additional service: but none to receive by virtue of these allowances a salary higher than the grade above him, and no additional salary to be given to any member of class number four after his salary reaches twentyfour hundred dollars; but the clerks in each department to be subject to removal by its head. Mr. Seward submitted the following resolution for consideration: Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to send a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, who shall be instructed to inquire into the expediency of instituting negotiations for the acquisition of those islands by the United States. Mr. Gwin submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to inform the Senate whether, without interfering with the regular progress of the coast survey, the reconnoissance of the coast of California may be extended south to Cape St. Lucas. Mr. Borland submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to communicate a statement of the account of the expenses of the visit to Europe of the superintending clerk of the census, to be made out from the vouchers in the case in lieu of the verbatim copies of the vouchers which were called for in a former resolution of the Senate. Mr. Jones, of Iowa, reported from the committee that they yesterday presented to the President of the United States, the following enrolled bills: II. R. 153. An act for the relief of the heirs of Semoice, a friendly Creek Indian; H. R. 158. An act for the relief of Sergeant Leonard Skinner: H. R. 166. An act for the relief of Monmouth B. Hart, Joel Kelly and William Close, securities for the late Benjamin F. Hart, a purser in the United States navy. Mr. Bright submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: of Resolved, That the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster General and the Attorney General, be directed to communicate to the Senate the names and compensation per annum each of the clerks employed in each of the several offices and bureaus under their direction, together with a description of the services performed by such clerks respectively, including any additional compensation allowed to either for any purpose, and also the names and compensation of each per son employed as an extra clerk, or employed in copying or other business for each of the said offices and bureaus. The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolution submitted by Mr. Weller the 28th June, to refer to a Select Committee certain charges against the commissioner on the part of the United States for running and marking the boundary between the United States and Mexico; and, The resolution was agreed to. Ordered, That the committee be appointed by the President pro tempore; and Mr. Weller, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Rusk, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Toucey appointed. were On motion by Mr. Badger, that the vote on agreeing to the resolution last mentioned, be reconsidered, Ordered, That the motion lie on the table. The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution submitted by Mr. Jones, of Iowa, the 27th July, in relation to the claim of the owners of the brig General Armstrong; and, The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Downs, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 508) for the settlement of a certain class of private land claims within the limits of the D'Autrieve claim, and for allowing pre-emption to certain purchasers and actual settlers in the event of the final adjudication of the title to said D'Autrieve in favor of the United States, and for other purposes, reported it without amendment. The Senate proceeded to consider the said bill (S. 508) as in Committee of the Whole; and no amendment being made, it was reported to the Senate. Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time. On motion by Mr. Borland, Ordered, That the Committee on Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the following subjects: Memorial of Rosa W. Inge; Petition of Richard Eaton; Petition of Anna Murphey; Petition of Anna Morton and Lois Foskit, heirs of Zephania Ross. Ordered, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be discharged from the petition of the workingmen at the Washington navy yard, presented the 26th January. On motion by Mr. Borland, Ordered, That the Committee on Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the bill (H. R. 100) for the relief of James Wright, junior. Mr. Shields, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of David Butler, submitted an adverse report (No. 339;) which was considered, and in concurrence therewith, Ordered, That the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial. On motion by Mr. Shields, Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Borland, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom the following bills were referred: H. R. 98. An act for the relief of Cornelius Hughes, of Tennessee; H. R. 170. An act for the relief of Jacob Shade, junior; H. R. 101. An act for the relief of John Kerbaugh; reported the same without amendment. Mr. Borland, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 181) to increase the pension of Henry Click, of Cocke county, Tennessee, reported it with an amendment. Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a memorial of J. F. Gilpin and others, submitted a report (No. 338,) accompanied by a bill (No. 534) to provide for the payment of such claims of the creditors of the late republic of Texas as are comprehended in the act of September 9, 1850. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Mr. Hunter, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 196) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the 30th June, 1853, and for other purposes, reported it with amendments. Mr. Rusk, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 303) for the relief of Cornelius Covert, of Michigan, reported it without amendment. Mr. Gwin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the claim of Thomas B. Parsons, submitted a report (No. 340,) accom panied by a bill (S. 535) for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Gwin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of McKean Buchanan, submitted a report (No. 341,) accompanied by a bill (S. 536) for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Gwin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Harlow Spaulding, submitted a report (No. 342,) accompanied by bill (S. 537) for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Badger, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Foxhall A. Parker, reported a bill (S. 538) for the relief of Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, of the United States navy; which was read, and passed to the second reading. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of George P. Welch and Clark H. Wells, submitted a report (No. 343,) accompanied by a bill (S. 539,) for the relief of passed midshipmen George P. Welch and Clark H. Wells. The bill was read, and passed to a second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Forney, their Clerk: Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed the following bills, in which they request the concurrence of the Senate: H. R. 76. Making a grant of public lands to the several States and Territories of the Union for the benefit of insane persons; H. R. 143. An act to regulate and fix the annual salary of the American consul at the city of Amsterdam. