Message as relates to a re-organization of the Militia, be referred to a select committee.

4. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to Naval Affairs, be referred to a select committee.

5. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to Manufactures, be referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

6. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to an amelioration of the condition of the Indian tribes within our limits, be referred to a select committee.

7. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message, as relates to the uniformity of weights and measures, be referred to a select committee.

8. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message, as relates to a National University, be referred to a select committee.

9. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message, as relates to Roads and Canals, be referred to a select committee.

10. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message, as relates to a revisal of the Criminal Code and a remodification of the Judiciary Establishment, be referred to the committee on the Judiciary.

11. Resolved, that so much of the President's Message as relates to the more effectual prohibition of the African slave trade, be referred to a select committee.

12. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to the office of Attorney General, and to the establishment of an additional Department in the executive branch of the government, be referred to a select committee.

13. Resolved, That so much of the President's

Message, as relates to the subject of Revenue be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

14. Resolved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to an uniform National Currency, be referred to a select committee.

15. Resolved, That the said select committees have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Smith, Md. Mr. Grosvenor, Mr. King, Mr. Baker, Mr. Ward, Mass. and Mr. Darlington, were appointed a committee pursuant to the first resolution.

Mr. Johnson, Ken. Mr. Conner, Mr. Desha, Mr. Ward, N. J. Mr. Peter, Mr. Tho. M. Nelson, and Mr. Dickens, were appointed a committee pursuant to the second resolution.

Mr. Harrison, Mr. Tallmadge, Mr. Blount, Mr. Roane, Mr. Taul, Mr. Hungerford, and Mr. Marsh, were appointed a committee pursuant to the third resolution.

Mr. Pleasants Mr. Betts, Mr. Culpepper, Mr. Lovett, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Stearns, and Mr. Clendennin, were appointed a committee pursuant to the fourth resolution.

Mr. Thomas, Mr. Griffin, Mr. Adgate, Mr. Baer, Mr. Woodward, Mr M'Coy, and Mr. Fletcher, were appointed a committee pursuant the sixth resolution.

Mr. Pitkin, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Hopkinson, Mr. McKee, Mr. Hale, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Clarke, N. Y. were appointed a committee pursuant to to the seventh resolution.

Mr. Wilde, Mr. Wright, Mr. Breckenridge, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Powell, Mr. Birdsall, and Mr. Heister, were appointed a committee pursuant to the eighth resolution.

Mr. Thomas Wilson, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Clayton. Mr. Bateman, Mr. Yancey, Mr. Adams, and Mr.

Hawes, were appointed a committee pursuant to the ninth resolution.

Mr. Pickering, Mr. Comstock, Mr. Condict, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Taggart, Mr. Cilley, and Mr. Hooks, were appointed a committee pursuant to the eleventh resolution.

Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Bassett, Mr. Wm. Wilson; Mr. Ruggles, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Tate, were appointed a committee pursuant to the twelth resolution.

Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Webster, Mr. Hulbert, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Hardin, Mr. Townsend, and Mr. Glasgow, were appointed a committee pursuant to the fourteenth resolution.

On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Ky.

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of repealing or modifying the late act of Congress, changing the mode of compensation to the members of Congress; with leave to report by bill or otherwise.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. Mr. Findley, Mr. Webster, Mr. Bassett, Mr. Pitkin, Mr. Cady, and Mr. Reynolds, were appointed the said committee.

On motion of Mr. Reynolds,

Resolved, That the Secretary of War, be directed to lay before this House, a copy of the report of the commissioner appointed to mark and sur vey a road from Tennessee river through the Chickasaw nation, together with the amount of expenditures for performing the said service.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Cutts, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker-The Senate have passed a resolu tion for the appointinent of two Chaplains, during the present session, of different denominations, onc by each House, who shall interchange weekly, in

which they ask the concurrence of this House. And he withdrew.

The said resolution was read and concurred in by the House.

Ordered, that the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

And then the House adjourned until twelve o'clock to-morrow.

THURSDAY, December 5, 1816.

Four other members, to wit: from RhodeIsland, John L. Boss; from Vermont, Luther Jewett; from Virginia, James Johnson; and from Ohio, William Creighton, jun. appeared and took their seats.

Mr. Vose presented petitions from sundry inhabitants of the towns of Westmoreland, Chesterfield, and Hinsdale, in New-Hampshire; and of Northfield, in Massachusetts, praying for the establishment of a post-route.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

Mr. Parris presented a petition of Daniel Manley, merchant, of the District of Maine, stating that his vessel called the "Sarah," has been seized and libelled for a supposed violation of an act prohibiting commercial intercourse with Great Britain, in 1811, and praying that any forfeiture which may have been incurred may be remitted, for reasons set forth in the petition.

Mr. Wilde presented a petition of Joseph Thorn, merchant, of Savannah in the State of Georgia, praying for a remission of the duties paid by him

on the introduction of certain merchandise in the ort of New-Orleans, in 1815, as the said merhandise was purchased by him, in a foreign port.

out of the savings of a cargo, shipped from Savannah to New-Orleans, and wrecked on the passage. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Lyon presented a petition of David Taylor and Issi Fletcher, praying payment for their services and a re-imbursement of their expenses in curing a sick soldier of the United States army.

Mr. Reynolds presented a petition of William Clements, praying compensation for damage done to his house while occupied by the troops of the United States.

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

On motion of Mr. Hopkinson,

Ordered, That the Report of the Secretary of State, on the petition of William Haslett, made at theast Session, be referred to the committce of Claims.

Mr. Whiteside presented a petition of Mary Coles, who states that she has lost two husbands and one son in the military service of the United States, and that she is now poor and infirm; and praying to be supported at the public expense.

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

On motion of Mr. Lewis,

Ordered, That the petition of William Clayton, presented on the 16th of January, 1816, and the petition of Edwin C. Brown, presented on the 8th of Nove:aber, 1814, Le referred to the same committec.

Ou motion of Mr. Lewis,

Ordered, That the petition of the President and Directors of the Union Bank of Alexandria, presented on the 24th December, 1813, and the re