An act to provide for the punishment of crimes and offences committed within the Indian boundaries; were severally read the third time and pass

ed.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

The bill from the Senate, entitled, "An act to divide the State of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts," was read the third time, and ordered to lie on the table.

The bill from the Senate, entitled, "An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles on certain entries and locations of lands therein described," was read the first and second time and committed to the committee of the whole, on the bill of this House, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same.

The amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill, entitled, " An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1817," were read and ordered to lie on the table.

And the House adjourned.

SATURDAY, March 1, 1817.

Ordered, That Mr. Wheaton, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Miller, have leave of absence from to-day for the remainder of the session.

Mr. Atherton presented a petition of Benjamin Pool, late assistant assessor under the act to lay and collect a direct tax in the State of New-Hampshire, praying to be indemnified against the ex-.

penses of a suit instituted against him for acts committed in the discharge of his duties; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. William Wilson presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Lycoming, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the remission of the duties imposed on the distillery of a certain John M.Connel, for reasons set forth in the petition; which was also ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Root, from the committee on the Expenditures in the War Department, made a report concerning a contract entered into with said Department by Elias Earle for the supply of arms; which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Thomas Wilson, from the committee on Roads and Canals, made a report on the petition of John Adams, 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. Mills, from the committee to which was referred the several petitions from inhabitants of different parts of the United States, praying that the mails may not be transported or opened on Sundays, made a detailed report; which was ordered to lie on the table.

Ordered, That the committee on the Public Lands, the committee on the Post-Office and PostRoads, and the committee on Roads and Canals, be discharged from the further consideration of the several matters referred to them at the present session, and upon which they have not reported.

Ordered, That the select committee appointed on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Knox county, in the State of Indiana, be discharged, and that the petition lie on the table.

The amendments proposed by the Senate to the billmaking appropriations for the support of government for the year 1817, were read and conmitted to a committee of the whole House to-day.

The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the said amendments; and after some time spent thereon, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Jackson reported the agreement of the committee thereto.

The said amendments were then read at the Clerk's table, and concurred in by the House. Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on 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;" and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. H. Nelson reported the said bill without amendment.

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

Bills of the Senate, of the following titles, to wit:

the

An act to provide for reports of the decisions of supreme court, with amendments;

An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the State of Indiana; were severally read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Engrossed bills of the following titles, to wit: An act to provide for furnishing the house of the President of the United States;

An act transferring the duties of commissioner

of loans to the Bank of the United States, and abolishing the office of commissioner of loans;

An act to continue in force the second section of the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage;" An act making further provision for repairing the public buildings, and improving the public square; and

An act respecting the district court of the United States, in the northern district of New-York; were severally read the third time and passed.

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

An engrossed bill repealing the act passed on the 22d of April, 1800, and fixing the command of the marine corps, was also read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the title be, "An act to fix the peace establishment of the marine corps," and that the Clerk also carry the said bill to the Senate and ask their concurrence therein.

Bills from the Senate of the following titles, to wit:

An act to appoint additional pension agents;

and

An act authorizing a subscription for the print. ing of the tenth volume of public documents; were also severally read the third time and ordered to lie on the table.

The House took up and proceeded to consider the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill, entitled, "An act to amend the act authorizing the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the cuemy while in the military ser vice of the United States, and for other purposes, passed on the 9th of April, 1816;" and the amend

ment recommended by the committee of Claims to the said amendments, were read and disagreed to by the House.

The said amendments were then amended: and

A motion was made by Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, further to amend the same by adding thereto the following:

And be it further enacted, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to remunerate the inhabitants of the Niagara frontier, in the State of New-York, for property destroyed by the enemy during the invasion of that frontier between the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and the second day of January, cighteen hundred and fourteen, both inclusive.

And be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefits of the appropriation in the preceding section, who was not either an inhabitant of the said Niagara frontier, at the time of the declaration of the late war, between the United States and Great Britain, or the actual owner and proprietor of some house or building destroyed by the enemy during the invasion aforesaid, or an inhabitant of the said frontier who had removed there since the war, with a view to make a fixed and permanent settlement there.

And be it further enacted, That no person who shall have received any moneys from the Treasury of the United States, for property destroyed during the invasion aforesaid, in virtue of the ninth section of the act hereby amended, shall be entitled to relief under this act for any other or further losses, unless he shall within five days after the first public meeting of the commissioners herein-after mentioned, pay into the hands of said commissioners, the whole of the sum or sums received by him as aforesaid; and in case of his so refunding, he shall enjoy in relation to the whole of his losses, all the right and benefit of the present