OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the Ter ritory of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and in the seventieth year of the Independence of the said States, being the First Session of the TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of Government of the United States.

On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, at 12 o'clock meridian, the members elect of the House of Representatives were called to order by the Clerk, and the roll of members being called it appeared that a quorum, consisting of a majority of the whole number of members of the House, were present, as follows:

From the State of

MAINE

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MASSACHUSETTS

RHODE ISLAND

CONNECTICUT

Robert P. Dunlap,
Hannibal Hamlin,
John D. McCrate,
Cullen Sawtelle,
John F. Scammon,
Luther Severance,
Hezekiah Williams.

S James H. Johnson,
Mace Moulton,
Moses Norris, jr.
Amos Abbott,
John Quincy Adams,
George Ashmun,
Joseph Grinnell,
Charles Hudson,
Daniel P. King,
Julius Rockwell,
Benjamin Thompson,
Robert C. Winthrop.
(Lemuel H. Arnold,
Henry Y. Cranston.
(James Dixon,

Samuel D. Hubbard,
John A. Rockwell,
Truman Smith

Charles W. Cathcart,
John W. Davis,
Thomas J. Henley,
Andrew Kennedy,

Edward W. McGaughey,

Robert Dale Owen,

John Pettit,

Caleb B. Smith,
Thomas Smith,

William W. Wick.

S Stephen Adams,
Jacob Thompson.
(Edward D. Baker,
Stephen A. Douglass,
Orlando B. Ficklin,
Joseph P. Hoge,

John A. McClernand,
Robert Smith,
John Wentworth.
Reuben Chapman,
Henry W. Hilliard,
George S. Houston,
Felix G. McConnell,
William W. Payne,
William L. Yancey.
James B. Bowlin,
Sterling Price,
James H. Relfe,
Leonard H. Simms.
Archibald Yell.

John S. Chipman,
James B. Hunt,
Robert McClelland.
E. Carrington Cabell.

Morgan L. Martin.

Augustus C. Dodge.

On motion of Mr. Hopkins, the House proceeded, viva voce, to the election of a Speaker; the result of which was as follows:

The following named members voted for JOHN W. DAVIS, one of the Representatives from the State of Indiana, viz:

Stephen Adams, Joseph H. Anderson, Archibald Atkinson, Thomas H. Bayly, Henry Bedinger, Charles S. Benton, James Black, James A. Black, James B. Bowlin, Linn Boyd, Jacob Brinkerhoff, Richard Brodhead, William G. Brown, Charles W. Cathcart, Augustus A. Chapman, Reuben Chapman, Lucien B. Chase, John S. Chipman, Henry S. Clarke, Howell Cobb, John F. Collin, Albert Constable, Alvan Cullom, John D. Cummins, Francis A. Cunningham, John R. J. Daniel, John