who was the widow of Major General the Earl of Stirling, praying that the amount due for the services of the said Earl of Stirling, as a general officer of the revolutionary Army, may now be paid.

Mr. Bockee presented a petition of Samuel A. Barker, son of Captain Samuel Augustus Barker, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which his said father was entitled, as a captain in the Connecticut line in the Army of the revolution.

Mr. Howard presented a petition of Elizabeth Reynolds, for herself and other heirs of Major William Bailey, deceased, praying compensation for services rendered by her father as a major in the Army of the revolution. Mr. Robertson presented a petition of the heirs and legal representatives of Joseph Scott, deceased, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which they conceive the said Joseph Scott was entitled as a captain of the Virginia continental line in the war of the revolution.

Mr. Robertson presented a petition of Robert Pollard, administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which the said Quarles was entitled, for services rendered the United States in the revolutionary war.

Mr. Robertson presented a petition of Robert Lanier, for himself and other heirs of Francis Eppes, deceased, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life; to which the said Francis Eppes was entitled for services rendered as a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia continental line, during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Robertson presented a petition of John H. Smith and others, heirs of Larkin Smith, deceased, praying that the commutation of half pay for life, to which they conceive the said Larkin Smith was entitled, for services rendered the United States in the revolutionary war, may be paid to them. Mr. Loyall presented a petition of James Barron, for himself and brother, heirs of Samuel Barron, deceased, praying to be allowed to enter a certain portion of public land, to make up a deficiency granted to their late father, for services rendered by him, as a commodore in the Virginia State Navy, during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Beale presented a petition of Augustine Waterman, heirs of Doctor Asher Waterman, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which the said Doctor Asher Waterman was entitled, for services rendered in the war of the revolution.

Mr Sherrod Williams presented a petition of Thomas Graves, of the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for services rendered by him in the revolutionary war.

Mr. Dunlap presented a petition of Joseph White, of Tennessee, in behalf of himself and other heirs of Captain James White, deceased, praying to be allowed and paid a certain sum of money advanced by the said James White, for the use of the United States, during the revolutionary war.

Mr. Dunlap presented a petition of Robert Webb, on behalf of himself and other heirs of Pleasant Thatcher, deceased, praying to be paid the amount which they conceive to be due to the said Thatcher for pay and clothing, for services rendered by him in the revolutionary war.

Mr. Whittlesey presented a petition of Jabez Parsons, praying to be allowed compensation for services rendered by him in the war of the revolution.

Mr. McLene presented a petition of William Champe, for himself and other heirs of John Champe, deceased, praying that the commutation of half

pay for life, to which the said John Champe was entitled, for services rendered by him in the revolutionary war.

Mr. Pinckney presented a petition of the heirs of Major Charles Brown, deceased, praying to be allowed and paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which the said Charles Brown was entitled, for services rendered by him in the Army of the revolution.

Mr. Pinckney presented a petition of Lawrence Ryan and Thomas Lekie, and others, heirs of Lieutenant Colonel William Scott, praying to be paid the commutation of half pay for life, to which the said Colonel Scott was entitled, as an officer in the revolutionary war.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

On motion of Mr. McKennan,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be instructed. to inquire into the expediency of allowing to the heirs of Colonel George Morgan, an officer of the revolutionary Army, the five years' full pay, in lieu of half pay for life, to which he was entitled.

The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, viz:

By Mr. Everett: The petition of Return B. Brown, presented February 10, 1834.

By Mr. Beardsley: The petition of Dan Pease, jr. presented May 26, 1834.

By Mr. Beardsley: The petition of David Hawes, presented January 27, 1834.

By Mr. Howard: The petition of Thomas Spicer, presented December 8, 1834.

By Mr. Taliaferro: The petition of Sarah B. H. Stith, presented March 26, 1832.

By Mr. Claiborne, of Virginia: The petition of Joel Wright, presented December 20, 1831.

