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for the memory of the deceased, they will go into mourning for one month, by wearing crape on the left arm.

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And then, as a further mark of respect, the House,

On motion of Mr. Reynolds,

Adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1835.

A motion was made by Mr. Whittlesey, that the House do now proceed to the choice of a Sergeat-at-arms, a Principal Door-keeper and an Assistant Door-keeper.

And the question being put thereon,

It passed in the affirmative.

The House then proceeded by ballot, to the choice of a Sergeant-at-arms, and upon counting the seventh ballot, it appeared that Roderick Dorsey, of the State of Maryland, had obtained a majority of all the votes given in, and was therefore duly elected.

A motion was then made by Mr. Bockee, that the House do come to the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That Overton Carr be appointed Principal Door-keeper; and that John W. Hunter be appointed Assistant Door-keeper to this House, And pending the question on this proposition,

The House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1835.

Two other members, viz:

From the State of South Carolina-Waddy Thompson, jr.

From the State of Louisiana-Eleazer W. Ripley, appeared, were sworn to support the constitution of the United States, and took their seats.

Roderick Dorsey, who was, on yesterday, elected Sergeant-at-arms of the House, appeared, when the oath of office, viz: faithfully to keep the secrets of the House, was administered to him by the Speaker, and he thereupon entered upon the duties of his office.

Mr. Fairfield presented a petition of female inhabitants of the county of York, in the State of Maine, praying that slavery and the slave trade may be abolished, immediately, within the District of Columbia; which petition. was, on motion of Mr. Cramer, laid on the table.

Mr. Fairfield also presented a petition of inhabitants of Lymington, and its vicinity, in the State of Maine, praying that measures may be taken for the Immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia; which petition. being read,

A motion was made by Mr. Fairfield that it do lie on the table.
And the question being put,

It passed in the affirmative,

(Yeas,
Nays,

180,

31.

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

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Mr. Matthias J. Bovee
Lynn Boyd

John W. Brown
Andrew Buchanan
Samuel Bunch

Robert Burns

John Calhoon

Churchill C. Cambreleng
Robert B. Campbell

John Carr

William B. Carter
Zadok Casey
George Chambers
John Chambers

John Chaney
Reuben Chapman
Graham H. Chapin
Nath. H. Claiborne
John Coffee
Walter Coles
Henry W. Connor
Thomas Corwin
Robert Craig
John Cramer
Joseph H. Crane
Samuel Cushman
John W. Davis
Edmund Deberry
Philemon Dickerson

Ulysses F. Doubleday
George C. Dromgoole
William C. Dunlap
Valentine Efner
Horace Everett
John Fairfield
Dudley Farlin
John B. Forester
Samuel Fowler
Richard French
Jacob Fry, jr.
Philo C. Fuller
William K. Fuller
John Galbraith
James Garland
Rice Garland
Ransom H. Gillet
Thomas Glascock
James Graham
Francis Granger
Seaton Grantland
William J. Graves
William J. Grayson
John K. Griffin
Elisha Haley

Joseph Hall

Mr. James H. Hammond
Edward A. Hannegan
Gideon Hard
Benjamin Hardin
James Harlan
Samuel S. Harrison
Albert G. Harrison
Albert G. Hawes
Micajah T. Hawkins
Charles E. Haynes
Samuel Hoar
George W. Hopkins
Benjaman C. Howard
Elias Howell
Hiram P. Hunt
Abel Huntington
Adam Huntsman
Joseph R. Ingersoll
Samuel Ingham
Jabez Jackson
Leonard Jarvis
Joseph Johnson
Richard M. Johnson
Cave Johnson
Henry Johnson
John W. Jones
Benjamin Jones
Andrew T. Judson
William Kennon
Daniel Kilgore
George L. Kinnard
John Klingensmith, jr.
Amos Lane

Gerrit Y. Lansing
Joab Lawler
Abbott Lawrence
George W. Lay
Gideon Lee
Joshua Lee
Luke Lea
Stephen B. Leonard
Levi Lincoln
Henry Logan
George Loyall
Edward Lucas, jr.
Francis S. Lyon
Abijah Mann, jr.
Job Mann
Joshua L. Martin
John Y. Mason
William Mason
Moses Mason, jr.
Sampson Mason
Abram P. Maury
William L. May

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Mr. William McComas
James J. McKay

John McKeon
Isaac McKim
Charles F. Mercer
John J. Milligan
William S. Morgan
Henry A. Muhlenber
George W. Owens
Sherman Page
Gorham Parks

