Mr. Nathaniel B. Borden James W. Bouldin Churchill C. Cambreleng Joseph Hall Hiland Hall Thomas L. Hamer Mr. Edward A. Hannegan Samuel S. Harrison Gerrit Y. Lansing Gideon Lee Mr. Jesse Miller Thomas M. T. McKennan John McKeon Isaac McKim Charles F. Mercer Henry A. Muhlenberg James Parker William Patterson Abraham Rencher David Russell Ferdinand S. Schenck William N. Shinn Jonathan Sloan Francis O. J. Smith Aaron Vanderpoel Elisha Whittlesey Mr. John M. Patton John Robertson Ordered, That the said resolution be read a third time to-day. The said resolution being engrossed, was, according to order, read the third time and passed. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate therein. Engrossed bills of the following titles, viz: No. 38. An act for the relief of Joshua Cullumber; No. 40. An act for the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company: No. 238. An act for the relief of James M. Tuttle; were severally read the third time, and passed; Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bills. And then the House adjourned until Monday, 12 o'clock meridian. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1836. A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Donelson, his private secretary, notifying that the President did, on the 29th of January ultimo, approve and sign, An act making an additional appropriation for repressing hostilities commenced by the Seminole Indians. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed the joint resolution (No. 4) authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain inhabitants of Florida: and then he withdrew, The House resumed the consideration of the unfinished busines of Monday, January 25. The question pending at the adjournment on that day, was again stated. viz: that the motion that the petition of inhabitants of Amesbury, in the State of Massachusetts, which Mr. Cushing offered to present, be received. do lie on the table: when Mr. Garland, of Virginia, withdrew the motion to lie on the table. The question then recurred on the motion made by Mr. Cushing, that the petition be received. And, after debate, it was, On motion of Mr. Holsey, Ordered, That this question do lie on the table. Mr. Briggs, from the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined an enrolled Joint Resolution (No. 4) "Authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain inhabitants of Florida," and found the same to be truly enrolled: when the Speaker signed the said resolution. A motion was made by Mr. Sherrod Williams, that the rules be suspended for the purpose of affording him an opportunity to move that, for this day, the rule which requires the Speaker, in calling for petitions, to begin with Maine, be dispensed with; and that the Speaker be directed, in said call, to commence with the Territories, and proceed, in an inverse order, to Maine. And on the question, Shall the rule be suspended for the purpose aforesaid? It passed in the affirmative, two-thirds voting therefor. Mr. Sherrod Williams then made his said motion. And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto? It passed in the affirmative, two-thirds voting therefor. The call for petitions was then made, commencing with the Territory of Florida. Mr. Storer presented a petition of William Oliver, praying for the passage of an act authorizing the trustees of the University of Michigan to complete an arrangement by conveying to him certain tracts of land. Mr. Bond presented a petition of inhabitants of the State of Ohio, who are amongst the survivors of the "Ohio volunteers," called out under the orders of the Governor of Ohio, in 1812 and 1813, praying for grants of land for services rendered the United States. Mr. Sevier presented a petition of citizens residing in the States of Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi, praying for the passage of an act authorizing them to reclaim certain lands in Arkansas, and that they may be allowed, as a remuneration therefor, one million of acres of land. Mr. Sevier presented a petition of William L. S. Dearing, setting forth that he surveyed lands in the year 1831, in Louisiana, under contract with the surveyor general of public lands south of Tennessee; that he completed his survey, and while on his way to make returns to the surveyor general, his field notes were accidentally destroyed, in consequence of which he was compelled to resurvey the whole of the lands which. he had before surveyed, for which second survey he prays compensa tion. Mr. Ashley presented a memorial of the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company, praying for a donation of land to aid in the construction of their road. Mr. Ashley presented documents relative to John Whitsell's petition. Mr. Ashley presented a petition of Catharine Dodge, praying for the passage of an act, granting to her the difference between the original cost, and present value, of a tract of land, purchased by her of the United States, in the year 1823. Mr. Ashley presented a memorial of Susan Labeaume, legal representative of Louis Labeaume, of the State of Missouri, relative to her claim to eighteen certain tracts of land, situate in said State. Mr. Ashley presented a remonstrance of Thomas I. Paine, of the State of Missouri, protesting against the confirmation of a tract of land, embraced in the report of the commissioners appointed to adjust land titiles in said State. Mr. Ashley presented a petition of the heirs of Albert Tison, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, praying confirmation of title to ten certain tracts of land. Mr. Casey presented two several resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Illinois, relative to procuring an engineer to make a survey of the Wabash river, and use their exertions to procure a donation of land, to aid in raising funds for the improvement of said river. Mr. Reynolds, of Illinois, presented a petition of Gideon Blackburn, of Illinois, praying for the passage of an act authorizing the sale of township number nine north, range nine west, in said State, for the purposes of education. Mr. Reynolds, of Illinois, presented a document of James McRoberts, relative to a claim for an additional quantity of land. Mr. Reynolds, of Illinois, presented a petition of Robert Seybold, of the county of Madison, in the State of Illinois, praying for a donation of land, in consideration of his being an early settler in the Northwest Territory. Mr. May presented a petition of Charles Ballance, and Abigail Waters, of the State of Illinois, praying for a pre-emption right in the purchase of certain tracts of land. Mr. May presented a petition of inhabitants of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, praying for the establishment of a land office at Peoria. - Mr. Claiborne, of Mississippi, presented a memorial of inhabitants of the State of Mississippi, praying that the right of pre-emption to one quarter section, may be granted to each bona fide settler in township eleven, of range sixteen, township eleven, of range fifteen, and township eleven, of range fourteen, in the district of land subject to sale at Columbus, under the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek. Mr. Hannegan presented a memorial of the president and directors of Michigan city and Kankakee Rail-road or Canal Company, praying for a grant of alternate sections of unsold land, situate upon each side of the route of said canal or rail-road, for the use and benefit of said company. 