whole House to the said bill was concurred in; and the second concurred in with an amendment. A motion was then made by Mr. Ingham, to lay the said bill on the table.

And the question being taken thereon.

It passed in the affirmative,

Yeas............100

Nays..........53

The yeas and nays being required by one fifth of the members present,

Mr. Ward, N. Y.
Wendover,
Wilkin,

Mr. Willoughby,
Wright,

Yates.......52.

The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill making appropriations for the support of government during the year 1817, to which committee of the whole was also committed sundry other bills; and after some spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed chair, and Mr. Condict reported the said bill with amendments, and asked leave for the committee of the whole House to sit again on the residue of the order.

Ordered, That the said committee of the whole House have leave to sit again. And then the House adjourned.

FRIDAY, February 14, 1817.

Mr. Jackson presented a petition of Oliver Pollock, praying for a revision of the settlement of his accounts against the United States for services rendered, supplies furnished and monies advanced to the United States during the revolu tionary war, and that the sums now actually due to him may be paid with interest thereon.

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

Mr. Tyler presented a petition of sundry merchants of the district of Richmond, in the State of Virginia, aud of owners and masters of vessels trading to and from the said district, praying that the money's collected in said district, under the act for the relief and protection of sick and disabled seamen may be expended therein.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.

Mr. Fletcher presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Nicholas, and State of Kentucky, 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. Johnson presented a petition of Hannah Allen, widow of Justice Allen, late of the province of Upper Canada, and who during the late war joined the American army under general Harrison as a volunteer, and died in service, praying for a pension, or such other relief as Congress may think proper to grant.

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

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. also presented a petition of Robert Williamson, and Samuel H. Garrow, praying compensation for their vessel impressed into the military service during the late war with Great Britain, and subsequently captured by the enemy. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of Claims.

The Speaker presented a petition of a society of cadets at the military academy at West-Point, called the "Amosophic Society," praying for an act of incorporation, which was ordered to lie on the table.

The Speaker also presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Maryland, stating that it is their intention to run a line of stages from Baltimore, by Frederick town, and over the Cumberland road to the Ohio river, praying that the post-master general may be directed to enter into a contract with them for transporting the mail on the route aforesaid.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the post-master general.

Mr. Hendricks presented a petition of John Johnson, praying permission to cut his mill race through a tract of land belonging to the United States.

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

Mr. Lattimore presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the Mississippi Territory, west of Pearl river, praying that the said Territory may be divided, and that the western section thereof may be admitted into the Union as a State.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of the whole House on the bills for the purposes expressed in the petition.

Mr. Lattimore also presented a petition of Thomas Kelly, praying for a confirmation of his title to a tract of land in the Mississippi Territory. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Newton, from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, reported a bill to repeal so much of an act entitled, "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed April 27th, 1816, as limits the laying and collecting a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem on certain goods, to the 30th June, 1819, which was read the first and second time, and committed to the committee of the whole House on the bill to increase the duty on iron in bars and bolts.

Ordered, That the committee of Claims be discharged from a further consideration of the petition of James Babbitt, and that it be referred to the committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Johnson, from the committee on Military Affairs, made a report on the petition of Ebenezer