and owned wholly or in part by citizens thereof, shall enter into bond to the collector, with sufficient security, prior to the clearing out the same, in double the amount of the value of the vessel and cargo on board, including her armament, that the said ship or vessel shall not be employed either by the owners or by any person to whom they may sell, or pretend to sell the same, in cruising or committing hostilities upon the subjects, citizens, or property of any power, or state, with whom the United States are at peace.

A motion was made by Mr. Dickens, to extend the amendment of Mr. Forsyth, so as to embrace "by the owners," which motion was rejected by the House.

The amendment proposed yesterday by Mr. Forsyth, to the said second section, was then agreed to by the House.

The first section of the said bill, is in the following words:

That if any citizen of the limits of the same, fit out

SEC. 1. Be it further enacted, United States shall, within the and arm, or attempt to fit out and arm, or procure to be fitted out and armed, or shall knowingly aid or be concerned in the fitting out and arming any private ship or vessel of war, or sell the said vessel, or contract for the sale of the said vessel to be delivered in the United States, or elsewhere, to the purchaser, with intent or previous knowledge that the said vessel shall, or will be employed to cruise or commit hostilities upon the subjects, citizens, or property, of any prince or state with whom the United States are at peace, such persons so offending shall, ou conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding teu thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding ten years, and the trial of such offence shall either be in the district of the United States, wherein the vessel was fitted out and armed, or in that wherein the contract of sale was made.

A motion was made by Mr. Calhoun, to amend the said section, by striking out the words “or elsewhere."

And the question being taken thereon,

It was determined in the negative.

A motion was made by Mr. Ward, of Mass. to amend the fourth section by inserting after the word "vessel" where it first occurs, the words "owned by a belligerant," and after the word vessel where it occurs the second time, the words "owned as aforeaid."

And the question being taken thercon,

It was determined in the negative.

A motion was made by Mr. Ingham, to strike out the word ten" between the words exceeding and dollars in the first section, and in lieu thereof. to insert the word "five," which motion was rejected by the House.

A motion was then made by Mr Ross, to strike out from the second section the word "double," which motion was also rejected.

Mr. Randolph moved to amend the third section, by striking out the word “principally.” and in lieu thereof, to insert" in whole or in purt."

And the question being taken thereon,
It was determined in the negative.

A motion was made by Wright to add to the bill, the following section:

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any ship or vessel sailing out of the United States, under the license of any foreign minister, shall be liable to confiscation aud condemnation to the use of the United States.

And on the question-"Shall this section be added to the bill?"

It was determined in the negative.
The said bill being further amended.

The question was then taken-"Shall the bill be engrossed and read a third time?”

Yeas.....94

And passed in the affirmative. Nays.....60 The yeas and nays being required by one fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time to-morrow.

The bill from the Senate "authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin," was read the first and second time and referred to the committee of Claims.

And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1817.

Another member, to wit: from the State of Ohio, James Kilbourn, appeared, produced his credentials and took his seat; the oath to support the constitution of the United States being first administered to him by Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Hulbert presented a petition of the Berkshire Association for the promotion of agriculture and Mannfactures, in Massachusetts, paying that the aid of the national government may be extended to the promotion of the interests of agriculture and manufactures, either by the establishment of a national board, or by such other measures as in the wisdom of Congress may seem meet and proper; which petition was ordered to be referred to a select committee: And;

Mr. Hulbert, Mr. Gold, Mr. Pleasants, Mr. Telfair and Mr. W. P. Maclay were appointed the said committee.

Mr Wendover presented a petition of the American Society for the encouragement of domestic manufactures, representing the depressed and distressed condition of the manufacturing establishments throughout the United States, and praying that the duties imposed by the new tariff may be made permament-that the importation of cotton manufactures from places beyoud the Cape of Good Hope may be prohibited-that further