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The said bill was then ordered to be engrossed

and read a third time to-morrow.

And the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, January 23, 1817.

A new member, to wit: from Georgia, Zadock Cook, appeared and took his seat in the room of Alfred Cuthbert, resigned; the oath to support the Constitution of the United States, being first administered to him by Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Hulbert presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the towns of Becket and Washington, in Massachusetts, in opposition to the practice of opening and transporting the mails on Sundays; which was referred to the committee appointed on a similar petition from inhabitants of Southampton, in the same State.

Mr. Baylies presented a petition of Elias Ware, a soldier in the revolutionary army, praying for a pension.

Mr. Pickering presented a petition of Daniel Simonds, an officer of the revolutionary army, also praying for a pension.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. presented documents in support of the application of Amistead Whitehead, for an increase of his pension.

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

Mr. Wendover presented a petition of the merchants and ship owners in the city of NewYork, praying that an act may be passed, imposing such restrictions on the commerce of foreign nations with, and on the shipping of said nations entering into, the ports of the United States, as are imposed by them or either of them on the commerce of the United States, or on the shipping of the same entering the ports of such foreign n

tion or nations.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of the whole house, to which is committed the bill to prohibit all commercial intercourse with ports or places into, or with which, the vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. presented a petition of Ebenezer Mosier, guardian of the infant children of Thomas Howard, deceased. late of the city of Hudson, in the State of New-York, who died while a soldier in the army of the United States, praying for a grant of the land to which the deceased was entitled for his services as a soldier aforesaid.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. also presented a petition of sundry officers and privates of the 17th regiment of Kentucky militia, commanded by colonel Francisco, which said regiment was called into actual service for six months, but before the expiration of that term, they were discharged, and praying to be allowed pay for the said term of six

months.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Robertson presented a petition of Samuel Harper, Register of the Land Office for the Eastern district of Louisiana, praying compensation for his services in bringing to the city of Washing ton, the report on the claims to land in the said district.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. from the committee to which was referred the letter and report of the Acting Secretary of War, on the application of major-gencral William H. Harrison, respecting his expenditures of public money while commanding

the North Western army, made a report thereon, stating that the committee are unanimously of opinoin that general Harrison stands above suspicion as to his having had any pecuniary or improper connexion with the officers of the commissariat for the supply of his army; that he did not wantonly or improperly interfere with the rights of the contractors, and that in his whole conduct, as the commander of the said army, he was governed by a laudable zeal for, and devotion to, the public service and interest. Which said report was read and considered: Whereupon, it was,

Ordered, That the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject, and that the papers be transmitted to the Department of War.

Mr. Clark, of N. Y. from the committee to which were referred the memorials and petitions of the inhabitants of the town of Buffalo and of the Niagara frontier claiming indemnification for property destroyed by the enemy during the late war with Great Britain, made a detailed report, which was read: When,

Mr. Clark, by leave of the House, reported a bill for the relief of certain sufferers in the late war between the United States and Great Britain; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-mor

row.

Mr. H. Nelson, from the committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill to appoint an additional judge for the Mississippi Territory, and for other purposes; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Herbert, from the committee appointed on the petition of John Darnall, by leave of the

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