press the indigent and necessitous, and add to wealth affluence-to affluence, power and domination; and this tendency, being in direct hostility to the principles of equality, and in support of those principles we know that the bland bosom of the land of our fathers has been bathed in our fathers' blood. You know, sir, that our fathersnay, some of us, have fought and bled to make our country free, and permanently establish the principles of impartial equality. With this view of the subject how can I hesitate? Much, to be sure, has been said about commerce. Is commerce to be seriously affected by a revocation of the charter? If so, I am sorry for it. Fair and honorable commerce is useful to the nation. But, sir, shall we refrain from the curtailment of a commerce which is well known to press hard upon the sacred plant of liberty? What said our fathers, in our Revolutionary war, of the comparative value of wealth to equality? I remember to have heard the fathers of three honorable Virginia gentlemen, now of this House, when advised by what is called a prudent, cautious, mercantile man, not to lavish their ample fortunes on the American contest, unhesitatingly reply: If the expenditure of all my fortune will be instrumental to the liberty of my country, thankfully shall it go, and then I shall leave my children an inheritance more truly valuable than all the wealth of Chili, Mexico, and Peru; and such were the sentiments of the patriots of that day. Oh, Nelson!* never will this poor old soldier forget thy benevolence: that very coat thy patriotic charity bestowed, he had on his knapsack-galled back when the good Marquis de Lafayettet thus accosted him: My little soldier, had you ever the small pox?" He said, "No." The Marquis said, "You are then unfit for the purpose I wanted you for." The soldier replied, "The small-pox cannot hurt me when executing the orders of my General." I will not tell what the Marquis said upon that occasion; but I will most positively assert that I would not take (old as I am, and as many children as I have) one hun dred shares in the United States Bank for it. I hope this honorable Committee will not take my mention of this little matter as an evidence of my vanity; for I really intended it as an apology to the cool, dispassionate, calculating gentlemen on the other side of the question, for my unwillingness to exchange the sentiments of Henry for the feelings of Hook, I or even Jamy Cowan. * General Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Virginia, sacrificed a large fortune in furnishing soldiers with equipments necessary for their active service. †The Marquis de Lafayette, when following the British army from Richmond, Virginia, to York, encamped some days in Massay's old field, with expectation that the enemy might give him battle. He there requested General Robert Lawson to send him an officer to execute a secret order. Upon that occasion the conversation passed between the young soldier and his General. The small-pox was in Richmond. † See Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry. Hook, a tory, brought suit against Venable, for impressing beef. Cowan his attorney; Henry for defendant. H. or R. I never shall forget the feelings I had when a poor, unprotected orphan boy; and, therefore, hope the vote that we may give upon this occasion may keep the patriot soldier's son from wishing his gallant father had been a tape-seller, or a stock-jobber, instead of a meritorious soldier. We cannot stop this overwhelming influence of money. Captain Henry, who got $50,000 for betraying his master's secrets, will stand as high in public estimation as Thomas Nelson, or old Benjamin Harrison, * who spent, each of them, at least $50,000 in their country's cause, without a hope of remuneration. Whe I will now say a little to my Virginia friends about State rights. It was but the other day that the whole country, from the extreme south line of Pennsylvania to the Ohio river, down that river to its mouth, up the Mississippi to its head, and all the country south and west of those boundaries, was in a blaze, about the destiny of negroes that may be hereafter born. And why? Because the South and West members thought, and I think rightfully, too-indeed I know itthat the East and North members were infringing on their State rights, and wished to legislate upon property exclusively belonging to the South and West. Where is now fled our flaming zeal for sacred State rights? It cannot be smothered in bank paper. Here is a proper occasion to bring it forth. What are we about to do this day? Can we say our State rights are not endangered by the United States Bank? Have we not got reasons to believe, from the known complexion of a majority of the members of the United States Supreme Court, that that court will determine that the United States Bank have a right to extend her branches over every individual State in the Union, and that the States have no right to prune them? This fact I do know, that, if an unwelcome guest was palmed upon me, I should think my individual rights a little