1 Mr. McCarty presented a petition of Elisha B. Harris, praying relief in relation to a certain lot of land, now, and for a long time past, in his possession, which is claimed by one Barnett. Mr. Claiborne, of Mississippi, presented a petition of sundry citizens of the State of Mississippi, in behalf of Rawden T. Grey, praying that said Grey may be allowed to locate a lot of unappropriated land, in lieu of one upon which he made improvements, and which was afterwards taken by a pre-emption claimant. Mr. Claiborne, of Mississippi, presented a petition of William B. Minor, praying for the passage of an act granting to him the title to an island in the Mississippi river, called "My Wife's," alias "Pawpaw" island. Mr. Patterson presented a petition of the president and directors of the Mad river and Lake Erie Rail-road Company, praying pecuniary aid in the construction of said road. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, presented a petition of Miles Taylor, of the State of Louisiana, praying for the right to construct channels across lands belonging to the United States, for the purpose of reclaiming certain lands lying between Bayou Timballin, and Lafourche bays, in said State. Mr. Rice Garland presented a petition of Cynthia Holland Prince, who is the wife of Joseph Macquillen, of the parish of Carroll, in the State of Louisiana, praying for the passage of an act granting to her, or her heirs, the title to a certain tract of land, containing one hundred and sixty-five acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre, upon her paying therefor the minimum price. Mr. Rice Garland presented a petition of settlers on the castern side of the Atchafalaya, in the New Orleans land district, praying that the price of the lot of land on which they reside may be reduced to twenty-five cents per acre. Mr. Crane presented a petition of sundry citizens of the State of Ohio, praying for the removal of the land office from Lima, in the county of Allen, to Franconia. Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, viz: By Mr. Lawler: The petition of Jesse and George Taylor, presented January 6, 1834. By Mr. Ashley: The petition of James Keytes, presented March 18, 1834. Mr. Sevier presented a petition of Martin Chandler, Asa Holden, James Hunt, and Thomas Ridgway, soldiers of the revolutionary war, praying to be placed on a footing similar to that of the commissioned officers as stated, when the army was disbanded at the close of the war, and also for the continuance, at the same time, of the pension they now receive. Mr. White, of Kentucky, presented a petition of Henry Dickerson, heir of Nathaniel Dickerson, who was an officer in the revolutionary war, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay, due to his ancestor, or for the value thereof in lands. Mr. White, of Kentucky, presented a petition of James H. Hereford, legal representative of Thomas and William Patterson, who were captains in the continental army, in the war of the revolution, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay, due to the said Thomas and William Patterson, and for such other relief as the equity and justice of the case will permit. Mr. White, of Kentucky, presented a petition of John Morris, and Langston Bacon, executors of Richard Apperson, late of the county of Franklin, in the State of Kentucky, an officer in the revolutionary war, praying for half pay during the life of the said Apperson, or for commutation in lieu thereof, with legal interest thereon. Mr. French presented a petition of John Hargus, alias Hargis, an officer of the continental army, in the war of the revolution, praying for the half pay for life, or the commutation thereof, to which he is entitled as such officer as aforesaid. Mr. Bynum presented a petition of Benjamin Kimbell, of North Carolina, praying compensation for services rendered in the revolutionary war. Mr. Cleveland presented the petition of Mathew St. Clair Clarke, agent for and on behalf of the State of Georgia, praying to be paid the amount of a final settlement certificate issued by John Pierce, paymaster general and commissioner of army accounts, on the 18th of May, 1785, to the State of Georgia for $123,283 70, for payment made by that State to her officers of the revolutionary army on continental establishment, for the commutation of their half pay, and for other pay due, together with the interest thereon now due, heretofore presented February 2, 1835. Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Com mittee on Revolutionary Claims. The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, viz: By Mr. Cleveland: The petition of Richard Paulett, presented January 6, 1834. By Mr. Graves: The petition of Joseph Chilton, presented December 8, 1834. By Mr. Maury: The petition of Gilford Dudley, presented April 7, 1834. Mr. Reynolds, of Illinois, presented a resolution of the Legislature of the State of Illinois, requesting that pensions may be granted to such persons as were engaged in the defence of the frontier against the Indians previous to the treaty of Greenville; which resolution was ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. Claiborne, of Mississippi, presented a memorial of citizens of the State of Mississippi, remonstrating against a confirmation of Indian claims for lands in said State, and praying in behalf of actual settlers, an extension of the privileges of the pre-emption law; which memorial was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Dunlap presented the memorial of inhabitants of the county of Hardeman, in the State of Tennessee, for a marine hospital, heretofore pre |