The House being equally divided,

The Speaker voted in the negative, and so the amendment did not prevail.

The amendments to the said bill being further amended, they were again read at the Clerk's table and severally concurred in by the House.

Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed and read a third time on Monday next.

The Speaker laid before the House a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the petition of Samuel Dale, which was ordered to lie on the table.

And then the House adjourned.

MONDAY, February 3, 1816.

Mr. Parris presented a petition of sundry merchants and other inhabitants of Bath, in the District of Maine, complaining of the operations of the recent regulations of some of the European nations in relation to their colonial trade, by which they are deprived of their usual and just participation in foreign commerce, and praying that such countervailing regulations may be adopted in the premises as will remedy the evils of which they complaim; which petition was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Pitkin presented a similar petition from the merchants and other inhabitants of the city and county of Hartford, in the State of Connecticut; which was also ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Taylor, of N. Y. presented a petition of

sundry manufacturers of bar iron in the State of New-York, praying that additional duties may be imposed on foreign iron imported into the United States.

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

Mr. Brooks presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Victor, in the State of New-York. 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 the town of Southampton in Massachusetts.

Mr. Hopkinson presented a petition of "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race, praying that further measures may be adopted for the protection of the rights of free negroes.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee appointed on that part of the President's message which relates to the African slave trade.

Mr. Wm. Wilson presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the village of Meadsville and its vicinity. in the county of Bradford, and State of 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. Darlington presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania, complaining of the many and great impositions to which they are subjected, in consequence of the number of unjust, absurd and frivolous patents which have been granted to a set of speculators, and praying that

additional restrictions may be imposed on the issuing of patents.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Chappell presented a petition of William Young, praying for an increase of his pension.

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

Mr. Lattimore presented a petition of J. Remson, Holmes & Co. merchants, of the city of Natchez, in the Mississippi Territory, praying for a remission of the duties secured by them to be paid in New Orleans, on a cargo of merchandise imported therein, which said merchandise was accidentally destroyed by fire on its passage from New-Orleans to Natchez; which petition was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Yancey, from the committee of claims, to which was committed the bill from the Senate, entitled "an act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin, deceased," reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That the said bill be committed to the committee of the whole on the bill for the relief of Caze and Richaud.

Mr. Yancey, from the same committec, made detailed reports on the petitions of Peter Caslard, Jumonville de Villiers, Madame Montrieul, John de Castanado, James H. Boisgervais and Antoine Bienvenue; which said reports were severally read: When,

Mr. Yancey reported the following bills, to wit:

A bill for the relief of Peter Caslard.

A bill for the relief of Jumonville de Villiers.
A bill for the relief of Madame Montricuil.

A bill for the relief of John de Castanado.
A bill for the relief of Antoine Bienvenue. And
A bill for the relief of James H. Boisgervais

Which said bills were severally read the first and second time and committed to the committee of the whole House. to which is committed the bill for the relief of Caze and Richaud.

Mr. Chappell, from the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, to which have been referred the petitions of Samuel Black, the heirs of Geo. Nebinger, deceased, John Dent, John Armstrong, Maria S. Tyson, Nancy Armon, Sylvanus Townsend, and Asa Lyon, reported a bill authorizing the payment of the principal and interest due on the loan-office certificates therein named; which was read the first and second time, and committed to the committee of the whole House on the bill from the Senate for the relief of the heirs of Landon Carter deceased.

Mr. Hugh Nelson, from the committee on the Judiciary. to which was committed the bill from the Senate entitled, "an act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the State of Indiana," reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That the said bill be committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Harrison submitted the following resolution, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Resolved, That that a committee be appointed to inquire whether any, and if any, what amendments are necessary to the constituton of the United States, to enable the government thereof to adopt such a system of military instruction and discipline for the militia, as to make it a safe and effectual national defence.

On motion of Mr. Yancey,

Resolved, That the committee of Ways and Means, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the duty imposed on foreign spirits.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of goods, wares and merchandise exported from the United States, during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1816, which were ordered to lie on the table.

The Speaker also laid before the House a letter from Samuel Lane, commissioner of the public buildings in the city of Washington, enclosing an estimate of the sums wanting to complete the enclosing and graduating the Capitol square, which were read and referred to the committee on the public buildings.

An engrossed bill entitled, "An act concerning the navigation of the United States," 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.

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

Mr. Speaker-The Senate have passed bills from this House, of the following titles, to wit: An act to amend an act entitled, An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others; An act for the relief of Henry Malcolin; and An act to explain the Act to authorize certain officers and other persons to administer oaths, approved May the 3d, 1798, with amendments to the latter. They have also passed bills of the following titles, to wit: An act directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment; An act making an appropriation to