing to the legal representatives of soldiers who enlisted to serve in the late war and died before' muster, the same pay and bounty as such soldiers would have been entitled to, if they had been duly mustered.

On motion of Mr. Pickens,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-road from Morganton, by Rutherfordton, in the State of North-Carolina, to Greenville, in the State of South-Carolina.

On motion of Mr. Culpepper,

Resolved, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the pension of Maltiah Turner.

On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Ky.

Resolved, That the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, be directed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the pension list, the following persons, to wit: Clement Estes, Spencer Shoemate, John M-Clure, Robert Worrell, Henry. Doherty, George Hendricks, William Limon, William Wilson, Le Roy Jones, William Carter, John Hinkson, William English, and Thomas Ed

wards.

Mr. Pickering, from the committee for that pur pose. by leave of the House. reported "a bin