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ductory remarks, in the course of which he contrasted the old system of the Pension Establishment with that which had more recently prevailed, advantageously to the former, proposed the following resolve:

Resolved, That the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims be instructed to report a bill, providing that, from and after the 4th day of March next ensuing, no officer, soldier, seaman, marine, or other person whatsoever, shall be placed on the pcnsion list of the United States, except by virtue of a law in which the name of the pensioner shall be inserted, together with the amount of pension to which

he shall be entitled.

The resolution being read

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same; and that as much of the act entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries," passed July 29, 1813, as grants a bounty on pickled mackerel exported, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

The bill was twice read, and committed.

CASE OF MATTHEW LYON.

Mr. MCLEAN, of Kentucky, from the committee made a report thereon, accompanied with a bill for appointed on the memorial of Matthew Lyon, his relief; which, by leave of the House, was presented, read the first and second time, and com

Mr. LOWNDES rose, not to object to the princi-mitted to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow. ple of the resolution, thinking it probable that the The report is as follows: long experience of the mover would enable him to

The petitioner states that, in violation of that pro

suggest valuable improvements on the present sys-vision of the Constitution of the United States of tem, but to suggest, as the resolution was affirmative, and not proposing inquiry merely, that, with a view to deliberation, it should lie on the table one day.

Mr. EUSTIS assenting to this course, the resolution was, after a few words from Mr. RHEA, indicative of hostility to it, ordered to lie on the table.

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Be it enacted, &c., That all acts and parts of acts now in force for the enrollment, and licensing of, and granting allowances to, ships or vessels employed in the bank and other cod fisheries, and for the government of persons concerned therein, be, and the same are hereby, extended, in all their provisions and limitations, to vessels that shall hereafter be employed, and the persons who shall hereafter be concerned in the mackerel fishery; excepting only so much of said acts as fixes the rate of allowance to vessels exclusively employed in the bank and other cod fisheries: and that, from and after the passing of this act, there shall be paid, on the last day of December annually, to the owner of every fishing boat or vessel, or his agent, by the collector of the district where such boat or vessel may belong, that shall be qualified agreeably to law for carrying on the mackerel fishery, or the cod and mackerel fishery, and that shall actually have been employed in the mackerel, or in the cod and mackerel fishery, at sea, for the term of four months at least of the fishing season next preceding, which fishing season is accounted to be from the last day of February to the last day of November in every year, on each and every ton of such boat's or vessel's burden, according to her admeasurement, as licensed or enrolled, three dollars: Provided, That the allowance aforesaid, on any one vessel, for one season, shall not exceed two hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any vessel is intended to be employed exclusively in the mackerel fishery, or in the cod and mackerel fishery, the words "mackerel fishery," or the words "cod and mackerel fishery," as the case may be, shall be inserted in the license by the collector granting the

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America which says "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press," Congress, in July, 1798, passed the act commonly called the sedition law; that, some time previous to the passage of this bill, there appeared in the Philadelphia papers a violent attack upon his character, extracted from the Vermont Journal, charging him with many political enormities, particularly with the high crime of opposing the Executive; that he wrote a reply to this charge in Philadelphia, on the 20th of June, 1798, and on the same day put the letter, directed to the editor of the said Vermont Journal, into the post office at Philadelphia, twenty-four days before the passage of the sedition law. For the publication of this letter he was indicted in October following, in the circuit court of the United States in the Vermont district. In the same indictment, he was charged with publishing a copy of a letter from an American diplomatic character in France to a member of Congress in Philadelphia; also for aiding, assisting, and abetting in the publication of said letter.

He states said letter was written by Joel Barlow to Abraham Baldwin, then a member of Congress. He denies that he printed said letter, or aided or abetted in the printing of it; but, on the contrary, that he used his endeavors to suppress it, by destroying the copics which came into his possession. He states that, owing to the political party zeal which prevailed in the United States at that time, much unfairness was used in the trial, both by the marshal in summoning the jury, and the judge who presided, in his instructions to them, and thereby a verdict of guilty was returned against him by the jury; and upon that verdict the court sentenced him to pay a fine of $1,000, the costs of suit, be imprisoned four calendar months, and until the fine and costs were paid. He states that, by virtue of said judgment, he was arrested and confined in a dungeon, the common receptacle of thieves and murderers, fifty miles distant from the place of his trial, although there was a decent roomy jail in the county in which he lived, and in the town where the trial was had, which jail the Federal Government had the use of; that much severity was exercised towards him during his imprisonment; that he languished in the loathsome prison more than six weeks in the months of October, November, and December, in the cold climate of Vermont, without fire, before he was allowed, at his own expense, to introduce a small stove, or to put glass into the aperture which let in a small glimmer of light through the iron grate.