trespassed upon if I could not at least charge him for his accommodation. When we were borrowing money from old England to put our mammoth bank in motion, strange to me that we did not think of the condition of the thousands of poor, miserable British slaves, who, long before this, would have broke their chains had they not have been riveted by the baneful influence of the banks. I wished to have said more upon this subject; but, knowing that in historical and bank knowledge I am far beneath those gentlemen who have gone before me, or may follow after, I shall submissively decline all further observations. The question was then taken on the resolution offered by Mr. JOHNSON, of Virginia, as follows: "Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill to repeal the act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,' passed April 10, 1816." And decided in the negative-yeas 23. After the proposition to repeal the charter had • Governor Harrison spent an ample fortune in the cause. passed in the negative, the Chair announced the scire facias as the next subject in order before the Committee. Mr. TRIMBLE said that he had only risen to ask the question to be taken. As he had offered this resolution directing a scire facias to issue, it was, perhaps, a duty which he owed to himself to explain his views and discuss the whole subject at large. He was prepared, he said, to do so, but at this late day of the session, and late hour of the day, it would be unpardonable in him to intrude himself upon their patience; more especially, too, when it is manifest that the House is auxious to get forward, and despatch business in relation to public service which could not be pretermitted. This, he said, was the first time it had become his duty to vote upon the banking power, and, as the constitutional question is involved in the prop ositions, he ought, in justice to himself, state distinctly the opinion which would govern his vote, and for that purpose only, he would crave from the Committee a momentary indulgence. He had just voted, he said, to repeal the charter, because it was his fixed and settled opinion that there was no power in the Constitution under which Congress could create the corporation, FEBRUARY, 1819. He had finally concluded that it was not to be found in the family of implied powers, and under that conclusion he had just voted to revoke the charter, and would now vote for the resolution to order a scire facias. Laboring, as he did, under those convictions, it was impossible for him to vote in favor of the bank; and therefore, it was unnecessary for him to make up or express any opinion upon the questions of forfeiture. He had no doubt of the power of Congress to repeal an unconstitutional law, and he believed this to be such a law. The object he had in view would be attained if the Supreme Court should decree a forfeiture and dissolve the corporation. He did not intend, he said, to delay the Committee one moment to hear remarks from him upon the various points which had been debated. The States, the Union itself, might be considered a corporation, and it is manifest that the great interests of the community are paramount to all banking interests. Banks are a kind of laborsaving machines that should cease to exist the moment they cease to be useful. How far the United States Bank has performed the great objects and purposes which have been assigned to it, is known to all of us; how far it will be able to perform them in future, time will determine. The distinction between express and implied If it shall fail in attaining its objects, and that powers was well understood, and the principles used as auxiliaries to assist in expounding the instrument had been agreed on all sides. He had searched, he said, in vain for an express banking power in the Constitution. It was not to be found. Many explorers had preceded him in quest of that failure shall be traced to the mismanagement of the directors, there will always exist a disposition to correct abuses and restore confidence; but if the bank itself has been incurably crippled and maimed, the sooner it is voted out of the country the better. It was created to assist the fiscal op power, but no one had returned with the discov-erations of the Treasury, and to restore specie ery. The express powers are well defined, and yet, doubts had arisen as to the extent of some of them. For instance, it is declared in the Constitution that "Congress shall have power to establish post offices and post roads," and yet it is contended that Congress has no power to construct a post road. Now, if it was in like manner declared that Congress shall have power to establish banks and banking houses, no one would be hardy enough to contest the existence of the banking power; and conversely, if doubts may fairly arise upon the post road power, under the clause recited, the same principles and course of reasoning which start the doubt will lead to the inevitable conclusion that the banking power does not exist. In his opinion, the power to construct post roads was clearly and expressly