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of the United States, and praying to be discharged from his said imprisonment.

Mr. Mills presented a petition of Levi Smith & Co. distillers, praying to be relieved from the payment of duties imposed on their distillery, as they have been unable to use the same, because of the destruction of a part of the said distillery. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Mills presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Hampshire, south district, in the State of Massachusetts, praying that the mails may not be transported or opened on Sundays, which was referred to the committee appointed on a similar petition from the inhabitants of Southampton, in the said State.

Mr. Mason presented a petition of the cotton and woolen manufacturing companies in Providence, and its vicinity, in the State of Rhode-Island, praying to the same effect with the petition of the merchants and manufacturers in the city of NewYork, presented on the 4th instant.

Mr. Moseley presented a similar petition from the manufacturers in the town of Lyme and Waterford, in the State of Connecticut

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

Mr. Condict presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of bar iron in the State of NewJersey, praying that additional duties may be imposed on bar iron imported into the United States, which was referred to the committee of the whole House on the bill to increase the duty on iron in bars and bolts imported into the United States.

Mr. Hopkinson presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania, praying that an act may be passed establishing an uniform bankrupt

system throughout the United States, which was referred to the committee of the whole House on the bill for that purpose.

Mr. Ingham presented a petition of Caleb and William Dobbins, and Sarah Whitesides, late Sarah Dobbins, praying for payment of a loanoffice certificate, and a certificate issued by the government of the State of New-Jersey, for military services during the revolutionary war.

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

Mr. Herbert presented a petition of the President and managers of the Columbia turnpike road, praying for permission to extend the road which they have constructed under an act of the State of Maryland, from Baltimore to the line of the District of Columbia, from the said line to George

town.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee for the District of Columbia

Mr. Calhoun presented a petition of Wade Hampton, late a major-general in the armies of the United States, stating that while commandir.g on the lines between the provinces of Canada and the United States, during the late war with Great Britain, he arrested a certain John M'Connell on the charge of his being a spy, and had him tried by a general court-martial, by which he was acquitted, that said M-Connell subsequently sued him for false imprisonment, and has recovered a judgment for six thousand dollars with costs, and praying to be indemnified against the said judg

ment.

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

Mr. Newton, from the committee of Commerce

and Manufactures, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing importers of goods into New-Orleans, and destined for Cincinnati. to give bond for the payment of the duties, to a collector to be appointed to reside at Cincinnati, made a report thereon, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Lowndes, from the committee of Ways and Means, made a report on the petition of George Simpson, which was read, and the resolution therein contained was concurred in by the House, as follows:

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

Mr. Yancey, from the committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Peyton Short; on the petition of Asa Wells; and on the petition of Charles Williams, which reports were severally read: When,

Mr. Yancey reported bills of the following titles:

A bill for the relief of Peyton Short.

A bill for the relief of Asa Wells. And

A bill for the relief of Charles Williams.

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

Ordered, That the committee of Claims be discharged from a further consideration of the petitions of Lewis Evans, and Howell and Tyler, and that they be referred to the Secretary of War..

Mr. Lewis, from the committee for the District of Columbia, to which was referred the bill from the Senate entitled, "An act authorizing the sale of certain grounds belonging to the United States in the city of Washington," reported the same with

amendments, which were read, agreed to, and ordered to be engrossed, and the bill as amended to be read a third time to-morrow.

Mr. Wilde, from the committee on the Judiciary, who were instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing to the judge of the sixth circuit of the United States, an additional compensation, made a favourable report, which was read and committed to the committee of the whole House on the bill making appropriations for the support of government during the year 1817.

Mr. Chappell, from the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, to which was referred the bill from the Senate entitled, "An act for the relief of the widow and children of Arnold Henry Dohrman, deceased, reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That the said bill be committed to the committee of the whole House on the bill from the Senate entitled, "An act for the relief of the heirs of Landon Carter, deceased."

Mr. Chappell, from the same committee to which was also committed the bill from the Senate entitled "An act to appoint additional pension agents," reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That the said bill be committed to the committee of the whole House on the bill from the Senate, "to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts."

Mr. Ingham, from the committee on the PostOffice and Post-Roads, reported a bill to extend the privilege of franking to the ordnance department and patent office, which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Robertson, from the committee on the Public Lands, made a report on the petition of

Sundry inhabitants of Lower Sandusky, in the State of Ohio, and on the resolution of the general assembly of that State on their behalf; and on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county, in the said State of Ohio, which reports

were read, and the resolutions therein contained, were severally concurred in by the House, as follows:

Resolved. That the prayer of the petition of sundry inhabitants of Lower Sandusky, in the State of Ohio ought not to be granted.

Resolved. That the prayer of the petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery, in the State of Ohio, ought not to be granted.

Mr. Pleasants, from the committee on Naval Affairs, to which was committed the bill from the Senate entitled, "An act in addition to an act for the relief of Daniel T. Patterson, and George T. Ross, and the officers and men lately under their command," reported the same without amendment.

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

The said bill was accordingly read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

An engrossed bill entitled, "An act relating to the ransom of American captives of the late war," was read the third time and passed.

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

The House proceeded to consider the bill "for the relief of certain sufferers during the late war." When,

The first amendment of the committee of the

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