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He states that he is poor, and asks Congress to refund to him $1,000, the fine which he has paid, the costs of suit, for one hundred and twenty-three days' pay as a member of Congress, while he was unconstitutionally detained from a seat in that body, reasonable damages for being suddenly deprived of his liberty, put to great expense, and disabled from paying that attention to his concerns which, in other circumstances, he would have been allowed to do, and such interest on those sums as public creditors are entitled to.

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charged, to inquire, for the said United States, and for the body of the district aforesaid, did present, that Matthew Lyon, of Fairhaven, in the said district of Vermont, being a malicious and seditious person, and of a depraved mind and wicked and diabolical disposition, and deceitfully, wickedly, and maliciously contriving to defame the Government of the United States, and with intent and design to defame the said Government of the United States, and John Adams, the President of the United States, and to bring the said Government and President into contempt and disrepute; and with intent and design to excite against the said Government and President the hatred of the good people of the United States, and to stir up sedition in the United States, at Windsor, in the said district of Vermont, on the 31st day of July last, did, with force and arms, wickedly, knowingly, and ma

Your committee state that the prosecution against the said petitioner, the judgment, imprisonment, and payment of $1,000, the fine, and $60 96, the costs of suit, are proved by a copy of the record of proceedings in said cause, which is made a part of this report. The committee are of opinion that the law of Congress under which the said Matthew Lyon was prose-liciously write, print, utter, and publish, and did then cuted and punished was unconstitutional, and therefore he ought to have the money which has been paid by him refunded; but, should they be mistaken as to the unconstitutionality of this law, yet they think there are peculiar circumstances of hardship attending this case which call for relief. Your committee, therefore, ask leave to report a bill.

and there cause and procure to be written, printed, uttered, and published, a certain scandalous and seditious writing, or libel, in form of a letter, directed to Mr. Spooner, [meaning Alden Spooner, printer and publisher of a certain weekly newspaper, in Windsor aforesaid, commonly called Spooner's Vermont Journal,] signed by the said Matthew Lyon, and dated at Philadelphia, on the 20th day of June last; in which said libel of and concerning the said John Adams,

The President of the United States to all who shall President of the United States, and the Executive

see these presents, greeting :

Know ye, that among the pleas of our circuit court of the second circuit of the United States, in the Vermont district, there is a certain record remaining, in the words following, to wit: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Government of the United States, are contained, among other things, divers scurrilous, feigned, false, scandalous, seditious, and malicious matters, according to the tenor following, to wit: "As to the Executive, [meaning the said President of the United States, when I shall see the effects of that power Vermont District, to wit: [meaning the executive power of the United States, Pleas of the circuit court of the said United States, at vested by the Constitution of the United States in the their term begun and held at Rutland, within and said President] bent on the promotion of the comfort, for the said Vermont district, on Wednesday, the the happiness, and accommodation of the people, 3d day of October, in the year of our Lord 1798, [meaning the people of the United States,] that Exand of the independence of the United States the ecutive [meaning the President of the United States] twenty-third, before the honorable William Patter-shall have my [meaning the said Matthew Lyon's] son, esq., one of the associate justices of the Su-zealous and uniform support. But whenever I [meanpreme Court of the United States, and the honor-ing the said Matthew Lyon] shall, on the part of the able Samuel Hitchcock, esq., district judge within and for the said Vermont district, and judges of said circuit court, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.