given, and payments. The gentleman from South Carolina says that it has effected these objects-and so it has. But it is under an engagement with the public to continue those services to the end of the charter; and a promise had been given that it would equalize exchange and check the issues of local paper. Can it do this? Has it retained the ability to meet the public expectation? If it has not, will its disability originate in its waiver of the second instalment? Will it languish for years as the Bank of England did, because it pretermitted the specie payment of the second quota of stock? Is it a salvo for all the evils of excessive banking, or will it only protract the crises to make the agony more painful? Here several questions cast up for discussion, and succeed each other, embracing a variety of facts and calcula it was equally clear to him that the banking ❘tions, and opening a wide field of inquiry. If he power is not expressly granted. Was it to be found among the implied powers-that is to say, implied powers, necessary and proper to carry express powers into full effect and operation? He bad pondered, he said, upon this subject not a little. He had attempted again and again to locate this implied banking power upon some one of the express powers; he had put in requisition all the auxiliary principles usually employed in expounding the Constitution, and had passed a strict and rigid inquest upon all its sections, and had been totally unable to find any section, clause, or article, upon which he could anchor this banking power. had found a favorable moment to claim the floor, he would have made an effort to present the subject in new aspects and relations. He would have felt some pleasure in doing so, but he would not forfeit his claims to the indulgence of the Committee by surprising them into a renewal of the debate; and, therefore, would only intimate his conviction that, unless the directors of the bank shall make a radical change in the administration of its concerns, we shall meet here next session under a derangement and depreciation of the paper currency heretofore unknown in this Union. He hoped he might be mistaken, but his predic tion was founded on facts, and the results of long experience. The question was then put on the resolution offered by Mr. TRIMBLE, to issue a scire facias, and decided in the negative-ayes 28. The resolutions offered by Mr. SPENCER, and also referred to this Committee, were withdrawn by him; and The Committee took up the bill reported by the bank committee, to enforce the act of incorporation by prohibiting the pretended distribution of shares for the purposes of undue influence in the elections of directors. Mr. SPENCER proposed various amendments, intended to render the provisions of the bill more effectual; all of which were agreed to. Mr. BASSETT then moved two amendments; the first, substantially, to compel the bank to redeem all its notes with specie, at whatever branch they might be presented for payment. The object of the second amendment was to prohibit any director of the bank, while acting as such, from dealing in the stock of the bank. Both prepositions were negatived by very large majorities; and the Committee of the Whole then rose, and reported their proceedings to the House; and the House adjourned. THURSDAY, February 25. Mr. POINDEXTER, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to which was referred the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act making further provisions for the sale of the public lands," reported the same with an amendment, and the bill was laid on the table. Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the petitions, memorials, and other subjects to them referred at the present session, upon which they have not acted, and that the same be laid on the table. The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolution of the House, of the 22d instant, requiring information whether any, and, if any, what part of the balances from the State banks, to the Bank of the United States, under the second article of the compact between them, for which balances the Bank of the United States was to receive interest, were retained by the Bank of the United States as special deposites; which letter was ordered to lie on the table. The SPEAKER also laid before the House another letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to another resolution of the 22d instant, requiring information whether any, and and, if any, what part of the balances transferred from the Treasury, to the Bank of the United States, under the second proposition of its agreement with the receiving banks, of the 31st of January, 1817, were drawn from the Bank of the United States, by any department of Government, between the 31st January and 1st July, 1817, exclusive of the sums required by the Treasury, under the exception contained in the second proposition; which 15th CON. 2d SESS.