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THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

DURING THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS,

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 7, 1840,

AND IN THE SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOLUME V.

Containing Documents from No. 236 to No. 238.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY BLAIR AND RIVES.

1841.

INDEX TO DOCUMENTS

PRINTED

BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

DURING THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS-1840-41.

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Academy at West Point. Report of Chief Military Engi-
neer concerning the condition of the Military
Academy at West Point. Reports of the majority and mi- 1
nority of the Board of Visiters to the Military
Adjutant General's office. Contingent expenses of
Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States
may be extended to the district courts of the United
States. Petition of citizens of Massachusetts, pray-
ing that jurisdiction over offences committed with-
in the
Agricultural statistics, as returned by the marshals under
the act for taking the sixth census.
the
Alabama adverse to the establishment of a protective tariff.
Resolutions of the Legislature of
Alabama, in relation to the obligations of the States to sur-
render fugitives from justice

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Alden, and Philura Alden, his wife, late Philura Deane. Report of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims on the memorial of Horatio

Allen to amend the motion of Mr. Clay of Kentucky, in relation to the repeal of the "act for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue. "" Motion of Mr.

Amistad. Copies of correspondence relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner

Appropriations expended in the service of the Topographical Bureau. Statement of

Appropriations expended in the Indian Department for 1840. Statement of

Appropriations and expenditures for the War Department during the year 1840, &c. Report of the Secretary of War, with statements of