THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS;

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 2, 1844,

IN THE SIXTY-NINTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY BLAIR AND RIVES.

1844-'45.

JOURNAL

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 second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, being the second session of the TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of the Government of the United States.

On which day, being that fixed by the constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, John W. Jones, the Speaker, (one of the representatives from the State of Virginia,) and the following named members of the House of Representatives, appeared and took their seats, viz:

From the State of→

MAINE

(Joshua Herrick,
Robert P. Dunlap,
Luther Severance,
Hannibal Hamlin,
Freeman H. Morse,

Shepherd Cary,

Benjamin White.

Edmund Burke,

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MASSACHUSETTS

RHODE ISLAND

CONNECTICUT

VERMONT

John R. Reding,
Moses Norris, jr.,
John P. Hale.
[Robert C. Winthrop,
Daniel P. King,

William Parmenter,

Charles Hudson,

John Quincy Adams,

Henry Williams,

Joseph Grinnell,
Osmyn Baker,
Amos Abbott.

Henry Y. Cranston,
Elisha R. Potter.

Thomas H. Seymour,
John Stewart,

George H. Catlin.

Solomon Foot,

George P. Marsh,

Paul Dillingham, jr.