-45 H. OF R. letter was read, and also ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LIVERMORE, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to which was referred the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to repeal part of an act passed on the 27th day of February, 1813, entitled 'An act in addition to an act regulating the Post Office Establishment," reported the same without amendment; and the bill was ordered to be read a third time tomorrow. Mr. RHEA, from the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, to which were referred bills from the Senate of the following titles, to wit: An act for the relief of Samuel Ward, and An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Nicholas Vreeland, deceased, reported the said bills without amendment, and they were respectively committed to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow. The amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of Government, for the year 1819," were read and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Bills from the Senate of the following titles, to wit: An act providing for the better organization of the Treasury Department; An act in addition to "An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases; An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy; and, An act to continue in force for a further term the act, entitled "An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes, and for other purposes," were severally read twice, and referred; the first and second, to the Committee of Ways and Means; the third, to the Committee on the Judiciary; and the fourth, to the Committee on Indian Affairs. The resolution from the Senate, "requesting the President to employ an artist to ascertain the latitude of 36 degrees 30 minutes north, on the west bank of the Tennessee river," was read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. The bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to designate the boundaries of districts and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands, not heretofore offered for sale, in the States of Ohio and Indiana," was read a third time, as amended; and being on its passage, Mr. STROTHER moved that the said bill be laid upon the table; which motion was rejected; and the question being taken, Shall the said bill pass? it passed in the affirmative. The bill from the Senate, entitled "An act respecting the location of certain lands to be granted for the seat of government in the State of Indiana," was also read the third time, and passed. An engrossed "Resolution requesting the President of the United States to cause astronomical observations to be made to ascertain the longitude of the Capitol in the City of Washington, from some known meridian in Europe," was read the third time, and passed. The bill to diminish the duty on certain wines, 1 and to declare free of duty books printed in foreign languages, was taken up, amended, and ordered to a third reading. The House went into Committee, on the bill making appropriations for the Public Buildings. Various amendments were made to the bill; and it was finally reported to the House, filled up as follows: For erecting the centre building of the Capitol, $136,644. For finishing the gates, the iron railing, and the enclosure north of the President's House, $5,344. For enlarging the offices west of the President's House, $8,187. For purchasing a lot of land, and for constructing pipes, for supplying the Executive Offices and President's House with water, $9,125. Thus amended, the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have passed bills of the following titles, to wit: An act for the relief of Francis B. Languille; an act for the relief of Lewis H. Guerlain; an act for the relief of Rosalie P. Deslande; an act for the relief of Joseph McNeil; an act for the relief of Eli Hart; an act for the relief of Nathan G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth; an act for the relief of John Rodriguez; an act for the relief of Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud; and an act to regulate and fix the salaries and compensation of the registers and receivers of public moneys in the land offices; in which bills they ask the concurrence of this House. BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. The House took up and proceeded to consider the report of the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, made yesterday, on several subjects referred to it in relation to the Bank of the United States; when, Mr. SPENCER withdrew his motion to lay the said report upon the table. The question was then taken to concur with the Committee of the Whole in their disagreement to the resolution submitted by Mr. JOHNSON, of Virginia, in the following words, to wit: "Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill to repeal the act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,' approved April 10, 1816." And passed in the affirmative-yeas 121, nays 30, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Adams, Anderson of Kentucky, Bateman, Bayley, Beecher, Bennett, Bloomfield, Boss, Bryan, Butler of Louisiana, Campbell, Clagett, Cobb, Colston, Comstock, Crafts, Cruger, Cushman, Darlington, Davidson, Earle, Ervin