William Patterson
Franklin Pierce
James A. Pearce
Ebenezer Pettigrew
Lancelot Phelps
Stephen C. Phillips
Francis W. Pickens
Henry L. Pinckney
John Reed
John Reynolds
Joseph Reynolds
Eleazer W. Ripley
John Roane
John Robertson
William Seymour
William B. Shepard
Augustine H. Sheppe
Ebenezer J. Shields
William N. Shinn
Nicholas Sickles
David Spangler
John N. Steele
Bellamy Storer
Joel B. Sutherland
John Taliaferro
William Taylor
Francis Thomas
John Thomson

Waddy Thompson, ji
Isaac Toucey

George W. B. Town
James Turner
Joel Turrill

Joseph R. Underwoo
Aaron Vanderpoel
Samuel F. Vinton
David D. Wagener
Aaron Ward

Taylor Webster
Joseph Weeks
John White

Lewis Williams
Sherrod Williams
Henry A. Wise

Mr. Mathias Morris
James Parker
Dutee J. Pearce
David Potts, jr.
David Russell
William Slade

Jonathan Sloane
William Sprague, je
Daniel Wardwell

Elisha Whittlesey

A motion was then made by Mr. Slade, that the said petition from inhabitants of Lymington and its vicinity, in the State of Maine, be printed for the use of the members of the House.

A motion was made by Mr. Vanderpoel, that this motion to print do lie on the table.

And on the question to agree to this latter motion,

Yeas,

It passed in the affirmative, Nays,

169

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present. Those who voted in the affirmative are,

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Zadoo Casey

John Chambers

John Chaney Reuben Chapman Graham H. Chapin Nath. H. Claiborne Jesse F. Cleveland Ja'n Coffee Walter Coles Heary W. Connor Robert Craig John Cramer Joseph H. Crane Samuel Cushman John W. Davis Edmund Deberry Philemon Dickerson Ulysses F. Doubleday George C. Dromgoole William C. Dunlap Valentine Efner John Fairfield Dudley Farlin John B. Forester Richard French Jacob Fry, jr. Phalo C. Fuller William K. Fuller James Garland Rice Garland Ransom H. Gillet Thomas Glascock

Mr. James Graham

Seaton Grantland
William J. Graves
William J. Grayson
John K. Griffin
Elisha Haley
Joseph Hall

Thomas L. Hamer
James H. Hammond
Edward A. Hannegan
Benjamin Hardin
James Harlan

Albert G. Harrison
Albert G. Hawes
Micajah T. Hawkins
Charles E. Haynes
George W. Hopkins
Benjamin C. Howard
Elias Howell
Abel Huntington
Adam Huntsman
Samuel Ingham
Jabez Jackson
Leonard Jarvis
Joseph Johnson
Richard M. Johnson
Cave Johnson
Henry Johnson
John W. Jones
Benjamin Jones
Andrew T. Judson
William Kennon
Daniel Kilgore
George L. Kinnard
John Klingensmith, jr.
Amos Lane

Gerrit Y. Lansing
John Laporte
Joab Lawler
Gideon Lee
Joshua Lee
Luke Lea

Stephen B. Leonard
Henry Logan
George Loyall
Edward Lucas
Francis S. Lyon
Abijah Mann, jr.
Job Mann
Joshua L. Martin
John Y. Mason
William Mason
Moses Mason, jr.
Sampson Mason
Abram P. Maury
William L. May

Mr. William McComas
James J. McKay
John McKeon
Isaac McKim
Jeremiah McLene

Charles F. Mercer
William Montgomery
Henry A. Muhlenberg
George W. Owens
Sherman Page
Gorham Parks
William Patterson
John M. Patton
Franklin Pierce
James A. Pearce
Ebenezer Pettigrew
Lancelot Phelps
Francis W. Pickens
Henry L. Pinckney
John Reynolds
Joseph Reynolds
Eleazer W. Ripley
John Roane
John Robertson

James Rogers

Ferdinand S. Schenck

William Seymour

William B. Shepard

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Augustine H. Shepperd

Ebenezer J. Shields

William N. Shinn

Nicholas Sickles

Francis O. J. Smith
David Spangler
James Standefer
John N. Steele
Bellamy Storer
Joel B. Sutherland
John Taliaferro
William Taylor
Francis Thomas
John Thomson
Isaac Toucey

George W. B. Towns
James Turner
Joel Turril

Joseph R. Underwood

Aaron Vanderpoel

David D. Wagener

Aaron Ward

George C. Washington

Joseph Weeks
John White
Lewis Williams
Sherrod Williams
Henry A. Wise

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Mr. John Quincy Adams, by leave, submitted the following resolution, which was laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to report to this House a statement of the names of all the pensioners for services during the revolutionary war, pensioned under the act of Congress, of 18th March, 1818, whose names were struck off the list by virtue of the act of 1st May, 1820, specifying those restored to pensions by the act of 1st May, 1823, or since again pensioned under the act of 15th May, 1828, the act of 7th June, 1832, or any other act of Congress subsequent to that of 1st May, 1820.