Executive, [meaning the said John Adams, President of the United States,] see every consideration of public welfare swallowed up in a continual grasp for power, in an unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, or selfish avarice; [meaning that, on the part of the said John Adams, President of the United States, every consideration of the pub

United States versus Matthew Lyon. Be it remembered that, at a term of the circuit court of the said United States, begun and held at Rutland,lic welfare was swallowed up in a continual grasp for within and for the district aforesaid, on the third day unconstitutional power, and in an unbounded thirst of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avaseven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the indepen- rice ;] when I [meaning the said Matthew Lyon] shall dence of the said United States the twenty-third, be- behold men of real merit daily turned out of office, fore the honorable William Patterson, esq., one of the for no other cause but independency of sentiment; associate justices of the Supreme Court of the said [meaning that men of real merit, holding offices under United States, and the honorable Samuel Hitchcock, the laws and Constitution of the United States, were esq., district judge within and for the said district of daily, by the said John Adams, as President of the Vermont, judges of the said circuit court, according United States, turned out of office for the cause of to the form of the statute in such case made and pro- having independency of spirit ;] when I [meaning vided, the grand jurors within and for the body of said the said Matthew Lyon] shall see men of firmness, district of Vermont, to wit: Eli Cogswell, Nathan merit, years, abilities, and experience, discarded in Pratt, David Osgood, Ozias Fuller, Royal Crafts, Ab- their applications for office, for fear they possess that ner Mead, Gideon Horton, Abraham Gilbert, Ebene-independence, and men of meanness preferred, for zer Worster, John Mott, Thomas Hammond, Adgate the ease with which they can take up and advocate Lothrop, John Penfield, Ebenezer Hopkins, Brewster Higly, Zadock Remington, Abijah Brownson, and Joel Culver, good and lawful freeholders of the said district, then and there empannelled, sworn, and

opinions, the consequence of which they know but little of; [meaning that men of firmness, years, merit, ability, and experience, were, by the said John Adams, as President of the United States, in

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violation of the duties of his said office, neglected printed, uttered, and published, a certain false, feigned in appointments to office under the laws and Consti- scandalous, and seditious writing, or libel, entitled tution of the United States, and discarded in their Copy of a letter from an American diplomatic charapplications for such offices and appointments; and acter in France to a member of Congress in Philadelthat men of meanness, who are unfit for the exercise phia," in which said writing, or libel, of and concernof such offices, under the laws and constitution of the ing the said Government of the United States, and the United States, were, by the said John Adams, as said President and Senate of the United States, and President of the United States, preferred to such of and concerning the speech of John Adams, Esquire, offices and appointments, on account of the ease then President of the United States, and of and conwith which they took and advocated opinions, of the cerning the answer of the said Senate to the said consequences of which they were ignorant;] when I speech, are contained, among other things, divers scur[meaning the said Matthew Lyon] shall see the sacred rilous, feigned, false, scandalous, seditious, and maliname of religion employed as a State engine to make cious matters, according to the tenor following, to wit: mankind hate and persecute one another, I [meaning "The misunderstanding between the two Governthe said Matthew Lyon] shall not be their humble ments [meaning the Governments of the said United advocate;" [meaning that the sacred name of re- States and France] has become extremely alarming; ligion was, by the said John Adams, in his capacity confidence is completely destroyed; mistrusts, jealousy, of President of the United States, employed as an and a disposition to a wrong attribution of motives are engine of State to make mankind hate and per- so apparent, as to require the utmost caution in every secute each other:] to the great scandal and infa- word and action that are to come from your Executive, my of the said John Adams in his capacity of Pres- [meaning the Executive Government of the United ident of the United States, and to the great scandal States]-I mean if your object is to avoid hostilities. and infamy of the said Government of the said Uni- Had this truth been understood with you [meaning ted States. And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their the people of the United States] before [the] recall of oaths aforesaid, do say that the said Matthew Lyon, Monroe, [meaning James Monroe, the late Ambassador at Windsor aforesaid, on the 31st day of July aforesaid, from the United States to the Republic of France,] bedid, knowingly, wickedly, deceitfully, and maliciously, fore the coming and second coming of Pinckney, with intent and design to defame the said Govern- [meaning Charles C. Pinckney, one of the late Enment of the United States, and the said John Adams, voys Extraordinary from the United States to the said President of the United States, and to bring the said Republic of France ;] had it guided the pens that wrote Government and President of the United States into the bullying speech of your President [meaning the contempt and disrepute with the good people of the said speech of John Adams, then and still PresiUnited States, and to excite against them, the said dent of the United States, to both Houses of Congress Government and President of the United States, the at the opening of their session in November, 1797] hatred of the good people of the United States, and and stupid answer of your Senate, [meaning the Senwith intent and design to stir up sedition within the ate of the United States, being one House of the ConUnited States against the Government thereof, write, gress of the United States,] at the opening of Congress print, utter, and publish, and cause and procure to be [meaning the Congress of the United States] in Nowritten, printed, uttered, and published, for the pur-vember last, [meaning at the session of the said Conpose aforesaid, the said false, feigned, scandalous, and malicious writing and libel aforesaid, containing, among other things, the said divers scurrilous, false, feigned, scandalous, seditious, and malicious matters aforesaid, in contempt of the good and wholesome laws of the United States, to the evil and pernicious example of others in like case offending against the statute of the United States in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States.

