The petition of Andrew Martin, presented January 29, 1829. The petition of Jean Baptiste Brevelle, presented December 12, 1832.

On motion of Mr. Mardis,

Ordered, That the petition of R. C. Scott and E. K. Wilson, presented December 18, 1833, be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Garland presented a petition of Francis Povet, of the State of Louisiana, praying that his claim to certain lands therein described may be confirmed; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Mr. Henry King presented a petition of Daniel Parker, late adjutant and inspector general of the army, and subsequently paymaster general of the army, praying that his accounts for pay and emoluments in the capacities aforesaid may be adjusted at the proper department, on just and equitable principles.

Mr. Richard M. Johnson presented a petition of William Christy, of the city of New Orleans, late paymaster of the 1st regiment of infantry, praying to be relieved from the effects of a judgment recovered against him at the suit of the United States, and that his accounts may be directed to be settled on just and equitable principles.

Mr. Chilton Allan presented a petition of Benjamin W. Dudley, executor of Charles Wilkins, deceased, praying to be allowed and paid the interest due on a draft drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of Jonathan Taylor, Charles Wilkins, and James Morrison, composing the Saline Company in the State of Illinois, and which draft was not paid for many years after the same became due.

Mr. Gordon presented a petition of Norbonne B. Spottswood, of the county of Amherst, in the State of Virginia, praying to be paid for his services as a surgeon in the northwestern army, commanded by General Harrison, in the late war with Great Britain.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Garland,

Ordered, That the petition of Henry Stoker, presented February 10, 1834, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Garland,

Ordered, That the petition of Remy Poissot, presented May 6, 1834, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Ashley,

Ordered, That the case of the heirs of Thomas F. Reddick, assignee of Lewis Tesson Honoré (or Honoré Tesson) presented January 16, 1833, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Dunlap,

Ordered, That the petition of Green Pryor, presented March 3, 1828, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Bouldin presented a petition of Robert Tucker, and Amy, his wife, formerly Amy Lawson, praying to be allowed and paid the arrears of pension due Benjamin Lawson, deceased, the former husband of the said Amy; which petition was referred to the Committee on Revolu❤ tionary Pensions.

Mr. Sevier presented five memorials of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, viz.

1st. For an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars, to aid in opening and establishing a road from Jonesborough, in Miller county, to Columbia, in Chicot county.

2d. For an appropriation to aid in the construction of a national road, to commence at the most practicable point, for a road from Little Rock to Washington, in Hempstead county, by the way of the Hot springs and Caddo cove, to the Choctaw line.

3d. For an appropriation to establish a mail road from Munall's post office to the post office at Miller court-house, in said Territory.

4th. For an appropriation of twenty-five hundred dollars, to aid in opening a road from Cote à Fabre, on the Washita river, to the Hot springs.

5th. For an appropriation of five thousand dollars, to aid in the opening and construction of a road from the Antoine bridge, on the United States road leading from Jackson to Washington, by the three forks of the Little Missouri river, to the Choctaw line, in a direction to Fort Towson.

Ordered, That the said memorials be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

On motion of Mr. Richard M. Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making a further appropriation to satisfy Virginia military land warrants.

On motion of Mr. Beaty,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making a further appropriation to continue the improvement of the navigation of the Cumberland river.

On motion of Mr. Philemon Thomas,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be, and is hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a light-house at the pass between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas.

On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation to remove the obstructions to the navigation of vessels over the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and to deepen the harbor at that place.

On motion of Mr. Garland,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation of land or money, for the purpose of making levees on the public lands on the western bank of the Mississippi river, from the northern boundary of the State of Louisiana, as low down as the grand levee of Point Coupée, and on the southern bank of Red river, from the mouth thereof as far up as may be necessary, to protect the country from the inundations of that river. On motion of Mr. Hannegan,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a port of entry at the town of Lafayette, or some other suitable point above the Rapids, on the river Wabash,

On motion of Mr. Carr,

Resolved, That all the papers and documents heretofore referred to the Committee of Claims, on the subject of making provision by law for the payment of property lost by individuals in the Tippecanoe campaign, in the year 1811; also, for the payment of property lost by the rangers of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, in the late war with Great Britain, and the six companies of mounted rangers organized in the year 1832, for the protection of the Northwestern frontier, be again referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Ewing,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency (in strict accordance with the policy heretofore pursued) of making an appropriation to improve the navigation of the Wabash river, from its junction with the canal a few miles north of Tippecanoe, to its junction with the Ohio river.

On motion of Mr. McKinley,

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Canals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the State of Alabama to lay and collect tolls on the navigation of the canal now constructing round the Muscle shoals, to be applied to keeping the canal in repair, attending to the locks, and collecting the tolls, and the surplus, if any, to be applied in aid of the completion of the canal.

