bian Turnpike Road, within the District of Columbia;

An act making an appropriation for opening and cutting out a road therein described;

An act to provide for furnishing the house of the President of the United States;

An act repealing the act entitled "An act for the safe keeping and accommodation of prisoners of war," passed July 6, 1812;

An act for the relief of certain officers;

An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments;"

An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act directing the disposition of money paid into the courts 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 making further provision for repairing the public buildings and improving the public

square;

An act to provide for the redemption of the public debt;

An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States for the year 1817;

An act making additional appropriations to defray the expenses of the army and militia during the late war with Great Britain;

An act respecting the assessment and collection of the direct tax;

An act more effectually to preserve the neutral relations of the United States; and

An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year

1817; with amendments to the eight latter. They have also passed bills of the following titles, to wit:

An act to continue in force an act entitled "An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the 3d day of March, 1815, and for other purposes;

An act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, and for other purposes;

An act to continue in force an act entitled "An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes ;"

An act to secure, in certain cases, the bounty in land to the heirs of deceased soldiers;

An act to establish post-roads;

An act to amend an act for organizing the general staff, and making further provision for the army of the United States;

An act to amend the act entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States ;"

An act providing an additional compensation to the circuit judge of the sixth circuit of the United States; in which amendments and bills they ask the concurrence of this House. The Senate have received official information that the President of the United States did, on the 1st instant, approve and sign,

An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John I. Yarnall, deceased;

An act granting a pension to commodore Richard Taylor;

An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin, deceased;

An act to enable the people of the western part of Mississippi Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such

State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States;

Ån act for the relief of the legal representatives of Ignace Chalmet Delino, deceased, and Anthony Cruzat and L. P. Duverges;

An act, in addition to an act, entitled, "An act for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes depending in the courts of the United States;"

An act making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber for naval purposes;

An act authorizing vessels departing from the town of the Bayou St. John, and basin of the canal de Carondelet, for foreign ports, to clear out at the custom-house in the city of New-Orleans;

An act to provide for the punishment of crimes and offences committed within the Indian boundaries;

An act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts;

An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive;

An act directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment;

An act to provide for the due exccution of the laws of the United States within the State of Indiana;

An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal; and An act to provide for the reports of the decisions of the supreme court. And then he withdrew.

Engrossed bills of the following titles, to wit: An act respecting the compensation of the collectors therein mentioned;

An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavey and others;

An act for erecting a light-house on the west chop of Holmes' Hole harbour, in the State of Massachusetts;

An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teakle Savage and others;

An act to alter and establish certain post-roads; An act authorizing the payment of money to the State of Georgia, under the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and that State; were severally read a third time and passed.

An act for the relief of Henry Lee; and

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, entitled "An act to regulate the trade in plaster of Paris," was read the third time; and. being on its passage,

A motion was made by Mr. Lewis to lay it on the table; which motion was rejected by the House.

And the question was then taken-"Shall the bill pass ?"

The

Yeas....80

And passed in the affirmative, Nays....39

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

Those who voted in the affirmative, are