of S. C., Fisher, Folger, Fuller, Gage, Gilbert, Hale, Herkimer, Hitchcock, Holmes, Hopkinson, Hubbard, Hunter, Huntington, Jones, Kinsey, Kirtland, Lawyer, Lewis, Linn, Little, Livermore, Lowndes, McLane of Delaware, W. Maclay, W. P. Maclay, McCoy, Mason of Massachusetts, Mason of Rhode Island, Mercer, Middleton, Mills, Samuel Moore, Morton, Moseley, Murray, J. Nelson, H. Nelson, New, Newton, Orr, Owen, Parrott, Pawling, Peter, Pitkin, Pleasants, Poindexter, Porter, FEBRUARY, 1819. Quarles, Reed of Maryland, Reed of Georgia, Rhea, Rice, Rich, Ringgold, Robertson, Rogers, Ruggles, Sampson, Savage, Sawyer, Scudder, Sergeant, Settle, Shaw, Sherwood, Silsbee, Simkins, Slocumb, S. Smith, B. Smith, Alexander Smyth, J. S. Smith, Southard, Speed, Spencer, Storrs, Strother, Stuart of Maryland, Tallmadge, Tarr, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Tompkins, Townsend, Tucker of South Carolina, Tyler, Upham, Walker of North Carolina, Wallace, Wendover, Whiteside, Whitman, Wilkin, Williams of Connecticut, Williams of North Carolina, and Wilson of Pennsylvania. NAYS-Messrs. Allen of Massachusetts, Austin, Baldwin, Ball, Barbour of Virginia, Barber of Ohio, Bassett, Blount, Boden, Burwell, Desha, Garnett, Hall of N. C., Harrison, Hendricks, Herrick, Hogg, Hostetter, Johnson of Virginia, McLean of Illinois, Marchand, Robert Moore, T. M. Nelson, Patterson, Pegram, Pindall, Seybert, Trimble, Walker of Kentucky, and Williams, of New York. The question was then taken, also, to concur with the Committee of the Whole, in their disagreement to the resolution submitted by Mr. TRIMBLE, in the following words, to wit: "Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney General of the United States, in conjunction with the District Attorney of the State of Pennsylvania, shall immediately cause a scire facias to be issued, according to the 23d section of the 'Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States;' calling on the corporation created by the said act to show cause wherefore the charter thereby granted shall not be declared forfeited; and that it shall be the duty of the said officers to cause such proceedings to be had in the premises as shall be necessary to obtain a final judgment thereon; for the expenses of which Congress will hereafter provide." And passed in the affirmative-yeas 116. nays 39, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Abbot, Adams, Allen, Anderson of Pennsylvania, Anderson of Kentucky, Baldwin, Bateman, Bayley, Bennett, Bloomfield, Boss, Bryan, Clagett, Cobb, Colston, Comstock, Crafts, Cruger, Cushman, Darlington, Davidson, Earle, Edwards, Fisher, Folger, Fuller, Gage, Garnett, Gilbert, Hale, Herkimer, Holmes, Hopkinson, Hubbard, Hunter, Huntington, Jones, Kinsey, Kirtland, Lawyer, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Little, Lowndes, McLane of Del., W. Maclay, W. P. Maclay, McCoy, Mason of Massachusetts, Mason of Rhode Island, Mercer, Merrill, Middleton, Mills, Samuel Moore, Morton, Moseley, Murray, Jeremiah Nelson, H. Nelson, Newton, Ogden, Orr, Owen, Parrott, Pawling, Peter, Pitkin, Pleasants, Poindexter, Porter, Quarles, Reed of Maryland, Reed of Georgia, Rice, Rich, Ringgold, Robertson, Ruggles, Sampson, Savage, Sawyer, Scudder, Sergeant, Settle, Shaw, Sherwood, Silsbee, Simkins, Slocumb, S. Smith, Ballard Smith, Alexander Smyth, J. S. Smith, Southard, Storrs, Strother, Stuart of Maryland, Tallmadge, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Tompkins, Townsend, Tucker of Virginia, Tucker of South Carolina, Upham, Walker of North Carolina, Wallace, Wendover, Whitman, Wilkin, Williams of Connecticut, Wilson of Massachusetts, and Wilson of Pennsylvania. NATS-Messrs. Austin, Ball, Barbour of Virginia, Barber of Ohio, Bassett, Blount, Boden, Burwell, Butler of Louisiana, Campbell, Desha, Ervin of South Carolina, Floyd, Hall of North Carolina, Harrison, FEBRUARY, 1819. H. OF R. Bank of the United States. Hendricks, Herrick, Hitchcock, Hogg, Hostetter, John-election, I shall not in any manner violate the son of Virginia, McLean of Illinois, Marchand, Marr, first fundamental article of the 'Act to incorpoRobert Moore, T. M. Nelson, Patterson, Pegram, Pin-rate the subscribers to the Bank of the United dall, Rhea, Rogers, Speed, Spencer, Tarr, Trimble, Tyler, Walker of Kentucky, Williams of New York, and Williams of North Carolina. So the House concurred with the Committee of the Whole in rejecting both resolutions. The House then took up the amendments reported by the committee to the bill "to enforce those provisions of the act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States, which relate to the right of voting for directors." Mr. STORRS moved that the said bill and amendments lie on the table; which was rejected. And a motion was made by Mr. PINDALL to refer the said bill to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to amend the same by additional sections: First, To prohibit the offence of usury, and to declare the punishment thereof, when committed by the Bank of the United States or