Mr. Evans presented a memorial of Thomas Fillebrown, jr. of the city of Washington, praying for the passage of an act, granting to him the amount of a certain judgment rendered in his favor for services as clerk in the Navy Department, together with costs of suit, and interest upon the said judgment. Mr. Fairfield presented a petition of John White, of the State of Maine, praying remuneration for costs incurred and losses sustained in the trial of a certain cause, commenced by the United States district attorney for said State, by order of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the year 1834.

Mr. Fairfield presented a petition of Joseph Perkins, James Perkins and John G. Perkins, of Kennebunk, in the State of Maine, praying for the allowance and payment of the sum of one hundred and sixty-three dollars and ten cents, with interest thereon, for a certain loss sustained by the schooner Packet, of Kennebunk, near the Florida reef.

Mr. Briggs presented a petition of Joseph Shearer, of Pittsfield, in the State of Massachusetts, praying remuneration for money expended and labor performed, in furnishing the United States troops and prisoners of war with provisions, in the year 1815, under contract with Thomas Melville, jr. Deputy Marshall for the district of Massachusetts.

Mr. Calhoun, of Massachusetts, presented a petition of the Springfield manufacturing company, praying compensation for losses sustained in relation to a certain contract with the United States.

Mr. Cambreleng presented the petition of James Case and John Richard, of the city of New York, praying for an indemnification for certain property destroyed by an officer in the service of the United States during the late war with Great Britain.

Mr. Vanderpoel presented the petition of Alexander Humphrey, of the county of Schoharie, in the State of New York, praying remuneration for damages sustained under a contract for repairing certain wharves at Staten Island.

Mr. McKeon presented the petition of James Maguire, of the city of Washington, praying compensation for extra services rendered in the Subsistence Department.

Mr. Turrell presented the petition of Jesse Wheeler, of the State of New York, praying compensation for the services of his son, a private in Captain Farrinton's company, in the army of the revolution, who lost his life in the service of his country, "..

Mr. Harper presented the petition of Jacob F. Walter, of the city of Philadelphia, praying that a certain sum of money paid into the Treasury of the United States for a patent which was not issued, may be refunded to him. Mr. Harper presented the petition of Elizabeth H. Caldwell, executrix' of David Caldwell, deceased, of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the pay ment of the sum of $3,724, and also for a further sum of $792 38 due to, and withheld from, the deceased, by the Treasury officers of the United States. ing. Folzer, Amay - 5 JR. A

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Mr. McKim presented the petition of Lewis Marchand, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, praying to be discharged from his liability as security upon certain custom house bonds.

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Mr. Washington presented the petition of George Bender, late major in the Army of the United States, praying compensation for services rendered in the construction of the Delaware breakwater.

Mr. Wise presented the petition of Joseph Gresham, of the State of Virginia. praying for the payment of certain arrearages due upon a contract› made with the Government for the delivery of one thousand cords of wood.

Mr. A. S. Shepperd presented the petition of Robert Brooke and Caroline his wife, of the District of Columbia, praying to be indemnified for houses burnt by the enemy during the late war. al la guremaa Estelleme

Mr. Underwood presented the petition of Presley N. O'Bannon, of the State of Kentucky, praying compensation for a horse furnished to the mounted troops from Kentucky, in the year 1813.

The Speaker presented a communication from Commodore Barron, in relation to a certain claim of John Thompson, of Virginia, together with certain documents relating thereto.

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Mr. Storer presented the petition of Presley Kemper, of Cincinnati,'in the State of Ohio, praying remuneration for services rendered as wagonu master in the northwestern army under Governor Meigs, in 184230647 29109 Mr. Kinnard presented the memorial of William J. Posey, of the State of Indiana, praying compensation for a horse lost in the service of the United States during the last war. ponest,

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee Claims(LL16. D5J09PS1, 8190), bn, ime t 922571) motina ra [" The under mentioned petitions and memorials! heretofore presented, were again presented and referred to the Committee of Claims, vizoroof of By Mr. Gretell:.The memorial of Commodore John Downes, presented December 12418341 776020Vi bazoezen „Jande, mul777), g0:00 19T By Mr. Wardwell The petition. of Clarke Allen, presented December 8, 1834. 488 31. 0971989%

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