On motion of Mr. Mardis,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing in the State of Alabama a third district of the United States Federal Court, to be held in the town of Tuscaloosa, to consist of the counties of Fayette, Walker, Pickens, Sumpter, Greene, Perry, Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Shelby, Jefferson, St. Clair, Benton, Talladega, Chambers, and Randolph..

Ordered, That the Committees of the Whole House to which are committed the bill (No. 320) to extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," approved June 7, 1832, and the bill (No. 216) extending the provisions of an act entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," be discharged; and that the said bills be committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. On motion of Mr. Polk,

Ordered, That the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances, and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the estimates of appropriation for the service of the year 1835, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Crockett,

Ordered, That Wednesday next, the 17th instant, be assigned for the consideration of the bill (No. 126) to amend 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 land within the same."

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have concurred in the resolution of this House for the appointment of Chaplains to Congress; as, also, in the resolution of this House for the appointment of a joint committee to di

rect the expenditure of the money appropriated for the Library of Congress, and have appointed Mr. Robbins, Mr. Poindexter, and Mr. Bibb, of the committee on their part. And then he withdrew.

On motion of Mr. Wise,

Ordered, That the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, to which is committed the bill (No. 497) to carry into effect a resolution of Congress, passed on the 29th day of October, 1781, to erect a marble column at York, in Virginia, be discharged from the consideration thereof, and that Wednesday, the 17th instant, be assigned for the consideration of said bill.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, setting forth certain obstacles which have interposed to prevent the execution of the act of Congress of the 15th of June, 1832, "to compromise and finally settle with the trustee of the late firm of Thomas H. Smith & Son ;" which letter was read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Ashley,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of liquidating the claim of Messrs. Shrophire and Ross for supplies furnished the troops of the United States during the summer of 1832.

On motion of Mr. Sevier,

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making a further appropriation to complete the improvement of the navigation of the Arkansas river.

Mr. Jarvis moved the following resolution; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table, viz.

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to this House any information he may possess respecting the burning of the building occupied by the Treasury Department in the year 1833.

On motion of Mr. Smith,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at Portland, in Maine, by the erection of a breakwater, pursuant to the recommendation and survey of Col. Anderson, of the engineer corps, in 1832.

On motion of Mr. Hubbard,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the act of Congress approved February 19, 1833, in addition to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, passed June 7, 1832, that all persons entitled to pensions for any disabilities incurred in the war of the revolution shall have the right to claim and receive the same in addition to any pension or annuity to which they may be entitled, under any act of Congress, for revolutionary services.

On motion of Mr. Pearce, of Rhode Island,

Resolved, That the petitions, resolutions, and documents, presented and submitted to this House at the last session, praying for, and relating to, the erection of certain marine hospitals at places in said petitions and resolutions named, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, be again referred to the same committee.

On motion of Mr. Whallon,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for building two lighthouses, the one on Split Rock point, and the other on Cumberland head, Lake Champlain.

On motion of Mr. Morgan,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce inquire into the expediency of obliging all merchant ships or vessels of the United States, over the burden of two hundred tons, bound south of the Equator, to have on board, as a part of their crew, two apprentices at least, as a means of benefiting the naval and commercial interests of the United States.

On motion of Mr. Adams, of New York,

Resolved, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to Lambert L. Van Valkenburgh, of the town of Lexington, county of Greene, and State of New York.

On motion of Mr. Abijah Mann, junior,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire and report upon the expediency of abolishing the office of major general commanding in chief, and of providing for a fixed allowance, and for a reduction and more equitable distribution of the pay, rations, and emoluments of the general and staff officers of the army.

On motion of Mr. Fillmore,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a marine hospital at the city of Buffalo, New York.

On motion of Mr. Henderson,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the present mail route from Bellefonte to Mill Hall, (Centre county,) to the town of Salina, a distance of three miles farther.

On motion of Mr. Chambers,

Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary to consider the expediency of reporting a bill limiting the liability of the sureties of deceased, removed, or resigned public officers of the United States.

On motion of Mr. Miller,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to Andrew Lawshe, of Perry county, Pennsylvania, agreeably to the terms of the act of 1832.

On motion of Mr. McKim,

Resolved, That so much of the report of the Secretary of War as relates to the joint resolution of Congress passed at the last session, and providing for the construction of a railroad through the public grounds at Harper's Ferry, be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

On motion of Mr. Davenport,

Resolved, That the petition and papers of John W. Godfrey, deceased, late of the State of Virginia, now on the files of this House, which have at previous sessions of Congress been referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and not finally acted on, be again referred to that committee.