its branches, or by the directors, officers, or agents thereof, whilst employed for, or on behalf of the bank, and to prescribe the mode of prosecution for such offence. Secondly, To prohibit the establishment or continuance by the said bank, of any office of discount or deposite, in any State, after the first day of February, in the year 1820, unless by the consent of the Legislature of such State. The question being stated to agree to the reference of the said bill with the instructions above, Mr. HARRISON moved that the bill be postponed indefinitely; which was rejected. And the question was taken to agree to the motion submitted by Mr. PINDALL; and determined in the negative. The question then recurred on the first amendment of the Committee of the Whole, to which Mr. SPENCER moved an amendment; when, Mr. BALDWIN moved that the said bill be postponed indefinitely; which was again rejected; and the amendment moved by Mr. SPENCER was agreed to. The first amendment to the said bill being further amended, was agreed to as amended; and the residue of the amendments reported by the Committee of the Whole were also agreed to with amendments. A motion was made by Mr. STORRS further to amend the said bill, by striking out from the first section thereof these words: "and that, in 'voting at this election, I shall not in any manner violate the first fundamental article of the 'Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank ' of the United States." This motion was rejected; when, 6 States;" and in lieu thereof, to insert: "that I have not transferred, nor procured to be transferred, the shares upon which I shall vote at this ' election as attorney for others, to the persons ' in whose names such shares now stand, nor were the same subscribed in the name of such persons, for the purpose or with the intent to increase the number of votes which I am entitled by law to give; according to my best knowl"edge and belief, such persons are, bona fide, 'owners of such shares, or have an interest ' therein." Mr. HARRISON again moved that the said bill be postponed indefinitely; which motion was again rejected. And the question was then taken, to agree to the amendment proposed by Mr. TERRY; and determined in the negative. A motion was then made by Mr. JOHNSON, of Virginia, further to amend the said bill, by adding thereto the following, as the fourth section thereof: SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, directly or indirectly, give any sum or sums of money, or any other bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, contract, obligation, or security, for the payment or delivery of any money, present, or reward, or anything to obtain or procure the opinion, vote, or interest of the President of the Bank of the United States, or either of the Directors thereof, or the pres ident or a director of either of the branches of the said bank, in any election, question, matter, or thing, which shall come before the said president and directors for decision, in relation to the interest and management of the said bank, and shall be thereof convicted, such person or persons, so giving, promising, contracting, or securing to be given, paid, or delivered, any sum or sums of money, present, reward, or other bribe, as aforesaid, and the president or director who shall in anywise accept or receive the same, on conviction thereof, shall be fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, and shall be forever disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit under the said corporation, and shall also forever be disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit, under the United States. And the question being taken to agree to the said section, it passed in the affirmative-yeas 98, nays 26, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson of Pennsylvania, Anderson of Kentucky, Austin, Barbour of Virginia, Bassett, Bayley, Beecher, Bennett, Bloomfield, Blount, Boss, Bryan, Burwell, Butler of Louisiana, Campbell, Cobb, Crawford, Cruger, Davidson, Desha, Garnett, Gilbert, Hale, Hall of North Carolina, Harrison, Hendricks, Herrick, Hitchcock, Hogg, Hostetter, Irving of New Linn, Little, Livermore, Lowndes, McLane of DelaYork, Johnson of Virginia, Jones, Kinsey, Lawyer, Mercer, Merrill, Mills, Samuel Moore, Moseley, Murware, McLean of Illinois, W. P. Maclay, McCoy, ray, Jeremiah Nelson, H. Nelson, T. M. Nelson, Newton, Orr, Patterson, Pegram, Peter, Pindall, Pitkin, Porter, Reed of Maryland, Reed of Georgia, Rhea, my knowledge and belief, truly and in good Sampson, Savage, Sawyer, Scudder, Settle, Seybert, 'faith, , owned by the persons in whose names Shaw, Slocumb, S. Smith, Alexander Smyth, Speed, 'they now stand; and that in voting at this Spencer, Storrs, Strother, Stuart of Maryland, Tarr, Mr. TERRY moved to amend the first section by striking out these words: "that I have no interest, directly or indirectly, in the shares upon which I shall vote in this election, as attorney 'for others; that those shares are, to the best of Rich, Richards, Ringgold, Robertson, Rogers, Ruggles, |