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (S. 28) granting to the State of Michigan the right of way and a donation of public land for the construction of a ship canal around the falls of St. Mary. On motion by Mr. Underwood, To amend the bill by adding thereto the following: -. "SECT. And be it further enacted, That there is hereby severally granted to the States named herein, the following amounts of public land respectively, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, viz: To Missouri, three million acres; to Alabama, two million five hundred thousand acres; to Iowa, three million acres; to Michigan, two million five hundred thousand acres; to Wisconsin, two million five hundred thousand acres; to Louisiana, two million five hundred thousand acres; to Mississippi, two million acres; to Florida, two million acres; to Arkansas, three million acres; to California, three million acres; to Illinois, one million acres; to Indiana, all the public lands not sold, located, or reserved, lying within her limits, and one million acres in addition thereto; to Ohio, all the public land not sold, located or reserved, lying within her limits, and two million acres in addition thereto; and to each of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, at the rate of one hundred and fifty thousand acres for each senator and representative in the thirtysecond Congress from said States respectively, and to each of the organized Territories and the District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty thousand acres. "SECT.. And be it further enacted, That the eleven States in the preceding section first named, are authorized to apply the proceeds of the lands hereby severally granted to them to aid in the construction of railroads in the States respectively. And a right of way through the public lands is hereby severally granted to the said States, and they are severally authorized to take necessary materials of earth, stone and timber, for the construction of the said railroads respectively, from the public lands adjacent thereto; and in locating each of the said railroads, and assigning the limits thereto, no more land shall be taken from the United States than is necessary for the convenient construction and use of each of said railroads respectively, including stations and the public buildings of all kinds connected with said roads, turnouts, and such other appurtenances as are necessary or usually enjoyed by railroad companies; and a copy of the location of said several roads respectively, made under the direction of the legislature of each State in which said roads are made, shall be forwarded to the proper local land offices, and the general land office at Washington city, within ninety days after the same are completed respectively, and shall be duly recorded; and there is hereby severally granted to each of the eleven States in the preceding section first named respectively, the amount of land therein specified, for the purpose of making railroads therein respectively, as aforesaid, to be taken along the entire length of the line or route of said several roads, in manner following, viz: every alternate section of land designated by even numbers for six miles in width on each side of said several railroads; but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of any of said roads are definitely fixed in the manner and by the authority aforesaid, sold any section or any part thereof, granted aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same, then it shall be lawful for any agent or agents, to be appointed by the govcrnor of each of said States respectively, to select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from the lands of the United States most contiguous to the tiers or sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold or to which the right of pre-emption has attached as aforesaid, which lands (thus selected in lieu of those sold, or to which pre-emp tion rights have attached as aforesaid, together with the sections or parts of sections designated by even numbers as aforesaid, and appropriated as aforesaid,) shall be held by each of the said eleven States first named respectively, to the amount in the preceding section named for each of the said several States, for the uses and purposes aforesaid; but the lands to be so located and selected for and on account of each of said roads shall in no case be more than six sections of land for each mile of said road: Provided, That the lands hereby granted to the said eleven first named States shall be exclusively applied to construct or aid in the construction of railroads in said States respectively, and shall be sold and disposed of only as the work progresses, and in proportion to the length of railroad completed. upon each of said roads, and the same shall be applied to no other purpose: And provided also, That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by compe tent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatever, shall be and the same are hereby reserved to the United States from the operation of this act, except so far as it may be found necessary to locate the routes of said railroads through such reserved lands, in which case the right of way only shall be and is hereby granted. "SECT.. And be it further enacted, That of the lands granted by this act to the said first named eleven States, a portion thereof shall be severally applied by said States in conformity with the foregoing provisions, to aid in the construction of the following railroads so far as they may be situated within the said States, respectively, upon the most direct feasible routes between the following points, namely: from Memphis via Little Rock to Fulton; from Helena via Little Rock to Fort Smith; from Gaines' Landing via Camden to Fulton; from Fort Leavenworth via Boonville to the Osage river; from New Orleans via Opelousas to the line of Texas, near or north of where crossed by a line marking the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and from New Orleans via Jackson, Mississippi, to a point on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, at or near Aberdeen; from Canton, Mississippi, to some point on the Tennessee line; from Vicksburg to Shrevesport, and thence to the line of Texas, and from Brandon to Montgomery, in Alabama, and from Montgomery to Pensacola, in Florida; from Pensacola via Tallahassee and Madison, to St. Mary's river, with branches to St. Mark's and to Tampa lay; from Girard to Mobile; and from Selma to Gunter's Landing, in Alabama; from Lake Michigan to a point on the river or lake St. Clair, and from Zilwaukee via Grand Traverse bay to Mackinaw, on the straits; from Chicago via Jamesville and Fond du Lac to Lake Supe rior, in Wisconsin; from Toledo, in Ohio, via Lafayette, Peoria and Burlington, to the Missouri river, with a branch to Keosauque; from Terre Haute via Alton to St. Charles, Missouri; from Prairie La Cross, on the Mississippi river, in Wisconsin, to Milwaukie, and from Madison to the Mississippi, in Grant county, in said State; from Belpre, Ohio, via Chillicothe, Hillsboro', Cincinnati and Vincennes to St. Louis, with a branch from a point in Illinois via Mount Carmel, to a point opposite Louisville, Kentucky; from Brownstown, Indiana, via Terre Haute to Springfield, in Illinois; from Davenport to the Missouri river, and from Keokuk to Dubuque; from a point on the east line of Alabama to a point on the north line of Mississippi, on the line of the Charleston and Memphis railroad; from San Francisco to San Jose, and from San Joaquin river, through the |