The division of each State into districts for the purposes both of choosing Representatives and of appointing Electors, shall be altered agreeable to the provisions of this amendment and on no other occasion”—be adopted. And that our Senators in the Congress of the United States be instructed. and our Representatives be requested to endeavour to obtain the said amendinent to the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved further, That his excellency the governor of this State be, and he is hereby requested to forward a copy of the preceding resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States, and also to the Executives of the several States, accompanied with a request that the same may be laid before their respective Legislatures for their consideration and adoption. Respectfully submitted.

R. M. SANDERS, Chairman.

IN SENATE, DECEMBER, 23d, 1816. The above report being read, was unanimously concurred with; and the resolutions therein proposed unanimously adopted.

By order,

JOHN BRANCH, S. S.

ROB'T. WILLIAMS, C. S.

IN HOUSE OF COMMONS, DECEMBER 24th, 1818. Read and concurred with unanimously; and the resolu

tions therein proposed unanimously adopted.

By order,

JA. IREDELL, S. H. C.

P. HENDERSON, C. H. C.

The foregoing is a true copy.

Test, ROB'T. WILLIAMS, C. 8.

Mr. Blount, presented sundry resolutions adopted at a meeting of sundry inhabitants of Blount county, in the State of Tennessee, respecting the situation of land titles in that county, the grievan

ces of the people in consequence of the conflicting claims arising under the States of North-Carolina aud Tennessee, and soliciting that so much of the act of 1806, as fixes a specific price for the public lands within the said State of Tennessee, and as appropriates certain described parts of the same for the benefit of seminaries of learning, may be repealed.

Ordered, That the said resolution be referred to the select committee adpointed yesterday on the memorial of the legislature of North-Carolina, concerning the said lands.

Mr. Lattimore, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the Mississippi Territory, praying to be permitted to remain on the public lands on which they now reside, until the same shall be offered at public sale.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of the whole House on the bill to amend the act concerning settlers on the public lands.

Ordered, That the committee for the District of Columbia, be discharged from a further consideration of the petition of Daniel Pettibone, and that it be referred to the committee on the public buildings.

Ordered, That the committee on the Public Lands, be discharged from a further consideration of the petition of George Reynolds, and that it be referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Robertson, from the committee on the Public Lands, made a report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Washington and Warren, in the State of New-York, which was read and the resolution therein contained was concurred in by the House as follows:

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

Mr. Robertson, from the same committee also made a report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington county, in the Mississippi Territory, referred on the 13th ultimo, which was read and the resolution therein contained was concurred in by the House as follows:

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

Mr Robertson, from the same committee, to which was referred the petition of the inhabitants of the Territory of Michigan, reported a bill allowing further time for entering certain donation rights to land in the district of Detroit, which was read the first and second time, and committed to the committee of the whole House, on the bill making provision for the location of the lands reserved by the first article of the treaty between the United States and the creek Indians, to certain chiefs and warriors of that nation.

Mr. Smith, of Md. from the committe on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill to prohibit all commercial intercourse with ports and places, into or with which the vessels of the United States, are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade, which was read the first and second time, and committed to the committee of the whole House on the bill concerning the navigation of the United States.

Mr. Lowndes, laid before the House letters addressed to him as chairman of the committee of Ways and Means, by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Acting Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy. respecting the accountability of public officers and agents, and the duties and emoluments of the attorneygeneral, which was ordered to lie on the table.

The Specker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his report in obedience to a resolution of the House of the 17th of April, last, directing him to procure and lay before the House, information in relation to the lead wines of the United States, lying in the counties of Washington and St. Genevieve, and Territory of Missouri, which were referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

An engrossed bill entitled, "An act to amend an act entitled an act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others," was read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the title be as aforesaid, and that the Clerk carry the said bill to the Senate and ask their concurrence therein.

The House proceeded to consider the report of the committee of Ways and Means of the second instant, on the petition of Chancellor H. Sanders and Manuel Judah, and the said report being again read, the resolution therein contained was concurred in by the House, as follows:

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

A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Todd his Secretary, notifying that the President did, yesterday, approve and sign an act for the relief of William Haslett. Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

A message Secretary:

from the Senate, by Mr. Cutts their

Mr. Speaker-The President of the United States did, yesterday, approve and sign an act to authorize a new edition of the collection of laws respecting the public lands. The Senate have

passed the bill, entitled "An act making a partial appropriation for the subsistence of the army during the year 1817." They have also passed a "Joint Resolution to employ John Trumbull to compose and execute certain paintings,"-In which resolution they require the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew.

The House resumed the consideration of the bill allowing compensation to the members of Congress and delegates from Territories, and to repeal all acts contrary thereto :-The question depending yesterday at the time of adjournment, on the motion of Mr. Harrison to recommit the said bill to a committee of the whole House, with instructions to fill the blanks therein, with the word "six-being stated,

Mr. Harrison withdrew so much of the said motion as contemplated any instruction: Whereupon, Mr Pickering moved that the said bill be postponed indefinitely.

And the question being taken-"Shall the bill be postponed indefinitely ?"

It was determined in the negative.

Yeas........53

Nays...... 115

The yeas and nay's being required by one fifth

of the members present,