By Mr. Claiborne, of Virginia: The petition of William Saunders, and William R. Porter, presented December 21, 1829.

By Mr. Crane: The petition of Daniel Knowles, presented January 5, 1835.

By Mr. Hall, of Maine: The petition of inhabitants of the State of Maine, relative to removal of courts, presented December 17, 1834. By Mr. Pinckney: The petition of Thomas Chapman, presented April 4, 1832.

Mr. Adams presented a memorial of Barbara Reily, widow of Major William Reily, deceased, an officer of the revolution, praying for arrears of her husband's pension.

Mr. Borden presented a petition of Sarah Drown, of Massachusetts, widow of Capt. Jonathan Drown, an officer of the revolution, praying remuneration for the services of her husband.

Mr. Cambreleng presented a petition of Davis Hunt, of New York, a soldier in the revolutionary war, praying for a pension.

Mr. Beardsley presented a petition of Daniel Thurston, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Brown presented a petition of sundry females of the county of Orange, in the State of New York, in behalf of the surviving widows of revolutionary soldiers, praying that Congress m. grant them pensions.

Mr. Vanderpool presented petitions of Roger Holcomb, David Frayer, John Furbeck, and Justice Artman, soldiers of the revolution, respectively. praying for pensions.

Mr. W. K. Fuller presented a petition of William B. Davis, in behalf of William Davis 3d, a soldier of the revolution, praying for arrears of a pension.

Mr. W. K. Fuller presented a petition of William Davis 3d, upon the same subject, hertofore presented on the 12th of July, 1835.

Mr. Ward presented the petitions of Roger Strong, of the city of New York, Eli Darling, of the city of Brooklyn, Timothy Shey, of the county of Westchester, and Ebenezer Johnson, of the county of Greene, all of the State of New York, soldiers in the revolutionary war, praying for pensions. Mr. Ward presented a petition of Elizabeth Steel, of the State of Maryland, in behalf of her husband, James Steel, who was a soldier of the revolution, praying that she may be allowed to draw a pension in behalf of her husband.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, presented a petition of William Smith, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Patterson presented a petition of Thomas Sprott, of the county of Richmond, in the State of Ohio, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Lane presented a petition of Joseph Powell, of the State of Ohio, a soldier of the revolutionary war, praying for a pension.

Mr. Pierce, of New Hampshire, presented a petition of William Flagg, praying for a pension for services rendered by him in the naval service of the United States, from 1799 to 1801.

Ordered, That the said several petitions and memorials, be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions,

VIZ:

By Mr. Hall, of Maine: The petition of John Dal, for a pension, presented February 24, 1834.

By Mr. Parker: The petition of Jonathan Morgan, presented January 5, 1834.

By Mr. Mason, of New York: The petition of Jonathan Chandler, presented December 17, 1833.

By Mr. Cambreleng: The petition of John Cooper, presented February 2, 1835.

By Mr. Loyall: The petition of Spiery Wyatt, presented February 2, 1835.

By Mr. Pearce, of Rhode Island: The petition of Isaac Barker, presented December 30, 1833.

By Mr. Heman Allan: The petition of William Hewes, presented February 17, 1834.

By Mr. Everett: The petition of Joseph Parker, presented December 30, 1834.

By Mr. Everett: The petition of Elisha Lucas, presented December *20, 1833.

By Mr. Reed: The petition of Lemuel Tobey, presented March 28, 1834.

By Mr. Wardwell : The petition of Major L. Bleeker, presented January 4, 1833.

By Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky: The petition of Joshua York, presented January 12, 1835.

By Mr. Sherrod Williams: The petition of Alexander Noel, presented February 2, 1835.

By Mr. Sherrod Williams: The petition of William Handcock, presented February 2. 1835.

By Mr. Mason, of Virginia: The petition of Jesse Sykes, presented January 12, 1835.

Mr. Turrill presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of New York, praying for an appropriation, for the purpose of constructing a ship canal around Niagara Falls.