And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present, that the said Matthew Lyon, being a malicious and seditious person, and of a depraved mind, and of a wicked and diabolical disposition, and also deceitfully, wickedly, and maliciously contriving to defame the Government of the said United States, and with intent and design to defame the said Government, and with intent to defame John Adams, Esquire, President of the United States, and with intent to defame the Senate of the United States, being one branch of the Congress of the United States, and to bring the said Government, President, and Senate into contempt and disrepute, and to excite against the said Government, President and Senate the hatred of the good people of the United States, and with intent and design to stir up sedition within the United States, did, at Fairhaven, in the said district of Vermont, on the 1st day of September now last past, with force and arms, wickedly, knowingly, and maliciously write, print, utter, and publish, and then and there did cause and procure to be written, 16th CoN. 2d SESS.-16

gress in November, in the year of our Lord 1797,] I should probably have had no occasion to address you this letter, [meaning the said writing or libel ;] but when we found him [meaning the said John Adams, President as aforesaid] borrowing the language of Edmund Burke, and telling the world that, although he should succeed in treating with the French, [meaning the Government of France,] there was no dependence to be placed on any of their engagements, [meaning the engagements of the said Government of France ;] that their religion and morality [meaning the religion and morality of the French nation] were at an end; that they [meaning the French nation] had turned pirates and plunderers, and it would be necessary to be perpetually armed against them, [meaning the said French nation;] though you are at peace, we [meaning the people of France] wondered that the answer of both Houses [meaning both Houses of the Congress of the United States] had not been an order to send him [meaning the said John Adams, Esquire, President of the United States] to a mad-house. Instead of this, the Senate [meaning the Senate of the United States] have echoed the speech [meaning the said speech of the said John Adams, as President of the United States] with more servility than ever George the Third [meaning the King of Great Britain] experienced from either House of Parliament," [meaning the Parliament of Great Britain ;] to the great scandal and infamy of the said Government of the said United States, and the said John Adams, President of the United States, and the said Senate of the United States, being one of the

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Houses of the Congress of the United States. And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the said Matthew Lyon, at Fairhaven aforesaid, on the 1st day of September aforesaid, did, knowingly, wickedly, deceitfully, and maliciously, with intent and design to defame the said Government of the United States, and the said John Adams, President of the United States, and the Senate, being one House of the Congress of the United States, and to bring the said Government, President, and Senate of the United States into great contempt and disrepute with the people of the United States, and to excite against them, the said Government, President, and Senate of the United States, the hatred of the good people of the said United States, and with intent to stir up sedition within the United States against the Government thereof, write, print, utter, and publish, and cause and procure to be written, printed, uttered, and published, for the purpose aforesaid, the said false, feigned, scandalous, and malicious writing and libel aforesaid, containing, among other things, the said divers scurrilous, false, feigned, scandalous, and seditious matters aforesaid, in contempt of the good and wholesome laws of the United States, to the evil and pernicious example of others in like case offending against the statute of the United States in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the said United States.

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second coming of Pinckney, [meaning Charles C. Pinckney, one of the Envoys Extraordinary from the United States to the said Republic;] had it guided the pens that wrote the bullying speech of your President, and the stupid answer of your Senate at the opening of Congress, in November last, [meaning the speech of the said John Adams, as delivered by him to both Houses of the Congress of the United States at the opening of their session in November last, and the answer of the Senate, being one of the Houses of the said Congress, to the said speech,] I should probably have had no occasion to address you this letter," [meaning the said writing, or libel, last mentioned.] We [meaning the people of France] wondered that the answer [meaning the answer to the said speech] of both Houses [meaning both Houses of the Congress of the United States] had not been an order to send him [meaning the said John Adams, President of the United States] to a mad-house;" to the great scandal and infamy of the said John Adams, in his said capacity of President of the United States, to the great scandal and infamy of the said Senate, being one of the Houses of the Congress of the United States, and to the great scandal and infamy of the Government of the said United States. And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the said Matthew Lyon, with force and arms, at Fairhaven aforesaid, in the district aforesaid, on the first day of September And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, aforesaid, did, knowingly, willingly, wickedly, and do further present, that the said Matthew Lyon, being maliciously, and with intent, and design to defaine a malicious man, of a depraved mind, and of a wicked the said John Adams, President of the United States, and diabolical disposition, and also deceitfully, wick- and the said Senate, being one of the Houses of the edly, and maliciously contriving to defame the Gov-Congress of the United States, and the said Governernment of the said United States, and with intentment of the United States, and to bring the said Gavand design to defame the said Government, and the said John Adams, Esquire, President of the said United States, and the Senate, being one of the Houses of the Congress of the said United States, and to bring the said Government, President, and Senate of the United States into disrepute and contempt, and with intent to excite the hatred of the good people of the United States against the said Government and Senate of the said United States, and to stir up sedition within the said United States against the Government thereof, did, at Fairhaven aforesaid, on the 1st day of September aforesaid, for the purpose aforesaid, with force and arms, knowingly, wickedly, deceitfully, maliciously, and willingly assist, aid, and abet in the falsely and maliciously writing, printing, uttering, and publishing a certain false, feigned, scandalous, and seditious writing, or libel, entitled "Copy of a letter from an American diplomatic character in France to a member of Congress in Philadelphia ;" in which said writing, or libel, of and concerning the Government of the United States, and the said President and Senate of the said United States, and of and concerning the said speech of the said John Adams, as President of the United States, to both Houses of the Congress of the United States, and of and concerning the answer of the said Senate of the United States to the said speech of the said John Adams, President of the United States, in which said writing, or libel, among other things, are contained divers false, scandalous, and seditious matters, according to the tenor following, to wit: "Had this truth been understood with you [meaning the people of the United States] before the recall of Monroe, [meaning James Monroe, Ambassador from the United States to the Republic of France,] before the coming and

ernment, President, and Senate into contempt and disrepute with the good people of the United States, and to excite against them, the said Government, President, and Senate of the United States, the hatred of the good people of the said United States, and with intent to stir up sedition within the said United States against the Government thereof, aid, assist, and abet in the maliciously writing, uttering, and publishing, for the purposes aforesaid, the said false, feigned, scandalous, and malicious writing and libel last aforesaid, containing, among other things, the said divers scurrilous, false, feigned, scandalous, seditious, and malicious matters aforesaid, in contempt of the good and wholesome laws of the United States, to the evil and pernicious example of others in like case offending, contrary to the form, force, and effect of the statute of the United States in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States.

Whereupon, the marshal of the district aforesaid is commanded forthwith to apprehend the said Matthew Lyon, if to be found within his district, and him safely keep, to answer to the charges whereof he here stands indicted.

And afterwards, to wit, on the sixth day of the same October aforesaid, at Rutland aforesaid, before the court aforesaid, here cometh the said Matthew Lyon, under the custody of Jabez G. Fitch, Esq., marshal of the district aforesaid, and by the said marshal being brought, in his own proper person, to the bar of the said court here, was forthwith demanded, concerning the premises in the said indictment above specified and charged upon him, how he will acquit himself thereof; he, the said Matthew Lyon, saith that he is not guilty thereof, and for trial puts himself upon the country; and Charles Marsh, Esquire, attorney for the

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said United States within and for the district aforesaid, who prosecutes for the said United States in his behalf, doth the like.