Mr. Loyal presented a petition of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, praying for an appropriation, for the purpose of removing the obstructions in Deep creek, in Virginia, and Joyce's creek, in North Carolina.

Mr. Mason, of Ohio, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Ohio, praying for a change of the Cumberland or National road, from its present location, to the route through Dayton and Eaton.

Mr. Crane presented a memorial of the members of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, praying that the route through Dayton and Eaton may be adopted as the permanent location of the National or Cumberland road. Mr. Storer presented a like memorial of sundry other inhabitants of Ohio.

Mr. Crane presented a petition of sundry citizens of the State of Ohio, praying for an appropriation, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Maumee river.

Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, presented a memorial of the New Orleans and Nashville Rail-road Company, praying for a grant of 2,000,000 acres of land, for the benefit of said Company in constructing their road, and for other purposes.

Mr. Ashley presented the memorial of the mayor and aldermen of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, praying for an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at St. Louis.

Mr. Graves presented the petition of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, praying for the passage of an act, authorizing said company to retain the dividends that may be declared upon the stock of said company, owned by the United States, and for other purposes.

Mr. Sevier presented the memorials of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, praying for appropriations for the improvement of the Little Red River, and also for opening a road from Jackson, in the county of Lawrence, to Strong's, in St. Francis county.

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

The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals,

viz:

By Mr. Casey: The petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Illinois, for the improvement of a road from Chicago to Vincennes.

By Mr. Carter: The petition of the Alabama Legislature, relative to the canal from Tennessee to Coosa, presented January 15, 1830.

By Mr. Morgan: The petition and documents of John Good, presented February 14, 1828.

By Mr. Patterson: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Ohio, for a road under the Brownstown treaty, presented January 2, 1827.

By Mr. Sherrod Williams: The petition of inhabitants of the State of Kentucky, for the survey of the Cumberland river, presented December 17, 1834.

By Mr. Denny: The several memorials and petitions, heretofore presented, from inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, asking an appropriation for the western section of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Mr. Borden presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Taunton to Plymouth.

Mr. McComas presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Virginia, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Poplar Hill to Sharon, so as to intersect the route from Wythe court-house to Tazewell

court-house.

Mr. Anthony presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Columbus, Luzerne county, to Taneyville, in Lycoming county.

Mr. Hiester presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Reamstown post office to Sheaffertown, in Lebanon county, and for the location of post offices at Whitehall, Sheoneck and Springville.

Mr. Claiborne presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Virginia, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Danville to

Salem.

Mr. Graham presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of North Carolina, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Franklin, in North Carolina, to Blairsville in Georgia.

Mr. Pinckney presented a petition of Benjamin F. Hard and Gilbert Longstreet, of Charleston, South Carolina, praying remuneration for services rendered in transportation of the mail.

Mr. Thompson, of South Carolina, presented a petition of sundry citizens of South Carolina, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Rathbun, in the State of Georgia, to Pickens, in the State of South Carolina. Mr. Hammond presented a petition of sundry citizens of South Carolina, praying for the establishment of a mail route and post office at Corbittsville. Mr. Pickens presented a petition of sundry citizens of South Carolina, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Abberville court-house to Moffattsville post office.

Mr. Pickens presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of South Carolina, praying for the establishment of a post route from Hamburg via Red Hill, to intersect the main route at Liberty Hill.

Mr. Thompson, of South Carolina, presented a petition of sundry citizens of South Carolina, praying for an alteration of the mail route from Greenville court-house to Ashville, North Carolina.

Mr. Glascock presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Georgia, praying for the establishment of a post route from Franklin, in Lowndes county, Georgia, to Townsends post office, in the Territory of Florida.

Mr. Speaker presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Missouri, praying for the establishment of a weekly mail route from Cane Hill post office to Springfield.

Mr. Mason, of Ohio, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the