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Rutland, within and for the said district, on the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the independence of the said United States the twenty-third, was convicted of writing, printing, uttering, and publishing certain false, scandalous, and seditious libels, and of aiding, abetting, and assisting therein, contrary to the form, force, and effect of the statute entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled An act for the punand sentenced to imprisonment for the term of four calendar months, to pay a fine of one thousand dollars to the United States, and the costs of this prosecution, taxed at sixty dollars and ninety-six cents, as appears of record, whereof execution remains to be done: Therefore,

Therefore, let a jury of good and lawful freeholders of the district aforesaid, on the eighth day of the same October aforesaid, at Rutland, in the district aforesaid, thereupon here come before the court aforesaid, by whom the truth of the matters aforesaid may be better known-who are not of kin to the said Matthew Lyonto recognise, upon their oath, whether the said Mat-ishment of certain crimes against the United States," thew Lyon be guilty or not guilty of the charges of which he stands indicted as aforesaid; because, as well the said Charles Marsh, esquire, who prosecutes for the said United States in his behalf, as the said Matthew Lyon, have put themselves upon that jury for trial of said issue.

And afterwards, to wit, on the same eighth day of October aforesaid, at Rutland, in the district aforesaid, before the same court aforesaid, came as well the said Charles Marsh, Esquire, who prosecutes for the said United States in this behalf, as the said Matthew Lyon, in his own proper person; and the jurors of the jury aforesaid, by the said Marshal for this purpose empannelled and returned, to wit, John Ramsdel, Jabez Ward, John Hitchcock, jun., Bildad Orcutt, Andrew Leach, Daniel June, Joshua Goss, Philip Jones, Josiah Harris, Ephraim Dudley, Moses Vail, and Elisha Brown, who, being called, came, and being elected, tried, and sworn to speak the truth of and concerning the premises, upon their oaths say that the said Matthew Lyon is guilty of the charges of which he stands indicted aforesaid, in form aforesaid, as by the indictment aforesaid is supposed against him. And, upon this, it is forthwith demanded of the said Matthew Lyon, if he hath any thing further to say wherefore the said court here ought not, on the premises aforesaid, and verdict aforesaid, to proceed to judgment against him, who nothing saith. And afterwards, to wit, on the ninth day of the same October aforesaid, at Rutland, in the district aforesaid, before the court aforesaid, came the said Matthew Lyon, in his own proper

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CEPHAS SMITH, Jux., Clerk.

By the authority of the United States, you are hereby commanded to imprison him, the said Matthew Lyon, in either of the jails of the United States, within and for the district of Vermont, for the term of four calendar months from the date hereof; and on his (the said Matthew Lyon's) neglect or refusal to pay said fine and costs, you are to keep and detain him, the said Matthew, in imprisonment as aforesaid, until he pay the said fine and costs, with fifty cents for this writ, and the costs of commitment, together with your fees, or until he be otherwise discharged according to law. And of this writ, with your doings herein, make due return according to law, at our said court, on the first day of May next.

Witness, the honorable Oliver Ellsworth, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, at Rutland aforesaid, the ninth day of October, at eight o'clock, forenoon, A. D. one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the independence of the said United States the twenty-third.

CEPHAS SMITH, JUN., Clerk.

DISTRICT OF VERMONT, October 10, 1798.
By virtue of the within writ, or warrant of commit-
ment, I committed the body of the within-named Mat-
thew Lyon, within the prison in the city of Vergen-
nes, and left a true and attested copy of this writ, with
my endorsement thereon, with the keeper of said
prison.
Fees of commitment, fifty cents.
Attest:

JABEZ G. FITCH, Marshal.
DISTRICT OF VERMONT,

VERGENNES, the 9th day of February,
8 o'clock, A. M., 1799.

The within-named Matthew Lyon, having complied with the within warrant, is hereby discharged from his confinement.

Attest: S. FITCH, Marshal's deputy.

OHIO BOUNDARY.

On motion of Mr. Ross, of Ohio, the House I hereby certify that the preceding is a true copy of proceeded to the consideration of a resolution subthe record, examined and collated this 21st day of De-mitted by his colleague, Mr. BRUSH, at the last

cember, A. D. 1819, by me,

JESSE GOVE, Clerk Vt. Dist.

DISTRICT OF VERMONT, to wit:
The President of the United States to the Marshal of
the District of Vermont.

Whereas Matthew Lyon, of Fairhaven, in the county of Rutland, in the district of Vermont, before the circuit court of the United States, begun and held at

session of Congress, for inquiring into the expediency of making a survey of the northern boundary of the State of Ohio.

On this resolution there was some debate, the course of which only can be briefly stated, as follows:

Mr. McCoy wished to know whether the State of Ohio was to bear the expense of the survey; otherwise he should be opposed to it.

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